Deadline: 7-Feb-22
Applications are now open for the AWS Disaster Response Hackathon to improve Disaster Response with Machine Learning.
Scope
The scope of this hackathon is broad, but they have provided some parameters to guide participants’ work:
- The solution must solve a challenge that is aligned with at least one of the phases of the disaster life cycle (mitigation, preparedness, response, recovery).
- The solution must focus on a challenge that is present in one or more types of natural disaster (e.g. hurricanes/cyclones; wildfires; floods; earthquakes; drought; etc.).
- The solution must use machine learning to solve the challenge. This includes the submission of a machine learning model that helps people predict, identify, categorize, prioritize etc.
Funding Information
- $54,000 in prizes
- First Place
- $15,000 in USD
- $5,000 of AWS Credits
- Team meeting with Amazon Software Product Leaders
- Second Place
- $10,000 in USD
- $5,000 of AWS Credits
- Team meeting with Amazon Software Product Leaders
- Third Place
- $5,000 in USD
- $5,000 of AWS Credits
- Team meeting with Amazon Software Product Leaders
- Honourable Mentions (2)
- $500 in USD
- $500 of AWS Credits
- Best Solution to the Challenge
- $1000 in USD
- $2,500 of AWS Credits
- Team meeting with Amazon Software Product Leaders
- Best Technical Implementation and Functionality
- $1000 in USD
- $2,500 of AWS Credits
- Team meeting with Amazon Software Product Leaders
Eligibility Criteria
The Hackathon IS open to:
- Individuals who are at least the age of majority where they reside as of the time of entry (“Eligible Individuals”);
- Teams of Eligible Individuals (“Teams”); and
- Organizations (including corporations, not-for-profit corporations and other nonprofit organizations, limited liability companies, partnerships, and other legal entities) that exist and have been organized or incorporated at the time of entry.
Ineligible
The Hackathon IS NOT open to:
- Individuals who are residents of, or Organizations domiciled in, a country, state, province or territory where the laws of the United States or local law prohibits participating or receiving a prize in the Hackathon (including, but not limited to, Brazil, Italy, Mexico, Philippines, Quebec, Cuba, Iran, North Korea, Syria, Thailand, Vietnam, the region of Crimea and any other country designated by the United States Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control)
- Organizations involved with the design, production, paid promotion, execution, or distribution of the Hackathon, including the Sponsor and Administrator (“Promotion Entities”).
- Employees, representatives and agents of such Promotion Entities, and all members of their immediate family or household
- Any other individual involved with the design, production, promotion, execution, or distribution of the Hackathon, and each member of their immediate family or household
- Any Judge (defined below), or company or individual that employs a Judge
- Any parent company, subsidiary, or other affiliate of any organization described above
- Any other individual or organization whose participation in the Hackathon would create, in the sole discretion of the Sponsor and/or Administrator, a real or apparent conflict of interest.disaster
For more information, visit https://awsdisasterresponse.devpost.com/
