This September Garage48 in collaboration with US Embassy will organise a fi rst of its kind regional hackathon focused on matching NGOs and government o fficial with Estonian technologists to develop innovative solutions to tackle the challenge of Tra fficking in Persons. The problem of tra fficking in persons (TIP), the trade or forced movement of humans, most commonly fot the purpose of sexual slavery, forced labor or commercial sexual exploitation, continues to be a vexing problem in Europe. Our concept is to “hack” the challenge of TIP by looking at whether more advanced technological solutions could be brought to bear to advance the fight against TIP.
You are welcome if you have world changing idea or you are interested in this topic and want to solve problems with IT applications.
Theme: All ideas connected to human traffi cking (web and mobile projects).
Who: IT developers, marketeers, project managers, designers, visionary entrepreneurs, NGOs and government o fficials.
Why to participate?
- Meet new people from other industries, roles and countries;
- Learn more about the topic and contribute to society;
- Less talk, more action and fun
Friday, 18 September
16:00 Registration
and networking
16:45 Introduction
and Opening Remarks
·
U.S. Ambassador Jeffrey Levine
· Instructions for the
weekend
17:15 Framing the
Challenge (TIP Panel):
·
U.S. State Department J/TIP Office, Renee
Huffman
·
Panel Discussion: Estonian NGOs and Regional
Participants
18:15 Coffee break
18:30 Presentation of
Ideas (90 sec)
20:00 Team Formation
21:00 Team Work
Saturday, 19 September
09:00 Coffee and
light breakfast. Team work and
development continues
10:00 Checkpoint #1
11:00 Mentors go
around
13:00 Lunch
13:45 Product
development
16:00 Inspirational Start-Up Story: TIP Hero from
Latvia
19:00 Dinner and networking
20:00 Checkpoint #2. Development continues.
Sunday, 20 September
09:00 Coffee and
light breakfast. Team work and
development continues
10:00 Checkpoint #3
11:00 Pitch drill session #1
13:00 Lunch
14:00 Pitch drill session #2
17:00 Coffee break
with light meal
17:30 Final
Presentations (Live streaming)
20:00 Announcement of
Winners, wrap-up & bye-bye
NB! Schedule is tentative, changes are possible and likely to happen.
