Generative AI Hackathon
MoroccoAI Conference 2023
Online, December 11th - 17th, 2023
About The Hackathon
The MoroccoAI Generative AI Hackathon aims to foster innovation and collaboration within Morocco's burgeoning AI ecosystem. As a participant, you are asked to use the latest GenAI advances to build cutting edge solutions to solve business problems in specific industries. You can join a team to develop a Proof of Concept (PoC) involving an API, a mobile application, or a web application aimed at addressing a real-life problem in Education, Healthcare, Environment, Finance or Customer Services .
Over the span of 7 days, starting from December 11th to 17th, you will collaborate with a team to transform your idea into a PoC. Throughout this period, you'll receive guidance and assistance to refine your idea, identify potential team members, and/or evaluate specific functionalities within your current solution.
The Challenge
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Connect with the MoroccoAI community, join teams and brainstorm ideas then come up with a project that leverages Generative AI in 5 areas of focus:
- Education
- Healthcare
- Environment
- Finance
- CustomerServices
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Follow the Instructions (see Instructions tab):
Register to connect with the large MoroccoAI community and join the GenAI Hackathon slack channel, meet the mentors, hack during the seven days then submit your project and pitch in front of a Jury and win attractive prizes.
Mentorship
Join the Hackathon channel on slack and meet the mentors to learn more about their proposed projects (see Mentorship tab)
Why should you participate in this Hackathon?
- Create innovative solution with latest advances in GenAI
- Network and Collaborate with your peers and mentors
- Get valuable mentorship and pitch in front of a jury of experts
- Win great prizes offered by MoroccoAI's sponsors
- Obtain your MoroccoAI certificate of recognition
Important dates
Hackathon Dates
Registration Open
Registration Deadline
Hackathon Start Date
Hackathon End Date
Awards Ceremony
Prizes
Two prizes will be offered by our sponsors
1st Prize
10,000 MAD
2nd Prize
5,000 MAD
The prizes will be awarded on the basis of the Jury evaluation. Most importantly, you will gain valuable experience and have fun!
Rules
Participants: The Hackathon is open to individuals or teams with a limit on team size with a maximum of 3 members.
Teams: Multiple individuals may collaborate as a team. You may not participate on more than one Team. Each Team member must be a single individual.
Registration: The team must register by the specified deadline and agree to the hackathon rules.
Innovation: How original and innovative the solution is?
Impact: Does it have the potential for a significant positive impact on society or industry?
Feasibility: Can the idea be implemented in a real-world scenario?
Presentation: Quality of the pitch and demonstration of the solution.
Ownership: Participants retain IP rights to their solutions.
Code: You agree that upon request from the organizer, you must share your code to ensure the reproducibility of your results and to facilitate their verification.
Licensing: Any third-party assets must be properly licensed for use.
Data Privacy: Any use of data should comply with data protection regulations.
Transparency: Participants must disclose any use of pre-built libraries or tools.
Ethical AI: Solutions must adhere to ethical AI principles and should not contribute to harmful outcomes.
Instructions
Fill the registration form
Join the MoroccoAI Slack workspace MoroccoAI Slack workspace
Upon application approval, you will be added to the "moroccoai-2023-gen-ai-hackathon" Slack private channel. You do not need to have an idea to participate. Join a team with an idea and get inspired!
Engage in a discussion, find teammates, send them private messages, build a strong team and give it a cool team name.
Come up with a project idea that leverages Generative AI in Education, Healthcare, Environment, Finance or Customer Services.
Your team will be invited to join the Discord workspace. The Hackathon starts on Monday, December, 11th.
Meet the mentors on Discord, discuss the ideas and enjoy a week of hacking!
Upon completion, the team lead has to submit the project before Sunday, December, 17th through this submission form . You will be asked to send the description of the project, the pitch video of maximum 3 min, the presentation file, the link to a demo, and the github link to the source-code.
The Jury may ask the team to join a Q&A session before the winners announcement on 21st December (the second day of the conference)
Mentorship
Nouamane Tazi
ML Engineer
Hugging Face
France
Mohamed Elbaha
Data scientist
Michelin
France
Miloud Belarebia
Tech Lead
GIFI
France
Dr. Afaf Taïk
Postdoc Researcher
Mila
Canada
Dr. Soundouss Messoudi
Researcher
UTC - Heudiasyc
France
Dr. Abdellah El Mekki
NLP Researcher
UM6P
Morocco
Ziyad Benomar
PhD Candidate
CREST
France
Taha Rehah
ML Engineer
Deepecho
Morocco
Salah Iguiliz
Software Engineer
MP Data
France
Mustapha Ajeghrir
AI Research Engineer
Hrflow.ai
France
Manal Hamdi
Software Engineer
Google - Youtube
France
Sara El-Ateif
Google PhD Fellow
ENSIAS
Morocco
Anas Ait Aomar
PhD Student
UM6P
Morocco
Abdelghani Belgaid
Data Consultant
Tesselate Group
Morocco
Hasnaa Ouadoudi Belabzioui
PhD Student
ENS Rennes
France
Some project ideas proposed by the Mentors
Utilize any text data for use cases such as customer support enhancement and data analysis. Here are some resources:
- XTTS Coqui from Hugging Face
- Cohere's RAG documentation: https://docs.cohere.com/docs/retrieval-augmented-generation-rag
Enabling tasks like filling forms from images and automating insurance processes. Here are some resources:
- Grounded Segment Anything repository: https://github.com/IDEA-Research/Grounded-Segment-Anything
- GroundingDINO repository: https://github.com/IDEA-Research/GroundingDINO
- Naver Clova IX Donut model: https://huggingface.co/naver-clova-ix/donut-base
Developing solutions for image captioning, visual question-answering, and image generation/editing. Here are some resources:
- Hugging Face's documentation on Transformers tasks: https://huggingface.co/docs/transformers/main/en/tasks/idefics
- LEditsPlusPlus model: https://huggingface.co/spaces/editing-images/leditsplusplus
- SDXL Turbo model: https://huggingface.co/stabilityai/sdxl-turbo
- Stable-video-diffusion model: https://huggingface.co/spaces/multimodalart/stable-video-diffusion
Automatically analyze structured data. Here are some resources:
- Code interpreter: https://github.com/gventuri/pandas-ai
- pdfGPT: https://github.com/bhaskatripathi/pdfGPT
- Transformer model for extracting tables from PDFs: https://huggingface.co/docs/transformers/model_doc/table-transformer
Like a Pharmacy Assistant for drug component information and prescription explanations, or a Legal Assistant for explaining legal contracts related to employment, internship, rent, divorce, etc.