Techfugees was founded in 2015 to bring the tech start-up and NGO communities together with refugees settling into a new life in Australia. Our community of 'Hackers, Hipsters, Hustlers and Humanitarians' has grown to many Hackathons and meetups in Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane and Adelaide. At our events, businesses have been founded, skills learned and friendships made. The model developed in Australia to ‘co-design’ solutions with refugees is now used in the growing global Techfugees movement.
If you’ve never been to a Techfugees event, you’re in for an extraordinary weekend working alongside some of Australia’s most talented and committed tech stars, mentors, designers, business leaders and community people together with newly arrived and settled refugees.
We come together with one objective: to build a community of like-minded people who roll up their sleeves and develop solutions to the challenges faced by refugees when they come to Australia.
Techfugees is now a huge global movement with 15,000 members and dozens of chapters around the world. In Australia, many of the solutions developed at our events are now operating as tech start-ups or social ventures in their own right. This means our weekend events have a lasting positive impact.
And you can be part of it!
Prizes
$11,000 in prizes
First Prize
$10,000 cash from SSI + Academy Xi Credit of $,4,000 and $100 Academy Xi boot camp for every team member, $2000 AWS credits
All Winning Teams
Mentoring by Annie Luu, Investible; Ryan Cross, Crosshatch Solutions and Usman Iftikhar, Catalysr
Second Prize
$1,000 cash Transferwise, + Academy Xi Credit of $,2,500 credit and $100 Academy Xi boot camp for every team member, $1000 AWS credits
All Winning Teams
Mentoring by Annie Luu, Investible; Ryan Cross, Crosshatch Solutions and Usman Iftikhar, Catalysr
Third Prize
Academy Xi Credit of $1,500 credit and $100 Academy Xi boot camp for every team member, $500 AWS credits
All Winning Teams
Mentoring by Annie Luu, Investible; Ryan Cross, Crosshatch Solutions and Usman Iftikhar, Catalysr
Honorable Mention (2)
All Winning Teams
Mentoring by Annie Luu, Investible; Ryan Cross, Crosshatch Solutions and Usman Iftikhar, Catalysr
Devpost Achievements
Submitting to this hackathon could earn you:
Eligibility
We will focus specifically on hacking the challenges faced by refugees.
We need Hackers, Hipsters Hustlers and Humanitarians to form teams, as well as mentors to help the teams!
Register to participate.
Requirements
TBD
How to enter
Pre-register on Eventbrite.
Judges

Hon Ed Husic
MP

Astrid Perry

Jamila Gordon

Jasmina Bajraktarevic-Hayward

Charbel Zeaitor

Peter Huynh
Judging Criteria
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Product/Market Fit
Who is your customer (Refugee/Service Organisation etc)? How well does the product fit the needs of the problem the team chose to tackle? How user-friendly is the technology? Is it a complete solution, or do they still have a long way to go? -
Potential Impact
How much impact (quality and quantity) could the solution have? -
Creativity/Innovation/Wow Factor
How innovative/creative/unique is the hack? Does the hack employ a new/novel approach to solving the problem? -
Feasibility & Sustainability
What are your barriers to entry or user adoption? How are you addressing those challenges? What is your rollout strategy? Is it scalable and self-sustaining? -
Accomplishment & Learning
How much did they accomplish in the weekend? Did they demonstrate learning from mentors to help inform a better solution? Did the demo test core assumptions? -
Team Pitch
How well did the team explain their solution? How well did the demo communicate the idea?
Questions? Email the hackathon manager
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