Lets Stop Wildfires Onsite Hackathon

Come join Let’s Stop Wildfires Onsite Hackathon on Saturday Jan 11, 2020 from 9 am to 3 pm.

Venue: Insight Data Science
500 3rd St, Suite 110, San Francisco, CA 94107, USA

Wildfires and power shut off should not be the new normal for Californian.
Together we can make things happen.

This hackathon is conducted by AI For Mankind. The goal is to come up with ideas to help solve California wildfires crisis and we believe that open sharing and collaboration are important in accelerating innovation and driving meaningful change locally and globally.

Special thanks to Insight Data Science for sponsoring this onsite hackathon. Learn more about Insight Data Science https://www.insightdatascience.com/

You have to register to participate: https://forms.gle/Rtedxr1rT9HHJogm6

Hackathon info: https://aiformankind.github.io/lets-stop-wildfires-hackathon/

Mentors:

1. Adam Kraft, Machine Learning Engineer from Google Brain
   https://www.linkedin.com/in/adam-kraft-7555b534/

2. Anna Bethke, Head of AI for Social Good for Intel
   https://www.linkedin.com/in/annabethke/

3. Jianming Zhang, Senior Research Scientist from Adobe Research
   https://www.linkedin.com/in/jianming-zhang-60762227/

4. Jigar Doshi, Machine Learning Lead from CrowdAI
   https://www.linkedin.com/in/jigarkdoshi/

5. Kinshuk Govil, Lead for Machine Learning based early wildfire detection system with FUEGO
   https://www.linkedin.com/in/kinshuk-govil-0080522/

6. Tim Ball, President of Fireball International
   https://www.linkedin.com/in/tim-ball-1832a824/

7. Vladimir Iglovikov, Kaggle Grandmaster, Senior Computer Vision Engineer at Level5, Self-Driving Division, Lyft
   https://www.linkedin.com/in/iglovikov/

Agenda
9:00 am Door open

9:15 am Welcome Speech

9:15 am to 9:25 am Matt Rubashkin, Head of AI at Insight Data Science

9:25 am to 9:35 am Introduction of mentors.

9:35 am to 9:50 am Kinshuk Govil Machine Learning Lead from FUEGO https://fuego.ssl.berkeley.edu/ "Wildfire Smoke Detection"

9:50 am to 10:05 am Jianming Zhang, Senior Research Scientist from Adobe Research "Tackling Data Difficulties in Machine Learning"

10:05 am to 10:20 am Introduction of the three Wildfires Smoke Detection Challenges launched in conjunction of Hackathon

10:20 am to 11 am Idea Pitch/Team Forming

12 pm to 1 pm Lunch

1 pm to 3 pm Hacking