CLEAN & GREEN HACKATHON 2015
Our Partners
Themes
Reduce Littering
Sporting and Leisure Events
Singapore is a hub for international events – sporting events like SEA Games, and concerts etc. that attract many attendees. How can we galvanise everyone to help keep our public spaces like stadiums, sports venues, event locations etc. clean? How can we encourage and remind event-goers to bin their litter properly?
Neighbourhoods
Public cleanliness is important not only during events, but at all times, as litter creates an eyesore and clogs up our drains. It affects public health and our quality of life. Through the years, we have come to rely on cleaners to pick up after us. As we collectively impact the cleanliness of our neighbourhoods and share the use of our public spaces, we all need to play a part in maintaining them. How can we get our neighbours to take action in keeping our shared spaces clean?
Schedule
Pre-Hackathon Workshop
While attendance for the Pre-Hackathon Workshop was not compulsory, we highly recommended it. Drawing on Design Thinking principles, this workshop was designed to help participants see the problems in new light, from a consumer-centric perspective. With this, they gained deeper insights into designing an appropriate programme or application for the Clean & Green Hackathon.
Programme Outline
- Welcome and introduction
by Derrick Chiang - Introduction to Reduce Littering Challenge
by Tan Choon Kiat, Department of Public Cleanliness (DPC), NEA - Introduction to Reuse & Recycle Waste Challenge
by Mindy Ko, Waste & Resource Management Department (WMRD), NEA - Keep Singapore Clean movement
by Liang Yuan Yuan, Public Hygiene Council - Design Thinking Session – steps of design thinking, success stories, group exercise: observation, discussion, insights, ideation, sharing
by Jon Hoel, The Pilot Project
Date Tuesday, 16 June 2015
Time 6:30pm to 9:30pm
Venue LaunchPad @ one-north, Block 79 Ayer Rajah Crescent, #04-03/04, Singapore 139955
Hackathon Kick-off
The Friday evening kick-off featured expert presentations to inspire participants ahead of the weekend. We also gave participants an overview of the challenges and some thought-starters. Finally, everyone had the opportunity to pitch their ideas to the audience and form teams!
Programme Outline
- Opening remarks
by Mr Satish Appoo, Group Director for Joint Operations & Technology, NEA - Smart City: Help make Singapore ‘smarter’, more liveable and sustainable
by Chintan Raveshia & Dion Anandityo, Arup - Introduction to Reduce Littering Challenge
by Tan Choon Kiat, DPC, NEA - Introduction to Reuse and Recycle Waste Challenge
by Linus Li, WRMD, NEA - Changing social behaviour and everyday actions
by Ken Jin Tan, Founder, Singapore Glove Project - Sharing of workshop outputs
by Jon Hoel, The Pilot Project - Idea pitching
Facilitated by UP Singapore - Team Formation
Facilitated by UP Singapore
Date Friday, 19 June 2015
Time 6:30pm to 9pm
Venue LaunchPad @ one-north, Block 79 Ayer Rajah Crescent, #04-03/04, Singapore 139955
Hackathon Day 2
Participants worked with their teams to develop ideas and prototype them. Copies of the Hackathon Canvas were provided to help teams identify and articulate the problem they were trying to solve and the solution that they were proposing. There were also mentor consultations in the afternoon to help teams test their thinking and clear any roadblocks.
Programme Outline
- Breakfast
- Check-ins with teams / Using the Hackathon Canvas
- Lunch
- Mentor clinics
- User testing
- Tea
- Check-ins with teams
- Dinner
Date Saturday, 20 June 2015
Time 9am to late
Venue LaunchPad @ one-north, Block 79 Ayer Rajah Crescent, #04-03/04, Singapore 139955
Hackathon Day 3
On the final day of the hackathon, we conducted a presentation clinic in the morning to help teams refine their presentations to the panel of judges later in the afternoon.
Programme Outline
- Breakfast
- Presentation clinic and elimination round
- Lunch
- Pitch presentations to panel of judges
- Judges’ deliberations
- Closing remarks from Ronnie Tay, CEO, NEA
- Results announcement / Closing
Date Sunday, 21 June 2015
Time 9am to 6pm (Team presentations started at 3pm)
Venue LaunchPad @ one-north, Block 79 Ayer Rajah Crescent, #04-03/04, Singapore 139955
Experts
Here’s our list of speakers, mentors and judges from the Clean & Green Hackathon week!
