Self-supervised learning in the autonomous industry refers to the use of unlabeled or semi-supervised large-scale collected data to train recognition models for real-world perception tasks in autonomous systems. This is a data-intensive approach, however, it holds great potential for the ever-growing field of autonomous systems, including drone research, autonomous exploration, and bio-inspired systems. The goal is to develop autonomous systems that can think and react independently in real-world situations.
→ We aim to push the boundaries of this field by challenging contestants to develop cutting-edge, industry-level autonomous systems through self-supervised learning techniques
🌟 Up to $50,000 in prizes for each competition
- A total prize pool of up to $200,000! The Worldwide AI Hackathon will award 1st, 2nd, and 3rd place prizes for each contest.
🚀 Get funded and commercialize your winning products
- Receive funding and support from the AI community through the upcoming WowDAO decentralized autonomous organization and commercialize your winning products in the form of IP-NFTs. More details about the DAO will be provided.
🌟 Fully cover accommodation and travel costs for top winners representatives
- The organizers will fully cover the accommodation and travel costs for the top 3 winners representatives of each competition to attend the 2-day awarding ceremony in the US, where they will present their winning outputs to judges, mentors, enterprises, and a combined audience of 500+ offline attendees and 5000+ online attendees via our 3D conference platform.
💼 Job opportunities with tech giant corps
- Grab the opportunity to leverage your profile and get hired by our partner corporations.
🤝 Networking with incredible judges and mentors
- The top winners have chance to meet up with more than 30 tech giants and large corporations.
🏆 Get your AI innovations verified by AI thought leaders from tech giants
🛠️ Free access to an all-in-one supportive platform
- Kick off your AI projects with free access to our built-in tools from data crawling, auto-annotation, ML training environment, or code demo environment. The platform supports multiple frameworks.
🌟 Airdrop tokens of the Decentralized Autonomous Organization for AI community
- Join the first fully decentralized autonomous organization for the AI community and receive airdrop tokens. The hackathon is the first step in building this DAO. More details will be provided during the event.
🧑💼 Expert mentorship from diverse backgrounds
- Get support from our experienced mentors with not only new technologies or tech stacks, but also industry experience, business and insight, project management, marketing, and sales skills, to build a usable and potential project.
🚀 Accelerate your AI innovations incubate your AI innovations to a successful startup
✨ TIMELINE & MILESTONE (tentative)
⛳️ Registration period: Feb, 1st - Jun, 30th 2023
💪 Judging period: May, 1st - Aug, 30th 2023
🚀 Submission due date: Aug, 1st 2023
🏆 Final round: Sep, 20th-21st 2023
Please note that we encourage contestants to submit their products as soon as possible. Although the judging period begins in May, contestants may submit their products until the deadline in August.
🚀 SCORING CRITERIA
Each project will be evaluated on a scale of 0–10 for each criterion
| Scoring criteria | Details |
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| Innovation | Whether or not the technology or design breaks ground. The new project attacks a new problem and provides a good solution. |
| Functionality | Whether or not the outputs are fully functional- meet intentions (e.g. actually does what you say it is supposed to do) |
| Originality/creativity | Whether or not the product is unique from other products or ideas already implemented |
| Practical implementation | Whether or not the overall product is clear as how it was developed (framework, coding conventions, naming conventions), sustainable and affordable to implement in the near future. |
| Consistency with hackathon theme | Whether or not the product is related to the concept of the hackathon |
| Benefit to humanity | Whether or not the product can bring about definite social benefits |
✨ SUBMISSION CRITERIA
| Submission items | Details |
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| Video | Video to demo product (Recommend: 1 minute length) |
| Pitch deck | Pitch deck (up to 10 slides) |
| Codebase (Optional) | Provide a publically available GitHub/Gitlab or other code repository |
| Document (Optional) | Paper - maximum 8 pages & PDF format |
💻 HOW TO FORM A TEAM ???
After signing up at https://wow-ai.com/worldwideaihackathon/, find other participants and potential team members in the following ways:
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Step 1: Navigate to Competitions and select the ones you're most eager to take on
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Step 2: Form a team 🚀
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⛳️ If you want to form a new team: * Click Create a new team & Join this competition and go to "My Teams" to invite your team members.
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⛳️ If you want to join an existing team: * Ask your teammate to add your username or email to their "My Team" section * OR: Go to "Teams" and select the desired team → Request to join
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Please note: If you've already created a new team but want to join another one, go to "My Teams → Disband team" then follow the above-mentioned steps.
Or you can go to 🏅find-a-teammate channel on Discord and look for other participants and potential team members to join with you
✨ HOW CAN I FIND MY MENTOR?
Each team will be supported by at least one mentor and the Organizer assists in matching team(s) to the mentor based on the submission form and information that mentors provide us.
In case you wish to have more than 01 mentor, we provide you the following ways to approach our incredible mentors:
(1) 🏆 Go to Dashboard →Competitions → Mentors → Invite.
When you have their answers, you can officially invite them into your team in the platform or remove them by Going to My team → Member → Invite mentors/ Revoke
OR (2) 🏆 Go to 💪find-a-mentor channel on Discord and ask for help from our entire mentor community
