Mercuria is committed to driving the energy transition to cleaner and more sustainable energy across all parts of its business. Our technology teams have their part to play in developing sustainable solutions to technical problems that use less energy and create less waste.

We aim to keep our hackathon events free if you are selected to participate. However, given that we invite people to attend each event from across the continent, whilst we are able to make a contribution to cover your travel costs, you may incur some additional travel expense to get to the hackathon venue.

Don’t worry, you can still apply to attend. We want each hackathon to be as diverse as possible and ensure that attendees have the best possible time. When selecting participants and creating the teams, we will ensure that there is a good balance of different experiences taking part – from seasoned hackathon attendees to newcomers.

We are currently organizing the Mercuria Hackathon schedule for 2023 and 2024.

Our next hackathon is being finalized and will be in the United States at the end of the summer 2023. We hope to be running  further events in the Middle East and Asia at the end of 2023 or into 2024. Once we have firmed up event detail we will be updating this website and contacting people that have registered interest so that people can apply to attend.

To stay up to date with the schedule and to ensure that you don’t miss out, register your interest.

One of the most fun parts of a hackathon is the collaboration so we expect the challenges will be solved in small teams of up to 4 people. However, another crucial part of a hackathon is the networking and meeting with new, likeminded people.

As such, there is no need to register as part of a team and teams will be allocated based on disciplines prior to the event. If you do register at the same time as your friends or colleagues, there is no guarantee that each of you will be selected for the event as selection will be done on an individual basis.

No. We will be responsible for the judging of our hackathons, so we only want people to take part in solving the challenge.

We believe that improving information technology has a role to play in the energy transition to a zero carbon world. Green software is the concept for building applications in a way that they emit less carbon into the atmosphere.

You can read more about some of the research, tools, coding and training on the Green Software Foundation github here: GitHub – Green-Software-Foundation/awesome-green-software?

We want to ensure that the event is as open and as inclusive as possible and as such we will be adopting the same Terms & Conditions as is the common standard for most Hackathons, ie:

• • Entrants to the Hackathon will retain ownership of all intellectual and industrial property rights so that they are able to reuse their code in the future.
  • At the same time, entrants will grant Mercuria and subsidiary companies a perpetual, royalty-free, and non-exclusive license to use, modify and create derivative work from the code.

Full T&Cs will be published nearer to the event and acceptance will be a criteria of attendance to the Hackathon.

The solutions will be judged in 5 categories: Value, Impact, Scalability, Completeness and Innovation. More details of exactly how solutions will be judged will be made available before the challenge begins.

We believe that the Mercuria Hackathons are amazing experiences for all involved and hope that your motivation for getting involved isn’t to win a prize.

There will be some small prizes given out during the event, but these probably won’t be for what you expect them to be for!