REGISTRATION CLOSED, ELIGIBLE PARTICIPANTS WILL RECEIVE THE LINK TO DISCORD WHERE FURTHER INFO WILL BE SHARED.

IMPORTANT: Note travel expenses are not covered. Only Food & Beverage will be provided during the entire onsite hackathon event for the approved developers!

NOTE: registration closes 30th January 2025!

This event takes place in a face-to-face format ONLY!

Welcome to the first of two ONE Record 2025 Hackathon, a round-the-clock experience which comprises:

One week ideation phase to prepare your project - starting Monday 17th February
A 28 hour coding experience to work on your projects and pitch ideas to a team of industry experts and mentors

During the Hackathon you will be asked to build solutions to enhance cargo products using the ONE Record Data Sharing standard by multimodal means. We will ask you to address at least one of the related challenges by using at least one of the APIs available at the event. In parallel, you will be able to attend some of the workshops that will take place and gain access to mentors that will support you through the Hackathon experience.

NB - IATA does NOT retain developers' Intellectual Property (IP) on any of their ideas/prototypes presented at this Hackathon. Detailed information under Terms and Conditions.

More information can be found on the dedicated Developer Portal for ONE Record.

Agenda:

Monday 17th February- Ideation phase kicks-off. Start planning your solution and look at connecting with available APIs

Monday 24th February 08:00 Welcome reception starts. Introduction of mentors, sponsors prizes and details of the challenges. Following on, each team should present their high level ideas for validation.
- - - - 10:00 Hackathon starts!

Tuesday 25th February 14:00 Coding finishes and submissions must be completed for judges to see.
- At around 15:00 (this gives enough time for a lunch/smoke/powernap break and checkout of hotel room) all team to meetup whereby IATA will host a few updates and ask some teams (INFORMALLY) to present their ideas to the other teams. Note the judges wont be present as they are scoring the submissions through Devpost.
- At around 16:00 judging will be completed and the judges will then join the meeting and announce the winners
- Around 17:00 the event closes

Requirements

Challenge:

Each team should choose and address at least ONE (1) challenge

more information will be shared soon

More information can be found on the Discord feed

For the SPONSORED Challenges, you MUST opt-in during project submission!

Note that full challenge and API connection details will be provided at the start of the Ideation phase on Monday 17th February 2025

Idea Submission

Register on Devpost
Submit your idea / project proposal via email to [email protected]
Describe the problem you are addressing and the solution you intend to build during the hackathon
Register on Discord/Devpost to find your teammates (if required)
- Describe team members' skills, plus skills needed by team members who may join your team
Promote your idea on Social Media: #ONERecord #DigitalCargo

The idea should be a project that you haven't done before and the first day of the hackathon (Monday 24th February) should be the first day you start developing and coding.

In order to make sure that Ideas are on the right track, we invite each team to start designing at the start of the ideation phase (17th February) and share your high level ideas with the IATA Team during the welcome reception on Monday (24th February) live in person. All teams must submit their ideas for approval in order to be able to be eligible to participate.

Final Project Submission (on Tuesday 25th February)

Remember to submit on time (14:00) the textual pitch and video (more info below) for the judging phase on Tuesday 25th February!

1. Textual Pitch on Devpost

You should explain:

The problem your project solves, including which ONE Record challenge(s) are addressed
Your solution and what it does
How did you build it?
What are you proud of?
What is next step for your solution and how will you take that step?
Links to test the solution (e.g., Github, Website, App, adobe) and the code

2. Video Pitch (5 Minutes Max):

Upload a video (5 minutes max) of the working demo of the solution on Youtube as a public video (it can be unlisted if you want) explaining your solution and the problems it solves. The link to the video must be uploaded on Devpost as well.

Important Reminder

Team sizes should be MAXIMUM 6 participants. with a minimum of 2.

All projects must be submitted by Tuesday, February 25 2025, at 14:00.

Judging will take place straight after submission and award ceremony with winner annoucement following starting around 16:00.

Hackathon Sponsors

Prizes

$12,000 in prizes

ULD/Jettainer Prize

$3,000 in cash

1 winner

Developer Prize

$3,000 in cash

1 winner

Digital Identity Prize

$3,000 in cash

1 winner

Open Logistics Foundation Prize

$3,000 in cash

1 winner

Judges

Glenn Peters
Collins Aerospace

Stefanie Pauly
Chief Information & Technology Officer / CITO, Jettainer

Anne Kammerer
Airfreight process expert, Riege Software

Andress Lam
Head of Cargo Digital, Cathay Cargo

Andreas Nettsträter
CEO, Open Logistics Foundation

Dr Christian Lehr
Senior Director Global Fulfilment Development, Lufthansa Cargo

Judging Criteria

Originality & Innovation
Is the project bringing value add & unique solution to the market? Is it a solution or creation we have never seen before? Is it a better way of doing current processes?
Technical Merit & Difficulty
Is it technically interesting or difficult to develop? Is the hack usable in its current state? Does everything appear to work as intended? Does it deliver a great experience? Is it mostly bug-free?
Impact
Does the project have any feasible application and/or have an impact that goes above and beyond? Will this help the supply chain with a real problem that we are currently facing? Can this be implemented?
Presentation Skills
Is the presentation clear & well structured? Does the project clearly define the problem? Solution? The features of the product or service? The benefits?