Code of Conduct

We want this hackathon to be a welcoming, collaborative, and productive experience for everyone. All participants, organizers, mentors, judges, sponsors, and guests are expected to treat one another with professionalism and respect.

Harassment, discrimination, intimidation, threats, or other disruptive or abusive behavior will not be tolerated. This includes inappropriate conduct based on personal characteristics or identity, as well as unwanted sexual attention, deliberate intimidation, stalking, or sustained disruption of the event.

Participants should:

  • Treat fellow participants, mentors, judges, organizers, and venue staff with respect.
  • Respect personal boundaries, differences in experience, and differing viewpoints.
  • Collaborate fairly and give appropriate credit for the work and contributions of others.
  • Follow instructions from event organizers and comply with venue rules.
  • Use event equipment, development kits, networks, and other resources responsibly.
  • Avoid behavior that interferes with another participant’s ability to participate in or enjoy the event.

If you experience or witness behavior that violates this Code of Conduct, please report it to an event organizer as soon as possible. Reports will be handled as discreetly as reasonably possible.

Organizers may take any action they consider appropriate in response to a violation, including issuing a warning, removing an individual from the event, or disqualifying a participant or team from the Hackathon.

Eligibility

The Hackathon IS open to:

  • Teams of individuals who are at least the age of majority in the United States of America ("Teams");

  • Organizations (including corporations, not-for-profit corporations and other nonprofit organizations, limited liability companies, partnerships, and other legal entities) that exist and have been organized or incorporated at the time of entry.

(the above are collectively, “Entrants”)

An Eligible Individual may not join more than one Team or Organization. If a Team or Organization is entering the Hackathon, they must appoint and authorize one individual (the “Representative”) to represent, act, and enter a Submission, on their behalf. By entering a Submission on behalf of a Team or Organization you represent and warrant that you are the Representative authorized to act on behalf of your Team or Organization.

The Hackathon IS NOT open to:

  • Organizations involved with the design, production, paid promotion, execution, or distribution of the Hackathon, including the Sponsor and Administrator (“Promotion Entities”).
  • Employees, representatives and agents** of such Promotion Entities, and all members of their immediate family or household*
  • Any other individual involved with the design, production, promotion, execution, or distribution of the Hackathon, and each member of their immediate family or household*
  • Any Judge (defined below), or company or individual that employs a Judge
  • Any parent company, subsidiary, or other affiliate*** of any organization described above
  • Any other individual or organization whose participation in the Hackathon would create, in the sole discretion of the Sponsor and/or Administrator, a real or apparent conflict of interest

*The members of an individual’s immediate family include the individual’s spouse, children and stepchildren, parents and stepparents, and siblings and stepsiblings. The members of an individual’s household include any other person that shares the same residence as the individual for at least three (3) months out of the year. 

**Agents include individuals or organizations that in creating a Submission to the Hackathon, are acting on behalf of, and at the direction of, a Promotion Entity through a contractual or similar relationship.

***An affiliate is: (a) an organization that is under common control, sharing a common majority or controlling owner, or common management; or (b) an organization that has a substantial ownership in, or is substantially owned by the other organization.

Judging Criteria and Winner Selection

Judges will score each entry across the following seven categories.

Category Weight What we are looking for
Innovation & Use-case Value 10% Originality, usefulness, relevance to edge AI, and how effectively the application demonstrates the possibilities of the platform.
Technical Ambition & Integration 10% How far the team goes beyond the starter examples: custom models, heterogeneous compute, multiple models, sensor fusion or sophisticated pipelines.
Engineering Quality & Demo 10% Code quality, reproducibility, documentation, architectural explanation and quality of the final demonstration.
Effective Use of the E8 Architecture 15% Appropriate use of the available CPU, NPU, memory and hardware peripherals. Reward good architectural decisions rather than simply maximising NPU usage.
Multimodal & Sensor Integration 15% Meaningful use of cameras, microphones and/or sensors. Reward quality of integration and sensor fusion rather than simply the number of inputs used.
Functionality & Reliability 20% Does the application work reliably on the Alif E8? Is the demo repeatable and stable?
Performance & Efficiency 20% End-to-end latency, FPS/throughput, responsiveness, memory utilisation and power/energy where measurable. Evidence of optimisation is encouraged.

Each judge will award a score from 1-5 in each category. The score is then multiplied by the category weighting using the following calculation:

Weighted score = (Judge score / 5) * Category weight

The final score is out of 100%