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AN IDEATHON POWERED BY DEUTSCHE TELEKOM IT SOLUTIONS

13-15 November 2020

Deutsche Telekom IT Solutions is inviting students to an online ideathon. Take a chance, participate remotely, and bring an innovative solution to help change the world for the better!

WHAT IS futuRE:build?

It’s an international idea competition for students who are willing to make the world a better place using their creative intelligence, innovative ideas, and novel solutions. The event will take place online between November 13-15. You will brainstorm ideas and create a concept with your existing team, solo, or form a new team with others. Seasoned experts will be there to guide and mentor you along the way, if you need it.

WHAT’S OUR GOAL?

We aim to provide solutions to the burning issues of a rapidly changing, post-pandemic world with your help, focusing on four distinct areas of life. Expand the categories for examples.

Methods of teaching remotely

Avoiding the confusing landscape of multiple learning tools

Ethical education on how to keep the rules at home?

Remote diagnosis

Online medical advice

Keeping safe in hospitals

Aiding the collective mental recovery of mankind

Volunteering: helping your neighbors and local community

Rebuilding a transformed social life

Entertainment in the online age: concerts, festivals, sport events, etc.

New ways to reuse unused offices

Solutions to support the gig economy

Changing the 5-day work paradigm

Supporting small enterprises and farmers

AGENDA

13 November, 2020 - Friday

10:00 - Opening ceremony

10:30 - 20:00 - Mentoring sessions

23:59 - First draft submission deadline


14 November, 2020 - Saturday

10:30 - 18:00 - Mentoring sessions

20:00 - Second draft submission deadline


15 November, 2020 - Sunday

10:00 - Submission deadline

15:00 - Live pitch

17:00 - Closing ceremony

PRIZES

Each Category Winner will receive a prize of € 2,500*.


The Event Winner will receive an additional € 2,500 for a total of € 5,000*.


Furthermore, Deutsche Telekom IT Solutions will assist the Event Winner in realizing their idea!

* Prize subject to local tax laws in certain countries.

WHY US?

We are part of Deutsche Telekom, Europe's leading ICT company with a huge network of seasoned professionals. If your idea is great, you might win the chance to work with us!

Join us to solve the problems of our world.

DO YOU WANT TO MAKE AN IMPACT?

Don't hesitate to register now and join our Slack channel, which is the main communication platform for the ideathon.

FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS

I have an idea, what do I need to do?

  1. Find your teammates. Or apply solo, and ask to be added to a brand new team if you want. Lone wolves are also welcome.
  2. Register!
  3. Join us on November 13 and start brainstorming.
  4. Work on your solution with your team via Slack.
  5. Feel free to request mentoring on your project from experts.
  6. Submit your project video by 10:00 on November 15
  7. Take home your prize!

How can I submit my project?

To submit your project create a 2-minute video pitch, upload it to YouTube and link it on the submission form, along with some written information on your solution. The video may contain a speech, a live app demo (if you have one), some cool animation, etc...whichever fits best.

What does the evaluation method look like?

The jury will evaluate your project based on the 2-minute video pitch. Four Category Winners will be announced, who will be doing a 5-minute live pitch in the final round.

Do I keep the intellectual property rights to my project?

Of course, you will keep all rights to your project.

How do I register as a team lead or as a team member?

Through the DT-ITS website link that forwards you to a 3rd party registration tool.

As a team lead:

  1. Registering via the Junction site, choose Yes when asked if you’re applying as a team.
  2. Click the ☰ icon in the top left corner of the page and go to Team page.
  3. Click „Create a new team”.
  4. The platform will generate a unique team code. Send this to your team members using mail or any other method. It is not possible to share the code directly via Junction.
As a team member:
  1. Registering via the Junction site, choose Yes when asked if you’re applying as a team.
  2. Click the ☰ icon in the top left corner of the page and go to Team page.
  3. Insert the code to „Join an existing team”. If you haven’t received a code from your team lead, ask them to re-check these instructions.

