Again in October, we introduced the first-ever Cloudera Local weather and Sustainability Hackathon, powered by AMD. The Hackathon was supposed to offer knowledge science consultants with entry to Cloudera machine studying to develop their very own Accelerated Machine Studying Undertaking (AMP) targeted on fixing one of many many environmental challenges dealing with the world at the moment.
Greater than 2,300 knowledge scientists competed within the Local weather and Sustainability Hackathon—a document variety of Cloudera Hackathon contributors for an extremely vital trigger. And that document quantity meant exhausting work for our judging panel, who have been tasked with evaluating the practically 200 progressive AMPs that our contributors 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 based mostly on uniqueness and innovation of the concept and the issue it might clear up; the strategy to how the venture would make use of machine studying; the articulated advantages to the atmosphere; 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, net utility high quality, and potential influence 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 number 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 all the knowledge lifecycle. His journey in Cloudera started as a Senior Product Advertising 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 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 international firms. Because the founder and fractional sustainability communication govt at Hower Influence, Mike works intently 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 e-newsletter and weblog, and internet hosting “The Sustainability Communicator” podcast.
Debbie Kruger
Debbie is the Director of Inside Communications and Social Influence 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 Corporations and Verizon to style retailer ANN INC., Debbie brings cross-industry expertise creating impactful CSR initiatives that leverage company assets to make sustainable and long-lasting impacts on firms, local weather, and communities.
Vijay Sudan
Vijay is a seasoned company accountability and sustainability govt with expertise main international environmental sustainability technique for 3 completely different Fortune 100 firms, most just lately at The Walt Disney Firm. Beforehand, he managed international Social Influence initiatives for twenty first Century Fox and led Information Company’s World Vitality Initiative, serving to them to develop into the primary carbon-neutral international media firm in 2010.
Yi-Hsun Tsai
Yi-Hsun Tsai is a Senior Engineering Supervisor of the Enterprise AI Platform workforce at Cloudera, the place he has led the workforce constructing the Enterprise AI & ML platform for supporting end-to-end machine studying & Generative AI operations. Previous to Cloudera, Yi-Hsun was a founding workforce member of Sense, which later grew to become the Cloudera Information Science Workbench and Cloudera Machine Studying, in addition to a founding workforce member of the Put up TV video workforce at Washington Put up and constructed the Put up TV platform for serving stay streaming or video on demand from the Washington Put up 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 based mostly 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 subsequent era of Enterprise AI platform together with his workforce.
Test in subsequent week for the winner announcement and study extra about Cloudera’s AMD neighborhood right here.