evidoria

← Back to browse

Good practice Imported

Industry-Led AI Hackathon at the University of the South Pacific — Honeywell, TCS and Pacific Technologies Scout Fijian AI Talent

Fiji · Suva · See the Fiji profile · See the Suva profile

Evidence: Descriptive / self-reported Top 89% 27/100 · Ask Evidence Copilot about this practice

Honeywell, TCS and Pacific Technologies ran a four-day AI hackathon at USP's Suva campus in Dec 2025, pairing Fijian students and graduates with industry engineers to design and pitch AI solutions — no participant numbers or outcome metrics disclosed.

Industry-Led AI Hackathon at the University of the South Pacific — Honeywell, TCS and Pacific Technologies Scout Fijian AI Talent

Details

Promoter
University of the South Pacific, with Honeywell Aerospace, Tata Consultancy Services and Pacific Technologies
Period
16–19 December 2025 (single four-day event)
Keywords
AI upskilling, industry-academia partnership, hackathon, talent development

Context

From 16 to 19 December 2025, the University of the South Pacific's Laucala Campus in Suva hosted a four-day, industry-led AI hackathon organised with Honeywell Aerospace, Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) and Pacific Technologies, with support from Data Consultancy Services (DCS), open to high-school students, university students, recent graduates and IT professionals.

Activities

Participants worked in teams through structured sessions on teamwork methodology, AI solution design, testing and deployment, before pitching finished solutions to industry judges; Honeywell framed the event around real aerospace use cases such as predictive maintenance and flight-safety AI, describing it as a way to explore Fiji's AI talent pool for future partnerships.

Conclusions

The event sits within Fiji's 2024 national AI Hub and its National Digital Strategy 2025-2030. Press coverage confirms the dates, named partners and named participants, but none report a total participant count, a competition winner, or any pre/post skills measurement -- so the evidence here is descriptive rather than outcome-based.

Implementation
Indicative cost
Low (< €50k)
Time to results
Short (< 1 year)
Staffing & skills
University of the South Pacific (host), Honeywell Aerospace, Tata Consultancy Services and Pacific Technologies (industry partners and judges), Data Consultancy Services (support)

Conditions for success

  • Industry-set real-world use cases (e.g. predictive maintenance, flight-safety AI)
  • Alignment with Fiji's national AI Hub and Digital Strategy 2025-2030
  • Open eligibility across high-school, university, graduate and professional levels

Commonly funded by

Own resources / municipal budget

Indicative funding routes for practices of this type — always check each programme's current calls and eligibility rules.

Do you run this practice? Claim it — verified implementers get a public contact pathway and can propose corrections.

Data sources

Where this practice's information was retrieved from, and when.

Attachments

Similar practices you may find useful