# ApertureData Hackathon Challenge

October 10, 2024 - Nov 20, 2024

**Location:** ONLINE

**Contact:** Deniece Moxy

The world of AI is evolving rapidly, and now is your chance to be at the forefront of this exciting transformation!

Join our ApertureDB contest and experiment with a leading AI database while competing for fantastic prizes. This is a unique opportunity to upgrade your skills while showing off your best work in crafting innovative AI applications powered by ApertureDB.

We have lined up some fantastic judges from AWS, Google, and ApertureData!

In addition to cash prizes, winners will also receive AWS credits and the chance to showcase their work in a "Lunch and Learn" session or through a featured blog post, reaching AI enthusiasts and industry leaders. Ready to Get Started?

**_The Contest will run from October 10th - Nov 20th, 2024, with submissions due on Nov 20th._**

## What to Build

There are many creative solutions that you can build using ApertureDB. For any application you develop, you're required to use [ApertureDB Cloud](https://cloud.aperturedata.io/signup).

ApertureDB offers a query interface to manage images, videos, blobs, regions of interest, clips, frames, various application metadata types, and embeddings. It has [integrations](https://docs.aperturedata.io/category/integrations) with PyTorch, Tensorflow, LangChain, and other toolchains.

## **Judging Criteria**

### ​ **Judges**
- [Navjot Singh](https://www.linkedin.com/in/navjotsingh11/) - Data and AI Customer @ Google
- [Nivedita Kumari](https://www.linkedin.com/in/nivedita-kumari/) - Customer Engineer, Data Analytics @ Google
- [Suman Debnath](https://www.linkedin.com/in/suman-d/) - Principal Developer Advocate, Machine Learning @ Amazon Web Services (AWS)
- [Gautam Saluja](https://www.linkedin.com/in/gautam-saluja-7042554/) - Sr. Software Engineer, Aperturedata
- [Voldymyr Shostakovych](https://www.linkedin.com/in/volodymyr-shostakovych/?locale=ru_RU) - Sr. Graphic & UI/UX Designer

## ​ **What we are looking for**  
The contest aims to highlight your **data wrangling, querying, and AI** skills using multimodal datasets, while leveraging the unique features of ApertureDB. Submissions will be evaluated based on the following criteria:

- **Use case:** Evaluates the project's effectiveness in addressing real-world needs, its level of innovation, use of multimodal data and AI in any given industry, and its user-friendliness for the target audience.
- **Data wrangling and querying skills:** Use of different modalities of data and how you can exercise the multimodal features offered via ApertureDB. Our [query language is different](https://docs.aperturedata.io/concepts/Terms) as compared to classic SQL or GraphQL options that are popular but specially designed to allow working with property graphs, embeddings, complex data, and ML pipelines.
- **Content:** Our primary submission requirement is a video, but we encourage you to include additional materials to help us understand and evaluate your project. Consider submitting blog-ready content, tutorials, or a README file.
- **Dataset:** It’s perfectly fine to demonstrate your example with a single data point, but showcasing how it performs with realistic data—whether from public datasets, synthetic sources, or any other accessible data—will strengthen your case.

## **Contest Prizes**

We’ve got an exciting prize package for the top 3 winners:
- **First Prize:** **_$800 per team_**, plus an ApertureData-sponsored Lunch & Learn to showcase your project. Alternatively, we can feature your project in our newsletter or promote it through a blog post.
- **Second Prize:** **_$600 per team_** and online showcase.
- **Third Prize:** **_$400 per team_** and online showcase.
- The first 5 submissions receive 2 free months of ApertureDB Basic tier for 1 database instance.
- AWS & GCP credits will be announced at a later date.

The prize not only includes the cash incentives above but will also grant **visibility** in our network of top AI and data leaders.

## **Contest Process**
1. [Sign up for a 30-day free trial](http://cloud.aperturedata.io/signup) of your ApertureDB instance with a new cloud account.
2. Refer to our [Quick Start Guide](https://docs.aperturedata.io/Setup/QuickStart)
3. Define your project and start building…
4. Post on Social Media:
     
   We encourage you to post your 2–3 minute demo video of your multimodal AI project on Twitter, LinkedIn, or Reddit with the hashtags **_#ApertureDataContest_** and **_#ApertureDB_** and tag [ApertureData Linkedin](https://www.linkedin.com/company/aperturedata/?) social media account.
5. Submit your entry: **Submission Deadline: November 20th, 11:59 PST**

## ​ **How to Submit**

Please [use this form](https://forms.gle/cg7Z7XWx3ysvLiY5A) to submit the following:
1. 5 minute Loom Video that describes the following:
   - The use case
   - The challenges you solved
   - How you incorporated ApertureDB into the workflow you used
   - A screen share showing the successful execution of the project
2. Link to your public GitHub repository, with a README, and your code

### ​ **Participants Pre-Requisites**

A few years of industry experience and Python programming are all we expect you need. You can team up but limit team sizes up to 4 people.

We can't wait to see what you build.

Team ApertureData