- HackHPI 2018 + HackHPI 2019
-Thursday, 18th of January 2018 09:23:48 am
+Thursday, 18th of January 2019 09:23:48 am
Do you have WIFI?
Yes. Here are the credentials:
- SSID: HackHPI-2018
+ SSID: HackHPI
No password required.
What if I don't have a team?
Don't worry! At the end of our opening we will have a "match making" where you can find each other based on the idea you want to work on. We will explain it in detail on Saturday.
-Or you can use the #matchmaking channel in our Slack channel already to pitch your idea and find team mates :)
+Or you can use the #matchmaking channel in our Slack channel already to pitch your idea and find team mates :)
The maximum team size is 4. We encourage teams of 3-4.
Where do I submit my project?
If you want to join the competition and win prizes you have to submit your project on our Devpost page until Sunday 11:59 am:
- https://hackhpi2018.devpost.com/ + https://hackhpi2019.devpost.com/
Keep in mind to mention all team members in your submission!
Where do I get inspiration for a project?
Checkout last year's HackHPI Projects: - https://hackhpi2017.devpost.com/ + https://hackhpi2018.devpost.com/
Or some more projects directly at @@ -148,7 +150,7 @@
What are the prizes?
How can I use Twilio for free?
-Use it for free with code: UPGRADED
+Use it for free with code: HACKHPI19
https://www.twilio.com/ @@ -174,7 +176,7 @@
Schedule
Saturday, 26th of May
+Saturday, 18th of May
| 11:00 - 11:30 | -Workshop: WWF | +Workshop: SAP | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 11:30 - 12:00 | -Workshop: Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research & idealo | +Workshop: IBM | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 12:00 | @@ -207,22 +209,26 @@|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 13:00 - 13:30 | -Workshop: Hack your sustainable lifestyle | +Workshop: Brot für die Welt | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 13:30 - 14:00 | -Workshop: SAP | +Workshop: Capgemini | +|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 14:00 - 14:15 | +Workshop: How to come up with new ideas | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 14:00 - 14:30 | -Workshop: Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research | +14:15 - 14:30 | +Workshop: mTOMADY | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 14:30 - 15:00 | -Workshop: Tableau | +14:30 - 14:45 | +Workshop: Deloitte | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 19:00 | +18:00 | Dinner | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 09:00 | +Reception | +
| 09:30 - 10:30 | +Opening Ceremony | +
| 10:30 - 12:00 | +Team Building | +
| 11:00 - 11:30 | +Workshop: WWF | +
| 11:30 - 12:00 | +Workshop: Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research & idealo | +
| 12:00 | +Lunch | +
| 13:00 | +Start Hacking | +
| 13:00 - 13:30 | +Workshop: Hack your sustainable lifestyle | +
| 13:30 - 14:00 | +Workshop: SAP | +
| 14:00 - 14:30 | +Workshop: Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research | +
| 14:30 - 15:00 | +Workshop: Tableau | +
| 19:00 | +Dinner | +
| 22:00 | +Sleeping area opens | +
Sunday, 27th of May
+| 00:00 | +Midnight Snacks | +
| 08:00 | +Breakfast | +
| 11:59 | +End of Hacking | +
| 12:00 | +Lunch | +
| 13:00 - 15:30 | +Final Presentations | +
| 16:00 - 17:00 | +Awards & Closing ceremony | +
| 17:00 | +The End (jump into Griebnitzsee! 🏊) | +
+ Keep in mind that we may have to adjust some of the times. +
+Challenges
+
SAP
+Join the Slack channel now: #partner-sap
+ +#1 Capturing Your Environmental Footprint
+ +With more than 90.000 employees, SAP’s quest to fulfill the UN Sustainable Development Goals + cannot be completed unless everybody does their part. But how does an employee really know their environmental footprint + (Goals 7, 11, and 13)? How can they share all the good deeds they have and done and continue to do?
+ +Your challenge is to create a solution that enables SAP employees to capture their environmental impact while commuting, + at work, or on business trips. You are free to focus on either implicit (through sensors, usage data, etc.) or explicit + (e.g., logging shared car rides with colleagues, logging elevator rides) data collection. For either case, the manual + effort for employees should be kept to a minimum, but still yield complete and meaningful data.
+ +#2 Offset Your Browsing Emissions
+ +Beyond the immediate cost of energy consumed by your Smartphone, Notebook, TV, etc., there’s a hidden impact on the environment that originates from the servers answering your requests.
