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 specialists with entry to Cloudera machine studying to develop their very own Accelerated Machine Studying Undertaking (AMP) centered on fixing one of many many environmental challenges dealing with the world at this time.
Greater than 2,300 knowledge scientists competed within the Local weather and Sustainability Hackathon—a file variety of Cloudera Hackathon members for an extremely necessary trigger. And that file quantity meant arduous work for our judging panel, who have been tasked with evaluating the practically 200 revolutionary AMPs that our members created to find out the highest three winners.
The judging course of befell over two phases from October 2023 to March 2024. Within the first section, the judges awarded factors based mostly on uniqueness and innovation of the thought and the issue it might clear up; the method to how the mission would make use of machine studying; the articulated advantages to the atmosphere; and the way differentiated the answer was from different purposes. In section two, the judges additional narrowed the submission pool by evaluating the code high quality, net utility high quality, and potential affect of the AMP.
The end result? Three extremely inspiring initiatives 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 among 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 your complete knowledge lifecycle. His journey in Cloudera started as a Senior Product Advertising and marketing 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 Resolution Architect function. As well as, he held the function of Senior Information Scientist and Information Science Supervisor at FarmersEdge, including a startup and geospatial aspect to his expertise.
Mike Hower
Mike Hower is a sustainability communication chief with expertise on either side of the rostrum — as a journalist and communication strategist for main world corporations. Because the founder and fractional sustainability communication govt at Hower Influence, Mike works intently with corporations 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 massive 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 Inside Communications and Social Influence at Cloudera, the place she’s led revolutionary methods in social affect and worker engagement for the previous two years. With a background spanning from company giants like Marsh & McLennan Firms and Verizon to style retailer ANN INC., Debbie brings cross-industry expertise growing impactful CSR initiatives that leverage company sources to make sustainable and long-lasting impacts on corporations, local weather, and communities.
Vijay Sudan
Vijay is a seasoned company accountability and sustainability govt with expertise main world environmental sustainability technique for 3 totally different Fortune 100 corporations, most lately at The Walt Disney Firm. Beforehand, he managed world Social Influence initiatives for twenty first Century Fox and led Information Company’s World Power Initiative, serving to them to turn into 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 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 turned the Cloudera Information Science Workbench and Cloudera Machine Studying, in addition to a founding workforce member of the Submit TV video workforce 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 Pc and Info Science from the College of Pennsylvania. Initially from Taiwan and now based mostly in San Francisco, Yi-Hsun enjoys touring across the globe along with his spouse and his six-year-old son when he isn’t constructing the subsequent technology of Enterprise AI platform along with his workforce.
Examine in subsequent week for the winner announcement and study extra about Cloudera’s AMD group right here.
