Why "Hackathon For Peace":

Hackathon for Peace: Overview
  • Event Participants: open to all
  • Objective: Create anti-violence tech products.
  • Goals:
    • Address risks of violence.
    • Promote positive social relations among diverse groups.
Significance of Peace
  • Role in Society: Essential for trust, cooperation, and stability.
  • Global Perspective: Inspired by "Vasudhaiva Kutumbakam" (Sanskrit for "The World Is One Family").
  • Focus on collective well-being over individual interests.
  • Role of Technology in Promoting Peace
  • Positive Interactions: Encourages civility, cooperation, and care.
  • Addressing Global Issues: Tackles challenges like climate change, sustainable development, and tolerance.
  • Innovation and Collaboration: Key for economic growth and development.
  • Limitations: Technology alone cannot solve all problems; collective effort is crucial.

 

**** Please Note *****

  • If you submit Video content that you have previously submitted to other hackathons, your submission will be disqualified. Therefore, it is important to create new and original content that is exclusive to the "Hackathon for Peace".
  • All rights reserved. The Decisions by the Judges and Organizers are final.

Pitch Template to use: (background can be modified)

https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1AF19-896EI1NKFoDLjH10L9ko3PpX_ICeD30hoCXzVM/edit?usp=sharing

 

How to Submit :

1) Complete the survey  https://forms.gle/T4Mv7c79TAACDE539 

2) Submit your entry in the kyroz.devpost.com as well. 

About the challenge

  • Engage in problem-solving sessions related to conflict prevention, mental health support, education in violence-torn areas, and logistics during crises.

  • Form teams, brainstorm ideas, and build prototypes.

  • Connect with like-minded individuals from diverse backgrounds.

  • Expert mentors will guide you throughout the event.

  • Prizes for the most innovative solutions.

  • Let’s use our skills to foster peace and make a difference! 

 

Hackathon Promo

Link to Hackathon promo 

For Investors and Change Ambassadors

About Kyroz.in 

Kyroz Networks Pvt Limited is a powerful social networking platform that brings together entrepreneurs, mentors, students, and small/medium businesses to expand their ideas and businesses. The platform connects designers, programmers, investors, and venture capitalists with each other to create strong teams that can start successful businesses. Kyroz Networks Pvt Limited designed in Silicon Valley, California

Requirements

What to Build

7)MongoDB Challenge (NEW)

Free LLM + MongoDB Atlas Vector Search Lab with online support

$25 Atlas credit for anyone who completes this LLM + MongoDB Atlas Vector Search Lab

Ask your questions here https://www.mongodb.com/community/forums/c/generative-ai/vector-search-for-llms/170.

Last Date to complete the lab: 10th Feb 2024 at 11:59 pm Pacific 

Reach MongoDB after completing at dave.nielsen@mongodb.com

1. Julep Challenge:

Character Coaches

Overview:

Join Julep AIs "Character Coaches" hackathon to develop unique, personality-driven bots using the advanced conversational capabilities of the Samantha-1-Turbo model. Each competition focuses on creating an AI coach with a specific character trait, blending educational content with engaging personas. This competition is your opportunity to showcase your technical prowess in AI development, creativity in personality crafting, and skill in crafting effective AI prompts that bring these character coaches to life. You will be using Julep’s model Samantha-1-Turbo for the same,

Please create bots/agents from the following categories:

  1. Rebellious Historian: A bot with a rebellious personality that teaches history in an unconventional and provocative way. It could challenge historical myths, encourage critical thinking about historical events, and present lesser-known facts in a compelling manner.
  2. Witty Science Tutor: A bot with a humorous, witty personality that makes learning scientific concepts fun and engaging. It could use jokes, puns, and light-hearted banter to explain complex topics, making science approachable and enjoyable. 
  3. Adventurous Travel Advisor: An AI with an adventurous spirit, offering insights and tips on off-the-beaten-path travel destinations. It could share exciting travel stories, hidden gems, and practical advice for adventurous travelers.
  4. Artistic Genius: A bot with the personality of a quirky, eccentric artist, teaching about different art forms, styles, and famous artworks. It could critique famous pieces, offer creative challenges, and encourage users to think outside the box in their artistic endeavors. 
  5. Sarcastic Financial Guru: A bot with a sarcastic and witty personality that provides financial advice and education. It could use humor to demystify complex financial concepts and offer practical tips in a relatable way.
  6. Eco-Warrior: A passionate and slightly militant bot focused on environmental education and activism. It could educate users about sustainability, climate change, and ecological conservation with a fervent, persuasive tone.
  7. Zen Wellness Coach: A bot with a calm, zen-like personality offering wellness and mindfulness advice. It could guide users through stress relief techniques, meditation exercises, and provide wisdom on living a balanced life.
  8. Mystery Chef: A culinary AI with a mysterious and intriguing personality, introducing users to exotic recipes and cooking techniques. It could share culinary secrets, food history, and challenge users with mystery ingredients.
  9. Philosophical AI Mentor: A bot with a deep, philosophical demeanor, engaging users in discussions about ethics, life's big questions, and moral dilemmas. It could encourage critical thinking and self-reflection.
  10. Dramatic Literature Coach: A bot with a flair for drama, teaching literature and storytelling. It could recite famous passages, analyze literary works, and help users understand various narrative techniques in a theatrical manner.




