Impact Tech and RiseTech Media connecting Cypriot Startups to Silicon Valley

AngelHack, one of the world's largest developer communities, is coming to Cyprus under the “Global Hackathon series” and supported by the Cyprus University of Technology (CUT)! The event will be hosted at CUT’s premises in Limassol on 7-8 July 2018.

This year's theme is focusing on Seamless Technology. The event will travel to more than 50 cities starting from San Francisco's Tech-Mecca Silicon Valley to the Middle East, Africa, South Asia, North America, Europe, and mainland China in search of unique tech talent and innovation.

The event is co-hosted and sponsored by Impact Tech LTD, leaders in Big Data and AI technology-based solutions and the disruptive digital media agency RiseTech Media. The hackathon will be hosted at Cyprus University of Technology in Limassol, Cyprus on July 7-8, 2018.

During the hackathon series, developers, designers and entrepreneurs get a chance to meet like-minded people and demonstrate their skills, while tech giants such as IBM, Amazon, Microsoft and Agora are on the lookout for great talent and ideas that can invest in or even make part of their business.

The AngelHack Challenge

The winning team will be invited to join AngelHack's HACKcelerator, a 12-week program where they will have the chance to further develop their prototype to a viable business model and pitch their idea to a pool of investors in Silicon Valley. To encourage social impact projects, the HACKcelerator will present five Code For A Cause Impact Awards to the teams whose technologies can be used for the benefit of local communities globally.

The ImpacTech Challenge

Are you a potential #Impactivator? The challenge requires skills in any or as many of the following fields: Big Data Analytics, Artificial Intelligence, Sentiment Analysis, Machine Learning, Deep Learning and Predictive Analytics to solve a problem. ImpacTech is looking for tech that makes an impact, demonstrates creativity and innovation. The winning team will receive a cash prize. ImpacTech has started the prize pool at €1000 and they will add €1 for every share their competition post receives on Facebook facebook.com/impactechs .

The IBM Call for Code Challenge

The challenge is to improve logistics based on traffic and weather activity and use existing code developed by IBM to kickstart your solution or build your idea on other IBM Code patterns provided by the IBM Cloud.

The RiseTech Media/CyRIC Smart City Challenge

RiseTech Media has partnered up with the innovation company CyRIC to add a smart city challenge with cool prizes. The challenge involves building a mobile and/or web application to provide real-time, accurate and useful information to citizens and/or municipal authorities for any of the following topics: (a) bus transportation and traffic services e.g. bus timetables, smart bus station placements, taxi availability, traffic monitoring etc. for enhancing traffic management, (b) parking availability in municipal or/and private parking lots, or (c) fill-level in waste and recycling bins for timely collection and improvement of public health.

Contact

• Learn more about the hackathon and register today at https://www.impactechs.com/angelhack
• For more information about AngelHack Cyprus Hackathon, contact AngelHack’s ambassador in Cyprus, Panis Pieri, at panis@risetechmedia.com
• Follow the local discussion and updates at #AngelHackCyprus and globally at #AH2018