For 48 hours students, engineers, entrepreneurs and policy makers converged for Edinburgh’s first sustainable development hackathon!
In this first instalment four teams interdisciplinary teams worked on a product/service prototype to address one of two sustainable development goals, Clean Water & Sanitation and Food Security. Teams were provided with a context, a peri-urban area in Accra for the Water teams, and a rural area in Ethiopia for the Food teams.
Participants received mentoring, 7 free meals and 24 hour access to the venue, with the top team winning ‘Hydro-Hut’ winning support to develop their concept further.
-Speakers-
Hannah Ritchie 
Science Fellowship, Newton-Bhabha Virtual Centre on Nitrogen Efficiency
Philip McMaster
Co-Director, China at World Sustainability Organization
Barry Hardy 
Network Speaker Co-ordinator, WaterAid
-Judges-
Jin Ooi 
Professor of Particulate Solid Mechanics, University of Edinburgh
Raluca Bunduchi 
Director of Entrepreneurship & Innovation, University of Edinburgh
James Fleck 
Dean, Open University Business School
Hannah Ritchie
Science Fellowship, Newton-Bhabha Virtual Centre on Nitrogen Efficiency
-Mentors-
David Rush 
Lecturer in Structural Engineering, University of Edinburgh
Francis Greene 
Chair in Entrepreneurship, , University of Edinburgh
Andrea Semaio 
Professor in Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Edinburgh
Anna Grant 
Projects Officer, Carnegie UK Trust
Stephen Harwood
Lecturer in Business, University of Edinburgh
-Timetable-
DevLab 