New reality. 2.5 million rubles online hackathon
The need to work from home has made enough adjustments in our life with you, but IT is wonderful that many things that are strongly tied to offline in other areas and now do not fit very well into new social distances, continue to work in IT and work successfully. After all, what’s important: a normal network connection, own skills and a desire to work.
Together with RAEC and the Innovation Agency of Moscow, we established the online hackathon VirusHack. And the name here is by no means a tribute to the general hype, but it fully reflects the theme – the hackathon is aimed at finding innovations and useful solutions for a new reality. We offer to participate in solving problems that faced not only our country, but the whole world. Let’s try to prove that new technologies can actually make life easier.
In general, these will be solutions that can help each person, business and state adapt to new conditions. There will be many tasks – a load balancer for hospitals, optimal compression of the video stream from surveillance systems, predictive services based on big data, telemedicine, services for sports, online training, AR / VR, logistics and smart home and much, much more.
They are divided into 6 thematic tracks: online education, health, the new economy, life within four walls, the metropolis of Moscow and the urban environment. The winners will have not only a cash prize and valuable gifts, but also the opportunity to bring their idea to the level of real operation in the largest companies of the Russian Federation.
More information about each track and about the hackathon itself – under the cut.
What will have to be done
No matter how loud it sounds – simulate a new reality, create digital services and solutions. Therefore, we invite not only techies who are confident in their abilities, but also those who are good at organizing processes and project management, as well as designers and product experts.
As part of the hackathon, we will give the opportunity to communicate with industry experts, as well as representatives of business and government agencies.
Tracks
New economy
Solutions related to business processes outside the usual office. Logistics and ecommerce, technologies to improve business performance in the new conditions, IoT, 5G and much more.
In four walls
All about udalenka. How not to go crazy, work from home (and everyone has conditions of varying degrees of comfort), maintaining physical fitness, psychological balance.
Health
First of all, telemedicine, remote interaction of a doctor and a patient, disease prevention. Electronic recipes and sick leave. Here you can also monitor health, work with wearable devices, AI technologies, 3D printing for medicine and the like.
Online education
Solutions designed to help students. Services themselves for study, products to enhance motivation, gamification of the process (AR / VR). In the same track and solutions for teachers, including sports education. Peer-to-peer-services for teachers and much more.
Urban environment
Everything related to the smart home, sensors, services for security, of course, with the digitalization of the beloved housing and communal services by everyone, new ways of communicating with the townspeople. In general, the ability to make the city smarter.
Megapolis Moscow
A special track from the Moscow Innovation Agency is the urban environment, adjusted for the features of the huge metropolis and living in it: supporting vulnerable categories of citizens during self-isolation, improving the lives of citizens, monitoring health at home, and more.
When and where
Registration opened yesterday, April 13, and will last until April 30. The online hackathon itself will be held from May 3 to 5.
You can register here on this link.
Full description all tracks.
The world has already changed, and IT can do its part to make a new reality more comfortable for everyone. If you have ideas and a desire to participate, feel free to register. Perhaps it is your service that will soon be used by thousands of people.
