Coming up on April 8 & 9, 2016, the next Make.Opendata.ch hackdays will take place in two fantastic mountain destinations in Switzerland: Innertkirchen and Mont-Crosin. To make open energy data, we are going up to the sources of sustainable energy.

At the Open Energy Data Hackdays we will mingle developers and designers, data scientists and app producers, experts and amateurs, entrepreneurs and intrapreneurs, concerned citizens and data journalists - we will collaborate as individuals to address urgent energy problems and create critical insights with open data.

The Hackdays are a joint initiative of Opendata.ch and IDS Datenwelten. Energie Schweiz, Kraftwerke Oberhasli and opendata.swiss are supporting the Hackdays as partners.

Innterkirchen: Grimseltor, Grimselstrasse 2, 3862 Innertkirchen | LOCATION SCHEDULE

Mont-Crosin: Auberge Vert-Bois, 2610 Mont-Crosin | LOCATION SCHEDULE

Tickets are available on Eventbrite - please book as soon as possible if you'd like to stay overnight.

Ask yourself, can we use data to …

• make electric mobility simpler, better, and more frictionless?
• better heat, cool and manage our homes and workplaces?
• communicate and understand our energy system, from the production to the distribution and to our very own consumption?
• use energy in continually innovative and smarter ways?

Come to experience the Hackdays!

If you said yes to any of the above, join us in April for two days of fun, ambitious projects and innovative talks. It is great if you are a programmer or working in media or involved in politics, and you are ready to help with your skills, and we are also looking for non-technical people across all domains who are interested in the broader topic of energy and energy data.

Let's collect open energy data

Are you aware of interesting data and topics for the Energy Hackdays? In preparation for the hackdays we are putting together a list of open energy datasets. We encourage you to contribute to it or send us your suggestions - from URLs we missed to 'dream' data.

Start your projects!

If you've new to hackathons - no problem! Never programmed in your life? This is a great way to start! At the event, we will form teams and choose topics and roles amongst ourselves. We have prepared Useful Guidelines and a Quickstart Guide to get you going. Our community champions will be on site to make sure things go smoothly and productively.

You can use project:home, information:github, http://hack.energy.opendata.ch (which aggregates projects from this wiki or GitHub), or another website to work on your concept and document your results. Please let one of the organisers know where to find it by Saturday afternoon. At the end of the event, we hope to see insightful, provocative, awesome projects that demonstrate the potential and create use cases for opening energy data!

Friday, April 8

• 09:52 Arrival by regional train at the Grimseltor Innertkirchen Train station (just across the Grimseltor location)
• 10:00 Registration (lanyard & badge), Coffee and Croissants - Grimseltor
• 10:30 Moderation by Marcel Altherr - Grimseltor
• 10:30 Welcoming speech by Daniel Studer, municipal council of Meiringen - Grimseltor
• 10:40 Pitch projects and data - everyone - Grimseltor
• 11:00 Teaming up, exchanging ideas - everyone - at Grimseltor
• 11:15 Start to work - everyone - Grimseltor
• 12:30 Video call between locations
• 13:00 Lunch break at Restaurant Urweider
• 14:00 Hacking (coffee and snacks are being provided) - everyone - Grimseltor
• 18:00 Presenting the projects (work in progress) - everyone, chaired by Marcel Altherr - Grimseltor
• 19:00 Dinner at Restaurant Urweider
• 20:00 Continue to work (if you wish to) at Grimseltor

Saturday, April 9

• 8:30 Breakfast at Restaurant Urweider - everyone
• 09:30 Start working - Grimseltor
• 10:00 Welcoming and integrating newcomers - Grimseltor
• 10:15 Continue working - Grimseltor
• 12:30 Videocall between locations - Grimseltor
• 13:00 Lunch break - Restaurant Urweider
• 14:00 Get back to work - Grimseltor OR
• 14:00 Visit the primary control unit - Theo Winkler - Kraftwerke Oberhasli
• 16:00 Project-Documentation on Wiki - everyone - Grimseltor
• 16:30 Final presentation of projects & activities - everyone - Grimseltor
• 17:20 Closing speech by Karin Scheidegger, Head Departement of Energy Bern - Grimseltor
• 17:30 Apéro sponsored by KWO - Grimseltor
• 18:03 Regional Train back to Meiringen (station Grimseltor Innertkirchen)

Friday, April 8

• 09:37 Arrival in Sonceboz-Sembeval
• 09:45 Bus pickup from Sonceboz-Sembeval to Mont Crosin (Auberge Vert-Bois)
• 10:15 Registration, Coffee and Croissants
• 10:30 Welcoming keynote by Olaf Zanger
• 10:50 Input speech
• 11:00 Teaming up, exchanging ideas
• 11:15 Start to work
• 12:30 Videocall between locations
• 13:00 Lunch break
• 14:00 Hacking (coffee and snacks are being provided)
• 18:00 Presenting the projects (work in progress)
• 19:00 Dinner
• 20:00 Continue to work (if you wish to)

Saturday, April 9

• 8:30 Breakfast
• 09:30 Welcoming and integrating newcomers (Saturday-only participants)
• 09:45 Working
• 12:30 Videocall between locations
• 13:00 Lunch break
• 14:00 Visit the solar station at Mont Crosin
• 15:00 Get back to work
• 16:00 Project-Documentation on Wiki
• 16:30 Final presentation of projects
• 17:30 End of Election Hackdays and Apéro

You can contact the organization team for both Innertkirchen and Mont-Crosin at info@opendata.ch

This Open Energy Data Hackday is a co-initiative of the IDS Datenwelten at the University of Applied Sciences Lucerne and the Energy Working Group of Opendata.ch. Energie Schweiz, Kraftwerke Oberhasli and opendata.swiss are supporting the Hackdays as partners.