by Techcouver
This month, 10 national teams from around the world competed at the Ateliers des Capucins in Brest, France.
The competition was the Grand Finale of the ninth annual Ocean Hackathon, organized by Campus Mondial de la Mer.
The Ocean Hackathon brings together winning teams from local hackathon events held worldwide.
These groups, including a Victoria-based Team Canada, pitched prototypes leveraging marine data for ocean science, sustainability, and management.
“Competitions like these give early-stage teams a platform to experiment and test ideas on their path from concept to commercialization,” says COAST Executive Director Jason Goldsworthy, “and it gives new, important purpose to the vast ocean data resources we have here in B.C. and in Canada.”
