InterSystems programming contests

Create open source application on a given topic and
compete for a cash prize.

More than $14,000 in prize fund

The next contest will be announced soon

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Why participate in the InterSystems contest?

This is a great chance to show off your coding skills in InterSystems technology and win great prizes:


Experts Nomination - a specially selected jury will determine winners:

🥇 1st place - $5,000
🥈 2nd place - $3,000
🥉 3rd place - $1,500
🏅 4th place - $750
🏅 5th place - $500
🌟 6-10th places - $100

Community winners - applications that will receive the most votes in total:

🥇 1st place - $1,000
🥈 2nd place - $750
🥉 3rd place - $500
🏅 4th place - $300
🏅 5th place - $200

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How to participate

1. Log in to Open Exchange or create an account
2. Submit your open source app
3. Apply with your app for the contest page

The application should:

be aligned with the contest topic
be new to Open Exchange or existing one but with a significant improvement
work either on InterSystems IRIS Community Edition or InterSystems IRIS for Health Community Edition or InterSystems IRIS Advanced Analytics Community Edition
be Open Source and published on GitHub

The README file to the application should be in English, contain the installation steps, and contain either the video demo and/or a description of how the application works.

Previous contests

InterSystems Python Contest 2023

September 04 - September 24
September 04 - September 24

InterSystems FHIR and Digital Health Interoperability Contest

January 15 - February 04
January 15 - February 04

InterSystems Python Contest 2024

July 15 - August 04
July 15 - August 04

InterSystems Java Contest 2023

November 13 - December 03
November 13 - December 03

InterSystems Vector Search, GenAI and ML Contest

April 22 - May 19
April 22 - May 19

Some winners of previous contests

iris-megazord

Author: José Pereira

Place: 3

InterSystems Grand Prix 2022
django-iris

Author: Dmitry Maslennikov

Place: 1

InterSystems Python Contest
IntegratedML-IRIS-PlatformEntryPrediction

Author: Zhang Fatong

Place: 3

InterSystems Grand Prix 2023
Sheep’s Galaxy

Author: Maria Gladkova

Place: 2

InterSystems IRIS Cloud SQL and IntegratedML Contest
SAPPHIRE

Author: Yuri Marx

Place: 3

InterSystems IRIS AI
npm-iris

Author: Henrique Dias

Place: 1

InterSystems Full Stack
Medical Datasets

Author: Muhammad Waseem

Place: 1

InterSystems Datasets Contest
Dictionary comparison scheme of cache database

Author: Weiwei Yang

Place: 2

InterSystems Grand Prix
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