+Your task is to allow users to easily offset their emissions caused by visiting popular websites (by purchasing CO2 compensation certificates, donating money to environmental organizations, etc.). As the focus is more on finding innovative and user-friendly ways of offsetting emissions, feel free to use rough estimates for CO2 emissions / energy consumption caused by using popular web sites (e.g., 0,0003kwh per google search, a bit less for viewing a static html page etc.).
+A different aspect of this topic is to replace the emission estimate with concrete numbers based on software components involved in serving user requests. Your task is to provide a server component (e.g., monitoring CPU utilization during process execution) solution to estimating the energy consumption of different IT services involved in serving user requests.
+ + + + +
WWF
+Join the Slack channel now: #partner-wwf
+ +#1 How can we make climate change more tangible?
+ +Option 1:
The climate crisis is no far off phenomena, it has reached our homes. Its consequences, for example extreme weather
+ events like heavy rain and heatwaves, is affecting the nature just outside our front doors. Growth patterns of plants
+ and crops change just like behavioural patterns of animals such as migratory birds. Some plants and animals cannot
+ cope with the changing environment, they disappear altogether.
We want people not only to open their eyes to these changes. We want them to share their observations with others, building + a network of locally engaged citizens who connect over the discussion of climate change in their region. Ideally, we + want them to become active in the fight against climate change.
+ +Option 2:
Not only the consequences of climate change can be seen and felt right here, where we live. One of the main causes for the crisis is a neighbour to many people: coal power plants. Their emissions fuel global warming and threaten our health. We want people to see where coal power plants are located relative to their own location and be able to track the level of emissions from these plants.
If the emissions exceed a certain threshold, the tracking should combine a call for action, e.g. provide a template letter to be sent to the local politician/the company owning the power plant demanding changes in order to protect the people’s health and the health of our planet. An alternative call to action could focus on individual lifestyle choices.
+ +#2 How can we get people to turn the tide on plastic?
+ +The world is addicted to plastic and this addiction is an immense threat to the environment, especially to the oceans and its creatures. As our plastic consumption is set to skyrocket, it’s clear that urgent action is needed. We need to wean ourselves off single use plastic items like coffee cups, plastic cutlery oder take away food packaging that is only used for a couple of minutes before being thrown away.
+ +We also need businesses to take the issue seriously – whether it’s supermarkets having a plastic free aisle and offering items free of packaging whereever possible, companies finding alternatives to non recycable plastic packaging or restaurants, hotels and canteens encouraging people to bring their own food containers for drinks and take away food instead of giving out single use plastic containers. Political action is required as well: We need goals and rules for more recycling and less single use plastic.
+ +We want people to not only make individual lifestyle changes and ditch unnecessary plastic wherever possible, we want them to act as advocates for a broader change. We want them to motivate businesses as well as politicians to take the necessary actions. We need a global movement to turn the tide on plastic.
+ + +
Tableau
+Join the Slack channel now: #partner-tableau
+ +#1 Use and waste of freshwater resources in the EU
+In cooperation with European Environment Agency
+ +Despite freshwater being a renewable resources the amount of renewable water resources declined by 24% between 1960 and 2010. With less freshwater supply the water quality suffers and in some cases the groundwater, if completely depleted, is replaced by salt water. The data provided gives an indication about the biggest fresh water consumers. The goal is to identify these consumers, find relations and create a roadmap for a more sustainable way of using freshwater resources.
+ +#2 Rail temperature change due to climate change?
+In cooperation with DB Netze
+ +Railways are built with an average temperature of 23,5 °C +/-5 °C in mind. If the rail gets too hot or too cold the risk of damaging the rail increases. Therefore DB Netze, a part of the Deutsche Bahn AG, introduced sensors to measure the temperature at the rail and in the air. The data contains these temperatures for the last 2 years for a couple of locations. The goals is to identify circumstances when the rail temperature exceeds certain thresholds, correlate the rail temperature with the UV index or other meteorological KPIs and develop recommendations and predictions about the future rail temperature development.
+ + +
+ Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research
+Join the Slack channel now: #partner-ufz
+ +#1 Human insights in image segmentation
+ +Segmentation of multiple co-located Earth imagery is fundamental to identify ground units potentially exhibiting different + characteristics in dynamic processes in our environment. Technical sensor systems, e.g., satellites, image the ground objectively + with limited resolution and limited measurement accuracy that can be estimated or quantified. Human experts map visible + features at the earth’s surface, e.g., geology, to the best of their skills and provide categorical/classified images of + the area without trustworthiness quantification.
