Logo on the website and banner

Your company’s logo will be displayed on our website before, during and some time after the hackathon. Your logo will also be shown during the online livestream. Your company may also be presented in other selected promotional materials (videos, online banners, etc.)

CVs of participants

Since the places to participate in our hackathon are limited, and we are expecting much more applications than positions available, we require our participants to submit their resumes, which will be used to review their applications. The resume information of participants will be available to you on 29.8.2020 Saturday, 7 days before the event.

Hack Kosice stream

Hack Kosice will implement all necessary technical solutions to achieve high-class online stream. On the stream, sponsoring companies may be displayed as well as workshops.

During event

Use Mentors & Recruiters

We offer you the opportunity to send your employees and representatives to the event. In general, there are 2 kinds of representatives, mentors and recruiters. The following list outlines their roles:

Mentors (max. 5):

• Could be senior programmers, experts in full-stack development
• Expected to help with technical parts of the hackathon projects
• Being online for the teams needing advice
• Make sure that teams are on the right path to create a presentable product
• Give your company an opportunity to showcase the expertise of their employees
• Have the chance to assess the skill set of hackers to provide valuable information in the recruitment process

Recruiters (max. 3):

• Welcome to approach and chat with hackers over the duration of the entire event
• Engage with the participants in any possible ways and answer general enquiries
• Represent your company at the company virtual stand
• Collect contact details from potential job candidates

Your online stand on SwapCard

Swapcard enables to create virtual events with genuine experience:

• Each sponsor will create its online stand with Company’s details, Services provided, Information, Social media links and Contact details
• Recruiters will be able to connect with hackers via implemented chat rooms and schedule videocalls for potential recruitment
• Swapcard enables running ads on the right panel of the platform with sponsors banners redirecting to the virtual stand

Stage presentation

You are welcome to prepare and deliver a short 3 minute presentation on live stream at the opening ceremony.

• Should include some information about your company, your product, culture, core values, your category, any internship or part-time job opportunities etc. (illustrated with pictures, flowcharts or anything you deem sufficient)
• We will ask you to send your presentations a week prior the event, as part of an action list.
• Contact us if you need any other presentation aids that are unavailable to you or if you have any issues

Have a workshop

Give a technical presentation along with a practical demonstration in around 60 mins. The purpose of this is to expand the hackers’ horizons, so it could be programming related or anything else that might be interesting for hackers. Live coding workshops are especially popular.

It can be:

• Introducing some part of your product
• Topics your company works with or uses a lot
• Technology that hackers might use in their own hackathon project (CockroachDB, Docker, Building apps for Slack)
• Tips on how to effectively work for 24 hours on a hackathon
• How to market your product to succeed in the IT business

Please contact us if you are interested in running a workshop or if you have an idea for a great workshop topic. We strongly recommend you to come up with topic ideas. The organizing team will provide further guidance with the organization of workshops.

Challenge and prize

You can organise your very own Hack Kosice challenge named after your company with the focus of the prize also decided by jury consisting from your company’s mentors and other representatives (e.g. Newcomer award by Your Company, Machine Learning challenge by Your Company, etc.)

• All sponsors are expected to provide valuable (not neccesarily cash) prizes for the winners of the category they own (Platinum, Gold), mentor or recruit from. Good examples of such prizes are various consumer electronics articles such as keyboards, mouses.
• We recommend to give prizes roughly equal to 20% of the sponsorship contribution.
• The organising team will invite various independent IT personalities to the hackathon as mentors or speakers. You are welcome to assign roles to these independent mentors as associate judges of your category.
• More guidance will be provided by the organizing team on individual basis.

Special

Special arrangements that are completely up for a individual agreement. We are more than happy to have a discussion if you like this idea.

However, we need to prevent situation, when more companies offer the same Special activity, or there is no Special activity form sponsors. Therefore, you have a priority right to choose your kind of Special contribution until 5.8.2020. If you would not choose to have any Special activity until mentioned date, we will shift this right to sponsors in lower categories (Gold, Silver and Bronze) respectively.