Overview

Human trafficking is a global enterprise that is second only to drug trafficking as the most profitable criminal business. It takes many forms, including labor trafficking and sex trafficking. Create a solution to help combat human trafficking or assist its victims, using artificial intelligence/machine learning, augmented reality, or anything else!

Registration Closed

Challenge Start Date

April 14, 2018

Registration Deadline

Closed

Submission Deadline

April 15, 2018

Demo Day

April 15, 2018

The CHALLENGE

Blue Compass is honored to be partnering with George Mason University’s Schar School of Policy and Government -Terrorism, Transnational Crime and Corruption Center (TraCCC) on a Human Trafficking focused hackathon as a part of #ExpeditionHacks event series. Human trafficking is a global enterprise that is second only to drug trafficking as the most profitable criminal business. It takes many forms, including labor trafficking and sex trafficking.
Create a solution to help combat child trafficking or assist its victims, using artificial intelligence/machine learning, augmented reality, or anything else!

Questions to consider might include:

What indicators help predict behaviors of human trafficking suppliers?
How can data collected at the local level help analysts at the federal level to correlate data to find traffickers and victims? How can automation or machine learning assist?
Create a predictive model of trafficking to forecast staffing needed for victim services and law enforcement.
Create an app that could help truckers to identify signs of human trafficking and alert law enforcement.
What can we learn from natural disasters that could prevent the emergence of human trafficking?
Create a platform for reporting human trafficking case data that provides a standard format and fields for law enforcement agencies, with the ability to share datasets with other agencies and jurisdictions. The platform should include the capability for future geospatial or GEOINT analysis.
Any other idea you might have to contribute to the eradication of this terrible crime and the suffering of its victims.

SCHEDULE

April 14, 2018
Saturday

**Schedule is subject to change and will not be final **

9:00 AM – Doors Open, Breakfast Served

10:00 AM – Opening Ceremony

10:30 AM – Keynote Presentation

10:50 AM – Human Trafficking Panel Discussion

11:30 AM – Hacking Begins

12:00 PM – Lunch

12:30 PM – Technology Breakout Sessions

12:30 – Elasticsearch

1:00 – IBM

1:30 – HERE

2:00 – Intro Data Science or Advanced Data Science

6:00 PM – Dinner Served

8:00 PM – Pitch Workshop

11:30 PM – Midnight Snack

–– Hack Thru the Night ––

April 15, 2018
Sunday

7:30 AM – Breakfast

12:00 PM – Lunch

3:00 PM – Code Freeze/Hacking Ends!

4:00 PM – Live Demos Begin!

5:00 PM – Judge Deliberations

5:30 PM – Winners Announced

Sunday Afternoon Presentations

Each participant and/or participant team will present their product or solution to the group on Sunday afternoon.
Presentations will be 3 minutes long with 2 minutes of questions from judges. Representatives from sponsors will be the primary audience for the presentations.
No formal presentation is required. Demos of your product or solution will follow this general outline: introduce yourself/teammate, introduce your concept, identify what tools you used, explain (loosely) how you derived your solution and what problem you are solving.
Presentations require direct connect from your laptop to the projection system. USB sticks are permitted for presentation purposes.

Rules

A max of 5 people per team will be enforced.
All participants must be in the building for kick-off and demos.
All code must be fresh.
Participants must provide their own laptops, and mobile/tablet devices for use during the event.
Seats are limited to 100 workstations.
Come on your own or create a team. We also want to encourage collaboration among attendees so if you find a team or person with a valuable asset to support your idea/concept, feel free to team up when you arrive.
External hard drives are permitted for the hacking event itself. If you want a power strip bring it!
As much as we appreciate people’s interest, no one will be allowed inside the event other than participants, sponsor representatives, subject matter experts and invited media. No spectators please!

Tools, Data, & IP Rights

Participants are permitted to use any commercially known open source tools. Participants are also encouraged to use their own proprietary solutions to develop creative and efficient products. If you are representing a company, your company’s proprietary software assets are also allowed to be used with the appropriate permission from your organization. Please reference the Terms and Conditions to confirm that all IP rights remain with the participant and/or the organization they are representing.

All participants must agree to the Terms and Conditions listed.

Combat Human
Trafficking Challenge

Winners & HighLight Video

Winners

Team Safe Travels

Team Using AI to Stop Human Trafficking

The CHALLENGE

SCHEDULE

Rules

JUDGING CRITERIA

Judges

Sponsors

Gold Sponsors

Sponsors

Advocates

Tools, Data, & IP Rights

POINT OF CONTACT

Combat Human Trafficking Challenge

Winners & HighLight Video

Winners

Team Safe Travels

Team Using AI to Stop Human Trafficking

The CHALLENGE

SCHEDULE

Rules

JUDGING CRITERIA

Judges

Sponsors

Gold Sponsors

Sponsors

Advocates

Tools, Data, & IP Rights

POINT OF CONTACT

Combat Human
Trafficking Challenge