Baden Hackt 2026 – a complete success for Autexis and Baden as a business location!
28 teams, over 100 participants from the hacker community, a fantastic atmosphere, and impressive pitches: The hackathon demonstrated the immense innovative power within our region.
🥇 1st Place: CHF 3,000.–
Hacker Team: Nepomuk C., Samuel G., Simon G., and Marcel V.
Challenge: “Food Flight Tracker” by Autexis
🥈 2nd Place: CHF 2,000.–
Hacker Team: Mattia D., Niclas E., and Simon K.
Challenge: “Food Flight Tracker” by Autexis
🥉 3rd Place: CHF 1,000.–
Hacker Team: Michael P. and Jannis W.
Challenge: “Visual Warehouse Management” by DATA UNIT
The three winning teams received their prizes from the prize sponsors Philippe André Ramseier (3rd place/Autexis), Alexander Finger (2nd place/SAP), and Doris Agotai (1st place/University of Applied Sciences and Arts Northwestern Switzerland FHNW).
We are particularly proud of the first two hacker teams, who secured both 1st and 2nd place with our Autexis challenge “Track my Food – from the field to the retail shelf.” Both teams impressively demonstrated how practical innovation is created today.
What an event. What momentum for Baden.
We are already looking forward to 2027!
Track my Food – from the field to the retail shelf
Track every batch, warn of problems, and allow users to react directly. Design the future of tracking for real food!
Coach: Simon Helbling, Head of Digitalization
Task Description
Food travels long, complex paths – from the field, through processing, storage, and transport, to the retail shelf. Recalls are often communicated too late or not at all. For consumers, the journey of their product is invisible; for retailers, it is fragmented. QR codes usually provide marketing texts, not real transparency.
Develop a Food Flight Tracker that, when scanning a product:
- makes the complete journey of the batch visible
- immediately displays recall status and warnings
- enables direct complaints
The Food Flight Tracker should function like parcel delivery – but for food, including interactions.
Optional:
- Cold chain visualization
- Sustainability information (CO2 footprint)
- Quality checks
- Certificates (organic, fair trade, etc.)
