The Hackathon in artificial intelligence for security and sustainable development starts on May 13 at ISEP

On May 13, the Hackathon on Artificial Intelligence will start at the Institut supérieur d'électronique de Paris (ISEP). It is organized by the AI and Security Chair and the Big Data and AI for the Environment Chair, in partnership with the Gendarmerie Nationale, the United Nations Environment Program, the French Development Agency, 3DS OUTSCALE and the IA Lab of the Garage ISEP association. This Hackathon will allow everyone to develop their technical skills in AI while working on concrete issues: security and sustainable development. Whether we like it or not, artificial intelligence is part of our daily lives. We use more and more intelligent objects: smartphones, household appliances, cars... It is also increasingly used in the fields of health, industry, environment... However, it raises many misgivings and fears. From May 13 to 15, participants in this hackathon, students or professionals, accompanied by a group of expert mentors, will be able to deepen their technical knowledge in AI by working on concrete issues of security and sustainable development. They will be able to learn about natural language processing and deep learning architectures : Tensorflow, Keras, PyTarch, BERT, SMITH, etc. For the occasion, 3DS OUTSCALE opens its services and its trusted and secured Cloud infrastructure to allow the competing teams to implement their models. They will also have the choice between two challenges:

• How AI can improve speech-to-text in a security context (proposed by Gendarmerie Nationale)
• How AI can help identify the Sustainable Development Goals in a document (proposed by AFD and UNEP)

Hackathon schedule:

Friday

• 17h- Welcome - Rafael Angarita, Teacher-researcher at ISEP
• 17h10-17h45 AI strategy in France, Renaud Vedel, Prefect, National Coordinator for Artificial Intelligence
• 17h45-19h Round Table: The challenges of AI for security and sustainable development with high quality speakers

General Patrick Perrot, National Coordinator for AI at the GN Thomas Melonio, Executive Director for Innovation, Research and Knowledge at AFD Mark Radka, Director of UNEP's Energy Division David Chassan, Strategy Director at 3DS OUTSCALE

• 7:00-8:00 pm Presentation of the challenges and the hackathon process, with General Patrick Perrot (GN), Robert Rodriguez (UNEP), Jean-Baptiste Jacouton (AFD) and Rafael Angarita (ISEP)

• 8pm - 9:30pm Cocktail and Networking

Saturday

• 9am - 12pm Time to hack
• 12h - 13h Lunch
• 13h - 21h Time to hack

Sunday

• 9h - 10h Welcome of participants
• 10am - 12pm Presentation of projects
• 12pm - 2pm Lunch and prize-giving

Details of the two challenges:

The safety-oriented challenge, organized by the GN: In the field of security, speech transcription is at the heart of the realization of a wide variety of missions within its field of competence. Its time-consuming and tedious nature leads to the search for ways to automate the task, thus increasing the performance and quality of the service provided to the public. The objective of the proposed competition is therefore to evaluate the relevance of using automatic transcription systems, called Speech-to-Text, applied to a variety of recording sources (radio, television, telephone, etc.) The Sustainable Development Challenge organized by AFD and UNEP: Protecting the environment, reducing inequalities, access to education and health for all, are some of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Expert AI methods will play an increasing role in identifying priority levers of action, and directing the financial system towards a better world. UNEP and AFD invite you to take up a challenge at the cutting edge of NLP methods. The challenge will be to evaluate methods for accurately identifying the 169 SDG targets in a corpus of project descriptions. Meals will be provided and over €4,000 in prizes are up for grabs. This hackathon will take place at the ISEP premises in Issy les Moulineaux at 10 rue de Vanves. Mentors and experts will pass through the teams to provide technical and functional advice to participants. Translated from Le Hackathon en intelligence artificielle au service d'enjeux de sécurité et de développement durable, débute le 13 mai à l'ISEP