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#CodeforCovid19 to build a better future
At this critical juncture in the global response to the unprecedented fallout of COVID-19, HCLTech and Microsoft present the Better Health Hackathon: #CodeForCOVID19 to engage a global community of talented, purpose-driven and passionate tech innovators and developers - harnessing their creativity, digital skills and entrepreneurial spirit to inspire solutions that address immediate concerns and long-term global challenges to better prepare for current and potential pandemic-related problems.
After 12 weeks of intense ideation and innovation, featuring over 7500 participants from 50+ countries, the Better Health Hackathon enters its final stage with 32 top teams shortlisted to compete for top honors via a series of live, tele-pitch presentations to panels of experts and industry leaders from the #CodeForCovid19 partner ecosystem. Join the global collaboration and witness the action as it unfolds live, between August 24 – 28 using the schedule below. We hope to have you with us virtually!
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| Prelims 1 | August 24th | 08:30 PM | 10:30 PM |
DefiPret - Improve productivity, mental health & happiness by taking 30-day challenges while quarantined Katabi - A ready-made webVR meeting & social spaces #CloseTheDistance while keeping people safe Safe Harbour - Advisory app to report the lack of Covid-19 safety measures enabling users to see the most safe places around them Covid19Prognostic - Development of tools to to assist the community at making better clinical outcome prediction for COVID-19 |
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| Prelims 2 | August 25th | 12:30 PM | 02:30 PM |
Fine App - A social network platform that gives importance to mental health by providing community support and easy access to mental health services Hosportal - Aims to build an Inter-Hospital relevant data management system to reduce the chaos which arises during admission of patients Quaranteam - A nationwide centralised & integrated mental healthcare system that supports individual's psychosocial well-being through a pandemic crisis Grape Community - An open platform aiming to connect communities with the local suppliers |
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| Prelims 3 | August 25th | 03:30 PM | 05:30 PM |
Public Transport Crowd Management - A solution to manage crowd at public transport during Covid-19 pandemic CovidCare - A.I powered digital hospital & mental Wellbeing solution for COVID-19 Corsafe - A cluster of web apps made for the wellness of people and society during a pandemic like COVID-19 Care Quest - A load balancing platform for medical services aimed at bringing order to the chaos caused by COVID-19 |
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| Prelims 4 | August 25th | 08:30 PM | 10:30 PM |
Guardian Health - Resource planning, virtual health services, digital filing systems and early detection platform using machine learning. CoVidSpy - A Pandemic Management and Safety Norm Violation Detection Analysis System. Foresights - Designed for local entrepreneurs, in order to increase their business value by helping to improve customer satisfaction in an unstable world Viral Cough Cop Device - An intelligent, non-contact, automatic screening device to sense COVID-19 coughs and identify the location of the coughing person in crowds |
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| Prelims 5 | August 26th | 12:30 PM | 02:30 PM |
R.E.C.O.V.E.R - We estimate the essential medical resources and predict upcoming hotspots using our 21 day forecasting model to help resource allocation Mental Health During A Pandemic - A system to identify the signs of depression from a person's speech Distancing & Mask Detection Solution - A social distancing analyzer and face mask detection that has been integrated into a single solution using yolov3 and Caffe Alchemist's Parameterized & Virtual Connect - A online healthcare consultation platform measuring obligatory requirements needed connecting patients and correct clinicians with privacy |
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| Prelims 6 | August 26th | 08:30 PM | 10:30 PM |
Critical Care - Empowers healthcare workers with a platform for real-time monitoring, remote care and self-learning insights CO-Cell - A cellphone app that displays the risk of catching COVID-19 graphically, based on the activity type, demographic data, and pre-conditions COVID Trace - An application to help us enter into this next phase of the pandemic Crowding Indicator Alert - Displays a warning when a store or other location is crowded. This might allow at-risk individuals to decide whether to come back later |
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| Prelims 7 | August 27th | 05:30 PM | 07:30 PM |
Kawach - Assists in tracing individuals while helping them maintain social distancing with an immersive AR experience and info about local businesses Pluto: Social Distancing Bus and Scheduling System - An efficient and streamline way to solve the risky situation pertaining to social distancing in view of the pandemic Precision Drug Predictor - uses lymphocytes from the blood of severely ill COVID 19 infected patients to predict drugs using data driven, precision medicine approach Covid-19 Image Diagnosis - AI web application that accurately performs medical image diagnosis of Covid-19 affected patients using chest X-Ray & CT scan reports |
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| Prelims 8 | August 27th | 08:30 PM | 10:30 PM |
Vebed - Bed and ventilator availability in one app Rnax - A Blockchain-based platform to galvanize research in biotechnology and healthcare, and make it accessible to the public Palapapa - Reducing lines for food. Help customers organize, restock and save money on their grocery list Care Coach - Training medical professionals to improve bedside manners (during COVID-19) using GPT-3 driven AI patients |
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| Grand Final | August 28th | 07:30 PM | 10:30 PM |
Teams to be announced after Prelims 8 |
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#CodeForCovid19 Themes
#CodeForCovid19 crowdsources innovation from the brightest technology brains for tangible solutions to drive better outcomes for us all, across the entire life-cycle of the global response to Covid19 through problem statements addressing pandemic prevention and containment, community enablement, crisis communication, accelerated vaccine discovery and clinical trials, protection for essential workers, remote healthcare and virtual productivity, and solutions for reopening of economies safeguarding public well-being.
