Innovate.DTCC:
AI-Powered Hackathon
Join us for this exciting event, where creativity meets the AI!
Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC) is excited to host the Innovate.DTCC: AI-Powered Hackathon. It is the first in a series of collaborative initiatives aimed at leveraging AI and ML technologies to address critical challenges in the financial markets industry. This inaugural event will serve as a platform for industry experts, students and thought leaders to come together and develop innovative solutions that can enhance the efficiency, transparency, and overall performance of our business.
By participating in this hackathon, you will explore the transformative potential of AI and ML in financial markets, unlock new opportunities, engage with colleagues from diverse perspectives, foster cross-functional connections and expand your professional network.
The registration form is available below. Upon completing registration, you will receive further instructions and information regarding the event's terms and conditions.
By participating in this hackathon, you will explore the transformative potential of AI and ML in financial markets, unlock new opportunities, engage with colleagues from diverse perspectives, foster cross-functional connections and expand your professional network.
The registration form is available below. Upon completing registration, you will receive further instructions and information regarding the event's terms and conditions.
Use Case Overview
A predetermined list of use cases has been selected for this hackathon, as follows:
- Predictive Modeling & Forecasting / Anomaly Detection: Analyze historical data and identify patterns and/or anomalies that can be used to predict future trends, movements, risks and events in capital markets.
- Risk Mitigation: Leverage AI to prepare for future cyber security threats and to enhance risk mitigation
- Self-Service Investigation (Chat NLP): Enable users to interact with data and perform investigations or analyses through conversational interfaces
- Optimization & Automation: Leverage AI-driven automation or algorithms to optimize and/or automate processes
Important Dates and Timing
- Registration starts: November 5, 2024
- Registration ends: January 17, 2025
- Legal agreement submission deadline: January 27, 2025
- Hackathon event dates: February 3, 2025 – February 7, 2025
- Final Presentation: February 7, 2025
Rewards
Industry Participants
- Thought Leadership Exposure – Opportunity to pursue a collaborative whitepaper published on results achieved
- Pilot Project Opportunities – Potential opportunity to collaborate to bring the project to the next level.
- Showcase at Industry event– An opportunity to showcase your technology and products at a DTCC event
- Industry exposure – Winners will be featured in DTCC marketing of this initiative
- Grant to provide funding for ongoing Open-Source development with FINOS.
Vendor and Startup Participants
- Same as for the Industry Participants section above.
Students and Researchers
- Research Grants – Grant to support ongoing research.
- Mentoring Opportunities with senior leadership at DTCC
- Grant - to provide funding for ongoing Open-Source development with FINOS.
Environment and Communication Channels
- All hackathon activities, including presentations and judging, will take place virtually.
- Participants are required to provide their own laptops for the event.
- DTCC will not supply laptops or Virtual Desktop Instances (VDIs).
- DTCC will provide teams with AWS accounts, including access to all AWS services, for their development needs during the hackathon.
- In lieu of the AWS environment provided by DTCC, Teams can choose to build on their own infrastructure and environments.
- A “non-AWS User” legal agreement is available for this scenario.
- Technical support will be available remotely to assist with AWS account and any issues with the collaboration tool.
Eligibility
- Hackathon will use AWS platform provided by DTCC. Teams must be familiar with AWS platform and services.
- Teams using the AWS platform provided by DTCC must be familiar with AWS platform and services.
- Teams are required to bring their own publicly available and unrestricted data for the hackathon. Teams should use this data responsibly throughout the event to develop and demonstrate their AI/ML solutions while maintaining ethical standards and legal compliance.
- Participation is team-based only; no individual entries are allowed; one team per organization.
- Teams must consist of a minimum of 3 members and a maximum of 10 members.
- Participants are encouraged to work with their existing network to form a “Super Team”. A Super Team is defined as a team which is comprised of more than one organization. Establishing a Super Team will help foster cross-industry collaboration as well as achieve a stronger output leveraging wider perspectives.
- One team point of contact must be identified for all teams (i.e., single-organization teams or Super Teams).
- The team point of contact is responsible for registering on the team’s behalf.
- The team point of contact is responsible for ensuring the legal agreement (Non-AWS User Legal Agreement or AWS User Legal Agreement) is signed by a representative from all participating organizations within the team.
- Non-AWS User Legal Agreement or AWS User Legal Agreement must be signed and submitted to the DTCC AI Hackathon team by January 27, 2025.
Get ready to showcase your team's skills, collaborate effectively, and have an unforgettable experience at Innovate.DTCC: AI-Powered Hackathon! Sign up using the Registration Form below.
If you have questions or require further assistance, please don't hesitate to contact the DTCC AI Hackathon team.
If you have questions or require further assistance, please don't hesitate to contact the DTCC AI Hackathon team.