Employees/Students can directly register their team for the hackathon via the Cywayz portal https://cxocywayz.com/hackathon

TEAM FORMATION

  • All team members should be from the same Start-up/College; no inter-college teams are allowed.
  1. Each team would comprise 2- 4 members including the team leader.
  2. As this edition of the hackathon is a digital product development competition, the majority of the team members MUST be well-versed in programming skills.
  3. The team name should be unique and must not contain the name of your institute/Start-up in any form. Also, do not use the brand name ‘Cywayz’ in the Team name.
  4. A max of 2 teams per college can be nominated.
  5. Please note that participating certificates from our end will only be given to the teams who have qualified for the grand finale.

SHORTLISTED IDEAS ANNOUNCEMENT

  1. Notification about selected teams will be put up on our portal and will also be sent to their respective email IDs.
  2.  Be available for meetings and sessions during the preparation phase; you will be notified about  them in advance. 

MODE OF HACKATHON

The grand finale will be conducted offline, and the venue and pass will be mailed to the shortlisted team.

PROBLEM STATEMENTS AND PRIZES TO BE WON

  1. If the competent authorities conclude that none of the ideas are up-to-the-mark, they may not announce any winning team at the finale.
  2. If there is a tie between two teams, the final decision of the prize money distribution will be taken by the jury & CXO Cywayz only and once the decision is made, it won’t be changed further.
  3. Any decision is discretion of the CXO Cywayz.

IDEA SELECTION CRITERIA

Post Idea submission process, the ideas will be evaluated by experts. Evaluation criteria will include novelty of the idea, complexity, clarity, and details in the prescribed format, feasibility, practicability, sustainability, scale of impact, user experience, and potential for future work progression.

MISCELLANEOUS INFORMATION

1) Intellectual property (IP) of the idea would be split equally between CywayzCXO and the team. 

2) The ideas or solutions provided/developed/proposed by the team’s must be new and must not have been present in any previous event/program of any sort.