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One of the developers in the Content Discovery team, Kola Adewuyi, had created a set of learned actions that could be combined with our programme metadata and image archives, and we were looking for ingenious ways that these could be used to intelligently recommend new Sky shows to customers. The team that we judged had the best hack using this data would win four 4K Samsung TVs, as well as Now TV subscriptions. It quickly garnered a lot of interest, and we were soon talking to lots of developers about some really exciting ideas. 10 teams signed up to our hack, and they were soon stuck in to the code. The Hackathon ran for 24 hours, with pizza provided overnight- there were a lot of tired eyes the next morning, as well as long queues for coffee! As the teams were finishing up it was obvious that lots of really cool ideas had been put into practice, and our judging panel was assembled. Martin O'Hagan, an iOS developer on the judging panel, said that \"some great Sky hacks came out of it, and I met lots of people interested in working for Sky\".</p>\n+\t<p>Come Monday morning the arena had been transformed, with the floor now covered in stands for startups to showcase their products. As these companies were trying to pitch to anybody who walked past, a number of panels were also occurring behind a vast curtain in the arena: these included a very diverse set of speakers, ranging from Sir Alex Ferguson to Imogen Heap. Sky representatives alternated between exploring the conference and helping out on the stand, talking about the cool products being built and the technology behind them. There were devices showcasing Sky Go, Sky Store and Now TV, and lots of questions from people excited about Sky Q. The most popular part of the stand (and possibly of the conference!) had to be the Iron Throne, with hundreds of people getting their photo taken on it. There were also lots of entrants to the stand's Game Of Thrones-themed game, where you had to guess the location of the Iron Throne on an interactive map to try and win an Apple Watch. By the end of the conference a lot of interesting people had stopped by the stall to talk- Katharine Fitzpatrick, a Sky developer who had travelled down from Leeds to be present, said that \"It was really inspiring to see so many innovative startups and meet people who were following their dreams\".<p>\n+\n+\t<h2>Personal View - Jesus Gumiel</h2>\n+    <p>On the 7th and 8th of December I attended to Tech Crunch Disrupt as part of the Sky team. It was a nice experience, even thinking that this is an event completely focused on startups.</p>\n+\n+    <p><img  alt=\"Sky stand\" height=\"250\" width=\"333\" src=\"/images/identity/techcrunch/tech_crunch_stand.jpg\" title=\"Sky stand\"></p>\n+\n+\t<p>Sky built a nice stand with the Iron Throne, and a game \"Hunt the Throne\", where people were invited to guest the location of the Throne. If the adjective to define the standups on the startups alley was narrow, we cannot say that about the Sky one. The bigger one and the most attractive with a great difference.</p>\n+\n+\t<p>There were a continuous flow of people visiting the stand, taking pictures in the Throne, and playing the game, but at least on Monday and Tuesday, there weren't developers. People with business background, visitors, or guys that were at the event presenting their startup. Regarding to HR (I couldn't be there the weekend), on Saturday and Sunday the thing was completely different. 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