MLAI Green Battery Hack
The MLAI Green Battery Hack is a beginner friendly AI hackathon to support Australia's journey to carbon net zero. Your AI model will control a simulated battery trading in the electricity spot market.
- Speakers
- 8
- Participants
- 170
- Location
- Melbourne & Sydney
Gold Sponsors
Silver Sponsors
Community Partners
Why an AI Hackathon on Energy in Australia?
Renewables are key to Australias journey to carbon net-zero, but do not produce electricity in a predictable, reliable fashion. This is known to make maintaining a reliable flow of electricity more difficult.
Energy storage is increasingly seen as a solution to this issue. However there is some research indicating that energy storage entities potentially disrupt the electricity market, especially if their charging and discharging tactics are driven by profit rather than social welfare.
The hackathon presents a beginner-friendly challenge in artificial intelligence, inviting participants to manage a virtual battery within the spot market to maximize earnings. This simulation aims to shed light on the potential for individual battery systems to influence or manipulate the Australian electricity market.
Speakers
We're incredibly excited to have some of Australia's smartest minds in AI and Energy as speakers and mentors for the event.
Nicholas Reece
Deputy Lord Mayor of Melbourne
Prof. Eduard Hovy
Director Melbourne Connect, University of Melbourne
Jack Eddie
Senior Manager - Cyber and Enabling Capabilities - Victoria State Government
Dr. James Kahn
HAL Systems
Nicola Smith
AWS Startups - Hackathon Judging Panel Melbourne
Myles Eftos
Amber Electric - Hackathon Judging Panel Melbourne
Tom Mcleod
University of Melbourne - Hackathon Judging Panel Melbourne
Steve Tzortzidis
V2 Digital - Hackathon Judging Panel Melbourne
Stephen Wallace
BeerOps - Hackathon Judging Panel Sydney
Taylor Chu
Organon - Hackathon Judging Panel Sydney
Alexar Pendashteh
Linux Users Victoria - Hackathon Judging Panel Sydney
What's happening when and where?
The two main events of the hackathon are the "Team Formation Event (Hack Day)" and the "Final Pitch Night". Each event happens in Melbourne and in Sydney.
You can either join the event as a hacker and build a solution, or just join the pitch night to see our awesome teams present.
Join us in Melbourne
Join us in Sydney
Team formation day (Melb & Syd)
Final Pitch Night (Melb & Syd)
Introduction
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Opening Talk
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Keynote 2
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Lunch
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Keynote
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Hacking
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Team formation day (Melb & Syd)
Introduction
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Opening Talk
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Keynote 2
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Lunch
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Keynote
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Hacking
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Final Pitch Night (Melb & Syd)
Networking
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Opening Speech - Deputy Lord Mayor Melbourne Nicholas Reece
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Pitches
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James Kahn - HAL Systems
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Pitches
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Keynote by Eduard Hovy - Director Melbourne Connect
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Announcement Winners
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End of Event
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Awesome Mentors and Advisors
The MLAI Green Battery Hack would simply be impossible without our awesome mentors and volunteers.
Dr. Vlada Rozova
University of Melbourne
Charles Rendigs
Aus. Inst. of Energy - Director Nat. Board
Dr. Nick Kirkwood
University of Melbourne
Dr. James Kahn
Full-Stack ML engineer/researcher
Govind Reghunandanan
Machine Learning and AI Advisor
Annie Dang
Full Stack Developer
Alexar Pendashteh
Electron Workshop, President Linux VIC
Oil Wongmayura
Digital Event Manager
Michael Foley
Data Scientist @ Solcast
Asmita Govind
MetaPM
MLAI Aus team
MLAI Aus is run entirely by volunteers. Interested in jumping aboard the pirate ship?
Learn more about our organisation
Louka Ewington-Pitsos
Co-Founder
Jamie Blackwell
Co-Founder
Lukas Wesemann
Co-Founder
Andrew Atta
Marketing Wizz
Doc Sam Donegan
Master of the Web
Vincent Koc
Sydney Lead
Axel Ahmer
ML Research, Aus. Bureau of Statistics
All info for hackers here.
We've jam packed the Green Battery Hack with everything you need to unleash your AI solution onto the Australian energy sector.