Long Van accompanies DevFest 2017 in Danang

The winning teams at GDG DevFest Mien Trung 2016

“By barticipating in the community activities at DevFest, Long Van wants to stimulate more young people to select science and technology to study and consider it as a basis to develop their careers, contributing to Vietnam's strong growth in the future,” said Nguyen Huu Ru, general director of Long Van.

DevFest is the festival for the developer community, featuring numerous highly-anticipated events, such as a conference, training programmes, condelabs or Hackathon. DevFest events cover multiple product areas such as android, firebase, Google cloud platform, Google assistant, flutter, machine learning with tensor flow, and mobile web.

In 2017, GDG Mien Trung will host DevFest under the Hackathon form in Danang.

According to the plan, the Hackathon competition to be organised on November 17, is expected to attract 100-120 developers. Accordingly, individuals and representatives of groups will present their products within 60 seconds and then receive votes form the remaining members.

20 outstanding ideals will be selected to establish teams to implement their products within 24 hours from November 18-19. Then between 10-12 best teams will be selected to present their products for the board of examiners and the 600-strong panel of technology lovers on the Demoday. Moreover, many experts will come and share their experiences in the field of technology.

According to Nguyen Thi Phuong Nhi, founder of GDG Mien Trung and representative of the board of organisers of GDG DevFest Mien Trung 2017, Hackathon is an ideal competition for developers and information technology students to train their team working skill, multi-dimensional thinking ability, and ability to provide objective feedback and to communicate with customers.

“The GDG DevFest Hackathon is not just a technology playground, but we also hope that the event will help younger people to improve their innovative thinking skills as well as the spirit of active connection, learning, and sharing,” Nhi added.

Partner to the world’s leading IT groups, namely VMware, NetApp, Cisco, Long Van specialises in developing IT infrastructure applications for cloud computing platforms. Long Van currently has more than 10,000 customers and it expects that the figure will be doubled within the next two years.

The company currently supplies a variety of services, including private cloud, cloud datacenter, cloud server, cloud desktop, and cloud backup, for its close partners that include University of Economics Ho Chi Minh City, National Hospital of Tropical Diseases, ILA Educational Organisation, Apollo Education Organisation, HANET Electronics Vietnam Co., Ltd., and Anova Pharma JSC, among others.