Hackathon
Banking for the new generation
June 8-9, 2019 | Polyvalent Hall BT Arena | Cluj-Napoca | Romania
proudly presented by George
Event info
If you have an appetite for innovative technologies, a passion for financial products and a sparkle in your eye when it comes to challenges, we have prepared for you an intense 24-hour hackathon.
The main theme of this year’s hackathon is Fintech with the goal to promote the development of financial technology for all consumers.
The best projects come out as a result of fair competitiveness and that’s one aspect you’ll definitely find here. Just bring your idea and it will have the best surroundings to fall into place
Hours hackathon
Developers
Challenges
Teams demo at conference
George is a financial ecosystem looking to provide lifestyle banking adapted to the digital age. George envisages a future where everyone can harness their potential and use finance and financial instruments just like any other social interaction instrument. As George aims to learn from its customers (modeling spending data, transaction patterns, service demand algorithms) its lifestyle banking promise simply stands for People Powered Digital Banking. George is like you, George loves to learn, George loves to hack.
Sample challenges
Real time analysis – Create a customer profile based on transactions and a behavior analysis taking into consideration transactions history, value, the overall number, and all banking transfers client related.
Risk Assessment Tool – You’ll need to connect sandboxes, based on client accounts, transaction history, currencies and to establish clients’ risk appetite for product development and testing.
Payment Initiation – Develop a Monitoring Tool that can detect fraudulent transactions or a Stress Testing Tool capable of creating a suspicious transaction in order to test the safety measures implemented in the banking system.
Schedule
Day 1
Saturday, June 8
| 9:00 AM | Registration opens, Beverages served. Come alone? Use the opportunity to find a team! |
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| 10:00 AM | HACKATHON KICK-OFF, Initial Pitches & Team Formation |
| 12:00 – 2:00 PM | Speed dating with Coaches & Hacking Kickoff |
| 2:00 PM | Lunch |
| 7:30 PM | Dinner |
Day 2
Sunday, June 9
| 9:00 AM | Breakfast served |
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| 10:00 AM | HACKS MUST BE SUBMITTED by 10:00 A.M. |
| 10:30 AM | Hackathon presentations begin |
| 12:30 – 1:15 PM | Judging & Awards |
Amazing Prizes
Samsung Gear S3 / team member - for 1st place winners
Skullcandy Crusher / team member - for 2nd place winners
Logitech MX800 Black / team members - for 3rd place winners
Coaches
Ciprian Horge
Romania
Head of Digital Marketing at Medicover
Cristina Gutiu
Romania
Senior Delivery Manager at Betfair
Bogdan Ciceu
Romania
Software Developer at Connatix
Calin Filip
Romania
Product Owner at Pentalog
Judges
Aryk Grosz
USA
Co-Founder & CTO of Mixbook
Rohan Chandran
USA
Chief Product & Technology Officer at Shopkick
Gwendolyn Regina
France
Entrepreneur in Residence at Entrepreneurs First
Ricardo Mendez
Germany
Technical Director Europe at Samsung NEXT
Ted Persson
Sweden
Partner at EQT Ventures
Facilitator
Vlad Trifa
Switzerland
Chief Product Officer at Ambrosus
Our Hackathon Rules
Team size
We will have between 3-5 members per team
Writing code
No code should be written before the Hackathon start. The only exceptions are for publicly available frameworks/APIs, open-source code that has been available for at least a month or APIs/SDKs made available by our partners.
Programming language
You can code in any language and for any platform. No restrictions.
You really need to build something
This is a hackathon, here people really need to get dirty and code something that works. Leave powerpoint presentations at home, because you need to show us a working a project.
Leave your projects at home
We are sure that you have some great working projects but this is not the place for them. At the
Event FAQS
Q: What does the Techsylvania Hackathon provide?
A: We’ll provide you with WiFi, power, food, beverages, and, of course, the prizes.
Q: Is this Hackathon only for experienced developers?
A: No. Any kind of developer can participate.
Q: How can we form teams?
A: You can either form a team with your own friends or join any team when you come to the event. Also, we strongly suggest that each hacker gives their attention to just one team, rather than trying to be a part of multiple projects; we want to see your best work, and it’s hard to do your best work when you’re jumping from table to table.
Q: What should I bring?
A: All your normal coding/designing gear, and any hardware you want to hack on. You might want to bring an Internet tethering device just in case the network gets busy.
Q: What is the judging criteria?
A: It’s simple – based on the awesomeness of the project. The judges won’t be worried too much about whether your hackathon project has a clear business model built-in (while this can’t hurt), but they will be focusing on creativity, cleverness and innovation. Bonus points will be given for good pitch and an app built to solve real-world problem.
Q: How long are the pitches?
A: 60 seconds for initial pitches and 5 minutes for the final demos.
Q: I have another question.
A: Send us an email at hackathon@techsylvania.co and we’ll answer as soon as possible.