Ep. 60: COVIDathon – Decentralized AI Hackathon (featuring 3 Judges)
COVIDathon – Virtual Hackathon – develop and launch open-source code using AI and/or blockchain to combat COVID-19, reduce risks from future infectious outbreaks, and cope with the COVID-19 pandemic situation.
Phase 1 submission deadline is April 30, 2020
https://covidathon.devpost.com/
Show Notes
3 Guests – COVIDathon Judges
•NiMA Asghari (Berlin)– Ecosystem Accelerator at Ocean Protocol
•Robert Miller (Maryland, US)- ep. 43 –Senior consultant – ConsenSys Health (https://soundcloud.com/healthunchained/ep-43-separating-hype-from-reality-robert-miller-senior-consultant-at-consensys-health)
•Jonathan Passerat Palmbach (London, UK)– Research Scientist – ConsenSys Health
•COVID19 hackathons growth and purpose
•COVIDathon structure and rules
•Sponsoring Partners – Decentralized AI Alliance, SingularityNET, and Ocean Protocol
•Advantages of using Blockchain for privacy preserving AI
•Consensys health – Federated Learning Research (https://www.researchgate.net/publication/336868499_A_blockchain-orchestrated_Federated_Learning_architecture_for_healthcare_consortia)
•OpenMined is an open-source community whose goal is to make the world more privacy-preserving by lowering the barrier-to-entry to private AI technologies: https://Openmined.org
•Private Kit: Safe Paths; Privacy-by-Design Contact Tracing: https://safepaths.mit.edu/
•Reputation Protocol for open Collaboration: https://sourcecred.io/
•Stop COVID-19 Hackathon by ConsenSys Health: https://consensyshealth.com/covid-19/
•NiMA’s Episode 1 of Voices of Data Economy podcast presented by Ocean Protocol: https://open.spotify.com/show/47Yg2zvkP0uvXdCH1l3ike
•Mentorship opportunities
•Importance of Teambuilding for sustainable solutions
•Goals of the non-profit (DAIA foundation)
Health Unchained Links
Website: https://healthunchained.org
Telegram: t.me/healthunchained
Twitter: twitter.com/Healthunchaind
Bert’s Blockchain and Healthcare Weekly Newsletter: https://bert.substack.com/
