What is a hackathon? Challenges Who Mentors & Jury Agenda

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Are there parts of your work in the lab that take up valuable research time? Do you have an idea that could speed up the write up process in the Electronic Lab Notebook? Are you up for the challenge of using your skills to make more time for science?

Join your colleagues at the ELN Hackathon to revolutionize your day-to-day lab tasks through digital transformation

AstraZeneca is inviting employees in Macclesfield and Gothenburg to think outside the box, and get creative across teams, departments and the North Sea!

With the support from mentors, coaches and colleagues, your projects will be viewed by top management who are on the lookout for innovation at AstraZeneca.

What is a hackathon?

A hackathon is an event, typically 48 hours, which brings together lab users, developers, designers, business savvy individuals and idea generators—as well as change makers and movers & shakers—to work together in a sprint-like environment to produce a prototype or digital solution.

With coaches, mentors and lots of fun along the way, a hackathon is an experience like no other, and a great way to challenge yourself. The BeMyApp team are serial hackathon organisers and will be there to help you throughout the hackathon.

So, what’s your big idea you’ll be working on?....

Challenges

After a deep dive into pain points of working in the lab, these challenges have been set to inspire solutions that will transform and simplify your life in the lab.

Each team should address one of the following challenges:

The Voice UI Challenge

Create a prototype of a solution that uses UI to boost the efficiency of the write-up process

The AR Quest

Create a dashboard or interface to aid collaboration between scientists

The API/Connectivity Mission

Create an API or a digital solution to ease the transmission of data between environments and instruments

Why Join

Take a leap into the world of innovation, win big prizes, and stay tuned as they are soon to be revealed!

Who can attend

This event is open to all AstraZeneca employees with forward-thinking ideas, a thirst for transformation, and knowledge of the use case. To help you get the most out of the short time frame, below are some useful guidelines for forming teams.

Don’t have a team yet? Want to sign up as an individual? Not a Coder or Developer? Don’t worry—teams will be formed and finalised at the hackathon! This is a great opportunity to work with colleagues that you don’t normally cross paths with.