
Fly on the wall insights to the GROW agri-hackathon
Participants in the agri-hackathon came up with some truly awesome ideas with global impact – taking on the challenge of how to change the world in 48 hours
Participants in the agri-hackathon came up with some truly awesome ideas with global impact – taking on the challenge of how to change the world in 48 hours
Do you want to help save the world? The GROW agri-hackathon is providing unprecedented access to comprehensive datasets for hackers to model and test their solutions to agriculture’s biggest challenges.
WWF has joined Barclays Eagle Labs and BASF as sponsors of the second GROW Agri-hackathon.
In 30-60 years we could lose all the fertile peat topsoil from East Anglia ¬ ‘the food basket of the UK’ – given current land management practices and a changing climate. To encourage new thinking Agri-Tech East is launching an agri-hackathon.
We ran our first Agri-Tech Hackathon early this year in partnership with Allia Serious Impact. It was an intensive weekend that resulted in some very exciting ideas emerging.
The winner of Agri-Tech East’s first hackathon was ‘WeedSpot’, which applies gaming technologies to artificial intelligence weed identification.
To accelerate innovation in the agri-food industry, Agri-Tech East has partnered with Allia Serious Impact to host their first hackathon in Cambridge on 7-8 April 2018.
The hackathon concept brings together technical experts around a key problem facing a business or sector to engage in a super-focused effort to come up with some answers.
So to speed up the ideas generation Agri-Tech East has teamed up with Allia Serious Impact to host a hackathon called >sudo : grow.