Stanford Green AI Hackathon

Building at the Intersection of AI+Climate

The Stanford Green AI Hackathon brings together an interdisciplinary group of students dedicated to developing tangible solutions that address the environmental impacts of AI and explore its environmental applications.

Tracks

Green-in AI / Powered by Microsoft

How can we make AI more sustainable and less resource-intensive?

Challenge Examples:

Optimize training energy: Cut model training energy, emissions, and water usage.
Model compression: Quantize, distill, and shrink pretrained models for real-world use.
Hardware-aware software: Build efficient software that leverages emerging energy-saving chips.

Green-by AI / Powered by Google Earth Engine

How can we use AI for Sustainable Development?

Use Google DeepMind's Alpha Earth Foundations to leverage geospatial AI for sustainable development.

Challenge Examples:

Monitor deforestation: Analyze satellite data to detect illegal logging.
Predict extreme weather: Use AI for early warning in climate-vulnerable regions.
Smart delivery: Optimize food transport routes for reduced emissions.

Schedule

Friday October 24th

📍 Elliot Program Center

Friday — 1:00 PM to 2:30 PM

📍Elliot Program Center

Workshops Google Earth Engine 101

The Earth Engine API (application programming interface) provides the ability to create your own algorithms to process raster and vector imagery. This session is geared toward people who would like to analyze satellite and vector data. The session will be hands-on, using the Earth Engine Javascript code editor.

Presenter: Stace Maples

Workshop Guide Zoom Link

Friday — 3:00 PM to 4:30 PM

📍Elliot Program Center

Workshops Alpha Earth Foundations 0 to Hero

David leads Earth Engine Engineering teams. He's had a range of roles across Google, supporting data analysis and science in ads, developer programs, social media, life sciences, and in the Earth Engine UI and Cloud teams. He works closely across all roles to build a smoothly integrated system for all our users. He has a PhD in computer science from UC Berkeley and has also worked at IBM Research and various startups.

The workshop will introduce the AlphaEarth Foundations model from Google and DeepMind, and show how it can be used to build practical applications easily and effectively. We'll cover the goals of the model, a quick overview of how it was trained, and the Satellite Embedding dataset that is available in Earth Engine. We'll explore how it performs on real-life examples, and how to write code to perform a range of remote sensing tasks.

Presenter: David Gibson

Workshop Guide Zoom Link

Friday — 5:00 PM to 6:00 PM

📍Elliot Program Center

Events OPENING CEREMONY

Join us for the official opening of the Green AI Hackathon! We will hear from: Melissa Lott, partner general manager for energy technologies at Microsoft; David Gibson: Earth Engine Engineering teams lead at Google; Katherine Li: Sustainability Technology and Business Analyst at Stanford Sustainability Accelerator.

Melissa Lott
Partner GM of Energy Technology at Microsoft

David Gibson
Google Earth Engine Teams Lead

Katherine Li
Sustainability Technology and Business Analyst, Sustainability Accelerator

Zoom Link

Friday — 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM

📍Elliot Program Center

Events OPENING RECEPTION

Join us for an AMAZING catered food lineup, with tacos, salads, desserts, and more!

October 25th

📍 CoDa Simonyi Conference Center (Top Floor)

Saturday — 9:30 AM to 11:00 AM

📍CoDa Simonyi Conference Center

Mentorship Mentorship Block A

Get 1:1 mentorship from experts from Microsoft, Google, Stanford, climate VC's, and the Green Software Foundation!

Slack Workspace

Saturday — 11:00 AM to 11:45 PM

📍CoDa Simonyi Conference Center

Events Fireside Chat: Building Sustainable Solutions that Last

Hear from leading climate ventures and entrepreneurs on how to build scalable and efficient climate solutions.

Pedro David Espinoza
Vice Chairman of Espinoza Group

Peter Sun
Founding Principal at Climactic

Moderator: Eva Geierstanger

Zoom Link

Saturday — 12:00 PM to 1:00 PM

📍CoDa Simonyi Conference Center

Food Lunch

Enjoy delicious catered wrapps from World Wraps!

Saturday — 1:00 PM to 3:00 PM

📍CoDa Simonyi Conference Center

Mentorship Mentorship Block B

Get 1:1 mentorship from experts from Microsoft, Google, Stanford, climate VC's, and the Green Software Foundation!

Slack Workspace

Saturday — 3:00 PM to 3:30 PM

📍CoDa Simonyi Conference Center

Workshops Open Source for Sustainability

How can the software open source movement be used to tackle climate change and sustainable development? In this presentation, we'll walk through Open Sustainable Technology -and GitHub's collection of open source projects for sustainable development – and how you can start contributing.