What is ATEC Developer Creativity Challenge 2017

Originated from the online payment service Alipay, the Ant Financial Services Group is focused on serving small and micro enterprises, as well as consumers. ATEC (Ant Technology Ecosystem Conference) is organized by Ant Financial. Alipay Mini-program Hackathon/Ideathon is an important part of the conference and is created for Hackathon/Ideathon participants to share their creative ideas on the Alipay Mini-program platform.

Ant Financial is dedicated to providing consumers and small businesses with safe and convenient inclusive financial services globally. To date, a wide range of digital financial services are provided by Ant Financial to over 520 million users in China and beyond, including Alipay, Ant Fortune, Zhima Credit, MYbank, Yu'e Bao, Ant Credit Pay (“Huabei”), Ant Cash Now (“Jiebei”), etc.

Creativity Challenge

Top 10 Hackathon/Ideathon finalists will be invited to the Creativity Challenge on October 11-12 2017 (see details below) to pitch and showcase their proof of demo based on Alipay Mini-program.

The criteria will be：

• Creativity
• Social & Commercial Value
• User experience

Why You Should Join Us

• Make your idea come true in developing an impactful and useful mini-program on Alipay, the leader in online and mobile payments with 520 million users in China and beyond.

• Take advantage of joining in the Challenge to learn more about Ant Financial’s products and services and the trends in the mobile payment in China.

• "The Best Creative Idea Award" and "The Best Social Value Award" available with prizes each valued over 50,000 USD.

• Networking! Networking! Networking!

Judges

Peng Xu, Senior Director of Artificial Intelligence, Ant Financial

Adam Kell, Investment Partner, Comet Labs

YiMing He, Senior Technical Expert, Ant Financial

Amit Aggarwal, CTO, Bloomreach

Prizes

• Two Awards: “The Best Creative Idea Award” and "The Best Social Value Award"

• Each Award with prizes valued over 50,000 USD, include Cash Rewards - 10,000 USD

Congratulations to our Top 10 finalists:

Futuristic

RAMEN

Context Mind

Fabulis

ChaCha!

WHOmentors.com, Inc

HH Hachathon Hackers

SantaClaraLibray

Avalon

RADIAnt

CALL FOR VOLUNTEERS: We're looking for highly motivated volunteers! This is a valuable opportunity to gain experience from organizing an international hackathon event and as a volunteer, you will be provided a t-shirt and receive meals/snacks while volunteering. One click Register to join!

Should you have any question, please contact hackathon.sf@jiqizhixin.com.

Who is organizing ATEC 2017

Organizer: Ant Financial

Ant Financial Services Group is focused on serving small and micro enterprises, as well as consumers. With the vision "bring the world equal opportunities," Ant Financial is dedicated to building an open ecosystem of Internet thinking and technologies while working with other financial institutions to support the future financial needs of society.

Businesses operated by Ant Financial Services Group and its related companies include Alipay, Ant Fortune, Zhima Credit and MYbank.

For more information on Ant Financial, please visit our website at www.antgroup.com or follow us on Twitter @AntFinancial.

Co-organizer: Synced

Synced is the industry’s most influential media entity that focuses on reporting machine intelligence and related technologies. Principled to produce professional, authoritative, and edifying content relating to the fields of artificial intelligence, robotics, neuroscience, and other forefront technologies, Synced is serving a professional audience of over 500,000.For more information on Synced, please visit our website at www.jiqizhixin.com (Chinese) and syncedreview.com (Global), or follow us on Twitter @Synced_Global.

Community Sponsor

Comet Labs is a VC fund and incubator specializing in early-stage AI and robotics investments, with a focus on AI applied to specific industry verticals such as healthcare, transportation, agriculture, retail, and more and made over 40 investments.