Judging Criteria and Awards
What are the judges looking for?
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2024 SAS Hackathon Award winners
Judging criteria
Problem
Does the algorithm or application address an untapped gap in the industry of choice? What is its smartness and usability in relation to a sustainable economy?
Solution
Are the solutions clearly defined, and will these solve the problem?
Compelling Event
Are market trends/influences considered, and can this solution be considered as compelling?
Key Metrics and Business Value
Is there a clear and simple value statement? Have success metrics been defined? What do those look like?
Technology
Has the application been demonstrated and proven to work? Teams need to showcase how SAS has been used. Consider the analytics lifecycle, technical components, code/program, model used and visualization done.
Impact and Future Potential
Potential after Hackathon: Will the model in production make an impact? Or is there scalable commercialization potential?
Innovation Level
Can the solution be considered as truly innovative, and does it stand out from available solutions in the market and market competitors?
Presentation Pitch
How compelling are the presentation and pitch: Tell the story of the problem, value, benefits and message for the solution.
2024 award opportunities
To be a winning team – that’s big-time bragging rights!
Extraordinary business cases will be recognized in the following categories:
Tracks
- Banking
- Energy
- Health Care & Life Sciences
- Insurance
- IoT Cross Industry
- Public Sector
- Retail, Consumer Goods & Manufacturing
- Student
- Telecom
Technology / Specialty
- Channel Readiness
- Computer Vision
- Decisioning
- Forecasting
- Model
- Natural Language Processing
- Visual Analytics
- Sustainability / Data for Good
- Trustworthy AI
- Emerging Talent
Regional
- EMEA
- Americas
- Asia Pacific
Overall Global Winner
- One team will be selected.
The SAS Hackathon provides participants with access to learning resources and unparalleled guidance from experts and hands-on experience with the latest technology at no cost. There’s no monetary prize. Teams own their IP (intellectual property) and can pursue commercialization.