A room of people coding

HACKATHON

26th - 27th October Oculus Lecture Theatre

WHACK, WHAT?

Warwick's largest ever Hackathon, held on campus, is here for October 2024

Look forward to free food all weekend, sponsor events, unforgettable activities, and, of course, the chance to showcase your own project all in 24 hours.

Now, all that's left for to do is bring a laptop, friends, and some creativity. We'll handle the rest.

PROJECT TO PRIZES

Assemble in teams of (up to) 4, and submit a project to one of many categories for the chance for your team to win up to £700 of goodies. And that's for every category!

Each title sponsor will provide a track, mixed in with some of our own.

We can't wait to see you, your friends, and Warwick's most ingenious 24-hour creations at WHACK. See you there!

SCHEDULE

09:00 Arrivals
10:00 Opening Ceremony
11:00 Hacking Begins!
12:00 Lunch Served
13:00 Afternoon Talks
17:00 Recruitment Event
18:00 Evening Talks
19:30 Dinner Served
20:00 WHACK Events
09:00 Breakfast Served
10:00 Submissions Begin
11:00 Submissions Close
12:00 Lunch Served
13:00 Entry Presentations
17:00 Final Presentation

Title Sponsors

COVENTRY CITY FOOTBALL CLUB

PRIZE: TBC

Coventry City are a football club based in the Midlands, who play their competitive fixtures in the Championship, the second tier of professional football in England.

They have recently had very competitive seasons in this division and have come close, notably in 2023, to returning to the Premier League for the first time since 2001.

In 2023, Coventry City have installed a Data and Insights Department to ensure they remain forward-thinking and innovative as they seek to return to the Premier League, and the club continue to believe that data-led decision-making will support their continued success.

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CAPITAL ONE

PRIZE: TBC

We're on a mission: to change banking for good – one good thing at a time. You might think of us as a credit card company, but we're just as much a technology business.

And we're here to make a positive difference – to our customers, our colleagues and society as a whole. Join us and you'll get to make a real and valued contribution to wide-ranging projects that have a meaningful impact on people's lives.

You'll get great training and, as new doors open, there'll be no limits to what you can achieve. Just look at our CEO, Lucy Hagues, who started out on our Graduate Programme and now leads the UK business.

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FETCH.AI

PRIZE: TBC

Fetch.ai's vision is to create a marketplace of dynamic applications. We are empowering developers to build on our platform that can connect services and APIs without any domain knowledge.

Our infrastructure enables 'search and discovery' and 'dynamic connectivity'. It offers an open, modular, UI agnostic, self-assembling of services. Our technology is built on four key components:

1. Agents - AI Agents are independent decision-makers that connect to the network and other agents. These agents can represent data, APIs, services, ML models and people.

2. Agentverse - serves as a development and hosting platform for these agents.

3. AI Engine – enables humans to interact with the dynamic agent marketplace using natural language to execute the objective.

4. Fetch Network - underpins the entire system, ensuring smooth operation and integration.

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Signature Sponsors

Event Sponsors

MEET THE ORGANISERS

Picture of Joshua Fitzmaurice
Joshua Fitzmaurice Lead Organiser
Picture of Louis Tanak
Louis Tanak Lead Organiser
Picture of Alia Meek
Alia Meek Lead Organiser
Picture of Alex Do
Alex Do Lead Organiser
Picture of Lewis Parry
Lewis Parry Lead Organiser
Picture of Alfie-Joe Smith
Alfie-Joe Smith Lead Organiser

WHAT ARE YOU WAITING FOR?

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