Superconductor Hackathon

22 Sept 2017, 08:00 → 24 Sept 2017, 19:00 Europe/Zurich

3179/R-E06 (CERN)

CERN's Superconductor Hackathon is a highly innovative activity striving to help bringing promising technologies to industry. During a 3-days workshop in September this year, interdisciplinary teams will work on the following tasks:

- Identification and evaluation of promising application fields for the latest generation of Intermediate Temperature Superconductors
- Development of concepts and illustrations of potential solutions
- Design of viable commercialization strategies

The teams participating in the Hackathon will consist of technical and management students as well as experts from industry. While competing for the best application ideas, they will be coached and supported by Technology Transfer experts from WU Vienna, Fraunhofer, and CERN.

Read more: www.cern-hackathon.org

SChackathon_V001_pc Copy.pdf

Superconductor Hackathon

Friday 22 September

1 Welcome & Introduction

Introduction

Markus Nordberg (CERN, IdeaSquare)
Johannes Gutlber (CERN, FCC study office)
Peter Keinz (WU Vienna)

Who am I?
Objectives of workshop, agenda, idea wall
Design thinking process intro

2 Flywheels – rotating for stability

Dr. Achim Hobl. Head of Department Industrial Applications, Magnet Technologies (Babcock Noell GmbH).

Cloud-based applications are leading to soaring data volumes and an increasing need for secure storage, driving growth among large data centres as well as a shift towards more efficient UPS solutions. An innovative superconductor-based implementations based on flywheels comes with reduced environmental footprint, lower maintenance need, longer lasting lifetime and thus lower Total Cost of Ownership.

20170922_Flywheels_rotating for stability.pdf

3 Superconductivity for fruit shorting machines

David Hall (Senior Director Technology Innovation at Equinix)

Hackathon_Fruit_Microtec.pdf

4 Heading to the future

A new generation for ground and space(?) transportation

Swissloop consists of a team of 40 physics, mathematics, electrical-, mechanical- and civil engineering students at the ETH Zurich that is complemented by design and business students from Switzerland. Their objective is to design and build a prototype for this new kind of ground transportation: the Hyperloop. What is the role that superconductivity could play in transforming our transportation?

Speaker: Mr Luca Di Tizio (ETH)

11:30 Coffee break

5 User research & interview preparation

12:30 Lunch

6 Empathy map & User journey

15:10 Coffee break

7 Ideation

8 Cooperation and Openness

9 Reflection, Idea wall, outlook

10 Minesweeper game

20:00 Fondue in town

L'auberge communale de Meyrin
http://www.auberge-meyrin.ch/

Saturday 23 September

11 Welcome Back

12 News of the Future Inc. short presentation

10:30 Coffee break

13 Objects, experiences, systems

12:00 Lunch

14 Visit to CERN Microcosm - Globe of Science and Innovation

15 Prototyping and Testing

16 Hackathon character

Sunday 24 September

17 Welcome Back

18 Develop your story

19 Presentation of Prototypes

20 Voting

21 Group picture

12:30 End-of-program drinks