Summary

Attendance mode: in-person - remote participation is not supported - Language: English.

Date: Tue, May 28 2024

Location: Kaiserslautern, Germany (DFKI)

Fees: Free participation

Registration: Register https://forms.gle/GjCd576ZwntV41zf6 by ~~May 8th 2024~~ extended to May 14th 2024 (We'd love to have you :) We have a couple of spots left, you can register & we'll confirm within 24 hours if you have a spot)

Publicity: By attending the event, you consent to the capturing and sharing of photos and videos taken during the event, both online and offline. The content is mainly shared through Humane AI social media accounts (Linkedin, Facebook, X)

Join us for a one-day Hackathon empowering parents to harness AI and cutting-edge tech for streamlined family life. We'll demonstrate how modern AI tools can empower busy individuals (such as stay-at-home parents and new expats) to seize business opportunities right from the comfort of their homes. No prior programming or AI tool experience is required!

🎯 Goal 1: Discover How AI Boosts Parenting Efficiency: Uncover the secrets of AI and how it can revolutionize your daily parental duties, making life smoother and more manageable.

🚀 Goal 2: Ignite Startup Innovation in Family Solutions: Fuel your entrepreneurial spirit as we encourage rapid prototyping and the launch of new startups focused on family-oriented solutions powered by AI tools.

🎯🎯 Who Should Attend?🎯🎯 This event is tailored for parents seeking innovative solutions for family life and/or tech enthusiasts eager to dive into the world of AI. Others are also welcomed.

Topics of Interest

The proposed solutions should tackle one or more of the following domains:

1. Smart Parenting Tools: Explore AI-powered solutions tailored to simplify everyday parenting tasks.
2. Efficient Scheduling: Learn how AI can optimize family schedules for better time management.
3. Personalized Assistance: Discover how AI technologies provide personalized support for each family member.
4. Quality Family Time: Enhance family bonding with AI-enabled activities and communication tools.
5. Innovative Education: Explore the latest educational technologies for children, powered by AI.
6. Health and Wellness: Utilize AI tools to promote healthier lifestyles and well-being for the whole family.
7. Home Automation: Experience the convenience of AI-driven smart home devices for a more efficient household.
8. Entrepreneurial Empowerment: Receive guidance on leveraging AI for business ideas to accelerate entrepreneurship ventures for families.

Participants can come up with their ideas and describe creative problems that they want to tackle in the hackathon event.

Expected Output

The teams can use any AI-powered tools to create mockups of their startups. We highly recommend using ChatGPT. Teams should create their accounts before the event. They should also use at least one tool presented in the workshop morning tutorials.

Each team should submit the following items:

Startup name + 300-500 words description of their idea
Mock-up of their startup solving a family need using AI tools.
Give a talk about their solution

The outputs will potentially be published via the AI on Demand platform.

All attendees get a certificate of participation. Additionally, there will be 3 winning teams.

Tentative Agenda and Material

We reserve the right to update the event agenda. Lunch is provided.

Time	Agenda Item (Tue 28/5 11:30 - 17:30)
11:30	Registration + prepping flash intros
12:00	Introduction
12:10	Flash introductions (introduce yourself in 30 secs)
12:30	Talk 1 (Hend Eldamaty): Family guru (how to use AI for parents)
13:00	Talk 2 (Stephanie LeBlanc-Godfrey): Mother AI
13:30	Lunch break
14:30	Talk 3 (Asif Shahriar): AI in Education
15:00	Talk 4 (M. Tahasunl Ibrahim): Ethics in AI
15:15	Intro for startup workshop & team distribution
15:30	Coffee break
16:00	Group activity (workshop)
16:30	Pitching ideas & team presentations
17:00	Talk 5 (Paul Lukowicz): Future of AI
17:30	Closing

Speakers

Stephanie LeBlanc-Godfrey: CEO/Founder Mother AI | Global Head of Inclusion for WOC Google | Think50 Radar '24 | Empower Working Parents to Learn AI Skills
Hend ElDamaty: AI4Moms initiative- AI Copilot trainer-Microsoft competition winning AI 4 parenting App
Asif Shahriar: PhD Candidate and Researcher in eLearning, specialising in Human-Computer Interaction. Expertise includes the design and implementation of chatbots in educational settings
M. Tahasanul Ibrahim: Research Fellow in computer vision, machine learning, and data enhancement. He holds a Master of Science in Semi-Supervised Machine Learning Models and is currently pursuing a Doctor of Philosophy in Computer Vision and Data Enhancement.
Paul Lukowicz: Professor of AI University of Kaiserslautern & Scientific Director in the German Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI)

Publicity

By attending the event, you consent to the capturing and sharing of photos and videos taken during the event, both online and offline. The content is shared through Humane AI social media accounts (Linkedin, Facebook, X)

Tag us to re-share your posts: @humaneainet

Registration

You can come with your team, sign up alone and we assign you to a team or compete solo. The maximum size of a team is 3 members.

