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
THEMES
Scale Up
Improve platform and infrastructure efficiency to support 10x scale at lower cost. Improve existing ML algorithms by 10x.
The Third Eye
Predict, detect, and prevent issues and reduce human effort.
Crush the BHAGs
Propel monetization and drive hyper growth in areas like CTV, PMP, Video, Audience, Contextual, Identity, mobile app, etc.
Future of Ad Tech
Re-imagine status quo and create the future today.
AWARDS
Prizes for top 2 teams
$2,000 for winning team
$1,500 for first runner up
Participation certificates for everyone
ML TRACK
All projects submitted for this track will be evaluated based on 4 criteria.
Total Prize Worth
Evaluation Criteria
Evaluation Date: Tentative, 13th December 2021
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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?
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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?
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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?
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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
Ashim Ghosh
Avinash Pandey
Mukund Sudharsan
Ritika Mehta
RWC Office
Ben Daici
Gautam Soneja
Mohammad Rahimi
Yun Li
ML HACKATHON COUNT
EXCITED ABOUT PUBMATIC ML HACKATHON 2021?
Registration closes on November 05, 2021.