List of hackathons in Sheung Wan, Hong Kong in 2018

LET'S BUILD THINGS HAVE FUN AND IN 24 HOURS Attention all developers, designers and all other tech creators in Shenzhen. The TechCrunch China Hackathon is returning to Shenzhen on Nov 17-18 at the Bay Eco-Technology Park 深圳湾科技生态园 and we want you the talented to put your ingenuity to the test and build something awesome in just 24 hours! Plus every hacker who successfully submit their project receives a two-day TechCrunch Shenzhen 2018 pass (valued 1299 RMB), a certificate of honor and a souvenir t-shirt. Address: 3/F Building 7B Shenzhen Bay Eco-Technology Park Any questions? Please write to event@technode.com. THE CHALLENGES 1 - NO LIMIT We have prepared 15 special prizes, for the winning team, as well as most innovative team, the most valuable team, and the team that completes their product most. You can build whatever you come up with within 24 hours. 2 - Sponsored by Ontology Ontology is a high-performance public blockchains and a distributed trust collaboration platform. Ontology multi chain framework provides customized public blockchain systems for various of industries/scenarios/companies in their own chains. These independent chains are also able to collaborate with each other among chain network with Ontology modules &protocol groups (cross-chain/identity/date exchange/reputation/sign). Anyone takes Ontology Challenges as follows Try to build an application for real-world scenarios using modules provided byOntology – digital identity and/or data exchange (DDXF). Try to enhance Ontology modules (OWallet, DID, OEPs, ) by adding new features/functions/GUIs or create new ones for whatever cases that you assume to be valuable. Try to enhance Ontology blockchain explorer with rich functions designed for dAppsoverview and detailed view, also with highly customizable interface which is adaptable for real world business (both public and private chains). Will have a chance to win the special Ontology prizes First Prize: 10,000 USD in ONT Second Prize: 5,000 USD in ONT Third Prize: 3,000 USD in ONT The Best Creative Prize: 1,000 USD in ONT The Best User Experience Prize: 1,000 USD in ONT For technical manuals please check https://ont.io/ 3. Arcblock Build decentralized applications by using ArcBlock OCAP platform. Being a next-generation blockchain technology, ArcBlock invented Open Chain Access Protocol, which allows users to use the similar interface to access data from different chains, so that they can “learn once, build everywhere”. Right now ArcBlock OCAP platform has in-depth support for Bitcoin and Ethereum, with a wide variety SDK in different platforms (javascript, android, iOS, nodejs, python, etc), to enable developers to access data from the Blockchain easily. The API provided by OCAP can be accessed through https://ocap.arcblock.io  The detailed API doc and various SDKs could be accessed from: https://support.arcblock.io/hc/en-us/articles/360014254452-Getting-Started-with-ArcBlock-s-Development-Platform 4. TomatoWallet Building payment tools based on the application platform framework of the TomatoWallet, On the architecture of the cloud wallet, the TomatoWallet for the first time realize the bitcoin red envelope function without the need for block confirmation with zero second. The TomatoWallet 3.0 App introduces the concept of a dual-core wallet, with a centralized cloud wallet and a decentralized HD wallet, which can solve the small transfer fee problem and realized the speed transfer function. For technical manuals please check https://fanqieqianbao.com/ (The site is in Mandarin) 5. Dapp.com & CryptoKitties & Animoca Develop an Ethereum based decentralized application (dapp) utilizing the CryptoKitties API CryptoKitties is one of the world’s first blockchain games. ‘Blockchain’ is the technology that makes things like Bitcoin possible. While CryptoKitties isn’t a digital currency, it does offer the same security: each CryptoKitty is one-of-a-kind and 100% owned by you. It cannot be replicated, taken away, or destroyed. You can get the API at https://docs.api.cryptokitties.co/ AGENDA Saturday 17 Nov 9:00 am - Registration Opens10:00 am - Official launch + Sponsors pitches11:00 am - Matchmaking session11:30 am - Coding starts/Lunch6:00 pm - Dinner8:00 pm - Late Night Snack Sunday 18 Nov 8:00 am - Breakfast11:30 am - End of code/Lunch1:00 pm - 3:00 pm - Final demos3:00 pm - 4:00 pm Jury deliberation / Winners announcement

Within 24 hours, you will work on your prototype around one of the United Nation’s Sustainable Development Goals to contribute to social good. We are looking forward for enthusiastic developers, designers, creative people with ideas! Individual participation or team up with max. 5 people, meet up with industry experts, pitch your ideas as well as enjoy free snacks, caffeine, refreshment, meals and recreation facilities. Winner RMB17,000 1st Runner-up RMB12,000 2nd Runner-up RMB8,000

