#IRIS contest

Hi Community!

We are excited to announce the new French technical article writing contest!

✍️ Technical Article Contest ✍️

This is the perfect opportunity for all InterSystems technology enthusiasts to share their knowledge and showcase their writing skills. No matter your experience level, everyone is welcome to participate. Articles can cover a wide range of topics, from technical implementation to your impressions and feedback on using InterSystems products or services. So let your creativity and expertise run wild!

📅 Contest period: September 15 - November 30, 2025 (extended!)

🎁 Gifts for all: a special gift is prepared for each participant!

🏅 Prizes for the authors of the best articles

Hi Community,

We're super excited and thankful to our 52 InterSystems colleagues who participated in the 📺 Demo Games for InterSystems Sales Engineers 📺 and created 19 amazing videos.

Our colleagues worldwide put their creativity, technical know-how, and demo magic to the test. What started as an internal contest to showcase technical skill and demo excellence became a true stage for imagination with some entries looking less like demos and more like short films, complete with acting, storytelling, and even a cinematic touch.

Also, we'd like to thank all the members of the Community who took the time to watch them and vote for their favourites! 

And now it's time to announce the winners!

Hey Community,

We're pleased to invite all the developers to the upcoming kick-off webinar for the InterSystems .Net, Java, Python, and JavaScript Contest!

During the webinar, you will discover the exciting challenges and opportunities that await developers in this contest. We will also discuss the topics we would like the participants to cover and show you how to develop, build, and deploy applications using the InterSystems IRIS data platform.

Date & Time: Wednesday, September 24 – 11:30 am EDT | 5:30 pm CEST  

Hi Community,

We’ve got something exciting for you — it’s time for a new demo video contest, and this time, you’re in the judge’s seat!

📺 Demo Games for InterSystems Sales Engineers 📺

For this contest, InterSystems Sales Engineers from around the world submitted short demo videos showcasing unique use cases, smart solutions, and powerful capabilities of InterSystems technologies.

Now it’s your turn! We’re opening up voting to the entire Developer Community. Your insight and perspective as developers make you the perfect experts.

Hi Community,

It's time to announce the winners of the InterSystems Developer Tools Contest! 

Thanks to all our amazing participants who submitted 17 applications 🔥🔥

Now it's time to announce the winners!

Hi Community,

Let's meet at the online meetup with the winners of the InterSystems Developer Tools Contest! It's a great opportunity to chat with the InterSystems Experts team and our contestants.

Winners' demo included!

Date & Time: Friday, August 8, 11:30 am EDT | 5:30 pm CEST

We are happy to present the bonuses page for the applications submitted to the InterSystems Developer Tools Contest 2025!

See the results below.

Hi Community,

It's voting time! Cast your votes for the best applications in our InterSystems Developer Tools Contest:

🔥 VOTE FOR THE BEST APPS 🔥

How to vote? Details below.

Hi Community!

Our 💡 InterSystems Ideas Contest 💡 has come to an end. 26 new ideas that followed the required structure were accepted into the contest! 

They all focus on improving InterSystems IRIS and related products, highlighting tangible benefits for developers once the ideas are implemented.

And now let's announce the winners... 

Here are the technology bonuses for the InterSystems Developer Tools Contest 2025 that will give you extra points in the voting:

• IRIS Vector Search usage -3
• Embedded Python usage -3
• InterSystems Interoperability - 3
• InterSystems IRIS BI - 3
• VSCode Plugin - 3
• FHIR Tools - 3
• Docker container usage -2 
• ZPM Package Deployment - 2
• Implement InterSystems Community Idea - 4
• Find a bug in Embedded Python - 2
• Article on Developer Community - 2
• The second article on Developer Community - 1
• Video on YouTube - 3
• First Time Contribution - 3

See the details below.

Hi Developers,

We are happy to announce the new InterSystems online programming contest dedicated to creating useful tools to make your fellow developers' lives easier:

🏆 InterSystems Developer Tools Contest 🏆

Duration: July 14 - August 3, 2025

Prize pool: $12,000

Hello Community,

We're thrilled to invite all our Developer Community members (both InterSystems employees and not) to participate in our next contest!

💡 The 4th InterSystems Ideas Contest 💡

We're looking for your innovative ideas to enhance InterSystems IRIS and related products and services. We encourage suggestions based on real-life use cases, highlighting the tangible benefits your idea will bring to other users and how it will enhance developers' experiences with InterSystems technology.

📅 Duration: June 9 - July 20, 2025

🏆 Prizes for the best ideas and a random draw!

🎁 Gifts for everyone: A special gift will be given to each author whose idea is accepted in the contest.

