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🚀 Hack the Future. Build What Matters.

At this hackathon, the challenge is clear:
turn bold ideas into prototypes that scale, connect, and create impact.
Choose your track. Push the limits. Shape tomorrow.

TRACKS & CHALLENGES

🌱 Early Stage
Can you design a scalable business model that captures a high-potential market before anyone else?

⚙️ PaaS
How far can you push container-based development to accelerate speed, resilience, and collaboration?

🌍 Seed for Good
What prototype could drive measurable social or environmental impact—directly or indirectly—at scale?

💸 Fintech
Can you build a product that turns complex financial data into automated, actionable insights for institutional investors?

🔍 Search
How might you transform raw search engine results into decision-ready intelligence across industries?

🔗 MCP
What breakthrough use case could emerge from seamless Model Context Protocol integration?

👉 Join us. Prototype live. Build with mentors.
The future won’t wait—why should you?

Detailed Schedule

Judging Criteria

Submission Guidelines

Each team may submit only one final Writeup, but you can un-submit, edit, and re-submit as many times as you want before the deadline.

Your Writeup should:

Provide a clear summary of your project
Include links to supporting resources (code, demos, etc.)

⚠️ Important: Only Writeups that are submitted before the deadline will be considered. Drafts or un-submitted entries will not be reviewed by the judges.

Required and Optional Deliverables

a. Code Repository (required)
Your solution must be well-documented and reproducible.

Code should be public and viewable without login (GitHub repo, Hugging Face space, Kaggle notebook, etc.).
The goal is to validate your project’s authenticity and technical depth.

b. Video or Blog (optional, but highly recommended)
We encourage you to create a short video demo or public blog post telling the story of your project.

Show us how you used AI to solve your chosen problem.
Formats: YouTube, Medium, TikTok, X (Twitter), LinkedIn, or other public platforms.
Must be viewable without login.

c. User Survey (optional, bonus points)
Each team is encouraged to complete a short Lovable online survey about your project.

Bonus points are awarded for completeness of the survey.
Answers themselves are not graded, only whether the survey is fully completed.

Judging Criteria

Submissions will first be checked for completeness, then scored across the following dimensions:

1. Technical Implementation (35%)

Code Quality & Execution (20%)
- 0%: Code doesn’t run
- 10%: Code runs but is inefficient/hard to follow
- 20%: Code runs smoothly, clean and readable
Effective Use of AI Concepts (15%)
- 0%: AI usage irrelevant
- 5%: AI used but not central to solution
- 15%: AI integrated effectively into solution

2. Innovation & Creativity (25%)

Novelty of Approach (10%)
- 0%: Common/standard approach already available online
- 10%: Fresh and original approach
Problem Significance & Impact (15%)
- 0%: No real impact on any metric
- 5%: Small improvement (slight efficiency gain, etc.)
- 15%: Significant measurable impact (time saved, new users, revenue, engagement, etc.)

3. Demo & Presentation (20%)

Clarity of Problem & Solution (10%)
- 0%: Difficult to follow
- 5%: Clear but poorly documented
- 10%: Clear explanation with strong documentation
Explanation of Architecture & Tools (10%)
- 0%: No explanation
- 5%: Explanation or diagram, but not both
- 10%: Clear explanation and architectural diagram

4. Assets (20%)

Public Blog or Video (10%)
- 0%: None provided
- 5%: Exists but unclear
- 10%: Clearly demonstrates the solution
Public Code Repository (10%)
- 0%: Code not shared
- 10%: Code available publicly (GitHub, etc.)

5. Generation AI Conference Bonus (Optional, up to +10%)

Feedback on AI Tools & Process (5%)
- 0%: No feedback
- 5%: Useful feedback/friction points provided
Lovable Survey Completed (5%)
- 0%: Not completed
- 5%: Completed in full

Prizes

Handbook View Handbook

🚀 About the Hackathon

In-Person & Virtual: August 30–31, 2025 — 24‑hour global AI sprint.
Join us in Paris or fully online.

👥 Who Should Join

Builders who ship running code (no pitch-only projects)
Individuals or teams of up to 4
Technical roles encouraged: ML engineers, full-stack, data scientists, product/UX

📜 Rules & Deliverables

Teams of max 4; work must be created or substantially extended during the hackathon
Submit a project including:
- Project Name & Description
- Products & Tools Used
- Team Contributions
Optionally, link a 2-minute demo video (deployed service or local demo)
Submit a GitHub repo (public or private with access), README, and optional project website

Judging Criteria: 🔎 Detailed Scoring

Criterion	Weight
Technical	35%
Innovation	25%
Presentation	20%
Assets	20%
Bonus (survey & feedback)	+10%

Submission Checklist (before Aug 31, 3:00 PM)

