Agenda

Timelines

Hackathon registration

Step 1: All 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 participants and EY GDS mentors should register and fill in all the necessary details. 

Step 3: Once registered, participants and EY GDS mentors should view all 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.

27 October – 16 November

Phase 1: Idea Submission

Step 1: Participants must select one of the six 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 make a submission, click here.

3 November – 16 November

Idea evaluations

Click here to know more about the evaluation parameters.

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

17 November – 20 November

Phase 2: Pre-Finale - Prototype submission

Step 1: Selected EY GDS mentors will provide mentorship and guidance to the selected participating teams.

Step 2: Participants must build their solutions offline on their respective systems

Step 3: Participants must make their prototype (minimum viable product) submissions in the requested format with all the necessary details.

For more details on how to make a submission, click here.

20 November – 7 December

EY webinars on hackathon themes

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

9 November – 10 November

Pre-Finale - prototype evaluations

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Pre-finale (Prototype evaluations) will be conducted through internal screening or a virtual presentation

8 December – 11 December

Phase 3: Prototype optimization session with EY GDS professionals

All shortlisted pre-finalist/s will be invited to mentorship and prototype optimization session with EY business point of contact and shortlisted EY GDS mentors to discuss about fine-tuning of their solutions.

11 December – 11 January

Phase 4: Virtual grand finale

Over a span of one day, the grand finale will include:

1.       Presentation from all finalists along with their EY GDS mentors

2.       Speech from leading professionals

3.       Fun activity sessions

4.       Winner announcement

13 January 2021