Tur­ku Bu­si­ness Re­gion Ult­ra­hack

Tur­ku Bu­si­ness Re­gion Ult­ra­hack is an in­ter­na­tio­nal in­no­va­tion chal­len­ge cul­mi­na­ting to a hac­kat­hon, searc­hing for new so­lu­tions and tech­no­lo­gy for com­pa­nies ope­ra­ting in Tur­ku area.

The main part­ner is Tur­ku Scien­ce Park Ltd, which of­fers bu­si­ness and in­no­va­tion ser­vi­ces wit­hin the Tur­ku Bu­si­ness Re­gion.
The chal­len­ge part­ners are Kiil­toC­lean Oy and Meyer. Vin­cit is with us as an enab­ling part­ner. Boost Tur­ku is a com­mu­ni­ty part­ner, and Tur­ku­Sec is a com­mu­ni­ty or­ga­ni­zer.

Pri­ze pot inc­lu­des +50 000€ in cash and pi­lo­ting fun­ding.

Hac­kat­hon fi­nals in Tur­ku, Fin­land 12.-14.10.2018.
Dead­li­ne for app­li­ca­tions is 24.09.2018.

App­ly as soon as pos­sib­le. You ha­ve the chan­ce to mo­di­fy your app­li­ca­tion un­til the 24th of Sep­tem­ber. But as soon as you app­ly you can con­tact the men­tors and the men­tors can con­tact you and gi­ve you a bet­ter shot at get­ting a spot in the fi­nals.

Ve­nue: Spar­kUp Tur­ku (Ty­kis­tök­at­u 4), fi­nal pitc­hes at Jo­ki Tur­ku (Lem­min­käis­enk­at­u 12 B).

Da­tes to be no­ted:
19th of Sep­tem­ber pre hack at Vin­cit in Tur­ku (Hel­sin­gin­ka­tu 15) star­ting at 5 PM
24th of Sep­tem­ber is the dead­li­ne for app­li­ca­tions
2nd of Oc­to­ber at 5 PM 2nd pre hack at Spar­kUp (Ty­kis­tök­at­u 4) in Tur­ku
12th to 14th of Oc­to­ber Fi­nals at Spar­kUp (Ty­kis­tök­at­u 4) in Tur­ku
The Hac­kat­hon runs un­der the main ru­les of Ult­ra­hack.

Ques­tions re­gar­ding Tur­ku Bu­si­ness Re­gion Ult­ra­hack to Kons­ta We­ber Chief Evan­ge­list at Ult­ra­hack kons­ta.we­ber@ult­ra­hack.org

— CHAL­LEN­GES —

1. Hack the Sp­read of Epi­de­mics with Kiil­toC­lean
Hand­was­hing is seen to be the main com­po­nent of per­so­nal hy­gie­ne and has al­so been a sym­bo­lic part of re­li­gious and cul­tu­ral cus­toms sin­ce the dawn of ti­me. Ho­we­ver, the link bet­ween hand­was­hing and health was first dis­co­ve­red less than two cen­tu­ries ago and poor hy­gie­ne prac­ti­ces ha­ve sin­ce been known to lead to the sp­read of di­sea­se and in­fec­tions. The mo­dern way to en­su­re hy­gie­ne is by using a com­bi­na­tion of hand­was­hing, sa­ni­ti­zers and di­sin­fec­tants. The­re are mul­tip­le chal­len­ges still with cur­rent met­hods of hand sa­ni­ti­za­tion. For examp­le, in­di­vi­duals ha­ve dif­fe­rent ways of doing it or may even skip it lea­ding to less than op­ti­mal re­sults. The exis­ting equip­ment, most com­mon­ly al­co­hol-ba­sed hand sa­ni­ti­zers which are moun­ted on me­tal racks, may be un­hy­gie­nic and dif­fi­cult or un­com­for­tab­le to use, or the­re may simp­ly be no wa­ter or soap avai­lab­le. The cur­rent hard­wa­re e.g. taps, sink, soap dis­pen­ser, are far from di­gi­tal­ly in­tel­li­gent, the pro­ce­du­res are not mo­ni­to­red, and the­re is litt­le user-in­te­rac­tion which inc­rea­ses the pos­si­bi­li­ty of mi­su­se. Mo­dern hand­was­hing pro­ce­du­res are slow and mul­ti-sta­ge, but the­se should be con­sis­tent, ea­sy, and quick. Uti­li­zing wa­ter as key com­po­nent for hand­was­hing is al­so far from being eco­lo­gi­cal. Key in­dust­ries whe­re hand sa­ni­ti­za­tion is cent­ral to ste­ri­li­ty and hy­gie­ne prac­ti­ce are, health­ca­re, food in­dust­ry, la­bo­ra­to­ries, ste­ri­le ma­nu­fac­tu­re, etc.
How to clean your hands in an eco­lo­gic, ef­fec­ti­ve and healt­hy fas­hion? Co­me up with new con­cepts, hard­wa­re or in­teg­ra­ted di­gi­tal so­lu­tions for was­hing hands and hand hy­gie­ne.

2. Hac­ka­board: Hack the Fu­tu­re of Crui­se Ships
The crui­se ship is one of the lar­gest hu­man-ma­de ob­jects on earth. The in­dust­ry is att­rac­ting an inc­rea­sing num­ber of pas­sen­gers an­nual­ly and it is ex­pec­ted that 27.2 mil­lion pas­sen­gers will em­bark on crui­ses glo­bal­ly, in 2018. The crui­se ship in­dust­ry, ac­cor­ding­ly, is gro­wing and en­dea­vo­ring to crea­te mo­re ama­zing crui­sing ex­pe­rien­ce for the pre­sent and fu­tu­re ge­ne­ra­tions of pas­sen­gers. Crea­ti­vi­ty is the co­re of our in­dust­ry. So bring all your in­no­va­ti­ve and fu­tu­ris­tic crea­ti­vi­ty to our chal­len­ge and de­sign the fu­tu­re of the crui­sing ex­pe­rien­ce, tar­ge­ting 2030 and beyond. Du­ring this chal­len­ge we en­cou­ra­ge you to fo­cus on (1) en­han­cing pas­sen­gers ex­pe­rien­ce on ships’ pool deck as well as in ca­bins, and (2) uti­li­zing smart tech­no­lo­gies such as AI to of­fer uni­que and fu­tu­ris­tic ser­vi­ces for pas­sen­gers and sup­port crews’ ac­ti­vi­ties.

— IN­FO —
Mo­re in­fo at https://ult­ra­hack.org/tur­ku­bu­si­ness­re­gio­nult­ra­hack2018