California Water Data Hackathon

UPDATE: We are currently at capacity with an overflow space; please sign up for the waitlist and you will receive a note if tickets become available. The overall Challenge remains open to all online entries. 

If you have reserved a ticket and are not able to attend in-person, please cancel so we can accommodate others on the waitlist. If you've signed up as a supporter it is absolutely OK to be a Challenge innovator/team participant. Thanks!

The Division of Data Sciences at UC Berkeley and Berkeley Institute for Data Science are hosting the California Water Data Hackathon to help find innovative ways to increase community access to safe drinking water, better understand vulnerabilities, and identify and deploy solutions. The September 14-15 California Water Data Hackathon is one of the efforts supporting the California Safe Drinking Water Data Challenge (June 26 - October 1, 2018).

Timed with the Global Climate Action Summit in San Francisco #GCAS2018, this open-to-all community event will help existing Challenge participant teams as well as new participants leverage open data recently released in machine-readable format. Join us to design, build, test, and shape projects capturing 'Science to Action'!

SCHEDULE

Friday Sept 14

10am   Welcome & Context

• Cathryn Carson, Faculty Lead, Data Science Education Program, Division of Data Sciences at UC Berkeley
• Meredith Lee, Executive Director of the West Big Data Innovation Hub
• David Mongeau, Executive Director of the Berkeley Institute for Data Science
• Saul Perlmutter, Professor, Director of the Berkeley Institute for Data Science, and Nobel Laureate in Physics
• Anthony Suen, Director of Programs, Division of Data Sciences at UC Berkeley 

11am     Project Idea Pop-Ups & Team Formation

• Matt Correa, California Department of Water Resources
• Greg Gearhart, Deputy Director, Office of Information Management and Analysis, California State Water Resources Control Board
• Rafael Maestu, Chief Data Scientist, California State Water Resources Control Board 
• Angelica Quirarte, Assistant Secretary for Digital Engagement, California Government Operations Agency
• Zexuan Xu, Postdoctoral Fellow, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and Berkeley Institute of Data Science
• and more! Check your inboxes for the Call for Pop-Ups! 

12pm   Reflections: Lessons Learned & Tips from Former Hackathon Participants and Data Science Leaders

• Keeley Takimoto, Division of Data Sciences and DLab at UC Berkeley
• and more! 

12:30pm   Lunch & Team Sprints. Optional video capture of team stories/progress. 

2:30pm   Coffee available 

4pm   Preparing 'Living Posters' 

5pm   Dinner & Poster/Project Prototype Sharing 

7pm   Conclusion of Day 1

Saturday Sept 15

10am   Fireside Chat: Tom Kalil, Chief Innovation Officer of Schmidt Futures & Meredith Lee, Executive Director, West Big Data Innovation Hub

10:40am   Teamwork Sprints

12pm   Lunch

1pm   More Teamwork Sprints 

4pm   Final Presentations & Voting for People's Choice Hackathon Award

5pm+   All teams are encouraged to continue developing their work to submit by Oct 1 at waterchallenge.data.ca.gov for overall Challenge Awards and Prizes! 

More About The Challenge

On any given day in California, around 200,000 Californians turn on their taps and the water that comes out is unsafe to drink and may be unsafe to use for basic needs like bathing. Annually, up to 1 million Californians lack access to clean, safe drinking water at some point during the year. Droughts and other disruptions in water supply can limit or eliminate access to safe drinking water for days, months, or years. Some communities have been exposed to unsafe water for more than a decade.

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