BAKU, Azerbaijan, December 17. SOCAR Hackathon
2025 took place at Baku Higher Oil School (BHOS), organized by
SOCAR with Microsoft as the official partner, Trend reports via SOCAR.
At the opening ceremony, Elmar Gasimov, Rector of Baku Higher
Oil School; Arzu Javadova, Vice President of SOCAR; Teymur Aliyev,
Head of SOCAR’s Strategic Management and Innovations Department;
Gumyrbek Sandibekov, representative of Microsoft; and Azad
Huseynov, SOCAR’s Chief Data Officer, delivered speeches. They
emphasized the importance of the event for Azerbaijan’s innovation
ecosystem and noted that the competition creates significant
opportunities to unlock young people’s creative potential and
identify innovative approaches to real industrial challenges. The
speakers also shared information about SOCAR’s innovation strategy
and digital transformation initiatives and wished success to the
participating teams.
During the two-day SOCAR Hackathon 2025, teams competed in the
fields of Artificial Intelligence Engineering and Data
Engineering.
On the first day of the event, participants attended a
presentation by Microsoft on data and artificial intelligence
services and familiarized themselves with the objectives of the
competition, evaluation criteria, and technical capabilities.
The teams then moved to the ideation phase, where they worked on
innovative solutions with the support of mentors.
On the second day of the hackathon, teams completed their
projects and presented them to the jury.
Following deliberations by the jury, the winners were announced.
In the Artificial Intelligence Engineering category, Neon Tech won
first place, Triangle took second place, and BitByte placed third.
In the Data Engineering category, VSG won first place, NoWay took
second place, and Osmos placed third.
The event concluded with an award ceremony for the winners.