**The application for this hackathon is now CLOSED. Thank you for showing interest in AIA Presents: LifeHack18!** This is a FREE event. Your deposit will be fully refunded to you when you sign in for the event.** Help People Live Healthier, Longer, Better Lives At AIA, we are making a promise. A promise to help our colleagues, customers and their communities to live healthier, longer, better lives. To do this, we need to use digital innovation to get in front of their needs and help them every step of the journey. The AIA Hackathon event “LifeHack18” on 16-18 November 2018, invites industry experts, technologists, design thinkers and innovation enthusiasts from all different fields to come together and co-create solutions that will help us to help millions more people. Participants will work in teams from Friday evening (November 16) and have 48 hours to devise, build and launch their prototypes. The event will then conclude with a pitch on stage to industry experts during the final event on Sunday (November 18). To ensure the business ideas are practical and innovative, real customers and employees will be brought in for participants to understand the concerns and pain points that they have. Theme How do we help people to live healthier, longer, better lives using design thinking, data and software? More details on the challenges will be revealed closer to the event day, so make sure to keep checking this page for updates! To get a better feel for what type of solutions we hope to see from this hackathon, read up on one of our cornerstone science-backed wellness programmes, AIA Vitality. More specifically, these are the business questions that you should ask yourself when building your prototype: Customer Engagement: How can we encourage people to engage with insurance while they’re still young and healthy, instead of only thinking of insurance when they get sick? Get Healthier: In addition to AIA Vitality, how can we guide our customers to reduce health risks with healthy habits? Higher Quality of Life: How can we better help our customers improve their financial health so that they can live healthier, longer, better lives? Prizes 1st place: cash prize of $30,000 and more… 2nd place: cash prize of $18,000 and more… 3rd place: cash prize of $6,000 and more… Judges Jacky Chan: Regional Chief Executive, AIA Group Daisuke Iwase: Group Chief Digital Officer, AIA Group Biswa Misra: Group Chief Technology and Operations Officer, AIA Group Mark Saunders: Group Chief Strategy and Corporate Development Officer, AIA Group Bertrand Chen: Group Data Scientist, CK Hutchison Holdings Limited Leroy Yau: Partner, 43 Ventures Go to our LifeHack18 website for more updated information on prizes. Note:  Please note there is also a screening process and we will refund your deposit if you are not accepted into LifeHack18. We will let you know if you are accepted into LifeHack18 by batches. The earlier you apply the higher chance you can get in! FAQs What can I bring into the event? As this is a hackathon, please bring a laptop or desktop with which you can build basic prototypes with. Remember that you will be pitching your ideas to key AIA stakeholders, so make sure you can show them something noteworthy. Also, to ensure that you can build something amazing during LifeHack18, we also recommend bringing your own water bottle and warm clothes (for air conditioning). How can I contact the organiser with any questions? Please contact hackathon@aia.com with your questions. What's the refund policy? Participation for this event is FREE. The $120 'ticket price' is simply a deposit and it will be fully refunded post-event. However we do NOT refund "no shows", i.e. if you register for the event but do not show up for LifeHack18, we will NOT refund your deposit back. Therefore if you know that you cannot make it to the event, please contact hackathon@aia.com on or before Friday, 9 November 2018, at 7:00 pm. Do I have to bring my printed ticket to the event? No. However please make sure that the name you used to register for the event is EXACTLY the same as that in a valid government-issued ID, e.g. Hong Kong Identity Card, passport issued by a foreign government body, etc. Can I update my registration information? Unless it's information that can directly impact your role in LifeHack18, e.g. role in team (UI/UX, data scientist, business user), employer information, we advise against updating your registration information. Is my registration fee or ticket transferrable? No. If you choose to transfer your registration to a friend, a colleague or some other person, you must contact hackathon@aia.com to cancel the registration first, refund your deposit and then have that person sign up on her/his own accord. Is it ok if the name on my ticket or registration doesn't match the person who attends? The name on your registration must EXACTLY MATCH that on an official government-issued ID, e.g. Hong Kong Identity Card, passport issued by a foreign government body, etc. We reserve the right to refuse entry if we do not find your name on our registration list, so please reserve your spot here and make sure that the name on your ID exactly matches that in our registration list.

