DataViz Meetup

How to you grant access to data science topics for people who don’t know how to code and don’t have a scientifc background? In a serious of meet-ups I curated a program of scientific speakers showcasing hands-on examples on how data is used in practices.

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EUMETSAT Datanauts Hackathon

Keeping a constant check on the health of the oceans, Earth observation satellites record global sea surface temperature, wave height, sea level rise, ocean winds, sea ice and even ocean colour. EUMETSAT, the European Organisation for the Exploitation of Meteorological Satellites, is delivering huge quantities of marine data to users from the ocean-monitoring Sentinel-3 and Jason-2 and -3 satellites, and its fleet of weather satellites. With the support of engineers and scientists people from the local tech community were asked to come of with innovative solutions on how to use the weather data in unconventionally and new ways.

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Fine Dust DIY Sensor Workshop

Together with OK Lab Stuttgart and the support of the German Weather Service I organized a hands-on workshop dedicated to the fine dust measurement. The participants built their own particulate matter sensor and became part of the world-wide civic tech network luftdaten.info.

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Mission HABx

“That’s one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind.” As part of on a TEDxAdventure we launched a weather balloon to the lower orbit. A great showcase for citizen science and how easy it is to get to space. With speakers from the European Space Agency and German Weather Service we gave the audience some scientific background before launching the balloon to 35.000 meters and picking it up in the Black Forest.

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NASA Space Apps Challenge

NASAs Space Apps is an international hackathon that occurs over 48 hours in cities around the world every year. It’ san annual event that pulls citizens together regardless of their background or skill level. The participants are asked to tackle a challenge using robotics, data visualization, hardware, design and many other specialties! I was the host and organisizer of the first local Space Apps hackathon in Frankfurt.

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Social Design & Social Prototyping

Innovators have traditionally focused on enhancing the look and functionality of business and services. Recently, I begun using my innovation methods to tackle more complex problems, such as finding ways to enhance social interaction in local communities and neighbourhoods, helping social business to define their value proposition and bringing the lean startup approach to the NGO sector.

SocialTech ThinkTank

Everyone talks about Industrie 4.0, but just a few people talk about the implications of technology on our society and how new technologies can be used to tackle social problems. Founded in 2018 the NGO aims to support existing charitable projects with technical know-how and expertise, as well as develop new projects at the intersection of social and digital transformation.

TEDxRheinMain

TED is a nonprofit devoted to spreading ideas, usually in the form of short, powerful talks (18 minutes or less). TED began in 1984 as a conference where Technology, Entertainment and Design converged, and today covers almost all topics — from science to business to global issues — in more than 100 languages.

TEDxRheinMain brings the spirit of TED’s mission of ideas worth spreading to local communities in Frankfurt, Darmstadt, Mainz, Wiesbaden and Offenbach. Since 2015 I am the senior curator at TEDXRheinMain seeking to discover ideas and spark conversations in my own community.

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Timebanks Frankfurt

How can you create shared values in your local community? Timebanks Frankfurt is an alternative currency where the unit of value is the person-hour. One person volunteers to work for an hour for another person; thus, they are credited with one hour, which they can redeem for an hour of service from another volunteer. The non-profit project is currently under development.

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