About Julep AI:

Julep AI is an AI infrastructure company, with a lot of focus on building tools to make AI more human. Our fine-tuned LLMs  emulate human-like conversational abilities. Additionally, we have developed a simple yet powerful API for memory management. This innovative API enables our models to maintain unlimited context through an integrated memory system within the LLM API, ensuring conversations are as fluid and coherent as real-life dialogues. 

 

About the Model (Samantha-1-Turbo):

  • Rich Personality for Human-Like Conversations

  • Extended Format for Conversational Tasks

  • Function Calling Capability

  • Performance on Par with GPT 3.5 Turbo

  • Unrestricted Model

  • OpenAI Compatible

  • 8K context window

INSTRUCTIONS TO USE THE MODEL:

  1. Register to get the API Key for the model Here

  2. Use the Playground to test the model, after getting your API key

  3. Use API Docs to get more information on the model.

PRIZES:

 

  • 1st Winner in every category gets a $100 cash prize, and 3 months free access to the APIs.

  • Every participant can send at most 2 entries in each category.

  • Each participant gets free access to the model for the duration of the hackathon.

2. Opportunity to be selected as  Intern leading to VP part of the team at http://kyroz.org 

Criteria

  • High Schoolers from USA(9th, 10th , 11th Grade). 
  • Students studying Bachelors Degree , especially 1st , 2nd ,3rd year of Bachelors degree or equivalent outside USA.
  • Build products for the world, Humanity. 
  • Send your write-up on "Myself, My Dream, The Purpose of my Life" 

3. Hackathon Winners 

Hackathon winners are given the chance to refine their ideas by working with venture capitalists (VCs). This opportunity allows them to receive feedback and guidance from experienced professionals in the field. The VCs can help the winners to develop their ideas further and make them more viable for investment. By refining their ideas, the winners can increase their chances of success in the market. ( https://evernomics.com/ , https://www.svetrating.com/)

4. Kyroz.org Challenge 

Social networking platform & Android/iOS with https://jigsaw.google.com/

5. Design website for kyroz.org Challenge 

Quality expectations above Coffeespace.com , Deca.org , fbla.org 

 

( static page with , with screenshots of the mobile app , team , links to play store ) 

 

 

6. Algoverse Challenge 

Algoverse Challenge:   Tech for the Community.
Overview:

Join the Tech for the Community hackathon to develop technology solutions that foster peaceful, inclusive, and engaging communities. This challenge focuses on creating tools that enhance communication, understanding, and collaboration among diverse groups within local and global communities. Participants will leverage their coding and development skills to create applications or platforms that not only connect people but also promote a culture of peace and mutual respect. The challenge is an opportunity to demonstrate technical innovation, social responsibility, and creativity in addressing real-world community issues.
Please create any tools/solutions along the broader theme of fostering peaceful, inclusive, and engaging communities. Here are some additional subcategories that you may choose from if you wish:

Local Harmony App: An app that facilitates local community harmony by promoting cultural exchange events, community discussions, and collaborative projects focusing on peace and understanding.

Global Unity Platform: A platform that connects individuals from different cultures globally, promoting understanding and peace through shared projects, language exchange, and cultural learning.

Interactive Peace Education Game: A game that educates players about conflict resolution, empathy, and cultural diversity, using interactive storytelling and real-life scenarios.

Collaborative Peace Project Forum: An online forum where students or community members can collaborate on peace-promoting projects, share ideas, and learn from each other.

