🍂 Autumn is Coming: September Recap - The Developer Edition 🧑‍💻

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fsmeier Senior Software Engineer & Developer Enablement Advocate Sprykee Posts: 1,069 ⚖️ - Guardians (admin)
edited October 21 in Spryker News

Heyhey everyone,

Already curled up on the couch with your laptop 💻, sipping hot chocolate ☕ while diving into code reviews, writing some lines of code, or prepping for the next sprint? Whether you're taking a break or just need something to read while enjoying your drink 🍂, here's a quick recap of our September Community Events:

Pre-EXCITE Hackathon

We kicked off the post-holiday season with an exciting pre-Excite Hackathon at our Berlin office!

23 talented tech enthusiasts, divided into 6 teams, came together to prototype innovative solutions aimed at enhancing the customer journey through cutting-edge technology, AI, and data.

Key Facts:

  • 📅 11th September 2024
  • 🏢 Spryker Office, Berlin
  • 🎯 Theme: Smart Retail – Redefining Customer Journeys with Data & AI
  • 👥 6 Teams

🏆 The Winner:

Team "AI Pathfinders" (including @mjung @dennis_bluemer @salman.raza @karan.popat_acn) won over the jury with their multilingual semantic search solution, ensuring highly accurate matches across languages. Their well-structured approach and the precision of their results made a significant impact on the judges.

Github: AI Anything Search

🥈 The Runner-Up:

Team “Oskar Vision Pro” (including @p.miletic @merlin.schmidt @p.lammers @h.hornschuh) impressed the judges by merging the Spryker shopping experience with Apple Vision Pro. They seamlessly integrated 3D visual configuration and augmented reality, all connected to Spryker’s headless transactional platform, delivering a futuristic shopping experience.

Github: Oskar Vision Pro

Other Awesome Teams:

  • “Clickhouse-Analytics” – Leveraged third-party analytics tools to display insights in the Back Office Dashboard. —> Github
  • “AIssistant” – Developed a chat-based shopping assistant to guide users in making shopping decisions. —> Github
  • “Gamificators” – Introduced gamification elements like badges to create a fun and rewarding customer journey. —> Github
  • “SnapFind” – Built an AI-powered image search, allowing users to find products by simply snapping a photo. —> Github

I’m thrilled with the amazing outcomes and the high level of collaboration during the hackathon! It was an absolute blast having you all in our office! 🚀

Recordings of the presentations will follow 🎬️ In the meantime, have a look at the photos 😁

Spryker EXCITE – Developer Stage Highlights

On September 12th, Spryker EXCITE saw our Developer Stage take a big leap! After a small debut last year, this time we upgraded to a larger stage with a full agenda packed with tech topics:

  • Introduction & 2025 Strategic Vision for Spryker Technology
  • AI-Driven Efficiency: Tapping into the Power of AI to Innovate Software Delivery
  • Reaching Top Performance in the Spryker Global Enterprise Projects
  • Accelerating Innovations: Best Practices for Contributing to Spryker
  • Upgrading Spryker Projects: Realizing More Value from Latest Capabilities with Less Maintenance
  • The 5 Biggest Engineering Mistakes When Building Enterprise E-commerce in Cloud

You missed EXCITE or you wanna re-watch one of the sessions? Have a look at our EXCITE website to find the full agenda and the related recordings: https://spryker.com/events/excite-2024/ .

Or you click on the following link to directly reach the recordings: Link to all recordings

Spryker and Siemens Healthineers Hackathon in Kosovice, Slovakia

We wrapped up September with an exciting hackathon at our customer Siemens Healthineers! 🎉 Two teams collaborated to enhance the Back Office UI/UX by improving the GUI Tables.

Team “VALALIKY” implemented a proof of concept (POC) to display significantly improved tables from the Merchant Portal in the Back Office, complete with out-of-the-box column filtering.

Team “FINDING NEMO” focused on advancing the existing GUI Tables by adding an additional search field as a POC, allowing for a more sophisticated search capability in future iterations. 🔍

You can check out the projects here: https://github.com/topics/siemens-2024

You reached the END ✌️

Now that you're caught up on all the events from September, it’s probably time to dive back into your projects! 😄💻 A post about the September Digital User Group, including the recordings, will follow once the after-production is complete.

Enjoy the autumn 🍂, and hopefully, we’ll see each other (remotely) at our HackWeek! ✌️

Sincerely, your community team 🤓