The FabSpace of Toulouse organized on May 19th and 20th 2017  a hackathon with the objective of inventing in 24h the services and products of tomorrow using spatial data. The competition, sponsored by Aerospace Valley and organized in partnership with the Catalyst and IRIT, was open to a wide audience with the dual objective of developing entrepreneurship as well as making known the platform of the FabSpace 2.0 project dedicated to data satellite.

Twenty candidates (including 35% women) in 4 teams had 24 hours to propose an innovative and realistic project. The teams were supervised during the weekend by technical and business coaches who gave them all the keys to present the best project during the passage before the jury. The platform of the FabSpace of Toulouse (open data dedicated to the spatial data) was at their disposal. The projects will benefit from intensive technical and business coaching at the beginning of the academic year.

This hackathon has been supported by the Airbus Defense and Space Intelligence division, which has accessed several types of satellite images (Pleiades, SPOT 6 and SPOT 7) via its Youmapps platform (www.youmapps.com) As well as digital terrain models, on different areas of the globe.
Within the framework of this hackathon, a selfie from space was organized thanks to the support of Airbus Defense and Space. One of the two Pléiades satellites was programmed on Wednesday, May 17 to photograph the word FabSpace written on the lawns of Toulouse III University, Paul Sabatier (development made from 400 meters of tablecloths and 275 kg of plaster). The image was sent to participants the same day.