Valenciaport Hackathon — For a Smart, Green and Resilient Port of the Future
Tags: Technology, Hackathons, Valencia, Sustainability

These past few weeks of November 2020 will forever be marked by the inventive spirit and qualitative projects of the 100% Online Global Valenciaport Hackathon. Participants had to choose between one of the four corporately sponsored challenges in order to reimagine the sustainable, smart and resilient port of the future.

Jorge Lara, Elena Giner and Raúl Cascajo from Autoridad Portuaria de Valencia

Challenge 1 Circular Economy In Ports — Sponsored by ValenciaPort

A Port-City collaboration scheme to better waste management with the advanced waste management systems, waste-based energy models or data sharing technologies.

Pedro Perez and Chiara Iorfida from COSCO Shipping Lines Spain, S.A and Alexandre Sánchez from from Fundación Valenciaport

Challenge 2 Optimization of Road Transport Operations — Sponsored by COSCO Shipping

Get synchronized and optimized road transport operations for better management, greater use of available assets, increased visibility of operations and reduction of inefficiencies.

Manu Boggeiro and Bruno Serrano from Romeu

Challenge 3 Transform Ocean Rates Processing — Romeu

Technological solutions to standardize logistics operators rate sheets and quotation management systems to ease and facilitate transported containers negotiation.

Ines Knäpper, Yves Jobin and Amine Belkhadir from Global Alliance for Trade Facilitation

Challenge 4 International Trade Facilitation for Port Operations — Global Alliance for Trade Facilitation

Propose innovative solutions to better trade facilitation by reducing delays and unnecessary waiting times at borders.

Throughout this challenging Hackathon, participants had access to informative webinars by port expert and were able to ask their questions on the platform live chat.

Onboarded mentors actively met with teams, answering their questions and guiding them on the various challenges with the 1:1 meeting feature. Intellectual help was completed by technological assets shared with the participants. Datasets were made available in order to get ready to implement projects right after the hackathon.

33 projects were successfully submitted by November 25 at 23:59 pm CET. Our Hackathon mentors debriefed and selected 8 finalists who were invited to pitch at the Live Final Demos Day the following day.

The 1st prize awarded to Book-a-slot team during the Closing Ceremony of the Valenciaport Hackathon

Book-a-slot team won the Grand Prize: 3000 € provided by Fundación Juan Arizo Serrulla

“We steer trucks off-peak through incentives, predicts reliable ETAs with historical data and promote match-making for double operations.” Check out their project page here!

ChainGo Freight team won one of the Secondary Prizes: 1000 € provided by ALICE

“The most efficient way to exchange your logistics information and document.” Check out their project page here!

aiRates Technologies team won the other Secondary Prize: 1000 € provided by Propeller Valencia

“Radical Digitalization of Transportation Processes” Check out their project page here!

A special thank you to all participants who submitted really interesting projects to create a more sustainable and optimized port. And congratulations to #ValenciaportHackathon winners!

Sponsors, organizers and partners assisted our participants during this innovative month; COREALIS Project (EU H2020 programme), Fundación Valenciaport, COSCO Shipping Lines Spain, Global Alliance for Trade Facilitation, Romeu, Autoridad Portuaria de Valencia, HERE Technologies and Next Port.

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