Challenge invited developers to design
innovative, sustainable smart solutions for education, healthcare,
energy and the environment
Avaya ENGAGE 2020 – Avaya Holdings Corp. (NYSE: AVYA), a
global leader in solutions to enhance and simplify communications
and collaboration, today announced the winners of TADHack-mini
Phoenix sponsored by Google and GitHub, which ran on February 1 and
2, 2020, as part of its Avaya ENGAGE 2020 user conference.
The TADHack-mini Phoenix invited developers to use Avaya
OneCloud Communications Platform as a Service (CPaaS) and Google
Dialogflow resources to design solutions for education, healthcare,
energy, the environment and St. Mary’s Food Bank, a Phoenix-based
charity. Nearly 100 teams, representing universities, businesses,
channel partners and private programming enthusiasts, participated
in the hackathon both in-person and remotely. Avaya and
TadHack-mini Phoenix thanked the Phoenix developer and technology
community for their support, including PHX DEVS, {az}devs, #yesphx,
ASU, UAT, and many more.
“We are delighted to announce Avaya’s Hackathon winners and
celebrate all the incredible energy and enthusiasm that went into
these awesome hacks,” said Mehdi Nezarati, CPaaS Platform Lead at
Avaya. “It is always rewarding to showcase how our technology
platform can be used to create next-generation,
communication-enabled applications that can change businesses and
individual lives for the better. We congratulate all the
participants in the Hackathon and look forward to creating more
opportunities for the tech and developer communities to design
innovative solutions that can serve as the foundation for real
transformation.”
The winning hacks and their creators are as follows:
Category: Education
“Middle School Parent Line” – Carousel Industries’ Stephen Drew
created a way to report absences, get student GPAs and homework,
and initiate conversations with a teacher via SMS. In addition to
the Avaya CPaaS for voice and SMS and Google Dialogflow,
technologies employed included MongoDB Cloud, Apache NiFi, and
Apache Tomcat®. Prize $4,000.
Category: Healthcare
“CEBP Enabled Remote EKG” – Michigan State University’s Nick
Kwiatkowski created a cellular-connected EKG unit that allows
remote healthcare workers to help diagnose, triage and escalate
patient cardiovascular problems in real time. Internet of things
(IoT) devices signal a mediation server and escalate the alert via
Avaya Cloud to triage nurses and doctors via calls, MMS and more.
Prize: $4,000.
Category: St. Mary’s Food Bank
“GooVaya” – The team of Vlastik Walker, John Zechlin and David
Anderson created a text-bot that people can text to donate to or
volunteer for the St. Mary’s Food Bank. The team also built an
excellent connector between Avaya CPaaS and Google Dialogflow.
Prize $4,000.
Honorable Mentions
“NAME” – The Marine Rescue Technologies B-Team of Darryl Jackman
and Jambu Atchison created a unified voice & SMS cloud IVR for
scheduling appointments, getting office hours and location,
transferring to an agent with a caller data screen pop, and
self-service diagnosis. In addition to the Avaya CPaaS and Google
Dialogflow, technologies employed included PHP, Node.js®, and
MySQL™. Prize $1,500.
“Feed the Hungry with Food Bot” – Mike Cairn created a chatbot
that matched food surpluses from food waste to food demand,
providing the ability to deliver food to the needy, reduce food
waste from businesses and individuals, reduce methane in landfills,
and reduce transportation requirements for food waste – all for
free. Prize: $1,500.
Avaya Technology Used
Avaya OneCloud Communication Platform as a Service (CPaaS)
enables developers to build apps with drag-and-drop ease and
integrate them into any application, workflow or current
communication systems. The platform makes it easy to connect with
customers instantly, add messaging to any mobile or web app, send
multimedia content and automated reminders, and acquire local and
toll-free phone numbers in any market.
About Avaya
Businesses are built on the experiences they provide, and
everyday millions of those experiences are built by Avaya (NYSE:
AVYA). For over one hundred years, we’ve enabled organizations
around the globe to win - by creating intelligent communications
experiences for customers and employees. Avaya builds open,
converged and innovative solutions to enhance and simplify
communications and collaboration - in the cloud, on-premise or a
hybrid of both. To grow your business, we’re committed to
innovation, partnership, and a relentless focus on what’s next.
We’re the technology company you trust to help you deliver
Experiences that Matter. Visit us at www.avaya.com.
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