Dialogue on Innovation—51CTO’s first developer competition has started!

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Why 51CTO holds a developer competition

According to incomplete statistics, the number of domestic developers (in a narrow sense, excluding development enthusiasts) reached more than 3 million in 2016. Whether in terms of technical research and development capabilities or innovation capabilities, China has demonstrated its incomparable advantages to the world in many new technological fields.

However, many excellent individuals or teams have a hard time surviving or even disappearing in the fierce market competition, high development costs, and strong squeeze from giants. In order to deeply explore the value of products and provide developers with the opportunity to showcase their creative products and promotion support, 51CTO launched the first developer competition with the theme of "Dialogue Innovation". Through the two forms of "independent research and development" and "open competition questions", it provides a platform for individuals or corporate teams with innovative capabilities and geek spirit to show and spread their ideas, giving them more space to let excellent talents and works stand out, create higher value for their works, and drive industrial development.

"Technology makes dreams come true" is the mission of 51CTO. We hope that individuals or enterprises can realize more excellent innovative products through technology, and through 51CTO's influence over the past decade, as well as its rich resources and communication channels, we can bring excellent works to the market, better serve life, and realize their dreams.

Competition System Settings

1. Independent and access to non-topic capabilities, fully functional independent research and development, or access to functions provided by non-topic capabilities to ensure the usability and innovation of the work.

2. Works developed based on the given topic should be integrated and developed according to the relevant capabilities or platforms provided by the topic to ensure the integrity and availability of the access capabilities.

Competition Rules

1. The competition is open to scientific research institutions, colleges and universities, entrepreneurial teams, small and medium-sized enterprises and individuals. The competition registration is mainly divided into two parts: personal works and corporate works. The number of individual entries shall not exceed 3, and the number of corporate entries shall be more than 3. Only one work is allowed. If multiple entries are uploaded, the first one will be the main one.

2. There is no limit to the requirements for the works. They can be open source works (original), as well as DEMOs of core functions and complete functional products. The works can be in the form of mobile APPs, PC software, plug-ins, public accounts (H5), mini-programs, smart hardware, etc.

3. The works must be original and must not violate any relevant laws of the People's Republic of China or infringe on any third party's intellectual property rights or other rights. If any violation occurs, the participant will be disqualified.

Competition Schedule

The competition is conducted in stages through online selection and offline display:

1) Submit your work in September-November;

2) Online expert selection on December 8;

3) Offline roadshow in mid-December;

4) End of December, offline finals.

Awards

1. All contestants (except the shortlisted works) will receive an encouragement certificate from 51CTO.

2. For shortlisted contestants (except award-winning works)

1) Crystal medal awarded by 51CTO

2) 1 ticket for 51CTO WOT Summit 2018 (valued at RMB 9,000)

3) 51CTO main site + Tainiu e-magazine + official WeChat exposure once

3. Winners of the Outstanding Works Award:

First Prize (1 person)

20,000 yuan in cash

51CTO promotion support worth 200,000

Including finalists

Second Prize (2 winners)

10,000 yuan in cash

51CTO promotion support worth 100,000

Including finalists

Third Prize (5 winners)

5000 yuan in cash

51CTO promotion support worth 50,000

Including finalists

Competition roadshow date

Shanghai: December 15

Beijing: December 16

Finals (planned location: Shenzhen): end of December

Roadshow content

>Contestants share their ideas for their works, solutions to market pain points, and technical implementation methods on site;

> Startups with innovation and commercial value share their product ideas and integrated development methods;

>Service providers share their technical support capabilities, user pain points and solutions.

Finals content

>The finalists will share their overall ideas, business models, and innovative technologies for their works;

> Demonstrate the contest works and DEMO on site, including video, physical display, etc.;

>Enterprise-level CEOs, VCs, and influential individual developers expressed their views on the roadshow works.

How to register

Submit your work on the unified official website. The deadline is November 30th.

Submit your work at: http://www..com/act/dev/2017

Organizer

Registration address: http://www..com/act/dev/2017