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I had the privilege to be interviewed by Per Lange on the Cillers Hackathon Podcast. In this episode we talk about IBM, #AI, #hackathons and many more topics. Would love your feedback and questions in the comments below. #ClientEngineering

🚀 Next Hackathon: AI Ecommerce Hackathon with Footway Group and Cillers 🛒 The Challenge: Build an AI-powered Personal Shopper! 👩💻 The Developers: Join a lineup of fantastic developers from companies such as Netlight, Tietoevry, Etteplan, Nordnet Bank AB, Tata Consultancy Services, H&M, Klarna, Nasdaq, IST Group, Hyper Island, Scania Group, EQT Group, Chas Academy, Ericsson, Volvo Cars, Swedbank, Campusbokhandeln and vibrant startups! 🏆 The Jury: Meet our esteemed jury of top industry decision makers: Daniel Mühlbach, CEO at Footway Group AB Markus Andersson, CIO at Ellos Linus Brimstedt, CTO at Ellos Eva Listi ♦️, former CIO at Ericsson & Systembolaget Joakim Östlind, Head of Ecommerce at NetonNet David Holender, CEO & Co-Founder at Vaimo Ludvig Holmér, CIO at Footway Group Rabie Salem, CEO at Contentor Viktor Sahlström, xCTO at Apotea, CEO nvrmind  Johanna Kemmler, Ecommerce Coordinator at Polarn O. Pyret Viktor Jarnheimer, Founding CEO at Proxify 🌐 The Impact: Our hackathons are catalysts for collaboration, sparking meetings and partnerships between innovative dev teams and top industry decision makers and game changing software development companies. 🗓️ Join Us: December 14th at Victoria Tower, Kista. All meals included! Dive into the future of AI in e-commerce. 🔗 Read More: https://lnkd.in/duCDiWZ9 Special thanks to our tech partners: Kong Inc., Couchbase, Curity, Redpanda Data, Polytope and Sinch. 🔥 We look forward to seeing you there!

Cillers Hackathons Episode 19: Meet Sethu Pavan Venkata Reddy Pastula, Software Engineer at Microsoft. 🏆 How Do You Win a Hackathon? In this episode, we dive deep into Sethu's experiences with hackathons, both at universities and major companies like JP Morgan. Seth has an impressive track record, having won multiple hackathons. He walks us through three specific events and shares his winning strategies, revealing his secrets to success. When we at Cillers arrange a hackathon we always share this insightful interview with our participants. Are you aiming to win your next hackathon? Wondering how to strategize, plan your tactics, or what impresses a jury? Listen and learn to maximize your chances at your next hackathon! Episode Link: https://lnkd.in/duswraa8 Enjoy!

🌦️ Weather-Driven Employee Scheduling System: Hackathon Success Story! Thrilled to share my recent experience at the Google & Cillers AI + OR Hackathon, where we developed an intelligent scheduling system for a delivery company! 🚚✨ 💡 The Project: We built a dynamic Weather-Driven Employee Scheduling System that optimizes manpower allocation based on: ☀️ Weather Data: Adjust schedules for rainy vs. sunny days. 📈 Customer Insights: Scale up during peak times like evenings, scale down during mornings. 🤖 AI-Driven Optimization: Leveraged Gemini AI for demand prediction and cost analysis, with Google OR-Tools for solving constraints. ⚙️ Tech Stack: Google OR-Tools: For efficient manpower allocation. Gemini AI: To predict demand trends and ensure cost-effectiveness. Cillers Platform: Enabled rapid development of enterprise-grade solutions. 🛠️ Hackathon Highlights: The event, led by Peder Linder and Per Lange, founders of Cillers, was a fantastic learning journey. It was inspiring to dive into technologies like Google AI Studio, Vertex AI, and collaborate with innovative minds from across the globe. 🌍 This experience reaffirmed how technology can revolutionize operations in delivery and logistics industries. 🚀 Would love to connect with fellow tech enthusiasts to explore more opportunities and ideas in this space! Feel free to share your thoughts or reach out. #AI #GoogleORTools #Hackathon #GeminiAI #Cillers #EmployeeScheduling #Innovation

