Absolutely! We encourage anyone with a relevant idea to submit a challenge.

That said, priority is given to challenges submitted by our partners and sponsors.
If you’re not affiliated, your submission will still be considered – but we can’t promise inclusion in the final lineup.

You can submit your challenge using our online form – it’s quick and easy.
We’ve put together a step-by-step guide to help you through the process.

👉 Click here to view the submission guide

Please note: submitting a challenge does not guarantee inclusion in the final event unless you are an official sponsor or partner.

The organizers provide a correspondingly high-performance infrastructure, but cannot fully guarantee that the data provided will not be processed in accessible cloud computing services (e.g. for AI applications, etc.).

• Either all participants of the Hackdays or only the members of the Challenge
• Challenge members can also sign NDAs if required.

Data sets should contribute to solving the challenges. As data sets are required to solve tasks, the challenge owner's own data sets are necessary for processing in most cases. Data may only be processed on programs and servers within the network provided

The documentation of the challenges will be published on Github and on the SwissEnergy website. 
The data used for the solution will not be published.

The challenges and their results are freely accessible and will be published on the homepages of opendata.ch and the BfE (Swiss Federal Office of Energy) after the event. They will be made available to interested parties (universities, engineering offices, developers, challenge owners, participants in the hackdays) for further use.

Primarily with the challenge owner. Publishing the documentation would theoretically make it possible to use them, but this has not yet been done. Complete solutions are also rarely developed as part of hackdays. Rather, they are approaches and MVPs.

Data & Data Sets:
Publicly accessible data sets remain publicly accessible. If challenge owners provide their own data for processing the task, this is generally only available for the event (or their own challenge). The challenge owner can also make certain data sets available for other events depending on their own governance requirements and make these sets freely available.

Models:
This depends heavily on the challenge owner and the challenge itself. The documentation of the challenges is published on Github and on the SwissEnergy website. This means that they are not only available to the challenge owner. As a rule, the challenge owners take the results of the hackdays back with them and use them internally for further development > Sense and added value of open innovation.

• In the case of sensitive data, the organizers recommend
  • a separate smaller event exclusively with the challenge owner or
  • an NDA which has to be signed with the challenge participants upfront

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