Event Introduction The Hackathon is a staple of all our TechCrunch events. Each team has 24 hours to design and develop a proof of concept. Judging and awards comes from the most innovative companies in the world. This year, TechCrunch will collaborate with Cyberport to hold a blockchain Hackathon in Hong Kong. Who can participate Everyone interested in technology is welcome to join. You can come to share your ideas, broaden your horizons, and test your skills. We want to learn from you, even if there’s no mature product or clear business model. We want imagination and unconstrained innovation! Principles Ownership and Intellectual Property Right The Ownership and the Intellectual Property Right of the products produced during the Hackathon competition belong to their producers completely, and could be used on their own will.All the participants should sign the Non-Disclosure Agreement for APIs at Hackathon in TechCrunch Hong Kong, 2018. Participants Both individual participants and teams are acceptable. To be noticed, the limit of members for each team is 5. Presentation You should run your product and present it to the public. If you do not finish your presentation, don’t worry! Just try your best. Awards The jury of Hackathon consists of experts and the delegates from the sponsors. At the end of Hackathon, comprehensively concerning the performance of each team during the whole competition period, we would award the top participants with the grand prix or other special awards, including the Most Innovative Product, the Most Valuable Product, and the Most Completed Product. Registration Qualification We suggest that participants had better have 3-5 members on a team. However, if you think you’ve owned sufficient capacity to be both a front-end engineer and a developer, individual participants are also acceptable. Registration information should include division of the work, name list and an introduction of your program. We agree that it would offer better help if you’ve already have a mature idea before coming to Hackathon. Nevertheless, you are not allowed to bring a semi-finished or finished product to the competition. Besides, if you have a strong will to participate in Hackathon but find it difficult to have partners with you, you could note down in your registration information along with related details, and tell us the role you could play in a team. Then you could directly build your team with other participants who are in favor on the spot. We would patiently and conscientiously assess your registration information, and finalize the list of participants. Schedule Registration: NOW –8th November Competition: 10th Nov– 11th NovThose teams that have passed the qualification assessment could be accessible to the Final. According to results of final evaluation, top 1 teams would be awarded. TechCrunch Rewards 1.Everyone gets Two-day TechCrunch 2018 International City Event – Shenzhen ticket if their program could be submitted successfully2.TechCrunch International City Event 2018 – Shenzhen Hackathon certificate of honor.3.Sponsor souvenir T-shirt Agenda of Hackathon First day 9:00 a.m. Sign in&Team up10:00 a.m. Introduction of Principles11:00-11:30 a.m. Free developing11:30 a.m. Lunch1:00-6:00 p.m. Free developing6:00 p.m. Dinner9:00 p.m. Break（Food &Snacks） Second day 8:00 a.m. Breakfast9:30 a.m. Submit products to the judging system10:00 a.m. End of developing。 Audiences allow to enter in11:00 a.m. Demo/Presentation time for teams 3min for each team11:30 a.m. Lunch (Demo is still going)2:00-3:00 p.m. Announce the winner teams & prize-awarding ceremony（will adjust the end time according to the situations）3:00 p.m. Hackathon end Challenge 1. WANXIANG BLOCKCHAIN LABS Task: How to design a blockchain-based, decentralized identity system for financial services? Challenge Description Description:Identity systems, like user names and user data, are a key element of most commercial services. Examples of identity systems include social media accounts, credit scoring accounts, public services accounts, and digital wallet accounts. Currently, almost all online identity systems are managed by centralized parties. Your accounts and data are controlled by third parties and stored on their servers. The disadvantage of this approach is its lack of protection to users on the unauthorized use of their data, its lack of data portability for users to transfer data to other platforms, and its susceptibility to malicious hacking. Many people believe that blockchains, through their use of public-private key cryptography and secure shared ledgers, allow for decentralized control of user identity data. As identity is at the heart of many financial applications (for example, a financial provider needs to verify that a user has the authority to transfer assets or data, and the financial provider needs to have a secure ledger to track which users own which assets or data), there are strong opportunities to create decentralized identity systems that improve user experience in financial services. Challenge Prize: Champion: Cash prize of $30000 HKD 1st Runner-up:Prizes worth up to $15000 HKD 2nd Runner-up:Prizes worth up to $5000 HKD Hackathon strategic partner:  About Hong Kong Cyberport Cyberport is an innovative digital community with over 1,000 technology companies. It is managed by Hong Kong Cyberport Management Company