Registration form: https://forms.gle/GjCd576ZwntV41zf6
Registration deadline: Rolling deadline May 8th 2024  extended to May 14th 2024

We'd love to have you :) We have a couple of spots left, you can register & we'll confirm within 24 hours if you have a spot.

Notifications of Acceptance or Rejection

Applied until May 14th? Notification email latest by ~~May 10, 2024~~ May 16, 2024.
Applied after May 14th? Notification email after 24 hours (business days).

Please ensure that the email address provided in your application is accurate and regularly checked. We appreciate your patience and understanding

VISA Requests

If you need a VISA support letter, please email Siobhan O'Neill <siobhan.oneill[at]insight-centre.org> to expedite the process. Please include the following information:

The full name like the passport
Home Address (will be used to address the letter)

Please note that VISA support letters are only possible if you have successfully registered for the event and we have sent you an acceptance email. Please expect around 3 business days for processing time.

Planning your Trip

Event Location

DFKI GmbH (German Centre for Artificial Intelligence)

Address: Trippstadter Str. 122, 67663, Kaiserslautern, Germany

Google pin: https://maps.app.goo.gl/5NReSf7kc7tURi789

Website: https://www.dfki.de/web

Arriving to Kaiserslautern

Arriving by Train

The closest train station is called "Kaiserslautern HBF". You can check train connections and buy the tickets from the Deutsche Bahn website or mobile application: www.bahn.de

Arriving by Plane

The closest civil airport is in Frankfurt am Main. From there, there are two possibilities of transport:

By train - there are multiple connections throughout the day, however, usually change is necessary. The train station is located next to the airport (Frankfurt Flughafen) and it is possible to get there without walking outside of the buildings. The prices range from 15 to 40 EUR. The easiest way to manage your ride is with a DB app - it is possible to buy tickets there, get updates about routes etc.
By bus - for example Flixbus offers direct connection from Frankfurt airport to the Kaiserslautern bus station. Prices range from 8 to 15 euros. However, there are only a few connections throughout the day.

Getting Around in Kaiserslautern

The closest bus stop is: Frauenhofer Centrum. Bus lines coming to the DFKI are 105, 115 and 116. You can also go to the university and then walk to DFKI, it takes about 5-10 min.

The company taking care of the buses is SWK-KL. You can check the connection here: https://www.swk-kl.de/produkte-services/busverkehr/busfahrplan, or download an app myVRN-APP to buy the tickets and check the connections.

Accommodation

Participants should self-organize their accommodation. Below are some close-by options.

Hotels

1/ Design Hotel Zollamt (the closest one to the hackathon site) (11 mins walk to DFKI) (link)

2/ Astra Garni Hotel (21 mins walk to DFKI) (link)

3/ B&B Hotel (near the train station) (27 mins walk to DFKI)(link)

4/ Art Hotel Lauterbach (bus station across the street) (35 mins walk to DFKI) (link)

Boarding houses

5/ Dietrich Felgner (19 mins walk to DFKI) (link)

6/ Lutrina-Gästehaus (26 mins walk to DFKI) (link)

Have questions?

Contact Siobhan O'Neill <siobhan.oneill[at]insight-centre.org>

Organizers

Hend Eldamaty, AI4Moms initiative
Passant Elagroudy, DFKI GmbH & RPTU Kaiserslautern
Jakob Karolus, DFKI GmbH & RPTU Kaiserslautern.
Siobhan O'Neill, Insight SFI Research Centre for Data Analytics, University College Cork.
Joanna Sorysz, DFKI GmbH & RPTU Kaiserslautern.
Paul Lukowicz, DFKI GmbH & RPTU Kaiserslautern

This event is organized as a collaboration between the #AI4Moms initiative and the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme through the European AI Networks of Excellence: Humane AI Net in addition to the AI4Europe project. It is also supported by Start2 Group and SCOPE as well as the following universities: RPTU Kaiserslautern-Landau and UCC. The event is hosted by the German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI) (Embedded Intelligence department).

