SAP’s World Famous Demo Jam
SAP’s Demo Jam was something that excited me from the moment i started at comprise, Owen Pettiford a co-owner of compriseIT and SAP Mentor, opened my eyes to Demo Jam quite early on and after viewing a few videos of teched Berlin and Bangalore. I was convinced this was something we as a company should enter at some point in the near future, plus a cheeky trip to Vegas wouldn’t go a miss!
I had some initial ideas that I put down on paper, but as i learnt more about teched, demo jam and SAP in general i started to get a grasp of the type of 6 minute demo that was needed to compete.
It needs something innovative, clever, interesting, relevant, funny and if you can lean the application towards the idea of Green IT, this will also help. Past winners have even involved Nintendo Wii controllers in the demonstration.
For those who are unaware of the Demo Jam, entrants are given 6 minutes to display, demonstrate and sometimes build an application. After each 6 minutes the crowd clap, whoop and cheer, the loudest responsetakes the title.
It looks like a great atmosphere and a lot of fun, it obviously offers the companies who enter a great deal of publicity and cu-dos!.
Take a look for yourself . . . .
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z_8x1gjst1U
The development team at the company I work for recently had their annual in house Demo Jam, which was very successful. (We didn’t have a 20ft clap-ometer, instead we had an iPhone app that did the job.)
This started the discussion on, should we enter? what should we enter?
The white board of ideas is beginning to fill. . . .
