Everesteer Hackathon: Forecasting Markets with AI - DSS x EFS
📈 Everesteer Hackathon: Can You Predict Where Markets Are Heading?
📅 22 November, 12:00–3:00 PM
📍 Gustave Tuck Lecture Theatre, UCL Main Building 🎓
Eligibility: UCL students only who are members of one of the partner societies.
Think you can build a model that makes money? Find out!
Join UCL Data Science Society and the Economics & Finance Society for an intensive hackathon powered by Everesteer, an agent-native hedge fund platform founded by the team behind EverestQuant, a London-based quant hedge fund.
Using real, anonymised futures data, you'll build and test machine learning models and AI agents to forecast 20-day returns. Compete against fellow UCL students in live rounds and climb the leaderboard. It's an individual competition, but you're welcome to help each other and talk through your approaches.
💻 How Does the Hackathon Work? Everyone starts with a $20 stake from us. It's free to take part, and you never use your own money. You'll submit your models and decide how much of your stake to put on each one: spread it across several models or back your strongest predictions.
After each round, your models are scored on how accurate and how original their predictions are, and your scores add up on the leaderboard. The top of the leaderboard wins the prizes.
You won't be building blind:
📊 Live leaderboard: see where you stand after every round.
🔄 Continuous improvement: receive new data after each round to fine-tune or rebuild your models.
🧪 Historical data: test your own strategies and experiment with different approaches.
🚀 No eliminations: nobody gets knocked out, so you can keep experimenting and improving all afternoon.
🏆 Prizes, Food & Opportunities There's more than just bragging rights up for grabs!
💰 £500 in prizes for the top of the leaderboard.
🍕 Food & drinks throughout the event to keep you fuelled.
👀 Opportunities: several past participants have gone on to join Everesteer as campus ambassadors, so it's a great chance to show your skills and meet the team.
👋 Who Should Attend? All UCL students are welcome, whether you're studying computer science, data science, economics, finance, engineering or something completely different. We'd love to have you!
Some coding or finance experience helps, but it's absolutely not required: AI agents help you build, and we'll help you get started.
Please register individually and bring your own laptop, so you can run Everesteer on your own machine.
Please note: this event is exclusively open to UCL students who are members of EFS and DSS
🎓 New to Everesteer? Join Our Pre-Hackathon Tutorial! Never used the platform before? No problem! We'll host a workshop to introduce Everesteer, explain how the competition works and help you hit the ground running. 🗓️ 19 November, 6:00–8:30 PM 📍 Room G03, 26 Bedford Way
We highly recommend attending if you're new to the platform!
Further details will be sent by email to approved guests.
Come build, experiment, compete, enjoy some food and drinks, and see whether your models can beat the market. 🏆