Make Zürich

Civic Tech Hackathon for a better city

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Hackathon for a better city

June 2-10, 2023

What is it?

We are bringing together the local maker community and the city administration to explore new solutions that improve life in the city with the help of open networks and civic tech.

When and where?

The challenges will be presented on June 2, 2023 followed by a hackathon on Friday & Saturday, June 9 - 10, 2023.

The location is EWZ, Tramstrasse 35, 8050 Zürich.

Make Zurich is a community event organized by Stadt Zürich and Open Network Infrastructure Association.

Challenges

We gathered real needs of urban planning and life in the City of Zurich that could be solved with LoRaWAN and civic tech. There is also an open challenge: if you don’t feel like building any of the other challenges, you are free to combine all available elements to create innovative solutions on the spot!

Energy Saving

Challenge

How can IoT with open networks and open data help reduce and/or shift energy consumption?

Provided by Energy Office Zürich

More Engagement

Challenge

How can we activate people get aware of energy usage and waste and get them to take action to save energy?

Provided by Energy Consulting City of Zürich

Energy Assistant

Challenge

Develop a chatbot that draws attention, is fun to use, and helps to save energy.

Provided by ewz

Public Transport

Challenge

Help us estimate energy savings in public transport.

Provided by VBZ

Open Challenge

Challenge

Less energy consumption is more quality of living. Address your own Challenge and show us how we can reduce energy consumption.

Provided by You

What you will find

Learning

Take the chance to learn new skills and technologies from mentors and peers!

Hardware

Plenty of electronics, sensors and other hardware to play with!

Health

We take care of you, provide healthy food and environment so you don’t to think about it! And of course, we have a safety concept.

Kids are cool

We offer a safe and fun environment for young makers (U18) who are accompanied by their parents. For kids 7 to 16 we offer a coding workshop.

Schedule

Fri 2
Jun
Kick-off 🚀ewz HQ
Tramstrasse 35
8050 Zürich

Live stream 🎦
17:00Open doors
18:00Introduction to #MakeZurich
18:15Presentation of challenges
18:45Q&A session & Apero 🍸

Sat 3
Jun
Open Lab Week @ BitwäschereiBitwäscherei
Neue Hard 12
8005 Zürich
16:00-17:00UX toolkit workshop by Francesca Sanfilippo
Some useful tips to organise your team, prototyping and test with the Design Thinking method and design sprint.
Live stream 🔄
16:00-22:00Open Lab Day
Do you need tools or a place to work? Or simply want to hang out and chat about life, the universe and everything? The lab days are optional and available for those that need it.
Bitwäscherei
Sun 4
Jun
16:00-22:00Open Lab DayBitwäscherei
Mon 5
Jun
16:00-22:00Open Lab DayBitwäscherei
19:00-20:00Technology and development of the world's smallest photoacoustic CO2 sensor SCD4x by Thomas Uehlinger (Sensirion)
The story of how Sensirion approached the development of this revolutionary small CO2 sensor from the very first self-assembled prototypes to a sensor produced in millions per year. Measurement principle and core technological innovations that were of the essence to make this product feasible at all.
Bitwäscherei
Live stream 🔄
Tue 6
Jun
16:00-22:00Open Lab DayBitwäscherei
Wed 7
Jun
16:00-17:00Quantified node workshop by Oleg Lavrovsky
Make your own data selfie with a biometric sensor demo. Learn how to quickly visualize and share signals on our platforms, and let's reach for the stars inside at MakeZurich!
Bitwäscherei + Livestream 🎦
16:00-22:00Open Lab DayBitwäscherei
Thu8
Jun
16:00-22:00Open Lab DayBitwäscherei
17:00-19:00Visit of ewz Central Station
Explore the energy of heating and cooling of big buildings. Learn about IoT use cases of groundwater monitoring, visit the VBZ Green Roof and Smart City Lab. We meet in front of the Renaissance Zürich Tower Hotel.
Turbinenstrasse 20
8005 Zürich

Fri 9
Jun
Main Event: Friday 👍ewz HQ
Tramstrasse 35
8050 Zürich
09:00Gipfeli & Coffee ☕
10:00Welcome
10:30Team building #1
12:00Lunch
17:00Team building #2
21:00Demo Nights 017: Realtime code artLive stream 🎦
Sat 10
Jun
Main Event: Saturday ✌🏽ewz HQ
Tramstrasse 35
8050 Zürich
09:00Breakfast ☕
10:00Team building #3
12:00Lunch
14:00Pitch coaching
15:30Final submission time!
16:00Project presentations 🚀ewz HQ
Tramstrasse 35
8050 Zürich

Live stream 🔄
18:00Apero 🍸
ewz headquarters

ewz headquarters

Tramstrasse 35
8050 Zürich
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Team

Make Zurich is possible thanks to an amazing community and a few committed organisers:
Francesca Sanfilippo
Francesca Sanfilippo
Gonzalo Casas
Gonzalo Casas
Marcus Cathomen
Marcus Cathomen
Baxter Yazbek
Baxter Yazbek
Oleg Lavrovsky
Oleg Lavrovsky
Simon Maurer
Simon Maurer
Tillo Bosshart
Tillo Bosshart
Federico Vanzati
Federico Vanzati
Priska Burkard
Priska Burkard
Yannick Weiss
Yannick Weiss
Urs Marti
Urs Marti
Katerina Toumpektsi
Katerina Toumpektsi
Clemens Lange
Clemens Lange
Filippo Broggini
Filippo Broggini
Cinzia Casotti
Cinzia Casotti
Roberta Arnesano
Roberta Arnesano

Sponsors and Partners

Stadt Zurich
EWZ
Sensirion
Akenza
FSLab
Decentlab
The Things Industries
u-blox
Seeed Studio
swissdevjobs.ch

Community partners

The Things Network
IoT Zurich
opendata.ch
TechFace
FabLab Zürich
Echtzeit Digitale Kultur
Women++