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Having successfully completed the Kaunas hackathon challenge, Reutlingen challenge is ahead! Join us for Reutlingen challenge on November 6-8, 2019: https://www.hackin4.de
In case you missed the Kaunas hackathon challenge, see the information below.
Bendra informacija Lietuviškai
The final program (last updated 2019.09.30)
Monday, September 30
09:45 – 10:00 Opening of the Hackathon.
Welcoming word by the dean of Kaunas Faculty doc.dr. Kestutis Driaunys and Prof. Vladislav Fomin
10:00 – 11:00 Thematic presentations by the partnering universities and sponsors.
- Vilnius University
- Reutlingen University
- Tartu University
- University of Latvia
11:15 – 12:15 Thematic presentations by the sponsors
11:30 – 14:00 Coffee and refreshments, registration of students’ teams, experimentation with the High Resolution Display Wall, consolations with university lecturers and company representatives
12:30 – 24 hour hackathon countdown starts
- Gronskio auditorium, auxiliary computer labs, and the High Resolution Display wall will be available for the Hackathon participants throughout the night until the next day. Refreshments will be provided.
Tuesday, October 1
09:45 – 12:30 Hackathon teams are invited for demoing their prototypes/designs and for consultations with the university lecturers
12:30 – 14:00 Team presentations
Participating teams present their prototypes/designs
14:00 – 14:30 Jury meeting
Jury selects the winner of the Hackathon
14:30 – 15:15 The closing of the Hackathon
The winner is announced
Follow up and discussion
Ongoing registration: teams and topics
Last updated : 2019.09.30
NB: Students can either forms a new team of 4-5, or ask to be added to one of the listed teams for which additional members are sought. In any case, registration must be done by sending an email to hakatonas2019 [AT] knf [DOT] vu [DOT] lt according to the format presented at the info page.
Team No |
No |
Participant’s name and surname |
Institution |
Team’s Name |
The topic/idea |
1 |
1 |
Marius Ivaškevičius (PhD Candidate) |
Kaunas University of Technology Faculty of Civil Engineering and Architecture Department of Architecture and Urbanism |
Power of Cellulars / Ląstelių jėga (None-student team) |
High resolution visualization of urban growth by using Cellular Automata |
2 |
Valentas Gružauskas (PhDc) |
Kaunas University of Technology School of Economics and Business |
3 |
Jūratė Kuklytė |
Vytautas Magnus University |
4 |
Antanas Ūsas |
|
2 |
5 |
Rando Tõnisson |
University of Tartu, Estonia |
RAR+ |
Security and Privacy Analysis and Visualization in Intelligent Transportation Systems |
6 |
Anita Nwaokolo |
University of Tartu, Estonia |
7 |
Pēteris Pakans |
University of Latvia |
8 |
Roberts Leonārs Svarinskis |
University of Latvia |
9 |
Victor Klymok |
VU Kauno fakultetas |
3 |
10 |
Dovydas Marciuška |
VU Kauno fakultetas |
Wunderkindai |
|
11 |
Emilija Zelenkauskaitė |
VU Kauno fakultetas |
12 |
Andrius Mašonis |
VU Kauno fakultetas |
13 |
Lukas Čiurlionis |
VU Kauno fakultetas |
14 |
Radvydas Pocevičius |
VU Kauno fakultetas |
4 |
15 |
Thomas Kilinc |
VU Kauno fakultetas |
CypherPunks |
|
16 |
Sovannrithyreach Kim |
VU Kauno fakultetas |
17 |
Josiah Tan Yue Xian |
VU Kauno fakultetas |
18 |
Aniket Chauhan |
VU Kauno fakultetas |
19 |
Yevgeni Anischenko |
VU Kauno fakultetas |
5 |
20 |
Klaudija Žvirblytė |
VU Kauno fakultetas |
Hackeres |
|
21 |
Rugilė Petkevičiūtė |
VU Kauno fakultetas |
22 |
Viktorija Zigmantaitė |
VU Kauno fakultetas |
23 |
Kamilė Puzinaitė |
VU Kauno fakultetas |
6 |
24 |
Domantas Augustinas |
VU Kauno fakultetas |
MCv6 |
|
25 |
Emilia Liuimaitė |
VU Kauno fakultetas |
26 |
Kipras Daknevičius |
VU Kauno fakultetas |
27 |
Rytis Petrėnas |
VU Kauno fakultetas |
28 |
Ignas Čerškus |
VU Kauno fakultetas |
7 |
29 |
Lukas Petravičius |
VU Kauno fakultetas |
Rain |
|
30 |
Haoling Liu |
VU Kauno fakultetas |
31 |
Bartas Vainilaitis |
VU Kauno fakultetas |
32 |
Tomas Savėnas |
VU Kauno fakultetas |
33 |
Vincentas Baubonis |
VU Kauno fakultetas |
How to register
Registration for students
Students must register by email: hakatonas2019 [AT] knf [DOT] vu [DOT] lt
Emails must be structured as the following:
SUBJECT LINE: registration for Kaunas hackathon 2019
BODY of the message:
- Participant’s name and surname
- If you have already formed a team, your team’s name
- If you have already formed a team, how many people there are in your team (including you).
