The second round of Arnes’ nationwide HackathON 2025 took place at the Grand Hotel Bernardin Portorož on Tuesday, the 15th of April 2025. Ekipa 42 (Matej Urbančič, Gašper Jelen, Barbara Knez, Miha Radež) won with a solution for optimising the production of biological medicines.
This year’s Arnes HackathON was held under the slogan “Fly into the future with open science and supercomputing”. More than 100 competitors in 28 teams took part in the first round, 8 teams and thus 32 competitors made it to the second round. All teams were provided with access to the Arnes supercomputer cluster in the first round and access to EuroHPC Vega in the second round.
In the final round, the best teams presented their innovative solutions to a panel of experts and the audience. The panel of experts selected the top three teams, and the audience was able to vote for their favourite. The event took place as part of the Slovenian Informatics Days conference, and the presentations were also streamed live on the Arnes Video portal. The voting was made possible by Arnes 1KA. The second place went to the team 5 prijateljev, the third place went to DPR, who also won the audience vote.
The event was organised by the Academic and Research Network of Slovenia – Arnes, the Slovenian Informatics Society, the Ministry for Digital Transformation, the Ministry of Public Administration and the Faculty of Computer Science and Informatics of the University of Ljubljana in cooperation with a number of partners. Arnes HackathON 2025 was held under the honorary patronage of the Slovenian National Commission for UNESCO.
