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Post-event report
29 August 2026 · Yangon & nationwide (hybrid)
A look back at Myanmar’s first AI-driven hackathon — who applied, what builders tackled, and how the day reached people across the country.
At a glance
Hybrid build day
Builders joined in Yangon and remotely across Myanmar for a full day of shipping with AI.
Six challenge tracks
Teams picked a partner challenge and shipped under one shared clock.
Winners named
Overall champions plus Daiichi Life and 1CNG partner awards.
Livestream reach
4,800 views and 2,350 viewers on the shared recording collection.
Social reach
377,575 Facebook post views in the four weeks around the event (+295.2% vs the prior window).
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Results
Finalist teams and solo builders recognized on stage — including overall winners and partner special awards.
Finalists
John Saw Min
ThriveAI-UAB
ThriveAI is a Burmese-first AI financial decision copilot for Myanmar SMEs, built for the UAB Bank track. It helps owners answer questions like “Can I safely open another branch?” when revenue growth and cash reality diverge. Using three synthetic SME profiles, ThriveAI calculates business health, cash runway, liquidity, and overdue invoice priorities with a transparent TypeScript finance engine. Owners see an amount-first next-best action, an auditable Cash Bridge (expand now vs collect first), and editable what-if scenarios. The interface supports true English / မြန်မာ locale mode. Optional AI interprets Burmese or English questions and ranks evidence-backed actions—without inventing financial numbers. If the model is unavailable, ThriveAI returns an honestly labeled deterministic fallback. Demo story (distributor): revenue +14%, cash MMK 4.3M, payables MMK 9.6M. Collecting MMK 4.8M from top overdue invoices before a branch outlay changes ending cash from MMK 1.3M to MMK 6.1M. For decision support only. Not financial, accounting, lending, or investment advice.
Solo
Linn Myat Maung
EcoKid — Turn the World Into a Classroom
Problem Children interact with objects and animals every day but often don't understand their origins, manufacturing processes, or life cycles. Traditional STEM learning relies heavily on textbooks and passive videos, creating a gap between what children learn and what they see in the real world. Our Solution EcoKid turns the real world into an interactive STEM classroom. Children scan an object or animal with a camera, and AI identifies it and transforms it into a visual learning journey. SCAN → IDENTIFY → EXPLAIN → VISUALIZE → EXPLORE Tree → Wood → Processing → Manufacturing → Chair Egg → Caterpillar → Chrysalis → Butterfly Our Value EcoKid makes STEM learning visual, interactive, and memorable by helping children discover science from the things they see every day. Why It Matters EcoKid connects learning with real-world discovery, encouraging curiosity, scientific thinking, and environmental awareness while turning passive screen time into active exploration.
Solo
Team ov
AI for SMEs & Entrepreneurs
FinFlow Desk is an AI-powered financial management tool designed from a bank’s perspective to help Myanmar’s SMEs make smarter business decisions, manage daily cash flows, and easily qualify for bank loans. It converts raw business activity into verified financial intelligence—featuring predictive cash runway analytics, automated voucher scanning (OCR), localized festival demand forecasting, and an automated 100-point loan readiness assessment.
Team
Team Divas
WhyMark
WhyMark The Problem A score like “72%” can’t tell a teacher what a student actually understands or what to teach them next. To find that out, a teacher has to manually read through every student’s answer sheet, spot the pattern behind each mistake, and figure out who needs help with what — and with 30–50 students per class, that review alone can eat up hours after every single assessment. Most teachers simply don’t have that time, so students end up with a number instead of the specific feedback that would actually help them improve. Who This Affects Teachers and tutors managing medium-to-large classes, especially in exam-driven curricula like IGCSE where topic-level mastery matters more than one overall score. Our Solution WhyMark turns an assessment into a diagnosis, and a diagnosis into action: • Assess — AI generates a topic-based test in seconds, with each question tagged to a specific learning objective. • Diagnose — Student answers are automatically grouped by error pattern (e.g., “sign error,” “can’t translate word problems into equations”) — not just right/wrong — with evidence the teacher can approve or edit. • Intervene — For each group, WhyMark gives a one-line diagnosis of what’s going wrong and generates ready-to-use targeted practice with one click. • Measure — A quick re-test shows the actual learning gain, proving the intervention worked.