- If you have already formed a team, your team mates’ names (EACH TEAM MEMBER MUST REGISTER SEPARATELY, indicating all other team members in his/her registration.)
- If you already have a topic/idea, and you wish to make it public (topics will be published online as registrations start coming in) – the topic/idea (ONE SENTENCE ONLY!)
- Whether you need a wheel chair access to the university facilities.
We will keep posting registration information as it arrives, so that students can see the topics, the teams, and contact other participants without a team or incomplete teams to discuss team formation.
Companies and sponsorship
Companies are invited to financially support the event. The funds received from companies will allow us to sponsor the trip expenses of the winning team to Reutlingen and to help with local arrangements.
The companies are also asked to contribute with presentations on big data analysis and visualization, to help students get ideas about the contemporary market needs, challenges, and opportunities, and to help generate ideas for the hackathon challenge.
Companies which intend to provide support to the event and/or make a presentation at the event should contact Prof. Vladislav Fomin by email or phone:
Vladislav [DOT] Fomin [AT] knf [DOT] vu [DOT] lt or vvfomin [AT] gmail [DOT] com or +37064858113.
Please indicate “hackathon” or “hakatonas” in the subject line.
Call if you do not receive a reply in 24 hours.
SPONSORS
Information about the event
Place: Vilnius University, Kaunas Faculty, Muitines 8, Kaunas, LITHUANIA
Date/Time: Monday, September 30 to Tuesday, October 1.
Hackathon “Big data analysis and visualization” is a series of two 2-day events intended primarily for students of the partnering universities: Vilnius University, Reutlingen University, University of Latvia, Tartu University. Students of Vytautas Magnus University have a special invitation to participate. Participation is open to students and academic staff of other higher education institutions.
This project is supported by the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) with funds from the Foreign Office of the Federal Republic Germany through project competition of the Baltic-German University Liaison Office (HochSchulKontor.lv).
The first of the two hackathons will take place at the Kaunas Faculty of Vilnius University on September 30 – October 1, 2019. The second hackathon is organized at Reutlingen University (Germany) on November 7-8, 2019.
The hackathon challenge
The grand challenge of the Hackathon is to develop use cases for very-high-resolution display wall. One of the challenges related to big data analysis and visualization is the need to visualize data in meaningful and readable way. To date, most workstations use 1 or two displays with the total resolution of 4K or 8K. High-resolution displays which are available on the market are bulky and pricy and for those reasons have not achieved wide industrial adoption. Another substantial barrier to wide adoption of high resolution displays – is the lack of use cases/concepts of how to take advantage of the very high resolution – the challenge we are going to address in this hackathon!
Participants of the Kaunas hackathon will have access to high-resolution display architecture with a resolution of 16,5K (7680 x 2160 pixels). This prototype technology allows scalability (the system was tested with a resolution of 52K), is easy to implement, and has a great potential for big data visualization applications due to low cost, simple setup, and the already mentioned scalability. The prototype technology has been developed by Prof. Arnicans and his colleagues at University of Latvia (the description of the prototype is available for download here: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/322133032).
Students are invited to invent use cases for high resolution visualization. Ideas can be sought in the university and company presentations at the hackathon or elsewhere.
Organization of the hackathon
The two day Kaunas hackathon will start at Kaunas Faculty of Vilnius University (Muitines 8, Kaunas) at 10:00 on Monday, September 30 and end in the evening of Tuesday, October 1st, 2019.
University partners and participating companies will lead in with presentations on big data analysis and visualization cases, challenges and solutions, directions for future development, employment trends.
At about 14:00 (the start time may be changed depending on the number of registered participants and companies) the hackathon’s 24 hour countdown will start. At the afternoon of the following day student (and faculty, if any) teams will be making presentations on their developed ideas.
A jury made of university and company representatives will evaluate the presentations and announce the winning team.
The grand prize for the challenge
The winning team is receiving the grand prize – the travel and accommodation expenses of the winning team to attend Reutlingen hackathon on November 7-8 will be paid by the project.
Important information about the teams
- Participation in the hackathon is only possible for teams
- The teams can be of minimum 4 and maximum 5 people
- Teams can be formed prior to the start of the event or during the event, but not later than 16:00 (unless later on announced differently) of September 30 (the 1st day of the event)
- While students are the primary target group of the hackathon, we invite teams made up of lecturers and /or company representatives. The Grand Prize of the hackathon will go to a student team only (The Grand Prize of the hackathon will go to a student team only (other than student group team won’t receive the Grand Prize).
Sponsors
This project of the Baltic-German University Liaison Office is supported by the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) with funds from the Foreign Office of the Federal Republic Germany.
The project is also supported by the following companies: