NOVEMBER 20-22, 2024, SKELLEFTEÅ
Arctic Challenge is a one-of-a-kind Hackathon focusing on IoT, digital twins and energy savings in buildings. This year the event is held in parallel with Arctic Game Jam: Green gaming and sustainability.
From Wednesday November 20th to Friday at lunchtime November 22nd both events will happen in parallel. Onsite at LTU, we will host the Hackathon for master students to collaborate, and experiment on the subjects IoT, digital twins and energy savings in buildings.
This is the time to meet other enthusiastic hackers, push your boundaries, and realize the projects of your dreams!
The initiative was taken by the ESUDA project.
It is supported/sponsored by
Skellefteå Digital Alliance,
DF Norra,
Luleå University of Technology,
Skellefteå municipality,
NUITEQ,
European regional development fund
and other companies and organisations. For the full list, see below under sponsors.
Venue: Skellefteå Campus, A-building rooms A002 & A009, Skellefteå
Come, join us and register here!
09:00 Registration opens for Arctic Challenge here.
The real events start on Wednesday November 20th.
09:00 Registrations are closed.
09:00 Registration on site.
09:30 Start and forming of teams for participants that don’t belong to a team. Presentations of challenges and tools. When we are ready, we start working.
12:00 Lunch is served at the hackathon premises. (No cost for participants and officials.)
18:30 Dinner together with officials and sponsoring organisations. Dinner is served in the hackathon premises. (No cost for participants and officials.).
After dinner we continue to work.
23:00 The hackathon closes for the night.
08:30 Breakfast is served in the hackathon premises. (No cost for participants and officials.)
09:00 Presentation of results so far. Feedback from the jury.
10:30 We start working again.
12:00 Lunch is served at the hackathon premises. (No cost for participants and officials.)
13:00 We start working again. There might also be scheduled short company pitches during the day. For Game Jam users, they can watch the company pitches remotely.
18:00 Dinner is served in the hackathon premises. (No cost for participants and officials.)
23:00 The hackathon closes for the night.
08:00 The hackathon starts again. Breakfast is served in the hackathon premises. (No cost for participants and officials.)
09:00-11:00 Final presentations.
11:00-11:30 Jury deliberations.
11:30 Lunch is served at the hackathon premises. (No cost for participants and officials.)
12:15-13:00 Awards ceremony and summation.
Anyone who has the competence to attend is welcome.
The challenges will be presented later.
The best contributions will get awards. Mostly this will be symbolic awards like diplomas.
You bring your own laptop to work on.
Everything developed at the hackathon will be open source.
We’ll provide food for all meals at the hackathon.
If you have dietary restrictions, we’ll try our best to accommodate them.
Of course, we’ll also have an abundance of snacks and refreshments throughout the hacking period.
Bring a laptop for hacking.
Teams are at about 5 people. You can select teammates before you register, or you can register individually without specified teammates.
It will be possible to find teammates when the hackathon starts.
If you don’t have a team now, that’s okay! We’ll help to form teams when the hackathon starts.
Nope! Admission is free and includes meals, snacks and a memorable experience (if we do say so ourselves)!
Please email us at marie.nolin@associated.ltu.se if you’re in any way confused or concerned! We’d love to help you out :)
Our sponsoring companies provide challenges to choose from.
