Coding solutions for healthier oceans
Clear your calendars and join us for a night of innovation focused on creating solutions for sustainable fishing in our oceans. Miami Fishackathon kicks off on June 13th and you're invited to take part in producing concrete prototypes to help solve management challenges of small-scale fishermen in developing countries. Marine industry experts and hobbyists, coders, business people, and any innovators are welcome!
Schedule:
Friday, June 13th
5:30 – 6:00 pm Registration/check in
6:00 – 6:15 pm Welcome by State Department & Venture Hive
6:15 – 7:15 pm Presentations and Q&A by fishery and marine science experts
7:15 – 8:30 pm Dinner and group brainstorm
8:30 – ON Break into project teams and get to work! Project teams can work at Venture Hive all night (snacks & support will be provided)
Saturday, June 14th
8:00 – 9:00 am Breakfast and mentoring
9:00 – 12:00 pm Mentoring
12:00 – 12:30 pm Lunch and presentations due
12:30 – 1:30 pm Final project presentations
1:30 – 2:00 pm Judging and winners announced
Prizes
A winner(s) will be selected amongst all of the teams from the five participating cities and will be awarded
Virtual accelerator services from Venture Hive!
One winning team who desires the opportunity to turn their project into a sustainable business will have three months of support from Venture Hive! The winning team will have a deep-dive session to develop the goals for the product and strategy and ongoing support in the form of weekly personalized coaching sessions to support the company and product development and scaling.
The Office of Global Partnerships & tone are offering a trip to the Philippines.
A select winner will be awarded $5000 in cash by Cast Software
Any and all works created during the Fishackathon are developed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License. Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License
Speakers
David Die
Research Associate Professor
Department of Marine Ecosystems and Society
RSMAS, University of Miami
Felimon Gayanilo
Systems Architect
Harte Research Institute for Gulf of Mexico Studies
Texas A&M University Corpus Christi
Mandy Karnauskas
Research Fishery Biologist
Sustainable Fisheries Division
NOAA Southeast Fisheries Science Center
