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APAC VIRTUAL HACKATHON

#DigitalDefence Hack

Finding innovative solutions to bolster APAC's digital security practices and capabilities

CONGRATULATIONS TO OUR WINNERS!

Winner : Team Black Cap

Finalist : Team The Seekers

Finalist : Team Identity Crisis

Finalist : Team DineDetect

Finalist : Team Tardis

ENTER THE COMPETITION: Digital Security Hackathon

Select from THREE categories

The hackathon itself will be a 48 hour process from 20 November – 22 November, to ideate and deploy a solution under three categories. All submitted projects will need to incorporate or make a reference to least one dataset, article or infographic, that will be published closer to the date.

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ANOMALY DETECTION

Anomaly detection is the process of identifying unexpected items or events in data sets, which differ from the norm. This process can help address problems such as strange bank account transactions, unusual fraud activity, and business risks. Can you build a system to detect anomalies in a dataset?

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DEEPFAKES

Deepfakes are fake videos or audio recordings that look and sound just like the real thing. While still in its infancy, prevalence of this technology is increasingly used for identity impersonation and fraud. Can you build a detection and tracing tool to identify deepfakes?

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CYBER SECURITY & EXPLOITS

Cyber security hygiene can help stem the loss of data and business systems from hacking and exploits. Increasingly, poorly defended computer system vulnerabilities are taken advantage of by malware, ransomware and other exploits. Can you build a cyber security hygiene or exploit mitigation application?

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PROUDLY SUPPORTED BY:

PRE-EVENT: Vote on the Project Showcase​

Interested to see some amazing digital or cyber security projects showcased to the world? Voting for the global showcase submissions for the #DigitalDefence Showcase is now OPEN! All projects will go into the running to win awesome prizes (cash and in-kind from a pool of $15,000AUD) from our amazing partners.

25 lucky voters will also score a data science book prize back worth of $250!
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INTRODUCING A NEW HACKERSPACE EXPERIENCE

The new hackerspace is an all-in-one dashboard for competitors to easily access the required documents, videos, resources and team making function to compete.

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USERFLOW CHECKLIST

A intuititive self-paced checklist walking you through the major processes in forming a team, ideating and submitting a successful solution.

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24/7 RESOURCE CENTRE

A new collection of short videos, templates, and resources to help you through the hackathon process, its challenges, and using the Slack space.

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OPEN ANNOUNCEMENTS

All key hackathon announcements are open and available from DAY 1 with helpful summaries provided straight to your dashboard!

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DATASETS & TECHNOLOGIES​

Score some FREE credits from our sponsor's cloud and development technologies: paired up with wicked recommended or self-sourced datasets.

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POST HACK GUIDE

Want to take your hackathon solution to market? All participants will score A FREE post-hack guide which will outline potential pathways to commercial success.

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HACKMAKER'S SLACK CHANNEL

A new and improved Slackbot experience with cleaner channels targeted to your region and organizations.

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WORKSHOPS

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All event times are in Australian eastern standard time (AEST)

18/11 – Wednesday

from Oracle. How Oracle is supporting the event with experts and technology

with an overview of programs and certification – Steve Elbourn ITIC Systems

19/11 – Thursday

from Oracle. How Oracle is supporting the event with experts and technology

with an overview of programs and certification – Steve Elbourn ITIC Systems

20/11 – Friday

from Oracle. How Oracle is supporting the event with experts and technology

with an overview of programs and certification – Steve Elbourn ITIC Systems

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COMMUNITY PARTNERS

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CHALLENGE JUDGES & SPEAKERS

Digital security is not a one size fits all set up. There’s no one-stop shop or fixed formula that will solve everything. Cybercrime is continually evolving to disrupt security measures, so your business and methods of prevention should continually evolve as well. Prioritize security, hire the best people, and do not stop learning.

 

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Steve Nouri

Head of Data Science AI,

ACS

Organisations of all sizes and across all industries face a huge array of challenges around securing the critical data that underpins the way they operate. It’s key for these organisations to protect, open up, and to do more with data. Our goal is to support citizen data scientists, and bring together cloud technologies in creative and innovative ways to solve some of the key problems being faced.

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Cherie Ryan​

Vice President and Regional Managing Director, Oracle ANZ​

Organisations of all sizes and across all industries face a huge array of challenges around securing the critical data that underpins the way they operate. It’s key for these organisations to protect, open up, and to do more with data. Our goal is to support citizen data scientists, and bring together cloud technologies in creative and innovative ways to solve some of the key problems being faced.

