Worldwide AI Hackathon

About the Hackathon

Worldwide AI Hackathon is a flagship event co-hosted by Wow AI and Transatlantic AI eXchange as a part of the WowDAO (the 1st decentralized autonomous organization for the AI community) in which talented teams of students from top global AI universities, as well as developers, data scientists and AI enthusiasts from global corporations meet to join challenges designed by top AI thought-leaders who are AI executives from more than 30 tech giants and large corporations, including Google, Oracle, Microsoft, IBM, Mastercard, Samsung, Oxford Brookes, Stanford, Deloitte, Accenture, Apple, Siemens, AstraZeneca, Meta and many others. Our mission is to empower AI talents by challenging them to solve the toughest problems and motivate them to turn their ideas into complete products and commercialize them.

This hackathon is the 1st step to kick off the WowDAO (now in early development). Top winners from the hackathon can raise funds from the DAO to improve their outputs or form a startup for those products.

Toughest challenges in
the AI industry

Designed by top AI executives from more than 30 tech giants and prestigious universities. Google, Microsoft, Oracle, IBM, Samsung, SAP, Oxford Brookes, Stanford and many others!

Up to US$500K
Total Cash Prizes
for Top Winners

Up to US$500K cash prizes in total! The Worldwide AI Hackathon will award first, second, and third-place prizes.

Compete with
global AI talents

Seize the chance to compete against participants from prestigious universities and top tech enterprises.

Free access to the super
supportive platform

Kick off your project with free access to our built-in tools from image/video data crawling and annotation to a model training environment. Support any type of framework!

Fully cover top
winners' costs to attend
the finale in the US

Fully cover accommodation and travel costs for the top winners to attend the finale in the US, where they present their outputs in front of 1000+ global attendees, mentors, and judges.

Networking with judges
and mentors

Networking with incredible judges and mentors from more than 30 tech giants and large corporations, including Google, Oracle, Microsoft, IBM, Mastercard and other big names

Career opportunities

Grab the opportunity to leverage your profile and get hired by our partner corporations

Incubation for winning projects

Get funded, and receive support from the whole AI community in the upcoming Decentralized Autonomous Organization

Product commercialization

Commercialize final output via the form of IP-NFTs. More information about this will be updated during the hackathon

Early access to
airdrop tokens

Get airdrop tokens of the upcoming Decentralized Autonomous Organization for the global AI community. More information on the project will be provided soon.

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How to enter as contestants

You can register and log in for the Worldwide AI Hackathon on this page.
Once you log in, check the Competitions and click the chosen competition. Create a new team or select the team you want to join. Your team will be assigned mentors for support.
You can invite your team of NO MORE than 5 members by adding their emails or username on My Teams after creating a team in the Competition. Simply use Show members recommendations on the platform or Join our Discord if you are a solo participant and you want to find a teammate.
Build your products on My notebook (if needed)
Submit your output in Submit result tab before the due date.
Wait for the result from our judges, which will be announced around May 2023.
Present your project at the final round in the USA in Jun 2023. We will cover all costs for top winners to come here.

Timeline

(to be updated)

Registration:

January 2023
Output Submission:

August 2023
Judging Period:

May - August 2023
Demo and Result:

September 2023

Sponsor the Hackathon

Share your company’s profile with the global community of AI experts, business leaders, and startups, and get access to winning outputs besides many more benefits.

Interested in becoming our sponsor? Fill in the form and our team will reach out to you shortly!

The Incredible Judges

Patrick Bangert

Vice President of AI, Samsung SDS

Ali Arsanjani

Director of Cloud Partner Engineering, Google Cloud, Former CTO, IBM

Gulshan Kharbanda

Director of Customer Engineering, Google

Nestor Camilo

CAPS Director, Oracle

Aamar Hussain

Director - Data & AI Customer Solution Architecture, Microsoft

Andreas Welsch

Vice President of AI, SAP

Vinesh Sukumar

Senior Director - Head of AI/ML Product Management, Qualcomm

Sundaravadivelan Ramamoorthy

Global Assets Lead for Cloud First/Data & AI, Accenture

Mazhar Hussain

VP, Executive Leader AI, ML, Analytics, Cloud IoT, Siemens

Ola Olude-Afolabi

AI PM & Administrator, The U.S. Department of Commerce

Nikolay Burlutskiy

Director of AI, AstraZeneca

Mohamed Lemine Beydia

AI & Data Science Manager, Deloitte

Vayum Arora

AI/ML Product Manager, Apple

Zakia Rahman

MD, FAAD, Clinical Professor of Dermatology, Chair, Stanford University School of Medicine

Fabio Cuzzolin

Director of Visual AI Lab, Oxford Brookes University

Jose Castellanos Molina

Business Technology Lead, IBM Client Engineering, IBM Mexico

Noelle Silver

Global AI Solutions Lead, Accenture, Founder, AI Leadership Institute

Thomas Neubert

General Manager DB/AI Acceleration, Intel, Founder of TAIX

Pablo Eduardo Jofré Ortega

Data Lead - AI & Data Exploitation, Walmart

Aravind Ganapathiraju

VP of Applied AI, Uniphore

Karamjit Singh

Director of Artificial Intelligence, Mastercard

Shirsha Ray Chaudhuri

Director of Engineering - TR Labs, Thomson Reuters

Adrián González Sánchez

Principal Specialist - Cloud, Data & AI for Public Sector, Microsoft

Edison Vazquez

Global Data Science Leader, Schneider Electric

David von Dollen

Former Head of AI, Volkswagen, Vice President of Data Science, GridMatrix

Sai Prasath

Chief Artificial Intelligence Specialist, T-Mobile

Rory Terrell

Research Fellow, European Space Agency

Lorena Vignau

Data Science Lead, RappiCard Mexico

Joaquín I Villagra Pacheco

Probabilistic Forecasting Latam Leader, MERCADO LIBRE

Camila Manera

Chief Data Officer, LIBRODEPASES, Former DS Manager at Walt Disney

More Leaders Coming Soon!

Become A Mentor

Worldwide AI Hackathon is looking for mentors who will guide and support our contestants.

Mentors could be anyone from experienced AI executives, product owners, professors, to tech gurus. Sign up to join us!

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