Horizon AI Hackathon 2025

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February 22 - 23, 2025
Lakeside Expo Center

 

HorizonAI Global Hackathon 2025 is a two-day innovation marathon—part of the AI Summit of the Americas—that brings together students from diverse backgrounds to ideate, design, and develop AI-powered solutions with meaningful societal impact. This year, we are also inviting local startups from the Miami area to participate and compete for prizes. Additionally, we are expanding our reach by introducing an online track for international student participants from our partner universities, fostering global collaboration and innovation.

Themes

Develop an AI-powered solution that addresses a need or challenge in todays' society. Your solution can target any industry, demographic, or issue, but it should showcase AI's potential to innovate, transform, and elevate.

Teams can participate in one of the following themes:

  • Health & Wellbeing: Leveraging AI for early disease detection, mental health support, or personal wellness recommendations.
  • Environment & Conservation: Using AI to monitor climate change, preserve biodiversity, or optimize sustainable practices in urban settings.
  • Education & Learning: Harnessing AI to personalize learning experiences, support educators, or bridge educational gaps in underserved areas.
  • Finance & Economics: Developing AI tools for better financial forecasting, fraud detection, or economic growth in developing regions.
  • Entertainment & Media: Innovating with AI to create adaptive content, enhance user experiences, or revolutionize content distribution.

 

Submission Tracks

The hackathon offers seven total tracks:

  1. In-Person Student Tracks (5)

    • Health & Wellbeing
    • Environment & Conservation
    • Education & Learning
    • Finance & Economics
    • Entertainment & Media
  2. Community/Startup Participants Track (In-Person)

  3. International Participants Track (Online)

Prizes

Each track will have the following cash prizes for the winning teams.

1st place $3,000
2nd place $2,000
3rd place $1,000

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Sponsored by
Rothberg Catalyzer Fund

With the support of 
José Milton Foundation Digital Tech Initiative

In collaboration with

and the following student organizations:

Eta Kappa Nu (IEEE-HKN)

Developer Student Club

Kappa Theta Pi (KTP)

UDesign

Society of Women Engineers

Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers

Society of Asian Scientists and Engineers

Engineering Student Council

 

For additional questions, e-mail hackathon@miami.edu

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