Innovation


1-5: Not unique to totaly disruptive,

Impact


Scoring 1-5: How much impact has your product on the target market and ofcourse how big is this target group in relation to the extent of the addressed problem Not relevant to cat 2: 3: Addresses a cat. relevant prob, diffcult to implement/scale, no plan to move forward 4: Addresses a cat. relevant prob, hard to implement/scale, clear plan to move the proj forward 5: Sustainable lifecycle, easily be scaled

User Experience


1-5: From not usable to intuitive and visually appealing.

Presentation, Teamwork, Business-case


These aspects will also be scored and could add valuable points to the teams over-all scores

Weight factors / other criteria


The independant panel of judges decides weight factors on all aspects and may add extra bonus elements at their own discretion.

Prizes

HackOmation 2025 has 3 price awards for 1st, 2nd and 3rd best innovations as selected by the jury. Prices will be announced during the event finale on 17th March 2025.

DevPost profiles

Winners are obliged and other participants are urged and to submit their projects with marketing video and description to HackOmation on DevPost. This is important to potentially receive seed-funding for your project

Seed-funding

After the event 3 projects may receive incentive/seed-funding to further develop their product supported by selected expert coaches. This is to up-scale the projects to a market ready project including marketing plan. This is a separate selection and both winners and non-winners are urged to participate if they are serious about launching their projects to market.

Signup RSVP

Participants planning to attend an in-person event will RSVP following the instructions on hackomation2025.eventbrite.com . All event attendees will also need to register on Devpost.com to be able to submit their presentation to Devpost global Hackomation gallery at the end of the event. Presentations should be submitted as soon as possible once the event is over and no later than one week after the finals. All submissions must include a 5 minute demonstration (PowerPoint) or other visual digital presentation software of the app / or solution.

Sign up for HackOmation 2025 (each participant)

Sign up for devPost (each team)

Download Hackomation rules and guidelines (soon)

Additional requirements

• Submissions must be entirely the original work of the entrant(s) – whether it is an individual or team;
• Submissions must not contain any advertisement or solicitation;
• Submissions must not contain anything that is or may be construed as: (i) threatening, harassing, degrading or hateful; (ii) defamatory; (iii) fraudulent or tortious; (iv) obscene, indecent or otherwise objectionable; or (v) protected by copyright, trademark or other proprietary right without the express prior consent of the owner of such right;
• Submissions must not contain any material that would give rise to criminal or civil liability or that encourages conduct that constitutes a criminal offense;
and
• Submissions must otherwise comply in all respects with these Rules and the Policies.
• Any and all works created during the Hackomation are developed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License legalcode.
• Hackomation and its representatives will have no responsibility for, and will have the right to refuse at its sole and absolute discretion, any entries that have been altered, tampered with, misdirected, incomplete, non-conforming, corrupt, lost, late, or ineligible, whether due to Internet or e-mail server failure or otherwise. Proof of transmission of a submission shall not constitute proof of receipt. It is each entrant’s responsibility to keep Hackomation.co and their representatives informed of any changes to entrant’s contact or other information during the Hackomation. The U.S. Government reserves the right to develop any of the applications that are created through the contest Hackomation. By agreeing to participate in this event and signing these rules, the contestants who have created the open source application(s) waive any future claims against the Government for compensation.