Help enhance maritime safety and win up to $10,000 in this hackathon — apply by Sept. 16

Help enhance maritime safety and sail off with cold, hard cash.

Our waterways are full of small nautical vessels such as sailboats, fishing boats and personal watercraft. Unlike large vessels, which have well-established trajectory forecasting models, small vessels present a significant challenge for maritime waterway management, and they often traverse marine environments with limited traffic management capabilities.

Now, the Center for Accelerating Operational Efficiency, or CAOE, and the University at Albany are hosting the Managing Maritime Movements M3 Hackathon — a global challenge to develop innovative models for predicting small vessel routes.

Apply to the Managing Maritime Movements M3 Hackathon by Monday, Sept. 16, 2024.

The prizes

• First place: $10,000.
• Second place: $5,000.

Key dates

• Thursday, Aug. 1, 2024: Registration opens.
• Monday, Sept. 16, 2024: Hackathon starts.
• Thursday, Oct. 31, 2024: All submissions due.

Participation requirements

• Teams must consist of no more than three members.
• At least one member of each team must be a citizen of Australia, Canada, New Zealand, the United Kingdom or the United States.
• All registration requests will be reviewed, and accepted participants will be notified.
• Teams will be provided with a dataset to train their models — all predictions, modeling code and documentation must be submitted by Thursday, Oct. 31, 2024.

This exciting event is being developed by Brandon Behlendorf, associate professor at the College of Emergency Preparedness, Homeland Security and Cybersecurity and principal investigator for the CAOE.