#AgentsofChangeHack

841 Broadway, New York, NY 10003 | 11 – 12 August 2018
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Are you committed to building a better working world?

At EY, we’re dedicated to bold collaboration with like-minded individuals that will help foster innovation. We believe that disruption creates opportunity and that’s why we are working with Microsoft and AngelHack to bring you the Agents of Change Hackathon. Over 36 hours in the Big Apple we are inviting you, the best East Coast developer, designer, and entrepreneurial minds to build solutions to customize insurance plans, leverage data from IoT, and help insurance agencies advise those affected by natural disasters.

Are you up for the challenge?

Prizes

GRAND PRIZE

One VR Headsets per team member
Tickets to the “2019 Entrepreneur of the Year” event with flights & accommodation included.

RUNNER  UP PRIZE

One Chromebook per team member

Challenge

Develop a solution that will enhance the products or service offerings of insurance companies
to help better serve their customers in one of the below challenge tracks.

Tracks:

Custom Coverage Challenge:

Help companies customize their insurance plans using open source data! Some examples of relevant data could be:

  • Location
  • Customer demographic
  • Risk profiles of owners

Disaster Relief Challenge:

Build disaster relief insurance solutions to help homeowners / businesses better recover from a disaster

  • Examples:
    Storing home insurance, mortgage documents, or proof of insurance on a blockchain

IoT Challenge:

Create a solution that will help insurance companies make more precise decisions by utilizing data from IoT devices

  • Examples: home telematics (see www.getroost.com) that help insurance policyholders to mitigate the cost and hassle of fire, smoke and water leak related claims.

Technologies

Microsoft Azure: https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/

Other preferred technologies:

Visualization:
  • Grafana
  • Tableau
  • Kibana
Front End:
  • Angular JS
  • React
  • Android
  • iOS
Data Storage:
  • Cassandra
  • Accumulo
  • Ignite
  • Neo4J

Schedule

Wednesday, August 8th:

18:30 20:00 Pre-EY Hackathon Virtual Session via Zoom
Webinar Link: https://zoom.us/j/246550836
Meeting Number: 246 550 836

Saturday, August 11th:

09:00 -10:00: Doors Open & Breakfast Served
10:00 -11:00: Opening Ceremony
11:00: Coding Begins
12:00 - 14:00: Lunch Served
13:00 - 14:00: Breakout Session(s)
Session 1: “Security: the things you would be worrying about if this weren’t a hackathon”
Session 2: TBC
18:00 - 19:00: Dinner Served
20:00 - 20:30: Pitch Workshop
24:00: Midnight Snack
Hack through the Night*
*The venue

Sunday, August 12th:

08:00 - 10:00: Breakfast Served
10:00 - 11:00: Pitch Practice Session
11:30 - 13:30: Lunch Served
13:00: Submission Deadline
14:00 - 15:00: Judging (2 min Demo w/ 1 min Q&A)
15:00 - 15:30: Judge Deliberation
15:30 - 16:00: Closing Ceremony & Awards
16:00: Event Close

Judging Criteria

Judging will have two rounds, each with a live presentation format without slides or pitch decks.
Round 1: Teams are grouped into their challenges and pitch.
Round 2: The top 2 from each challenge pitch in our final round on stage.

Each submission will be scored in each round based on the following criteria with a minimum score of 0 and maximum score of 20 points, with the final score being the average of the judges’ scores:

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Simplicity (5 points):

Is the application simple to use and can the team explain it clearly in three sentences or less?

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Creativity (5 points):

How creative was the team in developing an innovative solution for the challenge?

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Impact (5 points):

Did the team create an application that can have a real and valuable impact?

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Design (5 points):

Was the UX/UI intuitive and appealing?

Judges

Dawn Nash

Executive Director at EY

Dawn is particularly interested in design thinking, design of voice user interfaces and application of cognitive systems to help engage, sell and service insurance customers in transformational ways.

Colin McClive

Director, US Financial Services Industry

Colin’s current work focuses on digital transformation within the insurance industry, helping customers move to a customer centric model that builds life-long, profitable relationships.

Steve Murnen

Executive Director of EY’s Insurance Operations

Steve has significant experience and success planning, managing and delivering transformational change programs that: create realistic but aggressive business and IT strategies and goals; build the needed organizational, operational and technological capabilities; define multi-year integrated program and project plans.

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Rules

Teams of up to 5 participants are allowed. All team members must have completed the participation agreement to compete.
You may not begin your project until the competition officially begins. Please don't come in and build on top of previous projects if you want to win.
Winning teams will be subject to a code-review at some point following the event or immediately before winning.
View Participation Agreement

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