This document outlines the schedule and details for the MasterCard Masters of Code competition grand finale held on December 5-6, 2015 in Silicon Valley. The two-day event includes coding workshops, pitches, and hackathons where teams must build a business leveraging MasterCard APIs with the goal of solving a social problem or creating the next big thing. On the second day, teams will demo their work and winners will be announced, with the top prize being $100,000 and mentorship opportunities. MasterCard APIs featured include MasterPass and Places data for San Francisco.

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Masters of Code
COMPETITION
<Grand Finale>
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Day 1 Schedule
12/5/15
09:00
09:30
10:00
12:00
Doors open to Attendees
Breakfast of Masters
Fireside Chat / API Talks
Lunch
18:00
00:00
Dinner is Served
Midnight Snack on the Ten
CODE THROUGH THE NIGHT!
12:00 CODING BEGINS
13:00 APIs Workshop
19:00 Pitch Workshop

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Day 2 Schedule
12/5/15
08:00
12:00
12:00
13:00
14:30
Breakfast of Tired Masters
Lunch
Hackathon Ends (Submission due on hackathon.io)
Global Masters of Code announced!
14:45 The Happiest of Hour!
Demos Begin (Demos only. No slide decks)
(If your demo doesn't work, take us through the code—what you did and where you got stuck.
It's about showing what you've learned and not about pitching an idea.)
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• The MasterCard Masters of Code Champions
The Grand Prize!
12/5/15
$100,000US
1week
on-site at MasterCard Start
Path™ bootcamp in Singapore (or
alternate location) in February!
6months
mentorship by member of
MasterCard’s Open API executive
team and Start Path program team
Payment
Processing
for up to $250,000US in
transactions for the first 12 months
using Simplify Commerce
FREE

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The Overall Concept!
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Overall Challenge:
Create a Real Business
Leveraging MasterCard APIs.
Part 1 - MUST DO: 1 Page
Executive Summary of your
Business.
IMPORTANT: You cannot build/use the same idea
than the one you used to win the regional event.
PART 2 - Use 1 of the Featured
APIs!
OR
Part 3 – Sign a customer or users
in the real world
(time to call your friends!)

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Part 4 - The Complicated Part and most important!
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Social Good Track:
Focus on a global problem that you
consistently see in your home
country or city.
We’ll be looking for the support of
financial inclusion and ability to
generate revenue.
Keep these questions in mind:
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Who says your problem is important?
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What data supports the claim?
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How does your hack fix the problem?
Next Big Thing Track:
Create THE killer app that will be more popular than
a Unicorn and generate more revenue than an
Amazon.
We’ll be looking for how you address frictionless
digital commerce and which additional amazing
technologies did you use.
Some examples could include:
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Geolocation and Beacons
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Cloud/Mobile
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Big Data
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Natural Language Processing
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Virtual Reality
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Consumer Friendly Biometrics
OR

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Judging Criteria
12/5/15
Fresh Code Enforced Code Review No PowerPoints Team Size
Usage of MasterCard APIs
IMPACT
DESIGN
CREATIVITY
SIMPLICITY
5 points for each criteria  max score = 25
All judging will be done on Hackathon.io

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Great Speakers!
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Unbelievable judges!
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The Secret APIs are…
12/5/15
MasterPass Android SDKs
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MasterPass Merchant Android
SDK
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MasterPass Wallet Android
SDK
Places
with a fresh set of data
for San Francisco!
OR

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MasterCard offers over a dozen commerce APIs.

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MasterCard Masters of Code
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Will your name be
on the Lancelot
trophy tomorrow?

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#mastersofcode
Grand Finale
Silicon Valley
December 5 & 6, 2015

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KEEP CALM
HACK ON
AND