Wanted Lab to Host 'AI Championship 2026' ... "Anyone With an Idea for Solving Problems With AI Is Welcome"
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Wanted Lab announced on the 31st that it will host the hackathon 'Wanted AI Championship 2026 - AI Hackathon, Beyond the Limits.'
Registration opened on the 24th, and university and graduate students aged 19 or older, as well as the general public, can participate individually or in teams of up to five people.
Participants must register by September 18 and submit their assignments by the 20th, while the top 20 teams advancing to the finals will be announced on October 7 and an in-person demo day and awards ceremony will be held on October 17.
Wanted Lab announced on the 31st that it will host the hackathon 'Wanted AI Championship 2026 - AI Hackathon, Beyond the Limits.' The event aims to turn AI use ideas into reality.
Registration opened on the 24th. Eligible participants are university and graduate students, as well as the general public, aged 19 or older, and they can join either individually or in teams of up to five people.
Eligible projects are those that use AI to solve real-world problems or create new value, and there are no topic restrictions. Wanted Lab said that anyone with an idea for solving problems with AI is welcome to participate.
Participants must register by September 18 and submit their assignments by the 20th. The preliminary judging will be based 80% on evaluations by the Wanted Lab judging panel and 20% on online voting.
The top 20 teams advancing to the finals will be announced on October 7, and an in-person demo day and awards ceremony will be held on October 17. Prize money is up to KRW 10 million, and participants will also receive feedback from a panel of AI expert judges.
The hackathon disclosed the lineup of the final-round judges and partner companies. The final judging panel includes Kang Jeong-gu, head of AI strategy at Liner; Kim Ho-min, CEO of SparkLabs; Kim Deok-joong, head of the Perp AI Research Lab; Jeong Joeng-seok, AI engineer at Krafton; and Jeong Gi-su, head of AI at Wanted Lab.
Krafton is the hackathon's main partner. Krafton developed the AI competency evaluation solution 'Copa Probe.' General partners include Upstage, Channel Corporation, SparkLabs, SelectStar, Grepp, Freewillyn, MediCall, IsaMogoo, Teamwork, Allganize Korea, and VeslyAI.
Winners will receive prize money of KRW 10 million for the grand prize, KRW 3 million for the top prize, KRW 1 million for excellence, and KRW 1 million for the popularity award. All participants will also receive the 'AI Builder' badge, which will be applied to their Wanted profile. The badge is intended to help users leverage their AI project experience and capabilities as career assets during the job-seeking or job-changing process.
After saying that the era has arrived in which anyone can bring their ideas to life with AI, Lee Bok-gi, CEO of Wanted Lab, said he hopes Wanted AI Championship will become a stage for people with AI skills to demonstrate their abilities and grow, as part of that shift.
Source: TECHWORLD · Lee Gwang-jae
Original: https://www.epnc.co.kr/news/articleView.html?idxno=406255
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