Hackathon@PMRExpo goes into the next round!
From November 25 to 27, 2025 in Cologne
For hackers
Three days of innovation, team spirit and technology: the Hackathon@PMRExpo enters the next round! At PMRExpo, creative minds come together to rethink communication in crisis situations.
In a 48-hour design and coding marathon, interdisciplinary teams develop solutions – AI-supported, practical and socially relevant.
The aim is to improve crisis management, support decision-making processes and increase the effectiveness of communication in critical situations.
The focus is on three challenges:
- Alerting & disposition
- Secure communication & cyber security
- Sensors & robotics
What you can expect: attractive cash prizes for the best ideas, free catering, almost free hotel accommodation, access to PMRExpo, award ceremony in front of an expert audience, top mentoring by experts and coaches
For supporters
In addition, the hackathon offers visibility with companies and potential employers, new perspectives and lots of networking.
Become a supporter! Provide hardware, software, challenges or know-how – and get in direct contact with tech talent and fresh ideas. As a supporter of the Hackathon@PMRExpo, exhibitors can support the participants, help with the preparations and present themselves as drivers of innovation.
Benefit from direct access to innovations, the recruitment of talented professionals, increased brand awareness and valuable networking with industry experts.
Use the hackathon for research and development, gain insights into future technologies and strengthen your image as a pioneer in digital security and communication.
What an incredible second Hackathon@PMRExpo!
40 highly motivated hackers showed how much creativity and drive they have from 26 to 28.11.24. But they were not alone. But they were not alone: they were supported by the COREVAS GmbH & Co KG team, over 100 community members,12 partner companies, 150+ exhibitors and over 3000+ trade fair visitors.
The highlights:
Impressive results and innovative solutions that will help shape the future of crisis and emergency management. An atmosphere of collaboration, inspiration and networking that is rarely experienced.
And best of all, there were only winners in the end!
Smart Service 5.0 -6th HACKATHONAMRING® 2024
Over 100 international participants from renowned universities and various companies registered for the sixth 48-hour innovation marathon at the Nürburgring. With the support of four first-class coaches and the use of state-of-the-art technologies such as drones, smart glasses, AI and VR, innovative solutions were developed for this year’s theme “Smart Service 5.0”. The FUTURE FORUM was also held for the first time, where current trends, challenges and the future of EmergencyEye® technology were discussed in depth. An inspiring weekend full of innovation and collaboration!
In the links below you can find the official video of the HACKATHONAMRING®2024 as well as a summary of the ideas and results of the individual teams.
AI-Supported Crisis Communication: Better Response and Support - HACKATHON@PmRExpo 2023
From November 28 to 30, 2023, 36 hackers, supported by 130 COMMUNITY members, met to develop innovative solutions for AI-supported effective crisis management. Amazing prototypes and solutions were developed within 48 hours. An independent jury consisting of 36 PMRExpo visitors evaluated the innovations and selected the winner.
Results and descriptions are linked below.
Thanks to the sponsor Koelnmesse GmbH and to the companies sureVIVE SA, F24 AG, VIVASECUR GmbH and NoraTec GmbH for their contribution and support.
Shaping the future -5th HACKATHONAMRING® 2023
The HACKATHONAMRING® 2023, which took place at the famous Nürburgring in Germany from June 23 to 25, proved to be an exciting and unforgettable event.
The hackathon, which attracted around 100 participants from a variety of backgrounds, was a remarkable display of innovation, collaboration and technological prowess.
Over the course of an intense 48 hours, participants took on three different challenges that pushed the boundaries of creativity and problem solving.
Prototypes presented:
- Smart Service Assistant, the app for virtually guided inspections.
- GreenBot, the most user-friendly interface for sustainability databases, which improves the perception for sustainable decisions.
- “Vocal Eye” is an AI-based add-on for emergency services and dispatchers that helps them make quick, critical decisions by analyzing and enriching data from a call.
- Steel Team Six presented its software, which provides an overview, classification and up-to-date status information on operational, crisis and danger areas to ensure the fastest and best possible assistance.
- The Lunchables made the invisible visible.
DRONES AND AI -4th HACKATHONAMRING® 2021
Sprint at the SPELL@hackathonamring.
We have taken on the challenge of capturing live mobile image data to better assess situations and have made tremendous progress.
Goals achieved:
- Drone live video transmissions on EmEye-T® and the drawing of images as a prototype.
- Sharing meetings with experts as a prototype.
ACCESSIBLE EMERGENCY SERVICE -3rd HACKATHONAMRING® 2019.
The 3rd HACKATHONAMRING® was the first event in which deaf people took part.
The aim was to develop an emergency call technology that enables deaf people to call the emergency services via 112.
Goals achieved:
- Chat function with instant translation for emergency calls developed as a prototype.
- Chat with translation for the “multilingual” emergency call service developed as a prototype.
SAVE LIVES WITH YOUR HACK - HACKATHONAMRING® ONE AND TWO 2018
More than 200 international hackers from India, the Philippines, Spain, Romania, Benelux, Poland, England, Germany, Costa Rica and Houston (Texas) took part in the first two HACKATHONAMRING® events.
In a 48-hour and a 24-hour programming marathon in February and March 2018, the programmers worked, sometimes without sleep, on solutions for the care of people in acute cardiac arrest.
In this short time, the teams not only developed new codes, but also the first functioning prototype of EmergencyEye®.
These first two events were supported by EIT Health, an initiative of the EU Commission.
The atmosphere at the HACKATHONAMRING was great, also how the hackers helped each other. I had many conversations and heard about ideas I would never have thought of.
Peter Velroyen
General Manager ISE GmbH
…it`s amazing when you lock such motivated people in a room, have a challenge and can achieve a lot in such a short time and some lack of sleep…
Frederic Weichel
Heidelberg
….If you want to come, just come!….
Rachel Ann B. Delicanon
Quezon City, Philippines
Experts from different fields have joined eachother with a common goal and they have not stopped at night. I have been very impressed by their commitment.
Henry F Roach
