CHECK24
Fast & Flawless: Optimize Your Way to Victory
Put your coding skills to the test in CHECK24’s unparalleled challenge at hackaTUM! Your mission: build a lightning-fast rental car comparison tool (Mietwagenvergleich) that outperforms the competition. Form a team of 2-4 and compete to optimize your response time for extreme loads and high concurreny. With automated tests and a live leaderboard updating in real-time, only one team can claim the top spot. Are you ready to accelerate your way to victory?
Huawei
Fortified on all fronts
Operating system security is a multi-faceted area of research covering a wide collection of topics. Therefore, our challenge is a combination of smaller problems from multiple aspects of OS Security and Engineering, which allows to pick-and-choose the area that you and your team want to work with.
Topics range from binary and data analysis, over architectural research and emulator repurposing, to security enhanced code generation.
Hubert Burda Media
AI-Driven News Generation about Electric Vehicles
Drive the mobility change toward environmentally friendly transportation in this hackaTUM challenge to create an AI-powered news platform focused on electric vehicles! Your mission: build a system that instantly pulls breaking news from top sources, analyzes content with AI, and generates dynamic articles and visuals — all in real time. Dive into AI research tools to add rich, relevant context to each story, bringing readers the most engaging insights. This is your chance to harness the power of generative AI, from text and image creation to video storytelling.
Interhyp Gruppe
Next-Gen Housing: Innovations for Impact
This year we didn‘t bring you one challenge.
We brought you the problems of real people.
We will provide different personas with their specific problems. All regarding the housing market and you can choose which ones to solve and how many!
- Sophie and her daughter Marie are looking for an apartment. Unfortunately, Sophie is currently unemployed and needs help with all the applications regarding the social housing projects.
- Pablo, who just completed his master’s degree, is not familiar with the mortgage processes in Germany. He uses reddit quite a lot and asked there if he could afford certain property.
- Marc, Financial advisor @ Interhyp, he is challenged to explain the process mortgage processes to a young family, who don’t have any idea about it. That takes quite a lot of his time…
or maybe even can help every persona!
JetBrains
AI Agents for devs
Agents are kernels of micro-autonomous intelligence designed to complete intellectual and knowledge-based tasks.
Autonomous agents can be powered by LLMs (large language models) and equipped with advanced decision-making frameworks to operate independently – making decisions and performing tasks without human intervention.
At JetBrains, we’re working on agents to automate complex processes like working with version control or build systems. Automating the decision-making process using agents allows us to avoid the tedious process of crafting a rule-based automation system.
With this in mind, this hackathon’s challenge will be to build an agent (or multiple agents) to solve a real-world use case. As a hackathon participant, you can leverage existing open-source AI agents frameworks like LangChain, LangGraph, DSPy, or others to help you complete the challenge.
Some ideas for potential real-world use cases of such technology can be found below:
- Checking code. Build an agent or agents to check that code compiles or
passes tests.
- Optimizing code. Where code is correct but slow, an agent can be built to perform degradation testing using a profiler to find bottlenecks. The agent(s) can do this by applying existing tests or generating new ones.
- Fixing code vulnerabilities. An agent can be created to continuously check for CVEs in a codebase. Where affected code is found, it can propose changes to mitigate the vulnerability – providing anything from direct code patches to descriptions of the actions required to remove the vulnerability.
- UI testing. A multi-modal agent can be used to imitate user patterns and test a given UI for errors.
- Managing code. For large codebases, a conversational agent can be built to find requested code parts, separate them into packages, or perform other “code management” tasks.
Integrating your solution with JetBrains tools would be a great idea, but it is not a requirement.
The final project could be:
- A plugin
- A web app
- A desktop app
- A mobile app
Optiver
Transistor Trades: Surfing the Silicon Surge
Join us in learning about how ETFs are priced from stocks, how to do an arbitrage and why trading around the clock can be advantageous for everybody. The best part? You can code it up yourself in our ready-made development platform! Don’t miss our detailed challenge presentation where we equip you with all the knowledge and some hints to get started. After this, you can build an algorithm in Python to trade in real-time against other participants here at hackaTUM, on our simulated exchange “Optibook”. Throughout the weekend we’ll be there to help and guide you, including our own Stroopwaffels, Baristas and more. Come visit our booth to find out how to win real-world prizes by trading on our simulated exchange!
Siemens
The Incident Game
Breaking News in international media:
A critical vulnerability was mentioned in international media in a popular development tool. Due to criticality of already encountered vulnerabilities and outages some weeks ago, public media expressed worries shared among opinion leaders, experts and businesses. You are part of the Cybersecurity team, who gets called during a nice Friday night ceremony. Besides your main tasks, you‘ve also been tasked to provide a sound report for the management board to prepare a press release. The report is required by Sunday morning 10 AM, latest.
Your mission:
- Use & Analyze our digital twin
- Be creative and determine the security posture & visualize it
- Present your ideas to Siemens’ Cybersecurity Management
Solana
Build the Next Big Consumer App on Solana
Are you tired of complex blockchain applications that only crypto-natives understand? The next wave of Web3 adoption will come from simple, intuitive apps that solve real problems for everyday users. With Solana’s lightning-fast transactions and minimal fees, you have the perfect foundation to build consumer-friendly applications that could reach millions.
Your challenge:
• Create a consumer-focused application that addresses a real-world use case (e.g., social platforms, payment solutions, marketplaces)
• Build an intuitive user interface that non-crypto users can easily understand and navigate
• Implement at least one core Solana feature (e.g., Solana Pay, SPL tokens, or NFTs)
• Demonstrate your application’s functionality through a working prototype
• Show how your solution could scale to serve mainstream users
Bonus points for:
• Creative use of Solana’s ecosystem tools and SDKs
• Mobile-first design approach
• Novel solutions to existing consumer pain points
• Clear path to user acquisition and growth
T-Systems
Robotaxi Fleet Management
Descriptio
Develop a robotaxi solution to manage a fleet of electric and autonomous vehicles. Participants are expected to
- build an algorithm to commission a robotaxi fleet in the most effective/efficient way, i.e. optimize for different parameters such as kWh, utilization, revenues, etc.
- create a visualization layer to (1) manage the fleet and (2) create reports.
City of Munich
Be a City Hero: Help Us Fight Loneliness and Bring People Together!
Munich is a city of vibrant diversity and dynamic life—but there’s a hidden challenge, that we all have to face at some point in our lives: loneliness. What can we do together to help fight this challenge and bring people closer? Help us to make Munich a city where no one has to feel alone.
Wild Track
Time to Get Creative
Do you have an amazing idea, but it just doesn’t fit right in any of the sponsor challenges? Then the wild track is for you! Show us your best and brightest ideas. In the wild track, anything goes. We are look forward to see what you got for us!