About the challenge

Neodata, in collaboration with Isola and the University of Catania, is hosting an AI-based hackathon in Catania, Italy. Participation is open for both in-person and remote hackers.

Schedule

Friday 15 November, 2024

9:30-12:00 - Intro to AI chatbots @ Aula Magna, UniCT Department of Computer Science. Remote participants join here: https://meet.google.com/rap-ktve-tfc

See intro repository here: https://github.com/neodatagroup/hackathon_multi_agent/tree/main 

12:00 - Start of hackathon! Remote participants join here: https://meet.google.com/rap-ktve-tfc 

 

Saturday - Sunday 17-18 November 2024 - Work on project

 

Monday 18 November 2024

9-12 - Isola coworking space (piazza Cardinale Pappalardo 23, Catania, Sicily, Italy) available for hackathon participants who reserve a space (send email to hackathon organizer before EOD Friday)

12:00 - project submissions due!! All github links must be sent to info@neodatagroup.ai

12:00 - 14:00 project demos (in person at Isola / remote https://meet.google.com/rap-ktve-tfc)

16:00 - award ceremony (in person at Isola / remote https://meet.google.com/rap-ktve-tfc)

 

Requirements

What to Build

The 2024 Neodata Hackatania 2 focuses on AI strategies for knowledge management, specifically using graph RAG and agentic systems. Word embeddings, search algorithms, vector databases, and frameworks like LangChain and LlamaIndex have created a huge opportunity for improving decision-making through better knowledge management. 

What to build? Apply graph RAG or similar systems to an enterprise-level problem, such as how to query a large knowledge base while doing time-sensitive work, like hospital triage or emergency services. One excellent source of data you could use is https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/data/database. Maybe try to make it easy to query the hundreds of databases available from the European government.

Or start with a RAG-based chatbot for enterprise use. Optimize your strategy for a specific use case, innovate around how to improve the quality of RAG retrieval, prompt engineering, best LLMs to use, and more. Or focus on multimodal and surface important information found in diagrams and charts, not just text. Or consider how to fine-tune an LLM with numerical data and summarize everything in one place for the user... 

We are open to a wide variety of submissions. The important thing is that you leverage Graph RAG technology to solve a knowledge management problem.

What to Submit

In order to judge the submission, the jury needs access to your source code (email a Github repository link to info@neodatagroup.ai), and you need to present your work briefly to the public. 

Hackathon Sponsors

Prizes

1,000 in prizes
First prize
1 winner

Devpost Achievements

Submitting to this hackathon could earn you:

Judges

Giovanni Giuffrida

Giovanni Giuffrida
CEO Neodata

Judging Criteria

  • Quality of the Idea:
    How novel and interesting is the idea? Implementation of the Idea: How robust and production ready is the application? Potential Impact: Can this be used outside of a demo app? Visual Appeal: How polished is the app presentation?

Questions? Email the hackathon manager

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