Maxonrow is pleased to announce its first-ever online hackathon. MAXathon is inviting blockchain experts, developers, and other tech enthusiasts to participate in reimagining blockchain for healthcare applications in response to the global challenges propagated by pandemics.
MAXathon’s challenges are based on Maxonrow SDK, which the company used to build MedsLOCK. Created in tandem with Avantas Tech Accelerator, MedsLOCK is a blockchain-based control and communication ecosystem that provides real-time insights during pandemics.
The platform provides a single source of reliable, verifiable pandemic analytics to government agencies, health officials, and other stakeholders. During the COVID-19 outbreak, data is crucial to making informed decisions. At the same time, citizens are concerned about any incursion to privacy resulting from data collection initiatives.
Therefore, the core objective of MedsLOCK is to make COVID-19 data collection and exchange between stakeholders automated, transparent, and trusted with the help of distributed ledger technology.
“Privacy is a key issue during the current and future pandemics, and as such, blockchain platforms ensure that information is shared without compromising privacy. With MedsLOCK, we make sure we add trust to the data flow,” said Muhammad Salman Anjum, Avantas’ Managing Director.
About the MAXathon Challenge
MAXathon participants will have a chance to win a share of a €15,000 prize pool by building solutions for any of the five challenge categories. The challenges categories are as follows:
Physical Distancing – Distancing measures are one of the most impactful ways to contain the spread of COVID-19. How can we use analytics in smarter solutions to help governments implement social or physical distancing measures?
Credential and Certificate Issuance – Governments need a way of easily verifying if a patient has had COVID-19 and is virus-free. Help us build a solution that can help governments quickly retrieve verifiable data.
Welfare – Businesses and citizens have become reliant on governments for welfare due to the restrictions imposed by the pandemic. Can we lower transaction costs by removing intermediaries and increasing transparency to welfare beneficiaries?
Virtualizing the New Normal – Are there any creative ways that blockchain can be used to navigate the need for physical distancing, creating new virtual paths to connect with one another?
UI/UX – There are many data representations of the pandemic. How can we present a holistic, multi-dimensional dashboard with unique features?
This broad array of challenges provides plenty of scope to apply a range of technical skills at all levels.
Maxonrow has assembled a stellar team of judges and mentors for MAXathon. Judges include Holger Schmidt, partner at PwC’s strategy division, Nisa Amoils of VC firm Grasshopper Capital, along with representatives from Audi, Dash.org, and members of Maxonrow and Avantas Tech’s senior leadership.
There will also be 16 mentors working with participating teams, comprised of members of Maxonrow’s technical teams and leaders within the blockchain space.
The latter includes Amber Urquhart, Head of Business Development at quant trading firm TDX Strategies, Gabriel Dymowski, CEO at Doxychain, and a laureate of Forbes 25 under 25. Also participating in the mentorship team are Massimo Buoni, a UN global technology expert, and Steven Boylan, co-founder and COE of Trt:Labs, a specialist digital transformation consultancy.
How To Sign Up?
Registrations are open now on hackathon.maxonrow.com. Participants must register and submit their project on the challenge platform before September 30, 2020. From now till September 30, there will be a series of online events, including webinars and tutorials aimed at enriching participants’ experience.
After all, submissions have been reviewed, 20 teams will be selected to attend the Demo Day on October 3, 2020, where they will pitch their solutions to the final jury. The winning team of each track will win €3,000 for a total of €15,000 in prizes.
About Maxonrow
Maxonrow is a safe, secure, and regulatory compliant decentralized platform for everyone, everywhere. Through Maxonrow, governments, businesses, and societies are connected with the real economy through blockchain technology.