AI Hackathon
We’re thrilled to invite you to an exciting hackathon that brings together innovative minds focused on developing AI solutions for social impact and healthcare. This event is a unique opportunity to ideate, collaborate, and prototype projects that make a real difference in the world.
Connect with other AI enthusiasts, brainstorm ideas, and work together to bring new projects to life.
Event Highlights:
Collaborative Brainstorming: Work alongside fellow AI enthusiasts and creators.
AI & Supercomputing Resources: Access to NVIDIA’s Cambridge-1, the UK’s most powerful supercomputer for healthcare and life sciences, provided through King’s CREATE environment.
Prototyping and Experimentation: An opportunity to build, explore, and experiment with innovative solutions that leverage AI.
Networking: Meet developers, creators, and entrepreneurs passionate about social impact, AI, and LLM technologies.
What to Bring: Your amazing ideas, a laptop, and a collaborative spirit!
Who Should Attend? Whether you're a developer, designer, healthcare professional, or just passionate about AI and social impact, this hackathon is for you. If you’re eager to connect with others and create impactful AI solutions, join us!
Schedule:
6.30pm: Arrive for registration
6.45pm: Tour of available computing by Dr Ricardo Twumasi
7.00pm: Introductions & Idea Exploration
7.30pm: Vote on projects to work on & form teams
7.45pm: Work in teams on top 1-3 projects
9.00pm: Present back to group
9.30pm: Discuss next steps
10.00: Close
Meet the Hosts:
Rachael Twumasi-Corson is a multi award-winning entrepreneur and storyteller. Her words have been published in Huff Post, Business Insider, Healthline, The Voice & Black Ballad. She also writes a substack newsletter for over 30k readers.
Rachael’s published features and chapters include Side Hustle in Progress (HarperCollins), Slay in Your Lane (HarperCollins), Superheroes (Merky Books, Penguin), A Quick Ting On: The Black Girl Afro (Jacaranda Books, Hachette), Grown (Bloomsbury Publishing) and How to Make Money (HarperCollins.)
As well as non-fiction, Rachael enjoys writing science fiction, fantasy and speculative fiction because of the way these genres allow us to dismantle issues in our worlds and imagine better ones. Influenced by her Ghanaian and Dutch heritage, as well as her upbringing in London, she explores culture, identity and belonging in her work.
Rachael lives in London with her teacher husband and four (extremely energetic) young children. When she's not crafting stories, running businesses, volunteering or serving on boards, Rachael does karate, paints and plays guitar.
Dr Ricardo Twumasi commenced his tenure at King's College London in 2019, from the University of Manchester.
As a principal investigator, he has spearheaded an array of research initiatives encompassing resilience in healthcare workers, health promotion, workplace discrimination, energy company collaboration, and public engagement in the fields of psychology and psychiatry.
Currently, his scholarly pursuits are concentrated on organisational change, with a specialised focus on leveraging machine learning to create opportunities for individuals suffering from mental health conditions.
Ricardo has been an invited speaker at prestigious platforms including the British Psychological Society, The European Foundation for the Improvement of Living and Working Conditions, and the Council of Europe, among other academic institutions.
Ricardo Twumasi's research interests and areas of PhD supervision include:
Organisational Change and Adoption of Net Zero
Workplace Health Promotion
Equality at Work
Work Stress;
Health Inequalities
Ricardo leads the 7PCSDECL Decolonising Mental Health Research module.
In addition to his academic publications, he has contributed articles to the BBC, The Conversation, The World Economic Forum, and HR Review. His research has been featured and he has been interviewed by media outlets such as the BBC and iNews, as well as a diverse array of podcasts.