– The high quality and diversity of presentations of business cases utilizing solutions based on artificial intelligence technologies marked our first competition in the application of large language tools and machine learning, AI Business Hackathon – stated Aco Momčilović, director of FutureHR and organizer of the competition supported by financial and other resources from companies Comping, Dell Technologies, Takeda, Koios, and the Cotrugli Business School.
Almost 50 teams participated in the competition, composed of experts and AI enthusiasts from various companies and industries as well as organizations. Thirteen qualified for the final presentation of their ideas, and some even had finished products. These teams included: InsurCap.ai, JGL Sense the AI, 3 MM Bez Cenzure – AI Podcast, AI Recover, WoomAI, VerifAI, Cybermind Nexus, Azul, Odvjetnik.ai, SwipeSpec, Jaibox, Dell Technologies, and Vlaji.
The jury, which included Dražen Kapusta, Aco Momčilović, Domagoj Marić, Dražen Oreščanin, selected six teams from these thirteen for a further shortlist. From sixth to fourth place were the teams Vlaji, JGL Sense the AI, Odvjetnik.ai, while the winners of the top three awards, starting from the third prize, were the team VerifAI (500 Euros), Cybermind Nexus (1500 Euros), and the absolute winner of the first AI Business Hackathon SWIPE SPEC, which won the first prize worth 2500 Euros.
Presented Solutions
InsureCap.io, presented the solution ‘Snap and Insure’ – an application that uses artificial intelligence to collect and process data for creating insurance policies.
The JGL Sense the AI team, from the pharmaceutical company JGL in Rijeka, developed an application for qualifying non-compliance.
3 MM Bez Cenzure – AI Podcast, created a solution consisting of an avatar-assistant for podcast creation.
AI Recover designed the FisioSense solution – a physiotherapy glove controlled by artificial intelligence, which, along with the accompanying application, serves for recovery from the effects of a stroke. The application of the solution in the rehabilitation of the human hand was presented. They received a special award from the BIRD incubator: the opportunity to participate in pre-incubation training.
WoomAI has an idea on how to better manage marketing events using artificial intelligence.
The VerifAI team devised a solution for the rapid construction of virtual focus groups consisting of synthetic personalities shaped by artificial intelligence.
Cybermind Nexus developed an intelligent system for the initial triage of cyber incidents, which utilizes as many as twenty large language models.
Azul is the name of the team that presented the ProdDevHome system – a tool for rapid and smart analysis of competitive products aimed at quickly designing their own optimal solution.
Odvjetnik.ai – does what its name suggests: it is artificial intelligence that performs almost all legal tasks.
SwipeSpec is a large language model for writing technical specifications for products in the IT industry – they aim to be the Figma for product management.
Jaibox is artificial intelligence for managing events (parties) in large and small clubs.
The Dell team presented, using an application for vineyard management, what the company is doing with artificial intelligence.
The Vlaji team introduced their AI influencer, avatar Anastasia Deyoue, who communicates in multiple world languages and, of course, in Croatian.
A Bounty of Good Advice
As part of the finals of the AI Business Hackathon, a round table of mentors and sponsors was held, featuring Alojzije Jukić, director of Comping; Nino Surjan, consultant from Koios; Darko Jovišić, director and co-owner of Robotiq.ai; and Vedran Antoljak, a business consultant who moderated the discussion on ‘What the teams participating in the competition did well and what they could improve’.
– I was impressed by the breadth of thinking and the large number of ideas from the participants of the first AI Business Hackathon, and I was particularly struck by the teams that managed to come up with concrete solutions, products that are practically ready for the market in just one month – said Jukić.
At the round table, advice was also given to the teams on what they could have done better. Panelists advised the teams to pay more attention to the aesthetics of their solutions, to work more thoughtfully on scaling their businesses, to systematically seek potential investors, to clearly define return on investment, to pay more attention to legal issues and intellectual property problems, and generally, to the regulations of the industries for which they are trying to design solutions based on artificial intelligence.