>> SUBMIT AN IDEA <<

Hi Developers!

There is a free ObjectScriptQuality tool for ObjectScript developers who upload solutions on GitHub. This tool helps developers validate ObjectScript code using a variety of rules, based on common code errors.

There are currently 16 rules in this tool, but there are definitely many more rules to consider when testing ObjectScript code.

Could you suggest any other rules to add to this tool?

Note: You can submit it as an idea on the InterSystems Ideas for the 2nd Idea-A-Thon contest

Hey Community,

We're pleased to invite all the developers to the upcoming kick-off webinar for the InterSystems Developer Tools Contest!

Date & Time: Monday, July 14 – 11 am EDT | 5 pm CEST  

Hi Community,

Let's meet at the online meetup with the winners of the InterSystems FHIR and Digital Health Interoperability Contest! It's a great opportunity to chat with the InterSystems Experts team and our contestants.

Winners' demo included!

Date & Time: Thursday, June 5, 11:30 am EDT | 5:30 pm CEST

Hi Community,

It's time to announce the winners of the InterSystems FHIR and Digital Health Interoperability Contest! 

Thanks to all our amazing participants who submitted 11 applications 🔥 

Now it's time to announce the winners!

Hi Developers!

We are happy to present the bonuses page for the applications submitted to the FHIR and Digital Health Interoperability Contest 2025!

See the results below.

Hi Community,

It's voting time! Cast your votes for the best applications in our InterSystems FHIR and Digital Health Interoperability Contest:

🔥 VOTE FOR THE BEST APPS 🔥

How to vote? Details below.

Hi Community!

We’re excited to announce that several winners of the InterSystems AI Programming Contest have been invited to showcase their projects at the Tech Exchange during InterSystems Ready 2025!

Join us on Wednesday, June 25, to explore innovative, real-world solutions built with InterSystems IRIS, AI, LLMs, and intelligent agent technologies — directly from the developers who created them:

Hi Developers,

We are happy to announce the new InterSystems online programming contest dedicated to all things health-related:

🏆 InterSystems FHIR and Digital Health Interoperability Contest 🏆

Duration: May 12 - June 1, 2025

Prize pool: $12,000

Hello Community!

The big challenge you've all been waiting for is finally here: The fourth InterSystems technical article writing contest in Spanish is here!

🏆 4th Spanish Technical Article Contest 🏆

Contest description: Write an article in Spanish in the Developer Community on any topic related to InterSystems technology.

Duration: May 12 – June 8, 2025.

Prizes for all participants: Everyone who publishes an article in Spanish during the contest period will receive a prize.

Main prize: Apple Watch SE / 10th generation iPad

Hi Developers!

Hey Community,

We're pleased to invite all the developers to the upcoming kick-off webinar for the InterSystems FHIR and Digital Health Interoperability Contest!

Date & Time: Monday, May 12 – 9 am EDT | 3 pm CEST  

Hi Community,

Let's meet at the online meetup with the winners of the AI Programming Contest: Vector Search, GenAI and AI Agents! It's a great opportunity to chat with the InterSystems Experts team and our contestants.

Winners' demo included!

Date & Time: Thursday, April 10, 12:00 pm EDT | 6:00 pm CEST

Hi, colleagues!

As you can see the new topic of the programming contest - AI Agents. 

The topic was over-hyped recently on the Internet and has different meanings. You might get curious about what we mean by AI agents in regard to the InterSystems programming contest.

Hi Community,

It's time to announce the winners of the AI Programming Contest: Vector Search, GenAI and AI Agents! 

Thanks to all our amazing participants who submitted 15 applications 🔥 

Now it's time to announce the winners!

Hi Developers!

We are happy to present the bonuses page for the applications submitted to the InterSystems AI Programming Contest!

See the results below.

Hi Community,

It's voting time! Cast your votes for the best applications in our AI Programming Contest:

🔥 VOTE FOR THE BEST APPS 🔥

How to vote? Details below.

Hi Community!

It's time to celebrate our 25 fellow members who took part in the latest InterSystems Technical Article Contest and wrote

🌟 38 AMAZING ARTICLES 🌟

The competition was filled with outstanding articles, each showcasing innovation and expertise. With so many high-quality submissions, selecting the best was no easy task for the judges.

Let's meet the winners and look at their articles:

Hey Community,

It's time for the first programming contest of the year, and there's a surprise so read on! Please welcome:

🏆 InterSystems AI Programming Contest: Vector Search, GenAI, and AI Agents 🏆

Duration: March 17 - April 6, 2025

Prize pool: $12,000 + a chance to be invited to the Global Summit 2025!