About the challenge
Neodata, in collaboration with Isola and the University of Catania, is hosting the first AI-based hackathon in Catania, Italy. Participation is open for both in-person and remote hackers.
Schedule
Friday 24 May, 2024
9:30-12:00 - Intro to AI chatbots @ Aula Magna, UniCT Department of Computer Science. Remote participants join here: https://meet.google.com/rap-ktve-tfc
12:00 - Start of hackathon! Remote participants join here: https://meet.google.com/rap-ktve-tfc
Saturday - Sunday 25-26 May 2024 - Work on project
Monday 27 May 2024
All day - Isola coworking space (piazza Cardinale Pappalardo 23, Catania, Sicily, Italy) available for hackathon participants
12:00 - project submissions due!! All github links must be sent to info@neodatagroup.ai
12:00 - 14:00 project demos (in person at Isola / remote https://meet.google.com/rap-ktve-tfc)
16:00 - award ceremony (in person at Isola / remote https://meet.google.com/rap-ktve-tfc)
Requirements
What to Build
The 2024 Neodata Hackathon Catania focuses on AI strategies for knowledge management. Word embeddings, search algorithms, vector databases, and frameworks like LangChain and LlamaIndex have created a huge opportunity for improving decision-making through better knowledge management.
What to build? Apply LLMs to an enterprise-level problem, such as how to query a large knowledge base while doing time-sensitive work, like hospital triage or emergency services.
Maybe start with a RAG-based chatbot for enterprise use. Optimize your strategy for a specific use case, innovate around how to improve the quality of RAG retrieval, prompt engineering, best LLMs to use, and more. Or focus on multimodal and surface important information found in diagrams and charts, not just text. Or consider how to fine-tune an LLM with numerical data and summarize everything in one place for the user...
We are open to a wide variety of submissions. The important thing is that you leverage LLM technology to solve a knowledge management problem.
What to Submit
In order to judge the submission, the jury needs access to your source code (email a Github repository link to info@neodatagroup.ai), and you need to present your work briefly to the public.
Prizes
First prize
Devpost Achievements
Submitting to this hackathon could earn you:
Judges
Giovanni Giuffrida
CEO Neodata
Judging Criteria
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Criteria
Quality of the Idea: How novel and interesting is the idea? Implementation of the Idea: How robust and production ready is the application? Potential Impact: Can this be used outside of a demo app? Visual Appeal: How polished is the app presentation?
Questions? Email the hackathon manager
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