Sustainability Hackathon | Give(a)Go x The Mill

​Join Give(a)Go and The Mill in Drogheda for a one-day hackathon on sustainability problems in energy, waste, food, transport and climate. Pick a problem you care about, build something that works with AI and tech, and demo it to the room at 5pm.

​Give(a)Go is a community of builders, hackers and tinkerers from Dublin, and the creators of Dublin AI Week.

​What to expect

• ​Have fun and learn how to build with AI

• ​Meet like-minded people, and maybe a co-founder

• ​Hear about grants and funding for sustainability and community projects

• ​Leave with a tested idea and a cool demo

​Who it's for

​Founders, developers, designers, students and anyone who cares about climate. You don't need a business idea, coding experience or sustainability know-how.

​Come solo or bring a team of up to 4. If you're on your own, you can find teammates in the morning.

​Project ideas

​A few examples to get you thinking. We expect you to come up with your own creative ideas.

• ​An agent that reads a café's supplier invoices and works out its real carbon footprint per coffee

• ​A computer-vision model that spots contamination in recycling bins from a phone photo

• ​A Boyne river digital twin that predicts flooding from sensor and weather data

• ​An AI auditor that checks companies' green claims against their actual reports

​Schedule

• ​11:00 Doors, breakfast and team formation

• ​11:30 Welcome and kickoff

• ​12:00 Hacking starts

• ​13:00 Lunch

• ​16:00 Hacking wraps

• ​16:15 Demos

• ​17:00 Close

​Food is provided.

​Before you come

• ​Bring a laptop and charger.

​Getting there

​A free bus runs between Drogheda train station and The Mill, there and back. Let us know when you register if you'd like a seat.

​Partners

​The Mill Drogheda is our venue partner. It's an enterprise hub that has supported founders, start-ups and growing businesses across the North East since 2014.

​Other partners supporting the event: Skillnet Innovation Exchange, Local Enterprise Office Louth, Culvii and Coca-Cola Ireland.

​Community sponsor

​Wolfpack Digital is an award-winning product studio with teams in Dublin and Cluj-Napoca. It builds tech products for everyone from early-stage startups to global brands.

​Join the community

​Give(a)Go is a community of builders, hackers and tinkerers in Dublin. We run hands-on workshops and builder days, and we're the creators of Dublin AI Week.

​P.S. The theme is a rough guide. If there's something else you really want to build, go for it. Building with AI and meeting good people is the point. Bring your laptop.

​Places are limited and registration needs approval. Please only apply if you can stay the full day.