Next-Gen Project Management: The Era of Unlimited Potential Student Hackathon
Building momentum for the PM Summit 2024 in Sofia, we would like to invite the Next-Generation project managers to join us and take part in the first PM Student Hackathon.
The event is a great opportunity for the students to deep dive in the business world and gain hands-on learning and practice, collaborating with experienced professionals.
What to expect?
Practice project management skills
Apply project management concepts to real-world problems, developing and pitching creative ESG projects to support organizations and communities to enhance their corporate sustainability performance.
Expand your network
Participants will receive access to training materials on project management concepts, tools, and techniques, including cutting-edge topics like AI.
What is a hackathon?
A hackathon is a dynamic event bringing people together to collaboratively develop ideas and proposals to solve certain problems. They are very common in the tech space and are becoming increasingly popular to help address social and environmental challenges.
What do I get by taking part?
- Project management and business mentorship
- Training materials on project management and ESG
- Attending PM Summit and expanding your network
- The top three project proposals will be elected and awarded by the jury members.
- All participants will receive a Certificate of participation.
What is the theme of the hackathon?
Empowering ESG Innovation
We’re challenging you to create innovative solutions that help organizations and communities enhance their ESG performance. Whether it’s a new app, a data analysis tool, or a community project, your goal is to make a positive impact in the areas of sustainability, social responsibility, and ethical governance.
What is ESG?
- Environmental: Refers to whether the organization is operating as a steward of the environment and covers environmental issues like climate change, greenhouse gas emissions, deforestation, biodiversity, carbon emissions, waste management and pollution.
- Social: Refers to the impact the organization has on people, culture and communities and looks at the social impact of diversity, inclusivity, human rights and supply chains.
- Governance: Refers to how the organization is directed and looks at corporate governance factors like executive compensation, succession planning, board management practices and shareholder rights.
What is the format of the hackathon?
Students will be split into teams, based on business cases. The business cases will be distributed at the kick-off meeting on 16th October.
Each team will have two weeks to develop their ideas, project proposals, and prepare to pitch for the final presentation on 6th November.
To enhance their learning experience students will be supported by business mentors from the respective company partner and project mentor from the PMI Bulgaria Chapter.
What are the general guidelines?
Students will be assessed based on their group work and the following deliverables:
- Generate solution options to the provided business case (problem statement) and validate your choice with the business mentor.
- Develop a project charter and validate it with the project mentor (Template with guidelines will be provided during the kick-off meeting).
- Prepare a 10-minute presentation with your project proposal and pitch to the jury members.
Key dates
- Kick-off meeting – 16th October
- 2 weeks for creating your business solution
- Presentation day and award ceremony – 6th November
Join us in this exciting opportunity to innovate for a better world. Let’s harness technology and creativity to drive positive change in Environmental, Social, and Governance practices!
Registration Deadline: 13th October
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Apply as a business partner
If you are interested in supporting the PMI Student Hackathon as a business partner, you can find more details in the brochure here and reach out to us.
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