Building on the success of our previous Hackathons – to redefine finance for good and build an unbiased fintech future, we continue to use our position in the market to inspire the fintech space to be open by default for everyone, as we strive for financial sustainability, inclusion and empowerment.
This year we aim to drive engagement beyond our global fintech ecosystem with three key themes that are inclusive and open to all:
Learn more about the Hackathon themes with Finastra and partners problem statements, live meetups and design thinking sessions.
Requirements
A strong team is a diverse team. We call on entrepreneurs, innovators, business-professionals, developers, designers and students from across the world to join our global open hackathon community. Create a project focused on one of the 3 themes above and submit to one of the 4 following categories:
Judging Categories
Category #1 - IDEA
- Participants: open to all
- Submission format: a pitch (slides, video, etc.) focused on business model innovation
Category #2 - BUILD
- Participants: open to all
- Submission format: a working prototype with demo video (code could be submitted on github)
Category #3 - SHOWCASE
- Participants: fintechs (start-ups and scale-ups)
- Submission format: app pitch/demo video
Category #4 - YOUTH HACK
- Participants: youth (10-18 years old)
- Submission format: an idea pitch (slides, video, etc.)
Prizes
$344,340 in prizes
Prizes paid in cryptocurrency
Category 1 'IDEA' eMBA
40% scholarship to LEADTECH Global Executive MBA worth €16800 (€25200 instead of €42000) from Ecole des Ponts Business School.
Available scholarships: 5 seats
Category 1 'IDEA' eDBA
40% scholarship to the Executive DBA program worth €19960 (€29940 instead of €49900) from Ecole des Ponts Business School.
Available scholarships: 5 seats
Category 2 'BUILD' Finastra's DE mentorship
(2)
Guidance and mentorship from Finastra's Distinguished Engineers as you bring your solution to life, in the form of bi-weekly design and implementation consulting sessions for 3 months.
Category 2 'BUILD' media interview
A media interview with Finextra TV
Category 2 'BUILD' - Sustainable & Inclusive Finance cash prize
$5,000 cash prize from Finastra
Category 2 'BUILD' - Sustainable & Inclusive Finance Trees
$1,000 worth of trees from Finastra/Ecotree
Category 2 'BUILD' - Sustainable & Inclusive Finance internship
3-month paid internship from Etiq.AI
Category 2 'BUILD' - Sustainable & Inclusive Finance Etiq.AI consulting
2-week consultancy work from Etiq.AI to evaluate their AI data/models and test for ML issues & risks
Category 2 'BUILD' - Sustainable & Inclusive Finance CEA certificate
(23)
Full Scholarship (100%) for the 'Circular Economy Expert' Certificate, from the Circular Economy Alliance
Category 2 'BUILD' - Embedded Finance cash prize
$5,000 cash prize from Finastra
Category 2 'BUILD' - Embedded Finance earbuds
Surface Earbuds from Microsoft
Category 2 'BUILD' - Embedded Finance ipads
iPads from aixigo
Category 2 'BUILD' - Decentralized Finance cash prize
$10,000 cash prize from Chainlink
Category 2 'BUILD' - Decentralized Finance crypto prize
$2,500 worth of crypto, split in USDc and Factr tokens from Defactor
Category 2 'BUILD' - Decentralized Finance incubation
Incubation opportunity with Capgemini
Category 3 'SHOWCASE'
Waiving the FusionFabric.cloud certification fees
Category 3 'SHOWCASE'
Special support on Go-to-Market from Finastra experts
Category 3 'SHOWCASE'
Special promotion of your app on FusionFabric.cloud
Category 3 'SHOWCASE' - Best Women-led Fintech
A media interview with Finextra TV for the best Women-led Fintech
Best Diversity Equity & Inclusion (DE&I) submission cash prize
$5,000 cash prize from Finastra
Best Diversity Equity & Inclusion (DE&I) submission Finastra's DE mentorship
(2)
Guidance and mentorship from Finastra's Distinguished Engineers as you bring your solution to life, in the form of bi-weekly design and implementation consulting sessions for 3 months.
Best Diversity Equity & Inclusion (DE&I) submission media interview
A media interview with Finextra TV
Category 4 'YOUTH HACK' $1,000 cash prize
(2)
$1,000 cash prizes from Finastra
Category 4 'YOUTH HACK' $500 cash prize
$500 cash prize from Finastra
All winners prize
(4)
40% scholarship to LEADTECH Global Executive MBA worth €16800 (€25200 instead of €42000) from Ecole des Ponts Business School.
Available scholarships: 5 seats
Devpost Achievements
Submitting to this hackathon could earn you:
Judges

