Welcome to the Costa Rica RPA & AI Hackathon 2023 Awareness Session. We will be reviewing the high level details of the hackathon during this session. Including:
What is RPA
What is the name and purpose behind the hackathon
Hackathon sponsors
What details you need to be aware of
Timelines for registration
Measures in SQL (a talk at SF Distributed Systems meetup, 2024-05-22)
Costa Rica RPA and AI Hackathon 2023 Hackathon Awareness Session
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Costa Rica
RPA & AI Hackathon
2023
By UiPath Community& Greenlight Consulting
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Agenda
In this session, you'll get a detailed insight into:
• What is this hackathon about?
• Meet our team! Who are UiPath & Greenlight Consulting & why are we holding a
hackathon?
• What is Robotic Process Automation (RPA) and why should you learn it?
• What UiPath products will you be able to use for my solution?
• What are the timelines?
• Who can participate?
• How do you register?
• Overview of rules and categories
• Judging criteria and prizes
• Submission guidelines
• Tips on identifying your use case
• Tips on how to present and demonstrate your idea or project
What’s Next?
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Welcome to the Costa Rica RPA & AI Hackathon!
This isn’t your typical hackathon!
• Fully virtual with an in-person component for finalists who will be invited to present at CENFOTEC in
San Jose
• UiPath courses are available online and free anytime!
• We will provide you with a virtual 3-hour training session led by industry experts
• We will also support you and your team with virtual Office Hours in case you’re stuck or need a bit of
help!
• You will formulate your own problem statement and solution, with 3 categories to choose from
For details and support for this hackathon, please visit The Costa Rica RPA & AI Hackathon page at:
https://community.uipath.com/e/mra37c/
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Diana Gray
Community Marketing
Manager AMER
At UiPath
Meet your hackathon team!
Melanie Lam
Innovation Director at
Greenlight Consulting
Komal Sindhi
Manager, People Operations at
Greenlight Consulting
Vidhi Patel
RPA Developer at
Greenlight Consulting
Hudson Sheffield
Senior RPA Business
Analyst at Greenlight
Consulting
Hayleen Bonilla
Bot Ops RPA Developer at
Greenlight Consulting
Josué Chinchilla
RPA Developer at UiPath
Sebastián Villalobos
UiPath MVP
Lewis Goldenberg
Lead RPA Consultant at
Greenlight Consulting
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Who is UiPath?
UiPath is a leading enterprise automation software vendor that
helps organizations efficiently automate business processes.
Started in 2005 in Romania, UiPath has a vision to deliver the
fully automated enterprise™ where companies use automation
to unlock their creativity and full potential of every worker.
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Who is Greenlight?
Founded in 2008, Greenlight Consulting is a privately-owned IT services organization
with operations in Canada, the United States & Costa Rica, specializing in Robotic
Process Automation (RPA) Consulting and Technology Staffing.
• We serve clients across North America, including Coca-Cola, Canon, Shopify, Hot Renfrew, Brookfield
Properties, Apotex and the Government of Canada.
• We firmly believe that Our clients deserve real success, and Our employees deserve fun and
challenging work. When the right people are provided with an inclusive environment, different
perspectives respected and thoughtful guidance, they produce tremendous results.
• We have a high-performance mindset with a culture that is driven by our values, including kindness,
ownership, transparency, and fairness.
• We won an "Employer of the year" award in Women in Tech Summit in year 2022, and have been
nominated in 6 categories again in year 2023. We are a certified Best Place to Work & were recently
ranked as #14 in the Top 50 Employers in Canada within our category size.
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Why are we holding a hackathon?
• Promote awareness about automation, its transformative power, and ability to improve
lives
• Enhance your skills with UiPath, the industry-leading Robotic Process Automation
software, through an engaging challenge, and with guidance and support from
industry professionals
• An opportunity to address a community challenge and showcase your talent!
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What is RPA and why should I learn it?
Check out these videos to see just some of the amazing things that RPA can do:
Document Understanding – Accounts Payable across many systems
Document Understanding and GPT
UiPath & Integrating with Conversational AI
Three ways to Automate the UI of any applications
The What
● Robotic automation uses a software robot to
run application software in the same way that
a person works with that software
● It executes activities or tasks previously
performed by humans across multiple
software platforms
The Goal
● RPA aims to replace repetitive
tasks performed by humans, with a virtual
workforce.
● Leverage your knowledge and skills for more
value-add tasks like judgmental calls, complex
analysis and exception handling
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What UiPath Products will you be able to use?
When you sign up for a UiPath Community instance you will gain access to the following UiPath Platform
components:
• UiPath Orchestrator
• UiPath Studio Family (Studio, StudioX, Studio Web)
• UiPath Assistant (install alongside Studio or StudioX)
• UiPath Apps
• UiPath Integration Service
• UiPath Document Understanding
• UiPath Action Center
• UiPath Automation Hub (+ Task Capture)
• UiPath AI Center (service must be enabled through Admin -> DefaultTenant -> Services -> + Add
Services)
• UiPath Insights (service must be enabled through Admin -> DefaultTenant -> Services -> + Add Services)
• UiPath Data Service (service must be enabled through Admin -> DefaultTenant -> Services -> + Add
Services)
• UiPath Test Manager (service must be enabled through Admin -> DefaultTenant -> Services -> + Add
Services)
You may utilize any of these components in your solution. Specific training on how to use each of these
features can be found at UiPath Academy.
