Borås Tech Challenge 2024

The theme was “Socially Sustainable Borås” and this year’s competition took place on 16-17 May 2023 at the University of Borås. In total, 32 teams of three to six people took part. The teams chose the programming technology themselves and had 23 hours to create a prototype. All teams had to present their solution with the chance to win a prize in one of five categories.

In this year’s challenge, there were 11 teams from universities, seven teams from higher vocational education schools, and 11 company teams. This year we also had three teams from our upper secondary schools (high schools), which was great fun!

The prize categories for Borås Tech Challenge 2024 were:

Best Overall Solution

Best Student Contribution

Best Pitch

Best Technical Solution

Best Upper Secondary (High School) Team

Winner Tech Challenge 2024

Best Overall Solution: Team Gina Tricot

Jury’s accolades: “Spot on relevance for the competition with low threshold and great potential to scale up. The team shows a solution that whets the appetite for more.”

Team members: Hilmar Hilmarsson, Dylan Mäenpää, Tommy Olsson, Robin Keturi, Asmir Sehovic och Daniel Evert.

Best Student Contribution: Team IP09
Students from the University of Borås

Jury’s accolades: “The winners have, with empathy and sensitivity to the target audience, found a solution that inspires social sustainability.”

Team members: Ahmed Al Azawi, Pierre El Haddad, Elias Salame och Josef Saleh.

Best Pitch: Team IP05
Students from the University of Borås

Why we like it: “A playful service presented with enthusiasm and professionalism. With good team spirit, the winners take us into the world of fairy tales.”

Team members: Fanny Algotsson, Asad Ali, Sofia Friberg, Johan Granlöf och Mattias Granlöf

Best Technical Solution: Team Gina Tricot

Why we like it: “A technically advanced solution that is packaged and presented in an easy-to-understand way. A technology and implementation that solves the actual problem – nice!”

Team members: Hilmar Hilmarsson, Dylan Mäenpää, Tommy Olsson, Robin Keturi, Asmir Sehovic och Daniel Evert.

Best Upper Secondary (High School) Team:
Team Gnomborgen

Students from LBS upper secondary school in Borås

Jury’s accolades: “For a brave group of students who, with a great team spirit, presented a good technical solution at a high professional level.”

Team members: Joar Maltesson, Jessie Lindberg, Samuel Andersson, Sihan Li och Liam Ryden.

Organisers and sponsors

Borås Tech Challenge is an event organised by Tech Borås together with the following companies and organisations:

Gina Tricot

Centiro

Ehandelsstaden Borås

Ellos Group

Netonnet

Rudholm Group

Strong IT

Tech Stn

Invid

Eton

Adesso

Integr8 Studio

IO Solutions

Accelerate at Iver

Fedelta

Pulsen Group

Viskan

Borås Ink

Yrkeshögskolan i Borås

Centiro

Hive And Five

AMA Group

Scandinavian Photo

Ericsson

Drivhuset

Borgstena

Mebia

Restaurang Balder

Co-native

Folkuniversitetet

Högskolan i Borås

Borås Stad

SensationLabs

Nexer