Hervé Alexandre
Paris Dauphine University

Victor Yim
Head of Fintech, Cyberport HK

Gabrielle Inzirillo
ADGM

Laurence Bourgeois
Financial Inclusion Stream Leader, BNP Paribas Personal Finance

Renee Sattiewhite
President & CEO, African-American Credit Union Coalition

Sylvain Prigent
Founder & CPO, Société Générale Forge

Vid Hribar
Raiffeisen Bank International

Mike Sigal
Upside Partners

Samantha Emery
Lloyds Bank

JJ Figueredo
Digital Engineering Director, Scotia Bank

Isabel Fischer
Warwick Business School (WBS)

Sandra Odendahl
Vice President & Global Head of Sustainability at Scotiabank

Mohamed Moullouze
Chief Innovation Officer, Attijariwafa Bank

Alan Flower
CTO & Global Head, Cloud Native Labs at HCL Technologies

Jaguar-Adva Gal
JAGuar Lawyers

Etienne Royole
Advisor and former CEO, DeFi Pulse

Cédric Ardouin
Innovation Project Director, BNP Paribas

Rohit Garg
Emirates NBD

Fred Schwertfeger
Chief Strategy Officer, Horicon Bank

Saman Sabazvatan
Ecole des Ponts business school

Sarah Tahlaiti
WILLA

Solenne Niedercorn-Desouches
Independent Advisor, and host of Finscale podcast

Daragh Morrissey
Director at Microsoft Worldwide Financial Services

Jens Eriksson
European Bank for Reconstruction and Development

Amel Saidane
BetaCube

Genevieve Douhet
Head Of Innovation at Société Générale

Nadia Edwards-Dashti
Harrington Starr

Daragh Morrissey
Director at Microsoft Worldwide Financial Services

Admire Mudangwe
ImpiCapital Ventures

Sarah Gebretsadik
Manager, Social Impact & Innovation, Scotia Bank

Viraj Nair
UEL, London

Arunnima B S
VP, Strategy, Digital and Innovation (SDI) at Wells Fargo

Anastasiya Kizima
Fintech Platform Lead Barclays

Kevin Mullally
University of Central Florida

Kokila Ramaswamy
MD Accenture

Manuel Mello
Managing Consultant, Be Shaping the Future

Laurent Marochini
Head of Innovation Société Générale Securities Services

David Post
Managing Director, Chainlink

Christina Doyle
Director, Design Strategy and Community, Scotia Bank

Marissa Ellis
Founder & CEO Diversily

Cecile Gauffriau
Circular Economy Stream Leader, BNP Paribas Personal Finance

Nim Haas
Founder & Managing Director, TechFuse

Abhinav Bhatia
ISV Partner Engineer, Google Cloud

Rachel Shin
Corporate Sustainability, Scotiabank

Tom Du
Climate Change, Scotiabank

Arathi Rajeswari
General Manager and Head of Industry Products in SunTec Business Solutions