I had a great time last week when I joined Per Lange's podcast. We talked a bit about how I got into tech and how I ended up studying at the university in Rome. We then chatted about organizing Hackathons, and about developer productivity and yes, of course we also talked about AI 😄 (and more specifically, what we're doing at Red Hat around these subjects). If you're interested, the link to the Spotify podcast is below 🙂 . https://lnkd.in/ejVxJ4G6

What an incredible day it has been! Travelling from Karlstad, I set out with hopes to collaborate with the brightest minds, build connections and learn as much as I can from this amazing opportunity. Winning the Google and Cillers Hackathon has been the cherry on top of a rewarding experience. 🏆 Thank you to my team Daniel Larsson, Ria Raj and Vanessa Anna-Maria Andersson for such a collaborative effort. Despite the hurdles along the way, our team came together, stayed resilient and tackled it with determination. A huge thank you to the organizers Peder Linder, Per Lange, Anton Popovine for creating such an amazing opportunity. Thank you for all the participants and to all the people who have supported us.

Recently, Per Lange invited me to his podcast (Thank you!). We discussed things from A(tari) to Z(ed). Great adventure. You may listen to it on Spotify:

🎉 We Won the Google & Cillers Hackathon! 🎉 Yesterday, my incredible team, Ria Raj, Mithun Peddakalva, Daniel Larsson and I participated in the Google & Cillers Hackathon, tackling one of the managers' biggest challenges: last-minute scheduling disruptions due to employee sickness. Using cutting-edge technologies like Google OR-Tools, Gemini AI, and a mobile SMS service, we built an innovative solution that stood out and secured us the WIN! 🏆 😁 Here's what we achieved: ✅ Real-Time Scheduling Updates: Employees who call in sick can now notify their managers via SMS. This triggers an automatic schedule update and sends SMS alerts to other employees who can fill the shift. Available employees can respond directly, ensuring seamless coverage. ✅Predictive Scheduling Insights: Leveraging historical sickness data and trends, we developed a predictive model using Scikit-learn to forecast potential sick leaves. This helps managers proactively prepare, optimizing both operational efficiency and employee satisfaction. ✅Our solution directly addressed the Hackathon’s theme: improving employee scheduling by combining operational efficiency with employee satisfaction, all while leveraging the power of AI and optimization tools. This victory is a testament to teamwork, focus, and the immense potential of combining OR-Tools' optimization capabilities with Gemini AI's natural language processing. It was a fantastic experience, and we are thrilled to have showcased these technologies' paradigm-shifting possibilities. Thank you to Google, Cillers - especially to Per Lange and Peder Linder, and the amazing jury: ⭐️ Anders Kronander, Engineering Manager, SKF ⭐️ Aurora Rogmark, AI/ML Engineer, Assa Abloy ⭐️ Christina Brinck, President Volvo Group Venture Capital ⭐️ Daniel Fäldt, Chief Digital Officer, SAAB ⭐️ Emil Kantelius, Director of AI Innovation & Research, Husqvarna Group ⭐️ Fredrik Ohlsson, Head of Digital Core, Volvo Cars  ⭐️ Jennie Ahlberg, Head of IT, Dollarstore ⭐️ Luba Weissmann, AI Director, Epiroc ⭐️ Magnus Malmström, CTO, Sandvik Manufacturing Solutions ⭐️ Magnus Wahlgård, Delivery Manager Future Factory, SKF ⭐️ Peter O Connell, Head of Product, Code Institute ⭐️ Peter Sundström, Head of AI Solutions, SAAB ⭐️ Rasmus Tammia, Program Manager for AI in Mining, Boliden ⭐️ Staffan Larsson, Architect and Leadership Team Member, Atlas Copco ⭐️ Viktor Jarnheimer, Founder, Proxify for this opportunity! Here's to building smarter, more human-centred systems! 🚀

