Hack Knowledge-centric AI
for cyber security
KnowHax: Innovate, Train, and Recruit
for Cyber-Security AI
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Engage in Innovation and Co-creation
Take the lead in AI with “Knowledge-centric AI”. Spur and track AI innovation. Involve your teams flexibly into groundbreaking Open-Innovation. Create awareness on how to adapt AI to your organization’s knowledge.
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Train teams, hands-on
Unleash your potential in the new AI-led Creative Economy, where fast learning and fast implementation are key to success. Enable your teams to meet and learn Knowledge-centric AI hands-on, with the best professors and students, applied to an important field of Cyber Security.
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Hire AI talent
Vet and Select: Tech, product, cyber security, or IT teams can join as mentors, and see talent at work, while participants also receive badges and accolades from the world’s best experts. Brand to your talent pool as a leader in Knowledge-centric AI.
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” for Secure SaaS Supply Chains.
April 5-26, 2024:
Connecting the dots with KnowHax, the Knowledge-centric AI hackathon.
Register now to secure your spot and sponsor the Secure SaaS Supply Chains Challenge with Purdue University.
Impact
Help solve one of the most pressing challenges in Cyber Security, with Knowledge Graphs.
The SaaS Supply Chain NSF OKN project aims to build a comprehensive knowledge graph of software components across the SaaS Supply Chain, to enhance overall security. Utilizing a neural knowledge acquisition pipeline, it will extract and update data from various sources, consolidating it with quality control measures. The resulting knowledge graph will support a unique multi-modal query system and tools for detecting and addressing software vulnerabilities, real time. Collaborations with industry and government partners will ensure real-world relevance, while initiatives to engage and educate future software programmers will be integrated.
KnowHax is not a traditional cyber security hackathon where hackers attempt to penetrate defenses, etc. With KnowHax, you co-create around a next-gen AI project funded for the next 3 years by the NSF, with open source data. You take part in a hackathon “Challenge” that will try and implement a “Solution”: a prototype app or model to solve an aspect of the Secure SaaS Supply Chain problem. You will leverage some of the data made available by the OKN project at Purdue University.
With KnowHax, you can engage some of your teams to mentor the Participants who will take part in solving this project. You can engage your teams in learning with the Participants, and bringing back innovative ideas and new knowledge to your company. You can also just take a back seat and brand to talent, or actively connect with the research teams at dedicated events.
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Hackathon format
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 Accenture NYC offices + remote
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Teams will support Beneficiaries: research projects funded by the NSF to create the first Open Knowledge Network - the knowledge that future AI will leverage.
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Participants create Teams. Teams tackle Challenges by proposing Solutions. Teams meet, work, network, and have fun by doing! “A rewarding experience”
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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).
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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.
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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.
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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.
Share within your community!
For Mentors
For Participants
Share this short video with anyone who might want to mentor or introduce us to a Cyber Sec vendor! the following skills are welcome:
Data science
Web development
Cyber Security
Software engineering
Design & UX,
Project management,
and any other non-tech skills & profiles who’d like to volunteer.
About us
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