The first virtual hackathon in Latvia HackForce ended with LIVE pitches of all 28 hackathon ideas aimed to find solutions for the crisis caused by coronavirus. In 48 hours over 850 people from 25 countries joined the public Slack, 70 mentors helped the team succeed, and at the end, live-stream has been viewed already by over 15 000 people. The President of Latvia Egils Levits also joined the live-stream to congratulate and thank the teams.
Top teams were chosen by the jury with professionals from the startup community, the government, investors, and the health industry. Jury who chose the top teams were: Edgars Labsvīrs, Director at National Health Services, Olga Barreto Goncalves, Chief Startup Instigator at Investment and Development Agency of Latvia, Cristobal Alonso, CEO at Startup Wise Guys, Andris Berzins, Managing Partner at Change Ventures, Solvita Kostjukova, CEO at ALINA and Reinis Znotiņš, Deputy Minister at Ministry of Education.
The finals of the HackForce online hackathon are to see: eng.lsm.lv/article/
Information about the top five teams, who are already implementing their ideas: techchill.co
