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Master students again in the final of SAP innovation competition

Student group from Liechtenstein presents live in front of thousand spectators at SAP #DemoJam in Barcelona

A group of five international students from Bulgaria, France, Columbia and Latvia of the master programme Information Systems from the University of Liechtenstein qualified today for the final of the innovation competition SAP #DemoJam tomorrow at the technology event SAP TechEd in Barcelona.

Repeated success
The students were able to prevail at the innovation competition #InnoJam against 25 teams of experienced software developers from all over the world in a competitive selection process and were nominated for the final tomorrow as one of the six best teams. Thereby, the master students repeated the success of their student colleagues from last year. The young programmers have developed a mobile application on the basis of the company software SAP in a 36-hour coding challenge and presented their solution to the jury this afternoon. With this, the student team of the master programme Information Systems gets the chance to present their solution in front of thousand spectators at the SAP #DemoJam in Barcelona.

The delegation of the University of Liechtenstein, existing of students from the master programme Information Systems led by Prof. Dr. Jan vom Brocke, Hilti Chair of Business Process Management and Dr. Bernd Schenk, Executive Director of the programme, was invited by the SAP University Alliance to take part in the world’s biggest conference for SAP developers and designers in Barcelona.

Watch live
Tomorrow on Tuesday, November 8th 2016, at 20.00 pm, the excited developers will enter the final stage and present their solution. It will also be possible to watch the presentation live from Liechtenstein and keep the fingers crossed for the student group of the University of Liechtenstein: http://events.sap.com/teched/en/session/29463