Olivia Wyman Hackathon Challenge

Have you ever wondered what it is like to work in consulting? 

Do you want to apply your analytical and coding skills to tackle a real business problem?  

Sign up for our Oliver Wyman HackAtOW challenge! You will meet other European students and young professionals, join a multicultural and multi-background team and tackle a concrete innovation challenge to help one of our clients to make an impact on their business! 

This is a unique opportunity to test your coding skills and be part of an international challenge while also having the opportunity to learn specific technical skills and soft skills from Oliver Wyman experts and peers. 

The finalists will go to Madrid to pitch their idea in front of a jury and the winning teams will receive a prize and will have fast-track access to the selection process to join Oliver Wyman. Travel costs for the final phase are covered by Oliver Wyman. 

The Challenge 

One of our top Retail clients has hired Oliver Wyman to help understand their promotional program and assess the environmental impact. 

You will be in charge of helping the client to understand the sales profile of key products and their current promotional program by looking at the sales and the promotion data.  

Phase 1 – Offline 
Participants will understand the client needs, evaluate them and provide a comprehensive analysis applying advanced analytics, machine learning and coding skills. You will be provided with specialized mentors on the most innovative content and methodologies. 
 

Phase 2– Live in our Madrid Office 
Selected teams will prepare a short pitch, answer questions and defend it in front of a jury of Oliver Wyman Experts. 

You will receive feedback and training on templates, frameworks, and how to make a perfect pitch, with which you will present your idea to the judges. 

Delve into the challenging topics, come up with your own ideas and work with the team to develop a winning solution. 

You will expand your network and meet students from other European countries and the Oliver Wyman team! 

Prizes 

In total, there will be two winning teams and all the finalists will have fast-track access to Oliver Wyman Data & Analytics selection process. 

Winner (1st Prize): up to 2.000€/winning team 

First Runner-Up (2nd Prize): up to 1.000€/winning team 

Who can Register 

This is the right challenge for you if you are:  

  • Student in the penultimate or final year of university studies, or recent university graduate or young professional with a quantitative academic background (Mathematics, Statistics, Physics, Computer Science, Informatics, Data Science, or Engineering). 
  • Fluent in English 
  • Additional fluency of the local office language that you are interested in for those outside of the UK (Germany, Greece, Italy, Spain) 
  • Comfortable using a programming language to explore and analyze data e.g. Python or R 
  • Enthusiastic about exciting questions and challenging topics in a quantitative environment 
  • Able to work in a team and a quick learner 
  • Keen to have fun with us! 

Please note that you can participate individually or in a team of 2 members. 

Timeline 

Finalist teams or individuals will fly to Madrid on Thursday 20th 

Travel, accommodation, and meals will be provided. 

Apply Here 

Be a part of this international innovation journey! 

NASA International Space Apps Challenge at the University of York

For the fifth year running the University of York is hosting NASA’s International Space Apps Challenge!

What is NASA’s International Space Apps Challenge? 

NASA is on a mission to foster innovation around challenges affecting us at home and in space. As one of the world’s largest international annual hackathons, we designed Space Apps for problem solvers like you. This 48-hour event inspires citizen teamwork for positive change across every skill level and discipline.

We invite engineers, coders, makers, artists and storytellers to connect over mission-related challenges. The growing Space Apps community represents the core of NASA’s Open Innovation Initiative. Together, citizens like you have developed thousands of open-source solutions. Your big ideas are shaped using data visualizations, hardware, code, design and more!

The Hackathon is free to attend, with free food and drink and prizes for the best projects at a local, national, and international level. Form a group and join us for a weekend of frantic coding!
More information on the event can be found here

This year’s challenges can be found here

You can sign up to take part at York here

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