As part of Openhack’s involvement in the UN’S Global Week to #ACT4SDGs on 18-26 September 2020, we are hosting a unique panel discussion focused on exploring how the open source movement enhances the way we work to achieve the SDGs and secondly, review ongoing open source projects getting us there through our visionary panelists.

The panel is composed of Ben Cerveny (President of The Foundation for Public Code), Ada Nduka Oyom (Founder of She for Africa & Co-founder of Open Source Community Africa), Tanmay Bakshi (16-year-old author, Youtuber, TED&Keynote speaker, Developer & Dev Advocate @ IBM), Angela Oduor Lungati (Exec Director at Ushahidi), Audace Niyonkuru (CEO at Digital Umuganda). The discussion will be moderated by Inês Boski (Core team lead at Openhack).

TUNE IN LIVE with us from 17.00-18.00 CET on Monday, 21st September 2020 here (to see it on YouTube).

In this 4th episode of the COVIDians & their solutions webinar series we feature VoiceMed, a solution enabling the detection of COVID-19 through voice recognition and a few survey questions.

TUNE IN LIVE at 13.00-14.00 CET on Thursday, 20th August 2020 here.

In this 3rd episode of the COVIDians & their solutions webinar series we feature Break Even, a platform where consumers can help support local businesses by knowing their break-even point. With the forthcoming Break Even app, the businesses who need the most help will be prioritised, with all the best possible ways of helping showcased to consumers. The Break Even team started out at Hack the Crisis Sweden, won 1st place in the “Save Businesses” track and continued on to become a winner of the pan-European hackathon #EUvsVIRUS in the “Stay close to your customers” track.

Panelists in this episode include Adam Österman (Acting Head of Innovation Lab at SEB), Arun Sharma (Bombay Palace restaurant owner) and Carissma Dennis (Co-founder of Break Even). The session will be moderated by Inês Boski (Openhack).

TUNE IN LIVE at 17.00-18.00 CET on Tuesday, 2nd July 2020 here.

This 4th #KeepHacking webinar brings another important topic for early-stage teams: Sales & Marketing. Questions such as:
❓ How to understand your sales process, timings and pitfalls?
❓ How to craft your marketing strategy and when to put it in place ?
❓ How resilient is your solution to a post-COVID-19 world? and more will be addressed by our panelists and our gifted moderator.

Tune in LIVE on Thursday, 18th June 1pm UTC here .

In this 1st episode of the COVIDians & their solutions webinar series we feature AID IT TO, a dynamic sourcing network solution connecting volunteers to public authorities to better allow helping those in need in times of crisis. Panelists in this episode include Anna Eriksson (DIGG - Swedish Agency for Digital Government), Agneta Aldor (eHälsomyndigheten - Swedish e-Health Agency), Peter Palmér (Socialstyrelsen - Swedish National Board of Health and Welfare), Philippe Höij (AID IT TO). The session will be moderated by Inês Boski (Openhack).

TUNE IN LIVE at 11.00-12.00 CET on Tuesday, 16th June 2020 here.

In this 1st webinar of the #KeepHacking series we are gathering 3 amazing panelists around the topic of Fundraising. The webinar answers the most important questions hackers and their teams might have concerning the challenging world of fundraising. Tune in LIVE at 15.00 CET here

The #KeepHacking webinar series are brought to you by Openhack in collaboration with The Global Hack. The aim is to empower early-stage teams with valuable knowledge to keep going with their mighty COVID-19 solution development.