We don't like online hackathons, so this is an in person event and it is required that every team member is present on sight for fairness.
In general a Hackathon is a social coding event that brings together computer programmers like software developers, graphic designers and user interface specialists along with industry process experts and professionals to identify issues and create software solutions within 24 hours.
Everybody is welcome and can apply. No matter if you are an entrepreneur, a professional or a student. You don’t have to be a programmer and you certainly don’t need to have a degree in Computer Science! Specifically, we are looking for hackers, coders, makers but also for innovators, engineers, creative people, designers, data geeks and startups. Because our challenges are not only limited to programming! We will nevertheless hand select the participants and tell you on October 17th latest if you are invited to participate.
Go ahead and visit the Hackathon page and book your place. Have another question that didn’t get answered here - send us an email or participate on our Discord Server Hackathon Community!
Learning new skills, looks good on your CV, networking, winning cash prizes, working as a team, meet great people, have great food and having fun!
There will be a technical check (for fairness) and an independent Jury selecting the winners with a rating system: (Creativity, innocation, impact, presentation). The additional prizes are selected by the technical team and/or by the organisers.
The jury composition will be announced closer to the date of the hackathon, they will be experts in their fields.
A team should be between 2-5 people, if you don’t have a team yet you can still apply because you will have the chance to join a team onsight.
FREE. Free for spectators. Free for participants.
We cannot give travel reimbursements, we are sorry.
You can sign up as an individual or as a team. If you sign up as an individual, the Tourism Technolgy Festival team will put you with a group beforehand and you can communicate on the Hackathon’s Discord Server Hackathon Community
Application is open to anyone over the age of 16, if you can participate will be decided by the tourism technology organisation team.
Yes, there will be.
Yes. No-code Tools are also welcome, anything that does the job.
Bring your laptops, mobile phones, Kinects, Leap Motions, wearable computing devices, to whatever inspires you or you want to work with. If you want to stay overnight a sleeping bag makes sense.
The environment at the Hackathon is designed specifically to encourage everyone to have fun and help each other. If you’re ever stuck on anything, speak to a Tourism Technology Festival team member who might be able to help. Team mates and other participants are on hand too, as this is a collaborative environment.
Dont worry - you will find your team right there. Beforehand the best way to get to know people is to set up a team atHackathon Community and see who is around.
Yes. Join: Hackathon Community There all our hackathon participants organise their team conversations and keep them private if needed.
Yes, food and beverages will be provided throughout the event - this is something we will spend our budget on! We are at the "Alles für den GAST" food fair, so we have prepared good dishes for us. If you feel hungry at any point you can also go onto the food fair and check if you can get some specialities from the companies on site (pls be respectful and friendly as they are there to make business and might not know about the hackathon.).
Contact us. Don’t be shy! We are here to help and create a great atmosphere.
Please check the agenda on the home page, small changes might occur.
The Hackathon will take place at "Alles für den GAST" Food Fair in Salzburg. The exact address is AM Messeplatz 1, 5200 Salzburg, Austria. You can travel to Salzburg by plane, train, blablacar. There are parking spotsd available if you come by car.
No, we want this hackathon to be an onsite event so remotely joining as well as working with a remote team is not allowed.
Yes, every team member should be present. If a team member cannot be present during the pitch or can only come later please tell us and we will find a way to manage! This is not an online event.
You will have to select your challenge, if you can combine challenges you can but you still get judged by the criteria for the single challenge.
We will send you additional information beforehand and contact you before the hackathon. Before you apply please make sure that you have time on the particular weekend and your colleagues have time as well. We will call you and check additional questions with you if necessary. More information on our Discord Server: Hackathon Community
We will provide additional information about the use cases directly at the hackathon event to ensure fairness, so preparation is not necessary. If you are a startup working on that particular use case you are very welcome to join, but still you have to create all the code and system at the hackathon, the presentation of something you have already done is not the idea.
The team that develops the project is the owner of the intellectual property and project. We do encourage making the code open source or sharing of code with others in the community, but it is not required to participate in the event. Before the Presentations our technical team will do a quick technical check to make sure that you created your project at the hackathon. You are allowed to use open source libraries, your own libraries etc. to develop your solution!
If you don’t want to distribute your code base that is ok, if you don’t want to present your project, then a hackathon might not be the ideal place for you to work on that idea. We will take photos at the event and you will sign a document that allows us to use those pictures for social media and the web. So if you don’t want to be on any pictures please tell us beforehand!
It is a bummer if you cancel before and you will cause us a lot of work, but there are many reasons why cancellation can happen. So please apply only if you are certain that you want to participate and be committed to come to save us a lot of work!
You can sleep on sight, it will be semi comfortable but if you are a flexibler sleeper it will be fine. It is a hackathon, so when you need your own bathroom you need to book a hostel, hotel or airbnb at your own cost.
Details of the business problem will be announced on the day of the event.
You can use any software, provided these are declared in the presentation and are being used lawfully i.e. under licence.
You can find our Code of Conduct here: Code of Conduct
Please and us the question and we will update this list so that everybody profits from the answer. You can use the Discord Server for that: Hackathon Community