Again in October, we introduced the first-ever Cloudera Local weather and Sustainability Hackathon, powered by AMD. The Hackathon was meant to offer information science specialists with entry to Cloudera machine studying to develop their very own Accelerated Machine Studying Venture (AMP) centered on fixing one of many many environmental challenges going through the world immediately.
Greater than 2,300 information scientists competed within the Local weather and Sustainability Hackathon—a document variety of Cloudera Hackathon members for an extremely vital trigger. And that document quantity meant exhausting work for our judging panel, who have been tasked with evaluating the almost 200 revolutionary AMPs that our members created to find out the highest three winners.
The judging course of befell over two phases from October 2023 to March 2024. Within the first section, the judges awarded factors primarily based on uniqueness and innovation of the thought and the issue it will clear up; the method to how the mission would make use of machine studying; the articulated advantages to the surroundings; and the way differentiated the answer was from different purposes. In section two, the judges additional narrowed the submission pool by evaluating the code high quality, net utility high quality, and potential affect of the AMP.
The outcome? Three extremely inspiring tasks able to focusing on a few of our most urgent local weather challenges. However you’ll have to remain tuned to search out out simply who these winners are after we announce this week.
Within the meantime, get to know a few of the judges who made this Hackathon so successful.
Jake Bengtson
Jake is the Technical Evangelism Director at Cloudera, the place he makes a speciality of demonstrating how Cloudera’s Lakehouse helps Generative AI and the whole information lifecycle. His journey in Cloudera started as a Senior Product Advertising and marketing Supervisor over machine studying lifecycle merchandise. Jake beforehand honed his expertise at ExxonMobil, beginning as a Information Scientist and ultimately progressing to a Information Science and Analytics Resolution Architect position. As well as, he held the position of Senior Information Scientist and Information Science Supervisor at FarmersEdge, including a startup and geospatial side to his expertise.
Mike Hower
Mike Hower is a sustainability communication chief with expertise on each side of the rostrum — as a journalist and communication strategist for main world corporations. Because the founder and fractional sustainability communication govt at Hower Impression, Mike works carefully with corporations to translate their sustainability technique into tales that stick whereas navigating the dangers and alternatives of an evolving communications panorama. Mike has served as a communication strategist at each giant and small consultancies, together with Edelman, and has led in-house communication efforts at mission-driven startups. Mike shares insights and concepts as a LinkedIn influencer, writing his ENGAGE e-newsletter and weblog, and internet hosting “The Sustainability Communicator” podcast.
Debbie Kruger
Debbie is the Director of Inner Communications and Social Impression at Cloudera, the place she’s led revolutionary methods in social affect and worker engagement for the previous two years. With a background spanning from company giants like Marsh & McLennan Corporations and Verizon to vogue retailer ANN INC., Debbie brings cross-industry expertise creating impactful CSR initiatives that leverage company assets to make sustainable and long-lasting impacts on corporations, local weather, and communities.
Vijay Sudan
Vijay is a seasoned company accountability and sustainability govt with expertise main world environmental sustainability technique for 3 completely different Fortune 100 corporations, most not too long ago at The Walt Disney Firm. Beforehand, he managed world Social Impression initiatives for twenty first Century Fox and led Information Company’s International Vitality Initiative, serving to them to turn out to be the primary carbon-neutral world media firm in 2010.
Yi-Hsun Tsai
Yi-Hsun Tsai is a Senior Engineering Supervisor of the Enterprise AI Platform staff at Cloudera, the place he has led the staff constructing the Enterprise AI & ML platform for supporting end-to-end machine studying & Generative AI operations. Previous to Cloudera, Yi-Hsun was a founding staff member of Sense, which later grew to become the Cloudera Information Science Workbench and Cloudera Machine Studying, in addition to a founding staff member of the Publish TV video staff at Washington Publish and constructed the Publish TV platform for serving reside streaming or video on demand from the Washington Publish newsroom. Yi-Hsun holds a Grasp of Science in Engineering in Pc and Data Science from the College of Pennsylvania. Initially from Taiwan and now primarily based in San Francisco, Yi-Hsun enjoys touring across the globe together with his spouse and his six-year-old son when he’s not constructing the following technology of Enterprise AI platform together with his staff.
Test in subsequent week for the winner announcement and be taught extra about Cloudera’s AMD group right here.
