Oulu 5GFWD Hackathon

The first and the only 5G hackathon at the moment - Solve challenges for Nokia, Telia and Oulu University hospital. Total prizes worth over 25.000 €, partnership possibilities and company connections. Travel grants up to 1500 €.

Owning Partner

Business Oulu

Starts

9 Jun 2017

Ends

11 Jun 2017

Challenge Details

Resources

FAQs

Details

See the details and apply: http://5gfwd.org

NOKIA: DIGITAL FACTORY

CHALLENGE PRIZE: 5000 EUR

Nokia Oulu factory manufactures high-end telecom network equipment. We have an ambitious vision to become the Digital factory of the future. We plan to do it through digitalization and by creating highly automated and autonomous factory operations. Join us to make that happen with 5G!

TELIA: MOBILE APPS FOR 5G AGE

CHALLENGE PRIZE: 10000 EUR

Prepare yourself! 5G is a journey from 4G to new services, which will be enabled by a super short millisecond delay and a hundred times more bandwidth. Telia wants to challenge you to think, develop and hack these 5G services, and to create future customer experiences. In other words, experiences which go beyond what we have seen and experienced in our phones today. These apps may relate to everyday life by making it easier or more fun.

OULU UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL: CUSTOMER JOURNEY

CHALLENGE PRIZE: 5000 EUR

The customer experience in a hospital is affected by the familiarity of services, quality of people flow and easy-to-use services. 5G technology could make customer visits more pleasant in many ways. How to improve the customer visit with 5G applications in a simulated hospital environment at the University of Oulu?

Who can create a challenge?

If you want to publish a challenge on the NokiaPartners - Open communities and get support from the community to solve your problems, you first need to be registered on the platform. Then you need to contact the NokiaPartners - Open communities administrator in the Community section. They will create the challenge for you. Search for “admin” in the Community section, and click on “Nokia Admin” to contact and ask for your challenge to be created.

How do I submit an answer/proposal?

To contribute to a challenge, first open the challenge page, and then click on the "start proposal" button on the right-hand-side. A new page will appear with different text fields to fill in and attachments to include. You can also link to an existing project you have previously created on the platform. Once you have finished, click on submit.
If you save as draft, your submission will not be completed and will not be submitted to the challenge owner.

What happens once I submit?

Once you have submitted your proposal, your ‘Challenge Submission Form’ becomes accessible by the creator or the challenge, who can see and edit your proposal. Through the challenge page, only the owner of the challenge can see the different proposals submitted against his/her challenge. It is up to the challenge owner to inform participants about decisions and potential next steps.
To note, when you save a submission as draft, it is not submitted to the challenge owner.

Who can see my proposal?

The owner of the challenge, the submission review committee, and the NokiaPartners - Open communities Administrator team are the only ones who can see your proposed ideas and solutions to the challenge.

What happens if my proposal is successful?

For each challenge, submission review and selection process is different and the responsibility of the challenge owner. If your project is selected, the owner of the challenge will come back to you with further guidance on the next steps.

What happens if it is unsuccessful?

For each challenge, submission review and selection process is different and the responsibility of the challenge owner. If your project is not shortlisted, the owner of the challenge will inform you using the messaging features of NokiaPartners - Open communities. Your proposed ideas will then be removed/deleted from challenge submissions.