23-24 April in Kiev will host the final of the startup competition "Golden byte 2016"

The prize Fund of the international championship — 500 000 UAH

23-24 April at the Kyiv teacher's House will host the finals of the International championship of IT talents . For the prize Fund 500 000 USD. will be competing startups in the field of information technology, design and communications. Topic — "Create. Invent. Change". Qualifying rounds took place in more than 25 cities of Ukraine, Russia, Belarus, Kazakhstan and other CIS countries. Only in 9 categories with your own ideas and startups will make about 100 teams.

 

"Golden byte" is a platform for search of new ideas and talents. The main objectives were to encourage young people to be innovative and business ideas, to help investors and venture funds seeking strong projects to unlock the potential of Ukraine in the field of IT in the international arena. This year's 8-th annual championship will bring together more than 300 finalists-winners of the regional selections.

 

In the finals the most innovative and promising startups. Experts in the field of IT have already noted a great potential of development. Among such projects:

 

The Smart city project with smart lighting system, control of air quality and protection galoganov and automatically call the police.

Smart wristband that transmits data about a person when shaking hands.

The manipulator move items for people with disabilities.

GPS Kids tracker for safety of children and the transmission of their location.

Program to increase the number of jobs and control of the officials.

The project to reduce the risk of accidents and control of the technical condition of the car via a smartphone.

A library of books with augmented reality.

Mobile app for finding free Parking spaces.

Smart apparatus for making cocktails that is controlled via mobile device, and many others.

Only the finals will bring together over 100 projects in 9 categories of the main areas of IT:

 

Startup challenge (a competition of software projects).

Web project (a competition of projects using the Microsoft Azure service).

Networking technology (nomination for system administrators).

Mobile development (mobile app contest).

Game design (competition gaming).

Character design (a competition to create game characters).

Internet of Things (contest of innovative projects on creation the Internet of things).

Short movie (short movie contest).

NoSQL expert (competition applications for work with databases).

Members of the jury :

 

Andrew Milinevsky (Kyivstar, Director of transformation of sales channels).

Victor tsikunov (Microsoft, Director of strategic technologies).

Yuri Mykolyshyn (Intel Ukraine, marketing Director).

Oksana Borysenko (Digital Ukraine, President of Association).

Alexander Olshansky (Internet Invest, President of the company).

Igor Safat (American investor).

Alexander Popov (Terrasoft, founder and technical Director).

Victor kompaniec (Digital Future, the head of investment company) and others.