Cloud Platform Leaders Join Capgemini, First Consulting and KPN as Premier Sponsors of Global Digital Innovation Event

BOSTON – May 10, 2016 – Mendix, a leading application Platform-as-a-Service (aPaaS) provider, today announced Premier Sponsors for Mendix World 2016, the premier global event for innovation and digital transformation taking place June 7-8 in Rotterdam, the Netherlands. Mendix’s vision for an open, innovation platform is supported by the additional sponsorships from leading cloud platform providers Amazon Web Services (AWS), IBM and Pivotal, who join Capgemini, First Consulting and KPN.

• What: Mendix World 2016
• Who: Premier sponsors include AWS, Capgemini, First Consulting, IBM, KPN and Pivotal
• When: June 7-8, 2016
• Where: Van Nelle Fabriek, Rotterdam, the Netherlands

At Mendix World 2016, Mendix will showcase its open platform ecosystem, which offers the fastest and easiest way to build new user experiences on top of best-in-class IoT, big data and machine learning services from AWS, IBM Bluemix, Pivotal and others. Attendees will discover how Mendix’s Digital Innovation Platform enables developers to rapidly build innovative Smart Apps without technical complexity. More information about Mendix’s vision for Smart Apps and how they enable companies to put their connected things, devices and algorithms to work, can be found in the following announcement: https://www.mendix.com/press/smart-apps-era.

Amazon Web Services to Support 24-Hour, IoT-Themed Hackathon

Mendix also announced that AWS joins KPN in sponsoring the Mendix World 2016 Hackathon, which is challenging small teams to build working Smart Apps in just 24 hours. To facilitate rapid connectivity and deployment, Mendix developers will have access to the KPN LoRa Network, a long-range network for connecting low-energy, low-data devices, plus one-click deployment on AWS. There will be several IoT use cases to choose from, including an event app that leverages sensor data collected at Mendix World.

About Mendix

Mendix is a leading low-code agentic development platform. For industrial organizations, Mendix’s full capabilities are delivered as part of Intelligence Center X, Siemens’ agentic enterprise system — turning industrial AI into measurable outcomes with shared context, orchestration, agentic development and governance.