Global Energy Hackathon Closing Ceremony — Transcript

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10. 0:56>> Let me [music] know when we have a
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12. 1:04>> Will do. [music] We We're going to admit
13. 1:06three more people and then we can get
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19. 1:37>> Okay, we can get started.
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21. 1:42>> All right. All right. All right. We are
22. 1:45at the final moment and this is a dream
23. 1:49come true. This hackathon started with a
24. 1:54dream and a conversation
25. 1:56for
26. 1:58the global energy hackathon do something
27. 2:01good. And we will continue to do
28. 2:04something good, and we are so happy to
29. 2:07have you guys here with us along this
30. 2:10journey. We're so happy for you guys to
31. 2:13be spending your Saturday with us.
32. 2:17We have the next 45 minutes to an hour
33. 2:20to go through the high-level details,
34. 2:24metrics, and ultimately the winners. So,
35. 2:26we're excited to present those.
36. 2:31All right. Um Yurina, keep me honest
37. 2:34with the slides here cuz I'm going dark.
38. 2:37But,
39. 2:38October 30th through November 1st, we
40. 2:41had our first annual virtual hackathon.
41. 2:46And when you When I say you guys showed
42. 2:48up, you showed up. We had over 770
43. 2:53registrations,
44. 2:55and we had over 200 actual participants
45. 2:59with 34 high-quality submissions. So,
46. 3:04kudos to yourself. Hands up because this
47. 3:08is the first time, won't be the last
48. 3:10time, but we appreciate everyone coming
49. 3:12together to solve big energy problems.
50. 3:15This is where
51. 3:17grassroots things happen. So, thank you.
52. 3:20Thank you. Thank you for that.
53. 3:23Going into the slide deck,
54. 3:26again, just want to welcome everyone for
55. 3:28coming back. Again, you were here last
56. 3:30Saturday, you're here this Saturday. You
57. 3:33spent time with us then, and you'll
58. 3:35spend time with us today. We appreciate
59. 3:38that time. Uh from the co-organizing
60. 3:42team, uh Yurina, um uh
61. 3:45Yurina, Tasha, and Lashana.
62. 3:52Okay. So, today what we'll do is uh
63. 3:56we're in the opening.
64. 3:58We'll do a recap and of the stats.
65. 4:03we will recognize our partners,
66. 4:06we'll do a project showcase,
67. 4:09we'll announce the winners,
68. 4:11and then what our next steps are on our
69. 4:13road to the general the global energy
70. 4:16hackathon summit.
71. 4:22By the numbers.
72. 4:24So, as I mentioned, 772
73. 4:27innovators were registered.
74. 4:29And what's phenomenal about that is we
75. 4:32started the registrations 3 months ago.
76. 4:36So, that's indicative of what the what
77. 4:39the need, desire, and passion is amongst
78. 4:42the people. And when we decided to build
79. 4:45this hackathon, we wanted to build it
80. 4:47with the people in mind. This is for the
81. 4:50people, by the people. So, we appreciate
82. 4:53the sign-ups, registrations, questions,
83. 4:56energy, and everything that was brought
84. 4:58to the table.
85. 5:00Of that 772
86. 5:02registrants, we had 84 countries around
87. 5:05the globe represented.
88. 5:07I mean, truly truly truly a global
89. 5:09hackathon, and we thank you for that.
90. 5:13We had 200 plus teams and solar
91. 5:16participants submit, as I mentioned, 33
92. 5:19projects. So, we had teams of four, we
93. 5:23had teams of five, we had teams of one.
94. 5:26And so, everyone put their best foot
95. 5:28forward, and we really appreciate those
96. 5:31submitting actual projects.
97. 5:35We had a combination of 43 mentors and
98. 5:38judges, professionals who took time out
99. 5:41of their weekend to come be with you, to
100. 5:45help support you over uh and through
101. 5:48some of the questions that you may have
102. 5:50had. So, we cannot have done this with
103. 5:53the without the support of our mentors
104. 5:56and judges, and we are very very
105. 5:58thankful.
106. 5:59And then, as you know, we had five
107. 6:02challenge tracks. So, the challenge
108. 6:05tracks we'll go through briefly on the
109. 6:07next page, but we did this across five
110. 6:10challenge challenge tracks and 16
111. 6:13different problem briefs. Some people
112. 6:16brought their own problem that they've
113. 6:17been experiencing and wanted to solve,
114. 6:20but then we also had the 16 briefs as an
115. 6:22option.
116. 6:27So, what is it that people chose to work
117. 6:29on? Um
118. 6:31if you look at the bar chart here, we
119. 6:33see that a lot of individuals were
120. 6:35interested in clean energy and
121. 6:37sustainability solutions at 40 40.7%.
122. 6:42We had a lot of folks take advantage of
123. 6:45LLMs and AI tools
124. 6:48at 37.8%.
125. 6:51A number of people focused on new
126. 6:54technologies and hardware innovations
127. 6:57where they actually had a hard tech
128. 7:00solution paired with in a lot of cases
129. 7:03software solutions.
