This award will recognize the best student team hack. This award is eligible to 100% student teams. Winning teams will share a $5,000 cash prize.

In the spirit of Philly Codefest’s mission, the Collaborative Award is only open to teams with a mix of students and professional participants. The award will recognize the collaborative team with the best hack. Winning teams will share a $5,000 cash prize.

The best hack for social good with be awarded to the team with the best hack to address the issues of AI everywhere.

This prize will go to the majority freshmen student team with the best overall hack. Your team must have at least 50% freshmen student team members to be eligible for this prize.

This prize will be awarded to the team with the most innovative hack.

This prize will go to the team with the hack that is out of the ordinary and most creative.

This prize will go to the team with the best AI-enabled hack to mitigate bias and improve diversity, equity, and inclusion

Using Generative AI (e.g. DALL E) to put together images for customer troubleshooting steps.

Winning team members will receive a Comcast prize package including an invitation for a tour of the Comcast Innovation Center along with a lunch meeting with Comcast executives.

Description: This code challenge is to build an AI/ML model that can optimize a customer's journey. The model must be able to use data from customer behaviors and preferences to predict their next steps and optimize their overall customer journey. The challenge is to create a model that can accurately capture customer data and effectively suggest the best actions for them to take to increase customer satisfaction and engagement. The model should be able to adapt to changing customer needs and behaviors over time and should be able to optimize customer experiences across multiple customer touchpoints. The challenge also requires coding and analytics skills to create, deploy and monitor the model and its performance.
Participants can choose any customer journey related to sales and support such as order portal or reaching out to customer care through different medium/channels.

Judging criteria:

1. Algorithmic Structure: Judges should evaluate the complexity of the algorithms and how accurately they tackle the task at hand.
2. Model Performance: Judges should evaluate the accuracy of the model, the learning rate, and the amount of data needed for the model to be successful.
3. Scalability: Judges should evaluate how quickly the model can scale to handle larger datasets and more diverse real-world data.
4. Innovation: Judges should evaluate the creativity used to develop the model and the unique elements introduced.

Winning team members will receive a Comcast prize package including an invitation for a tour of the Comcast Innovation Center along with a lunch meeting with Comcast executives.

Ever heard of the phrase "This meeting could have been an email?" This challenge seeks to do away with that norm and focus on how meetings can be made more efficient through the use of AI. Consider such variables as attendees, agenda, scheduling, etc. as opportunities for optimization.

Winning team members will receive a Comcast prize package including an invitation for a tour of the Comcast Innovation Center along with a lunch meeting with Comcast executives.

Use AR to help customers perform simple troubleshooting steps to improve their internet connectivity. Judging criteria includes: Creativity of solution
Thoroughness of implementation details
Simplicity of solution

Winning team members will receive a Comcast prize package including an invitation for a tour of the Comcast Innovation Center along with a lunch meeting with Comcast executives.

A few years ago, it was a common thought that being good at your job was just a matter of how well you could perform a task.
To be a good Software Engineer, you just needed to write clean code; if you were an accountant, all you had to do was be good with numbers.

As the global market changed, we began to notice that often being great in just one skill is not enough, and we started evaluating for other stuff like empathy, communication capabilities, proactivity, efficiency and leadership: the so-called soft skills.

However, when conducting interviews recruiters usually wrap their heads about verifying if the candidate has those skills.
Most of the time they shoot in the dark, hoping the person they’re betting on is good enough.

CHALLENGE:

Based on your previous experience, both in and out of the University, build a product that aims to help recruiters to evaluate a candidate’s trustworthiness and soft skills.
Don’t forget to take advantage of the newest innovations in the IT field, with a keen eye on AI, thinking about how this marvelous technology could help recruiters in their daily activities.

Criteria:
multiple 1(least)-5(most) criteria based on the following:
- quality of content (the quality of the content of the presentation the participant presents)
- quality of product (the quality of the actual solution that was created)
- quality of the idea
- execution and time to market
- cost to be on the markets
- quality of presentation (how the participant presents his/her work)

Winning team will receive a meeting/interview with the Fincons Group!