This term Cambridge Judge Business School organised the AI4Biz Hackathon for the current MBA cohort. 8 teams of 5 students were challenged to develop an AI assistant that can solve real business problems.
Participants could choose to develop an assistant that helps CEOs make fast, smart, and strategic decisions, or one that helps product and innovation managers identify top ideas, accelerate product development and drive market success.
Students used a wide variety of AI tools to build their assistant and pitch. If you’re curious to give them a try, here is the list:
- Langdock.com for the assistant bot
- Synthesia.io for text to video
- Ideogram.ai for images with text
- Canva for video editing
- Suno for custom music
The competition was fierce, but in the end our team CEO2 clutched the win with a 1-point difference, just surpassing the shared 2nd place teams. Congratulations to the 2 other MBA teams that finished in second place.
If you are curious about some of the things we made, give our team’s hype song a listen: CEO squared song
Overall, the Hackathon was a great way to move from problem definition to ideation to pitch in a pressure cooker format, and I was really impressed how quickly all the MBA teams managed to build their well-functioning AI assistants. I know I’ll keep developing mine to help me study in the future.
So, a massive thank you to Maik Lange, AI Transformation Lead at Bayer AG, for hosting this great Hackathon! Maik came all the way from … to challenge us students. A large thank you to the Cambridge MBA Programme team as well, I know Demi Wrenn and Jenny Simanis worked hard to make the hackathon a reality.
And lastly, a massive thank you to my inspiring teammates, Silanur Sahin, Bryan Steinauer, Anastasia Myronenko and Sourodip Paul. It was very inspiring to see how you all made space to share ideas and listen while working under pressure. Working together was a blast!