130. 7:05We had some people want to tackle
131. 7:07policy, systems, and community-based
132. 7:09solutions.
133. 7:11Often forgotten, but very very important
134. 7:14and very impactful to people's
135. 7:16day-to-day lives when it comes to energy
136. 7:19and the and the payment and sourcing of
137. 7:21energy. And then finally, we had 4.2% of
138. 7:25the the people focus on business models
139. 7:28and financing approach. All very
140. 7:30interested interested and relevant
141. 7:34challenges.
142. 7:35If you look to the right, the pitch was
143. 7:38scored based on impact, innovation,
144. 7:42sustainability,
145. 7:44how feasible the solution is. We really
146. 7:47wanted projects that could scale beyond
147. 7:49this hackathon. Um and so those were the
148. 7:52the key criteria. So, we appreciate all
149. 7:55the folks that submitted slide decks and
150. 7:58or demo presentations or pitch decks
151. 8:01that spoke to these criteria. It really
152. 8:04made our judging a
153. 8:06much easier so that we could see what
154. 8:09the impact was.
155. 8:16Okay, so none of this could have
156. 8:17couldn't have been done without our
157. 8:19partners and sponsors. And in year one,
158. 8:22you know, getting getting a project a
159. 8:24passing project off the ground, um you
160. 8:27know,
161. 8:28we really value folks who believed in
162. 8:31the vision, wanted to engage and support
163. 8:33us. So, starting from left to right, our
164. 8:36host Anaru Solutions Incorporated, uh
165. 8:40where the idea was originally conceived,
166. 8:42um YURIKA launched the Power Africa
167. 8:45conference 10 years ago. And so, on the
168. 8:48shoulders of that
169. 8:49that conference, we were able to launch
170. 8:52this hackathon.
171. 8:54Uh DistribuTEC International, a very
172. 8:58large global innovation conference
173. 9:02that's held each year. They've been a
174. 9:05partner and supporter of this, and we
175. 9:07will be pitching at their conference in
176. 9:09March.
177. 9:11IEEE PES Kenya,
178. 9:14many of you know that uh myself,
179. 9:17Lashana, and YURIKA were in Kenya at the
180. 9:20IEEE conference. And so, IEEE Kenya,
181. 9:24shoutout to you guys. You supported in a
182. 9:26big way, and we appreciate you.
183. 9:29And then finally, ABE, the Association
184. 9:32of Blacks in Energy. We started this
185. 9:35partnership up uh in the August time
186. 9:38frame, and we look forward to doing so
187. 9:40much more with the organization. So,
188. 9:43thank you. Thank you. Thank you, our
189. 9:45partners and sponsors. I couldn't We we
190. 9:48really couldn't have done this without
191. 9:49you.
192. 9:50Community partners, we had an education
193. 9:53partner,
194. 9:54um
195. 9:57and bear with me,
196. 9:59cuz I'm getting messages popping up on
197. 10:01my screen.
198. 10:03>> [clears throat]
199. 10:04>> And my slides just popped away. Bear
200. 10:06with me.
201. 10:08>> Sorry about that. I think the
202. 10:10note-takers.
203. 10:11>> Yeah. Yeah. Okay. All right, I'm back.
204. 10:14All right. So, element NTS, um one of
205. 10:17our education partners that picked uh uh
206. 10:21shared education on how to go from a
207. 10:23proof of concept to MVP, how to know the
208. 10:25difference. Again, I I triple E PES,
209. 10:30uh beyond Kenya but across the
210. 10:31organization as a whole.
211. 10:34Black WPT,
212. 10:36uh which was the source of our platform.
213. 10:39NESBE and SHPE, the engineering
214. 10:40organization here in the states. We
215. 10:43appreciate your support and we look
216. 10:45forward to working together in the
217. 10:48future.
218. 10:52The people the people who spent their
219. 10:54time. We could not have done any of this
220. 10:59without you guys. Um we had a team of
221. 11:03core a core team of people who worked
222. 11:06week over week, day over day, uh month
223. 11:09over month to support building this
224. 11:12hackathon. So, on the left, I'd like to
225. 11:15call out Anne,
226. 11:17Jamoke, Dr. Uchi, Efetede, Apando,
227. 11:21Sunday, and Isaac. Without you guys, we
228. 11:24could not have gotten here.
229. 11:27Our judges, we had a phenomenal panel of
230. 11:30judges, very experienced, very very with
231. 11:35depth a deep knowledge, and really
232. 11:37really supported us through the judging
233. 11:39process.
234. 11:40And so, I won't read the names off one
235. 11:43by one here, but you see everyone that
236. 11:45was a judge. And um
237. 11:48judges, if you're okay,
238. 11:51if they find you on LinkedIn, uh link
239. 11:53up.
