14 Teams, 90 Participants, 48 Hours, 15 Mentors, 5 Judges, £2800 Total Prizes. HackLBS 2016 is a marked success!!!
On the weekend of Nov 25 - 27, London Business School and its Entrepreneurship Club successfully held its 3rd annual Hackathon, HackLBS, supported by the Deloitte Institute of Innovation and Entrepreneurship (DIIE) and AQR Asset Management Institute at Balderton Capital, Over the intense 48-hour period, the hackathon brought together nearly a hundred mixed talents from the business school, London universities, and the larger London Technology Community to form teams, create product prototypes and pitch to the judges for the top ideas. On the pitching afternoon, 14 teams presented their products in front of judges from DIIE, Level39, Balderton Capital, Ravelin and Cuvva. The event also attracted attention and privileged supports from the London Technology and Start-up community - mentors from organisations such as (but not limited to) Startupbootcamp, IBM Design, UAL, Orange Ventures and Circle Pay with various backgrounds in design, technology and business growth offered their valuable time and expertise to the teams over the event.
HackLBS was originally created to promote entrepreneurship and connect London Business School with the wider Tech community in London and beyond. It is a rare platform where business focus and technological applications are equally emphasised and valued. We hope all the participants have had a good time and learnt something from the hack weekend, be it technology, product design, business planning, team management or just generally fond memories of a weekend working hard with some brilliant people! We genuinely hope this is not the end, but rather, a beginning for many more ideas and creations on your entrepreneurship journey. For now, we wish you a good luck and hope to see you at HackLBS 2017!
Merchant Bot - Winner (General Category)
AI-based chatbot bringing bargaining skills and CRM together.
Merx - FinTech Winner (Sponsored by AQR Asset Management Institute)
Middle-East focused payment solution tackling online credit payment issues between merchants and buyers.
Bonsai - FinTech Runner Up (Sponsored by AQR Asset Management Institute)
Automation of bond insurance process in large investment banks.
On the weekend of Nov 25 - 27, London Business School and its Entrepreneurship Club successfully held its 3rd annual Hackathon, HackLBS, supported by the Deloitte Institute of Innovation and Entrepreneurship (DIIE) and AQR Asset Management Institute at Balderton Capital, Over the intense 48-hour period, the hackathon brought together nearly a hundred mixed talents from the business school, London universities, and the larger London Technology Community to form teams, create product prototypes and pitch to the judges for the top ideas. On the pitching afternoon, 14 teams presented their products in front of judges from DIIE, Level39, Balderton Capital, Ravelin and Cuvva. The event also attracted attention and privileged supports from the London Technology and Start-up community - mentors from organisations such as (but not limited to) Startupbootcamp, IBM Design, UAL, Orange Ventures and Circle Pay with various backgrounds in design, technology and business growth offered their valuable time and expertise to the teams over the event.
HackLBS was originally created to promote entrepreneurship and connect London Business School with the wider Tech community in London and beyond. It is a rare platform where business focus and technological applications are equally emphasised and valued. We hope all the participants have had a good time and learnt something from the hack weekend, be it technology, product design, business planning, team management or just generally fond memories of a weekend working hard with some brilliant people! We genuinely hope this is not the end, but rather, a beginning for many more ideas and creations on your entrepreneurship journey. For now, we wish you a good luck and hope to see you at HackLBS 2017!
Merchant Bot - Winner (General Category)
AI-based chatbot bringing bargaining skills and CRM together.
Merx - FinTech Winner (Sponsored by AQR Asset Management Institute)
Middle-East focused payment solution tackling online credit payment issues between merchants and buyers.
Bonsai - FinTech Runner Up (Sponsored by AQR Asset Management Institute)
Automation of bond insurance process in large investment banks.
What is HackLBS?
HackLBS is London Business School's annual hackathon. HackLBS brings together the brightest business minds, genius hackers, and design gurus from across the world to indulge in three days of product design madness to come up with solutions to tomorrow's most pressing issues.
With such amazing and diverse participants and mentors, HackLBS is more like a 48 hour accelerator |
A business focused hackathon:
HackLBS teams will be judged on Execution (does it work?), Design (does it provide a beautiful user experience?), Customer Validation (do people want it?) & Business Model (can it make money?) |
The challenge
HackLBS is where ideas become businesses. Bring your ideas and skills and join with leading business minds to create an MVP with the potential to become next UK unicorn.
LBS alumni such as Renaud Laplanche (Lending Club), Ayan Mitra (CrowdBnk), and Ismail Ahmed (WorldRemit) demonstrate the possibilities that are created when the practical business know how of LBS combines with the UK's top tech talent.
This year’s Hackathon builds on this momentum by combining the business masterminds of LBS with the city’s top technical talent to create .
LBS alumni such as Renaud Laplanche (Lending Club), Ayan Mitra (CrowdBnk), and Ismail Ahmed (WorldRemit) demonstrate the possibilities that are created when the practical business know how of LBS combines with the UK's top tech talent.
This year’s Hackathon builds on this momentum by combining the business masterminds of LBS with the city’s top technical talent to create .
The schedule
Hackathon Day 1 - Nov 25th
6:00pm Registration
6:30pm Dinner & Networking
7:00pm Welcome & Speakers
7:30pm Pitches Start
9:00pm Attendees vote for the top ideas
9:15pm Teams form, register and discuss plan of attack
10:00pm Pack up, go home and get ready for the hacks!
