Developers: you can get cash, coaching, or stage time for building a brand new app during DeveloperWeek! (or building a well-defined add-on to an existing app)
Requirements:
- You can submit a proposal as a team of up to 4 people.
- You can only design / develop the app during DeveloperWeek (February 1st - February 6th)
- You ONLY get the scholarship if you have at least a prototype of your app by the morning of Wednesday February 6th
- One scholarship application can be submitted to multiple sponsored scholarships. You can win multiple scholarships for one application.
Sponsored Scholarships:
You can apply here for a sponsored scholarship (see the list of sponsored scholarships below) - where the top candidate for each scholarship receives $500 - $1000 as well as coaching during DeveloperWeek and 5 minutes on our main stage to pitch to the audience on Wednesday February 6th, 2013.
Open Scholarships:
If you are a developer (or team of developers) and you want to build a new app during DeveloperWeek, you can apply here for a free DeveloperWeek pass provided you build an app during DeveloperWeek and present it on our February 7th Prototype Day! All realistic proposals will be accepted.
Apply to sponsor a scholarship
Click here to view and fill out the scholarship submission form for DeveloperWeek February 1-6.
Applications due by February 3rd at 6:00 PM. We will notify the winners on February 4th by noon.
D&B will award $1000 to the developer who proposes the best application of the D&B API in the sales, marketing, web, mobile, or supply chain use cases. Possible ideas could be data mashups with stock prices, trending news, or business reviews. D&B Direct is an API web services platform which enables easy integration of D&B’s world-leading database of over 210M companies, 100M contacts, financial information, company profiles, Hoover’s industry research and more, and combines it with external data like social media and news, to deliver real-time intelligence into any application, such as CRM systems, corporate intranets and webforms, and supply chain management systems. D&B Direct API Examples of use cases built with the D&B Direct API can be found at: http://developer.dnb.com/service-examples/16675726-1.html, and we encourage any of your application ideas. You may register at and our API is free for trial: http://dnbdirect.dnb.com/member/register. For more information, please visit: developer.dnb.com. We look forward to seeing your ideas! Best of luck!
Apply for Scholarship
February 1–6, 2014