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Welcome to the Affinda AI Innovation Challenge! This is your one-stop page for everything: the challenge, the schedule, how to submit, how you'll be judged, and where to get help. Bookmark it.
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The Affinda AI Innovation Challenge is a four-day AI build challenge run by Enactus Melbourne and CISSA, with Affinda, a Melbourne-based AI transformation partner to organisations around the world. Every team gets the same real-world business case, picks one of three tracks, and builds an AI-powered product. No coding experience needed: we judge the product and the thinking, not the code.
| What | Link | Notes |
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| 📖 Track Guide | Affinda AI Innovation Challenge: Track Guide | The full brief, the three tracks and the judging criteria |
| 📤 Devpost | https://affinda-challenge.devpost.com/ | Where you submit. Due Thu 8 Oct, 5:00pm |
| 💬 Discord | https://discord.gg/DZgMfVRfr | All announcements, team finding and help |
| 📝 Team registration form | https://forms.gle/kL6HoJAnumiAe8Ry8 | ONE person per team. Remember your team name for the track form, closes Wed 7 Oct, 5:00pm |
| 🚀 AI Starter Pack | AI Starter Pack | New to AI coding tools? Start here |
| 🎟️ Tickets (Humanitix) | https://events.humanitix.com/affinda-ai-innovation-challenge | Every team member needs their own ticket |
| 📄 Team track selection form | https://forms.gle/71QCPtin8XqmcvLf7 | ONE person per team. Enter your team name as you did in the team registration form. Closes Wed 7 Oct, 5:00pm |
| When | What | Where |
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| Tue 6 Oct · 5:30–7:30pm | 🎤 Opening Night: challenge and tracks revealed, Q&A with Affinda, team matching, food and networking | Laby Theatre, David Caro Building · https://maps.app.goo.gl/7vm99YCZVRFefXj88 |
| Wed 7 Oct · 9:00am–2:30pm | 💻 Build Day 1 (optional drop-in room) | L1-107, 100 Leicester St (Building 278) · https://maps.app.goo.gl/PartcdzMyTYz7qy87 |
| Wed 7 Oct · 5:00pm | ⏰ Team Registrations and Track Selections close | Google Forms (above) |
| Thu 8 Oct · 9:00am–2:30pm | 💻 Build Day 2 (optional drop-in room) | G20 Collaborative Learning Space, Old Howard Florey Laboratories (Building 183) · https://maps.app.goo.gl/1apvGQUGnE6ncVSz9 |
| Thu 8 Oct · 5:00pm | ⏰ Submissions close (hard deadline) | Devpost |
| Fri 9 Oct · 2:00pm | 📣 Finalists announced | Discord |
| Fri 9 Oct · 6:00–9:00pm | 🏆 Closing Night: finalist pitches, judging, prizes, food and networking | Singapore Theatre, Glyn Davis Building · https://maps.app.goo.gl/tKQe49om2Ghw2yCu7 |
You can build from anywhere. The build-day rooms are there if you want somewhere to work with your team. Finalists must attend Closing Night in person.
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.
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Your challenge: Build an AI-powered product that helps Fieldday successfully deliver Riverside at a scale they've never operated before.
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Pick one track. Each is built around a different person at the festival:
Read the full brief and track guides here: Affinda AI Innovation Challenge: Track Guide