I had the great pleasure of attending the first half (give or take) of the recent AEC Hackathon in Munich. It was held over the first weekend of my kids’ school holidays, so I ended up having to compromise on attending the full event: I flew in on Friday afternoon – with just enough time for some VR fun at our Munich office – and flew back home on Saturday afternoon. So I didn’t get to attend the really fun piece – seeing the results of the weekend’s efforts – but I will talk in this post about what I did get the chance to see.
The event was hosted on the 5th floor of the main TUM building. For Friday’s kick-off it was a beautiful, unseasonably warm evening, and our event shared a very small elevator with what seemed to be the most popular bar on the TUM campus, so it was a bit of a struggle getting up and down. The two events ended up having very different attendees, but – perhaps surprisingly – I was actually very happy to be stuck inside with my fellow…