IEEEmadC

www.ieeemadc.org

Josip Balen
IEEEmadC founder
Introduction
• IEEEmadC is Mobile Applications
Development Contest
• All IEEE student members across the globe
• Teams up to 3 members
• 4 stages of contest
Motivation
2012 – number of IEEE mobile apps = 0

The BOOM in mobile applications

development is happening still TODAY!

By 2017:
>268 billion downloads
>$77 billion in revenue
according to Gartner, Inc. [?]
 Goal and target
It is not just a contest!
• Contest = Motivation
• Education in MAD field
• Enable students to easier find job/start
company/get an internship
• Develop numerous useful mobile
applications
• Use mobile technologies for the benefit
Credit: Ken Banks, kiwanja.net
of humanity
• Promote IEEE activities and benefits
 Concept
IEEEmadC is organized in four phases.
Idea submission Application Post madC
Education
development activities
• Workshops / • Describe app • Development • Benefits for
lectures idea (max. 150 of mobile developers
organized by words) and applications • Promotion of
ambassadors then wait for according to apps
around the approval the submitted • Businnes
globe idea education
• Webinars with • Have
experts from successful
industry stories
 Scoring Criteria
UI Design – design of the User Interface (elements such as colors, fonts, icons)

User Experience (UX) – functionality, efficiency, logical structure

Usefulness – providing useful information to users (depending on the content)

Availability – the potential number/group of users

 Ambassadors

• >100 IEEEmadC student

ambassadros
• >60 IEEE Sections
• >65 Workshops and Lectures
• >1000 Participants
Submitted Ideas

2014 2015 2016 2017

81133 188 520

Developed Mobile Apps

2014 2015 2016 2016

28 44 44 60
Paticipants

2014 2015 2016 2016

160 300370 600

Awards for IEEEmadC 2016
Awards for IEEEmadC 2016
 IEEEmadC

Webpage: http://www.ieeemadc.org/

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Email: ieeemadc@ieee.org

Stay MAD ;)