The first CreateNow Hackathon was won by KickITnow — 7 people, from 6 different customer companies, who came together JUST for this event. They proved that, in just 11 hours, a group who have never worked together before can build a functional application on the ServiceNow Service Automation Platform.

Knowledge14 — the lowdown

So to 2014.

Knowledge14, in San Francisco next April, will be a point of sharing, learning, and collaboration for thousands of IT professionals representing the world's most innovative companies and recognizable brands. That's over 6000, yes 6000, CIOs to System Administrators and all roles in between — who will congregate at Knowledge14 for five days to share proven service automation strategies and to learn how other IT pros achieved significant and real results with the cloud.

Throwing out some other numbers:

• There will be 180+ presentational/interactive sessions spanning CIO to Developer topics.
• Up to 90% of these sessions will be delivered by ServiceNow customers, i.e. those that have "been there, done it, and bought the t-shirt."
• There will also be more than 100 lab sessions — almost double Knowledge13 — to help customers get more out of their investment in ServiceNow.

So make attending Knowledge14 your "professional" New Year resolution

If numbers and stats aren't your thing, hear what attendees said about last year's event in this video. Knowledge14 will be an amazing event and I hope to see you there.

Registration is open.