Local weather and Sustainability Hackathon—Meet the Judges!
Again in October, we introduced the first-ever Cloudera Local weather and Sustainability Hackathon, powered by AMD. The Hackathon was meant to supply knowledge science consultants with entry to Cloudera machine studying to develop their very own Accelerated Machine Studying Mission (AMP) targeted on fixing one of many many environmental challenges dealing with the world right now.
Greater than 2,300 knowledge scientists competed within the Local weather and Sustainability Hackathon—a report variety of Cloudera Hackathon members for an extremely vital trigger. And that report quantity meant laborious work for our judging panel, who have been tasked with evaluating the practically 200 progressive AMPs that our members created to find out the highest three winners.
The judging course of occurred over two phases from October 2023 to March 2024. Within the first part, the judges awarded factors primarily based on uniqueness and innovation of the thought and the issue it could resolve; the method to how the challenge would make use of machine studying; the articulated advantages to the setting; and the way differentiated the answer was from different purposes. In part two, the judges additional narrowed the submission pool by evaluating the code high quality, internet software high quality, and potential influence of the AMP.
The outcome? Three extremely inspiring tasks able to concentrating 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 number of the judges who made this Hackathon so successful.
Jake Bengtson
Jake is the Technical Evangelism Director at Cloudera, the place he focuses on demonstrating how Cloudera’s Lakehouse helps Generative AI and the whole knowledge lifecycle. His journey in Cloudera started as a Senior Product Advertising and marketing Supervisor over machine studying lifecycle merchandise. Jake beforehand honed his abilities at ExxonMobil, beginning as a Information Scientist and ultimately progressing to a Information Science and Analytics Answer 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 firms. Because the founder and fractional sustainability communication govt at Hower Impression, Mike works carefully with firms 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 publication 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 progressive methods in social influence and worker engagement for the previous two years. With a background spanning from company giants like Marsh & McLennan Firms and Verizon to trend retailer ANN INC., Debbie brings cross-industry expertise growing impactful CSR initiatives that leverage company sources to make sustainable and long-lasting impacts on firms, local weather, and communities.
Vijay Sudan
Vijay is a seasoned company duty and sustainability govt with expertise main world environmental sustainability technique for 3 completely different Fortune 100 firms, most lately at The Walt Disney Firm. Beforehand, he managed world Social Impression initiatives for twenty first Century Fox and led Information Company’s World 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 turned the Cloudera Information Science Workbench and Cloudera Machine Studying, in addition to a founding staff member of the Submit TV video staff at Washington Submit and constructed the Submit TV platform for serving stay streaming or video on demand from the Washington Submit newsroom. Yi-Hsun holds a Grasp of Science in Engineering in Laptop 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 along with his spouse and his six-year-old son when he’s not constructing the following era of Enterprise AI platform along with his staff.
Examine in subsequent week for the winner announcement and be taught extra about Cloudera’s AMD group right here.
