If you are an aspiring change agent with a passion for using AI for socially sustainable good, take the chance to explore your ideas at Women in AI Hackathon! Det winning team will be rewarded with funding as well as coaching in developing a tailored implementation plan to implement the solution and create benefit.
The hackathon focuses on AI solutions in three challenge areas for gender equality: power and influence, unpaid domestic work and men's violence against women.
Based on the choice of idea, participants will be matched with one of the three challenge areas and will also be assigned mentors. The hack itself will be carried out on the hack platform DevPost.
Important holding points
- October 22: Proposal closes
- 22/10-3/11: Form teams and start listing ideas
- 22/10-3/11: Matching ideas/teams and challenge areas and DevPost/Slack Onboarding
- November 3: The hack starts
- November 3-5: Online event with keynote speaker
- 5 November at 18:00 Swedish time (12 PM ET): Deadline for submitting competition entries
- November 5 at 01:00 Swedish time (19 PM ET): Presentation of results and winners
Participate in the hack on site at SPACE
Gamingcentret SPACE is happy to open the doors of its premises to hack participants who do not want or are able to participate from home on November 3-5 to hack. SPACE is located in central Stockholm.
Here, they work hard on inclusion and that everyone should feel welcome, for example Queens & Queers events are arranged every month for girls and LGBTQIA+ individuals where you get the opportunity to play for free all day, and SPACE Academy who has courses and tech activities where 55 percent of the participants are girls.
Till SPACE welcomes everyone, regardless of background.
Christina Hamberg: christina.hamberg@space.cc
More information
More information can be found on the Women in Al website.