Techfugees
Techfugees Conference & Hackathon
Moved by the plight of refugees in Europe, we have formed a small voluntary team to create the free, non-profit, "Techfugees" conference on October 1st in Central London.
We'd like you to come.
The background:
In the last 48 hours our Facebook Group and Twitter account has exploded, with over 700 people from the tech community signing up. There is clearly a huge desire amongst the tech community to get involved.
This will be an entirely non-profit event to bring together tech engineers, entrepreneurs and startups together with NGOs and other agencies in order to address the crisis in ways where the technology world can bring its considerable firepower.
SPEAKER SO FAR FROM:
UNHCR
Rewired State
Paula Schwarz, StartupBoat
Anne Kjær Riechert, Refugees On Rails
Marieme Jamme, Africa Gathering
Bernhard Niesner, Busuu language-learning startup
Marianne Bouchart, HEI-DA Data journalism institute
Rewired State
Paula Schwarz, StartupBoat
Anne Kjær Riechert, Refugees On Rails
Marieme Jamme, Africa Gathering
Bernhard Niesner, Busuu language-learning startup
Marianne Bouchart, HEI-DA Data journalism institute
On October 2nd we will be running a "Hackathon" with the Telefonica-backed accelerator, WAYRA, to work on tech solutions and products to aid both refugees and agencies.
The aims of the Hackathon are to start working on products and solutions that can be fed into the I Am Here Hackathon in Berlin, run by Rewired State, on October 3rd. This will increase the chances of tech products being deployed by Winter.
We would like you to come and engage with the tech community so that we can help discuss and build solutions.
We are also looking for sponsors to cover the costs of the event.
Please email mike@techfugees.com about the event content and petra@twistedtree.co.uk to sponsor the costs of the event.
SPONSORS AND PARTNERS:
Location
Dates
From 1st October 2015 - 09:00 AM
to 1st October 2015 - 04:30 PM
to 1st October 2015 - 04:30 PM