Hi everyone, Thanks to all of our attendees, sponsors, speakers, and organisers for making our first Hackathon a great success! The team has been super busy with ensuring smooth sailing for everyone involved that the updates on our channels have taken a back seat. Not to worry, over this week we'll be sending everyone their photos, the prize moneys and updating all of our followers with everything that happened over our 2-day event.

Into the top-3 of the Hackfest and the runner-up: 🥈Chess3 🥈 (@followchess3 ) Chess3 aims to be the future of chess tournaments by solving the problems that have plagued traditional chess: financial instability, immutable gameplay and monetisation. Chess3 will integrate a secure wagering system, tamper proof move recording and is a global p2p gaming system. Daniel Tauhore (@daomasterdan), founder & CEO believes that Chess3 is perfectly positioned to take over the budding chess tournament scene 🚨 If you are interested to know more, DM or email us and we will get you in touch with the team. Meanwhile, check out their website to know more: #web3hackfest #Awards #silver #web3 #chess #melbourne #startups #pitch #chessboard #chessbattle

Into the top-3 of the Hackfest and the 2nd runner-up by the slightest of margins: 🥉Sincidium🥉 Sincidium ensures competency and academic integrity in the Age of AI. They are not just an AI-detector but they screen for student competency. "Our system discourages thoughtless AI reliance"- Oliver Cucanic, co-founder of Sincidium along side Benjamin Arya. Benjamin and Oliver, walked away with the top-prize of the @UniMelb Start Up Pitch competition and ranked in the hackfest- a testament to their continued work behind Sincidium and belief towards its future success. If you are interested to know more, DM or email us and we will get you in touch with the team. Meanwhile, check out their website and respective profiles to know more: #web3hackfest #Awards #bronze #AI #academic #melbourne #startups #pitch #integrity #ChatGPT

Featured project from the Hackfest: Veritas Tech 🚨 Veritas aims to accelerate the transition to a circular economy. Specifically for the fashion industry, they are offering an improvement on a brand product trustworthiness with verifiable products history and condition! (Bob) Weihai He won the Most Likely to Succeed Award at the 2023 Web3 and AI Hackfest 🏅 If you are interested to know more, DM or email us and we will get you in touch with the team. #web3hackfest #Awards #succeed #success #fashion #Earn #AI #WEB3

Featured project from the Hackfest: CATBox 🚨 CATBox aims to revolutionise the social media experience utilising the powers of AI- specifically, AI driven captions. Fiona Zhang, Kexin Chen and Anita Yang won the Diversity Award at the 2023 Web3 and AI Hackfest🏅 If you are interested to know more, DM or email us and we will get you in touch with the team. #web3hackfest #Awards #Diversity #AI #WomenInTech #WomeninBusiness

Trent's remarkable speech really hit home in terms of #innovation and the complexities of the human mind.

Featured project from the Hackfest: SkillVerse 🚨 SkillVerse is an AI-powered decentralised skill certification program, launching with the aim of breaking down the barriers of centralised educational institutions. Justin Yang and his team won the Aspiring Entrepreneur Award at the 2023 Web3 and AI Hackfest 🎖 If you are interested to know more, DM or email us and we will get you in touch with the team. #web3hackfest #Awards #Entrepreneurship

The Web3 and AI Hackfest is now on @sbschinese 🚨 @CloudTechGrp CFO Mandy Jiang and our @RMIT partner @Dr_Hai_Dong spoke in length about the lack of innovation in 🇦🇺 Australia and how hackathons like ours can help push the envelope. Hackathons are melting pots of technical innovation and if done right, can help the technological sector receive greater funding and a more diverse outlook! 🗣️

Industry events in the 🇦🇺Australian #WEB3 space is all about collaboration and community building 🗣️ One of the challenges we had with our #hackathon was finding organisations and personnel to partner with who aligned with our vision. Bringing Australia back to it's status as the hub of innovation is long in the minds of disruptors- and our partners were on the same wavelength as us. On Day-1 of our Hackfest we had sponsor speeches from some amazing people: - Kian Jackson from @NovattiPayments - Debbie Yuen from @bitgetglobal - Trent Barnes from @zerocapwealth - Andrew Zhou from @Accenture ; - Mike Loewy from @tidefoundation. (joined us via Zoom) Learn from about the amazing work they do in their profiles 👋🏻 #web3hackfest #Australia #DeFi #community #Partnership #SupportEachOthers #Bitget #novatti #zerocap #accenture #tide #melbourne #rmit

It took a minute but our #web3hackfest photos have finally arrived 📸 Stay tuned as we'll be sharing them across the coming days and weeks, if you see yourself just DM us for the highest quality version! Thank you again to our sponsors, attendees, judges and organisers #hacktheplanet 🚀

The Web3 and AI Hackfest has been picked up by the @Cointelegraph 🚀👇🏻 The piece includes a summary of the event and features of the teams who placed in the top-3: BIGR AI, Chess3 and Sincidium 🏆 The joint efforts of JR Academy and @CloudTechGrp to launch the #hackathon were in response to a stark lack of innovation in the #aussie tech space- we believe we can look back and say we have made a significant contribution by bringing amazing projects to the forefront. Congratulations to all of our finalists, sponsors, exhibitors, judges and organisers who made it all possible. We look forward to hosting an even better event next year #hacktheplanet 🎉 ✨

Thanks for the shoutout Mark! Looking forward to working closer with you in the Aussie #web3 space 🎉

Looking forward to seeing the future of @agilely_io An amazing project to say the least, best of luck guys 🚀

RT @CaptDeFi: Here at the @web3hackfest event in #Melbourne .. looking forward to the pitches on day 1 @AusDeFi @notcentralised @dsaicom…