Applied Systems’ annual Innovation Hackathon empowers teams to self-organise and rapidly prototype solutions that address customer or internal challenges. In 2024, the “Email Flamingos” team developed a GPT-4 email summarisation tool embedded directly in Epic’s activity screen — a concept that went from pitch to market in just a year. The event fosters a culture of experimentation, skill growth and cross-team collaboration, with winning ideas driving real-world impact.

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