+ +Your challenge is to integrate human and technically sensed images into one segmented image paying attention to the data + trustworthiness.
+ +#2 Causal inference on hydrological droughts
+ +Prolonged period of below-normal precipitation cause deficiencies in water supply, as measured by below-normal streamflow, + lake and reservoir levels, groundwater levels, and depleted soil moisture content. These deficiencies are called droughts. + A drought is complex phenomenon which is difficult to monitor and define. It is a creeping phenomenon that slowly sneaks + up and impacts many sectors of the economy, and operates on many different time scales. Therefore, identification of + factors that control hydrological droughts is essential for mitigation and adaptation measures.
+ +Your challenge is to use data-driven techniques to identify these controlling factors in a modelled data product. Covariates + include all relevant physiographic, land cover, and climatic characteristics. In order to gain insight on the influence + of pre-event conditions, time-lags are included for the dynamic covariates e.g. precipitation, soil moisture, temperature + and snow pack.
+ +
+ 
Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research & idealo
+Join the Slack channel now: #partner-pik-idealo
+ +#1 Machine learning to stabilize the climate and reach sustainable development goals
+ +Machine learning has recently been used to solve challenging problems in complex environments, for example acquiring super-human skill in the game of Go and vintage Atari games. We challenge you to interact with a social-ecological climate game powered by state-of-the-art Earth system science via a Python API. Use machine learning techniques (e.g. reinforcement learning, deep neural networks, evolutionary algorithms) to find strategies to successfully both stabilize the climate and reach sustainable development goals.
+ +#2 Visualization of high-dimensional Earth system model outputs with respect to planetary boundaries
+ +The outputs of state-of the-art Earth system models are high-dimensional and hard to grasp and understand intuitively. We challenge you to create appealing animated visualizations of high-dimensional time trajectories generated by complex Earth system models. You may use dimensionality reduction and related techniques to display the key features of high-dimensional system states and time evolution. Put a particular emphasis on showing how close trajectories are to critical planetary boundaries that should not be crossed (for example those related to global warming) for sustainable development to be feasible.
+ + + +Mentors
+Julia Pelzeter
+ +Student of Environmental Science and Technology at TU Berlin
+ @Julia Pelzeter
Konrad Wiemer
+ +Student of Environmental Sciences at Leuphana Lüneburg
+ @Konrad
Anke Klaever
+ +Student of Environmental Sciences at Leuphana Lüneburg
+ @Anke Kläver
Fabian Lindenberg
+ +Engineering Manager at Babbel
+ @Fabian Lindenberg
Claas Hundertmark
+ +Student in Political Sciences at Leuphana Lüneburg
+ @Claas
Nadja Hatzijordanou
+ +Team Lead at HPI School of Entrepreneurship and Startup Coach
+
APIs
+Environment data:
+ +
+ Open weather map
+
Current weather, forecasts, and historic weather data.
+
+ https://openweathermap.org/api
+
+ World air quality
+
Real-time air quality data.
+
+ http://aqicn.org/api
+
+ CoolClimate
+
Carbon footprint calculater developed at UC Berkeley.
+
+ https://api-central.berkeley.edu/api/11
+
+ Carma API
+
Power companies and plants worldwide and their emissions.
+
+ http://carma.org/api
+
+ Global Forest Watch
+
Data on forests worldwide.
+
+ https://developers.globalforestwatch.org/developer-tools
+
+ +
Communication
+ +
+ Twilio
+
Use it for free with coupon: UPGRADED
+
+ https://www.twilio.com/
+
+
More
+ +
+ The CIA World Factbook
+
Information on history, population, economy, government, infrastructure and military of 267 countries
+
+ https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/
+
+ Data.gov
+
All US government data
+
+ Data.gov
+
+ European Union Open Data Portal
+
Data from the institutions and other bodies associated to the EU.
+
+ https://data.europa.eu/euodp/en/data/
+
Hardware
+-
+
- Beacons (by + kontakt.io) +
- Arduinos +
- Make Makeys +
- Raspberry Pis +
- Calliope Minis +
- 3D acceleration sensor +
- Temperature Sensors +
- Humidity Sensor +
- Gas Sensor +
- Ultrasonic Distance Sensor +
- Grove Motion Sensor +
- Grove LCD Backlight Displays +
- LEDs +
- Servos +
- … and many more +
Deloitte
+ 