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SUMMARY:AI Hackathon: Innovating for supply chain resilience
DESCRIPTION:Open to individuals and teams (ages 18+) with a passion for AI, problem-solving and having a real impact in Jersey.\nThe AI Hackathon is your chance to build meaningful solutions for Jersey’s most pressing economic challenges. Over one high-energy weekend, teams will prototype AI-driven tools designed to lower the cost of living by reimagining Supply Chain Resilience.\nFrom shipping disruptions to the empty mile inefficiency, we are looking for innovative and action driven prototypes that use local data to make Jersey’s economy leaner and more self-sufficient.\nUse AI to build solutions that matter for Jersey’s future.\nJoin developers, designers, entrepreneurs and problem-solvers for a weekend of innovation, collaboration and real-world impact. The AI Hackathon is your opportunity to utilise the potential of AI to create solutions that tackle challenges shaping the island’s future.\nThis isn’t just about ideas, it’s about action. Over an intense and inspiring sprint with access to local data, you will develop a working prototype and pitch your solution to the judges and ecosystem leaders.\nThe Challenge\nThe challenge is to build a meaningful solutions that utilise AI, as part of the solution and/ or in their delivery for Jersey focusing on supply chain resilience.\nWe welcome ideas using AI to solve any area in this topic, but to help you focus your ideas, we’ve provided three key example challenges. These are just starting points, you can shape them in your own way.\nKey challenge 1\nBuild a predictive AI model for disruptions by combining multiple data sources (shipping timetables, freight stats, fuel prices, weather forecasts, global trade indicators).\n\nAI Focus: Multivariate forecasting + anomaly detection across time series.\nExpected Output: A live dashboard that assigns “risk scores” to supply chain categories (e.g., food, energy, medicine).\n\nKey challenge 2\nJersey is an import heavy economy. While thousands of containers arrive full, a significant portion of our outbound freight consists of “empty miles”, containers returning to the UK or France with nothing in them. This inefficiency is baked into the “Island Premium” we pay at the checkout.\nThe Mission: Build a ‘Circular Logistics Engine’. This should identify opportunities to fill outbound containers with local exports, recyclable waste, or shared equipment.\n\nAI Focus: Constraint-based optimisation & generative logistics.\nExpected Output: An AI-driven brokerage platform that dynamically discounts freight rates for outbound “gap-filling,” lowering the total overhead for local distributors.\n\nKey challenge 3\nLocal produce often struggles to compete with UK supermarket imports on price, despite lower transport distances. This is largely due to fragmented data; local farmers don’t always have the real-time market intelligence to time their harvests or pricing against the massive supply chains of UK retailers.\nThe Mission: Create a local first intelligence tool that helps Jersey producers undercut or match import prices through smarter timing.\n\nAI Focus: Reinforcement learning & dynamic pricing models.\nExpected Output: A mobile-first dashboard for farmers that suggests the “optimal harvest window” and price point to ensure 100% of their yield stays on-island, reducing our reliance on expensive external supply chains.\n\nThese are just example challenges to help spark ideas, feel free to shape your project in your own way!\nHow It Works\nTeams can have up to six people. If you are not part of a team, you can register and work independently. You’ll have time and space to build a working prototype using AI in a meaningful way, and present it to our panel during the final pitch session.\nWhether you’re a coder, designer, strategist, data analyst or domain expert, there’s a place for you. You’ll also have access to free workspace, Wi-Fi, refreshments and support throughout the event.\nWe will provide open datasets we have found related to supply chain resilience upon registration.\nWhy Take Part?\n\nBuild something that matters, directly aligned to Jersey’s future\nCollaborate with like-minded innovators and experts\nMake time to focus on the latest AI tooling with a purpose\nCompete for recognition and prizes\n\nJudging and Prizes\nProjects will be judged on creativity, relevance to Jersey’s needs, the impact of the AI used, and how feasible the idea is in the real world.\nFor the winners there will be a £10,000 cash prize. Prizes will be awarded for:\n\nMost Innovative use of AI\nGreatest potential impact for Supply Chain Resilience in Jersey\nBest Working Prototype\n\nFinal judging will be carried out by a panel of independent experts with experience across business, government and AI.\n \n
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