{"id":154982,"date":"2018-11-28T19:27:22","date_gmt":"2018-11-29T03:27:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/about\/newsroom\/?post_type=arcuser&p=154982"},"modified":"2024-04-15T11:39:53","modified_gmt":"2024-04-15T18:39:53","slug":"hackathon","status":"publish","type":"arcuser","link":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/about\/newsroom\/arcuser\/hackathon","title":{"rendered":"HACKtheMACHINE"},"author":1031,"featured_media":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"sync_status":"","episode_type":"","audio_file":"","castos_file_data":"","podmotor_file_id":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","filesize_raw":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","itunes_episode_number":"","itunes_title":"","itunes_season_number":"","itunes_episode_type":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[209102,198062],"tags":[266502,12172,198082],"arcuser_issues":[184702],"class_list":["post-154982","arcuser","type-arcuser","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-briefly-noted","category-defense","tag-defense","tag-developers","tag-hackathon","arcuser_issues-fall-2018"],"acf":{"short_description":"Software engineers, data scientists, and security researchers teamed up to participate in a hackathon.","pdf":{"host_remotely":false,"file":"","file_url":""},"flexible_content":[{"acf_fc_layout":"pdf","file":155022},{"acf_fc_layout":"blockquote","content":"Two-day event brings devs and geospatial tools together to find new solutions."},{"acf_fc_layout":"image","image":155032,"image_position":"center","orientation":"horizontal","hyperlink":""},{"acf_fc_layout":"content","content":"Talented and innovative software engineers, data scientists, and security researchers teamed up over the weekend of September 21\u201323, 2018, in Seattle, Washington, to participate in HACKtheMACHINE.\r\n\r\nThe hackathon, presented by the Naval Sea Systems Command (NAVSEA) and cosponsored by Esri, was held to work on some of the most challenging problems facing the United States Navy in its mission to protect sea, air, space, and subsurface domains. NAVSEA hoped that by exposing its interesting problem set HACKtheMACHINE to a largely untapped talent pool, it could gain new perspectives and develop innovative digital capabilities.\r\n\r\n\u201cI am a firm believer that these developers are the explorers of the twenty-first century. In this age of data-driven exploration, people need a framework to explore through,\u201d said Cameron Kruze, an associate at Booz Allen Hamilton. \u201cPartnerships like HACKtheMACHINE with Esri and Booz Allen is empowering these explorers.\u201d (Booz Allen Hamilton, an Esri partner, was an event presenter.)\r\n\r\nHACKtheMACHINE participants used ArcGIS APIs and software developer kits (SDKs) to bring a geospatial context to maritime security situations that were the focus of two of the tracks at the event. Teams that developed innovative uses of the ArcGIS platform received annual ArcGIS Developer Subscriptions.\r\n\r\nThe Data Science and the Seven Seas track focused on the navy\u2019s use of artificial intelligence<\/a> to better use the technology in its ships and submarines. Participants in this track used data from ships under way on the high seas to develop algorithms to assist the navy with preventing collisions of human-operated and autonomous vessels.\r\n\r\nThe Hack for the Oceans track addressed the navy\u2019s need for the app development community to support its new onboard service architecture and help coordinate with local and regional organizations during humanitarian and ecological crises. Participants put themselves in the position of first responders after Hurricane Katrina in 2005."},{"acf_fc_layout":"image","image":155042,"image_position":"center","orientation":"horizontal","hyperlink":""},{"acf_fc_layout":"content","content":"Abhi Banerjee, Mark Chuna, Kevin Africa, Andrew Nicholls, Austin Krauss, and Jared Anderson were on the winning team. They had recently graduated with data science degrees and were participating in HACKtheMACHINE because they are looking for jobs. Although they had no prior ArcGIS experience, they built a data science analytic pipeline with ArcGIS Pro in just 28 hours and presented their findings using an Esri Story Maps app.\r\n\r\nArcGIS gave the team functionality that was both valuable and accessible. \u201cCertain data is impossible to inspect without a tool like ArcGIS,\u201d said Krauss. \u201cI was impressed at how easy it was to connect my data into ArcGIS,\u201d said Banerjee.\r\n\r\nHackathons have been around for nearly 20 years, and in the last decade, many have focused on ways to improve government. While these gatherings can\u2019t solve the world\u2019s problems in a weekend, these events expose problems to fresh eyes, yielding new approaches to problem solving\u2014and that does have lasting value.\r\n\r\n\u201cHACKtheMACHINE brings technology developers together to fix problems,\u201d observed Francis Toto of Booz Allen Hamilton. \u201cThey have been working all weekend to assemble their disparate technologies on the ArcGIS platform to make something worthwhile.\u201d"}],"references":null},"yoast_head":"\nHACKtheMACHINE | Fall 2018 | ArcUser<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"HACKtheMACHINE, presented by the Naval Sea Systems Command (NAVSEA) and ] Esri, was held to work on some of the most challenging problems facing the United States Navy in its mission to protect sea, air, space, and subsurface domains\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" 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