SAS Hackathon Awards Information
2025 Awards Ceremony
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2025 SAS Hackathon Award winners
2024 SAS Hackathon Award winners
The 2024 SAS Hackathon Grand Champion is Team Butterflies
The SAS Hackathon champion developed a tool to fight misinformation
Team Butterflies developed an AI-powered tool to help analysts and decision makers assess data sources for their reliability and credibility. The solution uses advanced natural language processing (NLP) and classification models to check the trustworthiness of open source data.
2024 SAS Hackathon Award winners
2025 Award Opportunities
To be a champion – that’s big-time bragging rights!
Extraordinary business cases will be recognized in the following categories:
Industry
- Banking
- Energy
- Health Care & Life Sciences
- Insurance
- IoT Cross Industry
- Public Sector
- Retail, Consumer Goods & Manufacturing
- Student
- Telecom
Technology
- Agentic AI/Decisioning
- Computer Vision
- Forecasting
- Models
- NLP (Natural Language Processing)
- SAS® Viya® Workbench
- Visualization
Specialty
- Channel Ready
- Data for Good
- Sustainability
- Trustworthy AI
- UX: Excellence in User Experience
Regional
- Americas
- EME-AP (Emerging Middle East-Asia Pacific)
- Europe
Overall Global Champion
- One team will be selected.
The SAS Hackathon provides participants with access to learning resources and unparalleled guidance from experts and hands-on experience with the latest technology at no cost. There’s no monetary prize. Teams own their IP (intellectual property) and can pursue commercialization.
Judging Criteria
What are the judges looking for?