The hackathon, which was supported by CEBDS, brought together around 1,500 participants in 15 collective hackathons between October 18 and 20 in Rio de Janeiro. The team that came in first place was “Projeto Arcanjo”, from the health cluster, and received R$ 15 thousand. “Meu Lugar”, from the tourism cluster, came in second place, while third place went to “Rockbase”, a sports cluster.
The event brought together the largest marathon of developers in Latin America and experts to think about and debate high-impact solutions for real problems faced by society in the current moment of digital transformation.
O Hacking.Rio had more than a thousand professionals from the areas of development, programming, design and business in a 42-hour competition to develop new technologies capable of solving problems such as transportation, health and education in Rio. The profiles were selected by a committee and allocated to 15 thematic hackathons that will take place simultaneously.
“In the era of digital transformation, in which we seek to create exponential businesses and reinvent our careers, the hackathon is a collective, agile learning tool, a unique experience to help inspire the new generation of “smart people”. People who create, do and innovate as a life purpose”, says Lindália Junqueira, organizer of Hacking.Rio and co-founder of the Juntospelo.Rio movement.
The themes worked on by the hacker groups were: education; energy; sports; food; construction, culture and creative economy; insurance; mobility; oil and gas; distribution and convenience; security, defense and cybersecurity; sustainability and oceans; platform cooperativism and tourism.
Within the challenges of each sector, the groups worked from the perspective of the 17 challenges of the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), which must be implemented worldwide by 2030.
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