Overview

How can we use geospatial information to better understand, model, visualize, and monitor the nexus between food security and regional stability in Morocco? These efforts are important in predicting and understanding humanitarian/military crises.

Registration Closed

Challenge Start Date

March 25, 2017

Registration Deadline

Closed

Submission Deadline

March 26, 2017

Demo Day

March 26, 2017

The CHALLENGE

How can we use geospatial information to better understand, model, visualize, and monitor the nexus between food security and regional stability in Morocco? These efforts are important in predicting and understanding humanitarian/military crises.

Here are some ideas for the challenge:

Validate prediction models for crops, such as Wheat, Rice, and Barley.
Based on imagery and available data, where should aid workers setup storage for food based on transportation capabilities and other constraints?
Build a forecasting model to:
Predict and improve crop yield
Predict when to harvest
Predict ability to harvest crop
Predict ability to store and process crop
Predict ability to distribute crop/processed product
Predict impact on crops from a 2-degree temperature change

SCHEDULE

March 25, 2017
Saturday

9:00 AM – Doors Open, Breakfast Served

10:00 AM – Opening Ceremony

10:30 AM – Hacking Begins

12:00 PM – Lunch

1:30 PM – Technology Breakout Sessions

6:00 PM – Dinner Served

8:00 PM – Pitch Workshop

11:30 AM – Midnight Snack

12:00 AM – 8:00 AM Hack Through The Night!

March 26, 2017
Sunday

8:00 AM – Breakfast

12:00 PM – Lunch

2:00 PM – Code Freeze/Hacking Ends!

3:00 PM – Live Demos Begin!

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.

Upon completion, we will have a casual social to cap the event and allow people to socialize about their ideas.

National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency will have subject matter experts on hand for the entirety of the event to answer content related questions and to give context to the datasets as needed. Sponsors will be marketing this event heavily. Don’t be surprised if a news crew shows up along the way.

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 allowed to use the open source tools provided by NGA’s GitHub site in addition to other 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 within your organization. Please reference the Terms and Conditions data to confirm that all IP rights remain with the participant and/or the organization they are representing.
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All participants must agree to the Terms and Conditions listed.

Food Security

Los Angeles, CA

How can we use geospatial information to better understand, model, visualize, and monitor the nexus between food security and regional stability in Morocco? These efforts are important in predicting and understanding humanitarian/military crises.

Winners & Highlight Video

Winners

Team Optimizing Fishery Distribution to Drought Regions

Team Happy Farmer

The CHALLENGE

SCHEDULE

Rules

JUDGING CRITERIA

Judges

Sponsors

Gold Sponsors

Sponsors

Tools, Data, & IP Rights

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