[20 July 2017] From July 1-2, the whole fifth floor of A-SPACE in Makati City was
abuzz with excitement and energy as the country’s up and coming tech rock stars
brought to life 19 original, feasible and sustainable pitches that aimed to
solve a problem, want, or need in the Philippine market.
It is AngelHack’s fifth year in the Philippines, made possible by
Smart Development Network (Smart DevNet), Smart Communications’ developer
community program. AngelHack is the world’s largest and most diverse global
hacker community, helping to drive innovation of tech products, platforms, and
brands, with extraordinary smarts, scale, and speed.
Known as pioneers of global hackathons for more than four years,
AngelHack’s over 97,000 developers, designers, and entrepreneurs compete to
build, test, and launch new solutions over the course of a weekend.
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Team PocketMarket is this year’s winner for “Mined,” a platform making use of AI for enterprise customer service. The team is made up of Constant Wakayo (second from left) and Mark Panizales. They are joined by Outsource Accelerate founder Derick Gallimore (left) and Smart chief developer and AngelHack ambassador Paul Pajo (right).
Among the 19 teams emerged three winners and one Voyager Innovation
API Special Prize Winner.
The first prize went to Team PocketMarket who came up with “Mined,”
a platform that makes use of artificial intelligence components such as a chat
bot, voice recognition, and document authentication to speed up the customer service
aspect of an enterprise.
The team was made up of Constant Wakayo, a freelance business
developer specializing on startups, and Mark Panizales, a software engineer.
Interestingly, the two contestants came solo, and ended up working with each
other.
“We came here as a solo participant, and then we just met, and we
formulated everything ... and we didn’t expect to have this win,” said
Panizales.
“It is my very first time to join a hackathon,” Wakayo said. “We
decided to focus on the current IT trend in the market, like more on artificial
intelligence.”
Second prize went to Team Coco Marteam (Jeno Panganiban, Juan
Simeon, Kevin Motas, and John Raphael Aquino) for “Oboseen,” an incentivized
voluntary road surveillance reporting system; and the third prize went to Team
Konzole (Lionette Baclagon, Clarissa Tamayo, Willy David, Jr., and Mark Sayson)
for “Konzole,” a recruitment accelerator platform.
Team CodeBuddy, meanwhile, won the Voyager Special Prize for EVA, a
virtual parking assistant.
Paul Pajo, Smart senior manager for digital platforms and product
development and SmartDevNet developer evangelist, expressed confidence on the
developer community in the Philippines. “We believe that Filipinos have the
capability and technology to become world-class developers or startups,” Pajo
shared on Day 1 of the event. “This is our way of opening the door for everyone
who thinks they have an innovation that might benefit a lot of Filipino
people.”
The winning team brings home an exclusive invite to HACKcelerator, a
12-week curriculum to help them turn their hackathon idea into a startup
reality. They will also have the chance to fly to Silicon Valley for Annual
Demo Day and participate in a week of extensive training. This is on top of
access to a diverse network of both local and global mentors.
AngelHack was also made possible by IMB, Amazon Web Services, Code
for a Cause, Hewlett Packard Enterprise, Gortech Alliance, Voyager Innovations
and PayMaya.#
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