2026 Nuremberg Tech Arena - Digital Power

Digital Power


Frequently Asked Questions

 

Participation

 

You can sign up HERE.

First click on “Create an account” and follow the instructions. Then click the red “Participate now!” button on the platform to finalize your participant account. You can then submit your proposal!

You will receive a confirmation email upon registration. If not, please email [email protected].

When there is an update, you will receive an email from the admin on the Agorize platform and a notification at your provided email address. Please make sure you have clicked ‘Participate’ and check your junk mailbox!

To update your details, log in at LINK and go to your participant profile and/or space to edit or change your details.

After completing the registration process, you will see options to join an existing team or create your own. Additionally, you can go to the Team page on our website to manage your team. To help your friends join your team, share the webpage with them. They can follow the registration instructions provided to find and join your team easily.

Eligibility

To be eligible for this competition, you are:

  • Be 18 years or older
  • Be a student (Bachelor’s, Master’s, or PhD) enrolled in a university program
  • Be enrolled at a higher education institution located in Europe at the time of registration
  • Has recently graduated from a post-secondary institution less than 2 years before the current academic year, with a student card as verification
  • Not to employees and representatives of Huawei and Agorize and the members of their families
 

The best team members for this competition are:

  • Students who are currently in undergraduate, Master's, or PhD programs.
  • Students who are enrolled at a higher education institution in Europe.
  • Students studying engineering, mathematics, computer science, physics or similar fields or fresh graduates (up to 3 years).

Important Points:

  • All participants must join the Challenge as part of a team. Each team must have 1 to 3 members.
  • It’s a good idea to have at least one PhD student/ master's student on your team.
  • Each participant can only be a member of one team.

All deliverables must be in Python.

Registration Phase

During the Registration Phase, each team must complete the registration process. 

The deadline for registration is Aug 16, 2026, at 23:59 (GMT+02).

Submission

Yes, you can modify your submission during submission phase before the final deadlines.

Participants will have more information about the challenge to tackle during submission phase.

Participants may upload project materials (texts, presentations, videos, etc.) to the Challenge website as their Deliverable. Deliverables must:

Address the issue described in the Brief

Be submitted in a standard digital format (DOC, DOCX, PDF, PPT, PPTX, KEY, ODT, MP3, MPEG, MOV, MP4)

Be written in English

Comply with all Challenge Rules

Deliverables that are unreadable, incompatible, or cannot be downloaded will be disqualified.

Content & Rights

By submitting a Deliverable, Participants confirm that:

All content is their own work, or they have obtained all necessary rights and permissions for any third‑party material

No other person or entity can claim rights over the Deliverable

The Deliverable does not infringe any third‑party rights (IP, privacy, confidentiality, competition law, etc.)

Any Deliverable suspected of violating laws or third‑party rights will be deemed ineligible.

Participants are responsible for all costs related to preparing and submitting their Deliverables and assume all risk for lost, late, or incorrect submissions.

Submission Deadlines

  • Round One: August 24, 2026 (midnight CET)
  • Round Two: November 8, 2026 (midnight CET)

Required Materials

Each Participant or Team must submit:

  1. Technical Report (3–8 pages) Includes data acquisition and preprocessing, feature engineering, model design and training, class‑imbalance handling, experimental results with ablation analysis, and full documentation of all data sources and licenses.

  2. Prediction Results File A CSV file containing predictions for the designated test window, following the required format.

  3. Complete Codebase + Reproducibility Guide Executable code covering the full pipeline (data acquisition → preprocessing → feature construction → training → prediction), plus a detailed manual enabling reviewers to reproduce results from scratch, including environment setup, scripts, execution order, and runtime expectations.

On-site Ceremony

The winning teams will be invited to Nuremberg to join the on-site Ceremony event. For all participants travel and accommodation costs will be fully covered by Huawei (for one night only).

This will take place on a working day on 20th November 2026 in Nuremberg, Germany. 

Selected teams will pitch their innovative solutions to a panel of Huawei experts for a chance to win cash prizes, internship opportunities or other job opportunities etc.!

The top winners/winning teams of the Final will compete for the following cash prizes:

  • A cash reward of EUR 6,000 to each of the two first-prize winners
  • A cash reward of EUR 4,000 to each of the two second-prize winners
  • A cash reward of EUR 2,000 to each of the two third-prize winners

Yes, during the final phase there will be opportunities to join Huawei — these includes internships, PhD positions, and master’s thesis. 

All participants who make it to the on-site ceremony event will receive a certificate indicating that they took part in the Tech Arena 2026.

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