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Elcothon

 

Elco's first personal assistants & AI Hackathon

Thursday
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03
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Friday
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May 
04
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Time and Location:

WHEN?

From  THURSDAY, MAY 03, 15:00 

Until FRIDAY, MAY 04, 15:00


WHERE?
MICROSOFT STARTHUB
WEWORK, SHLOMO IBN GABIROL ST 30
3RD FLOOR, TEL AVIV-YAFO 

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When

November 
30th
 at 
7:00pm

About

 Elco is always looking for new technologies and ideas which could transform the way we serve our customers. The Elcothon will focus on new developments in fields of  AI, Personal assistants, and Smart home. Feel free to build the coolest and craziest apps and skills that are going to change the world!

Join our Faceook event for more info.


Elco is a major Israeli company, owner of the Electra super brand. Rooted in industry, Elco’s companies today touch many lives in a variety of instances – construction, infrastructure, consumer electronics, telecommunications, entertainment and more. As you can understand, Elco group has much room for your dreams and we truly want to help get your ideas to the next level.


Elco gathers together many well-known brands and companies such as Golan Telecom, Huawei, Shekem Electric, Machsaney Hashmal (מחסני חשמל), Globus Max, Electra real estate, Electra construction and more. All those companies are looking forward to learning about your new concepts and have a strong will to collaborate with you.

 

The Elcothon is a collaboration between Elco and the "Personal assistants" community which is the biggest community in Israel with more than 3,000 professionals and thought leaders in the field of PA and Voice.

 

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Challenges

Quick Solutions

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Fast and Easy

Clear your calendar - It's going down! Text Blocks kicks off on May 20th, and you're invited to take part in the festivities. Splash HQ (122 W 26th St) is our meeting spot for a night of fun and excitement. Come one, come all, bring a guest, and hang loose. This is going to be epic!

Clean and Simple

Clear your calendar - It's going down! Text Blocks kicks off on May 20th, and you're invited to take part in the festivities. Splash HQ (122 W 26th St) is our meeting spot for a night of fun and excitement. Come one, come all, bring a guest, and hang loose. This is going to be epic!

Clean and Simple

Clear your calendar - It's going down! Text Blocks kicks off on May 20th, and you're invited to take part in the festivities. Splash HQ (122 W 26th St) is our meeting spot for a night of fun and excitement. Come one, come all, bring a guest, and hang loose. This is going to be epic!

30,000 ILS PRIZES in total!*

FIRST PRIZE 10,000 ILS!

Second prize 7,500 ILS!

Third prize 5,000 ILS!

 

PLUS! EACH FINALIST WILL GET 2 MOVIE TICKETS AT GLOBUS MAX


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*The prizes are for purchase at Machsaney Hashmal (מחסני חשמל)

*The prizes are for purchase at Machsaney Hashmal (מחסני חשמל)

WHEN?

From  THURSDAY, MAY 03, 15:00 

Until FRIDAY, MAY 04, 15:00


WHERE?
MICROSOFT STARTHUB
WEWORK, SHLOMO IBN GABIROL ST 30
3RD FLOOR, TEL AVIV-YAFO 

challenges

01

ELECTRA CONSUMER PRODUCTS

As you probably know, Electra has many consumer products that are being used by millions. Help us to make them smart now: from smart AC and up until talking fridge - everything is possible. If you have any idea for a new cool smart home device we will be glad to hear about it!

02

ELCO MEDIA AND ENTERTAINMENT

Do you want to reinvent the way people enjoy the movie theaters? Globus Max will be the perfect place to do it. How awesome will it be to order tickets via voice only? Or to validate your ticket using just your face. We have big dreams and we are looking for ways to enhance the cinematic experience

03

Golan Telecom and Retail

Golan Telecom was the pioneer of the telecom revolution and now one of the leading carriers in Israel. You can create new innovative customer support bot or new personal assistant which advise you what smartphone you should buy. Of course, you can be creative and develop new services or voice apps for the retail world.

04

ELECTRA FM & Real Estate

We build and manage buildings all over Israel and we are sure we can use advance AI tech in order to make this whole process safe and easy. You can develop a smart new way to collect data from buildings or upgrade the building management platform. Imagine you could open a ticket  to your landlord via Amazon Alexa and just tell her what is not working.

Lectures and Workshops

Learn about the Azure IoT solutions

Voice alone is not always enough - our Personal assistant needs some physical body. Guy Bertental from Microsoft will bring cool dev kits which will allow you to develop your idea on a real hardware. Guy will give a workshop about the Azure IoT solutions and will demonstrate how you can create smart devices using Microsoft tools.

 

Guy Bertental is a Cloud Solution Architect at Microsoft. Guy has many years of experience with all the Azure capabilities and AI cognitive solutions. Moreover, Guy is a IoT master who can build amazing devices which will be smart and yet simple to use. Last but not least, Guy has a strong understanding in the fields of Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence and Deep Learning and he will be able to help the team in any aspect in those subjects. 

Building Alexa Skills with AWS tools

Alexa skills allow you to expand the voice assistant capabilities beyond what comes out of the box. In addition to more than 30,000 available Alexa skills out there, you can start developing your own skill tomorrow morning.