Limited, which is wholly owned by the Hong Kong SAR Government. With the vision to become a main force in developing the digital tech industry as a key economic driver of Hong Kong, Cyberport is committed to nurturing youth, start-ups and entrepreneurs to grow in the digital industry by connecting them to strategic partners and investors, driving collaboration with local and international business partners to create new opportunities, and accelerating digital adoption amongst corporates and SMEs. Cyberport focuses on building key clusters of digital tech, namely FinTech, Big Data/AI, e-commerce and IoT/Wearables, to foster the development of Hong Kong into a “Smart City”. With a committed team of professionals providing all rounded value added services to support our digital community and an array of state-of-the-art tech facilities, Cyberport is the flagship for Hong Kong’s digital tech industry. About WANXIANG BLOCKCHAIN LABS Funded by China Wanxiang Holdings, Wanxiang Blockchain Labs is a non-profit research institution focusing on Blockchain technology. Wanxiang Blockchain Labs provides support for the research, entrepreneurship, developments and applications in the industry. It will also provide reference information for regulatory bodies. Overall, Wanxiang Blockchain Labs dedicate itself to the promotion and application of Blockchain industry, and to explore how the technology will be contributing to the development of the economy and the society. As the first research organization in China and determines to devote itself to promote the development of blockchain technology globally, Wanxiang Blockchain Labs has been hosting global blockchain summits in China, which have become one of the most influential industrial events in Asia. Through these efforts, participants from various industries have showed great interest in blockchain technology and the known the potential of what it could bring to the world.

The Cathay Pacific 24-hour Hackathon is back this year – and, for the first time, we’re calling on technology and travel enthusiasts with professional experience to join us. With the theme "Smart Travel", we are in search of game-changing ideas to revolutionise the way technology helps us travel. We will host a series of exciting activities on location at Cathay Pacific’s headquarters, leading up to the 24-hour Hackathon. You'll be able to gain an exclusive insider understanding of our airline operations, and partake in ‘empathy days’ and technical workshops provided by our partners, all in preparation for the big event. Join us and take your innovation to new heights – the sky is the limit! Date: 3-4 November 2018 Venue: Cathay Pacific City Applications are open from 15 July to 5 August. Visit hackathon.cathaypacific.com for more details or contact us for any questions.

The Cathay Pacific 24-hour Hackathon is back again this year – bigger and better. This signature event will feature a range of exciting activities, providing you with a remarkable experience at this aviation-and-travel focused Hackathon in Hong Kong. With the theme "Smart Travel", we are in search of game-changing ideas to revolutionise the way technology helps us travel. Joining our Hackathon offers you the platform to work with like-minded peers and gain exposure to the challenging aviation industry. This unique event can also help kick-start your career in aviation and IT by providing a fast track to our IT Graduate Trainee Programme or IT Internship. Join us and take your innovation to new heights – the sky is the limit! Date: 3-4 November 2018 Venue: Cathay Pacific City Applications are open from 30 August to 23 September. Visit hackathon.cathaypacific.com for more details or contact us with any questions.

For all event details, please visit http://communities.techstars.com/events/13708 In just 54 hours, you will experience the highs, lows, fun, and pressure that make up life at a startup. What is Startup Weekend? Startup Weekend, powered by Google for Entrepreneurs, is non-profit entrepreneurship education event that brings together innovators, marketers, developers and designers. In just 54 hours, you will pitch your own idea and form a team or join in another person’s team (Fri), do market research, build product (Sat), and demonstrate your business in front of judges and potential investors (Sun). Come to be a hero to change the world!   Startup Weekend is your chance to learn how to put your idea into action within a matter of days!  get introduced to the world of startups and entrepreneurship learn the process for taking action on your ideas meet experienced, talented, and passionate entrepreneurs in Hong Kong join or build an all-star team make meaningful connections and become part of a global community learn and practice new skills to take back to your job or beef up your resume   Who is Startup Weekend For? It doesn't matter what you do or where you come from, Startup Weekend is designed as an inclusive event and program that brings all sorts of people together including... aspiring & experienced entrepreneurs developers and other tech-related professionals designers of all types non-technical talent (i.e. business, sales, finance, legal, etc.) students from universities and even high schools professionals looking to switch careers or build new skills and passionate visionaries   What will be the topic? When you come to Hong Kong UST startup weekend, you can vote for 2 topics from New Retail, Fintech/ machine learning, SmartTech, and social innovation and the topics with the highest vote will be the final one! Previous event: Special Discount to HKUST members! Please check HKUST Entrepreneurship Center Newsletter! How to go to The Venue (The BASE, HKUST)? Please click HERE for the transportation tips! Your ticket includes: Access to the full weekend-long event Opportunity to pitch your idea on Friday night @The BASE HKUST All-star mentors and judges formed with business leaders (roll down and check out their information!!!) 