AustrianStartups Hackathon #2
11th -13th June 2021
11th -13th June 2021
AustrianStartups is proud to present our in-house hackathon! A hackathon is an event where, over a short but intense period of time, people come together to work on projects that address set challenges – or simply to build something cool. There are no rules as such on what makes a successful hackathon project; you are welcome to use the time and the opportunity to collaborate however you want. We just love to see what you will do with it!
You can enter alongside people you already plan to work with, or as an in individual who wants to join in on a given challenge. We already have some great project suggestions on offer so far. The following projects have been suggested by the people below, and they will be acting as coordinators for the teams that will work on them. Click on the project titles to display more infos!
Zoku Vienna provides a home base for holiday and business travelers who want to live and work in the city anywhere from a few days to a few months. You could call Zoku a re-invented apartment hotel β in fact β Zoku creates a new category in the hotel industry: a home-office hybrid, which is a relaxed place to live, work and socialize with like-minded people while getting wired into the city.
Hi! π
We are HeroBox, a young startup from Vienna and we revolutionize take-away to make it more environmentally friendly.
We have developed an app-based system that allows you, as a take-away lover, to easily get your to-go order in a HeroBox (high-quality reusable packaging), which you can then return to any participating restaurant. There it will be washed and is ready for the next order.
The solution to an urgent problem π‘
Did you know that every year in Vienna alone about 100 million disposable food packaging are used and thrown away? This not only has ecological consequences, it is also a huge economic problem, as restaurateurs pay up to EUR 0.80 per package!
The Challenge π
We want to work with you π€
Are you passionate about climate solutions and the innovative circular economy? You always wanted to find out more about a reusable concept? You are creative and know how to market such a concept? Then HeroBox is the right thing for you!
Have fun at the Hackathon!
What is going on inside of us? Research actually knows a lot of things already but it is too individual to be covered in the classic sick&healthy separation.
Therefore, I would like to close the gap and offer a health-fingerprint analysis directly to costumers with at-home sampling and understandable data presentation. The longer the costumers tracks themselves, the more information can be given including fitness, nutrition and health-related information.
The problem I would like to tackle at the hackathon is the balance between what is interesting for the costumer and what are we allowed to tell without the supervision of a medical doctor.
Of course a life science background is helpful but as it is more about costumer interests everybody interested in that topic is welcome!
What is your project about?
Our project ‘The Negotiation Connection’ is about re-imagining communication and empowering our younger generation to be audacious in solving our societal problems by facilitating a platform that brings together NGOs, businesses and the young people who would love to have a fun engaging experience learning about communication.
We find that a lot of change makers passionate about doing things in the society find it incredibly hard to contribute and NGOs really are missing resources and databases to use in solving big challenges. There is an overarching disconnect between businesses and the people in progress. Secondly Negotiation is vague concept andHow about making learning fun by connecting real world case studies to people enthusiastic about learning and developing their negotiation skills whilst solving cases.
What benefit do you give to customers?
We want to bring a one place branding with credibility where users can come join a community and get involved in social issues. We want to develop a database of stories which can be easily navigated for similar lessons from other experiences.
Do you already have ‘read-to-go’ tasks that joining team members could tackle right away?
1. Customer Validation:a. Understand what challenges the NGOs are facing and what part of it can be addressed using Negotiation skillsb. Create what exactly could be appealing to young future communities to learn about communication and add value to their problems
2. Feature Selectiona. Identify the 20% of features that bring 80% of the value to the users and be clear on what that value is.
What problem do you want to solve for the Hackathon weekend?
We want to get precise with our problem and focus on the specific features that could add value to our users. We want to do this through extensive customer research and validate our idea.
Are you concerned about our future society at large and feel you would want to get involved. Through ‘The Negotiation Connection’, we want to empower our future generation to make problem solving in society fun and engaging by bringing together collaboration partners and the technology to support effective learning.
1. People with a passion to communicate and solve problems in society and enthusiasm to make it fun to build community
Generally people with the following skill set would also add a lot of value to our team
1. Video production/ marketing and branding
2. Experience with data science, blockchain
Agriculture and the way humans produce crop hasn’t changed for over 10.000 years and is based on the assumption resources like fertile soil, water, pollinators,… are infinite. Our global food production faces multiple problems, which cause a serious threat to the millions of people’s access to food. We have to act now to change this path before it’s too late. What benefit do you give to customers?
We provide a device which automatically takes care of all different kinds of crops, from tomato till corn, from salad till strawberry. It reduces the needed resources up to 90% compared to regular agriculture methods and saves costs at the same time. This allows access to organic grown fruits and vegetables with a much smaller impact to the environment for a much cheaper price than ever before. As the solution is easily scalable it can also be used in private homes to support the increasing amount of people who want to home-grow their food.
Yes, we have a few topics to work on regarding the improvement of our already existing prototype. What problem do you want to solve for the hackathon weekend?
We want to use the weekend to create the machine learning based flower recognition. The plants get observed by cameras, connected to a Raspberry Pi. It is necessary to recognize flowers inside our device and, based on the camera feeds, calculate their exact position inside the device to allow a robotic arm to reach them for pollination.
We offer you the opportunity to build something truly meaningful. Something that will change the fate of billions of people and for the whole planet. We offer a solution that not just reduces the world’s CO2 emission and stabilizes whole regions by providing a reliable food source, it actively can help to decrease the CO2 emissions which are already in our atmosphere today. It can help to, for the first time in decades, increase habitats for wildlife and support the protection of the last remaining biodiversity. We’ve already experienced the satisfying feeling of working on a project with actual substance and you can too! Something you can see and touch and work not just with your mind, but also with your hands on. Take your chance to join our fulfilling work! What kind of people/ skills are you looking for that you could progress best over that weekend (and even maybe beyond)?
We are looking for Python developers, interested in and/or already experienced with machine learning algorithms based on tensor flow (if you know of something better fitting for our purpose than tensor flow we of course would be open for your input). Experience in working with a Raspberry Pi and it’s limited resources would be awesome, but is not necessary.
CarPanion enables a seamless service experience for your favorite gadget, your car. Also sick on keeping track of the service needs from your car? Remember it every time so that your warranty does not run out? Or looking for an appointment and canβt find one close by? CarPanion is here to help!
What problem are you solving?
Service for cars can be painful, time consuming and annoying. We solve these issues by providing a platform for workshops and end-customers to match them accordingly. We take out the time component as well by offering small repairs on-site as well as a jockey service for workshops, so they can service cars without the need to bring them there by the end-customer
What benefit do you give to customers?
Users have transparent pricing and a great selection of partner workshops, offering short term repair times. All of this can be used without the time-consuming process of bringing your car, we take care of that. As our main customer. we provide workshops the opportunity by extending their reach of business through our jockeys to gain more repairs and increase their utilization.
What problem do you want to solve for the hackathon weekend?
Reflect on the idea and develop a solid business case & model as well as a plan for operational & technical excellence
Join the team to develop the future of car service. We want to make owning a car fun again by cutting out the bullshit of maintenance
What kind of people/ skills are you looking for that you could progress best over that weekend (and even maybe beyond)?
Creative people that love to think about how a business can gain traction by developing a business model. Consulting skills or experience with business cases could be a plus here
People that know operational and/or technical excellence for realizing the platform itself
People that are simply annoyed about maintaining their car and want to change something about it
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Partnership Lead
Operational Lead
If you have any questions regarding the Hackathon feel free to contact
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