What is an International Hackathon?

A hackathon is an event where creative, open-minded, entrepreneurial people from different disciplines meet together - in an intensive business development sprint - to work together to find a solution to a specific industry or technology problem or challenge. The goal is to create an MVP - which is a demo version of the product / service, NOT a prototype - during the event, thus supporting the viability of the idea. In many cases, teams continue to work on the MVP, either out of self-interest or after a hackathon, until a final, marketable solution is found. In fact, the hackathon is a challenge-based complex learning framework.

This year's topic

The Simonyi Hackathon in 2024 autumn is organised in collaboration with the Sustainability Centre. This year's topic is going to be sustainability, community education and mental health with - "Hack the Future" as its subtitle

During the one-and-a-half day competition, students will be challenged to develop something and extraordinary.

6th November, 2024

13:00-13:30 Registration

13:30-14:00 Inspirations along the Hackathon challenges (description of the Challenge)

14:00-14:45 Teamwork: Problem finding (bug list)

14:45-15:00 Coffee Break

15:00-16:30 Teamwork: Problem selection / refinement

16:30-17:30 Pitch training

7th November, 2024 (3rd floor – Room B323)

8:00-8:30 Start the Day – Coffee Break

8:30-9:30 Teamwork: Creating a sketch of solution concepts

9:30-10:15 Teamwork: Refining the solutions

10:15-10:30 Coffee Break

10:30-11:00 Teamwork: Making MVP sketches

11:00-12:00 Teamwork: MVP creation

12:00-13:00 Lunch Break

13:00-14:00 Expert validation I.

14:00-15:00 Expert validation II.

15:00-16:00 Teamwork: Preparing for the pitch

16:00-16:30 Coffee Break

from 16:30 Pitch presentations (currently 13 teams x 5+2 minutes)

Jury decision + Announcement of results