DECARBONIZE!

HACKATHON

19-27 March 2021

Meet the Winners

Deadline to Apply: 10 February 2021

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Dell Technologies is launching its First AI Hackathon in Egypt in Collaboration with the Ministry of Communications and Information Technology. 

C(4F)₂ Hackathon is open for all students and working professionals interested in AI. 

Students

Working Professionals

The Hackathon offers participants the opportunity of being drivers of change by using their innovative skills while advancing their understanding of AI concepts. 

Join us in C(4F)₂ to help reducing carbon dioxide emissions coming up from Vehicles and traffic with your innovative concepts and skills.

Eligibility

We invite all Egyptian Students, Engineers, Developers, Scientists, Business Analysts in relevant fields as Computer Science, Big Data, and Machine Learning, to be part of the Hackathon.

Your team must have these skills:

  • At least one team member that can code (Python will be used)
  • At least one team member that has Data Analysis skills

Additional Skills:

  • Reinforcement learning and optimization models.

Data Scientists

Engineers

Developers

Entrepreneurs

Business Analysts

Prizes

Winners will receive prizes with a total of $12,000.

All accepted team members will receive cool welcome packages and certificates of recognition.

Hackathon Timeline

Application Submission

10 January 2021 
to 10 February 2021

Accepted Teams Announcement

7 March 2021

Hackathon

19 March 2021 
to 27 March 2021

The Winners Announcement

27 March 2021

Application Submission

10 January 2021 
to 10 February 2021

Accepted Teams Announcement

7 March 2021

Hackathon

19 March 2021 
to 27 March 2021

The Winners Announcement

27 March 2021

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Date: 23/01/2021

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AI-Driven Business Leaders Webinar

Mentors

Mohamed Abouzied

Data Scientist

Mohamed Abouzeid is a Data Scientist and a Machine learning Engineer. read more
Mohamed has been enabling and implementing machine learning / deep learning algorithms , within Dell technologies. Mohamed has coauthored 2 patents in technology forecasting and in enabling secure machine learning in federated paradigm. Mohamed is passionate about anything that is data and technology related.
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Habiba Yassin

Software Engineer

Recently graduated from the American University in Cairo with a Bachelor's Degree in Computer Engineering and a minor in Business Administration.

Abdulrahman Diaa

Data Scientist

"An undergraduate research intern pursuing a double major in Computer Engineering and Mathematics at AUC. read more
As an undergraduate researcher at AUC, he worked on developing intelligent agents for traffic control systems."
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Osama Taha

Data Scientist

Data scientist with interest in making machines smarter.

Shehab AbdelSalam

Software Engineer

Shehab works in the Data Office Team as a Software Engineer. read more
He had prior experience working in Live Optics Engineering team at Dell. He worked as a part-time Graduate Teaching Assistant at The American University in Cairo for 3 years, and he is currently studying his M.Sc. with focus on A.I. research.
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Yaseen Moussa

Data Scientist

Data Scientist with a degree in Actuarial Science from AUC, with double minors in computer science and economics. read more
Held previous positions as a data science intern at Synapse Analytics and a big data research assistant at AUC's economics department; currently working as a data scientist at Dell Technologies.
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Hany Moussa

Data Scientist

An undergraduate Data Scientist intern majoring in Computer Engineering and minoring in Mathematics at AUC. read more
Before joining Dell Technologies, Hany worked as a Data Science Research Assistant at AUC.
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Alaa Anani

Data Scientist

An undergraduate Data Scientist intern studying Computer Engineering at AUC with a Mathematics minor. read more
I am a Machine Learning researcher with specializations in DRL, Theoretical ML and Computer Vision.
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Frequently Asked Questions

A hackathon is an event in which teams work in a short period of time to develop innovative solutions that meet a given challenge.

Registration for teams is opened from 10 January till 10 February 2021

Click here for registration. 

You can only register as team.

The Team leader to register with the Team name and members.

This is a virtual event.

Please check the Hackathon timeline.

We will provide a Slack channel where mentors and participants can have discussions.

Teams should not exceed 5 people.

Webinars are opened to everyone.

The winning teams will be rewarded by a total of $12000.

All accepted teams will receive cool giveaways.

This hackathon is open for all CS/CE students and working professionals interested in AI, Data Science, Machine learning.

We recommend that you must have at least one team member that can code (python will be used) and at least one team member that has Data Analysis skills.

Reinforcement learning and optimization models are additional skills.

No, The hackathon is for free.

We have two tracks students and working professionals.

They can be Data Scientists, Engineers, Developers, Entrepreneurs and Business Analysts in relevant fields: Computer science, Big Data, Machine Learning.

Meet the Winners