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Ian Oppermann​

Chief Data Scientist, NSW Government​

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  • What happens after I register?
    ​Once you have registered, you will have access to our dashboard. The resources and Slack space will come online very soon, closer to the hackathon date!​
  • What is this hackathon about?
    This hackathon will be aimed at utilising data science and AI to gain meaningful and actionable insights as nations emerge from lockdowns and stay-at-home orders due to COVID-19. A hackathon (hack = solving a complex problem) (athon = marathon) is an intense sprint-style experience in which software developers, interface designers, technologists and product experts come together to rapidly develop software or hardware projects.
  • What support is available during the event?
    HackMakers will organise, lead mentors, and mentors with hackathon experience will facilitate teams to maximise their experience. This includes helping match participants to team and skills, debug code, ideate, introduce to the resources and tools, and effectively present their solution.
  • Rules & Guidelines
    This document will explain the eligibility, assessment crtieria, submission types and inventor ownership rights of this hackathon.
  • How do I generate an idea?
    Most people don’t have an idea before they get to the event. But once you join the event, review the challenges and start talking to other people, you might come up with something. You can also work with somebody else on their idea if you like it.​
  • How are teams formed?
    Individuals discuss ideas, share their abilities and skills, then join an existing team or find people in the platform channels to build a new one. In previous event, some successful teams voting on their favourite challenge problem, generate potential solutions and tested these before picking the best option to take forward. ​ If you don’t have a team, mentors or organisers will be on hand to assist matching.
  • Thursday, April 15
    19:00 AEST - Hackmakers Participant Inductions This session is an introduction to participants to effectively compete in a Hackmakers hackathon. We will go through the roles and expectations, time commitment, Slack software and other tips for reaching out and assisting teams. These documents are advised to be reviewed prior to this session, with a apportioned time Q and A. Itinerary of the event Mentor video overview Rules and hackathon processes Using Slack Mentor user guide Team charter guide Judge's Guide Our team look forward to catching up with all the registered participants. 20:00 AEST - Hackmakers Mentor Inductions This session is an introduction to mentors to effectively compete in a Hackmakers hackathon. We will go through the roles and expectations, time commitment, Slack software and other tips for reaching out and assisting teams. These documents are advised to be reviewed prior to this session, followed by Q and A. Itinerary of the event Mentor video overview Rules and hackathon processes Using Slack Mentor user guide Team charter guide Judge's Guide Our team look forward to catching up with all the registered mentors. 21:00 AEST - Storytelling and Pitching The difference between a good solution and great solution could be as simple as how you convey your story in your pitch. Learn about the art of storytelling and pitching at this QUT BANDS session. 21:30 AEST - Soft skills in IT Tech skills in IT are important. As businesses mature in their use of digital, soft skills in IT are more relevant and critical. Learn about these softer skills in this QUT BANDS session.
  • Monday, April 12
    21:00 AEST - Group Mentoring with Peter Laurie There are definite challenges in working this in kind of environment. Learn ways to get the best experience out of this event. This is a MUST for everyone participating as you can always learn something new. This is a live only session.
  • Tuesday, April 13
    20:00 AEST - Best Practices for Learning and Teaching Python Presented by: Santiago Basulto (INE) Description: Python has become the standard language in IT: CyberSecurity, Data Science, Networking and Systems Programming all depend on Python to work. In this workshop, we’ll explore the current state of the industry and how Python plays a fundamental role in it, and how training companies including INE are learning and teaching it effectively. 21:00 AEST -Discovering insights with Oracle Cloud There are different methods to discover insights - from ML to visualisation. Learn about how to discover these insights with Oracle Cloud with Saurabh Gupta (Oracle ACE). The discussion will also include "Even though we have these insights, should we?" 21:30 AEST - How to make an impact How do you make an impact? How do we know that what we build is impactful? How do we know the impact we make is a good one? Learn more about making an impact in this session with UQ Ventures.
  • Friday, 16 April
    21:30 AEST- Opening Ceremony The largest ever World Innovation Day hackathon will commence at 21:30 AEDT! Join thousands of hackers, hundreds of mentors and the largest suite of sponsoring tech companies in the world for the #WorldInnovationDay Hack of 2021. 22:30 AEST - Speed Meet & Greet Session This will be the first of two speed meet and greet sessions run by Hackmakers, to organise participants into teams, and for mentors to meet teams. The agenda is as follows: Hackmakers Introductions Team Charter Guide Participant and Mentor introductions Breakout Rooms Q and A Conclusion
  • Wednesday, April 14
    19:00 AEST - Coming up with your hackathon idea The first step in a hackathon is to come up with the idea you are going to work on. This is often easier said than done. with some teams not being able to finalise their idea until the last day of the hackathon, leaving them little time to work on other things. Find out what are the key thing to consider in an idea, and also how best to validate and ensure the idea works. 21:00 AEST - Using Open-Source on Oracle Cloud Learning technology normally starts with what is free or Open-Source. Learn about using Open-Source Software on Oracle Cloud and see how you can start learning. 21:30 AEST - Execute faster with Autonomous Database Installing different tech stack for different datastores takes time. Learn about the ways that you can use Autonomous Database for different use-cases like low-code, graph, ML, JSON, REST-APIs and spatial.
  • How are teams formed?
    Individuals discuss ideas, share their abilities and skills, then join an existing team or find people in the platform channels to build a new one. In previous event, some successful teams voting on their favourite challenge problem, generate potential solutions and tested these before picking the best option to take forward. ​ If you don’t have a team, mentors or organisers will be on hand to assist matching.
  • What happens after I register?
    Once you have registered, you will have access to our dashboard. The resources and Slack space will come online very soon, closer to the hackathon date!
  • What are the times and dates?
    There are two phases to this hackathon. The first phase involves potentially showcasing your work and upvoting other awesome ideas that were developed in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Submissions will be due by 23:59, Friday 24 June, and be voted on both by the community and a panel of data science experts. The second phase involves the hackathon. After you sign up you will be invited via email to our event online collaborative space. The virtual hackathon begins 19:00 Friday, 24th July AEST and concludes 19:00 Monday, 27th July.
  • What support is available during the event?
    HackMakers will organise, lead mentors, and mentors with hackathon experience will facilitate teams to maximise their experience. This includes helping match participants to team and skills, debug code, ideate, introduce to the resources and tools, and effectively present their solution.
  • What is this hackathon about?
    This hackathon will be aimed at utilising data science and AI to gain meaningful and actionable insights as nations emerge from lockdowns and stay-at-home orders due to COVID-19. A hackathon (hack = solving a complex problem) (athon = marathon) is an intense sprint-style experience in which software developers, interface designers, technologists and product experts come together to rapidly develop software or hardware projects.
  • How do I generate an idea?
    Most people don’t have an idea before they get to the event. But once you join the event, review the challenges and start talking to other people, you might come up with something. You can also work with somebody else on their idea if you like it.
  • I'm a recruiter looking for top tech talent! How can I get involved and discover?
    We will be opening up a special channel for recruiters to be able to meet individual competitors and finalist teams. Please find the attached pitch deck, and register your expression of interest in this form: https://forms.gle/SKiT2PZjUdfNePgi6
  • Thursday, 3rd June
    6pm: #Smartcities Hack Participant Induction Presented by: Daniel Thomas (Hackmakers). This session is an introduction to participants to effectively compete in a Hackmakers hackathon. We will go through the roles and expectations, time commitment, Slack software and other tips for reaching out and assisting teams. These documents are advised to be reviewed prior to this session, followed by Q and A. Itinerary of the induction Participant video overview Using Slack Participant user guide Software Guide 7pm: #SmartCities Hack Mentor Induction Presented by: Janson Lim (Hackmakers). This session is an introduction to mentors to effectively compete in a Hackmakers hackathon. We will go through the roles and expectations, time commitment, Slack software and other tips for reaching out and assisting teams. These documents are advised to be reviewed prior to this session, followed by Q and A.
  • Monday, 31st May
    5pm: In Conversation with Tarun on What Data Management in Cloud meant for Smart Cities As Mega Cities tackle the urbanization challenge, the need to use Data effectively to make decisions becomes supremely important. In this conversation, we will explore how Oracle's data management platform in the cloud can help analyze Data at Speed to create Smart Cities and citizen centric solutions 6pm: Build Mobile and Progressive Web Apps using Low Code PWA or Progressive Web Applications have been there for some time, however in the last few years the popularity has grown as the capabilities have been improved tremendously. Large technology companies have acknowledged this (Google, Microsoft). In this session we will talk about the benefits and challenges implementing PWA’s and will show case how PWA’s can be built easily on Oracle’s low code development tool, Visual Builder Studio. You will learn how to get started with Visual Builder Studio, by provisioning an instance and building your first Mobile Progressive Web Application. Further, we will showcase how you can use the same tool and code to build Device Native Mobile apps. Key take always You will understand how Visual Builder Studio can help you to build Mobile PWA apps in less time and with less effort.
