Prepare for everything.
Use your skills and join forces with us and help solve Humanitarian Assistance and Disaster Relief challenges using technology and data to help save lives.
Join us on February 24 - 26 in Austin, Texas for a hackathon unlike others. Over three days you’ll work with 100-150 other innovators from the DoD, UT Austin and the Austin community to tackle some of the toughest Humanitarian Assistance and Disaster Relief (HADR) challenges.
Beside access to cool new technologies, as a hackathon participant you’ll get the opportunity to be mentored by a diverse group of experts: mentors who are experts in the hackathon “challenge” areas, technology mentors and pitch mentors.
Winning team(s) to receive up to $15K to further develop their ideas.
Agenda:
Kick-off at 4 pm on Friday, February 24 with hackathon running continuously through to Sunday morning. After judging and awards, the event adjourns on Sunday by 3 pm.
Hackthon Challenge: MD5 is seeking hardware and software concepts addressing humanitarian assistance and disaster relief challenges in the following areas:
Logistics & Planning
Communications
Water & Power
Registration is now open! Get your ticket today. We are offering one ticket per person. If you are bringing a team with you to the hackathon, each team member will need to register separately for a ticket. (And if you are not part of a team yet, no worries, the hackathon facilitator will be helping teams to form at the start of the event.)
For more info, visit www.md5.net/hackathonw17.
MD5 is the Department of Defense's National Security Technology Accelerator. Our mission is to provide a platform to cultivate the people and ideas necessary to build technology-based ventures that align national economic, security and social objectives for the good of the nation.
To learn more about MD5, visit www.MD5.net or send us an email at info@md5.net
Location
Dates
to 26th February 2017 - 03:00 PM