We are seeking innovative minds to unlock hidden opportunities within and beyond our logistics operations.

This challenge calls for ingenious solutions that harness the potential of data analytics to:

• Reduce empty truck trips both internal and cross-industry: Reimagine the logistics landscape and identify synergy and collaboration opportunities between our operations but also with other industries. Use data-driven insights to come up with ideas that minimize empty trips, reduce costs, and maximize resource utilization.

• Lead the Green Revolution: Holcim is committed to reducing CO2 emissions and your innovation could be the key. Develop forward-thinking solutions that lower the environmental impact of transportation demonstrating industry leadership.

• Supercharge negotiation power: Empower Holcim to negotiate optimized rates by leveraging data-driven intelligence. Craft strategies that align with market dynamics and operational realities to strike win-win deals with transport partners.

We invite you to harness the boundless potential of Artificial Intelligence (AI) to empower sustainable consumer decisions. Our goal is to develop pioneering technological solutions that guide consumers towards more sustainable choices while shopping for products and planning their journeys. While our primary focus is on reducing the ecological footprint, we also welcome integration of other sustainability values like animal welfare and ethical sourcing. Participants are encouraged to leverage Machine Learning, Natural Language Processing (NLP), Recommender Systems, and data analysis to create intuitive and user-friendly platforms or applications.

Your mission is to build a crawler to analyze data autonomously. The scanner has to navigate through file systems, deciphering text, images, and potentially other file types to identify personal identification numbers, financial records, and other information that is concealed within the digital labyrinth and flag sensitive and suspicious content. During the challenge, we will provide an environment with a file system where you put your crawler to the test and compare it with other solutions.

Background

With the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) of the EU coming into effect, banks face the challenge to ensure compliance. Also, in case of any data leak we want to be able to assess the leaked data as fast as possible. Aside of defining new data guidelines, Julius Baer strives for a more proactive approach that involves a file crawler that scans documents for sensitive data.

Interested? - Then join our competition and impress us with your creative solutions.

Imagine which new experiences you could unlock if you could forge intelligent connections among devices by intertwining web services and harnessing the power of AI within Logitech Options+. This SW is not just a utility; it's a gateway to heightened awareness, better security, and effortless workflow.

This is your opportunity to reimagine the fabric of daily routines, as AI becomes a dynamic ally accessible at the tap of a button. Embrace the potential of AI to streamline, enhance, and amplify the activities the users engage in routinely, Make their life easier, more connected, more aware. Imagine the future.

Some Examples:

• Make ChatGPT my best friend: harness the power of AI to support new experiences.

• Develop new plugins that are bringing more security and flow in our daily usage of the computer

• Easy way to track/report time and activities for a freelancer

• Measure and calculate the CO2 impact of each activity

• Harness the power of a webservice with a simple interaction in front of a camera

• Let’s imagine a faster way to get the image you want for your presentation

• Leverage the webcam image to create AI-based personalized images or videos

• Use yourself or an object into your AI creation

AI's power to process vast amounts of data and decipher patterns is reshaping the trading industry. Optiver, a leading global market maker, is at the cutting edge of this change, using AI and language models to deepen market insights. By harnessing these technologies, we improve the accessibility and pricing of financial products, aligning with our mission to foster transparent and efficient markets.

In this challenge, you'll engage in an exploration of AI's potential by immersing yourself into Optibook, Optiver's cutting-edge simulated market exchange. Here, you’ll compete against other participants and bots to experience the full complexity of trading in a risk-free environment that mirrors realistic market dynamics. Optibook is your gateway to unlock your creativity, trade directly with fellow participants, and craft your own automated trading strategies.

Your mission will be to analyze simulated social media feeds using a language model, to uncover sentiments about stocks. With the insights gained, you'll craft a unique and innovative market-making strategy that capitalizes on these sentiments.

Whether identifying the stocks involved, determining sentiment polarity, or quantifying its impact, your actions on Optibook will be driven by creative thinking and strategic planning.

This challenge offers a valuable glimpse into how technology and ingenuity are combined in today's trading world to foster transparent and efficient markets.

Delve deep into our Swiss Road Sensor Hackathon via an enlightening workshop that illuminates the journey ahead, beyond just an introduction. This session will:

• Demystify Data: Dive into our month-long, minute-by-minute Swiss road sensor data. We'll clarify the data structure and guide you on effectively navigating and leveraging this trove.

• Techniques Unveiled: Learn how to efficiently navigate and select vital data for impactful analysis.

• Wisdom from Lukas Ambühl: Meet Lukas of Transcality and ETH Zurich. Discover Transcality’s journey, gain insights on traffic prediction, and have a direct Q&A with Lukas.

Why Join?