Summary

Attendance mode: in-person - remote participation is not supported.

Date: Mon 4. & Tue 5. March 2024

Location: Kaiserslautern, Germany

Fees: Free participation

Registration: Closed

Publicity: By attending the event, you consent to the capturing and sharing of photos and videos taken during the event, both online and offline. The content is shared through Humane AI social media accounts (Linkedin, Facebook, X)

Material: In (Agenda) section

In this two-day hackathon, we invite talents to join us in imagining the future of scientific processes in the age of foundational models. Attendees will work in teams to propose the next “startup” that supports human-AI collaboration on scientific tasks. They will experiment with the powers and limitations of ChatGPT to develop a minimum viable product showcasing their idea then pitch it to the audience and a jury of experts.

Topics of Interest

The proposed solutions should tackle one or more of the following domains:

Literature Review and Summarization (e.g., assist by summarizing research papers
and stay up to date with the latest research)
Hypothesis Generation (e.g., suggest new hypotheses or research directions)
Experimental Design (e.g., suggesting methodologies, potential variables to consider, statistical analyses)
Data Analysis Assistance (e.g., assistance in data interpretation, and potential correlations)
Drafting Research Proposals and Papers (e.g., help with writing process and structure)
Grant and Funding Manager (e.g., identify potential funding sources, help grant writing)
Collaboration Facilitation (e.g., find potential collaborators by analyzing research trends or identifying researchers)
Ethics and Regulatory guidance (e.g., preliminary guidance on ethical considerations and IRB submissions)

Participants can come up with their ideas and describe creative problems that they want to tackle in the hackathon event.

Output and Prizes

The teams are free to choose to use Chatgpt APIs and create a solution using Python or to use the web interface and document their prompt engineering. Teams should create their own ChatGPT accounts if they wish to use ChatGPT.

Each team should submit the following items:

Startup name + 300-500 words description of their idea
Python notebook with the code or documentation of the prompts used to solve the chosen problem.
Give a talk about their solution

The outputs will be published via the AI on Demand platform.

All attendees get a certificate of participation. Additionally, there will be 3 winning teams.

First team: 3 vouchers * 100 € each.
Second team: 3 vouchers * 50 € each.
Third team: 3 vouchers * 25 € each.

Agenda and Material

Download all LWMathon material

PART I: Monday 4 March 2024
09:00 - 10:30	Welcoming and Introduction about the AI Ecosystem in the EU 📢 “The Research Cycle and LLMs” by Prof. Dr. Kaisa Väänänen (slides) 📢 “Synthetic user research in the industry” by Dr. Jie Li (slides)
Coffee break
11:00 - 12:30	Diving into the goals of the Hackathon 📢 Tutorial: “How to: pitch your start-up” by Corey Wright (slides) 📢 Tutorial: “How to: prompt engineering” by Prof. Dr. Albrecht Schmidt (slides) (interactions article)
Lunch
14:00 - 15:30	📢 Tutorial: “How to: connect to the API” by Stefan Gerd Fritsch (slides) (colab python notebook) Hackathon time to work on the projects - Mentors will be available until 17:00
Coffee break
From 16:00	Hackathon time to work on the projects - Mentors will be available until 17:00 - Rooms will be available unitl 21:00

PART II: Tuesday 5 March 2024
09:00 - 10:00	Finalize the projects and pitches
Coffee break
10:30 - 12:00	🎤 Pitches by the groups
Lunch and Jury Discussion
13:30 - 14:45	Closing and announcement of the winners 🏆 DFKI tour (ends ca. 15:30)

Invited Speakers


Kaisa Väänänen Professor, Human-Technology Interaction Tampere University, Finland.	Jie Li Human-Computer Interaction Researcher EPAM Systems, Netherlands.	Corey Wright Director Startup Programs Europe Start2 Group, Germany.

Publicity

Tag us to re-share your posts: @humaneainet

Registration

We are looking for candidates familiar with using ChatGPT web interface if they plan to use only prompt engineering for their solutions or familiar with Python if they plan to use the API. You can come with your team, sign up alone and we assign you to a team or compete solo.

Registration form: https://forms.gle/DdmNdNH4yW1QdpkJ6
Registration deadline: February 19 2024 January 30 2024