CODE THE STATE is a two-day hackathon organized through a collaboration between Komm.ONE, Public Makers and the IPAI Foundation. During the event, participants will work in teams of 4 to tackle real digital public sector challenges.
Throughout the hackathon, participants will have access to mentors from Komm.ONE who will be on-site to help with the challenges faced by the public sector and support them when they encounter technical or conceptual difficulties.
On the second day, each team will present their solution in a final pitch, after which a jury will select the winning teams. Please refer to the daily schedule and FAQs for more detailed information.
| 09:30–11:00 | Check-in, welcome, and intro |
| 11:00–12:00 | Challenge briefing + team formation |
| 12:00–13:00 | Hacking session |
| 13:00–14:00 | Lunch |
| 14:00–18:30 | Hacking sessions + mentor rounds |
| 18:30–19:30 | Dinner |
| 19:30–00:00 | Hacking sessions |
| 08:00–09:00 | Breakfast |
| 09:00–13:00 | Hacking sessions |
| 13:00–14:00 | Lunch |
| 14:00–15:45 | Pitches |
| 15:45–16:15 | Coffee break |
| 16:15–16:30 | Jury deliberation + awards |
| 16:30–16:50 | Group photo + closing remarks |
Municipal systems shape our everyday lives - housing, mobility, administration, services. Yet many of these core processes were designed decades ago.
At CODE THE STATE, we give young builders full freedom
to rethink the recurring challenges municipalities face
- not by digitizing old workflows, but by questioning
their underlying logic.
In collaboration with Komm.ONE, hosted at the Innovation Park Artificial Intelligence (IPAI), this hackathon is simple in principle:
If you're the generation that has to live with
public systems for the next 50 years, you should be
allowed to redesign them.
Unfortunately, this hackathon is only open to current students.
Yes! While we won’t offer coding tutorials during the event, teams are interdisciplinary and beginners are very welcome.
Yes, this event is completely free for participants.
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Unfortunately, we are unable to provide accommodation. However, during registration you can indicate whether you would like to be introduced to local participants who may be open to hosting.
If you are registering as a team, each team member must register individually and use the exact same team name.