Hackamon 2019

Prizes (worth over $25,000)

First prize: Value $16,000

• Mentorship and workspace at eSolutions for three months (total of 24 days) to develop your solution
• Innovation Training with Peter Bradd
• Year-long subscription to InVision for your team
• VR headsets (for each team member)

Second prize: Value $4,000

• Year-long subscription to InVision for your team
• Innovation Training with Peter Bradd
• VR headsets (for each team member)

Third prize: Value $2,000

• Year-long subscription to InVision
• VR headsets (for each team member)

Participants Choice Award: Value $3,000

• Innovation Training with Peter Bradd
• Sphero Specdrum

Judging criteria

Impressiveness of idea/solution/approach/technology:
WOW factor of the idea or solutions; it shows a different way of thinking, working, or applying technology to the problem.

Originality
Truly new ways of thinking about the problems, solutions, processors or technology.

Impact
Represents a positive impact on the way the Monash community lives, studies and/or works.

User experience
The user has been central to the development of the solution.

Mentors

Peter Bradd (Master of ceremonies)

Peter Bradd was recently recognised as one of the top 10 most influential people in Australian technology. As an entrepreneur, he's founded 6 companies over the past decade.

At the age of 22, he partnered with Qantas to create Qantas Postcards, as service which let customers turn their own photos into real postcards printed and posted within 24 hours. He was a founding director and initial CEO of Fishburners, Australia's first and most popular tech co-working space, which has supported over 1,000 Technology entrepreneurs. He also a founding director and initial CEO of StartupAUS, Australia's national advocacy group for technology entrepreneurs and worked with Malcolm Turnbull on the National Science and Innovation Policy, a set of 20 initiatives which significantly enhanced the policy settings for Technology entrepreneurs in Australia.

He is currently the Federal Government's first 'thinker in residence' for the Digital transformation Agency, as well as running his own consultancy building innovation environments in large enterprise and being a busy father to his 2-year-old twin daughters.

Judges

Trevor Woods

Trevor has been the Chief Information Officer of Monash University, Australia's largest and most innovative university, since 2015 after having served in similar roles at the universities of Alberta and Lethbridge in Canada. He believes that the biggest digital disruption coming to Higher Education is in administration, and that Monash is well positioned to modernise. Though universities challenge accepted ways in the world, at Monash, we also challenge OUR accepted ways; that this is one of our strategic advantages. Trevor is leading the multi-year effort to modernise the student experience and administration and helping to drive a sustained culture of change by scaling Agile and cross-disciplinary design and delivery; running hackathons and popup innovations; supporting startups with a studio to 'test drive' creations; and involving resident entrepreneurs. Trevor has significantly reduced the time-to-benefit realization and provided organisation-wide cost savings while delivering enhanced levels of service, satisfaction, and improved business outcomes.