A hackathon is a useful innovation tool for exploring difficult problems and creating new and innovative solutions. It does not have to involve technology but usually does. This is a strictly time-boxed event, usually lasting for 1-3 days during which representatives from various disciplines come together to form diverse, multi-disciplinary teams and collaborate intensively.

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A mixture between a Focused and Experimental hackathon conducted online with local hacker hubs available for participating teams.

Hackathon’s characteristics:

• Problem statements mapped to client challenges
• Participant tech training upfront
• Pre-screened participants
• Pre-screened ideas
• Local hacker hubs + Remote participation
• Out of billable hours
• Over a period of 2 working weeks including weekends

The hackathon’s theme is Sustainability.

Your team can choose which of the following Problem Statements to tackle during the hackathon:

• How might we use Artificial Intelligence to forecast and model climate change and related impacts?
• How might we use Cloud platforms to analyse wildlife movements with satellites or help governments and cities better manage urban development?
• How might we utilise Big data & Analytics solutions to help the agricultural industry evolve towards precision farming to increase crops and vegetable proteins;
• How might we use Blockchain to enable farmers to share data, facilitate instant payments to producers and trace food from farm to fork;
• Propose your own Problem Statement and Idea on how to tackle it 

Very often the best ideas come from the community. Hence we are strongly encouraging You, the Participant to submit your own Problem Statement & Idea on how are you and your team going to address it during the hackathon.

All of the hackathon’s participants are encouraged to form co-located teams and take use of the local hackathon labs in the 4 locations across Atos-Syntel and Atos offices in India 

Local Hacker Hubs will be set-up for the duration of the hackathon at the following locations: 

1. Pune
2. Mumbai 
3. Chennai 
4. Bangalore

Everyone from Atos-Syntel and Atos staff located in India are invited to submit ideas and register pre-formed teams. 

The mandatory pre-requisite is to complete at least one of the Red Hat’s training courses.

More information found in:

• Team size, roles and more under “Team formation” 
• Particular technical requirements under “Environments and Software”

The hackathon teams will be pre-formed online during the Abstract submission stage.
Only the best teams and abstracts will be nominated to compete in the hackathon.

The team requirements:

• Team size: 3-5 members max
• Team format: Strictly multi-disciplinary teams, each team must have each of the key 3 roles covered.
• Team lead: Each team must nominate a Team Lead to act as a single point of contact. 

Additional guidance for forming teams:

• DMs and EMs can also be part of the team, but team size cannot exceed 3-5 members.
  In case of offshore, team members should be from same location (e.g. a team from Chennai should have all members from Chennai location only).
• In case of Onshore/Near-shore, the teams can be formed across multiple locations

High-level technology environment

 
Technical skillset for Hackers

The required knowledge for the Hacker Role in team:

• Containers, principles of Kubernetes
• Solution development on a PaaS
• Java / cloud native devl / microservices approach
• Git basics
• Maven basics
• Eclipse or EclipseChe

Recommended knowledge (if not, training sessions will be delivered)

• Jenkins
• Cloud Native devl,
• Application development with Red Hat OpenShift
• Any innovative OpenSource framework (tensorFlow, etc..)

Desirable & provided knowledge (if not, training sessions are delivered), either of:

• Reactive programming with Vert.x,
• Spring Boot, NodeJS, JBoss EAP
• ServiceMesh
• Red Hat FUSE (application integration)
• Red Hat 3scale API Management
• Red Hat AMQ, Kafka (AMQ-Streams)
• Process Automation (BPM) and Decision Management (Drools)

Top-level tecOther considerations:

• Participants will have to develop the software outside billable hours without affecting their deliverables.
• Each team will be provided with a system in DMZ (i.e. open internet) Hackathon lab. Since it will be a DMZ setup, you can download and install the required software for your development. TSG team will assist you in setting up the environment on the first day. Any software needed for development should be downloadable and approved by
• Technical Support Group and InfoSec available
• Allocation of systems will be on a first come first served basis.
• The teams will be allowed to start the development work after the inauguration of Hackathon and till the end of the Hackathon window.
• For testing, deployment and demonstration to the evaluation team, teams will be provided Cloud environment.C

The Red Hat’s Sustainability hackathon has a 2-tier prize structure.

1. The jury will award the 3 winning teams across all locations.
2. The competing hackathon teams themselves will be rewarded for helping other teams succeed during the event and the most helpful team will be awarded.

Prizes for the winners and runner-ups

• 1st place –  30,000 INR
• 2nd place – 15,000 INR
• 3rd place – 10,000 INR

• Atos Syntel owns the intellectual property developed during the hackathon
• If participants are part of any client ODC or billable resources, the respective DM/EM should inform the customer that the team is participating in an internal contest outside billable hours.
• Participants have to ensure that only to develop the asset based on use cases that do not involve customer confidential information are selected.
• Participants who decide to build an asset for their customer for whom they are also billable, should develop the asset outside their billing hours.
• Unlicensed copying from internet, customer, competitor or any other source whether in entirety or partially is not permitted and may attract disciplinary action, including termination if concealment or malicious intent is involved. Refer to HR Policy Manual for clear rules on this point. Licensed copying of code from Open Source, as well as using Open Source as-is in the solution requires careful review of the applicable license and solution architecture. Use of non-trivial code fragments from internet without an accompanying license that clearly permits proposed use is not permitted.
• Teams can use/reuse/mash up/repurpose any existing reusable assets and solutions from SAMS repository including those created during previous Hackathons and evaluation will factor in innovation involved (i.e. no penalty for reuse or no advantage for number of lines of code written afresh) which is already a factor.