6 tasty meals throughout the weekend Collaboration with passionate entrepreneurs from throughout Hong Kong Membership in the Startup Weekend Community (>193K alumni) A process for taking any idea from concept to creation in a hackathon style setting   Frequent questions Q: May I join alone without a team? A: Definitely yes! You will find a team and news friends who share the same mission at the first night!  Q: I don’t have an idea, can I join? A: Of course. You will choose the team with idea that you want to work the first day. Q: If I am not a UST student, can I join? A: Of course. You are very welcome to join us and share your experience! Q: I am not interested in creating my own business. Should I join?A: Startup Weekend is also a good learning experience for you to turn book-knowledge into a real thing. During this journey, you will learn how to apply your knowledge to the real world! Join us for an awesome weekend!  For any inquiry, please contact hkust@startupweekend.org Make sure you bring your laptop, and enthusiasm! We'll start off with a little food and drink and then break out into a session on how to maximize your Techstars Startup Weekend experience!

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Hong Kong as a city is constantly evolving and reacting to the needs of its ever growing and ever changing population. The last few years have seen some of the transformation in how we work, live, play and shop driven mostly by technology influencing a variety of aspects of our lives. For SmarTone Hackathon 2018, we are challenging hackers to focus on the future of urban life. Under the theme "Smart Properties", hackers are required to select a challenge to compete against:  Challenge 1: Smart Life - Develop ideas & solutions that engage the community, including the one we work, live, play and shop with - providing better customer experience and achieving higher customer satisfaction.  Challenge 2: Smart Property Management - Develop ideas & solutions that implement the concept of ‘Smart and Green Property’ – offering efficient, proactive and predictive means to manage properties, which saves energy, optimizes resources and reduces manpower. TEAMS: Teams of up to 5 are allowed. All members of your team must meet the eligibility criteria contained in this Participation Agreement. If any member of your team is ineligible or otherwise fails to comply with this Participation Agreement, the team as a whole may be disqualified in The Sponsor’s sole discretion. Each team is solely responsible for its own cooperation and teamwork. The Sponsor will not officiate any dispute between members regarding their conduct, participation, cooperation, contribution, prize sharing or intellectual property ownership. JUDGING: A panel of judges will evaluate each Submission immediately after its demonstration using a combination of judging criteria: Innovation (0-5 points) UX/UI (0-5 points) Functionality (0-5 points) Technology (0-5 points) Each Submission will be scored in each round based on the following criteria with a minimum score of 0 and maximum score of 20 points, with the final score being the average of the judges’ scores. A current list of judges can be found at SmarTone Hackathon Website. Judges are subject to change in The Sponsor’s sole discretion. A judge may elect to recuse him or herself from evaluating a Submission, or The Sponsor may require a judge to recuse him or herself from evaluating a Submission, if, in the judge’s or The Sponsor’s discretion, it would not be appropriate for the judge to evaluate a participant’s Submission because of a past or current relationship with the participant. Recusal decisions are final and not subject to appeal. WINNER ANNOUNCEMENT AND VERIFICATION: Potential winners will be announced shortly after the Judging Rounds. The Sponsor may take any actions necessary to verify a team’s compliance with this Participation Agreement before awarding a Prize, including, without limitation, engaging a third party vendor to evaluate the prototype software code and/or requiring a team to provide evidence of permission to use certain third party materials. You understand and acknowledge that even though your team may be announced as a winner, if your team’s compliance with this Participation Agreement cannot be verified to the satisfaction of The Sponsor, The Sponsor will select an alternate winner with the next highest score based on the same judging criteria. PRIZE: GRAND PRIZE: Cash Prize: $ 50,000 HKD RUNNER UP PRIZE: Cash Prize: $30,000 HKD 2nd RUNNER UP PRIZE: Cash Prize: $20,000 HKD Winning teams will have a chance to receive: Latest gadgets from Microsoft and Samsung Fast-track interview opportunity for Cyberport’s entrepreneurship programmes, either