On May 7, 2024, 149 ServiceNow developers, builders, and creatives formed 43 teams and tackled the MOST COMPETITIVE CreatorCon Hackathon yet at Knowledge 24.
It is our second year back to live in-person hackathons. Last year in 2023, we saw an amazing 72% completion rate, and this year in 2024, we saw an amazing 86% completion rate from all our participants.
How it went down
Drinks, Live Streams, Food, Snacks, and Cupcakes were provided exclusively for the hackathon participants. But the real goods that evening were the people and their talents and ideas, not to mention their perseverance as they spent 8 hours on the first night of an action-packed conference creating something from nothing!
Teams were tasked to build an app that fit one of the four categories (AES, GenAI, 4good, or HackZone) and were judged on:
- Use of platform
- Originality/innovation
- Usefulness/utility
- Polish & Wow Factor/User Experience (aka the Coolness factor)
- Readiness for public consumption
- Compliance
These dedicated hackers stayed up til MIDNIGHT to build amazing apps. And when they were done, our team of awesome judges stayed up late (til 2am!) or woke up early to figure out who would go home with the ultimate bragging rights:
- 7 teams earned honorable mentions,
- 10 teams became finalists,
- Out of our finalists, 4 teams were chosen as winners,
- And out of winners, 1 team was chosen as the CreatorCon Hackathon Overall Winner
Winners
Without further ado, here are your 2024 CreatorCon Hackathon Winners!
HackZone Category Winner and Overall Winner
Tortured Developers Department - CreatorClash
Ebony Akkebala, Jesalyn Smith, Paige Garland, Travis Toulson, Sarah Toulson
CreatorClash, developed by the Tortured Developers Department, is a mobile app designed for CreatorCon that combines elements of "Pokemon Go" and "World of Warcraft." The app encourages attendees to scan zone QR codes, complete quests, and earn points for their teams, promoting networking, camaraderie, and competition.
Built using Flow Designer, Next Experience, Configurable Workspace, App Engine Studio, and Service Portal, it stands out by spotlighting competition and enhancing the overall conference experience.
Generative AI Category Winner
ServiceWow - SkillShift
Amy Liu, Cameron Boote, Harry Hartanto, Miguel Flores, Maurice Westbrooks
SkillShift, developed by ServiceWow, is an innovative application designed to address the entry-level talent gap in the tech industry, focusing on underrepresented minorities. Utilizing generative AI (GenAI), SkillShift identifies and enhances transferable skills, equipping candidates for successful tech careers. It addresses the challenges of traditional recruitment methods that often overlook potential candidates from non-tech backgrounds, thus promoting inclusivity and socio-economic mobility. By providing individual recommendations and summarizing resumes for hiring managers, SkillShift differentiates itself from recruitment platforms like LinkedIn and Indeed, which struggle to highlight the transferable skills of underrepresented individuals.
App Engine Studio Category Winner
Team CSS - Cinema Services in Silence
Jeffrey Limones, Steven Socha, Theresa Wahl, Casey Barela
Cinema Services in Silence (CSS), developed by Team CSS, is an AES-based app designed to enhance the cinema experience for theaters offering in-seat food and drink delivery. By integrating e-ink tablets connected to a ServiceNow catalog, CSS minimizes disruptions during movies, allowing customers to order and pay seamlessly. Addressing issues like obstructive waitstaff and clumsy ordering methods, CSS uses technology from market leaders like RunPee to offer optimal service timing and AI-generated summaries for missed movie parts.
4good Category Winner
Yansa - YOU
Aylee Andersen, Dalton Neves, Reece Poulsen, Nate Anderson
YOU, developed by Team Yansa, is an intuitive application designed to create, manage, and oversee community service projects within an organization. It allows organizers to create and manage projects, submit them for review to a Community Service Approval Board (CSAB), and check attendance during events. Employees can review available projects, volunteer, track their contributions, and propose new service project ideas. YOU addresses the chaos of managing outreach programs with spreadsheets, providing streamlined attendance tracking, success metrics, and AI-powered PR communications.
