Frequently Asked Questions

General

Questions

  • Yes, but it goes beyond the typical hackathon concept which you might be used to. GRAVITY Challenge is a six-month program featuring four phases including Recruit, Innovate, Collaborate and Scale. GRAVITY brings together market demand and innovators to create new and viable offerings, leveraging space data.

  • Once the expression of interest process is finalised, the GRAVITY Challenge runs for about 6 months end-to-end. Successful teams will move through all 4 phases of the program (Recruit, Innovate, Collaborate and Scale). The Scale Phase begins once winning teams are named and is where commercial conversations with the intent to implement solutions / pilots will occur.

  • You do! Innovators retain full ownership of their IP. Upon registering, Innovators will agree to basic Terms & Conditions which state the process around IP ownership. Coaching and mentoring is available to further explore IP ownership and commercialisation. If the teams are comprised of members from multiple companies, sharing separate IPs, team members will have to define IP sharing agreements by themselves.

  • Yes, Deloitte’s GRAVITY Challenge program is a virtual program. All webinars, collaboration and mentoring sessions and documents will be available online via our GRAVITY Challenge Innovator platform. Innovators will need to register and be accepted into the program to access the platform.

    If you are having issues logging in, please email gravity@deloitte.com

  • To participate in GRAVITY Challenge, you need to be part of a team. The minimum number of team members to participate is three people.

  • Congratulations! You’ll be named a Challenge Champion. If you win, your team will continue into the Scale Phase. This is where you will work with your Challenge Provider and Data and Technology Enablers to form a commercial arrangement with the intent to roll out a pilot of your solution.

  • Start-ups, scale-ups, high growth businesses, academics, university students, and overall space enthusiasts! You must have a team of three or more people, with at least one team member residing in a participating country.

  • • Australia

    • United Kingdom

    • United States

    • Japan

    • Canada

    • Germany

    • France

    • Luxembourg

    • Austria

    • Poland

    • Hungary

    • Romania

    • Czech Republic

    • India

  • Of course! In fact, we encourage all of our previous innovators to participate again.

  • Yes, teams can apply for multiple challenges per round. However, we recommend team’s focus on one to maximum two challenges aligned to their areas of expertise. From experience, these teams are the most successful.

  • Definitely. We are looking for you!

  • Employees of Deloitte and GRAVITY supporting organisations such as Sponsors, Challenge Providers, Data & Technology Providers and Program Supporters are ineligible to compete as Innovators. However, there is opportunity for employees to participate in mentor roles.

    Please email gravity@deloitte.com to get involved.

Technical

Questions

  • No. We encourage the use of all types of space technologies and capabilities as appropriate and required for each challenge.

  • Yes, of course. Innovators are welcome to use their own datasets. You can discuss the details around datasets with our Data and Technology experts as the Challenge progresses.

  • Yes. You may use any data you already have access to. Our Data & Technology experts can discuss other sources of data with you as the challenge progresses and your challenge area becomes clearer.