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What are the timelines?
Key Date Date
RPA & AI Hackathon Awareness Session July 26
Register on CINDE’s site: https://gpsdetalento.com/es/rpa-hackathon
And UiPath’s site: https://community.uipath.com/e/mra37c/
July 26- August 11
Receive confirmation of your participation via email, Team Assignment
if you requested, and instructions on registering for the Enablement
Session, and how to submit your solution
August 18
Enablement 3-Hour Training Sessions Friday August 25 or Saturday
August 26 @9am-12pm
Office Hours – Get support from Industry Experts To Be Announced at
Enablement Sessions
Submission Deadline Thursday September 7
Finalists Announced (via email & on
https://community.uipath.com/e/mra37c/)
Thursday September 14
Finalist In-Person Presentations at CENFOTEC University in San Jose Saturday September 23
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Who can participate?
Anyone who is 15 years old or more & residing in
Costa Rica, including:
• Students
• IT professionals
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How do you register?
• Fill in the form on CINDE’s website by August 11: https://gpsdetalento.com/es/rpa-
hackathon
• Sign up on UiPath Community’s site by August 11:
https://community.uipath.com/e/mra37c/
• Note: On CINDE’s site you will be required to take an English proficiency, specify
your main goal for participating in the hackathon, and whether you (1) already have
a team, (2) going solo or (3) would like to be assigned team members
• On August 18 you will receive an email
from CRhackathon2023@greenlightconsulting.com confirming your participation
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Key Rules
• Team size: 1 to 4
• You must follow the submission instructions (specified on UiPath Community’s site:
https://community.uipath.com/e/mra37c/)
• Your presentation and video must be in English
• Your solution must include one of: UiPath Studio, UiPath Studio X or UiPath Studio Web
• All timelines must be abided by
• You must be at least 15 years of age
• When submitting our solution, only one team member will submit all files
• Everyone on your team needs to register for the hackathon separately
• Every team member must register and attend one of the two 3-hour Enablement Training
sessions held on August 25 and 26
• You can submit more than one solution as a participant or team
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Categories
👉• Category 1: Showcase Costa Rica!
Highlight what Costa Rica is known for, or something specific to Costa Rica that you’re proud of. What topics
are unique to Costa Rica that would benefit from automation? Are there cultural, agricultural, weather, and
historical ideas you can think of where automation could be useful to showcase Costa Rica and the value it
has?
👉• Category 2: Nation-wide/community problem solving
Solve a current issue that impacts a wider group of people. Topic examples: improving mental health, the
circular economy, climate change, virtual learning, employment, learning a second language. What community
challenges might benefit from using automation? Are there local projects that can be automated?
👉• Category 3: Student life in Costa Rica
Showcase an automation that could help fellow students! This could be anything from helping to alleviate
administrative tasks, staying on top of school work, finding an internship position or first job, supporting
positive emotional/mental health, or something else you think will be impactful to you and your peers. What
challenges do students face in Costa Rica? Can you develop an automation that'd benefit students in Costa
Rica in their everyday lives?
Example problem statements and solution ideas are on UiPath’s
site: https://community.uipath.com/e/mra37c/
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BONUS Category!
👉• Bonus Category: Showcase AI Technology
AI is a rapidly expanding field and we’d love you to learn and enhance your knowledge of AI technologies and
their capabilities.
The UiPath Platform includes technology that leverages AI, or enables usage of external AI technology, in
particular: Document Understanding, Clipboard AI, Action Center, Integration Service. You may use any third-
party AI tools to expand your solution and make it better!
Note: When you upload your submission you will specify your usage of AI technology, if any, so we
may consider you for this bonus category!
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• Impact 25% - We want to understand the value that your idea will bring to society or a specific
user group. Is it far-reaching, and does it have the potential of widespread use across multiple
people/organizations?
• Concept 20% - We’ll evaluate your idea to see if it is disruptive or innovative while adding
value for the target audience. How significant and relevant is the problem that the solution
intends to solve?
• Technology 25% – We'll evaluate your solution on how effectively and efficiently you've used
UiPath products and if you've integrated those with the ecosystem of other technologies.
• Completion 15% - How complete is the solution? Have you delivered what you wanted?
• Presentation & Video 15% - We want to see how you addressed your problem statement.
How clearly have you articulated your solution?
• AI Bonus Category - How well does the solution leverage AI technology? How integral is AI
tech in contributing to your solution?
Note: You need to be realistic about what can be accomplished in the given timeframe.
