Pittsburgh-area college students keen on mastering decision-making techniques and harnessing the power of generative AI to tackle complex challenges are invited to the T.L. Saaty Decision Making for Leaders Hackathon. This third annual competition on March 22- 24, 2023 is hosted by Pitt’s Joseph M. Katz Graduate School of Business in collaboration with the Creative Decisions Foundation. Register online by March 20. 

Undergraduate and graduate students from any university in the Pittsburgh area are eligible to participate. The winning team will receive a $2,000 award, second place gets $700 and third place will receive $300. All participants will earn an Analytic Hierarchy Decision Making Using Python entry-level certification.  If students do not have a team, they can register independently, and teams will be created by event organizers.

In its third year, the competition honors the legacy of the late Thomas L. Saaty, a Distinguished University Professor at Pitt known worldwide as the creator of the decision-making methods the Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) and Analytic Network Process (ANP) to solve complex problems.