Affinda AI Innovation Challenge

ABOUT THE CHALLENGE

Enactus Melbourne and CISSA are teaming up with Affinda, a Melbourne-based AI transformation partner to organisations around the world, for a four-day AI build challenge. 🤖

Every team gets the same real-world business case and builds an AI-powered product for it. No coding experience needed: no-code tools, AI coding tools and vibe coding are all welcome. We judge the product and the thinking, not the code.

THE CHALLENGE

Fieldday Events, a five-person events company, has just won the contract to run Riverside: a three-day riverfront festival for up to 15,000 people a day. They have ten weeks and five staff.

Your challenge: Build an AI-powered product that helps Fieldday successfully deliver Riverside at a scale they've never operated before.

Choose one of three tracks, each built around a different person at the festival:

• 🎤 Track 1: Backstage - for the production team managing 60 artists and 40 food vendors
• 🎟️ Track 2: Front Row - for festival-goers, up to 15,000 a day
• 🦺 Track 3: Ground Control - for the safety lead and 300 volunteers

Full brief, track guides and judging rubric: https://groovy-prune-775.notion.site/Affinda-AI-Innovation-Challenge-Track-Guide-3ef1e973de588137b302fd544dfc1a76

KEY LINKS

• 🎟️ Tickets (Humanitix): https://events.humanitix.com/affinda-ai-innovation-challenge
• 📝 Team registration form (ONE person per team): https://forms.gle/kL6HoJAnumiAe8Ry8
• 📝 Track selection form (ONE person per team): https://forms.gle/71QCPtin8XqmcvLf7
• 💬 Discord (all announcements go here): https://discord.gg/DZgMfVRfr
• 📚 Event hub (everything in one place): https://groovy-prune-775.notion.site/Affinda-AI-Innovation-Challenge-Hacker-Hub-3f01e973de58814e8252e20bd9d81f5b

SCHEDULE

• Opening Night: Tue 6 Oct, 5:30–7:30pm · Laby Theatre, David Caro Building
• Build Day 1: Wed 7 Oct, 9:00am–2:30pm · L1-107, 100 Leicester St (Building 278)
• Team Registrations and Track Selections close: Wed 7 Oct, 5:00pm (AEDT) via Google Forms
• Build Day 2: Thu 8 Oct, 9:00am–2:30pm · G20 Collaborative Learning Space, Old Howard Florey Laboratories (Building 183)
• Submissions close: Thu 8 Oct, 5:00pm (AEDT) on Devpost
• Finalists announced: Fri 9 Oct, 2:00pm on Discord
• Closing Night: Fri 9 Oct, 6:00–9:00pm · Singapore Theatre, Glyn Davis Building

Build days are optional drop-in rooms. You can build from anywhere, but finalists must attend Closing Night in person.

👥 Teams of 3–4 · 🎓 Open to all current Australian university students, any degree