House of Science, Riga
3–4 dec
CyberBazaar Hackathon
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The most cyber secure hackathon in the Baltics
Are you a student in the Baltics? Get ready to meet your future colleagues! Participate in the 2024 CyberBazaar Hackathon to tackle real-world challenges and create fresh solutions for the future of cyber security. Be part of the action!
The hackathon will take place on-site at the campus of the University of Latvia (House of Science, Jelgavas Street 3, Riga) on 3-4 December 2024.
Registration for the hackathon has closed.
Info
How to sign up
- Participation is open to students from the Baltic states - Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania.
- All participants must be at least 16 years old.
- Participants can sign up as a team (up to 5 members) or as individual participants.
- Teams can also be formed at a later stage (communication in Discord).
- Individual participants without a team will be able to choose a challenge and will be assigned a team by the organizers.
- Teams will notify the organisers about the team composition (team lead, team members) by 15:00 on 3 December via Discord.
Rules
- Challenge topics will be announced on the website in due time.
- After the kick-off, the organisers will present each challenge in detail.
- Each team will pick one challenge to address and will notify the organisers about their choice by 15:00 on 3 December via Discord.
- Each team will have no more than 24 hours to generate ideas to address the chosen challenge.
- Teams will submit their ideas by 13:00 on 4 December via Discord.
- Each team will have the opportunity to present their ideas to the jury.
- The jury will assess all the submitted ideas and will select the best idea for each challenge.
Topics
Challenge topics
- Cybersecurity Governance
- Cybersecurity Innovations
- Cybersecurity Awareness Raising
More information will be provided to the hackathon participants on-site.
Venue
Agenda
December 3
- 10:00-12:00 - Arrival & Registration 
- 11:00-12:00 - Morning Coffee 
- 12:00-12:15 - Official Welcome & Kick-Off 
- 12:15-13:00 - Presentations of the Challenges 
- 13:00 - START OF THE HACKATHON 
- 13:00-13:30 - Matchmaking & Team Composition 
- 13:30-14:30 - Lunch 
- 14:30-16:30 - Hacking Time 
- 16:30-17:00 - Coffee Break 
- 17:00-19:00 - Hacking Time 
- 19:00-20:00 - Dinner & Free Time 
December 4
- 09:00-10:00 - Morning Coffee 
- 10:00-13:00 - Hacking Time 
- 13:00 - IDEA SUBMISSION DEADLINE 
- 13:00-14:00 - Lunch 
- 14:00-16:00 - Team Presentations 
- 16:00-16:30 - Coffee Break 
- 16:30-17:30 - Awards & Winners’ Presentations 
- 17:30-18:00 - Official Closing of the Hackathon 
- 18:00-19:00 - Coffee & Networking 
- 19:00 - Farewell 
