Dover Fueling Solutions hosts Texas hackathon

Dover Fueling Solutions (DFS) hosted a hackathon this weekend (January 24-26) at its Austin headquarters. The event was hosted in collaboration with the McCombs School of Business at The University of Texas.

Teams of undergraduate and postgraduate Texas McCombs students competed against one another using a combination of chosen DFS and Microsoft technologies “to create an experience that produces positive customer sentiment and/or business success for DFS or the fuel retail merchant”, DFS said in a statement. 

Hackathons generally involve a large group of people collaborating on computer programming problems. Technologies at the students’ disposal for this event included DFS’ next-generation user experience platform, the DFS Edge IoT gateway, Microsoft Cloud Services, machine learning and mobile devices. 

Students were then be judged in the categories of user focus, technical difficulty, innovation, and execution. This was the second hackathon DFS has hosted for students from Texas McCombs.

Hob Hairston, DFS Vice President of Solutions Engineering said: “Dover Fueling Solutions is excited to continue our partnership with the McCombs School and The University of Texas at Austin. We believe this relationship is one of significant value for our company, the university and the market, and are thrilled to see the bold new ideas this year’s hackathon will produce.”

For more information visit www.doverfuelingsolutions.com

28th January 2020