FoodHack
Geneva 2017
27th to 29th of October
@Impact Hub Geneva
Applications have now closed. If you'd like
to join as a guest, reserve your ticket here.
Applications have now closed. If you'd like to join as a guest,
reserve your ticket here.
Let's Hack !
FoodHack Geneva is a 54-hour hackathon, where 60 selected participants will tackle our worlds food challenges. We are looking for engineers, food industry specialists, designers, developers, researchers, and hustlers to come together to build solutions and shape a more sustainable future of food.
60 talented participants
54 hours competition
27th to 29th of October
Impact Hub Geneva
FoodHack Challenges
Presented By
Food Save Challenge
Food Save challenge
Urban Agriculture
urban agriculture
Food Traceability & Provenance
Food traceability & Provenance
Mentors & Jury
Tatjana de Kerros
Startup builder @RicoLab
Pascal Allot
Regional manager IBM Switzerland
Dr. Vincenzo Pallotta
Professor of Innovation and Entrepreneurship HEIG-VD
Amanda Byrde
CoFounder & Head of Finance Impact Hub Geneva
Catherine martinson
Head of Regional Work @WWF Switzerland
Marco Iotti
Founder & CEO @Altrove Innovation
Erica Mazerolle
Lead & Catalyst @Sustainable Living Lab
Peter Jaggy
independent Engineer - Consultant - Former Vice President Engineering for the Nestlé Group”
Elodie AUER
Project Manager @Ambrosus
François Rebetez
Urbaniste de la Ville de Carouge et coordinateur quartiers durables OPL, GEA Vallotton & Chanard SA
Beatrice Montesi
External Relations @GAIN – Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition
The Schedule
Here’s what happens during FoodHack Geneva
Friday 27th October - 18:30 to night
Apéro & Networking
Participants and partners come together over dinner and drinks, the perfect combination to get ideas flowing.
CHALLENGE
The challengers, Impact Hub & RicoLab, who have submitted a brief will have 3 minutes on stage to present their challenge to participants.
60 Seconds to Pitch
Following a brainstorming session, participants will then have the opportunity to pitch their ideas and solutions to the proposed challenges.
Build your team
Teams of 5 -6 participants are formed around the top pitches and the organizers ensure a fair mix of multiple skills (tech, research, business and design).
Saturday 28th October - All Day
Learn from the best
Mentors from the Food Hackathon partners will be assigned to teams to provide their expertise and coach teams through the hard problems.
invent & Build solutions
We've got the resources and support in place to make things happen in a short period of time. Participants will utilise these to put their ideas into prototypes.
Play & Eat
To get participants moving and away from their screens (only for a short time) we have a number of delicious meals and activities planned (yoga & more).
Sunday 29th October - Morning to 21:00
Meet the jury
Present your project
The culmination of the weekend. Participants have 5 minutes to present the solutions they’ve built to the crowd and a panel of experts.
Celebrate
Prizes are handed out to the winning teams, followed by an apero and drink with participants, partners and guests to finish off the event.
Attend As A Guest
Stay the entire weekend or join us for the final pitches and closing apéro.
Limited number available.
Challengers
Food & Drinks Partners
Supporting Partners
FoodHack Geneva Hackathon
FoodHack Geneva is part of FoodHack.ch, the Swiss non-for-profit that brings people together both online and offline so that they can imagine, shape and create solutions for a more sustainable future of food.
After our first hackathon in October 2016, we’re back with this years focus firmly on turning passiveness and good intentions to activeness and change making. As organizers, we promise to provide the ideal environment so that you can turn your ideas into impact.
Meet the team
team[@]foodhack.ch
