The IGNITE Challenge is coming to an end

First of all, what is the Hexagon Geospatial IGNITE Challenge? IGNITE is a competition hosted by Hexagon Geospatial, to use the Hexagon Smart M.App to build creative, dynamic, innovation Smart M.App solutions that bring insight and understanding to businesses that are addressing specific, real-world problems. It has been opened to everyone from global companies to individual developers to teams of competitors. It’s about helping you take your ideas to market, providing you with the tools to innovate and change the way the world interacts with geospatial data.

What are the prizes?

• First Prize is 100,000 USD
• Second Prize is 50,000 USD
• Third prize is 25,000 USD
• Everyone who builds a Smart M.App can sell it in M.App Exchange, and earn revenue from each sale

And…what is a Hexagon Smart M.App? A Hexagon Smart M.App is a cloud application that delivers and communicates an online information service. This allows you to fuse multi-source data together to build solutions that help us gain understanding about the problems we face today. These smart applications employ targeted workflows to distill fresh, geospatial content into business analytics and meaningful visualizations. This game-changing platform has revolutionized the way we envision, experience and communicate geographic information.

At its core, a Hexagon Smart M.App is about using a map as a communication tool that visualizes dynamic information and allows you to see through the map to pick out patterns and information that is not readily apparent from the maps we use today.

In conclusion, where are we now with the Hexagon Geospatial IGNITE Challenge?

The Judging Phase has begun! We have now 20 finalists coming from all over the world. Winners will be announced December 15th.

If you want to see a “real life” Smart M.App, find here all the finalists and their projects.