240. 11:54Same thing with the advisory board. We
241. 11:56had a set of individuals who coached us
242. 12:00along the way, gave us feedback, gave us
243. 12:02insights,
244. 12:04uh in many cases gave us connections.
245. 12:06So, we appreciate the advisory board in
246. 12:09helping shape this this hackathon.
247. 12:15And the coaches.
248. 12:18We had a number of coaches and as you if
249. 12:21you were in the Slack channel
250. 12:24uh there were some coaches that you know
251. 12:27we have to give a shout out to. I mean
252. 12:29Guru was in the room. He was definitely
253. 12:34very supportive and I have to give him a
254. 12:36coach star. Um there are others here on
255. 12:38this list uh that definitely you know
256. 12:41were very very engaged. These coaches
257. 12:44again professionals
258. 12:46gave up their time. They stayed up um
259. 12:51throughout the night in some cases and
260. 12:54really supported the innovators. So the
261. 12:56coaches were rot- rotating and in and
262. 12:59out but we really really would like to
263. 13:02uh recognize a certain uh set of coaches
264. 13:04and we'll do that after the fact.
265. 13:07>> Right. Just a really quickly sorry. I
266. 13:09just wanted to also shout out and we'll
267. 13:11do that we we don't want to miss anyone
268. 13:13but definitely Arula um Arvila uh Tasha
269. 13:17already mentioned Guru. Paula was in the
270. 13:19room as well. We had Lady.
271. 13:22I think we had Venkata as well um
272. 13:26in the room. So these are the ones that
273. 13:28jump out at me. So if I miss your name
274. 13:29I'm so sorry. We're going to do a a
275. 13:31general one um very soon and we see
276. 13:34someone saying shout out to Guru. So
277. 13:36that's amazing. Um
278. 13:38yeah, thank you. Go ahead Tasha.
279. 13:40>> Awesome. Thank you. Thank you.
280. 13:44All right.
281. 13:46So um with all those thanks and
282. 13:49gratitudes
283. 13:51placed on the table, we want to get into
284. 13:54the meat of this.
285. 13:58So the winners.
286. 14:00Again 33 submissions. Very high quality
287. 14:04submissions.
288. 14:06Uh the feedback that I got from a number
289. 14:08of our judges was that wow, these people
290. 14:13in 48 hours really accomplish something
291. 14:16great. Kudos to you guys for, in many
292. 14:21cases, taking the the the briefs,
293. 14:24digesting the briefs,
294. 14:26and coming up with a solution that could
295. 14:28be scalable and feasible into the
296. 14:31future.
297. 14:32Thank you for that. I often say in my
298. 14:35day job that the velocity
299. 14:39of going from ideation to execution
300. 14:42is accelerating.
301. 14:44And so, hackathons and events of this
302. 14:47type really help exercise that muscle.
303. 14:51So, if not nothing else, just know that
304. 14:55by you exercising that muscle positions
305. 14:58you to be
306. 15:00be successful into the future. So, just
307. 15:03the whole process and we appreciate that
308. 15:06participation.
309. 15:09All right.
310. 15:11So, without further ado, let me get into
311. 15:16the winners.
312. 15:26Wait a minute. Uh-oh.
313. 15:28>> [laughter]
314. 15:30>> I am going to
315. 15:32pause for a minute.
316. 15:34>> Problem brief nine, prepaid [music]
317. 15:36token lockouts.
318. 15:40Mercy [music] sells vegetables at a
319. 15:42market in Kenya. She buys power tokens
320. 15:45by mobile money in small amounts [music]
321. 15:47when she has spare cash. Near the end of
322. 15:49the month, they run out, often at night.
323. 15:54Her children study by phone light. The
324. 15:56food in her fridge spoils, [music]
325. 15:58and she has no way to see what each
326. 16:00appliance uses.
327. 16:04She's far from alone. Kenya's lifeline
328. 16:07tariff [music] band, 30 kWh a month,
329. 16:09covers about 6.3 million customers,
330. 16:13roughly 71% of all consumers.
331. 16:16When a prepaid meter runs dry, [music]
332. 16:18there's no unpaid bill. The utility sees
333. 16:21nothing, so no one tracks how often
334. 16:23families [music]
335. 16:24go dark.
336. 16:28About 22% [music] of UK prepaid
337. 16:30customers self-disconnect in a year. In
338. 16:33New Zealand, [music]
339. 16:34it's 53% many for 12 hours or more. The
340. 16:38UK requires emergency credit. [music]
341. 16:40Most African prepaid markets don't.
342. 16:43This is a cash flow and visibility
343. 16:45problem.
344. 16:46>> [music]
345. 16:46>> The challenge, measure hidden
346. 16:48disconnections and design a safety net
347. 16:51that keeps families connected without
348. 16:53breaking utility finances
349. 16:55>> [music]
350. 16:55>> and that works on a basic phone.
351. 16:58Could an emergency credit advance
352. 16:59[music] work without trapping people in
353. 17:01debt?
354. 17:07>> Awesome. So, problem brief number nine
355. 17:12was a tariff problem.
