Overview

By all indications, the future sees population increasing and densifying within urban areas, and growth halting elsewhere. Whether we face a future where technologies increasingly reduce cities’ dependence on the hinterlands for food, water and energy, or whether we face a future where the ecological stress on the hinterlands continues to grow, we are faced with hard choices about the places and resources that we want to preserve as a global society.

Registration Closed

Challenge Start Date

November 12, 2016

Registration Deadline

Closed

Submission Deadline

November 13, 2016

Demo Day

November 13, 2016

Winners & Highlight Video

Winners

GRAND PRIZE WINNER!

Team VIV

$10,000

Sajal Arora & Asheik Hussain

Our planet is drastically changing but we do not notice these changes since they occur in small increments. VIV is a data visualization tool which displays the changes in key variables that affect our climate, with a time series viewing mode allowing users to see how these variables change and make comparisons between data sets to view trends. With this data we can make decisions on energy conservation initiatives to reduce our carbon footprint and see the impact that is made.

Grand Prize

$3,000

+ Round Trip Air & Hotel for 3 days/2 nights to DC to meet NGA Executives and Senior Tech Leaders and present their winning solution a the Symposium on November 17 & 18, 2017.

1st Runner Up

$1,000

Best Use of Mapbox

$500

Best Use of Carto

$1,500

The CHALLENGE

By all indications, the future sees population increasing and densifying within urban areas, and growth halting elsewhere. Whether we face a future where technologies increasingly reduce cities’ dependence on the hinterlands for food, water and energy, or whether we face a future where the ecological stress on the hinterlands continues to grow, we are faced with hard choices about the places and resources that we want to preserve as a global society.

At the same time, climate change will impact species distribution, abundance, and ecological interactions across the globe.

Here are some ideas for the challenge:

Map the future geography of conservation, restoration, and sustainability. Each dimension of our world’s environment face unique challenges regarding their conservation, preservation and sustainability;
Show us where we are and what the future looks like geospatially (on a map), under conditions you determine. Tell us the story you envision for your dimension.

SCHEDULE

November 12, 2016
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 – Venue Closes and Reopens at 9 a.m.

November 13, 2016
Sunday

9:00 AM – Venue Reopens

9:00 AM – Breakfast

12:00 PM – Lunch

2:00 PM – Code Freeze/Hacking Ends!

3:00 PM – Live Demos Begin!

4:30 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.

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.

All participants must agree to the terms and conditions.

Environmental Conservation

New York, NY