MUNICH and SAN FRANCISCO – December 17, 2018 – Splunk Inc. (NASDAQ: SPLK), delivering actions and outcomes from the world of data, and BMW Group are putting machine learning into action by co-sponsoring Hackathon Beirut 2018.

The event takes place today (Monday December 17) at Antonine University in Lebanon and will see teams from seven different Lebanese universities compete to solve an “AI in Logistics” use case, using machine data provided by BMW Group and analyzed with Splunk® Enterprise and the Splunk Machine Learning Toolkit. Shortlisted teams will have the opportunity to pitch their idea to a panel of experts during the Smart Beirut Summit held on Tuesday, December 18 at Antonine University.

“BMW is a longtime Splunk customer and a leading example of utilizing machine data to its fullest to drive innovation,” said Richard Timperlake, vice president of EMEA, Splunk. “Collaborating with BMW to support the Hackathon Beirut 2018 is a great way to illustrate the potential of machine data and we look forward to seeing what the teams involved can do with the machine learning capabilities of the Splunk platform.”

For more information on how Splunk can help harness the power of machine learning, visit the Splunk website.

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