• Prep for Success: Familiarize yourself with the data for a solid hackathon start.

• Insider Advantage: Lukas’s insights might be your key to victory.

• Network & Collaborate: Connect with potential teammates or mentors.

In essence, this workshop offers a blend of expert insights and hands-on guidance. Whether you're a beginner or an expert, you'll find value here.

Join us in our journey towards digitization of rail transport by bridging the gap between physical and digital realms.

You will gain access to a comprehensive set of resources, including videos, 3D scans, and an API that provides real-time updates on the status of a Swiss railway shunting yard.

Your mission is to harness and combine the power of these data sources to come up with the next innovation in yard management.

Be it cutting-edge AR/VR technology for innovative and dynamic visualizations, new approaches to preventive maintenance, leveraging AI, or whatever you come up with.

Support our shunting personnel and technicians by enhancing their situational awareness, helping them make informed decisions, and ensure smooth and safe operations.

We’re looking forward to working with you at HackZurich 2023 to further elevate the safety and efficiency of the railway system!

For further information please have a look at: https://hackzurich.siemens.cool

As social and economic life is increasingly digitalized, Digital Diplomacy tools and capabilities must be enhanced, prioritized, and matured to help international subjects pursue foreign policy goals, foster multilateralism and achieve Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Join our first challenge to provide an innovative solution for a Digital Diplomacy Voting Platform that can be used promote the use of secure data for gaining consensus on any given agenda.

Our second challenge is to provide an innovative blockchain platform for a tamper-proof Educational Exchange of qualifications that can be maintained by UN in partnership with governments and academia to bridge education gap and improve access to quality education, using DID technology and tokenisation of documents.

Discussions with Sika's internal and external stakeholders revealed that specific data/information in the company's social intranet (Sika World) couldn't be found easily. This applies especially to method statements, PDS, products, reports, contacts, and other information.

The growing organizational structure and inevitable communication gaps urge the need to improve knowledge transfer and break-up or organizational silos. Similarly, the rapid growth of Sika makes it very difficult for sales and technical teams to know and promote all products from the different ranges of applications. Sika has initiated various data-collecting initiatives; however, data platforms must be fully stream-lined, analyzed, and monetized.

Sika aims to establish a corporate knowledge management. The purpose is to find, digest and serve information internally and potentially externally.

Now join us in designing a holistic and interactive platform connecting and synchronizing Sika's knowledge (raw data, documents, etc.) to enable communication and fast data extraction for internal and external users. Your solution should suggest answers based on customer requirements, providing product information, application methods, costs, purchase platform, contacts, and other information.

For further information check: www.sika.com/hackzurich

We invite you to harness the boundless potential of Artificial Intelligence (AI) to empower sustainable consumer decisions. Our goal is to develop pioneering technological solutions that guide consumers towards more sustainable choices while shopping for products and planning their journeys. While our primary focus is on reducing the ecological footprint, we also welcome integration of other sustainability values like animal welfare and ethical sourcing. Participants are encouraged to leverage Machine Learning, Natural Language Processing (NLP), Recommender Systems, and data analysis to create intuitive and user-friendly platforms or applications.

Any end consumer should be capable of checking the origin, originality of any NFT or Token with one tool that is easy to use and can summarize all key details around origin, purpose, issuer, and other related on-chain data. Join this first challenge to develop an easy-to-use tool for any end user without deep blockchain knowledge, combining various chain information sources and publicly available market players.

The second challenge is to find a solution to data scattered in different blockchain solutions: Build an Oracle that can live on any blockchain and can feed any smart contract with data coming from another blockchain, specifically for the use cases of getting data certified on another blockchain and recording post-sales product service into product token.

This year's challenge is all about innovation and revolutionising the insurance industry. Join us to co-create solutions and platforms using GenAI, making insurance more accessible and customer-friendly. Whether you're a customer looking for easy-to-understand policy information or a technical expert interested in automatic anonymisation of documents, we have a challenge for you. Let's work together to create the future of insurance.

How to provide an automated and adjustable cross-border Legal Risk Reporting & Analysis System which ensures the confidentiality of the cases, the direct links to accounting systems, a case lifecycle management, and a flexible central dashboard?   

Considering the different stakeholders and respective sources, the decentralised conduct of litigations in various jurisdictions and the ongoing proceedings, it is a current challenge for Implenia to pro-actively, accurately and regularly report all litigation proceedings resulting from various disputes on Group level.  

Take on the challenge and create an easy-to-use Legal Risk Reporting & Analysis System that collects available core data, ensures both data quality and respective data maintenance, while providing regular updated and customisable reports for all management levels.   

More information: https://implenia.com/hack-zurich-2023/

We are looking forward to working with you and discovering the smart solutions you come up with.

Thank you already!