NOVEMBER 27- 29, 2023, SKELLEFTEÅ
Arctic Challenge is a one-of-a-kind Hackathon focusing on IoT, Edge computing, 5G and digital twins.
From Monday November 27th after lunch to Wednesday at lunchtime November 29th Master students at LTU collaborate, and experiment on the subjects above.
We also invite other students with corresponding skills, either on site or online.
This is the time to meet other enthusiastic hackers, push your boundaries, and realize the projects of your dreams!
The initiative was jointly conceived by
Digital urban development and 5G Edge Innovations for Mining
It is supported/sponsored by
Skellefteå Science City,
DF Skellefteå,
Luleå University of Technology,
Skellefteå municipality,
ABB,
NUITEQ
and other companies and organisations. For the full list, see below under sponsors.
Venue: Skellefteå Campus, A-building rooms A002 & A009, Skelleftea
Come, join us and register here!
13.00 The hackathon opens. Registrations and welcome.
13.30 Start and forming of teams for participants that don’t belong to a team. Presentations of challenges and tools.
When we are ready we start working.
18.00 Dinner is served in the hackathon premises. (No cost for participants and officials.)
21.30 The hackathon closes for the night.
08.30 Breakfast, is served in the hackathon premises. (No cost for participants and officials.)
09:00 We start working again.
12:00 Lunch break at the campus restaurant. (No cost for participants and officials.)
13:00 - 14:00 Presentation of results so far. Feedback from the officials.
18:00 Dinner is served in the hackathon premises. (No cost for participants and officials.)
21.30 The hackathon closes for the night.
08.30 The hackathon starts again. Breakfast is served in the hackathon premises. (No cost for participants and officials.)
10:00 - 11:30 Final presentations.
11:30 - 12:30 Jury deliberations. Awards ceremony and summation.
Anyone who has the competence to attend is welcome.
The challenges will be presented later.
The best contributions will get awards. Mostly this will be symbolic awards like diplomas.
You bring your own laptop to work on.
Everything developed at the hackathon will be open source.
We’ll provide food for all meals.
If you have dietary restrictions, we’ll try our best to accommodate them.
Of course, we’ll also have an abundance of snacks and refreshments throughout the hacking period.
Bring a laptop for hacking.
Teams are at most 5 people. You can select teammates before you register, or you can register individually without specified teammates.
It will be possible to find teammates when the hackathon starts.
If you don’t have a team now, that’s okay! We’ll help to form teams when the hackathon starts.
Nope! Admission is free and includes meals, snacks and a memorable experience (if we do say so ourselves)!
Please email us at marie.nolin@associated.ltu.se if you’re in any way confused or concerned! We’d love to help you out :)
Our sponsoring companies provide challenges to choose from.
