#NeedForSpeed Hackathon

Calling all Designers, coders, engineers, hackers, makers, experts, founders and engineers… LET’S HACK!

Together on April 7 & 8, we will build innovative and fast applications that will showcase innovations in health IT and IoT. Over 24 hours, attendees will compete for $10,000 in cash and prizes with access to free workshops, keynote speakers, and innovation sessions. Each participant will receive a discount code for a class or workshop along with the Best UX Health Hack and Best UX Data Hack teams will receive a discount code to a boot camp of their choice from our sponsors at General Assembly Boston.

This event is open to developers, entrepreneurs, marketers, and the “code-curious” as an opportunity to learn and compete! 

PRIZES

Grand Prize: $5,000.00 

Best Solution for Population Health and Patient Engagement: $1000.00 per team and a CMG Membership per team member (valued at $175)

Best Solution for The Data Around Us: $1000.00 per team and a CMG Membership per team member (valued at $175)

Best Solution of Pfizer Digital Medicine Challenge: $500.00 per team and a CMG Membership per team member (valued at $175)

Second Place of Pfizer Digital Medicine Challenge: $250.00 per team and a CMG Membership per team member (valued at $175)

Third Place of Pfizer Digital Medicine Challenge: $250.00 per team and a CMG Membership per team member (valued at $175)

Best UX Pitch for Population Health and Patient Engagement: Each winning team member will receive a tech gadget valued at $100 or more.

Best UX Pitch for The Data Around Us: Each winning team member will receive a tech gadget valued at $100 or more.

Teams are eligible to win both the Grand Prize and the Best Solution for their chosen topic

SPONSORED BY

 

CHALLENGES

UX Pitch Competition:

At the end of the first day (April 7th), there will be a UX Pitch Competition where competitors will pitch their solutions and show off the UX and wireframes for their ideas for the chance to win a $250 Gift Card. There will be a winner selected in each overall challenge category.

Population Health and Patient Engagement

Technology has the power to connect patients and doctors, accelerate research, and bring data to life.
What else can it do? How can AI, IoT devices, and chatbots better serve the healthcare industry?
Participants in this challenge should develop a solution that can improve population health or patient
engagement.

The Data Around Us

All around us, connected devices are collecting massive amounts of data. Whether it’s from a car, drone,
bot, cell phone, or thermostat, the data keeps coming. For this challenge, participants should apply AI,
machine learning, and deep Learning techniques to utilize IoT data to solve a problem you are passionate
about. Challengers may wish to use cloud computing, GPUs, blockchain, and high-performance computing to create a fast and secure solution.

Pfizer Digital Medicine Challenge

Early detection of respiratory tract infections can lead to timely diagnosis and treatment, which can result in
better outcomes and reduce the likelihood of severe complications. Respiratory sounds carry rich
information that can be mined to develop automated approaches for detection of sickness behaviors like
coughing and sneezing. In this challenge, we invite you to build machine learning models for automatic
detection of sickness sounds by using audio recordings from open datasets.

JUDGES

• Shyamal Patel, Senior Manager, Pfizer Innovation Research (PfIRe) Lab
• Dr. Kalyan Kalwa - Health Innovators
• Arthur Harvey - CIO of Boston Medical Center
• Anoush Najarian - MathWorks

TECHNOLOGIES

• Amazon Echo Developer Kits
• MATLAB
• Deep Learning
• Blockchain
• Raspberry Pi Voice Kit

INNOVATION SESSIONS

• Pfizer Deep Learning Presentation
• DataCore Workload Optimization
• Blockchain with Elisabeth Stahl, IBM
• Population Health with Mohit Verma, Tufts
• MatLab
• UX with General Assembly

SCHEDULE

April 7th

• 10:00 AM - Doors Open. Join the party at CIC Kendall Square. Grab a snack and a cup of joe!
• 10:30 PM - Opening Ceremony and Presentations
• 11:30 PM - Lunch
• 1:00 PM - 2:30 PM Innovation Sessions with Pfizer and DataCore Software
• 3:00 - 4:00 PM Additional Innovation Sesssions (UX, Blockchain, Performance, Population Health, and MatLab)
• 6:00 PM - Dinner
• 8:30 PM - Day 1 UX Challenge Pitches
• 10:00 PM - Announcement of Day 1 Results

April 8th

• 8:00 AM - Up and at ‘em! Join us for Breakfast!
• 10:00 PM - Innovation Sessions and Mentor Meetings
• 12:00 PM - Lunch
• 1:30 PM - Submission Deadline
• 2:30 PM - Demos Begin
• 4:00 PM - Judges Deliberation
• 4:30 PM - Awards
• 5:00 PM - Event Close

*CIC will be closed overnight from 10:30 PM on Saturday, April 7th until 7:30 AM on Sunday, April 8th.

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JUDGING CRITERIA

Each submission will be scored in each round based on the following criteria with a minimum score of 0 and a maximum score of 25 points, with the final score being the average of the judges’ scores:

• 5 Points - Execution: How well executed is this solution from start to finish?
• 5 Points -  Creativity: How creative was the team in developing an innovative solution for the challenge?
• 5 Points - Impact: Did the team create an application that can have a real and valuable impact?
• 5 Points - Design: Was the UX/UI intuitive and appealing?
• 5 Points - Performance and Scalability: How well did your solution perform? Includes execution time, responsiveness, through-put, program correctness, etc. Is your solution scalable without minimal restructure, could it be scaled to a large number of concurrent users 

Judging criteria for Pfizer Digital Medicine Challenge

• Accuracy (10 points): How accurate is your model on the test set?
• Inference Speed (5 points): How quickly can your model generate predictions?
• Simplicity (5 points): If two models result in similar prediction performance, is your model simpler (e.g. fewer layers, parameters)?
• Explainability (5 points): Can you explain how and why your model makes predictions?

RULES

• TEAMS OF UP TO 5 PARTICIPANTS ARE ALLOWED. ALL TEAM MEMBERS MUST HAVE COMPLETED THE PARTICIPATION AGREEMENT TO COMPETE.
• TEAMS HAVE FULL OWNERSHIP OF EVERYTHING THEY BUILD AT OUR EVENTS AND ARE FREE TO DO WITH IT AS THEY WISH.
• YOU MAY NOT BEGIN YOUR PROJECT UNTIL THE COMPETITION OFFICIALLY BEGINS. PLEASE DON'T COME IN AND BUILD ON TOP OF PREVIOUS PROJECTS IF YOU WANT TO WIN.
• WINNING TEAMS WILL BE SUBJECT TO A CODE-REVIEW AT SOME POINT FOLLOWING THE EVENT OR IMMEDIATELY BEFORE WINNING.

MORE INFORMATION CAN BE FOUND AT  LINK: cmg.org/hack