Microsoft Reactor

What is this session about?
The Climate Hackathon took place in March 2021 with the goal to support non-governmental and non-profit organizations solve some of their challenges with the use of technology. Each year, the hack builds awareness and respect for the environment, and enables people to stand united for the climate, through our way of living. Environmental challenges are many, each with its own complexity. In some areas we have come a long way, in other areas the humanity has barely moved.
The Climate Hackathon is about sustainability. Nothing else can be more important. Developers of all background and skills were invited to participate and share their innovative contributions for a more sustainable world. What makes this Hackathon unique, is that all the challenges will be real-life scenarios provided by non-profit organizations that have a key role in solving some of the climate challenges but might not have enough resources or technical competencies.
In this session, the Climate Hackathon’s organizer, Sherry List, will share how the participating organizations benefitted from the dedicated time hacking on their issues. Sherry will announce the hackathon winners and how they will continue to work with the technological advances made during the hackathon.

Who is it aimed at?
The session with Sherry List is for people and organizations who are interested in making positive environmental impacts through technology. From students to advanced careerist, we can all make a difference toward improving our climate and this session will discuss organizations who are meeting the challenge.

Why should I attend?
Hear how the Climate Hackathon enabled sustainability-focused non-profits to advance their work on climate change.

For more on this series visit https://aka.ms/ReactorGreenTech

Speaker info:
Sherry List | Azure Developer Engagement Lead
Sherry works as an Azure Developer Engagement Lead at Microsoft. For the past 15 years, she has worked as a web developer in 3 different countries. Apart from her everyday job, she is the Chairwoman of Hack Your Future Denmark, a co-organizer of ngCopenhagen, ForDevs Community and Women Techmakers Meetup groups, and a co-founder of two angular conferences in Europe: ngVikings and ngSpain. She loves animals and supports various non-profit animal protection organizations and helps out whenever she can.

Goran Vuksic, Technical Manager @ Stratiteq
Goran works as a Technical manager for Stratiteq, he is Microsoft AI MVP, he has 15 years of work experience in IT and wide knowledge about various technologies and programming languages. He worked on various projects for notable clients and projects he worked on have been featured many times on web sites like Forbes, The Next Web, NVIDIA Developer, TechCrunch, Macworld and others. In the last few years, he attended several hackathons and other competitions on which his skills and work were recognized and awarded. Goran is tech enthusiast; he writes technical blog posts, and he likes to share his wide knowledge on different workshops and talks.
His Twitter handle is @gvuksic