 Welcome back. I'm Jeff Rick. You're in the Cube. We're at the service now knowledge event in Las Vegas The beautiful aria hotel and our next guest is The winners of the hackathon so fruition partners sponsored a hackathon We went in we got a little footage while it was going on We'll have that up shortly, but I have here the winners So we have Robert a fedora. Is that it for the work for the work? Excuse me from high at hotels and And also Adam Mason from Loyola Marama, which is kind of funny. So you guys are from different companies different industries You don't work in the same state in the same state even no, he's in Chicago. I'm in LA So how did you end up working together on this hackathon? How did that kind of zenith of the idea come together? Honestly, it was Twitter. There was a bunch of us. We had seven people on our team and None of us were going to really do the hackathon Individually and then a couple of us got talking and then we talked to some other people on Twitter And then we started having Google Hangouts and all of a sudden we had a team Ready to go and we were kicking around ideas for a couple of weeks before the hackathon started Excellent. So you came down. So what was what was kind of the baseline? Rules or framework of the hackathon that they gave you so basically they gave you a clean instance on the latest release It was on Calgary and you could build anything you want and you could they actually said you could access Outside things but what you couldn't do is you couldn't bring your own code in and your own update sets Pre-configured and come in and load it. So you did have to build it on the fly. See so how big was your team? Seven people seven people so you cut and there's everybody from different companies all seven Yep, there's one guy that works with me and Loyola Marama. Okay, and then we had a couple people that are consultants and then someone from hot hi it and Let's see Michael from Rowan. Yeah, which is a utility company down in Texas. I think yeah Yep, so it really speaks to kind of the horizontal nature of all your guys jobs and what you're doing a problem It's all so how baked was the idea? Because what it started at like 12 o'clock 1 o'clock yesterday how baked was the idea when you entered the room We probably could have delivered the pitch like before we even got into the room Really once we had the pitch because I mean if you looked at the previous innovations of the year There was like a couple still images and then an idea Okay, and so we wanted to have that really just solidified before we came in and started coding and then So what was it? So what what would you want to build? So what we kicked around a lot of ideas We actually had a lot of good ones that we just put on the shelf and Robert actually came up with the one We went with which was to take kicks the concept of Kickstarter So crowdsourcing and crowdfunding a project okay, and put that internally within service now So a company could utilize it to prioritize it projects Yeah, all right and just incubate them before they even became live because I think a lot of times all these decisions are Kind of made in a black box and nobody has any insight into and it's always just single projects at a time I have a single project. It cost me $50,000. I'm gonna check my budget. Does that have it in it? I'm gonna check my boss's budget Does that have it in it and if not the project goes away, right? If it's not that way, then it's a couple guys in a black box making a decision for you And we thought what if what if people themselves and the company could say I have an idea and then just by the force Of the goodness of the idea right people would come along and collaborate to it I can't give you money, but I can get money right money to yeah, we can we can help you fund it We can help you staff it Internal kick starting to fund an idea that's applicable across a lot of right So we wanted to capture the essence of whatever was between the asking and the PMO So we incubate the project up to the point until we had all the funding and staff and then we drop it off on the PMO's lap With all the resourcing taking care of okay So how much of the process was kind of mapping it out? And then how much of the process was coding because you guys went till like it was midnight a hard hard stop that they put in Yeah, we ran right right up to when the judges were coming around we were making little tweaks There's always more stuff that you can do but you know you want to get a good functional wireframe in there So that you can at least show what you're doing and present the concept and it makes sense We had a couple guys that went through and just did a whole lot of requirements Modeling before hand so there was a there's a good model even before we got there Okay, and it was just a matter of code execution and then tell us a little bit about the judging process How because how many teams were there in there? There's at least 20 teams And then people from service now came around and honestly there was about 20 people in the service now group So I couldn't tell you everybody that was a judge But the judges went around and they were taking notes and they did a deep dive into each of the different hackathon Projects and then they picked out the final four people Okay, then we got to go down to the expo hall the next day And we got to like hawk our wares in front of people and try to get them to vote for us Awesome So what were the other app? What were the other top four? What what were those apps? So there was casino now, which was a full-scale blackjack implementation that had funding and everything Someone made a Pictionary app, which was really cool and use they were actually using a tablet that they could draw into it And then the the other team made it basically an open table version for a reservation system So so those sound like more fun though than like real business applications They were I mean just fun to see what they could come up with in terms of with the platform Yeah, and did you use the new app creator or did you go old school and definitely use the app? Definitely use the app creator. Awesome. So what was the biggest challenge you think of the whole process? I think one of the main challenges was just how do you how do you? How do you how do you figure out who does what when you have seven people an IT is such a meritocracy that right? you know you kind of have to wait for the for the for the most skilled person to kind of Rise to the top but in the short amount of time We just didn't we just didn't know who the alpha was on the team And so it was how do we collaborate without a little bit of leadership and but it worked out really well You know it just everybody seemed to kind of naturally find the stuff They wanted to work on and coincidentally that was exactly what we needed done Yeah, and they kept you well caffeinated and well sugared and I think we I think we killed all the red bulls that they had And I heard there was some entertainment supposed to come in late night Yes, I'm a Vegas the whole time there there were entertainment interludes entertainment So now what happens with this app that you guys have built, you know Is it how close is it to being real and are you going to take it back here to your? It needs some polish, but it's workable, you know, yeah, it's functional It can work it just it just needs a little bit of polish and you know I imagine we at least those of us on the team will be at least doing the good college try to get it into our organizations Mm-hmm, and what's it's called to give it a name we call it now kick it now That's a great story, and would you win? He had a win something we got Apple TV And we got to go up on the big stage and get a handshake Glory fortunately, yes Well, thanks for coming by the Cube appreciate it. I think it's an innovative Example using, you know, what's really popular right now in the music business and now it's moving into startups This whole crowd sourcing and crowdfunding to raise money and taking that into IT to actually find bits and pieces of budget And or you said other resources that people contribute to a common goal and again I think it's a it's a it's a reinforcement of a theme we hear over and over at this show Which is because I have this tool, you know, my thought process is now changing much more business centric How can I help the business? How can I be innovative? How can I not just be a order-fulfiller and and run around and have to fix problems all the time because I can get all Automate a lot of that stuff and kind of get a think about a bigger things and then of course Living in 2013 the fact you guys are collaborating across industries across geographies coming together to create something real It's pretty exciting. So thanks again for coming on the Cube again. This is the Cube. We're at Knowledge service now user group and industry conference will be right back in a minute with our next guest. Let's stay right with us