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SAS Hackathon Awards

Your idea could be the next award-winning solution at SAS Hackathon. See this year's award opportunities, learn what the judges are looking for and get inspired by past winners.

2026 Award Opportunities

Extraordinary business cases will be recognized in the following categories:

Industry

  • Cross-Industry
  • Financial Services
  • Health Care & Life Sciences
  • Public Sector

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 and can pursue commercialization.

Judging Criteria

What are the judges looking for?

Problem

Does the algorithm or application address an untapped gap in the industry of choice? What is its smartness and usability in relation to a sustainable economy?

Solution

Are the solutions clearly defined, and will these solve the problem?

Compelling Event

Are market trends/influences considered, and can this solution be considered compelling?

Key Metrics and Business Value

Is there a clear and simple value statement? Have success metrics been defined? What do those look like?

Technology

Has the application been demonstrated and proven to work? Teams need to showcase how SAS has been used. Consider the analytics lifecycle, technical components, code/program, model used and visualization done.

Impact and Future Potential

Potential after Hackathon: Will the model in production make an impact? Or is there scalable commercialization potential?

Innovation Level

Can the solution be considered as truly innovative, and does it stand out from available solutions in the market and market competitors?

Presentation Pitch

How compelling are the presentation and pitch: Tell the story of the problem, value, benefits and message for the solution.

2025 SAS Hackathon Champions

AIA SQUAD, Peru
Public Sector

BlocKCUbe, South Korea
Region: EME-AP

Cary NC, US
IoT Cross Industry

Change Bringers, US, India & Hong Kong
Region: Americas

Consortix – AURORA, Hungary
Banking
Agentic AI/Decisioning
Trustworthy AI
Hack Slam Champion

Decathon, Malaysia
Energy

Delphi, Greece
Insurance

DementAI, UK
Overall Grand Champion
Health Care & Life Sciences
Models
Data for Good
Hack Slam Champion

Finext & Oakland University, Netherlands & US
SAS® Viya® Workbench
Sustainability

Minority Reporters, Italy
Region: Europe
Natural Language Processing (NLP)

OTSI-SAS, India
Computer Vision

PC Cake, Canada
Retail, Consumer Goods & Manufacturing

Ratio Team, Italy
UX: Excellence in User Experience

SASDataScout, Italy
Visualization

Super SAIJAN (Smart Artificial Intelligence for JAkartaNs), Indonesia
Channel Readiness

TMO-FCRM, US 
Telecom

Woodpecker Agents, Singapore
Forecasting

2024 SAS Hackathon Champions

2024 SAS Hackathon Champions

AbuSearch, UK
Data For Good

Advanced Analytics TEF Vivo, Brazil
Telecom & Media

Avalanche, Turkey
Computer Vision

Benjamin & Joseph (Benjo), Singapore
Decisioning

Butterflies, UK
Overall Grand Champion
Models
Channel Readiness
Trustworthy AI
Region: EMEA

Cleaner Commutes, Netherlands
Sustainability

Climate change and challenges to nuclear plant safety – IAEA, US & Italy
Energy

Council Insights Heidelberg, Germany
Natural Language Processing (NLP)
Visualization

Data Ninjas, UK
Student: Ethical Data Analysis

Datacurate, India
Forecasting

EY for Better World, Canada
People’s Choice

Impostor, Indonesia
People’s Choice

INNOVA-TSN, Colombia, Mexico & Spain
People’s Choice

NEAR Exergame, Malaysia
Health Care
Emerging Talent

Nupeak Neurons, India
Region: Asia Pacific

ORSOL, US
Student: Data For Good

Raffles Vietnam, Vietnam
Banking

Ratio Team, Italy
Life Sciences

StaSASticians, US
Insurance
IoT Cross Industry
Region: Americas

Supply Chain Resource Cooperative NCSU, US
Retail, Consumer Goods & Manufacturing

Team Only Planet 2120, Netherlands
Public Sector

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