356. 17:15And
357. 17:17without further ado,
358. 17:19the winning team,
359. 17:21third place,
360. 17:23goes to
361. 17:28Umeme Sense.
362. 17:31They built Steama Bridge as an
363. 17:33integrated policy and digital solution
364. 17:36designed to solve silent prepaid
365. 17:39self-disconnections
366. 17:41and tariff miscalculations.
367. 17:44The team members, Mercy, Emmanuel,
368. 17:48Nixon, and Vanessa, with a coach of
369. 17:51Paula Glover. Congratulations.
370. 17:55You won $2,000 in cash and prizes. Great
371. 17:59work. Great job. Do we have anyone from
372. 18:02Umeme Sense on the line?
373. 18:06>> Yes, yes. I'm here. Hello. Hi, Tasha.
374. 18:09>> Hey. Uh yeah, this is your acceptance
375. 18:13speech.
376. 18:14>> Oh, thank you. Thank you.
377. 18:17>> [laughter]
378. 18:17>> I was literally just jumping in my room
379. 18:19a few seconds ago.
380. 18:22>> Tell us what
381. 18:23what was behind your solution other than
382. 18:25the brief. How did you guys come up with
383. 18:27this solution?
384. 18:29>> Um this is a actually a real problem
385. 18:31that we have here in Kenya. Personally,
386. 18:33I face it directly where I tend to
387. 18:36uh buy less electricity uh
388. 18:39during a certain period of time so that
389. 18:40I don't get pushed up to the next tariff
390. 18:42level. So it was really personal to me
391. 18:45and to the rest of the team, especially
392. 18:47since we're still young adults trying
393. 18:49out life. So electricity costs are a
394. 18:52real thing and we just were trying to
395. 18:55find something that would really work
396. 18:56for us. Yeah.
397. 18:58>> Awesome. Awesome. And as I
398. 19:01>> sorry, I was going to What's your What's
399. 19:02your background? Is it um in energy? Is
400. 19:04it in in um
401. 19:06law? Is it What's your background
402. 19:08educationally and and your other team
403. 19:10members?
404. 19:11>> Yes. Um my background is in electrical
405. 19:13engineering.
406. 19:15Um the other team members are from other
407. 19:18uh disciplines as well of engineering,
408. 19:20uh mechatronics and biomedical
409. 19:22engineering. And currently, I am also
410. 19:24doing an MBA in uh
411. 19:27uh University of East London.
412. 19:34>> Awesome. Thank you. Thank you. And and
413. 19:37the way I understood this problem is
414. 19:39that the less energy you use, the higher
415. 19:42your your
416. 19:43uh kilowatt-hour rate is. Is that part
417. 19:47of the challenge?
418. 19:49>> Yes. Yes.
419. 19:50>> Okay. So it's definitely a policy design
420. 19:53challenge as well as a data visibility
421. 19:57challenge. So thank you. Your Your
422. 19:59solution was phenomenal and we
423. 20:01congratulate you and look forward to
424. 20:04continuing our work together.
425. 20:07>> Thank you.
426. 20:09>> Okay.
427. 20:14All right.
428. 20:16Let's go to second place.
429. 20:26>> Problem brief [music] 12, relocatable
430. 20:28solar for a hospital on the move.
431. 20:32At [music] the National Orthopedic
432. 20:33Hospital in Enugu, grid power arrives
433. 20:36for about 6 hours a day and drops
434. 20:39without warning. [music]
435. 20:44When it fails mid-procedure, the theater
436. 20:46waits while staff start the diesel
437. 20:49generator and the unstable supply keeps
438. 20:52breaking sensitive equipment.
439. 20:54Diesel is up 86% in a year. Teaching
440. 20:58hospitals power bills [music] have
441. 20:59tripled or quadrupled and one paid about
442. 21:0347 million naira a month just on diesel.
443. 21:06[music]
444. 21:07Staff are leaving, too. Nigeria has lost
445. 21:11roughly 16,000 doctors in 5 years. Two
446. 21:14of Dr. Chukwuemeka's colleagues left
447. 21:16this year.
448. 21:18>> [music]
449. 21:20>> And there's a twist. The hospital moves
450. 21:22to a new [music] building in about 5
451. 21:24years. Solar fixed to today's roofs
452. 21:27would be stranded and federal rules stop
453. 21:30the hospital from simply disposing of
454. 21:32it.
455. 21:33The challenge, [music]
456. 21:35a relocatable solar and storage system
457. 21:37that keeps surgical theaters running
458. 21:40without interruption
459. 21:41>> [music]
460. 21:41>> and a financing and ownership model that
461. 21:43survives the move.
462. 21:48How do you build a system that can move
463. 21:50to a new building in 5 years?
464. 21:58>> Okay, so problem
465. 22:00brief number 12, there were number of
466. 22:03teams that
467. 22:05looked at this problem, very
468. 22:07competitive.
469. 22:09So, we are excited to share the winner.