This session will give you an high level review of how to build a new skill and use different AWS services that can help you develop and run your skill in minutes.  We will cover AWS Lambda, DynamoDB, S3 and other tools and services that will help you run your skills at scale.

Boaz Ziniman is a Technical Evangelist at Amazon Web Services. He helps to increase awareness of AWS cloud services and works with AWS customers, to bring the benefits and enjoy the advantage the cloud can deliver, to their applications and systems. Boaz has many years of experience with web development & operations, architecture, IT management and cloud computing. Prior to joining AWS, Boaz worked with a variety of leading Israeli startups, managing development and operations teams, and leading cloud adoption and partnerships with major cloud vendors. 

3D  print you product!

David Keller from Prime will be joining the Elcothon as a mentor and will be helping you with product and mechanical design during the whole hackathon so you'll be able to pack your arduinos and raspberry Pi's beautifully. David Keller will  help you to design the best products in the world.

 

David is planning to bring a few 3D printers and help you to make great looking physical mockups and they would love to know how many of you are planning to work on physical stuff in order to prepare ourselves. You find more details in the Facebook event.

David Keller is managing partner at Prime, Israel's leading tech design consultancy. Prime Established in 2011 Prime has been visualizing innovation and developing ground braking concepts for tech companies world wide. Among the companies' clients: Nike, Mobileye, Bezeq, Innoviz, Kaercher, Nexar, Vayyar, Wi-Charge, Powermat, etc...

IBM Watson Assistant Solution

Watson Assistant is the new and advanced AI solution from IBM. With Watson you could build a state of the art  Voice bot that could understand the user input and will know how to perform regarding the user request. IBM solution could help you take any idea and make it a reality in a very short amount of time - just want you need for 24 hours Hackathone!


IIf you have any question about the Watson Assistant before the Elcothon we could connect you with IBM Architects which will be glad to answer all the question you have. You can find more info on the

 Watson Assistant Solutions documentation


Watson Assistant is an enterprise artificial intelligence (AI) assistant that helps businesses enhance brand loyalty and transform their customer experiences by delivering proactive and personalized services while ensuring data privacy.

Judges

avi israeli

VP Business Development - Elco ltd

YUVAL ATAD

CDO - ELCO ltd

Tali Keidar

VP -Marketing & Business Development - Electra Consumer Products

Daniel Milo

CEO - Electra FM

Gabi Zodik - IBM

Director, CTO and Head of Development of Watson Assistant Solutions

MENTORS

dafna agassi

VP Marketing - Golan Telecom

IRIT shahar

VP marketing - Elco media and entertainment

Boaz Keidar

CEO - Michlol Solutions

Yossi Baluka

CEO - Electra Technologies

Piki Kaufman

VP Engineering & Procurement - Electra FM

Ofer midginski

CIO - Electra Consumer Products

David Keller

managing partner - Prime

FAQ

Logistics

Bring your own computer, devices or anything you need to create the best product. Don't forget clothes, toothbrush/ paste and whatever makes you feel comfortable. We will provide WiFi, food, drinks, and snacks. If you have any special diet needs, let us know ASAP.

Team and Idea


Sure, you may start building your team and work on the idea before the event. But let's keep the fun and all the cool stuff to the hackathon. You can apply as single or as a team. BTW, max team size: 5 talents :)

Don't forget to add you team to this spreadsheet

The Projects

All projects will develop a solution using Chat-bots/Personal Assistants/AI and must present a working product at the end of the day.
Think about your POC/MVP - it should help you win!

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WHEN?

From  THURSDAY, MAY 03, 15:00 

Until FRIDAY, MAY 04, 15:00


WHERE?
MICROSOFT STARTHUB
WEWORK, SHLOMO IBN GABIROL ST 30
3RD FLOOR, TEL AVIV-YAFO 

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To achieve great things, two things are needed; a plan and not quite enough time.

Leonard Bernstein

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#Elcothon

Agenda - Thursday


15:00 - 16:00

Welcome and Restoration

C

16:00 - 16:15

Opening talk and safety rules

R. Doesco

16:15 - 16:30

Elco presentation

R. Harrison

16:30 - 18:30

Microsoft workshop \ Start coding

C. Doe

18:30 - 19:15

Amazon workshop \ Coding

C. Doe

19:15 - 20:30

Keep Hacking!

C. Doe

20:30 - 21:15

Pizza :)

C. Doe

21:15 - 00:00

Building amazing products!

C. Doe

00:00 - 00:30

Late night snacks

C. Doe

00:300 - Friday morning

Working all night long :)

C. Doe

Agenda - Friday


07:00 - 10:00

Writing code

C

10:00 - 10:45

Breakfast

R. Doesco

10:45 - 12:00

Final work on the projects

R. Harrison

12:00 - 13:00

Projects presentations

C. Doe

13:00 - 13:30

Judges thinking time \ Trivia game!

C. Doe

13:30 - 14:00

Announcing the winners :)

C. Doe

14:00 

We are done!

C. Doe

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