SIM Hackathon – eCommerce

Singapore's Next E-Commerce Unicorn

Build an Innovative Start-Up Collaboratively during a Virtual Hackathon

The objective of the Hackathon Project is to enable SIM students with future skills based on real-world use cases in breakthrough topic like E-Commerce. The hackathon aims to give participants exposure on what it is like to run agile projects in a technology company with focus on business strategy and technology.

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What is the hackathon about?

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Why Join Us?

  •  Learn how digitization can disrupt Ecommerce
  •  Practice the communication skills that you need to excel 
  •  Work on real life business use cases
  •  Ideate breakthrough ideas while being customer centric
  •  Experience running agile projects and building digital products
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The Judging Panel

Hanno Stegmann

Managing Director, BCG Digital Ventures

Dione Song

Chief Executive Officer Love, Bonito

Lars Droste

GTM Partnerships, Google

Elaine Liew

Co-Founder, GDEXA

Anil Menghani

Vice President, Insider

Seong Kim Ho

Chief Digital Officer, SIM

Kevyn Yong

Chief Learning Officer, SIM

Prizes to be won

  • 1st Prize

    1st prize: $200 worth of prize vouchers & YouTube Livestream Interview

  • 2nd prize

    $100 worth of prize vouchers

  • All participants

    Free Mentorship for all participants with GDEXA mentorships

Your GDEXA Facilitators

GDEXA Mentor - Farah Saleh

Farah Saleh

Product Manager @ Digix Mentor & Ambassador @ GDEXA

GDEXA Co- Founder - Adrian Paschek

Adrian Paschek

Head of Design @ tyntec Co- Founder@ GDEXA

Vinita Penna

Consultant E-Commerce @ Spotify, Facebook, Alibaba, Lazada

GDEXA Mentor - Ekrem Namazci

Ekrem Namazci

Data & AI Lead @ Microsoft Co- Founder@ GDEXA

Hackathon Phases

The entire Hackathon Project has 4 phrases and is conducted over 6 weeks, with virtual sessions 2 to 3 evenings per week.

Phase 1: Ideation (Week 1)

During the first phase of the hackathon, participants will create ideas on business cases guided by a GDEXA Coach. The objective is to identify high-impact scenarios and create teams to work on the cases throughout the project.
  • Masterclass “E-Commerce industry best practices and innovative use cases” performed by GDEXA Expert as inspirational opening and food for thoughts for the ideation
  • Moderated ideation
  • Session to identify high impact business use cases in E-Commerce
  • High-level target architecture and solution design
  • Team creation

Phase 2: Planning (Week 2)

After the use case ideas has been created and teams set up, the teams are working on the functional design and business model of their idea. The goal is to have a clear path forward of how the solution shall function and what steps are required to implement (Project Plan).
  • Definition of technical functionalities and translate them into business values
  • Developing user stories to map business demand with functional design
  • Planning of resources needed and timeline
  • Business model definition, market and competitive analysis
  • Masterclass Design Thinking and Agile Method” performed by GDEXA Expert

Phase 3: Realization (Week 3,4,5)

This phase is the core component of the hackathon where the realization of the idea takes place. In an Agile approach, the team will work in pairs to design a solution or an MVP (Minimum viable product) as a first version.
  • Definition (or prototyping) of functionalities and overall solution design
  • Fine-tuning and gap-analysis of technical and business requirements
  • Visualization and integration into existing systems and processes
  • Testing and Simulation

Phase 4: Presentation (Final Week 6)

In this final step, the teams are going to prepare the results and outcomes in an executive summary and pitch deck. The main objective is to articulate the business problem and the way the teams tackled it. Finally, the value and impact should be summarized in a simple but thoughtful way.
  • Result presentation and executive summary of the use case
  • Value proposition and business impact demonstration
  • Go-to-market and investment plan
  • Masterclass “Storytelling and Pitch Perfect” by GDEXA Expert
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Project Schedule

Phase 1 – Ideation (1 week):

Day

Date

Timing (SGT)

Topic

Monday

21st June

7:00-9:00 PM (2hrs)

Kick-off – Masterclass & Ideation

Wednesday

23rd June

7:00-8:00 PM (1hr)

Pulse-check – Ask your trainer

Friday

25th June

7:00-8:00 PM (1hr)

Final-check – Wrap-up & Q&A

Phase 2 –Planning (1 week):

Day

Date

Timing (SGT)

Topic

Monday

28st June

7:00-9:00 PM (2hrs)

Kick-off – Masterclass & Planning

Wednesday

30rd June

7:00-8:00 PM (1hr)

Pulse-check – Ask your trainer

Friday

02nd July

7:00-8:00 PM (1hr)

Final-check – Wrap-up & Q&A

Phase 3 – Realization (3 weeks):

Day

Date

Timing (SGT)

Topic

Monday

5th July

7:00-9:00 PM (2hrs)

Kick-off – Goal setting & execution plan

Friday

9th July

7:00-8:00 PM (1hr)

Pulse-check – Ask your trainer

Monday

12th July

7:00-8:00 PM (1hr)

Pulse-check – Ask your trainer

Friday

16th July

7:00-8:00 PM (1hr)

Pulse-check – Ask your trainer

Monday

19th July

7:00-8:00 PM (1hr)

Pulse-check – Ask your trainer

Friday

23th July

7:00-8:00 PM (1hr)

Final-check – Wrap-up & Q&A

Phase 4 – Presentatio (1 week):

Day

Date

Timing (SGT)

Topic

Monday

26th July

7:00-9:00 PM (2hrs)

Kick-off – Goal setting & execution plan

Wednesday

28th July

7:00-8:00 PM (1hr)

Pulse-check – Ask your trainer

Friday

30th July

7:00-9:00 PM (2hr)

Grand Finale – Result Presentation