ENGAGE Open Data Hackathon / Datathon
Presentation Tutorial
Tuesday, 15 April 2014, 9:00‐14:30
Organiser: ENGAGE project consortium
Host: Microsoft Innovation Center‐Greece
Kifissias 221 Marousi 151 24
Competition description
This is a “hybrid” Hackathon‐Datathon competition organised by the ENGAGE FP7 Project. Applicants will have the opportunity to register for the competition and then submit their entries, which can be open‐data‐centric applications and/or innovative, curated and re‐usable high‐quality datasets. All applicants must conform to the Eligibility Criteria stated below and all entries will be assessed based on the Selection Criteria. A panel of judges appointed by the ENGAGE consortium will assess the entries and decide on a winner and runner‐up for the Hackathon and the Datathon.
Event details
Hackathon launch: Monday 7th April 2014
Deadline for submissions: Monday 28th April 2014
Winners are announced: Monday 5th May 2014
Agenda (Invitations and presentations in English)
Tuesday, 15 April, 2014
09:00‐11:00 Plenary Session @ The Stage – Chair – Fotis Karayannis, Microsoft
Innovation Center Greece (MIC‐GR)
09:00‐09:30 Arrival – Coffee
09:30‐10:00 Open Data – George Kanellopoulos, Senior Technology Evangelist, Microsoft Hellas
10:00‐10:30 Open Data Initiatives in Greece– Prof. Yannis
Charalabidis, University of the Aegean
10:30‐11:00 The ENGAGE Platform – Spiros Mouzakitis (including
short live demo), ENGAGE project manager, National Technical University of
Athens
11:00 ‐11:30 Coffee Break
11:30‐13:00 Parallel Session –Training for developers @ The Stage – Chair – Spiros
Mouzakitis, NTUA
11:30‐12:00 Microsoft Related tools ‐ The Microsoft Business Intelligence / Power Business Intelligence ‐ Thodoris Theodorou, Senior Consultant, Microsoft Services, Microsoft Hellas
12:00‐12:30 The ENGAGE API, Sotiris Koussouris, ENGAGE Technical Manager, NTUA
12:30‐13:00 Application examples using the ENGAGE API– Naim Gaberlo, MIC‐GR
11:30‐13:00 Parallel Session – ENGAGE Training for journalists and data analysts @
The Factory– Chair – Evangelos Argyzoudis, Intrasoft International
11:30‐12:00 The ENGAGE curation and visualization tools, Harris Alexopoulos, AEGEAN
12:00‐12:30 Examples of the ENGAGE usage for data curation or creation of new datasets, Evangelos Argyzoudis, INTRASOFT International S.A.
12:30‐13:00 Available datasets and success stories (transport, health, political sciences, legal, etc.), Evangelos Argyzoudis, INTRASOFT International S.A.
13:00 ‐14:00 Light Lunch Break
14:00‐14:15 Plenary Session‐ MIC start‐up support efforts, Lydia Morazzani, Business
Operation Manager, Microsoft Innovation Center Greece
14:15‐14:30 Plenary Session – Wrap‐up and procedure for submitting applications
using the ENGAGE portal‐ Spiros Mouzakitis, ENGAGE project
coordination team, NTUA
14:30 End of the event
More information at: www.engagedata.eu | www.engage‐project.eu
