Bring your best ideas, the business opportunity is there.
Climate change is the greatest threat of the XXI century, and we have the challenge of taking action to stop it. The European Union is pioneering the movement, and it is taking measures against it. A clear sign of this are the European Recovery Funds, launched in 2020, with the goal of healing from the COVID-19 crisis. Spain will receive up to 140.000 million euros for the next 5 years. These funds will be distributed across all industries in our society, and they have two main components common to all verticals: green transformation and digital transformation. We are in front of a unique business opportunity in history.
In addition, during this last decade Cisco has pushed towards sustainability at all levels: circular economy, energetic efficiency, carbon neutrality, etc. During the last two years Cisco has made even a bigger bet towards sustainability, introducing a new concept: Green & Blue (G&B). G&B is a solid strategy that combines sustainability (Green) with digital (Blue). Its main goal is to help customers achieve a digital and sustainable future.
The combination of this business opportunity, together with Cisco’s sustainability strategy, drove Cisco Spain to launch the #GreenAndBlueHackathon. With a market volume of more than 15.000 million euros, this event has as the goal of looking for technological solutions that contribute to a sustainable future and that are able capture part of the European Funds. And in order to do so, we are launching five different categories: “Sustainable, secure and connected mobility”, “Automatized, intelligent, secure and digital infrastructures”, “Green and intelligent buildings”, “Preservation of natural resources”, “Sustainable tourism”.
Promotion of the winning solution with the sales leaders from Cisco Spain
Promotion of the winning solution from the Barcelona Co-Innovation Center
Visibility and exposure of the solutions from Cisco Spain
Green & Blue Inspirational Talks, as well as additional Design Thinking and soft skills trainings
Personlised mentoring and advice to launch the proposal towards the Cisco Sustainability Challenge, with prices up to $300k
With relevant key players of sustainability
Sustainability as a new line of business
The Hackathon winners will receive special gifts
Opening: on March 2nd, 2022 we will celebrate the launch of the Hackathon. The participants will be able to go to Madrid’s or Barcelona’s offices, or to join virtually from anywhere.
Closure: on March 30th, 2022 we will have a closing ceremony in which the participants will present their proposals. We will announce the winners and give them the corresponding prices.
Hackathon: the development of the solution will take place during March. In this period, the participants will have premium access to multiple resources: talks about sustainability as a business, inspirational talks about from key professionals in the industry, workshops about development of new ideas, and much more.
Teams: it is important to note that the participating teams will be composed by a maximum of 3 people. In terms of the necessary requirements, we ask the participants to have experience with Cisco technologies, as well previous knowledge on programming and APIs. The profiles from the people may be as diverse as possible. In fact, the more diverse the team is, the more complete the idea will be.
Commitment: with the goal of reducing the workload as much as possible, we have extended the Hackathon duration to one month since the start date. With this measure we want to minimize the impact in the daily work of the participants, but keeping the opportunity to get the best ideas out of the Hackathon.
Mentors: each team will have access to a mentor from Cisco. In such way, the participants will be able to ask any kind of technical questions, as well as additional advice from a business and sales perspective. It is a unique opportunity to network with Cisco employees with different backgrounds.
Criteria |
Description |
Weight |
Viability | How easy/complex is it to implement? | 20% |
Innovation and Creativity | How disruptive is the idea? | 20% |
Sustainable Impact | What challenges does the idea solve? | 20% |
Market Feasibility | How robust is the business potential? | 20% |
Use of Cisco Products and Services. Participation in the Hackathon activities | In what measure does the project use Cisco's technology, its services, tools and all the information given to the participants during the Hackathon? | 20% |
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We will have two sessions every week of one hour each. The first one given by Cisco employees, and the second one by some of our customers. Due to data protection policies, only the Cisco sessions will be shown in this site.
Date |
Time |
Talk |
Wednesday, March 2nd | 10:00 - 12:30 | Hackathon Launch, the rules and guidelines will be explained, and we will also count with the presence of Cisco executives |
Monday, March 7th | 10:00 - 11:30 | Design Thinking and Business Model Canvas |
Monday, March 14th |
10:00 - 10:30 10:30 - 11:00 |
Sustainability at Cisco Spain How to execute sustainability with the European Funds |
Monday, March 21st |
10:00 - 10:30 10:30 - 11:00 |
Business Models in the sustainable digital transformation Sustanability in Public Sector and Europe's Vision |
Monday, March 28th |
10:00 - 10:30 10:30 - 11:00 |
Sustanability at Cisco IT Cisco DevNet as the path to sustainability |
Wednesday, March 30th | 10:00 - 11:00 | Hackathon's Closure, with presentations from the participants and awards |
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The Hackathon will be launched on March 2nd, 2022, and it will have a duration of 4 weeks, until March 30th, 2022.
December 15th, 2021
The hackathon will be virtual, as from Cisco we are taking protective measures against the evolution of the COVID-19 pandemic. There will be a Webex link for all sessions so that participants can connect virtually from anywhere.
Yes, it is necessary to have programming experience. The Hackahton will be about creating high-impact ideas that combine Cisco technology in sustainable projects, so knowing about coding will help a lot.
If you are a Cisco partner, and you gather a group of 3 people in total, then you can participate. In case there was a high participants number, a preselection will be made.
If you are interested, click on the "Register now!" button at the top of this page.
You will receive a confirmation email, as well as information from your team colleagues.
To participate in the Hackathon and the event is completely free. However, all participants are responsible for their own time, expenses, trips and accommodation in case it was needed.