Team
Myo Thu Ko
AI Business Copilot for Myanmar SMEs
Most SME owners have some record of their transactions but no time or tooling to read it, so they miss cash shortfalls and cost spikes until it's too late. The app: upload a CSV (or a receipt photo) → get a cash-flow dashboard (stat tiles, trend chart, category breakdown) → AI-generated insights (trend/anomaly/cash-runway projection) grounded in the real numbers → a chat widget for follow-up questions, answered from the same data. Also includes session history (past uploads saved and reopenable), a savings-goal tracker with AI pacing feedback, auto-categorization, Burmese-language toggle, and PDF export.
Solo
Aye Chan Zay
Razor
Razor is a privacy-first Chrome extension designed to help secondary students use YouTube for homework without getting distracted. Instead of opening to the addictive YouTube homepage, Razor takes students directly to a targeted search based on what they need to study. During a timed study session, Razor analyzes video titles in real time—silently allowing relevant content while pausing and displaying an overlay on off-topic videos and keyword traps. It requires no accounts or setup, runs only when a timer is active, and turns off automatically when the study session ends.
Solo
Team Youths
Bhone Myat Khaing
Legacy
Dai-ichi Life protects families financially. But what about the memories, voice, and values that money cannot replace? While you are alive, AI helps you preserve the things that matter. If life unexpectedly takes you away, the memories and messages you chose to leave behind can continue to support the people you love. LEGACY is an AI-powered digital companion that helps customers preserve their life stories, record future messages for loved ones, and build a personal memory vault while they are alive. If life takes an unexpected turn, the family doesn't just receive an insurance payout—they receive the emotional legacy the customer intentionally chose to leave behind: voice recordings, written advice, scheduled birthday messages, and treasured family memories. The AI learns about the customer's family, goals, and important dates. It prompts them weekly to save memories, tracks their life goals (e.g., child's education fund), and securely locks future messages to be opened on specific dates (e.g., "Son's 29th Birthday").
Team
Team 2k6
Cove
Cove is a Myanmar-language phone app: daily insurance + money companion. React frontend, Flask + MySQL backend. Live at http://103.186.241.221 (http://103.186.241.221/).
Team
Kay Thi Lwin
ခရီးစဥ် AI (Khari Zin AI) - AI-Powered Vacation & Local Travel Planner
Problem: Planning a holiday is very tiring. People spend hours looking at different blogs and social media to find places to go. Then, it is hard to put them in a smart and easy order. Solution: A simple app that puts all travel information in one place. It uses AI to quickly make a custom, day-by-day travel plan with the best routes for you.
Solo
Team The Makers
Local Travel
**Local Travel** is a web-based travel discovery platform built to solve a real problem in Myanmar: travel information is scattered across different platforms, making it difficult and time-consuming to discover local destinations, restaurants, cafes, hotels, pagodas, shopping centers, and unique experiences. Our application brings these resources together in one simple platform. Users can explore places by category and location, discover nearby attractions, and make faster travel decisions. Unlike platforms focused mainly on famous tourist destinations, Local Travel emphasizes **local discovery** and gives lesser-known places and local businesses greater visibility. The project turns a simple real-world pain point—**“Where can I go and what can I do nearby?”**—into a practical, usable, and scalable digital solution for Myanmar. **Tagline: Discover Local. Travel Better.**
Team
Awards
Overall champions and partner special awards. Open an entry for the project description and links.
Applicants
Aggregate registration stats from the same Luma guest database used at the registration desk. No personal data is shown.
Synced 29 Aug 2026, 01:09
Total registrations
1351
Unique teams
348
In-person tickets
969
Remote tickets
313
Participants
A hybrid format with doors open in Yangon, remote builders nationwide, and a shared agenda from kickoff through awards.
Solo or teams of up to four. Developers and non-developers welcome. Building started on event day.
Checked in
173
In-person check-in
101
Remote check-in
72
Final submissions
88
34 attended teams · 62 attended solos · 52 in-person submissions · 36 remote submissions
Challenges
Challenge tracks were revealed on hackathon day. Teams submitted under one of these partner topics. Click a topic to read the challenge brief.
Media
Open the photo folder and Facebook livestream recordings from the event.
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Facebook livestream recordings shared by organizers. Metrics below reflect the reported livestream reach.
Views
4,800
Viewers
2,350
Community
Campaign reach on Facebook posts and LinkedIn, plus public threads tagged with the event hashtags.
3–30 August 2026
Post views
377,575
vs previous 28 days
+295.2%
Impressions on two organizer posts in the week of the hackathon.
Impressions
9,082
Pre-event check-in
8,156Impressions
74 reactions · 1 comment
Day-before kickoff
926Impressions
21 reactions · 0 comments
Hackathon-day posts and builder reflections.
Cursor Myanmar community mentions.
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