He is the hackers' Bindefeld - IT.Branschen

Hackathon and prototype parties where developers gather under one or more days to develop and test new ideas is the way forward for many companies that want to put the turbo behind innovation.

Joe Coppard started his career with arranging great parties and rave across London. Today, the giant companies like Google, IBM, Spotify, and Absolut that invites you to dance at the hackathon that his company Protothon organizes. Large companies who employ Joe Coppard would absorb the creativity that exists at the intersection between technology, digital design and the emerging maker movement.

Class=”paragraphIntro”> Company Protothon based Joe Coppard together with the two friends Johan Nilsson and Clara Terne after he moved from London to Stockholm. The goal is to combine creativity and technology. My first job was to organize a hackathon for Spotify.

class=”paragraphIntro”> Joe Coppards philosophy for how a hackathon will go to is a little different from the usual.

class=”paragraphIntro”> – Johan had been on hundreds of nicks and was tired of the way they usually did, said Joe Coppard.

Instead of to a group of people or a team signs up so he sets and Protothon groups together based on a list of people with different skills to bring such an exciting team as possible. The listed hackers are those of Protothons network that has been

class=”paragraphIntro”> – We are interested in the combination of technology, communication and design, said Joe Coppard

This means that the teams at hackathonen usually consist of people with different backgrounds and different knowledge in technology and design, but also in music and art.

class=”paragraphIntro”> – I think it is interesting to see how the technology world and the communication and design world blend together more and more. We want to be a hub between these worlds, says Joe Coppard.

class=”paragraphIntro”> The notch now organized so far have had themes that ranged from the future bar for how the environmentally sustainable city can be built with smart IT solutions. Besides chopping contains events lectures and seminar on the topic.

class=”paragraphIntro”> – We create event that is part celebration, part workshop and part of a conference, says Joe Coppard.

class=”paragraphIntro”> He thinks many of the participants choose to participate in a Hackathon in place of a traditional conference.