This is IT SPY! (IT Student Project of the Year)
An elite IT competition, evaluating diploma projects of university students.
diploma theses
participating universities
finalists
winner
PRIZES
Professional recognition and €2,000 for project development.
The main reason to enter the IT SPY competition is to win the prestigious title of finalist. All finalists will receive small gifts from Profinit, a certificate of participation in the final round of the competition, and a presentation of their work in the Gallery of the best on the competition website.
Thanks to IT SPY, successful students often find themselves on the radar of world-renowned technology and IT companies. In previous years, many exceptional works were entered in the competition, the architects of which today hold important professional positions in the corporate sphere as well as in academia, where they devote themselves to scientific work or are establishing or running their own startups.
PRIZE FOR THE COMPETITION WINNER AND FINALISTS
IT SPY 2024 Grand Prize
The IT SPY 2024 Grand Prize winner will receive an award of € 2,000 from Profinit, which they can use, for example, for further development of their diploma project. The supervisor of the winning work receives € 200, as a thank you for the good preparation of their student.
Magenta Award for Excellence in IT
The main partner of IT SPY, T-mobile, decided to award this prize for excellent work in the field of IT based on its own criteria. The winner receives MacBook Air 13.
Raiffeisenbank AI Prize
The main partner of the IT SPY competition, the company Raiffeisenbank, decided to award this prize to work with a unique basic idea, taking into account its applicability in the financial sector and its social contribution. The winner will receive the latest iPhone model.
The GOPAS prize for the top three finalists
The top three finalists will receive a CZK 1,000 voucher for the training of their choice, from GOPAS.
Public’s Choice Award
The Public’s Choice prize is awarded to one of the competition finalists based on a public vote on the competition website. The winner will receive Apple AirPods.
SUBMISSION
Only a thesis that has been successfully defended in the current academic year can be entered into the competition (no later than 13 September 2024).
The faculty will nominate up to 10 best theses that meet the required requirements, and the number of nominated theses must not exceed 10% of all second degree graduates in computer science and information technology.
Dates 2024
Panel members
doc. Ing. Martin Tomášek, PhD.
Chair of the Panel
Technical University of Košice, Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Informatics
prof. Ing. Mária Bieliková, PhD.
Kempelen Institute of Intelligent Technologies, Slovakia ACM Chapter
prof. Ing. Jan Holub, Ph.D.
Czech Technical University in Prague, Faculty of Information technology, Faculty of Information Technology
Ing. Dušan Chlapek, Ph.D.
Prague University of Economics and Business, Faculty of Informatics and Statistics, Fakulta informatiky a statistiky
doc. Ing. Pavel Herout, Ph.D.
University of West Bohemia in Pilsen, Faculty of Applied Sciences
doc. RNDr. Jozef Jirásek, PhD.
Pavol Jozef Šafárik University in Košice, Faculty of Science
doc. RNDr. Radek Ošlejšek, Ph.D.
Masaryk University in Brno, Faculty of Informatics
Ing. Radek Kočí, PhD.
Brno University of Technology, Faculty of Information Technology
doc. Ing. Michal Koháni, PhD.
University of Žilina, Faculty of Management Science and Informatics
Ing. Božena Mannová, PhD.
Czech Technical University in Prague, Czech Chapter of the Association for Computing Machinery, Faculty of Electrical Engineering
prof. RNDr. Jaroslav Pokorný , CSc.
Charles University, Faculty of Mathematics and Physics
doc. Dr. Tomáš Plachetka
Comenius University in Bratislava, Faculty of Mathematics, Physics and Informatics
doc. Ing. Karel Richta, PhD.
Czech Technical University in Prague, Faculty of Electrical Engineering
Ing. Vladimír Matouš
Raiffeisenbank a.s.
doc. RNDr. Petr Šaloun, Ph.D.
VSB – Technical University of Ostrava, Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
doc. Ing. Jiří Vokřínek, Ph.D.
Czech Technical University in Prague, Faculty of Electrical Engineering
Mgr. Martin Mareš
Profinit EU, s.r.o.
Mgr. Martin Závrbský
Profinit EU, s.r.o.
Ing. Bohumír Zoubek, PhD.
RNDr. Ondřej Zýka
Profinit EU, s.r.o.
Evaluation of theses
Several dozens of panel members from Czech and Slovak universities and the leading Czech IT company Profinit participate in evaluation of theses.
Evaluation is in particular focused on the following:
The research aspect
Whether the thesis offers new methods, models and algorithms or whether it improves existing ones
The aspect of evaluation of the solution
Verifies the created solution (usually an experimental one) – a superb thesis should include proof of the proposed solution
The implementation aspect
It implements the existing methods, models and algorithms or improves their implementation
The research aspect
The student is aware of the existing solution for the given issued – a necessary condition for a superb thesis
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