TechCrunch Hackathon at Viva Technology

WHERE GREAT PRODUCTS ARE BORN IN 24 HOURS

Calling all developers, UX/UI designers and tech creators in Europe! TechCrunch is hosting its next hackathon in conjunction with VivaTech in Paris on the 25-26 May and we’re looking for some talented hackers to put their ingenuity to the test and build something awesome in just 24 hours. VivaTech is the perfect spot to host our hackathon as startups, business leaders, investors, academics, students, and media from Europe and around the world will descend on Paris to preview the future. 

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THE CHALLENGES

GEFCO & TALAN

GEFCO provides Supply chain services to car manufacturers or distributors that need to transport large amounts of cars. For example, a car rental company can work with Gefco to transport their car(s) to automobile repair shops, administrative registration departments, to sister retailers, etc.
Car repairs are time-consuming. Eg. Car Rental companies need to find a garage, organize transport, collect information, etc. Your mission: develop a system that will enable cars (or drivers) to request maintenance services directly from the car to GEFCO's suppliers. Solutions can range from a "dash button" for the final customer to signal issues and an AI predictive maintenance system, to a gamification system allowing the final customer to manage car repair evaluations to self-managed parking.

IBM

We seek new, effective, creative, and sustainable applications with a lasting and significant impact on the world. An application with the ability to go viral. Apps can be as simple or sophisticated as you wish. They will be judged to their completeness, transferability, usability, creativeness, and effective use of IBM Cloud and CoreML technologies. This scope encourages developers to think outside of the box to build something that has the potential to be adopted by users all over the world. Bonus points if there is a component of social good/AI for good. Some ideas worth exploring to get your inspiration from include: Art Doppleganger App, How Old Am I App, Viral Mobile Games like Pokemon Go and 2048, Enterprise AR applications, Enterprise iOS.

leboncoin

Almost everyone in France knows leboncoin, 98 million exchanges per year, leboncoin is the first classifieds site in France, in real estate, jobs, vehicles and other categories, with 1 million new ads every day. leboncoin is challenging our hackers to develop a marketplace of the future that emphasizes and improves on the relationship between the buyer and the seller. Feel free to use innovative technologies like augmented reality, IoT and artificial intelligence - the hacker with the most creative product will get €5000. 

Microsoft

Microsoft is inviting hackers to join one of 9 projects AI for good: 2 health projects and 7 existing social good projects in collaboration with Station F's Tech for Good accelerator: ShareIT.io. The 7 projects are around gender equality, natural disasters, health, education, refugees, and civil rights. They are looking for talented developers and AI engineers to collaborate with them to have a social impact on their contribution. Microsoft will select one of these projects as their winner and each member of that team will receive a Microsoft Surface. You can find a brief description of these projects below:

Droit d'Urgence - Equal Community Foundation - Hackers Against Natural Disasters - LearnEnjoy - Singa - Social Builder - We are not Weapons of War - G.H. Pitié Salpêtrière - Hopale Foundation (more details on the last 2 projects coming soon)

Renault

Groupe Renault has been making cars since 1898. Today it is an international multi-brand group, selling close to 3.76 million vehicles in 134 countries in 2017 and employing more than 180,000 people. To meet the major technological challenges of the future and continue its strategy of profitable growth, the Group is harnessing its international growth and the complementary fit of its five brands, Renault, Dacia and Renault Samsung Motors, Alpine and LADA, together with electric vehicles and the unique Alliance with Nissan and Mitsubishi.
Groupe Renault is developing safe and smooth driving technology to offer trustful Autonomous Driving on mainstream vehicles. This technology aims at making road safer, more enjoyable and maximize time for drivers while delegating. Your challenge is to help us shape the future of Autonomous Vehicle by inventing innovative onboard and offboard services that will contribute to bring new experiences to customers and cars.

AGENDA

Friday 25 May 

      11:00 am - Registration Opens

      01:00 pm - Official launch + Sponsors pitches

      02:15 pm - Matchmaking session / Coding starts

      02:45 pm - Workshops start

      06:00 pm - First checkpoint

      07:00 pm - Code

      07:30 pm - Dinner

     00:00 am - Midnight Snack

Saturday 26 May

      08:00 am - Breakfast

      11:00 pm - Second check point

      12:00 pm - Lunch

      01:00 pm - End of code

      02:00 pm - Final demos

      05:00 pm - Jury deliberation

      05:30 pm - Winners announcement

      06:00 pm - End of hackathon 

PRIZE POOL

The winning team for each challenge will be receiving 5,000€.
The overall winner will not only receive an extra 5,000€ but 2 tickets to TechCrunch’s Disrupt Berlin 2018 and 5 tickets to VivaTech 2019 on top of that! Get your tickets now!

TECHCRUNCH 

TechCrunch is a leading technology media property, dedicated to obsessively profiling startups, reviewing new Internet products, and breaking tech news. 

VIVA TECHNOLOGY 

From May 24 to May 26, 2018, Viva Technology will bring together 6,000 startups with top worldwide investors, companies & tech leaders. To discover more about Viva Technology, click here to check out our website! 

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If you can't find your answer, please write to su@bemyapp.com.