This weekend ( 5th and 6th November 2022), the students of the Master’s degree program, Informatics and Communication Technologies, took part in the international hackathon “The Space for the Financial World CASSINI Hackathon” of the European Commission, which was organized in Slovenia by Tovarna podjemov.
Three teams of students designed new solutions in the fields of finance, insurance, and investments, incorporating the data from European space technology programs and contributing to Europe’s sustainability and green goals.
Two of our teams presented the best challenge in their category and won a cash prize. The team, The thinkers, consisting of Avguštin Erdelji, Jakob Smolič, Katja Frančič, Andrija Novaković, Goran Kirov, and Tomi Milošič, presented the best idea in the category Enabling green and sustainable investments. Their idea was focused on the use of satellite imagery to detect and monitor boats fishing illegally in protected areas without the support of IAS (Automatic Identification System) trackers.
The Port’o’lyzer team, consisting of Ana Plečko, Domen Leš, Rok Kukovec, and Uroš Zagoranski, presented the best solution in the category of Advancing global financial intelligence. Based on satellite location data and vessel draught data, they developed an artificial intelligence model to predict the traffic of a port. Their solution provides an independent real-time view of port traffic.
The team Urbano with members Blaž Vidovič, Anže Galun, Filip Kren, Filip Zdjelar, and Bard Grujič, also scored highly in the category of Enabling green and sustainable investments with their proposition. They developed a solution that uses satellite images and an artificial intelligence model to generate suggestions for the most appropriate choice of one or more crops at a particular location, addressing the problem of inefficient farming.
Congratulations to all participants for the quality of the solutions they prepared and presented!
