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Summary Sentence: Participate in the 24-hour hackathon hosted by HackGT at Georgia Tech
Full Summary: HackTheIndustry is a 24-hour hackathon hosted by HackGT at Georgia Tech focused on revolutionizing the freight industry. Participants will create solutions to challenges provided by logistics industry leaders through the use of technologies such as artificial intelligence, blockchain, and the internet of things.
HackTheIndustry 2018What happens when you turn the brightest young minds from across the country loose on real business challenges for 24 hours straight? Inspiration. Innovation. Catalyst for change.
At HackTheIndustry, we’re going to do more than talk about FreightTech solutions in the transportation industry, we’re going to build them! HackTheIndustry will gather talent throughout the collegiate tech community to foster ideas from these young, bright minds, provide solutions for selected industry innovations and issues, and propel change.
Whether you want to crowdsource ideas to reach a solution, solve for relevant and real business issues, or simply build your brand within the developer ecosystem HackTheIndustry is the place for you.
TELL ME MORE...
HackTheIndustry is intended to develop proof of concepts to help the community understand the possibilities of blockchain, IoT, FreightTech and data applications. For example, as a blockchain use case, we might like to see how this technology could be used to create self-executing contracts.
Other use cases may include:
We’ll provide other topics closer to the event date.
WHO’S HACKING?
Hackathons are a growing trend in the collegiate community. Hackers are collegiates who will soon enter the workforce.
HOW DOES IT WORK?
Team Challenges aim to demonstrate proof-of-concepts to problems and tech opportunities with the transportation industry in:
For more information, please visit http://hacktheindustry.hack.gt/.
