Open Sea Lab Competition: the first EMODnet Bootcamp on open marine data

15-17 November 2017, Start-up Village Antwerp, Belgium

Event website: www.opensealab.eu

EMODnet's 1^st Open Sea Lab Bootcamp will take place in De Serre, Antwerp. Open Sea Lab will begin on Wednesday 15 November and run until Friday 17 November, culminating in a prize giving and evening reception. Inspirational speakers will open the event and optional, expert-led, come-and-go workshops will take place throughout the three days. We expect about 22 teams of around 5 people to participate in the Open Sea Lab. Teams will be offered coaching, and technical experts will be on hand to provide support throughout the event.

Join us at the Closing Award Ceremony

The Closing Session with Award Ceremony is open for those who are interested to hear about the results but not participating in the competition itself. If you want to attend, you need to register using the award ceremony registration form.

Friday 17 November 2017

15.00 - 15.30 Welcome and Opening Addresses by:

• European Commission - Directorate General for Maritime and Fisheries
• Jan Mees, Director, Flanders Marine Institute

15.30 - 17.00 Pitching competition & Demo's
17.00 - 17.30 Closing Keynote - Open Data Benefits and Challenges - Frédéric Bardolle, Data for Good, France
17.30 - 18.00 Closing Addresses, Jury Deliberation & Award ceremony
18.00 - 20:00 Networking reception

Full Programme

Day 1 - Wednesday 15 November 2017, 08.30 - 19.00

• Match-make - With whom will you work? Individuals will be matched to appropriate teams
• Ideate - What will you work on? Ideas and challenges will be presented and exchanged
• Create - Teams will deliver a first version of their solution]

Day 2 - Thursday 16 November 2017, 08.30 - 16.45

• Create - Teams will deliver a second version of their solution
• Validate - Assumptions will be validated with external users
• Iterate - Refine and revise solutions

Day 3 - Friday 17 November 2017, 09.00 - 16.00

• Iterate - Further refine and revise solutions based on validation and coaching feedback
• Pitch - Teams will present their solution in a short pitch presentation
• Close - Prize-giving followed by evening reception and networking

Why apply to the hackathon?

Whatever your background, you will come away from this event with new skills. If you have already a brilliant idea for an innovative application exploiting marine open data, you can use the hackathon to learn more about the different datasets, the available technological solutions and data-visualisation tools that you can adopt to improve your application. Additionally you can get support from the coaches and experts that will be present at the event. For free! They will help you in refining your ideas and enhance your technical, business modelling or pitching skills.

Don’t have an idea? No problem, we are organising an ideation sessions on Day 1 for brainstorming.

Additionally you have a chance to win great prizes.

How can you apply?

• Apply as a team or as an individual to www.opensealab.eu/applications
• Applicants will be selected based on their motivations and skills, to ensure a diversity of expertise (creative, technical, business). If you do have a precious idea, don’t worry, you don’t have to share it yet. Just tell us your reason for applying and your background
• Individuals or incomplete teams will be matched to form complete teams, combining all the necessary elements to develop a winning concept.
• Numbers are limited to 120, 20 teams of 4-5 people, so the sooner you apply, the better your chance of being selected!
• So apply now to www.opensealab.eu/applications!

Applications close on 23 October 2017.

Do you need more information on the Competition?

Click here to watch the recording of the kick-off meeting.