Hackathon Basics
What is the typical duration of a hackathon?
36h
Who is the target audience at START Hack?
Tech and business students (BA and CS students), developers, engineers, entrepreneurs
Name a format beside a case and a partner that provided the service.
Workshops (EWOR, MagicLeap, LeWagon, KPMG)
Midnight Pizza, (Sunrise Ventures)
Challenge (MagicLeap)
In what year did START Hack celebrate its first edition?
2015/16
Name a potential Partner for START Hack in the next years.
Tesla, Microsoft, Nvidia, Apple, Tencent etc.
What is a hackathon → explain it to your grandmother
It is a 36hour competition, where students come together to tackle the world's most pressing challanges.
Name another location where START Hack has been held (besides OLMA).
HSG
Who did we have as speaker at the halftime show and what cooperations does she/he belong to.
Emily J.Ryan from Google Cloud
Natalis Wirz
Name and explain one of the Vision of START Hack 2024.
Quality, Experience,500 participants, 15 cases, Innovation
What is the purpose of a hackathon?
The goal of a hackathon is to jointly produce useful, creative or entertaining software products within the duration of this event or, more generally, to find solutions to given problems.
What is the USP of START Hack?
The special of the START HACKathon is that we are an entrepreneurial hackathon, what means that we combine the original computerscience hackathon with a business usecase.
Name one Subject of the Workshops at START Hack 2023
What was the purpose of the creation of START Hack?
Summit is inspirational and gather ecosystem but the hands-on tech side is missing
Name all 5 vision points stated in the presentation.
Quality, Innovation, 500 participants, 15 cases, Experience
Name another Hackathon besides START Hack
Junction, HackaTUM, Hack Zürich, etc.
Name all four of START Hack's stakeholders
Participants, Case partners, Fun Booths, Educational Partners
Name 4 Hack case partners
St.Gallen, DKSH, Supercell, Google Sustainability, Antler, BlockfinanceEco, Sunrise, SIX, BellFoodGroup
How many Nationalities were represented at the Hack.
75
How many teams end up in the grand final after the semi?
5