Not Your Daddy's Hackathon!
Altan Atabarut, MSc.
Enthusiastic about AI/ML driven innovation and digital transformation
I've been thru maybe 4-5 #hackathons myself, sometimes as a sole participant, sometimes as a collaborator, twice as a consultant to participants and again twice as a jury.
For first timers hearing a?#hackathon, it is an event where people engage in rapid and collaborative engineering called #hacking over a relatively short period of time such as 24 or 48 hours straight the #marathon thus it become a "hacking+marathon".
Should say that it's a thrilling experience meeting with clever minds and cutting-edge ideas (at least some ideas), a great learning experience but also a very stressful 1 or 2 days #sprint. Perhaps more than half of the stress comes from time-boxing the event into a very short time period... We'll get to this in a bit.
They are often run for applying #agile software development practices with the goal of creating a functioning software or sometimes IoT like hardware + software by the time of the deadline.?
Sometimes you may hear about #datathons instead of hackathons, well these are as similar fashion events this time not focused on software development but rather #dataops & #modelops, still using #agile software #devops practices of course.
At this point here is a quick show of what do we mean by #agilesoftwaredevelopment
Remember it like this; waterfall is a big bang project thus a #bigrisk at the very end. If you fail, no way to turn the ship around. Agile is a series of sprints in which if you fail in one sprint you can reiterate that sprint thus very #littlerisk at each sprint and at the very end...
Some other aspect of hackathons is they tend to have a strict focus, hack using #java or #rust or use given #openbanking APIs only or the subject is defined somehow. In #datathons then the data is a given probably with labels or a target.
This creates a little problem because it's very hard to start with an end in the mind. What's a business problem, how big is the size of the prize, what are pain points of end-users etc... This slips way fast, and you jump into development blindly.
However, as I experienced many times, and #Gartner emphasizes this in many papers as well, especially in #Analytics and #datascience you should attack problems from value point first...
Here comes why 赛仕软件 #Hackaathon is not your daddy's hackathon...
First of all this event has a rather long timeline.
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Oh! By the way here take a look at industry tracks of 2022...
Having said all of this, my colleagues @SAS made it into a great video and a rap music so check this out and join us at the hackathon. Looking forward to see you there...
A note to CDO's, CAO's and leaders; for #corporateinnovation days to #hackwithyourteam internally, with your own data, please give me a call...
For #talentacquisiton days to #hackwithprospects and #assess them #onthejob, who ya' gonna call?
All the best
Altan
Business Developer | Eksim Holding
2 年Sounds inspiring. And also, on my way to the office tomorrow, I'll have Sas Hackathon Rap music in my ears all the way ??
Enthusiastic about AI/ML driven innovation and digital transformation
2 年A huge shout out to our maestro orchestrating the events Peter Lundqvist
Enthusiastic about AI/ML driven innovation and digital transformation
2 年One of last year's winners was Linktera from Turkey; https://www.dhirubhai.net/embed/feed/update/urn:li:ugcPost:6920843074612994048
Enthusiastic about AI/ML driven innovation and digital transformation
2 年headline is calling to you Baris SEL :)