Hackathon

DRAGON ML Hackathon: Plant your code is an opportunity to apply your knowledge, acquire new skills and develop solutions in the field of machine learning (ML). Discover the potentials of ML application in precise agriculture through work on crop classification using satellite data with mentors from data science. Great prizes are waiting for you!

INTRO lecture:

PROF DR IOANNIS ATHANASIADIS, PROFESSOR OF AI & DATA SCIENCE, WUR, NL

 

DR SANJA BRDAR, Head of Center for information technologies (CIT)

 

EIT FOOD SERBIA – IRINA STOKANOVIĆ

 

Smart Farming and Innovation Brokers – Emilija Oreščanin

HACKATHON:

YOU HAVE 48 HOURS TO UNLOCK NEW OPPORTUNITIES IN PRECISION AGRICULTURE BY WORKING ONLINE WITH YOUR TEAM OF MAXIMUM 3 MEMBERS.

 

DURING THE HACKATHON, YOU WILL HAVE THE SUPPORT OF EXPERIENCED MENTORS FROM THE BIOSENSE INSTITUTE, CENTER FOR INFORMATION TECHNOLOGIES.

Dragon ML Hackathon: Plant Your Code

Advances in satellite technology allow us to monitor the growth and development of plants in high spatial and temporal resolution. It is these new technologies that create opportunities for the revolutionization of agriculture. However, to fully use the value of such data, we need novel analytical methods.

DRAGON ML Hackathon: Plant Your Code organized by the BioSense Institute, as the coordinator of the H2020 project, DRAGON – Acquisition of skills in the field of data-driven precision agriculture services. Hackathon aims to establish a strong connection between current and future experts dealing with data science and modern agriculture.

WHY IS THIS HACKATHON SPECIAL?

Thursday to Saturday, November 25-27th, 2021, participants will work online with their teams with up to 3 members to analyze and address the challenges we have prepared. Crop classification data, which will be made available, include satellite data from the European Space Agency, SoilGrids land data and field data gathered by the BioSense Institute. Then, on Saturday, at the final event, you will present your final solutions and win great prizes.

Mentors from the BioSense Institute, experienced researchers with multidisciplinary knowledge, will provide support to the teams through mentoring sessions, for which a schedule will be set during the hackathon.

The winning teams will be able to further improve their solutions and bring them closer to commercial use through individual consultations with Dr. Oskar Marko, Assistant Director for Innovation and Cooperation with Industry from the Biosense Institute.

THREE TEAMS WILL RECEIVE GREAT PRIZES FOR DEVELOPING THE BEST SOLUTIONS.

1st place
175.000 RSD
2nd place
120.000 RSD
3rd place
85.000 RSD

DISCLAIMER: 1st ranked team will have the option of choosing first from the pool of prizes

We will choose 10 teams to which we will pay our full attention so that they can shine. So, try to include in your application as much detail as possible.

 

APPLICATIONS OPEN UNTIL 20.11. AT NOON CET

Organization team

BioSense – DRAGON

Ivana-Gadjanski
IVANA GADJANSKI

DRAGON project coordinator and Assistant Director for Science, BioSense Institute

Sanja-Brdar
SANJA BRDAR

Head of Center for Information Technologies and Assistant Director for HR, BioSense Institute

Lugonja
PREDRAG LUGONJA

Associate at CIT and expert in remote detection

Oskar-Marko
Oskar Marko

Assistant Director for Innovation and Cooperation with Industry

Marko Panić

Research Associate and expert in signal processing

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Jelena Ognjenov

DRAGON Designer

Mentors

Branislav Pejak

Image Processing Expert

Željana Grbović

Image Processing Expert

Dejan-Pavlovic
Dejan Pavlović

Signal Processing Expert

Predrag Matavulj

Machine Learning Expert

Gold sponsor of DRAGON ML Hackathon

Agenda

Day 1 - 25.11.2021.
09:30 Hackaton opening
Dr Sanja Brdar
Head of CIT, Biosense Institute
09:40 Microsoft Development Center Serbia
Golden Sponsor
Milica Kostić
Head of CIT, External Communications & Community Relations Manager
09:45 "Machine Learning for Agricultural Digital Twins" lecture
Prof dr Ioannis Athanasiadis
Wageningen University and Research (WUR), The Netherlands
10:15 EIT Food - Transformation of the food system
Irina Stokanovic
Entrepreneurship Development Coordinator at StartIT
10:30 Smart Farming and Innovation Brokers- Innovation Support Services for the digital transformation in agriculture
Emilija Oreščanin
Assistant Project Manager in Center for innovation and business development, BioSense Institute
11:00-11:15 Break
11:15 Task presentation
Dr Marko Panić
Research associate at BioSense institute
11:45 Introduction of the mentors
12:00 Hackathon START
14:00-16:00 Mentoring sessions
Branislav Pejak
Expert for image processing
Željana Grbović
Expert for image processing
Dejan Pavlović
Expert for signal processing
Predrag Matavulj
Expert for machine learning
Day 2 - 26.11.2021.
10:00-12:00 Mentoring sessions
Branislav Pejak and Predrag Matavulj
Dejan Pavlović and Željana Grbović
18:00-20:00 mentors will answer questions sent by email
Day 3 - 27.11.2021.
15:00 Opening of the event
15:15 Presentation of solutions in 5-minute slots per team
16:30 Best solutions announcement
17:00 Closing the event

Terms & Conditions

All hackathon participants retain intellectual property rights for methods developed and applied during the hackathon. The use of data that will be available for the hackathon, as well as the final results, will be the subject of a Data Confidentiality Agreement that each participant will sign with the BioSense Institute, before the event.


Use of data after hackathon


BioSense retains ownership of the data and any other information and materials made available by the Institute during the hackathon.


Participants will be given the right to further use the data for research purposes following the research plan submitted to the BioSens Institute. Also, participants undertake to inform the BioSense Institute about the research results arising from the data from the hackathon, if they plan to publish the work (s) based on the same data / results.

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