Do Hack Day with Zalando CSR & N3XTCODER

We are partnering with Zalando Corporate Social Responsibility Team for a Hackathon on the field of supply chain transparency and traceability. During the hackathon Zalando IT-specialists & N3XTCODER will support innovative organizations with their tech challenges. Designers & Developers, join us and help the next generation to create solutions for a sustainable planet! We imagine a world where consumers are empowered by technology and transparency to make purchasing decisions that are in line with their social and environmental values. We believe that, armed with this knowledge, consumers will reward the most responsible companies and thereby set new standards for what is acceptable with regard to working conditions and environmental footprint in manufacturing. We will give prominence to the issue of supply chain transparency by identifying and supporting the most promising companies, non-profits, and academics working in the field. Space is limited. Please register only if you can contribute with your skills to the teams. - UX/UI Design - Frontend/Backend Development - Blockchain Expertise Ventures you can contribute: During the hackathon Zalando IT-specialists will work one day intensively on solving challenges of 7 ventures from Germany, USA, Netherlands and UK. Together we will help NPO’s to solve problems in areas of our core competence. https://www.laborvoices.com/ Sources anonymous worker-reported data on factory conditions to identify fire hazards, child and forced labour, wage violations Customer base of 400 suppliers representing 40,000 workers Founder is an Ashoka Fellow and was  participant in Village Capital’s accelerator. https://social-finance-academy.org/about-the-academy/ Despite all the excitement about impact investing, investors still hesitate to act on a broader scale, and social entrepreneurs are constantly seeking for knowledge about how to access social finance. Therefore, new skills have to be put into practice and knowledge has to be accessible to as many actors as possible to bring the social finance market to bloom. The Social Finance Academy addresses this gap. www.atransparentcompany.com A Transparent Company is working with blockchain technology to increase transparency in supply chains. Together with our tech partners Provenance we help fashion brands track & trace their great products and connect their stories with the end consumer, and beyond purchase. https://sustainabill.io/ sustainbill is creating a cloud platform that provides ecological and social KPI’s in parallel with the financial data. This allows companies to make management decisions not only based on financial KPI’s  but also based on product-specific sustainability information covering the entire supply chain. https://circularfashion.com/ circular.fashion has created a software that will will interconnect circular design, circular retail models and closed loop recycling technologies for transparency and flow of information between all actors involved. By taking into account the recyclers needs at the design stage, every garment can be manufactured to be either recyclable or biodegradable at end of life. Every point of the value chain is also provided with the necessary information for circularity through integrated circularfashion.ID codes that can be scanned from the label by customers and sorting companies. http://remokey.com/ Remo is a startup that supplies information on the content and environmental savings of recycled textiles. Powered by intelligent supply chain technology it provides transparency and visibility to guarantee the recycled content in an end-product. They connect companies in every segment of the supply chain to trace post consumer textile. The consumer-facing Remo label displays the environmental benefits per product resulting from the use of recycled textiles. For each garment they can reliably quantify the reduction in water, electricity and carbon emissions gained from recycling. http://wikirate.org/ WikiRate has developed an open access research platform that allows anyone to gather and assess publicly available information on corporate Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) practices in a structured manner. Ultimately making corporate sustainability data accessible, comparable and free for all.