Cannes Lions has announced it will host a two-day Change for Good Hackathon, to be held live on 19-20 June at the 65th Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity. Together with Amazon, Huge and international advocacy platform Global Citizen, Cannes Lions will invite teams from across the globe to join forces and imagine and build solutions that will further six Global Citizen campaigns, including: No Poverty, Food & Hunger, Health, Education, Gender Equality, and Clean Water & Sanitation.
Of the applications received, seven teams will be chosen to compete in the first-of-its-kind Hack, with the winners announced on the Interactive Stage inside Lions Innovation (Palais II) on Wednesday, 20 June at 15:30.
Teams selected to participate in the Hackathon will benefit from:
- A complete Festival pass to enjoy all that the Festival has to offer;
- Hands-on mentorship from some of the world’s most prominent industry leaders and change influencers;
- Real-time expertise in creative, UX design and product development from Huge;
- On-the-ground solution architects from Amazon Web Services and Amazon Alexa will be available to make ideas a reality;
- The opportunity to work on a cause with Global Citizen;
- The winning team will have the opportunity to work with Global Citizen, Amazon Web Services, Amazon Alexa and Huge to launch and promote their solution.
The winning team will be selected by a judging panel on the Lions Innovation Stage.
The full list of selected teams and the judging panel will be determined and notified on 29 May.