Make Zurich Vol. II

Civic Tech and LoRaWAN Hackathon for a better city

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7 Challenges for a smarter city

June 22-30, 2018

What is it?

We are bringing together the local hacker/maker community and the city administration to explore new ways of solving problems of our city with the help of open networks and civic tech.

When and where?

The challenges will be presented on June 22nd followed by a hackathon on Friday 29th & Saturday 30th June, 2018 at Kraftwerk.

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

Challenges

We gathered six real needs of different departments of the City of Zurich that could be solved with LoRaWAN and civic tech.

There will be as well 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 for the city!

Real Time Occupancy Rate

Challenge

Discover ways to use technology to measure and understand occupancy rate of the public transport vehicles in real time.

Provided by VBZ

City Forest Visitors

Challenge

All year round, the forests of the city of Zurich receive thousands of visitors. How can we assess and quantify them easily and efficiently?

Provided by Grün Stadt Zürich

No bike left behind

Challenge

How can we track and recover abandoned bikes from the stationary sharing system of Züri Velo?

Provided by PubliBike & Züri Velo

Conquering the last mile

Challenge

Optimizing last-mile logistics is a fundamental topic for a smarter city. How can we measure and visualize deliveries within the boundaries of the city?

Provided by Stadtentwicklung Zürich

Teacher's calling

Challenge

Explore ways to increase safety in our schools in case of emergency or evacuation with the use of technology.

Provided by Schul- und Sportdepartement

Distribution Grid Power Failure

Challenge

How can we improve the detection of power failures in the low voltage network for a more efficient city?

Provided by EWZ

Open Challenge

Challenge

If none of the challenges fits you, you are free to combine all available elements and develop your own challenge and ideas!

Provided by you!

Schedule

22

June

	Kraftwerk	Selnaustrasse 25 8001 Zürich
17:00	Open doors
18:00	Introduction to #MakeZurich
18:15	Presentation of the 7 challenges
19:00	Team registrations and Q&A sessions with challenge stakeholders, sponsors and partners.
19:45-23:00	Apéro 🍸

23

June

	MechArtLab	Hohlstrasse 52, 8004 Zürich
16:00-22:00	Open Lab Day: join if you need tools, a place to hack or simply want to chat!

24

June

16:00-22:00	Open Lab Day

25

June

16:00-22:00	Open Lab Day
19:00-22:00	Build your own antenna/quality measurement of antenna Workshop by Urs Marti	Attendees bring their own stuff

25

June

	notime	Geroldstrasse 27, 8005 Zürich
17:00-18:00	Inside notime: insights into a urban logistics service provider Workshop by Tobias Rüdlinger	Please note the location change for this workshop

26

June

	MechArtLab	Hohlstrasse 52, 8004 Zürich
16:00-22:00	Open Lab Day

27

June

16:00-22:00	Open Lab Day

28

June

16:00-22:00	Open Lab Day
19:00-22:00	Build your own LoRaWAN gateway Workshop by Gonzalo Casas	Attendees bring their own parts

29

June

	Kraftwerk	Selnaustrasse 25 8001 Zürich
09:00	Open doors
10:00	Did you miss the kick-off and need a team? Pitch your idea, or team up with others!
12:00	Lunch
18:30	Dinner
19:00-19:30	Visualizing Linked Data with d3.js Session by Matthias Mazenauer
23:59	Realtime code art Demoshow by Oleg Lavrovsky

30

June

	Kraftwerk	Selnaustrasse 25, 8001 Zürich
09:00	Breakfast
12:00	Pizza 🍕!
15:30	Final submission time!
16:00	Project presentations
18:00	Apéro
19:00	End-Of-Event

Kraftwerk

Kraftwerk

Selnaustrasse 25
8001 Zürich
Switzerland

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Register

Ready to join for a great time working together on creative solutions to our city’s problems? Register today and be part of Make Zurich Vol. II!

First time at a hackathon? No worries! Everyone is welcome! Check out our FAQ

The registration is totally free.

Team

Make Zurich is possible thanks to the contribution of an amazing team of individuals:

Gonzalo Casas

Christina Rieder

Urs Marti

Reto Wick

Marcus Cathomen

Muriel Buri

Simon Maurer

Alexandra Collm

Marco Sieber

Michel Racic

Oleg Lavrovsky

Dirk Zugenmaier

Tillo Bosshart

Robert Fey

Baxter Yazbek

Afsoon Ebrahimi

Thomas Amberg

Lukas Limacher

Benno Seiler

Sponsors and Partners

Community partners