Organization

The successful last edition of MEC Hackathons endorsed by ETSI took place on 25 to 26 November and was hosted by Droidcon Italy 2020 as a fully virtual event. The competition was open for developers to test their applications with ETSI MEC APIs (Application Programming Interfaces) in a variety of use cases.

The organizing committee received a total of 14 submissions, including several topics, from Augmented Reality for Construction Sector, to consumer, media and entertainment application, to automotive services.

Admitted teams were offered remote access to MEC servers and software platforms to develop mobile applications for advanced services in MEC-enabled 5G networks, using ETSI MEC technologies.

They were also required to onboard their applications in real-life MEC systems and connect with the MEC APIs to receive simulated in-network data.

Supporting Organization

The Droidcon MEC Hackathon 2020 was organized by Intel, CISCO, TIM, Equinix and LINKS Foundation, and endorsed by ETSI and with the support of GSMA and Turin City.

Hackathon phases:

April 2020 – publication of the Call-For-Developers
June 4th – MEC Webinar
June 15th Submission Deadline (extended to 30/06)
July 2020 – remote access to MEC servers offered to the admitted MEC Hackathon developers
July-November – actual WORK
25-26 Nov – FINAL DAYS of the Hackathon!

Event Webinars part 1: https://youtu.be/YqWPad-O_SE
Event Webinars part 2: https://youtu.be/gFLfx8Yacck

Technical challenge

Developers’ teams at the Hackathon were tasked to develop Android applications for services in MEC-enabled 5G networks, running on OpenNESS platform and using ETSI MEC technologies.