Finalists
Top Gun - Donate4Good (4good)
Poornachander Kola, Saura Sambit, Srikanth Aluru
Donate4Good is an application for managing campaigns and fundraisers. It integrates GenAI, automation, and third-party services to unify donation management, optimizing donor engagement and enhancing transparency by consolidating data from various sources.
The Night Owls - GiveTrack (4good)
Jon Kim, Joshua Egbert, Manny Gutierrez, Yury M, Grant Higgins
GiveTrack tracks company donations to various charitable organizations. It simplifies tracking and approval of employee donations, providing a clear view of charitable contributions by sector and overall values.
Talladega - Give Right (4good)
Amy Vaquera, Joe Brazell, Pankaj Humad, Paul Hegel, Tony-Arron Peraza
Give Right helps Talladega capture and report volunteer efforts. It generates reports for leadership and marketing to publicize contributions, enhancing the company's public image and showcasing its commitment to corporate social responsibility.
Illuminating - Alert Interest (App Engine Studio)
Christopher Key, Josh Jones, Shawn Winn, Vishal Jaswal
(Great app photo!)
Alert Interest is an AES-generated tool for finding, being alerted for, or hosting events without using social media. It offers a straightforward solution for event organization and participation, helping like-minded people connect easily.
The Mavericks - Who wants to be a... ServiceNow Expert (Generative AI)
Lini AadhiI, Piotr Chołody
Who wants to be a... ServiceNow Expert uses a Generative AI-powered Chatbot to engage users with quizzes, enhancing their knowledge of ServiceNow. It provides an interactive learning experience, efficiently training users during ServiceNow migrations.
Forever Single - Love Is Now (HackZone)
Felicia Barkrot, Irma Björkqvist, Samuel Jönsson, Lucas Pettersson
Love Is Now is a dating app powered by ServiceNow. It uses advanced algorithms to ensure meaningful connections, simplifying the dating experience and addressing challenges of busy schedules and limited social circles with a custom "Tinder-like" interface.
Honorable Mentions
Starlight - O-Donor
Ankit Patel, Bryan Tippens
O-Donor is an app to help Type O negative blood donors find reliable blood buddies in emergencies when supplies are low. It addresses the challenge of finding compatible donors for the universal donor blood type, providing a mobile and desktop application for donor registration and location.
SNMJ-D - Charitable Donation Hub
Dillon Omane, James McGaha, Merritt Dunwell, Suryakant Shoor, Naomi Chu
Charitable Donation Hub is a donation management system that provides real-time donation tracking and instant tax receipts. It simplifies the donation process by integrating features like real-time meters and automated receipts, enhancing the donor experience and ensuring transparency.
Appcrafters - Bag Buddy
Atul Grover, Rampriya Sundaramoorthy, SANDEEP DUTTA, Sanjiv Meher, Harneet Sital
Bag Buddy is an app for tracking luggage requests and deliveries, integrating Apple Air tags for real-time tracking. It addresses issues of lost or damaged luggage by providing comprehensive tracking, delivery management, and support features, ensuring a seamless travel experience.
NoPressure - NoPressure
Brent Patterson, Jamy Southafeng, Karen Santiago, Kazushi Nakamura, Lee Kraus, Tegy Thomas
NoPressure is a Generative AI-powered application that streamlines the dog adoption process. It enhances the customer experience by helping users select the right dog breed based on their preferences, reducing confusion and improving the adoption journey.
RSM - 20 Questions
Chris Williams, David Binns, Sayantan Gupta, Suzanne Jones, Anna Thorne
20 Questions is a fun application leveraging Virtual Agent and GenAI to increase user engagement with the ServiceNow platform. It offers a game of 20 Questions, gamifying the user experience and providing a playful break from work, enhancing overall platform interaction.
