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Appathon winners nominated
30 January 2015: After an exceptional Appathon weekend the six teams for ESA App Camp
Barcelona, sponsored by SAP have been nominated.
More than 170 participants from about 30 nations gathered simultaneously at six ESA BIC and
partner locations across Europe on 24-25 Jan 2015. In teams, they were challenged to develop
mobile app concepts using Earth observation data and the power of the SAP Hana Cloud Platform to
tackle some of the world’s greatest challenges. Topics areas included Big Geo Data, Crowdsourcing
Solutions, Environmental Protection, Food Security, and the Internet of Things.
After two days of intense work, all teams presented their app concepts in fife-minute pitches to an
expert jury on Sunday. The jury had the hard task to select a winning team in each country from
among great concepts and business cases. Each of the team members, consisting of three to five
developers, was handed over a ticket to the ESA App Camp Barcelona.
The winning teams will now receive coaching to further develop their concepts, to be optimally
prepared for Barcelona. From 25 Feb to 3 March, the six teams will be invited to the ESA App Camp,
sponsored by SAP to work on their apps and compete for the grand prize, which will be presented at
the Mobile World Congress 2015. The overall winners will get the chance to present their apps on
the SAP stage at the MWC and be awarded prizes including 5,000 Euro cash by top-level
representatives from ESA and SAP.
Meet the Appathon’s six winning teams
Team Finland:
Otso Rasimus (Finnish), Matti Määttänen (Finnish), Henrik Skogström
(Finnish), Aarni Koskela (Finnish), with their app concept AGRAI to assist
farmers by providing them with a great variety of combined and already
pre-analysed Earth Observation and in-situ data with the power of the
SAP HANA Cloud Platform.
The Appathon was hosted by ESA Broker at the Turku Science Park.
Team Germany:
Alexander Potapov (Russian), Eldar Rakhmatullaev (Uzbek), Rahul
Narayan (Indian), Christian Georg Strobl (German), with their app
concept “Malevich”, a sales tool for energy providers based on Earth
observation data and the power of the SAP Hana Cloud Platform.
The Appathon was hosted by ESA BIC Bavaria at the German Aerospace
Center (DLR) near Munich.
Press contact: Anwendungszentrum GmbH Oberpfaffenhofen, Lena Klemm, Friedrichshafenerstr. 1,
82205 Gilching, Germany Tel.: +49 (0) 8105-7727717 [email protected]
Team Italy:
Alessandro Amici (Italian), Giordano Pezzola (Italian), Giuseppe
Cammarota (Italian), with “SAMPEI” an app concept that aims for a
satellite assisted precision fishing for everyone.
The Appathon was hosted by ESA BIC Lazio near Rome.
Team Netherlands:
Ana Cristina van Oijhuizen (Dutch), Aidan O'Toole (Irish), Wendy Mensink
(Dutch), Lisa Broekhuizen (Dutch), introduced with “Penny Lane” an app
concept to a space-based solution for global insect related forest
damage.
The Appathon was hosted by ESA BIC Noordwijk near Amsterdam.
Team Portugal:
João Goncalves (Portuguese), Rui Medina (Portuguese), João Cardoso
(Portuguese), Silvia Almeida (Portuguese), with “EcoFit” an app concept
that by using Earth Observation data combined with the power of the
SAP HANA Cloud Platform, aims to assist customers in their decision
process regarding the best location for renewable energy sites.
The Appathon was hosted by ESA BIC Portugal in Coimbra.
Team UK:
Julian Laval (French), Alex Dantis (Romanian), Alex Dumitrescu
(Romanian), Anda Truta (Romanian), with "CropAdviser", an app concept
combining the power of SAP HANA, ESA Earth observation data, and
other data sources for crop recommendations based on local conditions
and optimising for yield and revenue.
The Appathon was hosted by ESA BIC Harwell and Satellite Applications
Catapult in Harwell near London.
The ESA App Camp is organised by Anwendungszentrum GmbH Oberpfaffenhofen on behalf of the
European Space Agency ESA and sponsored by SAP University Alliances. The local Appathons were
realized by awesome local partners making the pre-selection Appathons a great experience.
Further information is available on www.app-camp.eu
Download pictures of the winning Teams on www.app-camp.eu/winner_pictures
Press contact: Anwendungszentrum GmbH Oberpfaffenhofen, Lena Klemm, Friedrichshafenerstr. 1,
82205 Gilching, Germany Tel.: +49 (0) 8105-7727717 [email protected]