This type of „Jam“ doesn’t have anything to do with our favorite spread or an evening of improvised, harmonic melodies. This word association would probably make some people shake their head now. The Global Game Jam (GGJ) is an event, that probably is marked with a red circle in the calendar of several gamers. Worldwide, from Shanghai to London, Teams are „jamming“ with the goal of creating a usable video game or boardgame. 48h time, over 600 Jamsites with over 40.000 participants. This year under the theme „Waves“. hy’s fronted developer Daniel experienced it live and told us how unique the experience, but how unreliable the delivery service was at this years InnoGames Jam in Hamburg.

With two additional programmers, a soundguy and the help of Vanilla JS and HTML, Daniel developed the Game „Cube waves“. With reduced design and interesting retro-feel, the players aim is to let the opponent cave in the playing field.

As students at FH Flensburg with an intended Master of intermedia, Daniels team with the name „Rosting Picnic Troopers“, already knew each other. Many others come alone and just connect with already existing teams, that need help in certain fields, on site. Daniel already knew what the challenges would be because it was his third time jamming. „On the one hand, you need to find an idea that is viable. On the other hand you need to try not to starve while waiting for the delivery service, who wanted to bring food 3h ago.“, he says and smiles. Also, its advisable to develop a playable prototype in the first day, which will be further developed with features in the next day. Extra points will be given in the valuation, when the game can be played platform independent.

Daniel also recommends to all new jammers to start packing the game before the deadline, because the presentation will follow right after. 

At the IGJam 2016, hosted by Gamescom, the Team „Panoptes“ won in the categories „Game Feel“, „Best overall games“ as well as „Best VR Game“ with their same-titled game. The single-Player game with fear factor can be played on Mac, Linux and PC and is accentuated with a story full of mysteries, magic and unknown technologies. The player needs to destroy walking nightmares with a self assembled squad of unique characters. I tried out the demo version of the game. And as a woman that does not only play „Candy crush“ or „cooking mama“, I have to say: Nice Job Team Panoptes!“. 

Fastfood-heaven and Creative-pool are converging at Game Jam, whereat the fun and not the price is priority. Winning would be a great side effect though. New friendships are made and newbies get to know how great the industry really is. Organized by Game designers who love to jam themselves, the InnoGame Jam is a colorful event, that couldn't unite people with a different set of skills any better. 

Wien is not only home to the beautiful castle Schönburnn, but also to the HR Inside Summit. Fron october 12th to 13th the summit took place for the second time. It perfectly combines the three important points transfer of knowledge, networking and entertainment. This time with speakers from international companies like Spotify and Ikea. Next to the program that was made up of 50-minutes sessions and keynotes, there was an exhibition about Disrupt HR.
What tools will help in recruiting and how will recruiting work in the future?

We were able to listen to talk by Kim Wylie’s of Google. She openly talked about her work at Google and “Inspiring a Culture of Innovation Through Change”.

In addition we harkened to the voice of Jonathan Reichenthal from Palo Alto with his talk “Stop Managing. Start Inspiring”. His work for PWC, the white House and SAP has made him a name in Silicon Valley. 

Were you there? If so, what speaker inspired you the most?  

Über 1500 Menschen haben sich den 29. und 30. September 2016 mit einem dicken, roten Kreis im Terminkalender vermerkt. Auch hy konnte zu der Kombination aus Popcorn, Code und einer Zusammenstellung aus interessanten Speakern nicht Nein sagen. 

Die code.talks ist das größte “Klassentreffen der Entwicklerszene” in Europa und wurde 2016 zum sechsten Mal in Hamburg durchgeführt. Und da Hamburg hy’s Geburtsort ist, und wir die Vereinigung unser Softwareentwickler wertschätzen, wollten wir das Event als Sponsor unterstützen!

Zwei Tage wurden gefüllt mit Talks aus verschiedensten Themengebieten wie Big Data, E-Commerce, IT-Management und Infrastruktur und einem Unterhaltungsprogramm, das niemanden langweilen dürfte. Darunter das Testen von VR Brillen, Drohnen und Escape Games. Der perfekte Rahmen, um neue Kontakte zu knüpfen und sich über Themen der Entwicklung auszutauschen. 

Es war eine tolle Erfahrung und wir werden ganz sicher nicht das letzte Mal dabei gewesen sein. Danke code.talks und wir sehen uns 2017 am 28. und 29. September wieder!

More than 1500 people put a fat, red mark around the 29th and 30th of September 2016. hy, too, couldn't say no to the combination of popcorn, code and interesting as well as international speaker. Code.talks is easily the biggest class reunion of the developer scene in europe and was realised for the sixth time in hamburg. Because hamburg is hy’s birth place and because we cherish the connection of software developer, we wanted to support the event as a sponsor. 

Two days filled with talks from different subjects like Big Data, E-Commerce, IT-Management and infrastructure and an entertainment program that shouldn't bore anyone. Among other things the testing of VR glasses, drones and escape games. The perfect context to socialise and to exchange ideas about a topic. 

It was a great experience and we definitely be there again. Thank you code.talks and see you again on the 28th and 29th of September 2017! 

The ambience of Vienna’s Hofburg probably didn't just dumbfounded us. The location of the HR Inside Summit 2015 fits perfectly to the well planned program. National and international speakers talk about topics like personnel development, HR Innovation and future trends. 

Matteo Achilli (Egomania) from Italy talked about “Meritocraty and young talent. He explained the importance of hiring people based on their skills and told us in a Q&A Session how he made his startup grow to a successful company. 

As the biggest HR Event in Austria, the HR Inside Summit represents a great opportunity for the scene to interact. And for us, its an awesome experience every year that we experience outside of germany.