National HackWknd 2021 – 19-21 DEC – MALAYSIA

A National Virtual Competition

Karuna invites all programmers to apply for the HackWknd 2021 for Innovative Ideas!

This Hackathon is intended to identify new talents and source for new concepts for Karuna’s 2022 product line up.

Hackathon is a combination of the words “hack” and “marathon” where programmers come together with a playful approach, similar to a programmer’s marathon. 

The goal of a hackathon is to create functioning software or hardware by the end of the event.

We are looking for programmers, professionals and heads full of ideas to join us for Hackwknd. For over 3 days we will be working all together on several real-world challenges, so register now and get the opportunity to work with us and our sponsors and have your winning products be further developed by a team of professionals and investors where it will be commercialized as marketable products!

The theme of this Hackathon serves to identify and solve business and industry problems with technology

Our Challenge Category

Category 1 Challenge

Mobile APP

Mobile App that improves productivity and business processes for working remotely

1st Prize: Cash prize of RM 5,000 + RM 2,000 AWS Credit
2nd Prize: Cash prize of RM 3,000 + RM 1,000 AWS Credit
3rd Prize: Cash prize of RM 1,000 + RM 500 AWS Credit

Category 2 Challenge

IoT Application

IoT application to improve automation of industries covering Agriculture, Construction, Food production, Automotive, Electronics, Consumer goods, Ship building and Tourism

1st Prize: Cash prize of RM 5,000 + RM 2,000 AWS Credit
2nd Prize: Cash prize of RM 3,000 + RM 1,000 AWS Credit
3rd Prize: Cash prize of RM 1,000 + RM 500 AWS Credit

BENEFITS

Why Participate
in HackWknd

Karuna invites all programmers to apply for the HackWknd 2021 for Innovative Ideas!

Big Prizes

Recognition and more than RM30,000 worth of Prizes to be won & Gifts

The prototype will be further developed by Karuna and taken to market. This will be proof that your concept works, and the project will be fully funded by Karuna and technology investors

Career Opportunity

Karuna and the event sponsors are actively recruiting talented programmers, and this is a good platform to showcase your talents to our management and HR team

Pioneering Technology

To create technology that improves business processes and explore IoT applications for Malaysia

KARUNA X HACKWKND

Participate Guidelines

  1. Competition is open to a maximum of 4 members with a minimum of one coder member.
  2. Participation in HackWknd 2021 is Free, sign up here.
  3. The competition is only open to Malaysian Citizens, PR or those with a valid Work/Student Visa and currently in the country.
  4. The participants will be provided access to a Digital Technology Hub across Sarawak where cameras will be setup for the live event. For participants joining remotely, teams will be given a Virtual link for the continuous streaming of work screen to be monitored by event staffs throughout the event.
  5. Live streaming of the event will be available on YouTube, Facebook Live and on the event website.
  6. The HackWknd will begin on 19th December 2021 at 9 am and ends on 21st December 2021 at 5 pm. The Grand Finals will be on 24th December 2021.
  7. No project may start before the actual date and time of the event. Any teams that violate this rule will be automatically disqualified.

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