IDEAHACK 2024 wrap-up!

Following two days of coding, we’re ready (and delighted) to announce the winners of IDEAHACK – Poland’s first sciencepreneurship hackathon! The event was organized by IDEAS NCBR, where the ELLIS Unit Warsaw operates, as part of the ELIAS (European Lighthouse of AI for Sustainability) project, which focuses on boosting scientific entrepreneurship and sustainable AI development in Europe.

The 14 teams were tasked with creating a platform enabling business-minded participants and scientists to connect, exchange ideas, and create solutions that address real-world challenges, particularly in AI.

The solutions were assessed in terms of: can the project be easily developed further? does it meet the needs of potential stakeholders? are its functionalities well described and easy to understand? could it realistically be brought to market?

1st place and 15,000 PLN goes to NERDNET team:
Wojciech Maciejewski Jakub Sobolewski Jan Molski Wojciech Łapacz Bartosz Kozakiewicz
2nd place and 10,000 PLN goes to HERbata team:
Adam Księżyk Emilia Stefanowska Piotr Bomba
3rd place and 5,000 PLN goes to Odkluczacze team:
Piotr Falkowski Filip Gwardecki Kajetan Jeznach Jan Oleksiuk

Thanks to all the participants! It was great to see you coding at our office in Varso Place!

Also, thanks to the brilliant mentors and jury team:
Marek Dziubinski (Solvemed, founder of Medicalgorithmics S.A.)
Wojciech Erdmann
Fabrice Filliez (Embassy of Switzerland in Poland)
Konrad Howard (Booksy)
Aleksander Kowalski (Accenture Poland)
Marcin Ledworowski (Accenture Poland)
Karol Matczak (Warsaw University of Technology Investment Factory ASI S.A.)
Paulina Skrzypińska (BNP Paribas Bank Polska)

And thanks to:
Piotr Grudzień (Quickchat AI) for delivering special guest speech
Accenture Poland for sponsoring the main prize.
Amazon Web Services (AWS) for providing coders with free AWS cloud environments where they could run prototypes of their solutions
Republika Smakoszy for catering.