Oakland Tech Week: Code for Planet

Name: Oakland Tech Week: Code for Planet
Start: 2026-10-03T06:00:00.000-07:00
End: 2026-10-03T16:00:00.000-07:00
Location: Mills College

Hackathons

Mills College

Oakland, CA

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About Event

Code for California: AI, Open Source & Environmental Stewardship

Join students, community organizations, Tribal partners, public-sector leaders, and technologists from across Oakland and the Bay Area for a responsible AI build sprint during Oakland Climate Week.

Participants will work in small, mentored teams with California watershed, GIS, and environmental-monitoring datasets to prototype open-source tools that support water replenishment, fire stewardship, community-led research, and public-sector decision-making. Technical and non-technical participants are welcome, with mentors supporting engineering, cybersecurity, program management, design, storytelling, and open-source collaboration.

Projects will be developed in shared repositories with documented data sources, methods, and deployment guidance so that public agencies, Tribal partners, researchers, and environmental organizations can continue adapting the work after the event.

Example project tracks

Environmental GIS: Use responsible AI and prompt engineering to make California stewardship and Tribal GIS data easier to map, interpret, and use.
Water and fire stewardship: Build open-source monitoring and decision-support tools for water replenishment, watershed health, wildfire risk, and land restoration.
Secure open-source infrastructure: Prototype cybersecurity workflows and reusable reference architectures for environmental tools used by public-sector and community organizations.

Why attend

Learn how AI, GIS, open data, and cybersecurity can support environmental stewardship
Contribute directly to open-source projects with real public-interest applications
Work alongside engineers, educators, community organizations, and Tribal partners
Hear from environmental, responsible AI, and public-sector technology leaders
Explore pathways into civic technology, environmental monitoring, and open-source careers
Meet students, builders, mentors, and community-rooted organizations across Oakland and the East Bay

Students, emerging technologists, educators, designers, engineers, storytellers, nonprofit teams, and members of the general public are encouraged to participate. No prior open-source experience is required.

Program

12:00 PM — Doors open and networking
12:30 PM — Opening conversation
1:15 PM — Stewardship project overviews
1:45 PM — Mentored build sprint
3:45 PM — Lightning demos and storytelling
4:30 PM — Networking and wrap-up

Free to attend. The event will include live captions, wheelchair-accessible space, livestream access, and a quiet breakout area.