Call for Participation: AI LA Open Innovation Challenge Spring 2022

March 2, 2022
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AI LA Open Innovation Challenge Spring 2022

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IMPORTANT DATES

  • Info Session: March 8th at 5 pm PST Virtual
  • Kick-Off: March 18-20th in Los Angeles
  • Demo Day: April 21st in Los Angeles

 

OVERVIEW

AI LA is hosting a hackathon with LA County to find the most efficient solution using satellite imagery to detect invasive pests in the LA County’s tree canopy. ‍

This challenge gives participants the ability to consider the relationship between designing a targeted application and developing the data models utilized by that application.

Through this project, participants will explore building data models around a specific data challenge for the identification of trees with potential pest infestations. To successfully complete this challenge, teams must consider: What are we predicting and why? What is the end-use for the data models we are training towards specifically?

Through research and conversations with stakeholders, teams go through a process of value discovery to identify applications that would be viable within the context of the stakeholder’s needs. This process of refining the technical goal must guide how teams utilize the data and identify relevant models.

Based on the identified end goal, participants may choose to utilize a computational, machine learning workflow, or a remote sensing spatial workflow to fulfill the data goals of this project. Workshops and available mentors will guide participants through possible workflows, although a combination of spatial and computational skills will be necessary to complete the final challenge.

This isn’t simply a data challenge. The goal of this program is to not only enable participants to learn data skills relevant to this use case, but to also give them the tools for R&D of product development with data.

Individuals and unfunded teams can apply!

We are looking for cross-disciplinary teams: computer scientists, data scientists, geospatial scientists, entrepreneurs, designers, MLops, et al.

 

PRIZES

First Place

  • $10,000 USD
  • Featured on the AI LA Blog
  • Social network amplification from our partners
  • Office Hours with Starburst Aerospace
  • 4 hours of free corporate services with Wilson Sonsini ($4,000 value)

Second Place

  • $2,500 USD
  • Featured on the AI LA Blog
  • Social network amplification from our partners
  • Office Hours with Starburst Aerospace
  • 2 hours of free corporate services with Wilson Sonsini ($2,000 value)

Third Place

  • $2,500 USD
  • Featured on the AI LA Blog
  • Social network amplification from our partners
  • Office Hours with Starburst Aerospace
  • 2 hours of free corporate services with Wilson Sonsini ($2,000 value)

 

 

ABOUT

AI LA is a Los Angeles-based 501(c)(3) non-profit organization with a mission to catalyze innovation through education, conversation, and collaboration. Since 2016, we have facilitated community events related to AI and its applications to education, environmental sustainability, healthcare, life sciences, the ethical and fair use of technology, and more!

Published on March 2nd, 2022

Last updated on June 13th, 2022


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