GitHub repo + README with run instructions
Deployed demo link or local test instructions
1‑page slides or README problem/impact summary
2‑minute demo video (recommended)
Required credentials/access for judges
Short note on Responsible AI & limitations

🤝 Sponsors & Organizers

Mentorship from MIT, Harvard, and industry leads — ask questions on the message board
Free compute credits & platform access — details provided to registered teams
Key sponsors & partners: SarApi, Schoolab, FinTech Dev Night, Lovable, Aethos.org, SarAI, Conduit.ai

🧑‍🏫 Mentors & Office Hours

Sign up for mentor sessions and Bring specific asks to maximize feedback (e.g., “debug agent loop”, “scale retrieval”)

Highlighted Mentors:
Lodovico BENVENUTI (Early Stage…)
Alaa ABDULRIDHA (Search…)
Vrinda BHATIA (MCP…)
Ammar EKBOTE (PaaS…)
Sujata SRIDHARAN (Fintech…)
Abdoulaye DOUCOURE (Seed for Good…)
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🛠 Suggested Tech Stack & Tooling

LLM / Models: OpenAI, Anthropic, Mistral, Cohere, Hugging Face, Google Gemini
Integration Frameworks: LangChain, LlamaIndex, Haystack
Agent Frameworks: LangChain Agents, AutoGPT/BabyAGI (be cautious of safety/loops)
Vector DBs / Retrieval: Weaviate, Pinecone, Milvus
MLOps & Monitoring: Weights & Biases, MLflow, logging + health endpoints
Hosting / Deployment: Vercel, Koyeb, Heroku, Cloud Run, Docker + ngrok
In-browser / Edge LLMs: WebLLM, Ollama, on-device inference

📁 Starter Repo Structure (Suggested)

/README.md        → run instructions, API keys  
/app              → frontend/demo  
/backend          → model integration, APIs  
/data             → sample data & indexing  
/infra            → Dockerfiles & deploy scripts  
/presentation     → slides + demo video links

💡 Project Idea Prompts

Ethical AI: transparency, fairness, privacy-preserving solutions
Agentic AI: autonomous planning and execution
In-browser personal LLM with local retrieval & privacy
Multimodal search: image+text retrieval for e-commerce or research
FinTech: explainable models for transaction categorization, compliance, or support agents
Conversational RAG systems with evaluation pipeline

⚡ Hacking Tips & Priorities

Scope small: one happy path + working demo > many features
Start with tiny or synthetic datasets to prove flow
Use managed services to avoid infrastructure time sinks
Containerize early for consistent demos
Record short guided demo video in case of network issues

🛡 Support & Logistics

Venue / registration questions: registration page
Remote participants: join Discord to connect with teammates

🔐 Responsible AI & Data Privacy

Explicitly state data provenance and model usage in README & slides
Avoid uploading PII without consent
Include limitations & safety note in submission

📬 Contacts & Help

Event page & RSVP: Hackathon Event
Organizers (Paris): Abdoulaye DOUCOURE + team
Urgent ops issues: Message Board

💡 Build fast, demo clearly, and have fun!
We’re watching for creative, reproducible projects that ship working code.

Place	Prize	HPC Access
1️⃣ 1st	$2,000 cash prize	12h
2️⃣ 2nd	$1,500 cash prize	10h
3️⃣ 3rd	$1,000 cash prize	8h

AI Hackathon - Paris Uniting Innovators Worldwide

Theme

Detailed Schedule

📅 Hackathon Key Dates

🎯 Track Winner Events

Global hAIkathon

Judging Criteria

Submission Guidelines

Required and Optional Deliverables

Judging Criteria

Prizes

🏆 Hackathon Rewards & Key Dates

🌐 Global Prizes (all tracks combined)

🎯 Track-Specific Rewards & Events

🌱 Early Stage

🌍 Seed for Good

🔍 Search

⚙️ PaaS

💸 FinTech

🔗 MCP

🎁 Perks for All Participants (redeemable during the Hackathon)

🌟 Bonus for All Finalists

Handbook View Handbook

🚀 About the Hackathon

👥 Who Should Join

📜 Rules & Deliverables

🤝 Sponsors & Organizers

🧑‍🏫 Mentors & Office Hours

🛠 Suggested Tech Stack & Tooling

📁 Starter Repo Structure (Suggested)

💡 Project Idea Prompts

⚡ Hacking Tips & Priorities

🛡 Support & Logistics

🔐 Responsible AI & Data Privacy

📬 Contacts & Help

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🚀 About the Hackathon

👥 Who Should Join

📜 Rules & Deliverables

🤝 Sponsors & Organizers

🧑‍🏫 Mentors & Office Hours

🛠 Suggested Tech Stack & Tooling

📁 Starter Repo Structure (Suggested)

💡 Project Idea Prompts

⚡ Hacking Tips & Priorities

🛡 Support & Logistics

🔐 Responsible AI & Data Privacy

📬 Contacts & Help

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