🎯 Hack4Impact is a hackathon that opens up a new generation of Vinnytsia region's tech creators

Three days, eight teams, dozens of ideas, and one goal: to make Vinnytsia more convenient and attractive to tourists. The IT Association of Vinnytsia, together with Radar Tech, held a city student hackathon, Hack4Impact, which brought together 50 young participants from six educational institutions of the region.

🔍 Challenge topics are not a theory, but a request from the city:

- Interactive parking maps with AI

- Event aggregators for Vinnytsia residents and guests

- Smart feeders for animals

- tourism for young people in a format they are interested in

👨‍💻 As a result, we have 5 software and 3 hardware solutions. The participants' decisions were evaluated by a competent jury consisting of representatives of education, business, city authorities and the IT industry:

Svitlana Vasyliuk - Director of Vinnytsia Technical Vocational College

Daria Nyshporska - Head of IT Association of Vinnytsia

Dmytro Panteleychuk - CTO of TIRAS Technologies

Viktor Mazuryk - Head of the Tourism Development Division of the City Marketing and Tourism Department of Vinnytsia City Council

Ivan Vekirchyk - co-founder of KNESS group of companies

Mariana Tataryn - Finance and Technology Advisor | Canada & USA at the IT Association of Vinnytsia, expert on digital transformation and financial strategies (online)

The first pitches already have the potential for implementation and commercial offers.

🤝 This project was made possible thanks to the cooperation with:

Department of City Marketing and Tourism,

Vinnytsia Technical Vocational College,

UME.Place, TIRAS Technologies,

UKRSIBBANK BNP Paribas Group, KNESS,

NAVIGATOR, Impression Electronics,

Winstars. AI R&D Center, and Printo printing house.

🎓 It was the first hackathon for many teams. But definitely not the last. We believe that such events form a new community that creates technologies for the city.