Hackathon HACK|BAY 2024

WHAT THE HACK

We can't wait to welcome you to our 8th edition of HACK|BAY!

Look forward to two days full of hacking fun and mingle with a great crowd of like-minded ones. And who knows – maybe you are one of the lucky winners or meet your future employer.

WHEN: May 14 & 15, 2024

WHERE: Z-Bau, Frankenstr. 200, 90461 Nürnberg

What makes HACK|BAY special is the great and diverse community. You are welcome to participate, regardless of your background, (hackathon) experience and skills – it's a true hackathon for everyone.

CHALLENGES & MENTORING

Take on the challenge and develop a solution together with your team members (you'll find your team during the event, no need to already have one before)! While working on your outstanding solution, you will expand your skills and know-how in no time.

During the two days, experts will be at your side and provide mentoring whenever it’s needed.

You never walk alone, even if it’s your first hackathon experience.

CHALLENGE DATEV

Leveling up Corporate Compliance Processes for Open Source Components

At DATEV we are a huge community of avid Open Source Software users. We always carefully select components from open repositories like GitHub and never miss to thoroughly check the corresponding license conditions in advance. Usually the Open Source components have special functions within an application you’re using, but in case the Open Source components are used in commercial environments, special license conditions apply.

Our status quo at DATEV is that compliance and security checks don’t happen until right before the actual deployment of the application. The checks happening at this late stage is the first catch, the second one is the check attempting to include transitive dependencies of components which can’t be completely resolved with regard to license incompatibilities.

Using an unauthorized component can lead to severe damage claims. It’s also a bummer for the developers who have to invest a lot of extra time to remove the component again and of course – an adequate replacement needs to be found.

This is exactly where you can help team DATEV. Create a solution that helps developers to ensure corporate compliance and to avoid those damage claims – ideally with the use of AI. How the solution is supposed to look like? Well, that’s up to you. It might be a plugin for browsers or for an IDE. Team DATEV provides you with an API, respectively a service that supports the automated release of rights and thus enables the legally compliant and time-efficient reuse of third-party data sources.

We can’t wait to see your solutions and who knows? It might be your idea that will be implemented at DATEV after HACK|BAY!

CHALLENGE LEITNER REISEN

Predicting the Future of Travel Trends

Meet Astrid and Henry – an active, sociable couple in their prime years with finally a bit more resources at hand to do what they love most – explore the world in groups with other like-minded folks be it by bus, plane or ship. While roaming online and offline media looking for travel inspiration and ultimately the perfect offer for their needs, Astrid and Henry come across various group travel providers like Leitner Reisen. With an overwhelming amount of options at hand it can easily take them forever to choose their next adventure.

A lot of times travel ads still don’t consider e.g. the regionally varying preferences of their potential customers or react fast enough to their ever changing needs. Using existing historic customer data could help to predict future trends faster and to better match the right ads with the right audience. This is exactly where you and your data analytics magic come into play. We’re looking forward to seeing your solution analyzing current demand as well as future travel trends considering regional characteristics, preferences and offers of the relevant travel market. Put on your data analytics hat to analyze provided customer data and to combine these insights with advanced predictive models. Your top-notch trend analysis should not only include data from Leitner Reisen, but also compare information from Leitner Reisen and competing travel providers – and focus on offerings in and around Munich.

Help Leitner Reisen to provide the perfect hassle-free travel experience for Astrid and Henry for their current and future needs.

CHALLENGE SCHAEFFLER

Real-time Tracking of Production Goods

Schaeffler’s factories work like clockwork and hence rely on the efficient transport of production goods between different manufacturing steps. These goods are typically moved in small load carriers (SLC) crates. Real-time tracking of these crates is essential for an optimized production flow. However, conventional tracking methods like Ultra Wideband or RFID struggle in factory environments due to signal interference from hydraulic presses and other machinery.

That’s why we’d like to combine computer vision and your brilliant ideas to solve this challenge! Computer vision has the potential to reliably detect and track the movement of SLC crates throughout Schaeffler’s factories. That’s exactly where you can dive in to develop an algorithm to reliably identify, track and visualize the movement of the crates while making sure the workers' faces can’t be recognized in order to protect their privacy. Schaeffler is happy to provide you with video footage of workers transporting SLCs between workstations.

This is your challenge to tackle a real-world industrial problem with innovative technology and to support the Schaeffler team to increase efficiency with the smoothest possible workflow.

CHALLENGE WILD CARD

You asked - we listened:

Due to high demand, we'll give you the chance to work on your very own challenge once again and create an outstanding solution.

No strings attached except you bring an impactful idea, find a team, and build a solution using the latest technology.

Let's spice up this competition and throw in your wild card!

PRIZES

OVERALL BEST

2.000€ in Cash

BEST TECHNICAL IMPLEMENTATION

1.500€ in Cash

BEST USE CASE

1.500€ in Cash

SCHEDULE

Tuesday, May 14

08:00 - 09:00: Arrival & Check-In

09:00 - 10:45: Welcome including Keynote and Presentation of Challenges

10:45 - 12:00: Team Up & Ideation

12:00 - 13:30: Lunch & Start Hacking

15:00 - 16:00: Workshop "AI Agents"

16:30 - 17:00: Arrival & Check-In: FrankenJS X – 10 Years

17:00 - 18:30: FrankenJS X – 10 Years

18:30 - 20:00: Dinner

20:00 - 21:30: FrankenJS X – 10 Years

21:30 - open end: Hacking Time

Wednesday, May 15

00:00 - 08:00: Hacking all night long

08:00 - 10:00: Breakfast

11:00 - 12:00: optional: Pitch Feedback Sessions

12:00 - 13:30: Lunch

13:00 - 14:00: optional: Pitch Feedback Sessions

15:30 - 17:00: Semi Finals

17:30: Announcement of Finalists

18:00 - 19:00: Grand Finale including Team Pitches and Announcement of Winning Teams

19:00 - 19:30: Jury Session / Break

19:30 - 19:45: Announcement of Winning Teams

19:45 - 21:30: Dinner

PARTICIPATION INFORMATION

The event takes place entirely on site in Nuremberg at Z-Bau.

Please bring your laptop and any other tools you may need (e.g. charger, mouse, USB drive, adapter).

Besides that, you are provided with everything you need (think drinks, food and mentoring) to get the full HACK|BAY experience.

There are even some beds available on site so you can spend the night there.

(If you would like to stay overnight, please let us know in advance via events@zollhof.de. We will reserve a sleeping place for you if there are any available - first come, first served.)

The event language will be English.

You will receive all important participation information by e-mail in advance.

Please ensure to adjust your settings in your Eventbrite account so that you can receive e-mails from us.

Get some inspiration and take a look at the 2023 Aftermovie!

For more information check out www.hackbay.de.

Photos ©Maria Bayer