APAC Virtual Hackathon
#DigitalDefence Hack
Awards Ceremony | 19:00 AET, 6 December
Finding innovative solutions to bolster APAC's
digital security practices and capabilities
ENTER THE COMPETITION: Digital Security Hackathon
Select from THREE categories
The hackathon itself will be a 48 hour process from 20 November – 22 November, to ideate and deploy a solution under three categories. All submitted projects will need to incorporate or make a reference to least one dataset, article or infographic, that will be published closer to the date.
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Anomaly Detection
Anomaly detection is the process of identifying unexpected items or events in data sets, which differ from the norm. This process can help address problems such as strange bank account transactions, unusual fraud activity, and business risks.
Can you build a system to detect anomalies in a dataset?
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Deepfakes
Deepfakes are fake videos or audio recordings that look and sound just like the real thing. While still in its infancy, prevalence of this technology is increasingly used for identity impersonation and fraud. Can you build a detection and tracing tool to identify deepfakes?
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Cyber Security & Exploits
Cyber security hygiene can help stem the loss of data and business systems from hacking and exploits. Increasingly, poorly defended computer system vulnerabilities are taken advantage of by malware, ransomware and other exploits.
Can you build a cyber security hygiene or exploit mitigation application?
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PRE-EVENT: Vote on the Project Showcase
Interested to see some amazing digital or cyber security projects showcased to the world? Voting for the global showcase submissions for the #DigitalDefence Showcase is now OPEN! All projects will go into the running to win awesome prizes (cash and in-kind from a pool of $15,000AUD) from our amazing partners.
25 lucky voters will also score a data science book prize back worth of $250!
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Introducing a new HACKERSPACE experience
The new hackerspace is an all-in-one dashboard for competitors to easily access the required documents, videos, resources and team making function to compete.
Userflow Checklist
A intuititive self-paced checklist walking you through the major processes in forming a team, ideating and submitting a successful solution.
Open Announcements
All key hackathon announcements open and available from DAY 1 with helpful summaries provided straight to your dashboard!
Hackmaker's Slackbot Channel
A new and improved Slackbot experience with cleaner channels targetted to your region and organisations.
24/7 Resource Centre
A new collection of short videos, templates and resources to help you through the hackathon process, its challenges, and using the Slack space.
Datasets & Technologies
Score some FREE credits from our sponsor's cloud and development technologies: paired up with wicked recommended or self-sourced datasets.
Post Hack Guide
Want to take your hackathon solution to market? All participants will score A FREE post-hack guide which will outline potential pathways to commercial success.
Workshops
All event times are in Australian eastern standard time (AEST)
18/11 – Wednesday
from Oracle. How Oracle are supporting the event with experts and technology
wih an overview of programs and certification – Steve Elbourn ITIC Systems
19/11 – Thursday
from Oracle. How Oracle are supporting the event with experts and technology
wih an overview of programs and certification – Steve Elbourn ITIC Systems
20/11 – Friday
from Oracle. How Oracle are supporting the event with experts and technology
wih an overview of programs and certification – Steve Elbourn ITIC Systems
Community Partners
Challenge Judges & Speakers
" Digital security is not a one size fits all set up. There’s no one-stop shop or fixed formula that will solve everything. Cybercrime is continually evolving to disrupt security measures, so your business and methods of prevention should continually evolve as well. Prioritize security, hire the best people, and do not stop learning."
Steve Nouri
Head of Data Science & AI, ACS
" Organisations of all sizes and across all industries face a huge array of challenges around securing the critical data that underpins the way they operate. It’s key for these organisations to protect, open up, and to do more with data. Our goal is to support citizen data scientists, and bring together cloud technologies in creative and innovative ways to solve some of the key problems being faced. "
Cherie Ryan
Vice President and Regional Managing Director, Oracle ANZ
" Organisations of all sizes and across all industries face a huge array of challenges around securing the critical data that underpins the way they operate. It’s key for these organisations to protect, open up, and to do more with data. Our goal is to support citizen data scientists, and bring together cloud technologies in creative and innovative ways to solve some of the key problems being faced. "
Ian Oppermann
Chief Data Scientist, NSW Government
Frequently Asked Questions
There are two phases to this hackathon. The first phase involves potentially showcasing your work and upvoting other awesome ideas that were developed. Submissions will be due by 23:59, Tuesday 19 November, and be voted on both by the community and a panel of data science experts.
The second phase involves the hackathon. After you sign up you will be invited via email to our event online collaborative space.
The virtual hackathon begins 19:00 Friday, 20 November AEST (this is when the challenges will also be released!). The hackathon will conclude at 19:00 AEST Sunday, 22 November.
Thank you for volunteering your time and expertise to build innovative solutions! There are few resources you can access.
- The Competitor Guide is a helpful resource for competitors to understand how a hackathon works, the main stages of the development process and a rundown of all the major channels.
- The Project Primer Pack is a folder of the best open source templates teams can use to map our their hackathon journey: Ideation tips, assumption mappers, Agile project management and presentation tips)
- Finally, the Hackerspace Resource Centre has a list of videos available, just make an account on our newly launched Hackmakers Hackerspace!
Thank you for volunteering your time and expertise to mentor innovative teams for this cause! There are few resources you can access.
- The Mentoring Guide is a helpful resource for mentors to understand how a hackathon works, the main stages of the development process and a rundown of all the major channels.
- The Project Primer Pack is a folder of the best open source templates teams can use to map our their hackathon journey: Ideation tips, assumption mappers, Agile project management and presentation tips)
- Finally, the Hackerspace Resource Centre has a list of videos available, just make an account on our newly launched Hackmakers Hackerspace!
Team formation is going to be happening in a number of different potential ways. You will be able to work out who is in your team before the competition starts however you won’t be able to officially register your team on the Hackerspace until the competition launches.
- The first way is to come in with an existing team of people that you already know and work with them. This has not changed from previous years.
- The second way is to be placed into an algorithmically generated group where you can introduce to others in a small channel relevant to your skillsets and timezone.
- The third way is via Slack using the #find-team channel to post a blurb about yourself and read others’ blurbs.
- The fourth is through specified team forming sessions organised by Hackmakers through Zoom. This option will become available to participants on the first day of the hackathon.
This hackathon will be aimed creating a product or best practice manual to help organisations improve their digital and data security. The three key categories participants will compete in will be: anomaly detection, deepfakes and cyber security & exploits.
More broadly, A hackathon (hack = solving a complex problem) (athon = marathon) is an intense sprint-style experience in which software developers, interface designers, technologists and product experts come together to rapidly develop software or hardware projects.
Please find the rules and guidelines for both the Project Showcase Competition, as well as the #DigitalDefence Hackathon.
Once you have registered, you will receive a welcome email have access to our dashboard, and Slack space.
- This dashboard will list all the steps required to have an awesome experience competing, and also the resources to build your team, ideate, prototype and present.
- The resource centre will be a collection of short videos, templates and documents tailor made to help participants ideate, prototype and submit their solutions.
- The Slack channel will be where you can meet other competitors and the Hackmakers staff.
HackMakers will organise, lead mentors, and mentors with hackathon experience will facilitate teams to maximise their experience. This includes helping match participants to team and skills, debug code, ideate, introduce to the resources and tools, and effectively present their solution.
We will have over $15,000 worth of prizes generously contributed by our sponsors and community partners.
Further announcements will be made closer to the date of the hackathon!
The full schedule can be found here.
Let's secure our future!
Finding innovative solutions to bolster APAC's digital security practices and capabilities