Hackathon Challenge Tracks
Explore nine real-world challenges designed to inspire innovative AI-powered solutions that improve communities, strengthen infrastructure, and enhance access to essential services.
Growth & Infrastructure Capacity
Building smarter cities through intelligent infrastructure planning.
Explore how artificial intelligence and existing development data can help communities understand and prepare for future growth.
Develop an AI-powered solution that uses existing development and subdivision data to visualize how continued growth could affect water systems, wastewater networks, and other essential infrastructure.
- ◆Interactive growth maps
- ◆Infrastructure-demand forecasts
- ◆AI-powered planning dashboards
Drainage & Street Prioritization
Smarter maintenance decisions for safer communities.
Recurring drainage problems and deteriorating streets can affect transportation, public safety, and neighborhood quality of life.
Design an AI-enabled solution that analyzes available data to identify areas experiencing recurring drainage or street-maintenance issues and helps prioritize areas requiring attention.
- ◆Infrastructure issue-mapping tools
- ◆Maintenance prioritization dashboards
- ◆AI-assisted analysis of reported problems
Permitting & Ordinance Assistant
Making government information easier to access and understand.
Navigating city ordinances, permit applications, and government documentation can be complicated for residents and small business owners.
Build an AI-powered assistant that simplifies access to city ordinances, permitting requirements, and related documents while helping users find relevant information.
- ◆Conversational AI assistants
- ◆Searchable ordinance databases
- ◆Interactive permitting guidance tools
Development & City Information
Creating more informed and connected communities.
Important information about community development is often distributed across multiple public documents, platforms, and government resources.
Create an accessible AI-powered platform that brings together publicly available planning, development, and city information. Help residents easily understand which projects are planned, approved, or underway.
- ◆Interactive development maps
- ◆AI-powered community information portals
- ◆Searchable project dashboards
Food Access & Resource Navigation
Connecting families with essential food and community resources.
Families can face difficulties finding affordable food and understanding the eligibility requirements for available assistance programs.
Build an AI-enabled tool that helps families identify nearby food resources, understand eligibility in plain language, and overcome barriers involving transportation, operating hours, documentation, and language.
- ◆AI-powered food assistance navigators
- ◆Multilingual resource assistants
- ◆Location-based food resource maps
Grid Resiliency & Outage Readiness
Strengthening community preparedness through intelligent technology.
Power disruptions can affect homes, businesses, essential services, and vulnerable residents.
Develop an AI-powered solution that helps communities prepare for and navigate power disruptions through better preparedness guidance, clearer outage communication, or improved support for vulnerable neighbors.
- ◆AI-powered preparedness assistants
- ◆Accessible outage-information platforms
- ◆Community support coordination tools
Healthcare Access & Patient Support
Improving healthcare experiences through responsible AI innovation.
Patients often need clearer health information, assistance preparing for medical appointments, and easier access to available healthcare resources.
Create an AI-enabled solution that improves patient education, appointment preparation, or healthcare resource navigation without compromising privacy and trust.
- ◆AI patient education assistants
- ◆Appointment preparation tools
- ◆Healthcare resource navigation platforms
Solutions should prioritize data privacy, accessibility, and reliable information.
Water Conservation & Drought Readiness
Using intelligent solutions to protect essential water resources.
Efficient water management and drought preparedness are important to long-term community sustainability.
Develop an AI-enabled tool that helps households or communities understand water usage, identify opportunities to reduce waste, and respond effectively to drought conditions or water restrictions.
- ◆Intelligent water usage dashboards
- ◆Personalized conservation assistants
- ◆Drought preparedness information platforms
Local Business & Industry
Helping small local businesses and industry teams solve real problems.
Small local businesses and industry teams face real, practical problems — from tracking stock and choosing the right customers to learning from workplace accidents.
Build an AI-powered solution that helps small local businesses or industry teams tackle a real problem, such as tracking stock, choosing who to sell to, or learning from accidents at work.
- ◆Inventory and stock-tracking assistants
- ◆Customer-targeting and sales-prioritization tools
- ◆Workplace-incident learning and safety insights
Your Challenge. Your Innovation. Your Impact.
Choose a track, identify a real community problem, and transform your ideas into an AI-powered prototype with the potential to make a difference.