Swiss Re Hackathon, Bratislava 2017

The sign-ups for this event have now closed. All selected participants will be notified by Friday 31st of March 2017.

You can still continue to register as a "standby". We will contact you if place becomes available.

Code for fun and win EUR 10,000 in just 48 hours!

Swiss Re's reputation as a leader in the insurance industry is not by chance. As a company, Swiss Re is passionate about attracting and developing talent, and sparking innovation throughout the industry. Swiss Re strongly believes in the power of innovation and is continually working to promote this culture within the company.

As a result of this continuous effort, Swiss Re is hosting their first hackathon in Bratislava, Slovakia. Talented designers and developers who have a passion for developing user based apps, data science, and cognitive technology are all invited to participate and compete for a grand prize money 10,000 EUR for the 1st place!

The challenge: At the event individuals will form teams of up to 5 people and will have a total of 48 hours to develop a new web or mobile app, centered on the theme "My Personal Risk Advisor”


Workshop partners


Sygic


ESET


Program


Friday April 7th:

17:00 Registration

18:00 Dinner

19:00 Welcome speech by a Miroslav Trnka (Co-founder of ESET)

19:30 What is MVP by Pavol Magic from Sygic

20:00 Presentation of proposals presented (2 min. elevator pitch), participants chose their teams

21:00 Teams are formed, Q&A time

21:30 Hackathon officially begins

01:00 Late dinner


Saturday April 8th:

09:00 Breakfast

11:00 First workshop by Sygic: Jakub Mazgut - FCD data processing (Recognition of home and work locations, Identification of safe / average/ risky drivers, Traffic light detection)

11:30 Second Workshop by IBM Watson: How to work with IBM Watson

13:00 Lunch

14:00 Third Workshop by ESET: Andrej Babolčai - Large scale anomaly detection on streaming data

14:30 Fourth Workshop by Swiss Re: Roman Gavuliak - Building data products

18:00 Dinner

19:00 Hacking continues

01:00 Late dinner


Sunday April 9th:

09:00 Breakfast

10:00 Final team submitted

11:00 First Pitching Workshop - 0100 Ventures

12:00 Second Pitching Workshop - Investor guest

13:00 Lunch

15:00 Pitching presentation for Judges (3-5min presentation, 2-3 min Q&A)

18:00 Ending Key-Notes

18:30 Winners Announced

19:00 Dinner


Where

The event will take place at our 0100Campus in Bratislava from Friday, April 7 to Sunday, April 9, 2017 when the winning team will be announced.

Prizes

1st place will receive EUR 10,000, 2nd place will receive EUR 2,000 and 3rd place with receive EUR 1,000

0100 Ventures will also award 0100 Campus prize, which will consist of time limited use of 0100 Campus coworking space and mentoring sessions with 0100 Campus network including entrepreneurs, investors and technology professionals.


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Please read the Hackathon Terms & Conditions, before you sign up for the event!

http://media.swissre.com/documents/contest_rules_bratislava_hackathon_2017.pdf

For additional details, please see:

http://www.swissre.com/events/bratislavahackathon.html

Location

0100 Campus
BratislavaSlovakia

Dates

From 7th April 2017 - 05:00 PM
to 9th April 2017 - 07:00 PM

Prizes

1st place - EUR 10,000
2nd place - EUR 2,000
3rd place - EUR 1,000