(Teams will be sent mentor booking forms that night)
Hackathon Day 2 - Nov 26th
9:00am Arrive, breakfast & coffee
9:30am Teams set up workspace for the weekend
11:00 Deadline for booking mentor office hours
12:00pm Lunch
2:00pm Mentors office hour starts - help teams one-on-one
5:00pm Mentor office hour ends
6:30pm Dinner
10:00pm Pack up and go home
Hackathon Day 3 - Nov 27th
9:00am Arrive, breakfast & coffee
12:00pm Lunch
3:00pm Submit presentations & stop working!
3:30pm FINAL PRESENTATIONS
5:30pm Judging & awards
Judges, Mentors, Speakers
James Wise - Judge
James is a General Partner at Balderton Capital. He has led Balderton's investments in a number of sectors and geographies, covering healthtech, manufacturing, mobile productivity, developer tools and virtual and augmented reality.
Full Profile |
Jeff Skinner - Judge
Jeff is the Executive Director of the Deloitte Institute of Innovation and Entrepreneurship at London Business School. He teaches on several entrepreneurship courses at the School and leads many of the co-curricular activities supported by the Institute, including the London Entrepreneurship Review and the TELL Series.
Full Profile |
Marieke Flament - Mentor
Marieke is the Managing Director of Europe for Circle, a blockchain company breaking boundaries in the finance sector. She has led various businesses across Europe and Asia and is passionate about exploring the ways in which technology can be used to change people's lives.Prior to joining Circle, Marieke was the Vice President of Europe Middle East and Africa at Hotels.com (an Expedia Inc company), overseeing a $2B+ revenue business across 33 multi-lingual markets.
Full Profile |
Adizah Tejani - Judge
Adizah is an experienced technology executive having worked within the digital technologies space since 2009. Most recently she as part of the founding team of Level39 a technology accelerator focused on fintech products. Under her leadership, the Level39 technology ecosystem grew to over 200+ member companies.
Full Profile |
Hussein Kanji - Judge
Hussein is a founding partner of Hoxton Ventures, a London-based early stage European venture capital firm. Hussein currently represents Hoxton on the boards of four of these investments including bd4travel, Behavox, Darktrace and TourRadar.
Full Profile |
Matthew Eisner - Mentor
Matthew is the Global Marketing Manager at Startupbootcamp. Prior to Startupbootcamp, Matthew managed the digital marketing and analytics efforts for various startups in London, and San Francisco. He has helped raise millions of dollars in crowdfunding campaigns, generated millions of app downloads and website visits, and is an academically published Social Psychology researcher.
Full Profile |
Rania Svoronou - Mentor
Rania is an interaction designer with experience working with companies including Nestlé, Unilever, Loyds Banking groups and Deutsche Bank.
Rania has held a Global role at Unilever UK as a UI/UX Designer, specialised in Data Visualisation and she is currently a Visual Interaction Designer at IBM Interactive Experience in the London Design Studio Full Profile |
Tim Groot - Mentor
Tim is Co-founder and CEO at Grip, the world’s first artificial intelligence (AI) powered event networking solution that empowers professionals to achieve their maximum networking potential at events. In 2014 Tim co-founded Grip, before joining forces with artificial intelligence startup Intros to create the first artificial intelligence powered event networking solution. Besides Grip, Tim is also a member of Founders of the Future an exclusive invite-only network of young professionals who are expected to have a big impact on the world.
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SEE OUR BROCHURE FOR MORE MENTORS AND JUDGES
Location
Balderton Capital
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Meet the HackLBS team |
Event Chair
Yao Tang ytang.mba2018@london.edu
Fletch Young fyoung.mba2018@london.edu
Operations
Benjamin Kleinschnitz benjamink.mim2017@london.edu
David Forfert dforfert.mba2018@london.edu
Matt Ng mng.mba2018@london.edu
Speakers
Rachel Finegold rfinegold.mim2017@london.edu
Sponsorship
Gracy Wan Yi Gong ggong.mim2017@london.edu
Kathleen Gondoutomo kgondoutomo.mim2017@london.edu
Marketing
Tim Paulin tpaulin.mba2018@london.edu
Franco Monzani fmonzani.mba2018@london.edu
Social Media
Estelle Wang xuew.mim2017@london.edu
Design/Website
Malavika Balachandran malavikab.mba2018@london.edu
Jakub Kubis jkubis.mim2017@london.edu
Yao Tang ytang.mba2018@london.edu
Fletch Young fyoung.mba2018@london.edu
Operations
Benjamin Kleinschnitz benjamink.mim2017@london.edu
David Forfert dforfert.mba2018@london.edu
Matt Ng mng.mba2018@london.edu
Speakers
Rachel Finegold rfinegold.mim2017@london.edu
Sponsorship
Gracy Wan Yi Gong ggong.mim2017@london.edu
Kathleen Gondoutomo kgondoutomo.mim2017@london.edu
Marketing
Tim Paulin tpaulin.mba2018@london.edu
Franco Monzani fmonzani.mba2018@london.edu
Social Media
Estelle Wang xuew.mim2017@london.edu
Design/Website
Malavika Balachandran malavikab.mba2018@london.edu
Jakub Kubis jkubis.mim2017@london.edu
