AIA Presents: LifeHack18

**The application for this hackathon is now CLOSED. Thank you for showing interest in AIA Presents: LifeHack18!**

This is a FREE event. Your deposit will be fully refunded to you when you sign in for the event.**

Help People Live Healthier, Longer, Better Lives

At AIA, we are making a promise. A promise to help our colleagues, customers and their communities to live healthier, longer, better lives.

To do this, we need to use digital innovation to get in front of their needs and help them every step of the journey.

The AIA Hackathon event “LifeHack18” on 16-18 November 2018, invites industry experts, technologists, design thinkers and innovation enthusiasts from all different fields to come together and co-create solutions that will help us to help millions more people.

Participants will work in teams from Friday evening (November 16) and have 48 hours to devise, build and launch their prototypes. The event will then conclude with a pitch on stage to industry experts during the final event on Sunday (November 18).

To ensure the business ideas are practical and innovative, real customers and employees will be brought in for participants to understand the concerns and pain points that they have.

Theme

How do we help people to live healthier, longer, better lives using design thinking, data and software?

More details on the challenges will be revealed closer to the event day, so make sure to keep checking this page for updates!

To get a better feel for what type of solutions we hope to see from this hackathon, read up on one of our cornerstone science-backed wellness programmes, AIA Vitality.

More specifically, these are the business questions that you should ask yourself when building your prototype:

• Customer Engagement: How can we encourage people to engage with insurance while they’re still young and healthy, instead of only thinking of insurance when they get sick?
• Get Healthier: In addition to AIA Vitality, how can we guide our customers to reduce health risks with healthy habits?
• Higher Quality of Life: How can we better help our customers improve their financial health so that they can live healthier, longer, better lives?

Prizes

• 1st place: cash prize of $30,000 and more…
  
• 2nd place: cash prize of $18,000 and more…
• 3rd place: cash prize of $6,000 and more…

Judges

• Jacky Chan: Regional Chief Executive, AIA Group
  
• Daisuke Iwase: Group Chief Digital Officer, AIA Group
• Biswa Misra: Group Chief Technology and Operations Officer, AIA Group
• Mark Saunders: Group Chief Strategy and Corporate Development Officer, AIA Group
• Bertrand Chen: Group Data Scientist, CK Hutchison Holdings Limited
• Leroy Yau: Partner, 43 Ventures

Go to our LifeHack18 website for more updated information on prizes.

Note: 

Please note there is also a screening process and we will refund your deposit if you are not accepted into LifeHack18. We will let you know if you are accepted into LifeHack18 by batches.

The earlier you apply the higher chance you can get in!

FAQs

What can I bring into the event?

As this is a hackathon, please bring a laptop or desktop with which you can build basic prototypes with. Remember that you will be pitching your ideas to key AIA stakeholders, so make sure you can show them something noteworthy.

Also, to ensure that you can build something amazing during LifeHack18, we also recommend bringing your own water bottle and warm clothes (for air conditioning).

How can I contact the organiser with any questions?

Please contact hackathon@aia.com with your questions.

What's the refund policy?

Participation for this event is FREE. The $120 'ticket price' is simply a deposit and it will be fully refunded post-event.

However we do NOT refund "no shows", i.e. if you register for the event but do not show up for LifeHack18, we will NOT refund your deposit back. Therefore if you know that you cannot make it to the event, please contact hackathon@aia.com on or before Friday, 9 November 2018, at 7:00 pm.

Do I have to bring my printed ticket to the event?

No. However please make sure that the name you used to register for the event is EXACTLY the same as that in a valid government-issued ID, e.g. Hong Kong Identity Card, passport issued by a foreign government body, etc.

Can I update my registration information?

Unless it's information that can directly impact your role in LifeHack18, e.g. role in team (UI/UX, data scientist, business user), employer information, we advise against updating your registration information.

Is my registration fee or ticket transferrable?

No. If you choose to transfer your registration to a friend, a colleague or some other person, you must contact hackathon@aia.com to cancel the registration first, refund your deposit and then have that person sign up on her/his own accord.

Is it ok if the name on my ticket or registration doesn't match the person who attends?

The name on your registration must EXACTLY MATCH that on an official government-issued ID, e.g. Hong Kong Identity Card, passport issued by a foreign government body, etc.

We reserve the right to refuse entry if we do not find your name on our registration list, so please reserve your spot here and make sure that the name on your ID exactly matches that in our registration list.