In collaboration with Splunk and BMW Group, the Faculty of Engineering and TICKET Lab organized a 24-hour Hackathon, with participants divided into 19 teams from 7 universities in Lebanon (UA, AUB, LAU, USJ, LU-Roumieh, NDU, USEK).

Six teams were pre-selected and offered the opportunity to pursue an internship at BMW Group: 2 teams from UA; 1 from NDU; 1 from AUB; 1 from USJ; and 1 from LU-Roumieh.

The six teams presented their projects and applications in front of a jury consisting of:

Dr. Antoine Habchi, Lebanese parliament member;
Dr. Georg Birgelen, German Ambassador in Lebanon;
Dr. Dirk Dreher, Vice President, Head of logistics planning, BMW Group;
Dr. Tobias Afsali, General Work Council, BMW Group;
Mr. Franz Kellhuber, Director of Sales Engineering Central Europe, Splunk;
Mr. Fadi Naffah, Program Manager, Agrytech;
Dr. Mohamad Nassar, Assistant Professor, AUB/ Inmind.ai; and
Mrs. Joelle Haykal, Administration and Human Resources Manager, Bassoul-Heneine.

Following the jury’s discussion, the three winning teams were announced during the Hackathon’s main session- SBS’18:
- First Place winners: AUB Team 4, consisting of Mohammad Ali Hamdan, Karim Kenaan, and Karl Hayek. They received 6000 dollars awarded by Splunk.
- Second Place winners: NDU Team 2, consisting of Jason Eid, Ralf Zakarian, and Joe Karam. They received 3000 dollars awarded by BMW Group.
- Third Place winners: UA Team 2, consisting of Gilbert Jabbour, Christian Eid, and Alexandre Ibrini. They received 1500 dollars awarded by Inmind.ai.