470. 22:13And without
471. 22:15further delay,
472. 22:19place number two, winning up, place
473. 22:22number two
474. 22:24with $3,000 in cash and prizes,
475. 22:28drum roll,
476. 22:31goes to
477. 22:33Grid Rescue AI.
478. 22:36Grid Rescue AI turns a map pin into an
479. 22:39investment-ready,
480. 22:40relocatable, clean energy plan for
481. 22:43hospitals on weak grids.
482. 22:47Solo team member, Pavan,
483. 22:50coach Guru,
484. 22:52and Ashrity
485. 22:54were supporting.
486. 22:57Do we have Pavan on the line here?
487. 22:59>> Uh yeah, Natasha. Uh so, thank you uh
488. 23:03very much and uh yeah, uh so, actually
489. 23:06uh it is also Thomas. Thomas also was
490. 23:09involved. Uh sorry, uh we missed him.
491. 23:11Anyway, uh first of all, thank you uh
492. 23:13for your team as well as Yurina um as
493. 23:16well as for my mentor Guru as well as uh
494. 23:19Ashmita. So, it's great that uh at a
495. 23:23global level uh we could able to achieve
496. 23:25this. And um I'm looking forward also to
497. 23:28contribute more. And thank you, Natasha.
498. 23:32Yeah.
499. 23:32>> Thank you. Thank you.
500. 23:34I have a question about your solution,
501. 23:36Pavan. And maybe we follow the same line
502. 23:39of questioning that we had for the prior
503. 23:41team. First of all, what is your
504. 23:43background?
505. 23:44>> Uh so, I'm working in energy sector. Uh
506. 23:48so, also I come with a PhD in computer
507. 23:51science. So, I got extensive knowledge
508. 23:53in energy sector.
509. 23:56>> Awesome. Okay. Okay. And what made you
510. 23:59come up with this
511. 24:01I mean, obviously the brief gave some
512. 24:03hints of how to approach it, but give us
513. 24:05a little bit of background into your
514. 24:07mindset and what you did to approach
515. 24:09this.
516. 24:11>> Um basically, I just went through the uh
517. 24:14problem statement. And
518. 24:16I looked at the problem statement of uh
519. 24:19this hospital management, and it was
520. 24:21quite interesting. And uh the problem uh
521. 24:24currently uh most of the industry guys
522. 24:27they are facing is like uh you have
523. 24:29different kind of uh grades or um
524. 24:33I I I can also say solar panel or wind
525. 24:36or weak grades. So, people are bit
526. 24:40confused
527. 24:42how to solve this problem or if they
528. 24:44want to go into some energy system uh
529. 24:48most of them are
530. 24:49very new and
531. 24:51it is getting popular um
532. 24:53day by day. But, I just had a a mindset
533. 24:57that uh
534. 24:58we should solve the core problem uh
535. 25:01to make sure that if anyone is investing
536. 25:03into any energy components um we should
537. 25:07also make sure that it should also align
538. 25:10with the government compliances.
539. 25:13So, that's the also reason I also got in
540. 25:15ESG report. So, every industry is
541. 25:18looking into ESG report. So, and also
542. 25:22there are different kind of grid
543. 25:23outages.
544. 25:25Um
545. 25:25I had a very extensive knowledge here.
546. 25:28So, I implemented the same concepts in
547. 25:31this hospital management.
548. 25:34>> Awesome. Awesome. And if I can remember
549. 25:37correctly about this particular solution
550. 25:39you presented, it included
551. 25:42>> Yeah.
552. 25:42>> ballasted ground mount solar array that
553. 25:46was portable from one place to the other
554. 25:48within 5 years
555. 25:50as well as battery storage containers.
556. 25:52So, you had a whole modular system that
557. 25:55can be portable. What do you What were
558. 25:57your thoughts behind, you know, how you
559. 26:00determined the portability of the HARP
560. 26:03Tech components?
561. 26:06>> Uh portability aspect um
562. 26:10>> [snorts]
563. 26:10>> as the video already explained, there
564. 26:13are certain government policies and also
565. 26:17the main before you move any components,
566. 26:20the first aspect you should see the grid
567. 26:23stability in that specific region.
568. 26:26So, that is the core problem that what I
569. 26:28think because if grid is not stable
570. 26:32so you can have different kind of
571. 26:35natural energy so you can utilize that.
572. 26:39And also movement of the solar panel
573. 26:42also it's a bit challenging so
574. 26:45I try to resolve around all these three
575. 26:48factors.
576. 26:50Yeah.
577. 26:52>> Awesome. Awesome. Okay. Well, we
578. 26:54definitely are
579. 26:56>> Can I ask one more question?
580. 26:58>> Please.
581. 26:58>> Pavan, I'm just curious. What was your
582. 27:02dissertation on?
583. 27:05Your thesis in for your PhD.
