IT Young Potential Challenge Belgium 2022
28/02/2022 to 01/05/2022
10 minutes
15
Belgium

1st : 600€ e-commerce voucher

2nd : 400€ e-commerce voucher

3d : 300€ e-commerce voucher

4th - 10th : 100€ voucher

These prizes will be given to both categories (students and young professionals)

Partners

The IT Young Potential Belgium is a Challenge designed to inspire creative and dynamic computer science Students & Young Professionals located in Belgium & Luxembourg.

The first round is played online. The students and the professionals will compete in separate leagues so that everyone gets a fair chance in competing to be crowned as Belgian IT Student or Young IT Pro Champion (less than 31 years old).

Registration is free and open during the entire duration of the Challenge.

Jury and ambassadors

Serge Demeyer
Associate Professor
Professor UAntwerpen
Kris Steenhaut
Full Professor in Computer Science
Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Christophe Debruyne
Assistant Professor
University of Liège
Jef Wijsen
IT Professor
University of Mons
Romain Absil
IT Professor
HE2B
Isabelle Dony
Professor
Haute Ecole Robert Schuman
Laurent Schumacher
Full Professor
University of Namur
Nico Declerck
Instructor - Lecturer
Howest - Hogeschool West-Vlaanderen
Yvan Rooseleer
ASC & ITC Manager
BiASC
Benoit Donnet
Associate Professor
Université de Liège
Sébastien Combéfis
Consultant
AEI Consulting
Nicolas Melchior
Maître assistant
Hénallux
Rudi Giot
Professor
ISIB
Tom Cordemans
Lecturer
Odisee
Pierre de Fooz
Lecturer (Assistant Professor)
Haute Ecole de la Province de Liège - HEPL
Hugues De Pra
Chief Technology & Transformation Officer
Cisco
Sarah-Louise Justin
Systems Architect
Cisco
Thomas Boedt
Talent Development Manager
SpotIT
Steven Vynckier
Founding Partner
Spotit
Fabian Restiaux
Science and technology departement director
Hénallux
Guido Van De Velde
Instructor - Lecturer
Odisee university College
Wim Debbaut
IT security researcher
UCLL
Emmanuelle Vin
Innovation Strategist
NTT
Alexandre Callens
GTM Director
NTT
Sam Grimée
Director of Engineering
Cisco

Scores calculation :

You will have to give the correct answer to 15 questions in maximum 10 minutes!

  • A good answer gives you 1 point
  • A wrong answer or skipped answer results in a score of 0

The total score will be the cumulative score of all questions answered within the set timeframe.

The 10 best scores in both caregories (IT Students or IT Young Pro) will be invited to participate in the final which takes place on 10/05/2022 evening at the headquarters of Cisco in Diegem.

 

Results

At the end of the Challenge, you will receive the details of your score and ranking privately. As a result, participants can't share the answers.

In case of a tie, the timeframe to answer the questions will determine the order in the leaderboard.

 

Qualification and Disqualification

We really do not want to disqualify you, but sadly we will have to, if we catch you doing any of the following:

  • Participants must be over 18 years old and be residents in Belgium or Luxembourg to be invited to win the prizes.
  • Cisco, Spotit and NTT employees are welcome to participate but will not be eligible to win prizes.

  • Only one registration per person is authorized.
  • The participant can only compete in his own name and not for someone else.
  • Personal information of the participant may be checked through different sources. Personal information must be accurate. Inaccurate or false information given by the participant will nullify the registration or entail the loss of the Prize.
  • Communicating and/or publishing any kind of data, questions or solutions in liaison with the challenge, and sharing directly or indirectly this information with any other contestant before the challenge has been closed;
  • Attempting to damage the website or taking action that may have a negative impact on the normal process/operating procedure of the challenge. Incidentally, this may also be considered as a legal violation, and the organizer reserves the right to initiate a legal procedure and claim damages before the court.
  • Taking any action in violation of the copyrights/IP that belong to the authors of the questions, the members of the jury, and the EDITx IT educators community.
  • Having multiple profiles while participating in the Challenge.

The following personal data about the participants will be collected by EDITx: first name, last name, address, date of birth, email, telephone/mobile number and Linkedin profile (if present). Personal data are used for the following purposes:

  • To see if everything runs according to the rules
  • To set up the statboard & leaderboard at the end of the Challenge

EDITx shares the personal information of the participants with the challenge partners.

The partners will use this information only for the following purposes:

  • To contact all participants to share their results
  • To contact the top participants to invite them for the finals
  • To contact interested participants about future internships or job opportunities