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April 5-26, 2024:

Connecting the dots with KnowHax, the Knowledge-centric AI hackathon.

Register now to secure your spot for learning Knowledge-centric AI, or to sponsor a Challenge.

A new kind of hackathon brought to you by the Knowledge Graph Conference and the National Science Foundation

Partnering with the world's leading research institutions to build the first “Open Knowledge Network”.

Impact

Solve social and environmental challenges with Knowledge Graphs, based on the following NSF “Proto-OKN” themes.

  • Biology and Health

  • The Environment

  • Justice

  • Technology and Manufacturing

KnowHax, the first Knowledge-centric AI Hackathon, building industry & organization-specific AI

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    Solve important challenges

    Build your skills

    Get hiring visibility

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    For companies

    Solve important societal challenges

    Get access to leading innovation and research

    Get access to leading talent

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    For nonprofits

    Solve important problems with Knowledge-centric AI innovation

Remote.

All sub-events (Onboarding, Launch, Pitch, Team meetings, Mentor meetings…) will be accessible remotely.

Main Hack Dates:

APR 5 - APR 26

Pitch Date: May 9, Hybrid at Accenture NYC offices + Remote

Coincides with the Knowledge Graph Conference

  • Teams will support research projects supported by KGC and the NSF to create the first Open Knowledge Network - the knowledge that future AI will leverage.

  • Participants create Teams. Teams tackle Challenges by proposing Solutions. Teams meet, work, network, and have fun by doing! “A rewarding experience”

  • Mentors are tech experts, or business experts, who join for 3 to 8 hours total for the whole month of the Hack, and connect with one or more Team(s).

  • Choose their primary goals for sponsoring, so that their organization gets the right reporting and their employees (if any) may be engaged for the proper results and KPI, as chosen by the sponsor.

  • Solutions are what is produced: prototypes of implementations of the research project’s knowledge graphs. These prototypes should preferably contain functional code or no-code samples, but can also just consist of designs or data research. They are produced in open-source mode.

    • participants: commitment for 3 weekends in April 2024, and/or 3 full weeks

    • mentors: commitment for 3 hours, or 8 hours in April 2024. You choose.

    • sponsor: commitment for 1 hour of KPI sharing, 1 hour of employee invites, and as much event speaking or participation as appreciable or doable.

Partners - full list

Arizona State University

Columbia University

D.D. Joint Staff – NIEM (National Information Exchange Model)

DARPA

Fisk University

Georgia State University

Georgia Tech

Insilica

Institute for Systems Biology

Kansas State University

MIT CSAIL

Morehouse College

National Institute of Justice

National Institutets of Health

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

National Renewable Energy Laboratory

National Science Foundation

NCATS

NIEHS/NICEATM (National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences)

Northwestern University for Data Science

Onai

Purdue University

RENCI, UNC Chapel Hill

Roux Institute

Temple University

Texas Southern University

UC Davis

UCSF

University of Alabama Tuscaloosa

University of Central Florida

University of Cincinnati

University of Delaware

University of Maine

University of NC Chapel Hill

University of Notre Dame

University of Richmond

University of Texas Arlington

University of Virginia

USDA

USGS

Wormeli Consulting

Wright State University

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Feel free to share this short video with anyone who might want to participate! Are welcome:

  • Knowledge engineers

  • Ontologists, Taxonomist

  • Data scientists

  • Web developers (full stack, front-end, back-end)

  • Software engineering (algorithms, any tech)

  • UI Designers

  • Project managers & UX searchers

  • and any other non-tech skills & profiles who’d like to volunteer like marketers, customer care, and more!