During the All-Ukrainian HeatTech Hackathon, student teams worked on projects to modernize heat supply systems, decentralize power generation, and protect critical infrastructure amid shelling and blackouts.
The event format brought together:
📌 20 teams from Kyiv, Kharkiv, Poltava, Lviv, and Kryvyi Rih;
📌 panel discussions with representatives from government, academia, and business;
📌 two days of work with mentors on concepts ranging from small nuclear reactors to digital infrastructure monitoring systems.
🥇First place in the HeatTech Hackathon was won by the “Edelweiss” team from Igor Sikorsky Kyiv Polytechnic Institute (KPI). The participants presented a method for diagnosing heating systems based on neural networks.
Members of the winning team:
Maksym Sokolnitsky, captain, Faculty of Software Systems and Applied Mathematics (FSSAM)
Valeria Baranivska, FPSPM
Ilya Bondar, FPSPM
Andriy Bilich, FPSPM
Ruslana Bondar, Faculty of Electronics (FEL)
Yegor Matiash, Kyiv School of Economics
🤝 General partners:
Ardenz, Eurotechenergo, Viessmann
✅ Partners: KNT, Pascal, Ukravtonomgaz, Tenko, SKM Logistics
🎁 Partners who provided gifts: BUILDIT Ukraine, CONTECH, Mario, Teplobak, Termodzhet, Ukrinterm, Profinstall, Khors, Hajster, snEco, Dika Voda Zakarpattia
✍️ Organizers — Educational and Scientific Institute of Nuclear and Thermal Power Engineering (IATE Institute) of Igor Sikorsky Kyiv Polytechnic Institute and the Thermal Power Cluster of Ukraine
Watch the video to see how young engineers sought answers to energy challenges