During the first edition of the Drone Defense Hackathon, a competition born out of collaboration between the French Ministry of Defense and private sector players, held at the Grand Palais as part of the Adopt AI Summit, several teams from De Vinci Higher Education took part in the technological challenges proposed. DaVinciHive, LéoFly, DaVinciBot, and […]
Students from 20 French institutions took part in the GCPU Agentic AI Hackathon, an initiative dedicated to the practical uses of autonomous agents. The ESILV team, with its Pixia project, was among the 11 finalists who presented their solutions at Google’s premises. This edition, organised by Delphin B., Executive Leader in Cloud Partner Strategy & […]
During the 41st edition of the BDA Conference, held at IRIT Toulouse in October 2025, Wissal Benjira, PhD student and ESILV alumni, received the Best Demo Award for her research work on computing Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) indicators using open data. This recognition highlights the contribution of young researchers trained at ESILV to the international […]
Kryptosphere® DeVinci and the Cypher Lab team distinguished themselves with their flagship project, Cypher Zer0x, at the ETHDenver hackathon. During their participation, they attracted the attention of sponsors and industry experts. ETHDenver is an annual conference and hackathon on the Ethereum ecosystem and blockchain technologies. It is one of the most significant global events of […]
The inaugural edition of the SNCF Datathon, often called the data hackathon, unfolded at the SNCF Réseau premises in the Île-de-France region. The grand prize in this competition, which featured six use cases and 12 teams, was claimed by students from ESILV. Students from the Data and Artificial Intelligence major took part in this educational […]
At Europe’s biggest hackathon, a team of student developers – Maxime Dienger, Thomas Hussenet, Nathan Hervier and Adam Dahmoul – succeeded in creating an online tool in less than 48 hours. This tool allows users to transfer their funds from centralised exchange platforms to their cryptocurrency wallet without revealing their identity. This project, called Cypher […]
PineapplePay, a startup building a mobile payment solution for physical stores won the “Student Entrepreneur” Award in the Made in 92 semifinals. The ESILV entrepreneurs advanced to the finals of the county-level contest, organized by the Hauts-de-Seine department. Alexandre Chen, class of 2021, majoring in Energy and Sustainable Cities, Vincent Terrasse, class of 2022, and […]
DaVinciCode, the cybersecurity student club of the De Vinci Higher Education, organized a weekend-long CTF competition, which was open to all hacking enthusiasts, students or not. This year, the competition gathered almost 2,000 participants and 1,200 teams from all over the world around thirty security challenges conceived during engineering projects at ESILV. The digital security […]
Designing a fully digital campus EdTech platform where students can interact and socialise as if they were on an actual campus. This team idea won the Task 21 Hackathon, held as part of an Erasmus + partnership. 2 engineering students from ESILV were among the Task21 challenge winners. TASK 21 is a collaborative research project […]
Making data speak is focus of OnePoint Hackathon to enact buildings resilience in the face of climate change. Two ESILV teams were among the winners. One team won the challenge. The new 30,000m² campus located in the heart of the innovative Bordeaux Euratlantique district marks the desire of the OnePoint group – one the ESILV’s […]
The “CTF” (Capture the Flag) cybersecurity competition organized by DigiTeam Devinci, the Pole Leonard de Vinci’s IT association, pitted 661 international teams against each other for 48 hours, bringing together 1,000 participants. The DaVinciCTF is the cybersecurity competition proposed by the DigiTeam student organization as part of the 4th-year industrial innovation projects of the engineering […]
Une doudoune pnéumatique confectionnée au De Vinci Innovation Center a reçu le prix Coup de Coeur du jury du concours E-Fashion awards 2020. Cette doudoune a été réalisée par deux étudiants de l’ESILV dans le cadre du programme innovation, Reaserch and Manufacturing.