Outdoor Industry | Sustainable Design & Ethereum Hackathon
One day Co-design in Boulder, Colorado | Livestream
Two Week Global Hackathon | Livestream
create understanding
define challenges
leverage technology to make real impact
Why Outdoor Industry?
$887 BILLION
global impact and use of products
passionate, highly engaged user group, connected to realities of climate change
companies that have demonstrated corporate leadership have been rewarded
loyal customer base fuels positive action
Blockchain Technology
Beyond the hype cycles of crypto currency; developers, entrepreneurs, and enterprise corporations have all been building on blockchain technology with incredible results.
Stanford’s Center for Social Innovation concluded after studying 193 organizations, initiatives, and projects that are leveraging blockchain to drive social impact,
for people solving our world’s toughest challenges”
How might we create the future v2?
Objectives
- Quickly learn about blockchain technology and it’s impact to the outdoor industry
- Identify key problems and design aligned hackathon challenges
- Inspire, educate and incentivize the largest global blockchain developer community
- Produce validated open source prototypes to accelerate global contributions towards UN SDGs.
Co-design Workshop
Gather visionary outdoor industry leaders in Boulder, Colorado and virtually via livestream.
Friday
6:30 – 9:00 Connect Happy Hour on the Boulder Creek patio
Saturday
5:30 Flatiron hike – (optional)
8:30 – 9:30 Chef Breakfast at Peregrine
9:45 – 10:45 Session – WTF is Blockchain (Peregrine) Introduction, Presentation, and Question & Answer
11-12:15 Session – Key Outdoor Industry Areas of Focus – (TBD) Introduction, Presentation, and Question & Answer
Lunch
1:30 – 2:45 Workshop – What problems need to be solved and how might we? (Peregrine) Colab designer facilitated workshop
3 – 4:30 Workshop – Creating Hackathon Challenges (Peregrine) Colab designer facilitated workshop
4:45 Closing Announcements
2 Week Global Hackathon
Global Hackathon goes is LIVE!
- Challenges launch on GITCOIN platform at 12:00 am GMT
- Decentralized teams form
- Content strategy continues with email, blog and media campaigns to developer community
- Interviews, project updates and stories highlighting global distributed teams published
- PR opportunity to raise awareness of brands participation in developing innovative solutions to challenging global problems
Awards and Sharing
post Gitcoin Community Call
Judging and bounties awarded from the expected 80-100 submissions
- Select group of outdoor judges from contributing Companies
- Leaders from the Colorado Blockchain Community
Media
- Blog and media announcing results on Gitcoin accounts
- In-depth post highlight articles published on winning projects
- Gitcoin Awards Show Livestream
Announcement of “whats next” for winning projects.outdoor
Outcomes
Co-design solutions for some of the biggest challenges facing the Outdoor Industry
Open source R&D to explore and validate new business opportunities in the industry
Inspire, incentivize and unleash a global community of 18,000+ Ethereum developers towards achieving sustainability goals
Share findings widely to inspire others to action
Raise brand awareness for your organization through authentic collaboration on emergent technology solutions to global challenges
Participation
Boutique
Unlimited
- Company Livestream for Co-design Workshop
- $1250 paid into bounty on Gitcoin
- Access to highlight video content
- Supporting Brand Placements Across Activation
Industry Player
Limited to 10 Outdoor and 10 Blockchain
- 4 Passes for Happy Hour & Co-design
- Company Livestream for Co-design Workshop
- $2500 paid into bounty on Gitcoin
- Bounty support during hackathon
- Video Interviews with key experts
- Supporting Brand Placements Across Activation
Presenting Sponsor
1 Blockchain | 1 Outdoor
- 4 Passes for Happy Hour & Co-design
- Company Livestream for Co-design Workshop
- $5000 paid into bounty on Gitcoin
- Bounty support during hackathon
- Video Interviews with key experts
- Top Level Brand Placements Across Activation