By Bettina Niklaus, Head of Customer Projects at Consor
Creativity and Team Spirit United
Our much anticipated 3rd Consor Hackathon took place on September 26 and 27, 2024. Within 24 hours, our creative minds from Customizing and Software Development created innovative ideas and presented their projects to an enthusiastic audience and a critical jury.
Ideas were already collected in advance, including topics such as automatically reading unstructured data into GeVos using AI, improving performance through GUI optimizations, improved debugging and developer tools for the universal formula language and much more.
The hackathon kicked off on Thursday at 1 p.m. with a short kickoff, during which the participating teams presented their projects in compact 3-minute pitches. Three teams entered the race with their ideas. The different projects covered a broad spectrum. The teams then had a good 24 hours to implement their ideas. In the evening, everyone was fortified with pizza and in the morning with croissants so that they could cope well with the final hackathon spurt.
The final presentations were eagerly awaited
The Decision
On Friday at 4 p.m., the time had come: the teams presented their results in final presentations lasting a maximum of 10 minutes. Everyone was amazed at what was possible in such a short time and laughed a lot at the funny demonstrations of the prototypes.
The jury, consisting of Ruedi Wipf, Martin Nokes and Bettina Niklaus, assessed the projects based on the following criteria:
- Degree of innovation of the idea
- Business value
- Functionality of the implementation
- Innovation of the implementation
- Pitch and final presentation
- Likes from Consor employees
The winning team impressed the jury with their clever integration of an AI-based chatbot, which you can ask your questions about Consor Universal directly in a chat instead of contacting a person from Customizing. The team was awarded a surprise prize and a trophy engraved with their names. After the award ceremony, the success was celebrated with an aperitif.
Conclusion
The Hackathon 2024 was an inspiring event that impressively demonstrated the innovative strength and team spirit of our employees. We would like to thank all participants and are already looking forward to the next edition!
The winning team of the Consor Hackathon 2024
