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Airbus organized Critical App Challenge with Hackathon event in Germany for the most talented teams to improve the mission-critical communications of police officers, firefighters, caretakers, doctors and other life-saving and society-building professionals. This gallery of images lets you get a glimpse of Hackathon where selected teams went beyond what was expected.

The Critical App Challenge 2018 “hackathon” organized by Airbus is about to start

The audience listens to a presentation by Catalin Gheorghiou from Airbus.

A representative from HERE, the world's leading location data company is giving a presentation

Intensive discussions between event participants

Anna Korpela, the challenge master from Industryhack, explains what the participating teams are expected to deliver

Getting started with the Critical App Challenge

The Tactical AI team from Digia is in the spotlight

All participants of the Critical App Challenge event in a group photo

Catalin Gheorhiu from Airbus in a discussion with the Life Savers team from company Intelligence on Wheels (IoW)

Jani Iivari, Marjukka Niinioja and Ville Ristimäki from the Tactical AI team are working hard on the challenge. Their app automatically delivers the caller’s location information and facial recognition to the police, security and medical teams in situations where a person cannot present identification on the spot

Dr. Thomas Strang, Dr. Andreas Lehner and Benno Kühnl from the Live Savers team are working on a life-saving app. With the help of the app, workers on a train track get a warning on their Tactilon Dabat device when a train is approaching - also outside 3G/4G network coverage

Heikki and Antti Törrönen from the ChatOps team from Kwork Innovations company are working on a secure voice assistant which helps officers report faster and on-the-spot with mobile devices

The event was held in Gaszählerwerkstatt, Munich - in an old gas meter workshop built in 1906

The mentors from Airbus are gathered around a table

Event participants were easily recognized since they all wore the #CriticalAppChallenge hoodie

Jarmo Kivelä, one of the mentors from Airbus, supported the app developers throughout the challenge

Before the event started, the Airbus mentors were themselves mentored by Anna Korpela, Challenge Master from Industryhack

Katri Vilonen, Matias Pietilä and Tommy Eklund from the company Qvik

Ville Ristimäki, Marjukka Niinioja and Jani Iivari from the Tactical AI team from Digia company

Olli-Pekka Piironen, Mikko Virkkilä and Tuomas Ilola from the company Steerpath

Benno Kühnl, Dr. Thomas Strang and Dr. Andreas Lehner from the Life Savers team, from the Intelligence on Wheels (IoW) company

Heikki and Antti Törrönen from the ChatOps team, from the Kwork Innovations company

Jukka Yrjönen, Martti Hyvönen and Katja Vakula from the Frantimones team, from the Frantic company

Robert Taylor, Erkko Sallinen and Abdulakeem Odunmbaku from the SimLab IT company

Juuso Ohra-aho, Jani Lehtinen and Kari Aho from the Secapp team, from the Versine company

The audience is listening to Catalin Gheorghiou, Product Business Manager from Airbus

Emilia Roiha from Industryhack in discussion with Heikki Törrönen of the ChatOps team from Kwork Innovations

Niklas Lagerblom, one of the mentors (in the middle), is helping app developers to develop their ideas

The Force app from the Frantimones team (Frantic) helps make sure that the life-savers are at their best performance. With this app, team leaders can see their teams' status, individual sensor and history data

Antti Törrönen from the ChatOps team (Kwork Innovations) is being interviewed on video

The Life Savers' app from the Intelligence on Wheels (IoW) company will give a clear warning signal to workers on a train track whenever there's a train approaching

App developers on a short break, exchanging ideas with the other teams

The camera crew capturing the action

Heikki Törrönen from the ChatOps team and Jani Iivari from the Tactical AI team, exchanging ideas

The SimLab IT's app for medical teams is on show, presented by Robert Taylor. The app gives quick and secure access to all the information that’s needed to help patients in an emergency, using both LTE and TETRA

Team Secapp meets team Frantimones

The Steerpath's app provides robust and easy to deploy indoor positioning, coupled with accurate indoor maps which scale all the way down to centimeter scale if needed

The Secapp's app enables easy-to-use manual and automated messaging, alerting and paging to reach people with the correct skills, location and availability

Marjukka Niinioja from the Tactical AI team (Digia) has been identified on the spot

The Tactical AI team's app uses the HERE map API to show locations and metadata on where a person has been sighted

Tapio Mäkinen from Airbus has been spotted, but not recognised!

The ChatOps team's voice assistant app helps officers report faster and on-the-spot

The team Steerpath on the spotlight with their real-time indoor positioning app

Eric Davalo, Head of Strategy, Solution Portfolio and Engineering of Secure Land Communications at Airbus on stage

The company Intelligence on Wheels (IoW) receives an award at the challenge

A group photo of the three teams who got an award at the challenge: Digia, Intelligence on Wheels (IoW) and Steerpath

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