Didn't find what you were looking for?

Please contact us at the email address below for any assistance or join our Slack workspace and we will help you out.

Where is the futuRE:build Ideathon organized?

The event is held 100% online. We use an open Slack workspace as the main platform for communication and Junction App for the hackathon submissions.

INSPIRATION

Here are some highlights from previous events:

ORGANIZERS

CONTACT

Károly Varga

Károly Varga

futuRE:build Ideathon Info and Registration

MENTORS

Erzsébet Vizaknai

Erzsébet Vizaknai

Innovation Manager

After a few years in aviation I started working in the banking sector mostly in collaboration with startups. Nowadays I am focusing on open banking projects and digitalization by facilitating partnership building with the bank. I can assist participants with product development and pitch training.

Gergely Haskó

Gergely Haskó

Tech Recruiter

I started my career at giant multis, later turned to the smallest possible startup, and slowly turned back to the corporate side, where we are working on our own products. I'm fascinated by tech, learned programming, still try to understand our environment as deep as possible.

Bálint Köcse

Bálint Köcse

Project Excellence Lead

Curious about what makes people engaged. As a Consultant and Project Expert of Kincentric Hungary team I am helping organizations to analyze and understand employee feedback, and act upon to enable colleagues thrive.

Péter Langmár

Péter Langmár

Co-founder & Exec Board Member at Green Fox Academy

Peter Langmar is an entrepreneur and investor, primarily responsible for biz dev and fundraising, with experience in SAAS (Brickflow), education (Green Fox Academy), IT consultancy (Lab.Coop) and early stage incubation (SmartWare.tech) businesses. He obtained his master's degree in Paris and worked for ArtScience Labs Harvard, now studying at the Central European University's executive MBA program. He took part in Estonian (Startup Wise Guys) and Chilean accelerators. TEDx speaker, Forbes magazine 30 under 30.

Dénes Zombori

Dénes Zombori

HR Leader

Dénes Zombori is the HR Leader of the Innonic Group Startup Studio, (Hungary's leading startup studio, with 4 successful companies). Dénes has gained experience in multinational, governmental and startup companies as well before he joined Innonic.

Tamás Barathi

Tamás Barathi

Founder, CEO at Colibri HR Solutions

One of the progressive HR representative in Hungary. Co-founder & Head of business development and sales at Blue Colibri App (Internal Communication and engagement platform), Founder, CEO at Colibri HR Solutions (Employer branding agency), Co-Founder at Zyntern.com (Recruitment platform). 17 years experience in marketing-communication and sales, 8 years experience in HR consulting. HR Innovator of the Year 2015.

Balázs Paróczay

Balázs Paróczay

Global Sourcing Leader

Balazs Paroczay is a globally recognized Sourcing Leader, Keynote Speaker and Talent Acquisition Strategist. Over the last fifteen years, Balazs has been engaged with various global organizations helping them set up best-in-class sourcing functions and organization-wide sourcing capabilities. Balazs uses his experience helping Talent Acquisition teams improve their core sourcing and recruiting abilities to identify, attract and engage with critical talent. He excels at social networking and plays a significant role within the global sourcing communities as a sourcing thought leader, blogger and conference speaker (e.g. SourceCon, truLondon, European Sourcing Summit, UNLEASH, HRFEST etc.).

Éva Uzsák Virág

Éva Uzsák Virág

Managing Director

Market leader of Kincentric. Known for driving disruptive and innovative solutions for different HR challenges with more than 14 years of experience. She was the mastermind of the first HR Hackathons in Hungary: NextHouR in 2014, World of Work Moonshot in 2017. Super excited to support teams to find groundbreaking solutions.