Tteam - Tale Buddy
Attila Varga, Benjamin Schulz, Jozsef Almasi, Martin Virag
Tale Buddy generates personalized stories by using photos of favorite toys or objects. It helps users create bedtime or horror stories with AI-generated content based on their pictures, offering a creative and unique storytelling experience.
The Eh team - I Can Relate
John Lacanlale 💚, Aria Avazkhani, Ben Rollins, Matthew Hendershott, Santi Lauw
I Can Relate is an app for organizing and visualizing complex family relationships. It helps users track and document family history, providing a user-friendly platform for creating and editing family trees, making it easier to maintain accurate and comprehensive family records.
Hackathon Completions
Just getting to the end and having a complete submission is a feat that should be recognized. Here are all elite few teams who successfully completed the CreatorCon Hackathon.
| Fox Den - NowDonate | Alex Moss, Cheryl Calen, Ethan Jacocks, Henry Hartanto, Jonathan Sandoval | NowDonate facilitates the donation of used hardware by employees, reducing e-waste and providing technology to the underprivileged. It simplifies the donation process within corporate settings. |
| Fab Collab - Now Giving | Arturo Guieb, Juan-Pablo Gomez, Kathy Delbridge, Steven Chen, Bri Morales | Now Giving connects non-profits with businesses to donate goods efficiently, eliminating logistical challenges. It provides a centralized platform for viewing and reserving donations, streamlining the process for both businesses and non-profits. |
| Furious 5 - Trees Now | Chris Ewing, Daniel Maldonado, Felipe Rocha de Souza, Manas Dash, Miguel Cucaita | Trees Now helps companies manage plantation drives and calculate their carbon footprint. It offers a comprehensive solution for offsetting carbon emissions by planting trees, helping companies meet environmental responsibilities. |
| Fairly Odd Devs - MyGiving for Helldivers | Everett Estes, Sagun Saru, Victoria Ward, Amber Estes | MyGiving for Helldivers allows companies to track and report charitable donations easily. It supports non-profits in registering to receive donations and provides employees a way to track their contributions. |
| HackHeros - GiveWise small donor portal | Chaithanya Parvathaneni, Geethika Nannapaneni, William Collins, Gangadhar Bandaru | GiveWise helps small non-profits manage donations and communicate with donors. It offers a publicly accessible portal for tracking project funding and milestones, enhancing donor engagement and transparency. |
| The Nuvolo Nerds - VolunteerNOW | Brandon Smith, James Young, Jen Buck, Viktor Dakov, Chris Golpe | VolunteerNOW is a CSR application to grow corporate social responsibility and drive employee volunteering. It allows companies to define and track social responsibility initiatives and incentivize participation through leaderboards. |
| Green Devils - Community Impact | Christine Mayfield, Max Morganti, Patrick Montgomery, Arch Henderson | Community Impact leverages AI to generate volunteer initiatives, saving time on ideation and research. It aims to leave a lasting positive impact on communities through efficiently organized volunteer efforts. |
| Default Update Set - Voluntold | Andy Pacholski, Arsh Khoshnood, Rachel Hicks, Ryan Mattson, Timothy Feig | Voluntold gamifies the volunteer signup process by randomly assigning volunteers to events. This application helps non-profits recruit volunteers in a fun and engaging way. |
| ByeByeBB - K24 WiFi Issues | Michael Lombard, Matt Zywina, Matthew Growney | K24 WiFi Issues allows users to report WiFi issues at the ServiceNow Knowledge 24 event. It provides a way to submit tickets and create the illusion of addressing WiFi problems. |
| #WeirdShit - BlackJackNow | Antoni Zahariev, Michael LeVan, Brad Steinberg, David Cole | BlackJackNow lets users play Blackjack within the ServiceNow platform. It stores game data natively in ServiceNow tables, offering a unique and entertaining way to engage with the platform. |
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