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For the participants, divided into 19 teams, ShipIT offered a unique opportunity to step away from daily routines, collaborate across borders, and tackle real-world challenges in the fields of AI, automation, and sustainability. The hackathon fostered a lively, supportive atmosphere, encouraging to think outside the box, develop new solutions, and strengthen team spirit.
Teams presented their ideas to a jury, which evaluated projects based on innovation, feasibility, climate impact, cultural value, and wow factor. In addition to the jury’s choice, participants voted for their favorite solutions, ensuring a truly collaborative and inclusive experience.
AI will do test for you
This year’s jury prize went to Team A (the Flaky Five: Edward Bakker, Remco Havermans, Wessel Terpstra, Wouter Scholtens and Ferdi Havenaar), recognized for their innovative use of AI to automate the creation of end-to-end test scripts. Their solution transforms simple prompts into fully functional Playwright scripts, freeing testers to focus on finding bugs instead of writing code. The jury praised Team A for their scalable, well-thought-out prototype, already proven shippable and capable of supporting business testers in more effective testing. And to top it off they impressed with their pitch which they mastered by taking advantage from coaching by our story telling key note speaker Yoria Reyes during the event.
The public vote winner, Team T (Mikael Soderstrom, Robert Kudelko, Daniel Prandzioch, Szymon Rusinowski), impressed participants with a digital solution aimed at reducing emissions from helicopters and drones used nowadays for vegetation risk detection for power lines . Their idea to use satellites and AI/ML not only addressed all three ShipIT themes—AI, automation, and sustainability—but also offered a creative response to societal concerns about drone usage. The jury highlighted Team T’s vision for environmental impact and encouraged further collaboration with BA Distribution.
The power of innovation and care
The winning Team A chose to donate their prize money (€1000) to charity in memory of a colleague’s child who sadly passed away during the event. The ShipIT organizers rewarded this gesture by doubling the team’s prize to €2,000, and the Noun Foundation contributed an additional €500 on top, bringing the total donation to €2,500. These funds were split equally between the Epilepsy Fund and the Ronald McDonald House.
ShipIT 2025 demonstrated the power of innovation, teamwork, and active culture of care in our Vattenfall IT community. The event not only produced impactful projects but also reminded us of the profound difference we can make—both through technology and through acts of kindness.
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