Gergely Hodicska, Felhő

Gergely Hodicska, Felhő

 

I love creating and optimising systems, furthermore learning and exploring new contexts. I’ve also done this as a developer (e.g. in case of the 30th busiest website in the world or the largest live stream service) and have been doing so for some time now as a leader. It is important for me to be constantly evolving and to be able to create an environment where everyone has room to grow and fulfil their potential. I like it when the collaboration reaches a level where the whole is more than the parts together, and when it’s supported by a culture where it only matters who adds what to this whole thing, not who that person is. I used to be the Head of Engineering at Ustream, now I’m VP of Engineering at Bitrise, and I’m working to make both our engineering team and the entire company a true learning organisation.

Zsuzsi Szabó

Zsuzsi Szabó

Human Resources Manager at Instructure

Hello, i'm Zsuzsi, currently working for Instructure as an HR Manager. I have comprehensive HR knowledge including, recruitment, recruitment services, reward and compensation, learning and development both in start-up and corporate culture.

Dorka Nagy-Józsa

Dorka Nagy-Józsa

CEO at Y2Y Hungary Kft.

Hello, I am a professional business coach, Founder & CEO of Y2Y Hungary Ltd. With my team, we provide leadership/process/organization development programs for startups, SMEs & large multinationals. Before becoming a full-time executive coach in 2016 I worked 15 years on the field of the supply chain in various management positions.

Lénárd Horgos

Lénárd Horgos

Partner at Absolvo Consulting

A founding partner and director of the international advisory firm Absolvo Consulting, having 15+ years international and CEE-focused experience in various business areas such as growth financing, raising venture capital for scaleups and growing / talented startups in technology & innovation-driven industries, growth strategy formulation and execution, international investor relations and full scale buy-side and sell-side M&A advisory.

Viktor Göltl

Viktor Göltl

Manager of HR Services at WHC Ltd

I am Viktor Göltl, 40+ and for the last 20years I’ve been stuck in the HR like Winnie the Pooh in the honey. As an HR service provider, I see HR working well-or-less-well in many companies, while I am one of the owner and service-manager at our company. I love challenges and getting better every day really motivates me.

Balázs Zentai

Balázs Zentai

CTO at Talentuno

25 yrs in SW dev, mainly in fintech, banking. CTO for 13 yrs from startup to multi. Last yr in HR tech at Talentuno.

Eszter Németh Ivy

Eszter Németh Ivy

Project Manager at HR Fest

I began my career as an educational professional in the adult education industry. Following that I was an HR manager for a group of small companies doing all aspects of HR. I am currently the project manager of HR Fest, I am responsible for the operational management of the team.

Ferenc Hegedűs

Ferenc Hegedűs

 

I'm kind of the swiss knife of the IT Development in Telenor. :) I had many roles in the company but in the recent 5 years I'm focusing on IT innovation and digital transformation while we try to reshape the way of work, the tools and our people.

Zita Nagy-Földi

Zita Nagy-Földi

Talent, Capability and Resourcing Lead at Vodafone Hungary

A result focused, reliable and enthusiastic HR professional with experience in HR project management and HR transformation. Passionate about change management and supporting organizations and people in their transformational journey to fulfilling their potential and delivering exceptional service to their clients.

Gábor Nádai, Mefi

Gábor Nádai, Mefi

Engineering Manager at Bitrise

My name is Gabor Nadai, but you can call me Mefi. I'm an Engineering Manager, currently working at Bitrise, former VP of Engineering at ingatlan.com. My mission is building awesome communities and teams to create great software, which truly helps people.

Zsolt Balaskó

Zsolt Balaskó

 

I’ve been working in the ICT sector for 20 years. I started my career in a startup as a developer and worked there for 10ys. I learned a lot there about business development and people management as I’ve led my own department of 60 people. In Telenor, I’m an ambassador of innovative mindset, agile way of work and how to adopt it into enterprise culture.

Bea Bedő

Bea Bedő

Co-Founder, CFO, Mentor at Impact Hub Budapest

Well experienced in leading project based teams, launching companies, stating risk areas and over-viewing the operation of various organizations, a financial strategist and controller, as well a statutory auditor. The Co-Founder of Impact Hub Budapest, which is a social enterprise and leading incubation and acceleration programs, from early stage to investment readiness.