Rethinking Local Food – International Online Hackathon

About

Agriculture requires innovations to increase both quantity and quality in production, but also to increase efficiency in resource management. It is necessary to reduce environmental impact and production costs, in a context of climate change and market globalization. Innovative re-organisation of food supply chains aiming at reconnecting producers and consumers and re-localising agricultural and food production are needed.

This year Ars Electronica in collaboration with LCM organizes a foresight technology Hackathon training which addresses challenges of the Agri-food industry to be faced by the world, global trends in specific sectors of the Agro industry, prospects for their development. The pandemic has pinpointed how vulnerable the food systems are. How can we create resilient food systems that ensure a supply of safe, accessible, local food for the people of a community? How can we use technologies, model-based approaches or knowledge engines to increase local, sustainable and ecological food production & distribution?

Objectives

• Developing prototypes
• Promote partnerships through networking
• Produce innovative products and tools to stimulate the use of open data and public resources to engage with new audiences
  Get to know experts

Three Challenges = Three Teams = Three Research Groups

You can register for the Hackathon, for one of the three Research Groups, on the Ars Electronica Website. Please be aware that there are limited slots.
There will be six teams and each team will be composed of up to 5 members. The Hackathon will happen during the festival in the week of 08.-12.09.2021. The international teams will work individually on the creation of their prototype online. On the last day, each team will have 5 minutes to present their outcome. The final submission will be shown at our online Festival.

The Groups

Who can participate?

This event is open to all specialist in the food industry, urbanist, data scientists, computer programmers, graphic, artists and interface designers, project managers and any other professionals. The participants have to be sure to have a good internet connection. Ars Electronica will assure the streaming of the different workshops with Swapcard. Each Team has to organize themselves according to their timezone suitable for hacking specially if they are international. The Final Results will be displayed at our online festival.

Why take part in the Hackathon?

• Chance to learn new tools for your projects and research done by leading professionals in that field
• Chance to connect with future partners, institutions and companies worldwide
• Solving challenges and being part of actual discussions and coming up with ideas.
• Have visibility and exposure of your work through our Festival with the presentation of the Hackathon Group Outcome
• Receive free access to our online festival and a certification at the end

About LCM and Knowledge Engines

The Linz Center of Mechatronics (LCM) is specialized in the integration of various technologies into one complete solution through the latest technologies from mechatronics, automation, digital product development, and artificial intelligence. The many years of experience and know-how lead at LCM to the successful development of new, networked, or autonomous systems.

One of LCM’s research areas is Knowledge Engines. Soon the digital knowledge economy will allow to have knowledge instantly available. Instead of looking for some expert to answer an individual question, this expert’s knowledge engine will answer it for you. Instead of looking for a professional to craft an individual design, the professional’s knowledge engine will show you a virtual prototype. The hackathon is part of LCM’s mechaton strand on piloting, testing and benchmarking technologies and concepts.

Schedule

All times are CEST.

Register now

You can register for the Hackathon, for one of the three research groups, here:
REGISTER FOR HACKATHON NOW!

Or send an email with in Subject „LCM HACKATHON REGISTRATION“ to Mauricio.Suarez.Ramos@ars.electronica.art. Send a short motivation intention with your background, why you want to take part and your top group. You will receive a notification if you are selected for the Hackathon.

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