MinGO

Inspiration

MinGO aims to enhance the attendee experience at large events, particularly in the tech and cybersecurity industries, by leveraging AI-powered tools and gamification elements. The goal is to provide a more engaging, informative, and personalized experience, while also making it easier for attendees to navigate chaotic spaces and retain connections they make.

What it does

The web application provides a user-friendly interface to help event attendees explore indoor or outdoor venues, manage and maintain personal interactions, and track points earned through engagement and networking activities.

How we built it

MinGO is built using a React and TailwindCSS frontend. We used Cohere's API: Generate to help summarize conversations and provide contextually relevant insights as well as Voiceflow agents for our chatbot!

Challenges we ran into

It was definitely difficult to manage our time and decide which features we should prioritize. We all worked with unfamiliar technologies through this project.

Accomplishments that we're proud of

We are happy to present a finished product that we would make use of. We find projects more meaningful and enjoyable when we know they can encourage better experiences, which is what we hope MinGO can achieve.

What we learned

We learned the process of developing a product from brainstorming to deployment.

What's next for MinGO

We had a lot of fun enhancements and big ideas for MinGO, that we definitely want to explore someday. We love the idea of allowing participants to connect and get to know each other with a simple tap of a badge. We also wanted to enhance the gamification aspects of the application with the following:

Challenges and Missions: Create challenges where users must interact with a certain number of people or visit specific locations on the map to unlock rewards.
- Virtual Items and Achievements: Users could unlock virtual items (like avatars or exclusive content) by participating in events or successfully making new connections.
- Enhancing our Point System: Using the RBC point system to allow participants and event hosts to benefit.