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ABOUT PUBMATIC ML HACKATHON 2021

The PubMatic ML Hackathon is a multi-day event where employees across locations and verticals collaborate, form teams, and create a unique ML-based solution from scratch.

Encouraging talented and creative folks in PubMatic to create deeply diversified solutions that would positively impact our customers. This event symbolizes innovation, collaboration, creativity, learning, synergy, technical leadership, recognition & fun! Hoping to find not just the coolest ideas, but the greatest. Awards will recognize qualities like business acumen, technical ambition, thoughtful code, inspired design, and exceeding customer expectations.

Last date to register: November 05, 2021

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THEMES

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Scale Up

Improve platform and infrastructure efficiency to support 10x scale at lower cost. Improve existing ML algorithms by 10x.

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The Third Eye

Predict, detect, and prevent issues and reduce human effort.

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Crush the BHAGs

Propel monetization and drive hyper growth in areas like CTV, PMP, Video, Audience, Contextual, Identity, mobile app, etc.

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Future of Ad Tech

Re-imagine status quo and create the future today.

AWARDS

IconPrizes for top 2 teams

Icon$2,000 for winning team

Icon$1,500 for first runner up

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ML TRACK

All projects submitted for this track will be evaluated based on 4 criteria.

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$3,500

Evaluation Criteria

Evaluation Date: Tentative, 13th December 2021

  • Technical/ML Excellence

    How does the project use cutting edge tools, technology and innovative techniques to solve complex problems in a scalable manner or open up new opportunities?

  • Business Impact

    How large is the impact of the solution on the business? How well aligned is it with current and future company strategy? How large is the opportunity and what is the ROI? How does it benefit the customer and PubMatic?

  • Innovation

    What innovative, unique and novel techniques and approaches are used to effectively solve the problem? Is the solution forward-looking or disruptive in nature? Has feasibility of the solution been demonstrated?

  • Production Readiness using PubMatic Data-Set

    Solution readiness to be deployed in production. How good are the data and results expected in the production environment?

RULES

Team Details

  • This is a team-only event
  • Teams will have around two months to work on their ML Hackathon project. You can start working on the idea immediately
  • A team can comprise of two to five people. You may create a team with members in different office locations
  • One person can be in no more than two teams
  • No more than 2 Silver Badge or ML Team Members can be on the same team. Ideally just one ML team member per Hackathon team
  • Apply ML to solve business and technical problems relevant to PubMatic. ML must be a core part of the solution
  • Teams can seek guidance from mentors of respective offices as well. Mentors are mentioned below

Team Deliverables

  • Solution is expected to be as close to production ready as possible. Using actual PubMatic data sets is highly recommended, and synthetic data must be avoided as far as possible
  • Project documentation, the presentation, including ROI analysis, and all artifacts must be published on One Drive
  • All code and scripts, if any, must be checked into GitHub
  • It is recommended to create a video presentation for offline review and share a link to the recording

Judging & Presentations

  • Each team will have 15 mins to present and 5 minutes for Q&A
  • All evaluations will take place over zoom this year

Mentors

Pune Office

Abhinav Sinha
Director, Technology
Ashim Ghosh
Machine Learning Engineer
Avinash Pandey
Principal Software Engineer
Mukund Sudharsan
Machine Learning Engineer
Ritika Mehta
Machine Learning Engineer

RWC Office

Ben Daici
Senior Machine Learning Engineer
Gautam Soneja
Associate Director, Machine Learning
Mohammad Rahimi
Senior Data Scientist
Yun Li
Senior Data Scientist

ML HACKATHON COUNT

EXCITED ABOUT PUBMATIC ML HACKATHON 2021?

Registration closes on November 05, 2021.

Have any questions? Contact us!