Biohackathon.xyz
Last weekend of November! Let's make it the biggest biohackathon in the world!
Total Biohackathon Rewards worth over $15,500
Cambridge (Co-Labs by Journey) or London (colaboratories.co.uk) Co-Working Lab Space:
Total Prize Value: £8,500
1st place: 3 months co-lab membership £5,700
2nd place: 1 month co-lab membership / £1,900
3rd place: 1 month co-work membership £450
Molecule.xyz Prize:
$1000 option for projects which IP you've put on chain
AthenaDAO Prize for Women's Health R&D track:
750ATH Tokens, currently worth about $750
CrowdWise Prize:
1st prize: $1500 CrowdWise credits. 1 year team subscription ($1000) to extract medical and genomic data for your study + $500 in cloud credits.
2nd: $1000 CrowdWise credits. 1 year team subscription to extract medical and genomic data for your study.
3rd: $600 CrowdWise credits. 6 months subscription to extract medical and genomic data for your study.
Event:
Join the revolution at BioHackathon.xyz! From bioinformatics to bioart, astrobiology to cyborg tech, we're pushing boundaries across disciplines. Connect with visionaries, tinker in wet labs, and shape the next era of biological innovation. Engage in cutting-edge fields like DeSci, FemTech, and BioSecurity while rubbing shoulders with renegade scientists and industry giants.
Whether you're a DIY enthusiast, academic pioneer, industry disruptor, biohacker, founder, or DeSci advocate - your ideas could change the world. Renegade researchers, daring entrepreneurs, and forward-thinking academics are all welcome!
The ticket covers a warm meal on Saturday and Sunday. A bar on-site will also be open during the daytime with food and snacks.
Tracks:
1. Bioinformatics: Drug Discovery AI
2. Molecular and Cell biology with Dr. James Utley from auragens.com and syndicate-labs.io
3. BioArt with Annan Zuo
4. Women's Health R&D with athenadao.co
5. AstroBio
6. DeSci
7. BioSecurity and Dual Use
8. ClimateTech and Sustainability in Science
9. BioEnhancers and Cyborgs
10. Longevity
Agenda:
Saturday:
9am-10am doors open, networking and teams formation
10.30am opening ceremony
11am work
1pm lunch
2pm work work work until you fall asleep
4pm - 7pm talks:
- "Drop by Drop, a Biohackers Guide to Pippette Mastery"
- Dual-Use and Proliferation - old problems, new enthusiasm. Stanley Mitchell, is a biochemist who has built a career commercialising cutting edge technology across sectors. He brings a unique view of the defence sector having sold to, and advised, organisations including MoD, Darpa, and defence primes. He also provides a global perspective, having worked on every (inhabited) continent.
- Importance of Biohacking and Democracy in Science by James Utley
- Building Influence and Visibility for Bio Innovators by Mark Lord from ValleyDAO
- Investing and fund-raising landscape in biotech by Will Harborne from LongGame VC
- Protecting Your Ideas with Blockchain by Kevin Noessler from Molecule
- How to Start Your Own Pharma Startup Without Raising Any Money! by Max Koko from crowdwise.bio
- From “Design With” to “Design For”: Empathy-driven BioArt Beyond Human Needs by Annan Zuo. His design projects centre on the concept of more-than-human architecture. He is also a member of the Eco-centric Future Lab. Check his insta: more.than.human_architecture
Sunday
1pm lunch
3 pm show and tell
4.30pm judges presenting best teams
7pm afterparty at Cambridge Revolution
Location:
Saturday-Sunday: Cambridge Chesterton Indoor Bowls Club, Logan's Way, Cambridge CB4 1BL
Sunday afterparty: Revolution Cambridge, Downing Pl, Cambridge CB2 3DS
Sponsors:
LongGame.vc
ribbonbio.com
Vitalia.City
Co-Labs by journey
Co-Laboratories
CrowdWise.bio
The Taspinar-Sherifovsky Family