Community Empathy Tool: A tool that helps users understand and empathize with different community perspectives, using virtual reality or interactive storytelling.

Youth Peace Ambassador Network: A platform for young people to become peace ambassadors, sharing their ideas for peace and collaborating on global initiatives.

Cultural Exchange Virtual Reality: A VR experience that immerses users in different cultural settings, promoting understanding and appreciation of diversity.

Social Impact Tracker: An application that tracks and showcases the impact of community projects on promoting peace and understanding.

Peaceful Debate Platform: A moderated platform for healthy, constructive debates on social issues, encouraging respectful dialogue and mutual understanding.

Inclusive Community Bulletin: A digital bulletin board that promotes inclusive community events, volunteer opportunities, and social initiatives focused on peacebuilding.

About Algoverse:

At Algoverse, we're pioneering a new standard in pre-university computer science education. By leveraging our deep teaching and research experience from Berkeley and Stanford, we aim to make top-tier research and industry-relevant skills more accessible. Our programs equip students for success in college and the tech industry, while enhancing their prospects for competitive college admissions at top universities.    Our AI Research Program, Software Engineering Bootcamp, AI Fundamentals Bootcamp, Python Bootcamp, and USACO Bootcamp are now open for enrollment for Spring and Summer here.

 

How to Submit 

  1. Complete the survey  https://forms.gle/T4Mv7c79TAACDE539 
  2. Submit your entry in the deposit as well. 

Hackathon Sponsors

Prizes

1 non-cash prize
Kyroz & SVET challenges
1 winner

All Kyroz , SVET challenges

Devpost Achievements

Submitting to this hackathon could earn you:

Judges

Buchi reddy

Buchi reddy
CEO, Levo.ai , San Francisco CA

Hardik Vala

Hardik Vala
ex-YC (S23), ex-Area 120, ex-Google, ex-Apple, San Francisco CA

Preethi Srinivasan

Preethi Srinivasan
Vice President - Product Management, Real-time Generative AI, San Francisco CA

Diwakar Venkata

Diwakar Venkata
London Business School/AGSM Alumni, Sydney Australia

Vaijanath Rao

Vaijanath Rao
Head of Data Science at Quicken, IIT Bombay Alumni, Michigan

Tracy A

Tracy A
Greetr, Pink CEO Who Codes

Ketaki Vaidya

Ketaki Vaidya
AI Product Manager, San Francisco CA

Bidun T

Bidun T
SVP, Digital Banking, Palo Alto CA

Chay Nandam

Chay Nandam
AI Engineer IBM, Dallas, TX

Saurabh Bhutyani

Saurabh Bhutyani
Generative AI, Analytics - Principal Specialist Solutions Architect @ Amazon

Vladislav Bilay

Vladislav Bilay
DevOps Engineer at Aquiva Labs, Judge (15+ hackathons) , Speaker, Author ,Technical reviewer at O'Reilly and Manning, Udemy Popular Instructor, Warsaw, Mazowieckie, Poland

Alex Shaw

Alex Shaw
Founder , Hunter Recruiting

Srinivas Madabushi

Srinivas Madabushi
Vice President, Technology at LendingTree, UNC -Charlotte Alumni

Sneha Kulukuru

Sneha Kulukuru
Product | VC | Social Impact | Public Policy | ISB Alumni(Torchbearer Awardee), Hyderabad Bharat (India)

Riyya Hari Iyer

Riyya Hari Iyer
UCLA Alumni , Mentor at Women AI, SE Brooks Automation, San Francisco , CA

Jayper (Constantino) Sanchez

Jayper (Constantino) Sanchez
Founder Virlan Chainworks | Web3 AI Fullstack Innovator | Versatile Developer | Serial Builder, San Francisco CA

Akshay Bhat

Akshay Bhat
Developer Advocate, Speaker , IIT Delhi Alumni, San Francisco CA

Divya Chintada

Divya Chintada
Senior Data Engineer, University of Delaware Alumni, Charlotte

Hariprasad Varma

Hariprasad Varma
Founder - Zensei™ & Yogaśāla | Leadership & Mindfulness Coach, Hyderabad , Bharat(India)

Runde Yang

Runde Yang
AI startup founder and product enthusiast, Cornell University, New York

Magesh Kumar Rajamani

Magesh Kumar Rajamani
Founder & CEO SHash AI, AItrepreneur | Tech Leadership | Startups | Coding | Algorithms, Cupertino CA

