Tracks
Make the world a better place
Each track was designed to best accommodate a hacker's interests with a variety of topics within each track.
Things you need to know:
- Teams were made up of people within an organization, an organization and a technology partner, or an individual looking to join a group.
- Join Hacker’s Hub, a special community designed for the Hackathon, on communities.sas.com (set up a profile). In this community, teams and mentors worked together, tackling problems worth solving.
See what the teams built together
Discover more than 60 use cases from our March hack. Watch video presentations and learn about their solutions to real-world.
Data for Good
There are complex global problems facing society today – problems we know analytics can solve. Use the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals as a guide to spark your curiosity. Select a Global Goal (choose from 1-16) you’re passionate about and develop a solution using analytics.
Evaluation criteria: An analytics prototype that advances one of the UN Sustainable Development Goals. You and your team will be creating a potentially viable solution.
Get inspired
Data for Good encourages using data in meaningful ways to solve humanitarian issues around poverty, health, human rights, education and the environment. Applying data for social good has led to new and creative ways to address global issues.
Protecting the Amazon rainforest.
Improving education.
Preserving endangered species.
Evolving treatments for cancer patients.
Responding to disaster relief.
Exposing inequalities.
How will your curiosity help humanity?
Your data science, analytics and storytelling skills can bring unique and valuable solutions to the most complex global problems. With your creativity and passion, we can build a better world together.
GatherIQ starts with you
GatherIQ is a Data for Good app from SAS that uses analytics to support the efforts of nonprofits, partners and a growing community of citizens curious about making a difference. GatherIQ introduces you to the 17 Global Goals set by the United Nations. The free app lets the next generation of problem solvers learn about the goals and take personal action to help achieve them.
Startups
Combine your big ideas and entrepreneurial spirit to create innovative and practical applications for the marketplace and society.
You get unparalleled access to experts – from SAS, Microsoft, Intel and cross-industry mentors with incubator experience – at no cost. Plus, you’ll have high visibility to venture capitalists from around the world!
Develop. Scale. Accelerate with confidence.
Great ideas are a good starting point – but a startup needs more than that to succeed. You’ve created something that people truly want and need. You know challenges are everywhere, and competition is fierce.
How can you significantly improve your startup’s chances for long-term success in the enterprise market? Through reliable data and analytics, startups are better equipped to overcome the common pitfalls.
Scalability
Productivity
Model Management
Lack of Skills and People
Access to Professional Support
Security and Governance
Your brilliant idea + A trusted partner = Endless opportunities
Partnership is key. You need trustworthy partners with market presence and an excellent reputation. As the industry leader in analytics, SAS provides the support startups need as they pursue sustainable growth and progress. Plus, our Hackathon partners bring a wealth of expertise – and they are ready to you develop your business. By innovating together, you reap the benefits!
Accelerated Time to Market
Focus on Core
Less Costs and Investments
Better Customer Experience
Enterprise Worthy, Scalable and Global
How the Hackathon works
Through the Hackathon, you will build the proof of concept (PoC), proof of value (PoV), minimum viable product (MVP) and your solution with the help of other hackers and experts using the power of SAS® and open source on Microsoft Azure.
Evaluation criteria: Each solution will be evaluated on the market potential, business value and technology creativity based on the Lean Canvas model.
The jury consists of venture capitalists from Huizen/Amsterdam, Stockholm, Singapore, São Paulo and San Francisco (locations for SAS Innovation Lab).
