CODE THE STATE is a two-day hackathon organized through a collaboration between Komm.ONE, Public Makers and the IPAI Foundation. During the event, participants will work in teams of 4 to tackle real digital public sector challenges.
Throughout the hackathon, participants will have access to mentors from Komm.ONE who will be on-site to help with the challenges faced by the public sector and support them when they encounter technical or conceptual difficulties.
On the second day, each team will present their solution in a final pitch, after which a jury will select the winning teams. Please refer to the daily schedule and FAQs for more detailed information.
| 09:00–10:30 | Arrival of participants and check-in |
| 10:30–11:50 | Welcome and Introduction |
| 11:50–12:00 | Challenge briefing, team formation and start of hacking session |
| 13:00–14:00 | Lunch |
| 14:00–18:30 | Hacking sessions + mentor rounds |
| 18:30–19:30 | Dinner |
| 19:30–22:00 | Hacking sessions |
| 08:00–09:00 | Breakfast |
| 09:00–12:30 | Hacking sessions |
| 12:30–13:15 | Lunch |
| 13:30–14:45 | Pitches |
| 14:45–15:15 | Coffee break |
| 15:15–15:30 | Announcement of the winners and awards ceremony |
| 15:45–16:00 | Closing remarks |
Municipal systems shape our everyday lives - housing, mobility, administration, services. Yet many of these core processes were designed decades ago.
At CODE THE STATE, we give young builders full freedom
to rethink the recurring challenges municipalities face
- not by digitizing old workflows, but by questioning
their underlying logic. To make this challenge real, we
are bringing 4 case studies straight from
Baden-Württemberg's public administration – from
AI-powered crisis detection to automated building permit
assessments. These are problems our municipalities are
actively working on right now.
In collaboration with Komm.ONE, hosted at the Innovation Park Artificial Intelligence (IPAI), this hackathon is simple in principle:
If you're the generation that has to live with
public systems for the next 50 years, you should be
allowed to redesign them.
Yes, you can also join if you are currently not studying, e.g. when you are doing an apprenticeship.
Yes, this event is completely free for participants.
Yes! While we won’t offer coding tutorials during the event, teams are interdisciplinary and beginners are very welcome.
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At Code the State, teams work on four real challenges sourced directly from Baden-Württemberg's public administration, developed by Komm.ONE and grounded in everyday municipal practice. 1. Individual Risk Assessment for Citizens (FLIWAS use case) Information about risks at a specific home address is currently scattered across multiple sources and difficult to interpret without specialist knowledge. This use case explores how AI can generate address-specific risk assessments and personalised guidance for citizens in crisis situations. 2. Crisis detection and disaster response through AI-powered internet monitoring (Disaster Response use case) In crisis events like floods or fires, fast and accurate situational awareness is critical. This use case develops a system that monitors social media and web sources in real time, automatically detecting, categorising and prioritising relevant events — so that emergency responders can react faster and more effectively. 3. Generating 3D Model from Zoning Plans (Geodata Service use case 1) Zoning and development plans are typically stored as PDFs or raster images — hard to analyse and impossible for machines to read. This use case uses AI to automatically extract building data such as height and roof type, generating three-dimensional city models that make urban planning, permit processes and citizen participation more accessible. 4. AI-Assisted Decision Making for Building Permits (Geodata Service use case 2) Anyone wanting to build today must manually interpret complex zoning regulations — a time-consuming process for both citizens and administrators. This use case develops an AI system that automatically cross-references planned construction against zoning requirements, speeding up permit assessments and reducing the need for manual review.
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If you are registering as a team, each team member must register individually and use the exact same team name.