Gautham Noothi Srinivas

Gautham Noothi Srinivas
Senior Software Engineer @ Highnote | Co-Founder GeeksforGeeks , NIT Warangal Alumni , San Francisco CA

Paschal Amaechi B.Eng, MBA 2nd degree connection

Paschal Amaechi B.Eng, MBA 2nd degree connection
Co-Founder @ BorderlessHR Inc. | Startup Investor, Startup Advisor, Ottawa , Canada

Devanshu Brahmbhatt

Devanshu Brahmbhatt
Co-founder Papertalk.io and Research at LBL, San Francisco CA

Runo Okiomah, LEED AP

Runo Okiomah, LEED AP
Founder Elo Spaces, Real Estate & Workplace Expert| Ex-Googler| MIT Alumni| Speaker| Half Marathoner, San Francisco CA

Elijah Summers

Elijah Summers
Founder Darla Cafe, California

Matthew Murrie

Matthew Murrie
Global Curiosity Expert | Creator of Curiosity-Based Thinking, San Francisco CA

Sako M

Sako M
AI | DevOps | Security | Open Source, San Francisco

Pratyusha Vemuri

Pratyusha Vemuri
Building Panoplia.io | Ex-Microsoft | Ex- Akamai | Angel Investor, Hyderabad ,Bharat(India)

Matt de la Vega
Tech Recruiting Professional, Charlotte, NC

Natalia Bielczyk, PhD

Natalia Bielczyk, PhD
Honorable Judge, Neuroscientist Turned Career & Business Strategist Helping Individuals & Teams Navigate, Build Value & Subvert Expectations in AI Era ∙ Bootstrapper & Solopreneur ∙ Educator ∙ Author ∙ Founder @ Ontology of Value®

Siddant Jain
Founder Jouncer

SVET

SVET
Angel Investor , (20+ years), Serial Entrepreneur (14+ companies with > $100M cap), Author (> 1M views), Lived in 40+ countries, the Founder of Evernomics, Crypto Influencer (since 2014)

Hans Paul Pizzinini

Hans Paul Pizzinini
CEO and Cofounder at SpeedLegal

Ranjeeta Bhattacharya
VP, BNY Mellon -Data Scientist | Senior Specialist (Metrics/Analytics) | AI Hub | Machine Learning Practitioner

Apurva Saxena
International Director | Transformational Tech Leader | Innovator in Cruise and Safety Technologies | Driving Excellence through Strategic Technological Solutions

Ishita Jindal

Ishita Jindal
CEO & Founder Julep, Babson F.W. Olin Graduate School of Business Alumni

Atal Agarwal

Atal Agarwal
IRONMAN 140.6 MILES: Empowering Your Soul, IIT Kharagpur Alumni

Akhila Kosaraju

Akhila Kosaraju
Co-Founder & Lead Design Strategist , WhatIfDesign . IIT Kharagpur Alumni

Tejas Mahajan

Tejas Mahajan
Co-Founder & Lead Design Strategist , WhatIfDesign . IIT Kharagpur Alumni

Kevin Zhu

Kevin Zhu
Program Director and Instructor, Algoverse

Vijay Mahantesh
Meta , San Jose

Sree Vaddi

Sree Vaddi
Chief Strategic Solutions Arch and Startups Advisor. I specialize in new initiatives using latest technologies and strategic integrations

Junyi Yang
Research Scientist, Machine Learning at Genesys, Boston

Andreas Mueller
Chief Strategist @ Bloofusion, Inc. | Digital Marketing Expert/Speaker

Judging Criteria

  • Technological complexity:
    How advanced and innovative are the AI/ML techniques and algorithms used? How well do they integrate with other technologies?
  • Functionality:
    How well does the project work and meet the user’s needs? How user-friendly, reliable, and scalable is it?
  • Feasibility:
    How realistic and viable is the project in terms of implementation and deployment? How well does it address the ethical, legal, and social implications of using AI/ML?
  • “Wow factor”:
    How original, creative, and impactful is the project in terms of solving the problem and contributing to the theme? How well does it communicate its value and engage the audience?
  • Passion:
    How passionate and enthusiastic is the team about their project and the problem? How well does the team collaborate and learn from each other and from the mentors and experts?
  • Vertical Alignment:
    How well does the project align with the specific vertical or industry? How well does it understand the needs and challenges of the target users and stakeholders?

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