Victory: Software developers from the University of Salford secure 1st place following a 3-week software “Hackathon” event to develop Add Energy led concept
The University of Salford’s annual HackCamp event, moved to a virtual platform in 2021, seeing 160 undergraduate computing students work together and compete to build industry software systems being led by 11 industry partners, including TOTAL E&P, Add Energy and HR in One.
At Add Energy, we recognize the importance of innovation, technology and digitalization and invest significant effort into the research and development of software solutions, which is why we were so honored to be able to be part of this important event for upskilling up-and-coming developers.
As a consultancy business to the energy sector and beyond, we are uniquely positioned to provide insights to shared challenges plant operators face, enabling us to suggest concepts and guidance for developing solutions that will provide students with experience of solving real-world industry challenges.
Peter Adam our EVP, R&D Manager; Hossein Ghavimi and our Learning Delivery Lead, Mike Meen worked closely with and mentored their assigned group of student developers during a 3 week ‘hackathon’ as they applied research of tailoring agile software development methods and familiarized themselves with techniques for communicating and presenting work to their HackCamp partner clients.
The competition was judged by a panel of industry professionals and we were delighted to see the 1st place prize go to the group who developed Add Energy’s concept into cloud-database-driven dashboard for risk management, impressing the judges with their original use of web scraping and the possibility for the inclusion of machine learning to identify future risks.
Peter Adam, EVP from Add Energy said; “Whilst we understand that working with real-life organizations is highly advantageous for student development, the Add Energy team found the process and final product to be highly admirable and rewarding, giving us significant insight into the potential and possibilities of future digitalization of industry technologies. Congratulations to all the prize winners!”
Julian Bass, the HackCamp Organizer and Senior Lecturer in Software Engineering at University of Salford said; “We are delighted that Add Energy was able to contribute to the HackCamp again this year. This Add Energy project and the support they provided allowed these students to exercise their skills in software development from across our syllabus and do a fabulous, prize winning job.”