Berlin! Here Are The Judges, Prizes, Workshops, And Final Tickets For The First Ever Disrupt Europe Hackathon

Think you’re one of the best developers in all of Berlin? Here’s your chance to prove it — and maybe, just maybe, take home a nice stack of cash for your efforts.

This weekend, we’re bringing our TechCrunch Disrupt conference to Europe for the first time — and to kick it all off, we’re throwing one of our crazy, wonderfully-exhausting hackathons.

This’ll be the last batch of tickets we release before the event. Oh, as if the deal weren’t sweet enough: we’ve added a bunch of new prizes to the mix. Oh, and API workshops! Oh, oh, and a fantastic panel of judges!

Never been to one of our Hackathons? Here’s the gist of it: You enter. You find a team, or bring one with you (or, hell, hack alone!). We start the clock, you open your blank code editor, and you let loose every bit of skill you’ve got at your disposal to build something entirely from the ground up.

At the end of (just less than) 24 hours, you and your team have 60 seconds to wow the crowd —from your fellow hackers, to local VCs, to our panel of awesome judges.

Judges:

Speaking of awesome judges: meet your judges!

Peter Borchers

Peter is the founder and head of Deutsche Telekom’s global incubator, hub:raum. hub:raum provides seed/early stage startup companies with funding, support and a pragmatic way to leverage the assets of a global corporation. Prior to that, he co-founded and managed an internal innovation accelerator for Deutsche Telekom (T-Innovations GmbH) as well as his own internet startup (Everseven).

Anika Klauss

For the past two years, Anika has been a Developer Platform Evangelist for Microsoft. Before this, she studied Media and Communication and Political Science at Free University of Berlin, and Corporate and Business Communications at the Berlin University of the Arts.

Alexander Grosse

Alexander Grosse is VP of Engineering at SoundCloud. Before SoundCloud he worked as R&D Director at Nokia. Alexander has worked in a wide range of positions (Development, Consulting, CTO) in the software industry since 1996, including co-founding two startups. He holds a Masters in computer science from the University Of Oldenburg and an Executive MBA from FOM Berlin. Besides computer science, Alexander works(/worked) as a techno DJ in Berlin’s party scene.

Johnnes Reck

Johannes is CEO and co-founder of GetYourGuide. He graduated with distinction from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology with a Master’s Degree in Biochemistry