Judging Criteria and Awards
What are the judges looking for?
Top honors and awards for 2023
Congrats to all the teams for sharing their innovative ideas and solutions to real-world challenges. With so many impressive hacks, choosing this year’s winners was tough.
A round of applause, please!
Industry
- Banking
Santander - Energy
The Insight-O-Meters - Health Care & Life Sciences
AI Generated Synthetic Data in Healthcare - Insurance
StaSASticians - Manufacturing
Notilyze - Public Sector
JaWaRA - Retail & Consumer Goods
Fair Factories Clearinghouse - Telecom
ML Jokers 2.2
Technology
- App Factory Cloud
The Insight-O-Meters - Computer Vision
Critical Thinking Crew - Decisioning
Linktera4Insurance
- Forecasting
algoWatt
- IoT
REDE - Machine Learning
JaWaRA
- Natural Language Processing
EPAM & Linktera4Good
- Visual Analytics
Butterflies
Specialty
- Channel Readiness
Fair Factories Clearinghouse
- Student & Young Talent
(⌐■_■) [Sunglasses] - Sustainability
The Insight-O-Meters - Trustworthy AI
IN STEP
Regional
- Asia Pacific
JaWaRA
- Americas
End Forced Labor - EMEA
EPAM & Linktera4Good
Missed the awards event?
It’s OK – you can watch it on demand. You’ll see SAS Hackathon 2023 highlights, hear from SAS leadership and learn about the winning teams.
The hackathon brought together global teams to collaborate March 15 through April 12 using SAS® open source on Microsoft Azure to develop innovative solutions to real-world problems.
Judging criteria
Problem
An algorithm or application that addresses an untapped gap in the industry of choice. The uniqueness and usability in a sustainable economy.
Solution
Is the solution clearly defined? Will it solve the problem? Is it viable?
Compelling Event
Are market trends and influences considered? Can this solution be considered captivating?
Key Metrics and Business Value
Is there a clear and straightforward value statement? Have success metrics been defined?
Technology
Has the application been demonstrated and proven to work? Teams need to showcase how SAS is used. For instance, the analytical lifecycle, technical components, code/program, models and visualization used. Is there potential after the hackathon? Will the model in production make an impact? Is there a scalable commercialization potential?
Innovation
Can the solution be considered novel and innovative? Will it be unique in the marketplace and from competitors?
Storytelling
Your team will also be evaluated on how your present your problem, solution and the value/benefits.
2024 award opportunities
To be a winning team – that’s big-time bragging rights!
Extraordinary business cases will be recognized in the following categories:
Tracks
- Banking
- Energy
- Health Care & Life Sciences
- Insurance
- IoT
- Manufacturing
- Public Sector
- Retail
- Telecom
Technology
- Computer Vision
- Decisioning
- Forecasting
- IoT Technology
- Machine Learning
- Natural Language Processing
- Visual Analytics
- Sustainability
- Trustworthy AI
Regional
- EMEA
- Americas
- Asia Pacific
Overall Global Winner
- One team will be selected.