over 3 years ago

And the winner is...

The judges have weighed in, and we're excited to share the news! Go to the COVIDathon- The DAIA Covid-19 Hackathon gallery to congratulate the winners and check out all of the awesome submissions.

Even though the competition is over, you don't have to stop coding. Update your portfolio to inform your followers about new projects and get feedback from fellow hackers.

Questions?

If you have any questions about the hackathon, please post on the discussion forum.

over 3 years ago

COVIDathon Deadline Extended!

Dear hackers,

We are extremely excited about all the great projects that have already been submitted. In the last couple of days, we have seen a large number of people joining the hackathon and wanting to build solutions for the COVID-19 pandemic. 

We are therefore extending the deadline for the COVIDathon to the 7th of June 2020 at 3 PM CEST! You will have until that time to register and submit your entry, or to make any edits to your current entry to further improve it. 

Additionally, in case you missed it, there is an extra prize of 10.000…

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over 3 years ago

Bonus Community Prize of 10000 CAD (+- 7250 USD) Sponsored by CryptoChicks

Dear Hackers,

We hope you are all doing great! We have seen so many great contributions already, so keep them coming. 

Today we would like to announce that there will be an additional bonus community prize of 10000 CAD (approximately 7250 USD) for COVIDathon participants available via the SOSHackathon organized by CryptoChicks. 

In order to enroll for this prize, please do the following:

1. First submit your project via covidathon.devpost.com.

2. Please register via https://bit.ly/GlobalSOSRegistration to be in the running for this additional prize before the 16th of June. 

3. From the 16th of June to the 30th of June,…

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over 3 years ago

Final call for submissions

There are only 3 days left to complete your submission for COVIDathon- The DAIA Covid-19 Hackathon.

over 3 years ago

Final call for Pressure Cooker Pitches

Dear hackers,

Thank you very much for submitting your pressure cooker pitches! If you haven't done so yet, please do it today to make sure you will be part of the pool to be selected for early feedback. In order to take part, you have to complete the submission form and click the "complete submission" button. You will be able to edit your submission later again to fully complete it for the next deadlines. 

Two quick notes:

1. Previously the form said the video was required. This has been edited, it is not required to hand in a video for…

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over 3 years ago

Bonus: COVIDathon Pressure Cooker

Bonus: Pitch to the Pressure Cooker!
Dear hackers,   We are hoping that you are all in good health and making progress on developing tools for the current pandemic. We have seen many wonderful submissions already, keep them coming!    The online nature of the CoVIDathon means it can be difficult to gauge if your project is on par with what is needed and sometimes difficult to get the kind of feedback one would expect at a physical event. That’s why we are launching a bonus ‘Pressure Cooker Pitch’ round where projects can get some quick feedback from the mentors
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over 3 years ago

How to build privacy preserving CoVID19 Apps - Recommended readings from our tech collaborators <<OpenMined>>

Hi everyone!

We would like to share a few valuable blog posts from our techology collaborators OpenMined. They're the leading open source community focused on privacy preserving AI/ML.

 

 

 

 

The ultimate goal of COVIDathon is having a positive impact on the CoVID19 pandemic and the resulting hardships. We believe collaboration is key to solving many of our probelms. Because of this, we encourage teams to not reinvent the wheel!…

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over 3 years ago

Join us for a series of privacy-preserving AI webinars and team building events - powered by Crowdcast.io

Hello CoVIDathon warriors! Exciting news ...

We have 3 days of technical webinars planned for you to kick off the hackathon! Thu - Fri - Sat at 8:30 PM CET

Webinars are going to cover various aspects of privacy preserving AI/ML

 

On Sat we will have a keynote by Andrew Trask, founder of OpenMined

 

Register for all three https://www.crowdcast.io/e/covidathon/

Or each:

https://www.crowdcast.io/e/covidathon/1

https://www.crowdcast.io/e/covidathon/2

https://www.crowdcast.io/e/covidathon/3

One more thing: after each webinar we will run an open mic team building session where anyone who has ideas can come to the screen and pitch. Immediately after that they will get a…

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