Real-World Incident Response Hackathon

Real-World Incident Response Hackathon Improving the way we investigate incidents through the application of Multimedia Analysis and Artificial Intelligence. For this event, we are looking to bring together the best from academia, industry and government in the defence and security arena. Participants will be asked to process large amounts of real-world incident multimedia data and rapidly identify key information for on-site experts - people, places, events, in fact anything that may assist an investigations team. We’re interested in how entities relate to each other, the event timeline and narrative, and near-term predictions. Data will mostly take the form of video which will be varied in quality, source, and format. Some will be live-streamed during the event. This is a unique opportunity for participants to demonstrate their ability to extract useful information and insights from large multimedia data sources which would help teams respond to incidents more quickly and effectively.  We expect the successful hackathon attendees to leverage Artificial Intelligence techniques including Machine Vision, Facial Recognition, and Object Recognition, as well as being able to process multimedia sources in a variety of formats from a variety of sources. Benefits of Attending Attendees of the event will network and collaborate with likeminded experts in their field creating teams to tackle a challenge that has potential commercial applications across a range of business sectors. It is your chance to: develop and test your digital product to boost its potential showcase your prototype to international defence and science professionals and technology experts seize the opportunity to take your solution to Minimum Viable Product (MVP) The team outputs will be assessed, and prizes awarded to the winners. The first prize is a guided tour through the underground Burlington Bunker in Corsham, Wiltshire. This is a unique opportunity to visit a complete underground city, built in the 1950s to house the UK’s entire cabinet in the event of a nuclear attack. This prize is subject to confirmation and suitability of the winners. More information about this Hackathon is available on GOV.UK.  Please note: If you are registering as part of a group, please ensure all members of the group register individually Once you have registered for this event your details will be shared with a third party company BeMyApp and you will be invited to join the Slack channel The venue information will be detailed on your ticket confirmation The start and end times for each day are as follows:            Day 1- 9am to midnight            Day 2- 8am to 7pm Registration closes on 18 November 2018 at 6pm Places for this event are limited and if the event is oversubscribed, we reserve the right to limit attendance if needed This event is free to attend. Please make sure you can definitely attend before signing up. If you need to cancel please contact accelerator@dstl.gov.uk so we can offer your place to someone else as early as possible