Conduent Blockchain Hackathon

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Organizations are re-thinking their approach to service, design, and delivery by building processes around their constituents rather than from inside out. Conduent’s platforms help businesses and governments leverage the power of technology to elevate every constituent's interaction and drive modern digital experiences. These interactions are:

• Individualized: Customized for each recipient with a consistent experience and level of personalized knowledge irrespective of the device that is being used.
• Immediate: Providing responsiveness and self-service opportunities with every interaction.
• Intelligent: Exhibiting intuition built off past experiences, location data, profiles, etc.

Conduent combines deep user insights and best-in-class technologies to create innovation that has an impact. Our customers and employees become key partners in creating, developing, and testing new and unique solutions through a co-innovation process. We believe in creating a strong and effective workforce that delivers value to our customers and the communities that we serve. We celebrate new ideas and our drive for innovation improves the lives of citizens, patients, and employees around the world.

We are growing rapidly especially within the Conduent Technology & Product organization. This hackathon is one of the many exciting ways in which we engage with experts, like yourselves, who are looking to contribute to a technology-driven, customer-centric evolution and to possibly join a team that is inspired by developing ‘what’s next’.

HACKATHON BACKGROUND AND GOAL

Traditionally, the sharing economy was controlled and maintained by centralized platforms that acted as middlemen. The peer-to-peer nature of blockchain removes the need for a centralized platform thus resulting in:

• Lower transaction fees
• Improved asset utilization
• Enhanced data transparency
• Decentralized data storage

For example, an apartment-sharing application (e.g., Airbnb) that is being run by a centralized authority could be decentralized with properties guaranteed by blockchain.

To bring the vision of a decentralized sharing economy to fruition, there are hurdles to be crossed—including but not limited to—privacy, infrastructure costs, incentive mechanisms, and the user experience to enable its adoption across several domains.

The focus of the Conduent Blockchain Hackathon is to build a viable, decentralized application to share assets in the business-to-business (B2B) and consumer-to-consumer (C2C) contexts. Assets can be tangible (e.g., land, vehicles etc.) and intangible (e.g., credit, data, machine learning models, etc.).

You can work on any blockchain platform, technology stack, domain, or programming language of your choice. The application that you build will be evaluated on the basis of its novelty and practicality. While ideating about making your application practical, consider incentive structures, payment infrastructure, and user experience with reasonable performance.