Applications for developers and IT enthusiasts across the region are now open
From 09-10, the competition will have six challenges, in Portuguese and Spanish
Companies such as AlgarTech, Bantotal, GFT, Quanam, Sonda, among others, will develop challenges and support participants with free enablement sessions
IBM today announces the third edition of the Marathon behind the code, the virtual code development competition created to find the best developers in Latin America, in partnership with IT Mídia. This year, the Marathon will bring together developers with partners from the IBM ecosystem, with a mission to solve real world business challenges through the use of disruptive technologies such as IA, IoT, Kubernetes, Data Science, among others, all available in the IBM Cloud .
According to IDC, by 2025 more than 19.5 million digital applications and services will be developed and deployed using native cloud approaches in Latin America¹, most targeting industry-specific digital transformation use cases. To make the most of this opportunity, it is essential to promote an integrated ecosystem, capable of collaborating and creating in a coordinated manner, with the objective of solving the most complex challenges in the world. An open hybrid cloud ecosystem comprised of developers, service integrators and solution providers has the potential to scale its resources to equip organizations to modernize their mission-critical workloads with the highest levels of knowledge, innovation and experience.
“At IBM, we are confident that a strong partner ecosystem can deliver lasting value to transform businesses and enable companies to reach their full potential to succeed in the digital age. That's why we recently announced that we've invested US$ 1 billion in the ecosystem globally,” said Joaquim Campos, IBM vice president of technology for Latin America. “In Latin America we have an important ecosystem of business and innovation partners. By inviting them to participate in this Marathon, we are helping them to foster new talent in the IT market, providing technology and industry expertise to local companies and developers, and reaffirming our commitment to support them by deepening our focus on hybrid cloud and intelligence artificial."
the marathon behind the code will have two phases. The first phase will consist of a series of five challenges from IBM business partners such as AlgarTech, Bantotal, GFT, Quanam, Sonda, among others, which will be delivered to participants in Portuguese and Spanish. The 100 developers with the best scores from this first phase will be entitled to recognition under the terms outlined in the Marathon regulations.
The second phase will consist of a one-day grand finale, in which the Top 100 developers will once again compete to select the Top 5 Master Dev From Latin America. The 5 champions will be entitled to recognition as described in the Marathon regulations.
During the month of October 2021, prior to the launch of the challenges, IBM and its sponsoring Business Partners will conduct a series of participant trainings to help developers on their learning journey. IBM will also provide tools and content so that they can access the best knowledge to develop a code of excellence for the ecosystem challenges that will be proposed during the competition.
The latest edition of Marathon behind the code had more than 70,000 applications to solve 16 proposed business challenges in nine countries. During the entire competition, more than 270,000 lines of code were created. Igor Ventorim, one of the five winners of Marathon 2020, commented: “Participating in this event is a fantastic experience that adds a lot of value to our career, mainly because we keep in touch with disruptive technologies that are already available in the market, and allow us to increase our visibility in the market, which attracts a lot of interest from recruiters.”
Registration for the Marathon behind the code 2021 are open until September 30, 2021 in https://ibm.biz/maratona.
¹Residents of the following countries: Argentina (except the province of Mendoza), Brazil, Chile, Ecuador, Mexico, Peru, Uruguay and Venezuela.
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