The COMUNIDAD Project is pleased to announce two upcoming hackathons designed to strengthen innovation, technological capacity, and environmental resilience across Latin America. Organized in collaboration with regional partners, these events will bring together students, researchers, professionals, and innovators to co-create AI-driven, geospatial solutions to pressing environmental challenges.

Hackathon Chilean Patagonia

The Chilean Hackathon titled: First Geospatial Hackathon in Chilean Patagonia, Organised by the Universidad de Aysén and Universidad de Chile, the Foundation for Agrarian Innovation (FIA), and a strong network of regional partners, invites participants to address urgent environmental challenges in the Chilean Patagonia. This event focuses on applying Copernicus satellite data, climate records, and local datasets to develop innovative digital tools that support climate adaptation, glacier and lake monitoring, and sustainable forestry and agriculture.

Participants will work on the following challenges:

  • IceEnd-Hack: Monitoring Glaciers and Lakes for Risk Management and Climate Resilience
    Develop geospatial tools to monitor glacier height and glacial lake volume changes. Use multi-temporal satellite imagery and climate data to support early warning systems and disaster risk reduction in local communities.
  • Hackea tu Terruño: Multi-Source Data Integration for Sustainable Silvoagropecuary Management
    Create a solution that integrates satellite imagery, UAV data, and climate records to optimize land use planning and natural resource management in silvoagropecuary systems.

The hackathon aims to:

  • Apply satellite data and AI to strengthen environmental monitoring in Patagonia.
  • Design digital tools for climate adaptation and sustainable resource use.
  • Promote collaboration between research institutions, public agencies, and civil society.
  • Empower local decision-making through open-access geospatial solutions.

Hackathon in Colombia’s Coffee Growing Region

The Colombian hackathon title: The Coffee Hackathon: AI for Risk Management and Environmental Footprint, organised by the Universidad Autonoma de Manizales (UAM) and the National Federation of Coffee Growers of Colombia (FNC), combines innovation, technology, and sustainability to address critical challenges in coffee-growing regions using artificial intelligence and satellite data. Organized in a two-phase hybrid format, the event invites multidisciplinary teams to develop solutions for managing deforestation risks and monitoring land use changes.

Participants will work on two key challenges:

  • Monitoring and Prevention of Landslides in the Coffee-Growing Region of Caldas Using Artificial Intelligence and Satellite Imagery
    Create a predictive model that uses satellite, climate, and topographic data to identify high-risk landslide areas in Caldas. Solutions should integrate satellite imagery and climate variables, use AI to detect risk patterns, produce interactive risk maps, and offer early warnings for decision-makers.
  • Monitoring the Carbon Footprint in Colombian Coffee Plantations Using Satellite Imagery and Artificial Intelligence
    Develop an AI system to detect land use changes affecting biodiversity in coffee plantations. Solutions should classify and monitor plantation zones, detect deforestation or human-induced changes, evaluate environmental impacts, and deliver reports to support sustainable farming practices.

The Colombia hackathon aims to:

  • Apply AI and satellite data to solve real-world environmental challenges.
  • Improve the sustainability, efficiency, and precision of coffee farming.
  • Promote collaboration between science, technology, and agriculture professionals.
  • Raise awareness of COMUNIDAD’s mission and tools.

Both hackathons foster interdisciplinary collaboration, offer mentorship from domain experts, and provide participants with opportunities to gain visibility for their solutions through the COMUNIDAD platform and its network of partners.

Are you ready to make an impact?
Learn more about the hackathon themes, participation guidelines, and registration HERE.