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Last weekend, we unleashed 100+ of the brightest minds passionate about climate tech to solve seriously hairy energy problems. Fueled by caffeine and armed with mad skills in software and AI, these engineers, designers, product gurus, and founders built mind-blowing projects in just 24 hours. Kudos to the winning teams, who crushed the real-world problems posed by Crux, Eli Technologies, and in energy permitting (enabled by NEPTEC1.0, the AI-ready dataset of 28,000+ EIS documents from the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory and U.S. Department of Energy (DOE)): •🥇 Verdigris: These folks are playing matchmaker between banks and homeowners, using Eli's API and some LLMs to get more clean energy upgrades into low and moderate-income homes. •🥈 Daylight: Want to know who's holding the keys to your clean energy project permit? This team used NEPTEC1.0 to shine a light on exactly who you need to influence. •🥉 Honorable Mention went to Carbon Connect, who cooked up a tool that spits out synthetic tax credit data and sniffs out the perfect corporate buyers for clean energy credits. This team of (mostly) ex-Applied Intuitioners showing up strong. Turns out world-class software skills transfer well to climate tech. A big thank you to our co-hosts Crusoe and OpenAI, and our exceptional panel of judges: Chase Lochmiller (Crusoe), Jonathan Reiber (OpenAI), Vanessa Ching (NVIDIA), Jane Woodward (Stanford University, WovenEarth Ventures), and Shawn Xu (Lowercarbon Capital). Shoutout also to the amazing talks given by folks from the DOE, PNLL, and climate tech founders and leaders from Crux, Eli Technologies, Terra AI, Myst AI (acquired by Snowflake), Blumen, Halcyon, Paces, Spark (YC W24), and Pioneer. What a lineup! Me, Shawn, Elena Mosse, and rest of the Lowercarbon Capital crew are pumped to see more folks jump into the climate <> AI arena. Because let's face it, saving the planet should be this much fun. #hackathon #ai #energy
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Eric Hou
3w
Thanks for throwing an amazing event, and gathering tons of inspiring people :) Looking forward to future ones! 😍
Rohit M.
3w
Super awesome event! Thanks for hosting :) Looking forward to running it back next year!
Incredible work running the event Kenny, it was the smoothest hackathon I've ever been to.
Boren Tsai
3w
Thanks Kenny Hoang for organizing such an impactful event. Great to learn from experts in the field and tackle some serious problems with some seriously awesome people.
The Lowercarbon team + Crusoe did a great job organizing this. Kudos!
This is amazing! Would love to connect more and hear abt the details. Wonderful work w so much interdisciplinary thinking!
If there was a world cup of AI hackathons, I feel like Applied alums could field a pretty competitive group.