The event details are as follows:
Launch & data sets announced: Tuesday 15 October, 5pm – 6.30pm @ 137 St Georges Tce, Perth.
Challenge Workshop: Wednesday 16 October, 5pm – 6.30pm @ 139 St Georges Tce, Perth.
Challenge Workshop: Thursday 17 October, 5pm – 6.30pm @ 137 St Georges Tce, Perth.
Hackathon team building: Friday 18 October, 5.30pm – 6.30pm @ Spacecubed.
Hackathon weekend: Saturday and Sunday 19 – 20 October, 9am – 5pm @ Spacecubed.
Hackathons are collaborative and innovation focussed events that see participants build prototype solutions to solve challenges. When we say ‘hack’ in this context we mean to encourage quick solving something through a prototype, not breaking into a software system. Solutions are generally software-based programs, but they can also be new designs or even insightful improvements for processes and other issues. Given the time constraints (you’ll only have a week!) A prototype can be as simple as a small piece of code, a website or even a presentation. The point is to have fun helping our community.
The WA Health Hackathon 2024 is an annual hackathon that is focussed on improving the health services available to West Australians. This year the Hackathon will revolve around a Hackathon Weekend taking place over the 19 and 20 October 2024.
The Hackathon will be officially launched at a Launch Event during the week of the 14 October 2024. To support the innovation that will take place over the weekend a series of deep-dive presentations to help teams understand the Challenges will also take place during the week of the 14 October 2024.
The Hackathon will conclude at a Finale that will take place during the week of 21 October 2024.
More details about the Launch Event, workshop, Hackathon and Finale will be released soon.
One of the goals of the WA Health Hackathon 2024 is to encourage our participants to develop compelling, viable prototypes. To achieve this we have stretched out the timetable of the Hackathon to give you the best chance to understand the technical complexities of the challenges and more time to build your solutions.
The launch event on Tuesday 15 October will see the release of the data and provide a great moment to thank our partners and supporters.
The workshops on Wednesday 16 and Thursday 17 October provide you with dedicated time to meet the mentors and ask them your initial questions about the challenges and data.
The team building activity on Friday 18 October is designed to give participants without a team a form a new group. Participants that are already in a team may also like to use this time to start planning their prototype.
The Hackathon Weekend over the Saturday 19 and Sunday 20 October is the centrepiece of the Hackathon and will provide you with dedicated time to build your prototypes if you haven’t started on that yet. We’ll also hold our first round pitches on the Sunday.
On Thursday 24 October we’ll hold our finale to hear the brilliant work of our shortlisted teams and celebrate all the work you have put in.
Each Workshop focuses on specific challenges:
Wednesday 16 October, 5pm – 6.30pm
Challenges covered:
Thursday 17 October, 5pm – 6.30pm
Challenges covered:
At each workshop mentors that are specialists in the challenge will be available to answer your questions. We will also conduct a deep dive into the data sets that may help you build a solution to your question.
No! We’re completely realistic that everyone has other priorities. This is supposed to be a fun event where you can give back to our community by solving impactful challenges. This isn’t supposed to feel like work. If you can attend a workshop then please do so. We anticipate that it will be very useful for you to talk with mentors and explore the supporting data sets.
We do anticipate that some teams will begin working on their prototypes before the hackathon weekend and that’s great, but you’re under no obligation to do so.
The supporting events are intended to give you more time and information to help you think through how you might solve your challenges.
We strongly encourage that you attend the workshop relevant for your challenge.
The only compulsory events that you need to attend to be eligible for a prize are:
Registering your team in person at the event space at 11:00AM on Saturday 19 October 2024.
Pitching your prototype at the first round pitches on Sunday 20 October 2024.
We will require that participants are part of a team for the WA Health Hackathon 2024. We’ve noticed that participants have more fun as part of a team and that the prototypes which are built tend to be more impactful.
We are running a casual team building event on Friday 18 October, which we encourage you to come along to so that you can meet some of the other hackathon members.
You will need to register your team and the Challenge you are exploring in person on Saturday 19 October at the Hackathon.
Yes, but keep in mind the following requirements:
At 1pm on Sunday 20 October 2024 teams will have three minutes to ‘pitch’ their idea to our judges. Judges will also have an optional one minute of questions. This pitch can take whatever form you’d like – demonstrations are always a great way to show off what you’ve built. Using a defined Judging Criteria the Judges will select the five most compelling solutions. The teams on this shortlist will be invited to pitch at the finale on the Thursday 24 October 2024.
At 5.30pm on Thursday 24 October 2024 shortlisted teams will have five minutes to ‘pitch’ their idea to our judges. Judges will also have an optional one minute of questions. This pitch can take whatever form you’d like – demonstrations are always a great way to show off what you’ve built. Using a defined judging criteria, the judges will award the prizes to these shortlisted teams.
The judges will be announced at the each of the pitches.
Yes. Data will be provided for each of the challenges by the challenge sponsor. Teams are also encouraged to seek out and use other open data sources that might help them validate their solution.
Participants will be able to access the various data sets through the WA Health Hackathon Data Hosting Portal which will be opened at the launch event.
No, but if you are under the age of 18, you will need to be accompanied by a guardian at all times.
This will be an event where we explore how Generative AI techniques can help solve major issues affecting WA. We’d strongly recommend bringing along a laptop and a collaborative mindset!
Lunch and some drinks will be provided over the course of the Hackathon Weekend.
If you have any questions, you can contact WADSIH via LinkedIn or reach out to tim.sondalini@curtin.edu.au.
We would like to acknowledge and pay respect to the traditional owners of the land on which the WADSIH office is located, the Whadjuk people of the Nyungar Nation.
