BitwiseHacks Hong Kong
The Basics: BitwiseHacks is a unique opportunity for secondary school and university students to participate in a fast-paced hackathon environment, while competing against their peers for unique opportunities in Hong Kong's vibrant tech and startup space, as well as other prizes.
What's a "Hackathon" Anyways: A hackathon is an event where developers, designers, and entrepreneurs 'hack' together a solution to a problem, and then present their work in a formal round of judging. While the word, "hack," has a generally negative connotation, it is important to remember the context. There shall be no hacking of malicious nature at BitwiseHacks.
Who Should Attend: Secondary and university students interested in entrepreneurship, graphic design, and programming. Since a winning team requires a broad range of expertise, we encourage people with skills in any of these arenas to participate.
The Pitch: For the pitch, we expect teams to present a slideshow describing the problem, the solution, its merits, and its possible long-term outcomes, along with a live demo. The live demo doesn't have to be perfect, but the judges will want to see what you've done. It is for this reason that we will need participants with business development interests at this event alongside the technical crowd. Given the judging panel, and interdisciplinary nature of this event, we would like to further emphasise the importance of a solid pitch.
Event Theme: This year's Bitwise event will be sponsored by an IoT company, and will have special goals related to innovative use of IoT. We will provide IoT hardware and training on-site.
Pre-event Webinars: Two pre-event webinars will be hosted on the Monday and Wednesday before the event on YouTube, as a live feed. More details about these webinars will be sent as updates to registered participants.
The Schedule:
February 20th
10:30 - Doors open, and registration opens
11:00 - Registration continues and event officially begins. Networking time
11:30 - Ideathon. Pitch some thoughts, and recruit team members
12:00 - The clock starts, and work officially begins
13:00 - Workshops led by experts, and leading students begin; optional and casual
16:00 - Workshops are concluded; casually
18:00 - Dinner
20:00 - Some more casual workshops(pitch-oriented), and help will be available through the night
23:59 - Midnight snacks
February 21st
09:30 - Breakfast
11:30 - Technical presentation setup briefing, and run through
12:00 - ALL SUBMISSIONS DUE ON devpost.com
12:15 - Presentations begin
13:00 - Presentations finish
13:15 - Judges release winners
13:15 - Awards are given
Prizes:
Top Overall: TBD
Runner-up: TBD
Best Software: TBD
Best Hardware: TBD
Honorable Mentions(3): TBD
Location:
Hong Kong International School, High School, Room: 504
1 Red Hill Road
Tai Tam Tuk
Hong Kong SAR
Tickets:
Early Registrant Fee: 125HKD (Now - January 31st, 2016)
Normal Registrant Fee: 200HKD (January 31st - February 19th, 2016)
Rules:
* All contestants must present a valid school ID. Those without a valid school ID will be turned away at the door without refund- no exceptions.
* All work must be completed between the hours of February 20th 12:00 to February 21st at 12:00, 2016. Offenders will be disqualified.
* Teams must consist of no more than 5 persons. Offenders will be disqualified.
Location
Dates
From 20th February 2016 - 11:00 AM
to 21st February 2016 - 01:00 PM
to 21st February 2016 - 01:00 PM