584. 27:09>> So it was more on uh
585. 27:13like
586. 27:14quantum
587. 27:16post quantum uh
588. 27:17post quantum cryptography uh security
589. 27:21aspect. So to secure guard the IoT
590. 27:24devices
591. 27:26on post quantum attacks. So also I came
592. 27:29with IoT more IoT knowledge so
593. 27:32combining with IoT as well as energy
594. 27:35storage had extensive knowledge. So that
595. 27:38also helped me here to model the
596. 27:41application more
597. 27:43presentable way to customers.
598. 27:46>> Okay. Thank you. Tasha, back to you.
599. 27:49>> Awesome. Okay. All right.
600. 27:51Congratulations Pavan and we'll make
601. 27:54sure we get the name of your other team
602. 27:56member.
603. 27:58>> Yeah, sure. No worries. Yeah. Yeah,
604. 28:00thank you. Thank you very much. Yeah.
605. 28:02>> Okay.
606. 28:04All right.
607. 28:07Well, that's second place and of course
608. 28:10first place is always the anticipated
609. 28:14option or winner. But before we get
610. 28:18there
611. 28:19want to
612. 28:21recognize the work that the that the all
613. 28:25the teams did throughout this hackathon.
614. 28:28So let's take check out this video here.
615. 28:36>> [music]
616. 28:41[music]
617. 29:00[music]
618. 29:34>> All right.
619. 29:35We just wanted to do a representative
620. 29:37sample of all of the work that was done
621. 29:41of across the teams here.
622. 29:43And we will make sure that
623. 29:47please understand that your work um
624. 29:49belongs to you. Uh so to the extent that
625. 29:53you share it with others is up to your
626. 29:55discretion, but we do want this to be a
627. 29:57learning community.
628. 29:59So if someone if you win and someone
629. 30:01reaches out to you,
630. 30:03uh make sure that you a secure your IP.
631. 30:08Um but then also find a way to share. We
632. 30:11want everyone to grow together in this
633. 30:13community.
634. 30:17All right.
635. 30:20So Yurina,
636. 30:22should we at this point
637. 30:25say who the top winner is here?
638. 30:29>> Woo! I think everyone's waiting for
639. 30:30that.
640. 30:32>> [laughter]
641. 30:33[gasps]
642. 30:34>> All right. All right. Create try to
643. 30:36create a little bit of anticipation
644. 30:37here. Okay. Well,
645. 30:41let's see.
646. 30:44I want to redo that.
647. 30:46The question is, who is the grand winner
648. 30:50for $5,000 in cash and prizes? This was
649. 30:54a super super competitive position
650. 30:58across all of the teams, across all of
651. 31:02the tracks.
652. 31:03So, this grand prize was not
653. 31:07awarded lightly.
654. 31:10Let's go into the brief.
655. 31:12>> Problem [music] brief 13. Power for city
656. 31:15the grid can't protect.
657. 31:18Maiduguri in Northeast Nigeria runs on
658. 31:21one long transmission line through
659. 31:23insurgent [music]
660. 31:24territory.
661. 31:25Homes, hospitals, water, and markets all
662. 31:28depend on it. In 2021, Boko Haram blew
663. 31:32up its towers [music] again and again.
664. 31:34The city spent about 10 months without
665. 31:36grid power.
666. 31:38>> [music]
667. 31:39>> Repairs took nearly 2 months under
668. 31:41military escort with crews facing mines.
669. 31:45>> [music]
670. 31:45>> 3 days after power came back, the line
671. 31:48was bombed again.
672. 31:51Aisha sells ice and frozen fish at a
673. 31:54Maiduguri market. When the grid went
674. 31:56dark, [music] she cut her freezers from
675. 31:5812 to 3. Diesel cost about nine times as
676. 32:02much as grid power. [music]
677. 32:05The backup gas plant needs 2 billion
678. 32:08naira a month in federal support.
679. 32:10>> [music]
680. 32:10>> Diesel has jumped 86% in a year, and
681. 32:14tower attacks across Nigeria have more
682. 32:16than [music] doubled.
683. 32:18This is a single point of failure. When
684. 32:20the line goes down, everything goes dark
685. 32:23together.
686. 32:24>> [music]
687. 32:24>> The challenge, spread generation and
688. 32:26keep hospitals, water, cold chains, and
689. 32:29markets running even when the line or
690. 32:31the plant fails.
691. 32:33If the line goes down tomorrow for 2
692. 32:35months, what must keep running?
693. 32:41>> All right. Um we found that problem
694. 32:45brief to be very, very important to
695. 32:47solve. So, thank you to those who chose
696. 32:51this brief.
697. 32:53Uh this is a condition that a number of
698. 32:56people experience
699. 32:59uh in various parts of the world. So, to
700. 33:02the extent that we can supply a solution
701. 33:05for one part of the world, it will
702. 33:07address the other part of the world. And
703. 33:09that's what this global energy hackathon
704. 33:12is about. How do we solve problems that
705. 33:15transcends borders?