Guest of Honour
Ronnie Tay, CEO, NEA
Speakers
- Chintan Raveshia, Smart Cities, Arup
- Jon Hoel, The Pilot Project
- Ken Jin Tan, Singapore Glove Project
- Liang Yuan Yuan, Public Hygiene Council
- Linus Li, Waste & Resource Management Department (WMRD), NEA
- Mindy Ko, Engineer, WMRD, Recycling Promotion Unit, NEA
- Tan Choon Kiat, Executive, Department of Public Cleanliness, NEA
- Angela Ognev, Coach & Programme Designer, Redesign Happy
- Dion Anandityo, Senior Sustainability Consultant, Arup
- Hayk Hakobyan, Business Consultant & Entrepreneur
- Daniel Chia, Lecturer (Culinary & Catering Management), Temasek Polytechnic
- Varun Mittal Whispir
- Leonard Lee Heng, Deputy Director Environment Technology Office, NEA
- Eugene Heng, Public Hygiene Council Member
- Edwin Seah, Executive Director, Singapore Environment Council
- Nicolas Marechal-Abram, Scientific Director, Veolia
Mentors
Judges
Angela Ognev, Coach & Programme Designer, Redesign Happy
Angela is your coach for understanding and delighting people — from researching/creating/tweaking great user experiences or training your customer support team, to digging into your niche’s psychology with design thinking, or building an company culture that makes you feel at home. Angela is fascinated by anything with moving parts, and most of all, by people. (Unsurprisingly, she’s a graduate of psychology.)
You may have met her as the Chief Happiness Officer of Strikingly (beautiful mobile-friendly sites in minutes, YCombinator W13), or through the community for friendly, pragmatic design workshops — The Orange Hive. Officially, Angela represents herself as a coaching consultant for curious, energised teams under Redesign Happy. She’s happiest in sessions that ask a lot of “why” questions, reframe problems, and synthesise to extract the essence of anything. Angela’s not a big fan of keynotes, so she tends to organise/customise workshops with lots of group hands-on work, socratic learning, worksheets, and laughter. She believes in T-shaped people (interdisciplinarians) and having tough-but-crucial conversations, so she also co-organises HTML Crashcourse and Cut The Small Talk.
Chintan Raveshia, Smart Cities, Arup
Chintan is a cities consultant, urban designer and an architect with over 11 years of work experience in large and small-scale urban design, infrastructure and architecture projects in UK, India, Australia, Europe, Russia, China, Middle East, Turkey, Canada and currently South-East Asia. He is currently employed with Arup in Singapore where he works on large scale urban transport interchange, master planning and mixed-use development projects. He has written a paper on Smart Cities called ‘Smart Cities or Smart Governments?’ in association with Imperial College Business School, London. He has also been a guest speaker in Smart Cities international conferences in India and the UK. In addition, he is also leading a pro-bono project in Rwanda for the government to build low cost maternity hospitals in the country. Prior to joining Arup, he has worked as an architect in Mumbai and taught architectural design at the University of Mumbai.
Dion Anandityo, Arup
An architect focusing in sustainable design, dealing with both passive and active design measures. Experienced in optimizing a building’s architectural design passively to conserve resources consumption while enhancing the occupants’ indoor environmental quality.
Extensive experience in project manager role for LEED, Green Mark GBI and Greenship certification projects, coordinating between various specialist consultants to achieve a green rating certification goal. Dion now leads Arup Singapore’s Sustainability team in masterplanning, building design and corporate sustainability in Singapore, Malaysia and Indonesia market. In Indonesia, Dion actively acts as a Technical Advisor for Green Building Council of Indonesia in formulating the Indonesian green rating system.
Hayk Hakobyan, Business Consulting & Entrepreneur
Hayk is a consultant (#product, #strategy, #marketing, #innovation, #gamification), advisor (@thezimbabwean, @verdademz, @mtramadv), speaker(@tedxauc @creativegypt @thechaosasia @markedu), mentor (@transport_youth, ##InnovfestUnbound2015), an entrepreneur (@kartagapp, @engezni), and volunteer (@takingitglobal).
Jon Hoel, The Pilot Project
Jon helps organisations rapidly develop actionable ways of improving, using approaches such as Design Thinking and Lean Startup methodology. He has a marketing and public relations background, and has been helping government, corporate and startup clients since 2003. He also has technology marketing experience with large enterprises such as SAP and HP Enterprise Business, working both agency and client-side. Well-traveled in Asia and the US, and fluent in Japanese, Jon is from Melbourne, Australia.
