Are you passionate about digitisation and innovation? Do you enjoy working in a team on a challenging project with societal impact? Then this AI hackathon, powered by AI4Belgium, is something for you!
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Rue de Laeken 146, 1000 Brussels
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SmartNation AI Hackathon, what?
During this hackathon, you will develop a fully-fledged innovation project in three days. You will do it in a team, under the guidance of an experienced coach. At the end of the third day, you will present the results to a jury.
Why participate?
- You work on a project with societal impact.
- You develop new knowledge and technical skills.
- You meet motivated and interesting experts in the sector.
- You can add relevant work experience to your CV.
- You enhance your communication skills in English.
You have the opportunity to work on one of the challenges below:
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Challenges
Smart applications for medical data
This challenge contributes to improving the transition to new automated patient records in Belgian hospitals. It revolves around accurately restoring and organising medical data. You have the opportunity to use anonymous/pseudonymous data and develop new methods, with metrics focusing on the quality of data organisation and positive impact on medical research.
Warning! This challenge takes place at Vivalia (Route des Ardoisières, 100 B-6880 BERTRIX).
Challenge owner: FPS Health, Food Chain Safety and Environment
Partner organisation: Prof. Giovanni Briganti (ULiège, UMons)
Partner medical sector: VivaliaDigital Journey to Justice
Develop innovative digital solutions to enhance access to justice by focusing on:
- Guide users effectively towards the most suitable justice-seeking mechanism tailored to their needs.
- Facilitate user access to alternative dispute resolution mechanisms, aiming to settle disputes outside of the courtroom.
- Assist users in navigating and accessing the court system, with or without legal representation.
Participants are expected to create practical, user-friendly digital solutions that address these critical aspects, ultimately contributing to a more accessible justice system in Belgium.
Challenge owner: SPF Justice / Ministry of Justice
Lead Partner: Smart Law Hub / Perelman Centre (ULB) – Prof. G. LewkowiczPartners : DIKE - VUB, French- and German-speaking Bar Associations (O.B.F.GG – Avocats.be)Parliamentary Questions
This challenge aims at efficiently formulating responses to parliamentary questions for cabinet staff by utilising previous questions and their corresponding answers. Additionally, data should be made more accessible to Belgian citizens.
Owner:
FPS EconomyPartner : Ysabelle Rase & Karim Benseghir
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Agenda Brussels
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Tuesday, March 12
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
Welcome lunch + teams introduction1:00 pm - 1:15 pm
Teams seating1:15 pm - 1:30 pm
Intro (10 min) + welcome to coaches (5min)1:30 pm - 1:45 pm
Presentation challenge - Facilitating Access to Justice
1:45 pm - 2:00 pm
Presentation challenge - Parliamentary Questions2:00 pm - 7:00 pm
Hacking
7:00 pm
Rooms clearsWednesday, March 13
8:00 am - 9:30 am
Room opens + Breakfast9:30 am - 12:00 pm
Hacking12:00 pm - 2:00 pm
Lunch2:00 pm - 7:00 pm
Hacking7:00 pm
Room clearsThursday, March 14
8:00 am - 9:30 pm
Room opens + Breakfast9:30 am - 12:00 pm
Hacking12:00 pm - 2:00 pm
Lunch4:30 pm - 6:30 pm
Jury6:30 pm - 9:00 pm
Reception
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Creative Breakouts, Keynotes & Tech Talks
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Tuesday, March 12
2:00 pm - 2:30 pm (Main room)
Keynote Deepset - Lowering the Barrier of Creating Modern LLM Apps with Open-Source - Haystack3:30 pm - 3:50 pm (Bar)
Keynote Marco Giacalone - Online dispute resolution4:40 pm - 5:00 pm (Bar)
Keynote Damien Charlotin - Legal Data and LLMsWednesday, March 13
10:40 am - 11:00 pm (Bar)
Keynote Raphael Gyory - Legal Data Quality and annotations3:00 pm - 3:20 pm (Bar)
Keynote David Restrepo Amariles - AI in the legal Sector: use cases4:20 pm - 4:40 pm (Main room)
Keynote Nathanael Ackerman - Exploring Ethical and Legal Guidelines for AI Development: What Should We Consider?5:00 pm - 7:00 pm
Regis Lemmens - How to pitch your project to the jury? (Individual Coaching)Thursday, March 14
9:30 am - 10:00 am
Keynote Christophe Van Mollekot - Microsoft - Power your AI transformation with the Microsoft Cloud
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Agenda Bertrix (Health Challenge only)
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Tuesday and Wednesday, March 12 - 13
10:00 am - 1:00 pm
Welcome + Start hacking1:00 pm - 2:00 pm
Lunch2:00 pm - 6:00 pm
Hacking6:00 pm
Dinner
Thursday, March 14
Afternoon
Go to Brussels for jury and reception
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Coaches
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Julian Risch
Deepset
Tuana Celik
Deepset
David Batista
Deepset
Leila Rebbouh
Delaware
Caroline Vandenplas
B12 Consulting
Simon Uytterhoeven
MBarQ
Viriginie Marelli
GSK
Joao Ferreira
IBM
Thibault Helleputte
DNALytics
Robbe de Sutter
Radix
Niccolo Minetti
Radix
Laurent Renard
PhoenixAI
Jessica James
OpenAI
Colin Jarvis
OpenAI
Come Redon
Microsoft
Antoine Engelen
Microsoft
Tomas Corveleyn
Microsoft
Régis Lemmens
Sales Cubes
Isaure de Villenfagne
FPS BOSA
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Access to datasets, keynotes and materials
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Teams
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Jury
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Severine Waterbley
Jack Hamande
Nathanaël Ackerman
Jimmy De Laet
Hans Arents
Karim Benseghir
Ysabelle Rase
Gregory Lewkowicz
Giovanni Briganti
Philippe Compère
Caroline Vandenplas
Helene Morel
Roald Sieberath
Pierre Scullier
Marco Giacalone
Tuana Celik
Thibo Vanquaethem
Olga Nowicka
Joke Rys
Davio Larnout- Isaure de Villenfagne
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Partners
AI4Belgium
Microsoft
Deepset
OpenAI
Mistral
spf_justice
SPF Economie
Vivalia
SmartLaw HUB
Université Libre de Bruxelles
FPS Health, Food Chain Safety and Environment
DIKE - VUB
be central
B12 consulting
Egov Select
FARI
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Radix
VAIA
Trail
Digital Wallonia
IBM