  • Wednesday 2nd June
    5pm: Getting Started with Accelerated Data Science SDK The Accelerated Data Science SDK is an Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Data Science and Machine learning SDK that data scientists can use for the entire lifecycle of their workflows. The session is to enable developer to getting started using Accelerated Data Science SDK. a. Accelerated Data Science SDK Overview b. Provisioning Accelerated Data Science SDK c. Using Accelerated Data Science SDK 6pm: Fireside Chat on Data Analytics Moderators Marek Winiarski and Jayaram Krishnamachar Guest Speakers: a) Vasant Vacharapinyo, Vice President, A-HOST Company Limited b) Kartiwan Johanes, Director, PT. Metrodata Electronics Tbk c) Sudipta Ghosh, Partner, PwC India d) Mark Simpson, Sales Director, DXC Red Rock e) Mitesh Patel, Regional Manager (Innovation), Evosys
  • Previous Workshops - Recordings
    Watch the Workshops Smart Cities Panel Discussion Building Low Code Applications to Solve Real World Problems with Rodney Sowirono Integrate & Access Data from Popular SaaS & Data Sources with Ivan Ma - MySQL Principal Solution Engineer Build, Observe and Manage Open Source Applications with Kwan Wan - Cloud Specialist Director, Application Development Getting Started on MySQL Database with Ivan Ma - MySQL Principal Solution Engineer Making our Cities Smart, Resilient and Sustainablewith Francis Han - Senior Director, JAPAC Solution Center Building Next Generation Conversational Interfaces with a Digital Assistant with Barry Hiern - Director, Product Management, Digital Assistant & AI
  • Friday, 4 June
    7:30pm: #Smartcities Hack Opening Ceremony APAC's largest ever smart cities hackathon will commence at 5:00pm IST / 7:30pm SGT / 9:30pm AEDT! Join thousands of hackers, hundreds of mentors and the largest suite of sponsoring tech companies in the world for the #Smartcities​ Hack of 2021. Smartcity technology can help cities operate more efficiently while improving services to citizens and businesses, among many other benefits. There has never been a better time for participants to innovate and join the smart city revolution sweeping the globe. Thank you to our sponsors and community partners for making this a reality: 👉 Lead Sponsor: Oracle 👉 Premium sponsors: Slack, Spotlit AI 👉 Community Partners: Oracle Partner Network, Hackmakers Partner Network, NASSCOM, OpenSpotlit, NSW Government 8:30pm: Speed Meet & Greet Session (Session 1) This will be the first of two speed teaming sessions run by Hackmakers, to organise participants into teams, and for mentors to meet teams. The agenda is as follows: Hackmakers Introductions Participant and Mentor introductions Team Charter Guide Review 7:30pm: #Smartcities Hack Opening Ceremony APAC's largest ever smart cities hackathon will commence at 5:00pm IST / 7:30pm SGT / 9:30pm AEDT! Join thousands of hackers, hundreds of mentors and the largest suite of sponsoring tech companies in the world for the #Smartcities​ Hack of 2021. Smartcity technology can help cities operate more efficiently while improving services to citizens and businesses, among many other benefits. There has never been a better time for participants to innovate and join the smart city revolution sweeping the globe. Thank you to our sponsors and community partners for making this a reality: 👉 Lead Sponsor: Oracle 👉 Premium sponsors: Slack, Spotlit AI 👉 Community Partners: Oracle Partner Network, Hackmakers Partner Network, NASSCOM, OpenSpotlit, NSW Government
  • Tuesday, 1st June
    5pm: Announcing New Oracle Analytics Cloud Innovations We will share highlights and updates on innovative new capabilities with Oracle Analytics that put the power of advanced analytics within reach of all employees, for all use cases, and all data. Highlights will include: a. Demos of select innovative capabilities in Oracle Analytics Cloud that improve user experiences and automate and simplify complex analytics b. Customer video testimonials that showcase the value of the analytics platform c. An overview of how OAC powers the entire analytics pipeline, from connecting to data sources, transforming and preparing the data, modeling the data with relationships, hierarchies and metrics, exploring the data to find insights, and sharing and consuming insights 6pm: Getting Started to MySQL HeatWave for Analytics HeatWave is high performance analytics engine for MySQL on OCI as managed service. The session is to enable developer to get start using HeatWave. a. MySQL HeatWave Overview b. Provisioning HeatWave c. Using HeatWave 6pm: Getting Started to MySQL HeatWave for Analytics Oracle Machine Learning accelerates the creation and deployment of machine learning models for data scientists by eliminating the need to move data to dedicated machine learning systems. AutoML User Interface provides you no-code automated machine learning and automatically performs algorithm and feature selection, as well as model tuning and selection, thereby enhancing productivity as well as model accuracy and performance. The session is to enable developer to getting started using OML AutoML. a. Access AutoML UI Overview b. Create AutoML UI Experiment c. View an Experiment
