Over the next few decades, a rising global population, increasing wealth, changing consumer demand and climate variation will put growing pressure on food systems. While global demand might be met through current agricultural practices in the short term, these strategies are unsustainable for the long term. Globally, agriculture demands a radical transformation.
The world’s future food systems must become more sustainable, productive, resilient and efficient. We must re-envision the way food is produced, processed and distributed, the way natural resources are used, recycled and replenished, and the way social and agricultural systems interact to support healthy individuals, communities and environment. To transform existing food systems, we must integrate knowledge from biology, ecology, engineering, business, computer and information science and the social sciences to create communication networks that enable timely response and informed decision-making at the level of the farm, community, nation and world.
Cornell Institute for Digital Agriculture (CIDA) connects world-renowned researchers across academic boundaries with multidisciplinary practitioners to address global food system challenges. CIDA develops and applies digital innovations in agriculture designed to improve the sustainability, profitability, resiliency and efficiency of the world’s food systems.
We’ve invited the cream of the crop to this hackathon and that includes you! Graduate and undergraduate students, any major, any year, any school- everyone is welcome!
Thoughtfully selected students from the top 5 agriculture schools in the world are also attending! Yes, you heard correct! This is truly an international event with the potential for global impact. Student and faculty guests are coming from Wageningen University (Netherlands), University of São Paulo (Brazil), China Agricultural University, and the University of California, Davis.
With the resources and mentors we gathered, it's your opportunity to explore what technology can do for agriculture. It’s time to take your ideas from concept to reality. Workshops, speakers, networking, prizes, and more! It may be virtual, but we're still including as many of the features you've come to expect at our hackathons!
200 participants + $8,000 in cash prizes = 1 life changing weekend
Join us for ~36 hours to level up your digital ag experience
Students looking for a team and teams looking for additional members, these sessions are for you. You may or may not have an idea, students with an idea have an opportunity to pitch it.
After pitches, students will meet up in breakout rooms to meet, discuss, and talk with other students to help form a team in advance of the hackathon. Students may jump between break out rooms, visiting multiple rooms, to find the group they want to work with.
Sessions held 2nd 5-6pm US EST, 3rd 5:30-6:30pm US EST, and 4th 6-7pm US EST
Teams must have a minimum of 4 members and a maximum of 6.
Participants are strongly encouraged to join the Slack as well.
Links are privately shared with participants.
Teams participate in this interactive workshop, with instruction provided by Rose Pember '16 MS, Faculty at Parson's School of Design. Rose presents an action item for teams to complete, team members are then put into break out rooms to work together. Participants are brought back together for a new action item and moved back into their team's breakout room to complete the assignment. Workshop concludes at 9:00pm.
Pop in any time during these 12 hours to ask a question or just say hi! Staff include:
Ami Stuart '10, Tech Events Manager - Entrepreneurship at Cornell
Tushar MEng '14, Senior Software Developer - NYC Startup
Rose Pember '16 MS, Faculty - Parson's New School of Design
Aaliyah Holliday CALS '21 - Tech Events Assistant
Staff are actively on Slack all day until 10pm.
Mentors visit teams to provide face-to-face feedback via zoom. Mentors visit the teams who they are able to help by entering into each team's Zoom room. To see an example click here
Mentors are no longer visiting teams via zoom. If a team needs more assistance, they may jump into a zoom meeting to get real time face-to-face guidance from a mentor. To see an example click here
Mentors visit teams to provide face-to-face feedback via zoom. Mentors visit the teams who they are able to help by entering into each team's Zoom room. To see an example click here
Mentors are no longer visiting teams via zoom. If a team needs more assistance, they may jump into a zoom meeting to get real time face-to-face guidance from a mentor. To see an example click here
Pop in any time during this hour to ask a question or say hi.
Staff include:
Ami Stuart '10, Tech Events Manager - Entrepreneurship at Cornell
Tushar MEng '14, Senior Software Developer - NYC Startup
Rose Pember '16 MS, Faculty - Parson's New School of Design
Aaliyah Holliday CALS '21 - Tech Events Assistant
