One of the highlights of Citrix Converge 2020, our free, global, virtual, developer conference that ran from November 2-13, was the hackathon. Conference attendees were challenged to imagine and implement the future of work, enabled by Citrix technology. Our developer community stepped up to the plate, and hit the ball out of the park. We’re pleased to congratulate the winning teams and individuals!
Grand Prize Winners: Brick Bridge Consulting – “You Had Me at Productivity”
The overall winning team from Brick Bridge Consulting comprised Sohal Patel, Hasan Mohammad, Alex Edelen, Alex Davis, and Spencer Dee. Their entry, “You Had Me at Productivity,” was a whirlwind tour through Citrix Workspace capabilities — a new employee provisions his own desktop, sets up his HR profile, and gets straight to work, powered by microapps. The Metal Monday playlist was a nice touch — get energized at the start of the week!
Business Continuity Category Winners: Beacon CU – “TEAM OPEF”
The Beacon CU team focused on business continuity by implementing OPEF: operational efficiencies. Jeremy Becker, Devan Tilly and David Prows integrated microapps with Ansible Tower, PowerShell and GitLab to streamline and consolidate tools and systems into a single front end. They also documented their planning and progress on GitHub. It looks like the Beacon CU team will be using this in their work and extending it to cover more use cases in the future.
Business Growth Category Winners: RawWorks – “Microapp World”
RawWorks all-star team of Chris Twiest, Ryan Ververs-Bijkerk, Eltjo van Gulik, Jeroen Vonk, Gerjon Kunst, Wesly van Straten, and Mark Boonefaas included two CTPs and one CTA. They created another very polished employee onboarding project, with great use of live action in the demo video. The judges liked the integration of the company store, Twitter and LinkedIn, and the Christmas beer was a nice touch!
Workforce and Talent Strategies Category Winners: Fujitsu – “Integration with Fujitsu BuddyConnect:
Alexey Mukhin, Stanislav Kosachev and Marc Curtis integrated the Fujitsu BuddyConnect mobile app with Citrix Workspace. Their microapp really resonated with its proactive, inclusive, employee wellbeing use case — keeping neurodiverse staff connected with a work buddy — especially important during remote work. It was a straightforward use case, but a very polished integration.
Best Citrite Project: Microapp Interpreter – Dr. Alex Danilychev
Citrix Principal Sales Engineer, Dr. Alex Danilychev, presented an architecture to extend the reach of microapps into non-RESTful applications. Alex’s architecture used an SSL bridge and low-code app proxy to provide security and flexibility. Kudos for the demo video, which covered the project from first principles to a practical demonstration. Alex deserves special recognition for writing his code in between a bout of pneumonia and being evacuated from his home due to one of the Southern California wildfires!
Best Student Project: Top Headlines – Dishant Kothari (Medi-Caps University, Indore)
Dishant followed the microapps learning journey and created a simple microapp to pull headlines from a news site and show them in Citrix Workspace. Dishant was very active on Slack throughout the conference, so it’s great to see his engagement being rewarded.
Looking for more Citrix Converge 2020?
All of the Converge keynote and breakout session recordings are already available for on-demand viewing via the Citrix Developer YouTube channel, and we will be uploading the final few coffee breaks over the next few days. For a look back at the highlights of Converge, register for our webinar, scheduled for 9 a.m. PT on Thursday, December 10: Pat and Sonny’s Top Ten Picks for Developers.
