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Gary Clink
Senior Solution Engineering Manager, EMEA at Progress
Gary Clink leads the Solution Consulting team for Progress Software in Europe, Middle East, and Africa for a number of Progress products, including Rollbase, OpenEdge, Corticon, and DataDirect. His team performs the technical aspects involved in positioning and demonstrating Progress solutions during sales engagements; responds to customer enquiries relating to evaluation requests and invitations to tender; and is extremely active within the Progress Community http://community.progress.com.
Gary is involved in the strategic and day-to-day execution of Progress Pacific at a corporate and EMEA level. He is also member of the Progress Pacific SWAT team, a group that meets regularly to provide 'feedback from the field' to help shape Progress's go-to-market strategy.
Gary has been involved with Progress for 20+ years having originally learned to program in OpenEdge ABL (Progress 4GL) as part of his university degrees. Over the last 20 years, Gary has worked as an analyst, programmer and consultant with a focus on application development, configuration management and testing best practices working for companies like Grampian software, Petrochem UK Ltd., and Hewlett Packard.
Hack Schedule
Day 1 - 17/06/14 |
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Time |
Details |
| 08:30 | Registration & Welcome refreshments |
| 09:00-10:00 | APIs and SDKs get pitched by sponsors. |
| 10:00-10:30 | Meet the Mentors & Networking (Creatives and Technologists) |
| 10:30-13:00 | Hackfest starts! |
| 13:00-14:00 | Lunch break |
| 14:00-17:00 | Hacking continues |
| 17:00-18:00 | Winding down for day |
Day 2 - 18/06/14 |
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Time |
Details |
| 08:30 | Welcome refreshments |
| 09:00 | 2nd day of Hackfest starts |
| 12:30-13:30 |
Lunch break Judges arrive and start to mingle with the hackers |
| 13:30-15:30 |
Presentations to take place for the judges |
| 16:00-16:30 |
Hackfest winners announced and awards presentation |
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Gary Clink
Senior Solution Engineering Manager, EMEA at Progress
Gary Clink leads the Solution Consulting team for Progress Software in Europe, Middle East, and Africa for a number of Progress products, including Rollbase, OpenEdge, Corticon, and DataDirect. His team performs the technical aspects involved in positioning and demonstrating Progress solutions
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Martyn Davies
Developer Evangelist, SendGrid
Martyn Davies is a creative developer based in London and currently works as a Developer Evangelist at SendGrid. You’ll find him presenting, demoing, hacking and chatting at hack days, conferences and meetups around the world on a regular basis.
Additionally, he is the central coordinator
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Jagdeep Singh
Head of Technology, Government Digital Service
Bio coming soon...
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Prizes & Briefs
Hackfest sponsors typically offer exciting prizes to encourage hackers to get involved in their projects. Watch this space to see whats up for grabs this time around. Click on a prize to view the brief.
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When do we find out the briefs? +
Sponsors briefs will be made available to all participants approximately one week prior to the start of the hack. We will also introduce registered hackers to each other so groups can start to be formed, if you so wish -
What should I bring? +
Laptop or tablet, comfortable clothing and any gadgets or tools that may help your team win! -
What will I be provided with? +
Power sockets, WIFI, hot & cold refreshments, food, seating, and beanbags for the lean-back hackers! -
What is a hackathon? +
A hackathon (also known as a hack day, hackfest or codefest) is an event in which computer programmers and others involved in software development, including graphic designers, interface designers and project managers, collaborate intensively on software projects. Occasionally there is a hardware component as well. Hackathons typically last between a day and a week in length. Some hackathons are intended simply for educational or social purposes, although in many cases the goal is to create usable software. Hackathons tend to have a specific focus, which can include the programming language used, the operating system, an application, an API, the subject and the demographic group of the programmers. In other cases, there is no restriction on the type of software being created.
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