DT Virtual HACKATHON

18-26 March 2022

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Deadline to Apply: 24 February 2022

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We are happy to announce this year’s hackathon in Egypt; HackTrick!

HackTrick is open for all students and working professionals interested in AI and Software Engineering.

Students

High School Students

University Students

Working Professionals

It’s about cooperative human-AI task performance to help people thrive in the digital age. By Joining Hacktrick, you will help bridge a young community of the digital world through assembling educational workstations.

This hackathon provides an opportunity for all participants to use their skills in coding and turn them into magic tricks that change people’s lives.

Register now and spread your magic by coding a better world and assembling other people’s dreams to be within their reach.

Eligibility

We invite all Students, Engineers, Developers, Data Scientists, Business Analysts in relevant fields such as Computer Science, Big Data, and Machine Learning, to be part of the Hackathon.

Your team should consist of 3 to 6 members with:

  • At least one team member that can code (Python will be used)
  • At least one team member that has Machine Learning skills

Additional Skills:

  • Reinforcement learning and optimization models.

Optional Bonus Skills:

  • UI/UX design skills including knowledge of UX design tools such as Adobe XD, Figma ...etc

Data Scientists

Engineers

Developers

Entrepreneurs

Business Analysts

Prizes

Winners will receive prizes with a total of $12,000.

All accepted team members will receive cool welcome packages and certificates of recognition.

Hackathon Timeline

Application Submission

Deadline: February 24th

Accepted Teams Announcement

March 10th

Online Hackathon

March 18th to 26th

The Winners Announcement

March 26th 2022

Application Submission

30 January 2022
to 24 February 2022

Accepted Teams Announcement

10 March 2022

Hackathon

18 March 2022
to 26 March 2022

The Winners Announcement

26 March 2022

Hackathon Webinars

Date: 12-02-2022

How to Hack a Hackathon?

Date: 19-02-2022

AI Solving Egypt's Challenges

Date: 26-02-2022

The Game Theory

Date: 12-03-2022

AI in 5G

Date: 05-03-2022

AI Transforming Business

Osama Taha

Data Scientist

Data scientist with interest in making machines smarter.

Rana Afifi

Software Engineer

Rana Afifi is a Software Engineer in the Research and Innovation Team at Dell Technologies. read more
She has received her Bachelor’s degree in Computer Engineering from Cairo University during which she had two research internships abroad in both ETH Zurich and EPFL universities. Currently, she is pursuing a master’s degree in Computer Engineering from Cairo University.
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Engy Fawaz

Software Engineer

Engy Fawaz is a Software Engineer in 5G team in P&O TSB. She is a GUC graduate. read more
She did her B.Sc. thesis in DHBW Karlsruhe, Germany on Education Gamification and Avatars. Afterwards, she submitted her paper to GamiLearn’19, which was published and received Best Paper Award of that year.
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Amr Morsy

Software Engineer

I work as a scrum master and software in engineer in Dell Technologies, working on building 5G solutions of the future.

Omar Nael

Data Scientist

GUC graduate with a B.Sc degree in Computer Science and Engineering. Currently a data scientist at Dell Technologies, working in the Data Office team.

Habiba Yassin

Software Engineer

I am Habiba Yassin, Software Engineer in the Data Office team. I graduated from the American University in Cairo read more
with a Bachelor's Degree in Computer Engineering and a minor in Business Administration.
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Emad ElSheshtawy

Software Engineer

Emad ElSheshtawy is a Software Engineer at the Data Office. He graduated from the GUC from the faculty of Information Engineering and Technology, major Networks.

Mentors

Mentors

Testimonials

Mohamed Abdelhady

Machine Learning Data Scientist

The hackathon was a great opportunity to get to work on an interesting application of machine learning and try to come up with innovative methods. It was also interesting to explore the business aspect of the application and present it. For me personally, it helped me connect with great talent as well and learn from other teams' approaches. Thanks to everyone who was involved in organizing such a great event.

Ahmed Alaa

Data Engineer | Etisalat

I really enjoyed c4f2 hackathon, it was very challenging and we gained a lot of experience by joining in this hackathon and dealing with the problems.

Moemen Amgad

Informatics Master’s Student at TU Munich

I am really glad that I was part of the Dell C4F2 AI Hackathon. It was a fantastic opportunity to both learn and put my skills into action. The intensity of such competitions and challenges forces me to get out of my comfort zone and grow on both a professional and a personal level.

Dr. Omar Fahmy

Associate professor, P. Eng., IEEE Senior Member

I find Dell Hackathon is a great opportunity to enrich students as well staff skills and experience in the field of Information Technology and Artificial Intelligence through competing and participating in such real practical applications Thanks to Dell Hackathon for offering this opportunity

Ahmed Omar

Student at Ain Shams University

It was a great experience for me & my team despite not winning as we pushed ourselves to the limit, I didn't know anything about Reinforcement Learning going in and now I'm doing my Bachelor's thesis using it!.

Mahmoud Ahmed

Data Science Intern | Dell Technologies

I joined the C4F2 with basic knowledge of reinforcement learning algorithms without any practical experience. The hackathon allowed me to understand the algorithms better and when to make use of each properly through the challenges faced during it. This experience improved my skills and helped me in joining dell as a data science intern and at which now I am helping in preparing for the HackTrick hackathon.

Ismail Shaheen

Data Science Intern | Dell Technologies

I joined C4f2 by Dell Technologies last year with practically zero experience in reinforcement learning. I had to learn, implement, and train reinforcement learning algorithms from scratch in mere days. Despite the intense experience payback, it was not a surprise that my team did not make it to the finals. A year later, I am now working at the same company, helping the team with the successor to C4f2, Hacktrick. The hackathon experience was never about winning or losing, for me it was about kickstarting my professional journey and making connections, for you it can be anything you make it out to be.

Frequently Asked Questions

A hackathon is an event in which teams work in a short period of time to develop innovative solutions that meet a given challenge.

Registration for teams is opened from 30 January till 24 February 2022

Click here for registration.

You can only register as team.

The Team leader to register with the Team name and members.

This is a virtual event.

Please check the Hackathon timeline.

We will provide a Slack channel where mentors and participants can have discussions.

Teams should not exceed 6 people.

Webinars are opened to everyone.

The winning teams will be rewarded by a total of $12000.

All accepted teams will receive cool giveaways.

This hackathon is open for all CS/CE students and working professionals interested in AI, Data Science, Machine learning.

We recommend that you must have at least one team member that can code (python will be used) and at least one team member that has Data Analysis skills.

Reinforcement learning and optimization models are additional skills.

No, The hackathon is for free.

We have two tracks students and working professionals.

They can be Data Scientists, Engineers, Developers, Entrepreneurs, Business Analysts and UI/UX Designers in relevant fields: Computer science, Big Data, Machine Learning.

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