FLXathon  2020

FLXathon 2020

This is a hackathon that will be running in the leadup to next year's Front Line Experience (FLX2020).  Sourcing creative and reusable demo assets for use during 2020, this is your opportunity to showcase your ideas with both your peers and for our customers.

The winning team from each category will present their demo on Day 2 at FLX in Singapore.

Categories

Teams are to select a project from one of the following categories:

• Customer Experience – Using CI360 create a new approach or improve on an existing approach which would enhance a customer’s experience
• Open and Operationalisation – Using Python, R or SAS Viya, create a model which solves a business problem, and operationalize it using SAS technologies with modern techniques, typically used by IT.  
• Decisioning – Using an analytical approach create a real time decision making application which utilized SAS …. on Viya plus any other additional components required.  The decision should be analytically driven.
• Solutions – SAS solutions solve many business problems today. Using a SAS solution, such as fraud, solve a new use case that is not commonly solved by that solution as yet. 

 

High Level Judging Criteria

Entries will be judged on the following criteria, with details to be provided upon entry:

1. Business Value
2. Innovation
3. Collateral
4. Portability
5. Collaboration

The four finalist teams will then proceed to the final round in Singapore on the 19th January 2020. As a finalist team, you will be required to pitch your project to a panel of 5 to 8 SAS executives. 

Team Details:                 

• Must contain at least one member from Customer Advisory
• Maximum of 3 members
• FLXathon is open to SAS AP employees only.
• A brief (one paragraph) description of the demo is required upon entry (* this can be edited once before the initial submission date).

Development Infrastructure Options

The team may chose between any of the following (keeping in mind portability judging criteria):

i.  Try before you Buy 
ii.  RACE
iii. AFT boxes (subject to host country approval)
iv. Work issued laptops
v.  Strictly no external cloud hosting is allowed (to manage costs & ensure a level playing field)

Key Dates:         

• 24 Nov 2019: Team Entry Closing                      
  
• 5 Jan 2020: Final submission of projects. Further details will be provided during the course of the FLXathon.
  
• 10 Jan 2020: Finalist for each category will be announced
• 19 Jan 2020: Final judging to take place in Singapore