706. 33:18And we are so thankful and grateful to
707. 33:20have had you guys put your minds
708. 33:24together
709. 33:25and come to the table with solutions
710. 33:28that are feasible and that are usable
711. 33:31within your communities.
712. 33:34So, without further ado, the grand prize
713. 33:38winner
714. 33:43is Sabil.
715. 33:45Sabil is a home solar kit whose
716. 33:48controller makes the lithium-ion battery
717. 33:51last. And we have Youssef and Younes
718. 33:56with a coach of Areda. Do we have
719. 33:59Youssef or Younes on the call today?
720. 34:09Okay, Youssef, Younes, are you guys
721. 34:12here? We didn't say you have to be
722. 34:13present to win, but
723. 34:15>> [laughter]
724. 34:19>> All right. Okay. Well, that is the grand
725. 34:23prize winner. Sabil, we'll reach out to
726. 34:25them separately. Uh their solution was a
727. 34:30solar kit and a controller that allows
728. 34:34the lithium-ion batteries to moderate
729. 34:37themselves so that they extend the
730. 34:39lifetime of the
731. 34:41they extend the lifetime of the
732. 34:43batteries. So, this was a solution that
733. 34:47helps with uptime in environments where
734. 34:49the grid is down for substantial period.
735. 34:53So, thank you Youssef and Younes and um
736. 34:56Areela as a coach, if you're here, thank
737. 34:59you so much for your support.
738. 35:02All right.
739. 35:04So, what's next?
740. 35:07So, we will be reaching out to uh each
741. 35:10of the winning teams. Uh you'll receive
742. 35:13an email in 10 days. That email will be
743. 35:16a form that will collect your
744. 35:19information for prize distribution
745. 35:21purposes. We will need you to respond to
746. 35:24this email by November 30th.
747. 35:27And then prizes will be distributed by
748. 35:29December 31st.
749. 35:32Again, we want you guys to keep these
750. 35:34solutions going. We don't stop here.
751. 35:38This hackathon is a build.
752. 35:40We find solutions. We pitch those
753. 35:43solutions in front of folks that can
754. 35:45help us pilot and scale, and then we
755. 35:49build our capability. So, this is a full
756. 35:52life cycle project that we're working
757. 35:54on. So, in between time, we will have
758. 35:58additional training sessions through the
759. 36:00A Professional Africa platform where we
760. 36:03will continue to educate and help you
761. 36:05shape your POC, your proof of concept,
762. 36:09to an MVP. So, stay on the lookout for
763. 36:12emails that will come out for those
764. 36:13educational sessions.
765. 36:16And with that,
766. 36:20this is the project flow. This is the
767. 36:22full life cycle cycle flow, and that is
768. 36:26the award ceremony.
769. 36:29Do we have any judges? Do we have any uh
770. 36:33uh
771. 36:34advisory board members on the line that
772. 36:36would like to share thoughts at this
773. 36:38time?
774. 36:49>> Okay, feel free to get off mute or raise
775. 36:51your hand.
776. 36:54We do see a few members of the advisory
777. 36:56board
778. 36:58on here.
779. 36:59And maybe it's a matter of just
780. 37:01introducing yourself um and what what
781. 37:04connected you to this effort.
782. 37:07Because you could spend your time
783. 37:08anywhere, but you're here with us
784. 37:11or you've been with us. So, if you could
785. 37:12come off mute, introduce yourself, what
786. 37:15it is that you do, and why are you here?
787. 37:27Oh, good question. Someone says, "When
788. 37:29do we get participation certificates,
789. 37:31Tasha?"
790. 37:33Okay.
791. 37:34Um participation certificates, um we
792. 37:38will distribute those within the week,
793. 37:41the upcoming week. Uh what we need for
794. 37:44you to do is, and if you haven't
795. 37:46already, make sure in the Slack channel
796. 37:50that your name is spelled out in your
797. 37:52[clears throat] profile. If we don't
798. 37:54have your full name, we cannot produce a
799. 37:58certificate. For those who have already
800. 38:00done that, we do have your our
801. 38:03certificates in the queue, but those who
802. 38:05have not taken that, please go back and
803. 38:08update your name and tag us. Tag me
804. 38:12specifically
805. 38:13um that you have updated your name so
806. 38:15that we can get your certificate up out
807. 38:17to you.
808. 38:19Any other questions?
809. 38:33You're on mute. Oh, yeah, I just
810. 38:34realized that. So, as we said, we will
811. 38:37send you an um email. We would love for
812. 38:39you to join the A Professional Africa
813. 38:41newsletter. We want to keep the
814. 38:43education going um even going through
815. 38:47the
816. 38:48the submissions, we for some we saw how
817. 38:52much better
818. 38:54or stronger their submission could have
819. 38:56been with more preparation. So we want
820. 38:59to make sure that we're
821. 39:01putting in as much work to get people a
822. 39:05lot closer to winning
823. 39:08the next hackathon. We want to get you
824. 39:10ready for the summit as well that's
825. 39:13coming up in Atlanta. So we were
826. 39:15definitely going to be intentional about
827. 39:18the kinds of training that we bring to
828. 39:20you. So some of you obviously you had
829. 39:24coaches and mentors help you with your
830. 39:26projects, but potentially we might have
831. 39:28some of them dig in and actually do
832. 39:30workshops, not just webinars, not just a
833. 39:33short events, but
834. 39:35workshops to help you pin out your idea
835. 39:38and flesh it out a lot
836. 39:40a lot more.
