InterSystems programming contests

Create open source application on a given topic and
compete for a cash prize.

More than $14,000 in prize fund

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Current contest

InterSystems Developer Tools Contest 2025

General Requirements

Topic

Develop any applications that improve developer experience with IRIS, help to develop faster, contribute more qualitative code, help to test, deploy, support, or monitor your solution with InterSystems IRIS.

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Dates to submit your app: July 14, 2025 - July 27, 2025

Why participate in the InterSystems contest?

This is a great chance to show off your coding skills in InterSystems technology and win great prizes:


Experts Nomination - a specially selected jury will determine winners:

🥇 1st place - $5,000
🥈 2nd place - $2,500
🥉 3rd place - $1,000
🏅 4th place - $500
🏅 5th place - $300
🌟 6-10th places - $100

Community winners - applications that will receive the most votes in total:

🥇 1st place - $1,000
🥈 2nd place - $600
🥉 3rd place - $300
🏅 4th place - $200
🏅 5th place - $100

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How to participate

1. Log in to Open Exchange or create an account
2. Submit your open source app
3. Apply with your app for the contest page

The application should:

be aligned with the contest topic
be new to Open Exchange or existing one but with a significant improvement
work either on InterSystems IRIS Community Edition or InterSystems IRIS for Health Community Edition or InterSystems IRIS Advanced Analytics Community Edition
be Open Source and published on GitHub


Experts Nomination - a specially selected jury will determine winners:

🥇 1st place - $5,000
🥈 2nd place - $2,500
🥉 3rd place - $1,000
🏅 4th place - $500
🏅 5th place - $300
🌟 6-10th places - $100

Community winners - applications that will receive the most votes in total:

🥇 1st place - $1,000
🥈 2nd place - $600
🥉 3rd place - $300
🏅 4th place - $200
🏅 5th place - $100
The README file to the application should be in English, contain the installation steps, and contain either the video demo and/or a description of how the application works.

Previous contests

InterSystems Developer Tools Contest 2024

September 09 - September 29
September 09 - September 29

InterSystems AI Programming Contest

March 17 - April 06
March 17 - April 06

InterSystems Developer Tools Contest 2025

July 14 - August 03
July 14 - August 03

"Bringing Ideas to Reality" Contest

December 02 - December 22
December 02 - December 22

InterSystems FHIR and Digital Health Interoperability Contest

May 12 - June 01
May 12 - June 01

Some winners of previous contests

HealthInfoQueryLayer

Author: Botai Zhang

Place: 1

InterSystems Grand Prix
IRIS Interoperability Message Viewer

Author: Henrique Dias

Place: 2

InterSystems Interoperability
iris-fhirfy

Author: José Pereira

Place: 1

InterSystems FHIR and Digital Health Interoperability Contest
IntegratedMLandDashboardSample

Author: Shanshan Yu

Place: 2

InterSystems Grand Prix 2023
sql-builder

Author: Henry Pereira

Place: 1

InterSystems IRIS, Docker and ObjectScript
iris-fhirfy

Author: José Pereira

Place: 1

InterSystems FHIR and Digital Health Interoperability Contest
ISC DEV

Author: Gevorg Arutiunian

Place: 2

InterSystems IRIS, Docker and ObjectScript
Production Manager

Author: Nikolay Solovyev

Place: 2

InterSystems IRIS with REST API
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