Varun Mittal, Whispir
An MBA by chance and engineer by destiny, Varun is an infective energy generator powered by fast internet, lots of challenges and coffee. With all his time spent working with industry leaders like Samsung, Microsoft, Singtel and Gemalto, he permanently resides in a technology world. He loves to roll up his sleeves to work with startups and is currently involved with ventures in the domains of fashion, education, media and telecom.
Ideas
Check out the winning ideas from the Hackathon!
A messaging platform targeted at event organisers for waste management during their events.
Green Sense
A messaging platform targeted at event organisers for waste management during their events.
Read MoreTrashy People's system, Can't-You-See, plugs into NTUC's checkout system and assigns each product you buy a consumption score (how ethical the product is, packaging used).
Exceptions' solution encourages people to throw their rubbish by spurring some friendly competition between communities.
Littergrammers created a heatmap showing litter hotspots in Singapore to indicate where attention is needed.
Prizes
$2000
First Prize
$1500
Second Prize
$1000
Third Prize
$500
Best Tech
$500
Best Data
$500
Best Hack
FAQ
What is UP Singapore?
“Urban Prototyping” is a new movement where people from the public, private and people sectors come together to tackle the wide range of social and environmental challenges facing our cities. Urban Prototyping (UP) is a platform managed by Padang & Co, the Open Innovation Company, for crowdsourcing ground-breaking innovations – creating technology and data-enabled enterprises by giving participants access to new technologies and data. At the heart of this platform is an UP Singapore community of 5,000 innovators and change-makers.
Do I need to be a tech or data specialist?
Not necessary. We welcome people with different skillsets and would expect everyone to contribute to their respective teams. We may ask you to indicate what type of participant you are at registration, so we know the mix.
It’s my first UP Singapore hackathon. What exactly will happen during the hackathon weekend?
Our hackathons are intended to be a fun work event, where people volunteer their time to work on their ideas in teams. The hackathon starts on Friday. There is a pitch session that happens that evening. If you have an idea for a project, you can do a one-minute pitch to the audience to attract people to join your team.
The Saturday and most of Sunday is work time for the teams. On Saturday, mentors and resource persons are invited to come and help the teams develop their ideas. The weekend culminates in the team presentations on the Sunday afternoon, and prizes are awarded.
Participants are free to come and go as they please. But if you want to work on a team, please make sure you come on Friday evening to hear the pitches and join a team. If you are joining a team, please commit enough time, so that you are sharing the workload with your team mates.
Please also see the UP hackathon Code of Conduct.
Check out the UP Singapore blog post “How to Hack a Hackathon” for tips and tricks to make the most of your hackathon experience here!
Is attendance at the pre-hackathon workshops mandatory? What is in the workshop?
Attendance is not mandatory, but is highly encouraged. It will be a useful orientation to the industry, and a good primer for the hackathon. We introduce the themes and specific challenges and invite experts to give these themes and challenges the context.
How many people are allowed in a team? Can I form a team beforehand?
Teams typically have 3 to 5 people. No one-man teams are allowed. Yes, teams can be formed beforehand, but we still encourage you to pitch on Friday evening to share what you are working on.
Are the participants free to use any technology?
Yes, you are free to use any technology. Wifi is provided, and please bring your own laptop.
Are the participants free to use external datasets?
Yes, you are free to use any external datasets that complement or mash-up with the datasets released for this hackathon. You shall be responsible appropriate use of these external datasets, subject to the originators’ terms and conditions.
What is the closing date for registration for the hackathon?
We accept registrations up to the start of the hackathon. However, as space is limited, we encourage you to register as soon as you can.
Do the participants need to be present throughout the weekend? Must participants stay overnight?
There is no restriction on your movement. However, if you intend to participate in a team over the weekend, we would encourage you to come on Friday evening, since team formations happen during that session. The workspace at 237 South Bridge Road will stay open till late on Saturday. But you are not required to work overnight!
Is there any age limit for the participants?
There is no age limit. We welcome anyone of any age, so long as they have something to contribute. However, if you are below 18 years old, please let us know ahead of time, so we can prepare a parental / guardian consent form for you.
Why do you need a deposit of $15 at registration?
The $15 deposit is only to ensure that participants remain committed to attend the hackathon. Once you register at the event on Friday evening, the full amount will be refunded.