Pradeep Vancheeswaran
Sales & Solutions, HCL Technologies

Tyler Pichach
Executive Director, Worldwide Financial Services, Microsoft

Sahil Lakdawala
Director, Product Lead - Authentication, Scotia Bank

Udo Braendle
Dean, Dubai Business School

Rob Wilson
Senior Product Manager, Scotia Bank

Uma Meyyapan
SVP, Head of Digital Innovation, LPL Financial

Anita Ko
Product Design Director, Scotia Bank

Pramod Bijani
Innovation Strategy Director, Accenture

Bhalchandra Namjoshi
Managing Director and Head of India Operations, MINDBODY

Diego Ventura
CEO, noHold

Livia De Batista
Global Account Manager, Mastercard

Marc Samama
CDO, Société Générale Securities Services

Richard Peers
Founder, Responsible Risk

Stephen Wood
VP Product Innovation, Mastercard

Aasif Sarigat
Director, Financial Services, EY

Christian Ruppe
VP of Innovation and Strategy at Horicon Bank

Jigyasa Grover
Machine Learning Engineer, Twitter

Edlyn Khoo
Deputy Vice President, Digital Transformation Office of NTUC Income

Stephanie Berger
Director ESG, Scotiabank

Dan Amiram
Vice Dean and Joseph Safra Capital Markets and Financial Institutions Chaired Professor, Tel Aviv University Coller School of Management

Raluca Crisa
CTO, Etiq AI

Andy Hirst
VP Financial Services EMEA North, SAP

Kurt Schaldenbrand
VP Product, Larky

Alejandro Gutierrez
Cofounder & Operations Lead, Defactor

Greg Palmer
VP, Finovate

Yiftah Rottem
VP product at Clear Blockchain technologies

Clayton Ferrara
Executive Director, IDEAS For Us

Jonathan Middleton
NayaOne

Olivier Jamault
Innovation & fintech leader, Capgemini

Kevin Mullally
University of Central Florida

Sharon Sebastian
Regional Lead, NASSCOM 10000 Startups, NASSCOM

Dmitry Smirnov
Software Engineering Manager, Meta

Tessy Mathew
Professor, Mar Baselios College Of Engineering and Technology

Rittin Abraham Kurien
Assistant Professor, Saintgits College of Engineering, Kottayam, Kerala

Sunena Rose M V
Assistant Professor, Royal College of Engineering and Technology, Akkikavu, Thrissur

Reni K. Cherian
Associate Professor, SAINTGITS College of Engineering, Kottayam

Rajesh K S
Professor and HOD, Computer Applications - Saintgits College of Engineering, Kottayam

S.N Kumar
Assistant Professor, Amal Jyothi College of Engineering

Neethu PR
Assistant Professor, Royal College of Engineering and Technology

Moncef El Kharroubi
Responsable Stratégie & Innovation - Wafacash, Attijariwafa bank

M V Rajesh Maliyeckal
Associate Professor, College of Engineering Chengannur

Asha Joseph
Associate Professor, Amal Jyothi College of Engineering

Meya Zeghari
Head of the Attijariwafa bank Foundation

Abubeker K M
Assistant Professor, Amal Jyothi College of Engineering

Sebin Sunny P
Assistant Professor, Sreepathy Institute of Management And Technology

Manoj Mohan
Assistant Professor, Jawaharlal College of Engineering & Technology

Sreelal C V
Assistant Professor, St Thomas College of Engineering and Technology Kannur

Reji R
Associate Professor, Carmel college of Engineering and Technology Punnapra, alappuzha

Manoj Kumar B
Associate Professor, Scms School of Engineering and Technology, Karukutty

Reena Sebastian
HoD EEE, KMEA Engineering College , Aluva

Sanaa Drissi Alami
Director Trade Finance, Fi & Correspondent Banking – CIB

Mohamed Belahcen
Director of Payment Services at Wafacash, Attijariwafa bank

Noureddine Khattab
CDP, Attijariwafa bank

Jamal El Mazouni
CDP, Attijariwafa bank

Hayat El Adnani
Education Project Manager, Attijariwafa bank

Lamia Bakkali
Head of the Education, Entrepreneurship & Support for Associations Division - Attijariwafa bank Foundation
Judging Criteria
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Technology
Feasibility - innovative technologies use, execution quality, app design -
Human
App desirability, any user research or validation -
Business
Viability - includes business potential; innovative business models use; time to market -
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