Prevention & containment: #Stay-at-home
How can technology aid efforts to #FlattenTheCurve by offering a better quality of life to encourage people to #StayAtHome, preventing the overload of healthcare systems through behaviors that minimize the risk of community spread.
Diagnosis, treatment & therapeutic management
Help better protect and equip frontline healthcare workers and first responders, and enable those working towards treatments and cures for COVID-19 through ways to accelerate drug discovery, testing and clinical trials for vaccine development.
Recovery and return to normal
How can technology safeguard communities that will return to workplaces, mass transit systems, public spaces, dining & retail outlets as well as gradually into sports arenas, cinemas, theatres and concerts.
Systemic solutions for crisis & pandemic management
Ideate innovative uses for next-gen technologies to better plan for the long term implications of COVID-19 and better prepare for future global pandemic-related challenges across healthcare and public services ecosystems.
Advisory and Judging Panel
Providing mentorship and guidance will be academics and influencers from institutions such as Johns Hopkins, Cambridge University, Tuck School of Business, International SOS and subject matter experts & thought leaders from Merck and co., Johnson & Johnson, Novartis, Blue Cross Blue Shield North Carolina, and more industry leaders from the Life sciences and healthcare, joined by technology disruptors from HCLTech and Microsoft.
Dr. Jessica Gallagher
Pro-Vice-Chancellor (Global Engagement and Entrepreneurship)
The University of Queensland
Sally Ann Frank
Health & Life Sciences IoT Advisor, Global Black Belt
Microsoft
Eva Telecka
Hub Lead for IT Risk Management and Security & Liaison Lead for EMEA Region
MSD
Dr. Bronwyn King AO
Chief Executive Officer
Tobacco Free Portfolios
Dr. Youseph Yazdi
Executive Director, Center for Bioengineering Innovation and Design
Johns Hopkins University
Dr. Greg Jakubowski
Regional Medical Director, Corporate Solutions, Asia
International SOS
Dr. Rahul Kalia
Medical Director, India
International SOS
Dr. Mohamed Zaki
Deputy Director of the Cambridge Service Alliance
University of Cambridge
Dawid Konotey-Ahulu
Founder
Redington Ltd, Mallowstreet Ltd
Vaida Cesnuleviciute
Adviser to the President
Office of the President of Lithuania
Lars Gehrmann
Digital Health Venture Architect Wellcare Ecosystem
Zurich Insurance
Itumeleng Makgati
Group CISO and Vice President
Sasol
Nolan Bennett
Chief Information Officer
Otsuka Pharmaceutical Companies
Dr. Garang M. Dut
Fellow in Health Systems
Australian National University
Vijay Gullapalli, Ph.D
Head of Advanced Analytics
Blue Cross NC
David Pace
Director, Digital Marketing IT
MSD
Patrick Wheeler
Executive Director, Center for Digital Strategies
Tuck School of Business
Kris McKinstrey
Director - Digital transformation lead for Global Animal Health & UK AH IT
MSD
Waldemar Hummer
Head of Engineering
Zurich Insurance Switzerland
Parag Karnik
Vice President, Global Head Of Engineering and Operations
Johnson & Johnson
Naveen Valluri
Principal PM Architect in Health AI
Microsoft
Roger Süess
Chief Executive Officer
green.ch AG
Gerry Lewis
Senior Vice President and CIO
Ascension
Amitabha Bandyopadhyay
KENT Entrepreneurship and Innovation Chair Professor
IIT Kanpur
Nikhil Aggarwal
CEO, Foundation for Innovation & Research in Science & Technology (FIRST)
IIT Kanpur
Pawel Gora
Chief Executive Officer
Quantum AI Foundation
Dr. Gerd Mann
Head IT and Head IT Department
Paul Scherrer Institut
Souad Tenfiche
CEO NUMA Bangalore & Co-President
La French Tech - India
Agam Upadhyay
SVP, Chief Technology Officer
GSK
Dorothea Wong
Executive Director
Collins Aerospace
Michael Biron
SVP - Credit, Fraud & Settlement Leader
Synchrony
Jay Smith
Chief Information Officer
TracFone Wireless
Jacob Elisha
Senior Director, OneMD Service and Repair Program Leader
Biosense Webster, Inc.
Frank Wetters
Global IT Lead - A.I., Analytics, RPA, (Financial & Non-Financial) Risk
ING
Nixa Risk
Global Technology Leader and Product Line Owner, HCP
Johnson & Johnson MD&D
Sandra Bryant
Director, Business Systems
Collins Aerospace
Sally McArthur
CSIRO Research + Science Leader and Professor of Biomedical Engineering
Swinburne University of Technology
John Lewis
Senior Director Of Engineering
Collins Aerospace
Dr. Jayesh Jani
Medical Director - Global Emerging Markets
ConvaTec
Carsten Falk Hammershøj
Vice President, IT
Equinor
Rachel Stahler
Chief Information Officer,
Organon & Co. at Merck
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If you or your organization are interested in partnering on this platform, get in touch with us at CodeForCovid19@hcl.com.