Nova Poshta — Building the Future of Logistics with AI Hackathon
Client
Nova Poshta
The background:
Nova Poshta is a group of companies that provide logistics and related services to both businesses and individuals, including the express delivery of documents, freight, and parcels. With more than 8,700 branches across Ukraine – in every city and one in four villages, the company continues to grow its presence by opening new branches and expanding its network of automated parcel terminals, which now includes more than 8,500 devices.
To enhance modernity, interactivity, and automate internal branch operations, Nova Poshta planned to integrate an AI assistant into its self-service systems. To achieve this, the company decided to host a hackathon, uniting AI teams and IT specialists to develop and implement potential solutions.
Aim of the project:
At Nova Poshta’s request, Radar Tech, together with Civitta, identified and developed two specific hackathon cases:
- An AI assistant that understands speech and talks to customers;
- An AI assistant that can generate documents using company templates.
Services provided:
The hackathon brought together 18 teams, including AI startups, IT specialists, and teams of enthusiastic student developers. Over the course of 36 hours, participants worked on solving the cases and developing working prototypes. The event also involved 16 experts from Nova Poshta and external organizations, with experience in innovation, startup development, pitching, and marketing.
Project result:
The hackathon successfully brought together a diverse group of innovators and delivered practical outcomes that extended beyond the event itself:
- 2 hackathon cases;
- 60 offline participants and 16 online participants;
- 18 teams;
- 3 winning teams received cash prizes;
- 5 teams invited to the pre-acceleration boot camp by Challenger AI.
The best solution was invited for future collaboration with Nova Poshta.
