SAS Hackathon Milestones - Prepare for the Finish Line

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Milestone Highlights and Stats:

Thank you for participating in the SAS Hackathon 2024! We are thrilled to have kicked off this year’s event, a true cross-business unit initiative and collective team sport for all of SAS, in collaboration with our sponsors Intel and Microsoft.

Registrations:

• Record number of 1,725 participants from 71 countries
• 727 distinct organizations
• 133 approved teams with approximately 627 participants

We are now in the second week of the hack, and we hope your creativity and coding skills are taking your team to new insights and heights!

Start planning for your submissions now!

See below for milestones and valuable resources to guide you through the process.

Milestones overview

Teams Checklist and FAQ link here

Support and Access to the Cloud environment here

Tickets/all problems always to SASHackathon@sas.com​. This will launch your default email.

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Case Scoping and Introduction to AI Use Case Canvas - link to Webinar here

How to build a compelling business case and make your idea fly - link to Webinar here

Video Submissions  - - link to Webinar here

Each team is responsible for two videos that meet these specifications:​

• Format: .mp4 (or .mov)​
• Resolution: Preferably 1920x1080 (or 1280x720)​
• Frame rate: 30 frames per second​
• Bitrate: 5-10 Mbps​
• Maximum file size: 500MB ​
  (if larger, re-encode at a lower bit rate until it falls under 500MB)​
• No background music due to commercial licensing restrictions.
• Link to video article​

Discover all the 2023 use cases here

Build your brand with an​ audience-first LinkedIn strategy - link to Webinar here

SAS Hackathon Awards and Scorecard criteria 

22 prizes with a Jury for each category that will evaluate the teams based on 8 criteria,
scoring from 1 (lowest) to 5 (highest), summing up to a maximum score of 40 points. 

Award ceremony Live on LinkedIn and YouTube, November 20 

Save the date, Links coming soon!

SAS Innovate in Orlando, Grand Champion Celebration - link here

Winners will be invited to present and we will celebrate the overall SAS Hackathon winner,
the Grand Champion on main stage.

Do you want to bring your SAS Hackathon project to market as a Channel Partner - links here