EY GDS Hackpions 3.0

Agenda

Timelines

Hackathon registration

Step 1: All the participants and EY GDS mentors must sign-up on the HackerEarth platform. EY GDS mentors must use their official email IDs to sign-up.

Step 2: All the participants and EY GDS mentors must register and fill all the necessary details.

Step 3: Once registered, participants and EY GDS mentors should view all the information related to themes, submission format, agenda, evaluation parameters and other relevant details, on the hackathon page.

Step 4: To proceed further, participants need to build their own team or join an existing team.

To know more about the process, click here .

20 Aug 2021 – 13 Sept 2021

Phase 1: Idea submission

Step 1: Participants must select one of the four themes, and EY GDS mentors can select up to three themes.

Step 2: Once the theme(s) is selected, participants and EY GDS mentors must build their high-level solutions offline on their respective systems.

Step 3: Participants and EY GDS mentors must make their final idea submissions in the requested format  with all the necessary details.

For more details on how to submit an idea, click here.

20 Aug 2021 – 13 Sept 2021

Phase 2: Idea evaluation

Click here to know more about the evaluation parameters.

Based on the idea submissions, the final EY mentorship alignment will be done for the selected participating teams.

14 Sep 2021 – 17 Sep 2021

EY webinars on hackathon themes

Join the webinars to know more about the themes and the overall hackathon objective.

27 Aug 2021 & 03rd Sep

Phase 5: Semi finale — prototype optimization session with EY GDS professionals

All the shortlisted will be invited to attend mentorship and prototype optimization sessions, with the respective EY business point-of-contact. They can discuss how to fine-tune their solutions, with the shortlisted EY GDS mentors.

20 Sep 2021 – 11 Oct 2021

Phase 6: Virtual semi-finale

Click here to know more about the evaluation parameters.

Semi-finale (or the prototype evaluation stage) will be conducted through a virtual presentation.

12 Oct 2021

Phase 7: Final presentation submission

All the shortlisted semi-finalists will be invited to present their fine-tuned submissions, for the finale event.

15 Oct 2021 – 20 Oct 2021

Phase 8: Finale

21 Oct 2021

Phase 9: Virtual grand finale

The grand finale will include the following stages:

1. Presentations by all the finalists, along with their EY GDS mentors.
2.  Speeches by the leading professionals.
3.  Fun activity sessions.
4.  Winner announcement.

29 Oct 2021