Cyberport Creative Micro Fund (CCMF) or Cyberport Incubation Programme Mentorship from sponsors’ top executives Potential investment opportunities in those prototypes that meet the business goals of smart properties PRIZE CONDITIONS: All Prize details will be determined by The Sponsor in its sole discretion. The Sponsor reserves the right to substitute a similar prize (or prize element) of comparable or greater value. YOUR SUBMISSION: Your Submission must: Adhere to the terms of service per this agreement and the rules stated at the beginning of the hackathon Not breach the terms and conditions of any embedded software or services used by your Application, Not contain any malicious code or backdoors, Not contain, depict or refer to any crude, vulgar, obscene, sexually explicit, disparaging, discriminatory, offensive, illegal or otherwise unsuitable language, activity or other content (all as determined by the Sponsor in its sole discretion) Not contain, depict or refer to any content which disparages or refers negatively to the Sponsor, the Hackathon, or any other person or entity (all as determined by the Sponsor in its sole discretion); and Not contain any content that violates any law or any third party’s rights (including privacy, personality and intellectual property rights) For further information, please visit our website www.smartonehackathon.com

Join us on the 16th of October (Tue) for a discussion on the risks of Smart Contract Security followed by a live demonstration of testing a new way to audit a contract with A.I all showcased by Agua AI. Introduction: Smart Contracts are the crux of all DApps and Token Sales. They’re essentially programs designed to execute automatically and enforce a set of rules autonomously. And they’re totally unchangeable once deployed on the blockchain— a quality that makes smart contracts uniquely reliable and trustless, but also a precarious minefield. Coding for the blockchain is a relatively new field, without many security standards, documentation, or best practices to draw on. It’s also the ultimate test of defensive software engineering—Smart contracts like the ERC-20 token standard have held digital assets worth over US $3.8 billion in 2017, and US $4.7 billion up until march in 2018 making them a target for attackers. The usual software development cycle of a continuous write-release-fix loop falls short when it comes to the blockchain. Smart contracts need to be constructed 100% right in one shot, able to withstand years of security attacks with code you can’t really modify. They have to be extensively planned, considering all logical permutations, accommodating all possible exceptions, and meticulously implemented. Get the order of code wrong (as in the case of The DAO hack) or forget to initialize something (as in the Parity Freeze) and you could have an ‘unchangeable’ disaster on your hands, immortalized on the immutable blockchain. Prompted by this fear, security audits are thankfully becoming the industry standard, and a way for projects to gain contributor trust. Unfortunately, these assets are not always as secure as we wish, as a multitude of hacks and bugs prove. This puts a significant burden on the crypto community. Hacks discourage institutional investors and make regulators more wary of blockchain technology in general. We will discuss at length the current landscape of smart contract security and will demonstrate how AI can automate the smart contract QA process. About the speakers: Yash is a self-taught hacker, software engineer, and trader. He has worked at Stanford Medicine, where he worked towards overhauling the database for the world's largest biosample repository and introduced digital cataloguing methods that yielded a substantial increase in efficiency over existing hardware methods. Yash started mining Bitcoin in 2011, and set up a private fund in Los Angeles to trade cryptocurrencies and their delta-one derivatives in 2017, where he also built trading models using Bayesian Regression techniques and sentiment analysis. A seasoned developer, Yash has won multiple blockchain hackathons, and received a grant from Peter Thiel's 1517 fund to develop his ETHDenver winning project, XOR, into a startup which later went on to become a part of Consensys. He is the founder and CEO of Conduit Research, a research firm dedicated to building quantitative strategies for crypto, as well as high-performance analytics and trading platforms.  Abhinav Narayanan has been a programmer since a young age learning how to hack systems and has always had an infatuation with how genomics and machines intertwine (e.g AI). Abhinav spent a short time at MIT studying Computer Science and Molecular Biology. As he was studying, he sold biotech research to inStem out of Indian Institute of Science having to do with Pain Detector using Microwave Radiometry, in-vitro Alzheimers Cure using gene-editing (e.g CRISPr, TALENs, and Insulysin), using Anti-Proliferative properties for the Diagnosis of Lung Carcinoma, etc.) He spent time at the MIT Media Lab focusing on security of race conditions in code and most recently Microsoft where he was working as a Security Machine Learning Engineer on a special project creating a new framework for Hadoop. He is currently the founder and CEO of Agua AI, an artificial intelligence-driven automated security vulnerability patching solution.