  • How are teams formed?
    Individuals discuss ideas, share their abilities and skills, then join an existing team or find people in the platform channels to build a new one. In previous event, some successful teams voting on their favourite challenge problem, generate potential solutions and tested these before picking the best option to take forward. ​ If you don’t have a team, mentors or organisers will be on hand to assist matching.
  • How do I generate an idea?
    Most people don’t have an idea before they get to the event. But once you join the event, review the challenges and start talking to other people, you might come up with something. You can also work with somebody else on their idea if you like it.
  • What is this hackathon about?
    This hackathon will be aimed at utilising data science and AI to gain meaningful and actionable insights as nations emerge from lockdowns and stay-at-home orders due to COVID-19. A hackathon (hack = solving a complex problem) (athon = marathon) is an intense sprint-style experience in which software developers, interface designers, technologists and product experts come together to rapidly develop software or hardware projects.
  • What happens after I register?
    Once you have registered, you will have access to our dashboard. The resources and Slack space will come online very soon, closer to the hackathon date!
  • What support is available during the event?
    HackMakers will organise, lead mentors, and mentors with hackathon experience will facilitate teams to maximise their experience. This includes helping match participants to team and skills, debug code, ideate, introduce to the resources and tools, and effectively present their solution.
  • I'm a recruiter looking for top tech talent! How can I get involved and discover ?
    We will be opening up a special channel for recruiters to be able to meet individual competitors and finalist teams. Please find the attached pitch deck, and register your expression of interest in this form: https://forms.gle/SKiT2PZjUdfNePgi6
  • What are the times and dates?
    There are two phases to this hackathon. The first phase involves potentially showcasing your work and upvoting other awesome ideas that were developed in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Submissions will be due by 23:59, Friday 24 June, and be voted on both by the community and a panel of data science experts. The second phase involves the hackathon. After you sign up you will be invited via email to our event online collaborative space. The virtual hackathon begins 19:00 Friday, 24th July AEST and concludes 19:00 Monday, 27th July.
  • What happens after I register?
    Once you have registered, you will have access to our dashboard. The resources and Slack space will come online very soon, closer to the hackathon date!
  • What is this hackathon about?
    This hackathon will be aimed at utilising data science and AI to gain meaningful and actionable insights as nations emerge from lockdowns and stay-at-home orders due to COVID-19. A hackathon (hack = solving a complex problem) (athon = marathon) is an intense sprint-style experience in which software developers, interface designers, technologists and product experts come together to rapidly develop software or hardware projects.
  • What support is available during the event?
    HackMakers will organise, lead mentors, and mentors with hackathon experience will facilitate teams to maximise their experience. This includes helping match participants to team and skills, debug code, ideate, introduce to the resources and tools, and effectively present their solution.
  • What are the times and dates?
    There are two phases to this hackathon. The first phase involves potentially showcasing your work and upvoting other awesome ideas that were developed in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Submissions will be due by 23:59, Friday 24 June, and be voted on both by the community and a panel of data science experts. The second phase involves the hackathon. After you sign up you will be invited via email to our event online collaborative space. The virtual hackathon begins 19:00 Friday, 24th July AEST and concludes 19:00 Monday, 27th July.
  • How are teams formed?
    Individuals discuss ideas, share their abilities and skills, then join an existing team or find people in the platform channels to build a new one. In previous event, some successful teams voting on their favourite challenge problem, generate potential solutions and tested these before picking the best option to take forward. ​ If you don’t have a team, mentors or organisers will be on hand to assist matching.
  • How do I generate an idea?
    Most people don’t have an idea before they get to the event. But once you join the event, review the challenges and start talking to other people, you might come up with something. You can also work with somebody else on their idea if you like it.
  • I'm a recruiter looking for top tech talent! How can I get involved and discover ?
    We will be opening up a special channel for recruiters to be able to meet individual competitors and finalist teams. Please find the attached pitch deck, and register your expression of interest in this form: https://forms.gle/SKiT2PZjUdfNePgi6

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