START Hack is one of Europe‘s larger hackathons with students from tech universities working on innovative projects within a set time frame of 35 hours. Challenges are provided by partners and start-ups. The focus is on modern and emerging technologies including Block- chain, AI, AR/VR and the IoT. What differentiates the START Hack from other hackathons is our emphasis on fostering the entrepreneurial spirit of our participants, encouraging them to think further than just one weekend. Thus, START Hack‘s vision aims to bring Switzerland on Europe‘s technological map, to let the participants face the world‘s most difficult challenges hands-on and support creative and innovative solutions to get developed to real businesses.
Prizes
1. Place
2. Place
3. Place
Swiss Prime Site Challenge
Volvo Challenge
Swisscom Challenge
SBB Challenge
NEO Challenge
Rolls-Royce Power Systems Challenge
SRF Challenge
Bloomberg Challenge
MLH domain.ch Challenge
MLH Qualcomm Challenge
Devpost Achievements
Submitting to this hackathon could earn you:
Judges
Yannick Suter
Head of Data Analytics, Tamedia AG
Thomas Kern
MSc ETH et EMBA HSG, Member of the Board, Swiss ICT Investor Club
Stefan Unterhuber
Director Digital Transformation, Atos Global
Dr. Stefan Frei
Senior Principal Security Expert, Accenture
Prof. Dr. Siegwart Roland
Professor for autonomous robots at ETH & Co-Director, Wyss Zurich
Roger Dudler
Founder & CTO Frontify
Dr. Pearl Pu
Founding Director of Human Computer Interaction Group at EPFL
Oliver Walzer
Co-Founder Swiss Startup Factory
Michele Daryanani
Senior Manager, KPMG Cyber Security
Prof. Dr. Jan Marco Leimeister
Director Institute of Information Management and Full Professor University of St.Gallen
Prof. Dr. James Larus
Professor and Dean of Computer and Communication Sciences, EPFL
David Gorgan
Initiator, START Hack
Dalith Steiger, dipl. Math.
Co-Founder and Managing Partner, SwissCognitive
Dr. Christoph Baumgarten
Lecturer for Information and Process Management, FHS St. Gallen
Bryan Giger
Winner START Hack 2017
Björn Schmidtke
Winner START Hack 2017
Attila Makra
Business Development Zürcher Kantonalbank
Ian Thomas Sparkes
Senior Blockchain Engineer, Swisscom
Judging Criteria
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Innovativeness (20%)
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Business Potential (20%)
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User Interface/User Experience (20%)
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Judges Expertise (30%)
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Presentation/Pitch (10%)
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