A big thank you to all the skilled developers and top industry executives who participated in the Google & Cillers AI + OR Hackathon. What a fantastic hackathon we pulled off together yesterday at Google HQ! 🙌 A hackathon is the perfect event to push boundaries, the benefits are numerous: ⭐️ Meeting other developers and top executives eager to learn and explore ⭐️ Show what's possible with new technology ⭐️ Engage hands-on with game-changing tech by actually building something, not just listening ⭐️ Learning how to quickly scope down a project ⭐️ Presenting a solution The paradigm shift we're exploring: Combining Large Language Models (LLMs) with combinatorial optimization tools opens up the possibility to optimize many critical processes such as scheduling, planning, packing, logistics, route planning, and resource allocation. The opportunities are numerous and enormous! By leveraging AI, specifically LLMs, with Operations Research (OR) - a field that uses mathematical optimization for complex decision-making - we unlock a game-changer for business planning. ❤️ Thanks to the incredible jury: Luba Weissmann, AI Director at Epiroc, Peter Sundström, Head of AI Solutions and Daniel Fäldt, Chief Digital Officer at SAAB, Aurora Rogmark, AI/ML Engineer at Assa Abloy, Anders Kronander, Engineering Manager and Magnus Wahlgård, Delivery Manager Future Factory at SKF, Staffan Larsson, Architect and Leadership Team Member at Atlas Copco, Jennie Ahlberg, Head of IT at Dollarstore, Viktor Jarnheimer, Founder at Proxify, Emil Kantelius, Director of AI Innovation & Research at Husqvarna Group, Magnus Malmström, CTO at Sandvik, Rasmus Tammia, Program Manager for AI in Mining at Boliden, Jim Morel, Careers Executive at Code Institute, Christina Brinck, President Volvo Group Venture Capital and Fredrik Ohlsson Head of Digital Core, Volvo Cars ❤️ Thanks to Anton Popovine, Peter Molander, and Ben Wilmot at Google for another fantastic collaboration! ❤️ Thanks to Laurent Perron at Google for opening the door for many of us to Google OR Tools! ❤️ Thanks to Alfred Sundstedt, Jacob Bergvall from Etteplan, Jesper Ericsson from APPER® and Calle Norling Markai from AI Sweden for helping out! ❤️ Thanks to Marcus Gube and André Eriksson from Polytope for tech-support! And to @Nesrin Louise Samli and Steve Lilford from our sponsor Kong Inc. for coming by and supporting the event! 🏆 In the picture: The WINNING TEAM with Cillers, Google, jury and volunteers! Join the new hackathon movement. Hackathons are the new university for developers and leaders who want to stay ahead! 🚀 #AI #LLM #CombinatorialOptimization #Hackathon #Innovation

Thank you so much to all the participants that attended Google & Cillers AI + OR Hackathon yesterday! It was an amazing experience to host this fantastic event with creative teams and a very interested jury! During the day, all teams really made dreams into reality. It is fascinating to observe how much a team can accomplish during a day - not always knowing the all the team members, the team members’ skills, AI or the provided tools in beforehand, but still manages to create a MVP. The hackathons with Cillers is in my opinion the best format to learn how to utilize AI in systems and is an optimal way for developers from different companies to share knowledge. I am so glad that there were participants from my hometown Linköping. In the picture you can see Martin Siklosi, Mattias Johansson and Emma Siklosi, which built a fantastic system. Companies worldwide - here you have amazing developers! A huge thanks to Per Lange, Peder Linder, Jacob Bergvall, Jesper Ericsson, Marcus Gube, Anton Popovine, Peter Molander, Mikael Kent, Calle Norling Markai, Mikael Cross, the teams, the jury, Cillers with partners, Google Cloud and all the other participants!