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Welcome to HackXperience, a 24-hour sprint hackathon for curious students to build and deploy agentic products. SIM IT Club's flagship event brings together 100+ participants on 24–25 July under the theme AI for Living. Register your team of 3–4 by 16 July 2026.
// WHO SHOULD JOIN
- Web devs, AI engineers, designers, product thinkers, business analysts
- Any SIM student, Year 1 to Year 3
- No minimum skill level, just the drive to ship in 24 hours
// WHAT YOU GET
- Pre-event workshops to get you hackathon-ready
- On-site mentorship from industry professionals
- A stage to demo your agentic build
- Prizes worth S$1,800
AI FOR LIVING
In today's increasingly complex world, we are constantly juggled between two essential tasks: our work, and our life beyond it. HackXperience 2026 challenges you to ease that tension, through care that nurtures a healthier life, or automation that brings flow back into the workday. Choose the side that speaks to your team, because at the end of the day, the question is simple: how can AI help us live better, not just keep up?
// TRACKS
Pick the track that speaks to your team. Each has sub-tracks to guide your agentic build, and you're free to explore within or across them.
// TRACK 1
Care Forward
Wellbeing isn't one thing: it's the mind staying steady and the body staying strong, both needing care every day. Reimagine care in our daily living environments and support a genuinely healthy lifestyle.
1A) Mental Care
- Social apps that help you reconnect and recharge
- Mental wellness tools
- Caregiver coordination tools
- Other solutions exploring mental wellbeing
1B) Physical Care
- Fitness apps that track exercise movements
- Training and endurance apps (e.g. marathon prep)
- Daily exercise routines and reminders
- Other solutions exploring physical wellbeing
1C) Nutrition & Diet
- Smart food label scanning and tagging
- Food trackers for hitting nutrition goals
- Nutrition apps that help users make better daily food decisions
- Daily meal planning or hydration trackers
- Other solutions exploring adult nutrition & diet
// TRACK 2
Friction To Flow
Every workday carries its own friction: scattered tasks, mundane chores, schedules that spiral into chaos. Smooth that friction into flow with agentic AI.
2A) Task & Time Management
- Smart task allocation agents that prioritize your day
- Calendar agents that auto-resolve scheduling conflicts
- Meeting summarizers and action-item extractors
- Focus/deep work assistants that block distractions
- Other solutions exploring task and productive time management
2B) Work Quality & Integrity
- Plagiarism and AI-content checkers
- Citation and reference assistants
- Code review or documentation agents
- Resume and career coaching agents
- Other solutions exploring work quality and integrity
2C) Workflow Automation
- Agents that automate repetitive admin (emails, data entry, reports)
- Cross-app workflow connectors (e.g. auto-sync between tools)
- Smart form-filling or document generation agents
- Personal "chief of staff" agents that manage multiple small tasks
- Other solutions exploring workflow automation
Team Tracks Distribution
How the floor split across the two tracks — nearly even, both sides packed.
// TRACK SPLIT · SIDE BY SIDE
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// TRACK 1
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// TRACK 2
Friction To Flow
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WIN BIG. BUILD BOLD.
Prize pool worth S$1,800 in track prizes, sponsor awards, and community votes, across Care Forward, Friction To Flow, and special categories.
// All prize amounts are in SGD.
Care Forward Track
Best overall project under the Care Forward track.
Friction To Flow Track
Best overall project under the Friction To Flow track.
Best Use of Microsoft Stack
Sponsor choice: most meaningful use of the Microsoft AI ecosystem for a working agentic solution.
Best Entrepreneurial Award
Sponsor choice: systems thinking, consultative approach, and product mindset.
Community Choice Award
Voted by HackXperience participants: most support from the community.
Game Prize
Informal award: details to be confirmed.
PAST EVENTS
HACK
In 2025, HackXperience brought 90+ builders together to ship 20 projects in a 24-hour sprint, all-in on practical execution and collaborative prototyping. The event earned SIM's 2025 Outstanding Event Award (Silver).
// GET INSPIRED> GET SKILLED. GET READY.
SET_REMINDER// 24–25 JULY 2026 · SIM CAMPUS · FULL DAY-OF SCHEDULE
DAY 1
Fri 24 JulDAY 2
Sat 25 Jul// INDUSTRY EXPERTS EVALUATING AND GUIDING YOUR WORK
Educator at SIM Global Education teaching AI and machine learning across partner-university programs: deep learning, ML algorithm development, data visualization, and AI project modules. Teaching Excellence Award 2025 and 15-Year Lecturer Service Award recipient at SIM.
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Leads a team architecting and scaling agentic systems at IntelWave AI. AWS AI Engineering Community Builder and Y Combinator hackathon alum. Speaker at Amazon, Tencent, Stripe, SMU, and ClawCon; contributor to CNBC and The Business Times. Has judged Agora, Hack&Roll, and TinyFish.
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Microsoft MVP and MCT in AI, cloud technologies, and the Microsoft ecosystem. Over 15 years in solution architecture, Azure, and partner enablement. Passionate about empowering the technical community through mentoring, public speaking, and real-world innovation.
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Microsoft MVP for Microsoft 365 and Copilot, honored every year since 2014. Global judge and mentor for the Microsoft Imagine Cup. Frequent international speaker on security and digital transformation, passionate about guiding students to turn bold ideas into lasting impact.
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Ministry Director at The Navigators and Co-Founder of GeeksHacking. Software developer with a strong background in leadership, collaboration, and technical problem-solving. Youth mentor with NavTeens for over 15 years, bringing a practical, real-world lens to building technology that serves people.
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AI solutions architect specializing in Azure AI Foundry, MCP-based extensibility, and agentic frameworks for enterprise automation. Designs modern AI systems with autonomous agents, secure API orchestration, and deep Microsoft ecosystem integration — including Copilot Studio, Power Platform, and GitHub Copilot.
LINKEDIN ↗// ORGANISATIONS MAKING THIS POSSIBLE
Get in touch at it@mymail.sim.edu.sg
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ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
BUILD AI FOR LIVING.
Registration is closed. See you on 24–25 July — join the Telegram community for updates and day-of announcements.