Kineo.ai is supporting the German government's #WirVsVirus hackathon

Kineo.ai is supporting the German government’s #WirVsVirus hackathon

Kineo.ai is offering cloud infrastructure and machine learning support at the German government’s #WirVsVirus hackathon to solve the Covid-19 crisis from 20th to 22nd of March, 2020.

How can we as a society rise to challenge the global Coronavirus (Covid-19) poses? The German Chancellery, the Digital Council and seven social initiatives have called on technology professionals and changemakers to join a 3-day hackathon to address the numerous consequences in the wake of this pandemic. This is an open call to all of us 80 million strong living in Germany to contribute their skills to develop solutions for society.

Follow the organisations on Twitter: @Tech4Germany @codeforde @initiatived21 @ImpactHubBLN @PT_Deutschland @prototypefund @SEND_ev

Who can participate

While the hackathon is aimed at programmers, scientists & engineers, designers & creative problem solvers, everyone who is a socially committed citizen can participate.

You can register until Friday 20th of March 2pm under the following link: https://4germany.typeform.com/to/SaffK5

The schedule can be found on the official website:
https://wirvsvirushackathon.org/.

Use AWS through Kineo.ai for free

Kineo.ai is supporting the hackathon by providing participants with access to AWS through Kineo.ai infrastructure. By contacting our team during the hackathon, we can grant you access to AWS, as well as provide Kineo.ai modules to support your product building. All costs are covered by AWS through a sponsorship program.

Using this cloud infrastructure, you can spin up databases, websites, servers, voice & image recognition, VR, AR — you name it. If machine learning is what you are looking for, we will also set up some of the Kineo.ai services that we use internally, for example Netflix’s recently open sourced Metaflow.

Our experts will be available to help you get started and give architectural guidance.

During the weekend, 100% of all AWS costs will be covered for all participants with no strings attached.

First, register with the links above. On Friday, 21st of March at 4pm, you should receive a Slack registration link for the hackathon. Once you do so, you can:

Join the hackathon Slack group
Join us in the channel #2_Company_Support_Kineo_Ai and shoot our team a message
We will message you with setup instructions, including signup link, username and password
Log into the AWS account and have fun building!

We know that speed is key for any hackathon, which is why we want to make sure that you can go fast. You will find that your AWS account has full access to all services, with some minor exceptions on IAM. With great power comes, great responsibility, so please adhere to the following guidelines to make the experience smooth for all participants

Don’t mess with other participants’ infrastructure. If it’s not yours, don’t touch it.
Don’t mess with base features of the AWS account (i.e. don’t delete default VPC or security groups)
Don’t mine bitcoin please. 😉

For more information, you can reach out to info@kineo.ai or follow us on Twitter and Linkedin. If you’re curious to learn more about kineo.ai and what we do check out our website!