KONECRANES HOSTS THE FIRST INDUSTRYHACK HACKATHON EVENT IN FINLAND

Konecranes will host the first IndustryHack Hackathon event on February 6-8, 2015 in Hyvinkää, Finland. In the event 15 teams will during 48 hours develop and build new applications and services around the Industrial Internet in material handling. The event combines knowledge and enthusiasm from coders and designers, and the technical experts of Konecranes.

The main idea of the IndustryHack event is to show the possibilities and get people excited around the Industrial Internet. Industrial Internet has become increasingly common in different businesses and not only does it enable increased safety and productivity, the potential for new business models and solutions is immense.

“Konecranes’ main target of the Hackathon is to get new “out-of-the-box” ideas for Industrial Internet in material handling,” says Juha Pankakoski, Chief Digital Officer of Konecranes. “We also think it is a great way to network and support start-ups and small companies that are used to coming up with good solutions fast.”

At the end of the event on Sunday afternoon, the results will be presented to a jury and the best innovation will be awarded.

Further information:
Press:
Mikael Wegmüller, VP, Marketing and Communications
E-mail: Mikael.wegmuller@konecranes.com or phone +358 20 427 2008

Juha Pankakoski, Chief Digital Officer
E-mail: juha.pankakoski@konecranes.com or phone +358 20 427 2090

Konecranes is a world-leading group of Lifting Businesses™, serving a broad range of customers, including manufacturing and process industries, shipyards, ports and terminals. Konecranes provides productivity-enhancing lifting solutions as well as services for lifting equipment and machine tools of all makes. In 2013, Group sales totaled EUR 2,100 million. The Group has 12,000 employees at 600 locations in 48 countries. Konecranes is listed on Nasdaq Helsinki (symbol: KCR1V).