Fostering Platform Technology... LG Uplus Hosts Developer Contest 'Hackstival'

Developers who participated in the hackathon are taking a commemorative photo with Hwang Hyun-sik, CEO of LG Uplus (third from the left), after the competition.

[Asia Economy Reporter Lim Hye-seon] LG Uplus announced on the 11th that it held a hackathon called 'Hackstival' for in-house developers to compete in their development skills in order to secure technological capabilities for promoting new platform businesses.

A hackathon is a competition likened to a marathon where software developers and planners form teams to create deliverables (prototypes) within a limited time. LG Uplus named its first in-house hackathon 'Hackstival' (Hack+Festival) to convey the meaning of a ‘festival’ for developers.

The 1st Hackstival was held from 9 a.m. on the 8th until noon the next day at the Orange Room in the LG Uplus Magok building in Gangseo-gu, Seoul, with a total of nine teams participating. LG Uplus expects to discover customer-centric platform ideas through this competition and to spread a rapid internal collaboration culture during the development process.

LG Uplus is developing its business centered on the ‘4 major platforms’ as a new growth strategy, and in this process, it is internalizing development capabilities to quickly respond to market demands. To this end, it is pursuing developer recruitment and establishing a unique Uplus development culture.

The grand prize went to the ‘400’ team, consisting of four back-end developers who developed a P2P delivery brokerage platform. Kim Taekyung, a lead developer of the Advertising Platform Development Team, said in his acceptance speech, “Through continuous learning, I hope to contribute to LG Uplus’s leap as a platform company and that new ideas will also lead to business opportunities.”

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