Judging Criteria
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Category 1 Prizes: Showcase Costa Rica
• 1st Prize – $100 USD UiPath voucher
• 2nd Prize – $50 USD gift card courtesy of Greenlight
• RPA & AI Hackathon Certificate for all Finalists
Category 2 Prizes: Nation-wide/community problem solving
• 1st Prize – $100 USD UiPath voucher
• 2nd Prize – $50 USD gift card courtesy of Greenlight
• RPA & AI Hackathon Certificate for all Finalists
*All UiPath vouchers are for https://uipath.bamkostores.com/
*Prizes are per person, e.g., 1st prize is $100 USD UiPath voucher for each team member
Prizes
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Category 3 Prizes: Student life in Costa Rica
• 1st Prize – $100 USD UiPath voucher
• 2nd Prize – $50 USD gift card courtesy of Greenlight
• RPA & AI Hackathon Certificate for all Finalists
AI Bonus Prizes!
• 1st Prize – $100 USD gift card courtesy of Greenlight & an opportunity to interview for an
internship
• 2nd Prize – $50 USD gift card courtesy of Greenlight
• RPA & AI Hackathon Certificate for all Finalists
*All UiPath vouchers are for for https://uipath.bamkostores.com/
*Prizes are per person, e.g., 1st prize is $100 USD UiPath voucher for each team member
Prizes
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• The submission deadline is September 7, 2023 @ 11:59am. If you're submitting as a team
rather than as an individual, you only need to fill in one submission form per team. Your
Submission must include the following list to avoid rejection.
• PDD (Process Design Document)/Solution Diagram [Recommended Using UiPath’s Task
Capture]
• Project Files / Workflow
• Presentation [There is a template to build your presentation]
• Video clearly demonstrating how your solution works (no longer than 5 minutes)
• Scripts / Files (if applicable)
Submission requirements will be discussed during the Enablement Training session
Submission Guidelines
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Considerations for RPA use cases:
- High volume & high time saving
- Repetitive Manual process
- Look at things that you or others are doing everyday. How can it be improved by automation,
either in personal or professional life?
- Think about UiPath’s products that you have available to you and what they can do. Bring your
problem statement and your proposed high-level solution (how you are going to use UiPath’s
products and optionally third-party applications) to the Office Hours to seek feedback. Keep in
mind the timelines and think about what you and your team can reasonably accomplish during
this time period.
- Choose use cases that you can be excited about and have a positive impact on your life or
others. Go to https://community.uipath.com/e/mra37c/ to get ideas from example problems
and solutions for each of the three categories!
Tips for Identifying your Use Case
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• Problem Statement: Briefly mention what is the problem you are trying to solve.
• Solution: What is the solution you proposed and approach you took to solve this problem.
• Technologies: Mention all the technologies used in your solution including the UiPath products.
• Results and Impact: If any data/metrics are derived from your solution, present it to demonstrate the
impact and potential scalability of your project
• Solution Architecture: You can optionally show the solution/technical architecture. Use clear text,
relevant images and diagrams to enhance understanding and engagement.
• Demo: Create a presentable prototype or demo that illustrates core features and functionalities of your
project. Try to effectively communicate value of your solution.
Tips for your Presentation Deck & Video
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• Team formation: Form your team (maximum 4), or decide whether you’d like to be assigned
team members or go solo
• Register: Go to CINDE’s site https://gpsdetalento.com/es/rpa-hackathon and UiPath Community:
https://community.uipath.com/e/mra37c/ & complete your registration by August 11
• Watch for an email from CRhackathon2023@greenlightconsulting.com that will be sent to you by
August 18 confirming your participation, and next steps (check your spam folder!)
• Make sure you’re free to attend one of the Enablement 3-Hour Training Sessions on August 25
or 26 @9am-12pm Central Time (11am-1pm ET)
• There will be time to ask questions at this session. Review all hackathon requirements,
brainstorm ideas & bring your questions to this session!
Next Steps?
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Self-Learning (optional but recommended):
• Take a look at use cases on the UiPath Forum to help you with ideas for your own project:
https://forum.uipath.com/c/members-only/use-cases/206
• Sign up for sign up for a UiPath Community instance
• Go to UiPath Academy and take these free courses:
• https://academy.uipath.com/courses/introduction-to-rpa-and-automation
• https://academy.uipath.com/learning-plans/rpa-citizen-developer-foundation
Next Steps?
Josué to welcome everyone
Mel to thank sponsors and go through housekeeping items
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Josué
Vidhi
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Komal
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How can interested individuals understand the benefits of participating? Why should students care and want to learn about RPA?
Statistics from UiPath (source):
Nearly half (47%) of office workers surveyed are worried they will be out of a job within five years because their skills will be outdated.
86% say they wish their employer offered opportunities to acquire new skills.
83% of office workers say they are interested in learning about machine learning (ML) and artificial intelligence (AI), with 78% noting that ML/AI skills could benefit their career.
Statistics from Grand View Research (source):
The global robotic process automation market size was valued at USD 2,322.9 million in 2022 and is projected to expand at a CAGR of 39.9% from 2023 to 2030.
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*Ask participants to register on UiPath Community (short form to complete)