Data inside Farmbeats can be sent to external services to allow more value to be obtained, for example sending it to Machine Learning models to make predictions on plant growth. This meant that the problem being solved were much wider, with a real plan for how to convert these solutions into a finished business.Ī group of us from Microsoft were on site to help with technical expertise, provide our thoughts and feedback on the event, and obviously bring copious swag including stickers to adorn the students laptops.Īzure Farmbeats is a purpose built solution accelerator built to allow farmers to get actionable insights from data gathered from sensors or drones on their farms, and external data such as satellite and weather data. Due to this the solutions were less technical and did not all have working prototypes, but included a lot more focus on mock ups, the business plan and how these would be delivered. Each bought a unique perspective and background not often seen in a pure CS focused event.
This was one of the most diverse hackathons I've been to, with a wide range of students across all disciplines from veterinary medicine, to plant science, to information systems.
These students came with a single mission - to spend the weekend trying to solve some of the problems faced by farmers as they try to feed a growing and changing world. The Digital Ag Hackathon hosted at Cornell bought together 250 students from Cornell, the University of California Davis, the University of Sao Paulo from Brazil and Wageningen University from the Netherlands.
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