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October 01, 2019
Our first-ever hackathon aimed to make smart offices even smarter. . . and make some new friends while doing it!
Last week, Eindhoven was abuzz with the energy of co-creation—even more so than usual.
For three days, our HQ on the Eindhoven High Tech Campus played host to the Smart Office Business Summit and Hackathon 2019. The event's first day was dedicated to a Smart Office Business Summit, which included presentations from several companies who work in the same smart office sphere that we do. This was in service of getting to know all the players in the smart office space and reframe the competitive landscape as a partner ecosystem.
By learning about each other's opportunities and priorities, attendees were able to see where the overlap and synergies are, setting the table for the hackathon itself.
Hosting this event allowed Signify to showcase the flexibility and power of Interact, our suite of software applications and systems that bring connected lighting systems together with smart building, smart city, and other Internet of Things solutions.
Using the rich set of Interact APIs, ecosystem developers can build innovative, scalable, and integrated implementations on top of the Interact IoT platform.
By collaborating, everyone—companies and individuals—can use their own skills, innovations and unique “insider knowledge” to create products and services that truly interact with one another. In this way, we can elevate and expand what the words “smart office” mean.
As Maarten Pieters, Head of Co-Creation and People Insights, says, "We're bringing together different companies within that smart office ecosystem to create joint value propositions."
That's indeed what we saw over the course of the three-day event, as cross-company teams sat together and tried to come up with smart office use cases and solutions.
The six teams poured in creativity, cooperation, and elbow grease as they sought to hack, crack, and snack their way to smarter, more efficient buildings.
Perhaps from these condensed beginnings, some of the integrations will be taken to market. But regardless of the viability of those specific projects, new partnerships and alliances were formed. As was a general sense of increased possibility and greater collaboration among the players in attendance.
As Hannu Nousu, a participant from KONE, a smart technology company in Finland, remarked, “This hackathon had very good cooperation, and many things are opening up from other companies.”
And this is just the beginning. Co-creation works, and it's the wave of the future.
Signify (Euronext: LIGHT) is the world leader in lighting for professionals, consumers and the Internet of Things. Our Philips products, Interact systems and data-enabled services, deliver business value and transform life in homes, buildings and public spaces. In 2023, we had sales of EUR 6.7 billion, approximately 32,000 employees and a presence in over 70 countries. We unlock the extraordinary potential of light for brighter lives and a better world. We have been in the Dow Jones Sustainability World Index since our IPO for seven consecutive years and have achieved the EcoVadis Platinum rating for four consecutive years, placing Signify in the top one percent of companies assessed. News from Signify can be found in the Newsroom, on X, LinkedIn and Instagram. Information for investors is located on the Investor Relations page.
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