​🚀Make an impact on real world problems in a single weekend!🚀

​Join Hack for Social Impact and tackle real-world challenges! We are teaming up with United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification and Chan Zuckerburg Initiative and other non-profit partners to present you with important, pressing, and well-scoped challenges. These problems can be solved by you!

​In addition to cash prizes and perks from our sponsors, winners will get the chance to implement their ideas with our partners and drive meaningful change.

​Solve problems like...

​💧💧 Land degradation, drought, and people

​How does land degradation affect natural disasters such as drought? How does it impact the lives of people in economic and social indicators? How effective is land restoration in different areas in leading to economic growth and economic well-being? What tools can you build to help in the analysis of these factors?

​🇺🇳🌏💬 Fast and accurate translation of UN documents in highly technical contexts

​UN documents are domain specific and involve complex concepts not common enough in most language models to be readily translated accurately. Build natural language systems that can learn from existing official documents and translate these documents into other UN official languages or tools to assist official translators in producing accurate documents.

​🏠🏠 Understanding building codes for housing affordability

​Each jurisdiction in California has a different building code that developers have to follow to construct new housing creating a fragmented and confusing space for new housing to be built. Is it possible to create a system that can clearly organize and display differences in building codes? It would be an immense help to affordable housing construction and policy change!

​**More details on problem statements and requisite datasets will be provided on the day of the hackathon. You will also be able to talk with a representative from the non-profits to better understand the problem statements. 

​Prize

​🥇First place: $3000 project grant* or $2000 cash prize

​🥈Second place: $1500 Project grant* or $1000 Cash prize

​🥉Third place: $500 Cash prize

​*Project grant= collaborate with the non-profit to complete the project to a deployable state, best faith effort. 

​Also .. 👀 Prizes for Best Use of Technology ...

​Microsoft for Startup Prizes

​🏆First Prize: $25,000 in Azure credits

​🏆Second Prize: $5,000 in Azure credits

​Fetch.ai Technology Prizes

​🏆 Global Good Prize: $1,000 Cash Prize Interview Opportunity 50 Agents, 1M Messages, and 200K Seconds of computation time on Agentverse for 1 month

​🏆 Social Transformation Prize: $500 Cash Prize
Interview Opportunity

​🏆 Environmental Change Prize: $500 Cash Prize

​🏆 Impact Maker Prize: $5000 Project Grant

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​Schedule:

​​Day 1: Saturday, Nov 9
8:00am Registration & Breakfast
​9:30am Opening ceremony
​12:00pm Lunch
​6:00pm Dinner
​10:00pm Venue closed, no overnight stay​

​​Day 2: Sunday, Nov 10
8:00am Breakfast
​12:00pm Lunch
4:00pm Team Presentations
6pm: Closing Remarks & Awards Ceremony
​6:30pm Networking & Wrap-up

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​Hackathon Organizers:

​Cher Hu:  Founder of Hack for Social Impact, Organizer of SFTech4Good 

​Marzieh Nabi, PhD: Founder and CEO at PaxAI, former Product Manager at Amazon and research scientist at Xerox PARC

​Qintian Zhang: Product Manager at Microsoft

​Shelly Cheng: Award-winning Data Visualization Specialist and Staff Software Engineer at Visa

​John Church: Founder and CEO at MilestoneX working on AI-powered project analysis for nonprofits, foundations, and other mission-driven organizations.

​Ghalia Farzat: Product Manager, avid volunteer with nonprofit experience

​Our Partners:

​United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification

​Chan Zuckerberg Initiative

​Terner Housing for Housing Innovation

​Community Legal Services in East Palo Alto

​Our Sponsors:

​Microsoft (Microsoft for Startups)

​Fetch.ai, Fetch AI Innovation Lab

​Also, shoutout to our awesome community partners, SFTech4Good, MilestoneX, GarysGuide, AI for Good, FastForward, and Stanford CodeX!

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​For more information: https://www.hackforsocialimpact.com/