837. 39:42I think that's it. I think Tasha you
838. 39:44talked about we already know the um
839. 39:47the the rubrics, right? So we had
840. 39:50impact, innovation, and sustainability
841. 39:52as the top three um weights.
842. 39:56And then we had feasibility and what was
843. 39:59the fifth one?
844. 40:00>> Scalability.
845. 40:02>> Scalability, right. So we will see if
846. 40:05the next hackathon has the same exact
847. 40:07mix. Maybe something else will weigh
848. 40:10higher next time. We don't know, but it
849. 40:12definitely worked during this this um
850. 40:16this season.
851. 40:21>> Awesome.
852. 40:28So what's that?
853. 40:29>> Yeah, we invite you to continue to be
854. 40:31the spark and part of the world. Some of
855. 40:33you might feel like you didn't win, but
856. 40:35you're all winners. We just had to pick
857. 40:37the top three, but everyone that
858. 40:40actually took time and within 48 hours
859. 40:42some of the things the projects that you
860. 40:44built were absolutely phenomenal. Um but
861. 40:48obviously we had to pick three. So,
862. 40:50don't feel discouraged um, if you have
863. 40:52more questions or you you feel like you
864. 40:56need more help, you want to work with
865. 40:58another mentor over the next few months,
866. 41:00you know, feel free to reach out to us
867. 41:02on um, [email protected].
868. 41:06Um, we will be sending out surveys. I
869. 41:08think Tasha within the next what, 1 week
870. 41:11or so?
871. 41:12>> Yes.
872. 41:13>> Okay. So, we will be sending out surveys
873. 41:15to get, you know, feedback from you,
874. 41:17whatever you you want to share. Um, we
875. 41:20would love to hear back from you.
876. 41:23Thank you.
877. 41:25>> All right.
878. 41:29Well, we appreciate you guys' time and
879. 41:32that's all for now.
880. 41:34Thank you.
881. 41:34>> Okay. Thank you everyone. We will we
882. 41:35will share the link to the video.
883. 41:37Someone just put that in the comments in
884. 41:39the chat room. We will send the link to
885. 41:41the video hopefully by tomorrow.
886. 41:44Okay? Thank you everyone.
887. 41:49>> [music]
888. 41:53[music]
889. 42:03[music]
890. 42:10[music]
891. 42:18[music]
892. 42:22>> Everything's supposed to be
893. 42:25I can't feel it.
894. 42:26>> [music]
895. 42:32>> Everything's supposed to be
896. 42:34>> [music]
897. 42:37>> I can't feel it.
898. 42:43>> [music]
899. 42:47>> I was looking for a sign
900. 42:50trying hard to read [music] the lines
901. 42:52Thinking life was hard to win.
902. 42:54Always fighting from within. But I see
903. 42:57it differently. [music]
904. 42:59Everything is helping me.
905. 43:01Even things I couldn't see.
906. 43:03>> [music]
907. 43:04>> Were aligned secretly.
908. 43:06Now I feel it all
909. 43:11Every step on solid
910. 43:13>> [music]
911. 43:16>> Everything supports me. I believe it.
912. 43:19Life [music]
913. 43:20is working here for me. Everything
914. 43:22supports me.
915. 43:23I can see.
916. 43:25Even challenges help me. Everything
917. 43:27supports me.
918. 43:28>> [music]
919. 43:28>> I can see
920. 43:30All the good is meant for me. Supports
921. 43:32me.
922. 43:33Supports me.
923. 43:34Supports me.
924. 43:35>> [music]
925. 43:37>> Supports me.
926. 43:39Supports me.
927. 43:41This is
928. 43:42real.
929. 43:42>> [music]
930. 43:44>> Supports me.
931. 43:46This is
932. 43:48I don't question every turn. There's
933. 43:50[music]
934. 43:51a lesson I can learn.
935. 43:53Every moment, every place
936. 43:56leads me into better space. Even when it
937. 43:59feels unclear,
938. 44:01there is nothing left to fear.
939. 44:02>> [music]
940. 44:03>> There's a pattern I can trust.
941. 44:05Everything is here for us. I don't need
942. 44:09to fight the flow.
943. 44:11Everything already
944. 44:14>> [music]
945. 44:16>> knows. Everything supports me. I
946. 44:19receive. Every [music] pattern is meant
947. 44:21for me. Everything supports me. I highly
948. 44:24align.
949. 44:25All the good that's here right now.
950. 44:28>> [music]
951. 45:45>> Mhm.