Baltic Sea Digital Event International Business Hackathon
The winners of Baltic Sea Digital Event will be offered short-term training at the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology and work placement at one of the leading Russian IT companies with full compensation of costs.
Baltic Sea Digital Event will be run in two stages:
- online qualification stage – 1-14 November 2019;
- intramural stage – 15-16 November 2019 (Riga)
The business hackathon for development of promising solutions for the leading digital economy sectors will be held at the University of Latvia (Riga).
Hackathon partners: Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (Russia), IBS (Russia), Qube (Sweden), CANEA (Sweden), Stockholm School of Economics, Russian E-Money Association
The following basic digital technologies will be used by the hackathon participants to develop their solutions:
- distributed ledger systems,
- big data,
- new production technologies (including financial technologies),
- wireless communication technologies,
- Industrial Internet of Things,
- virtual and augmented reality reality technologies.
All projects will be evaluated by the expert jury which will select the winners in the following categories: absolute champion, best application (no sector), best socially significant solution (sectors: Government and Society, Education and Human Resources), most creative solution (no sector), best gaming solution, including Gamification (no sector), best mobile app (sectors: Cyber Security, Finances and Trade), best educational idea (sectors: Education and Human Resources, Finances and Trade).
