Defence Makeathon Riga 2022

RTU Zinātnes un inovāciju centrs

RTU Design Factory

🪖Foster the development of potential novel technologies and solutions within the defence sector by participating in this unique makeathon. 🎖️Makeathon organized by the Ministry of Defence Republic of Latvia and the National Armed Forces in cooperation with Riga Technical University (RTU) Science and Innovation Centre. The main goal of the makeathon is to foster the development of potential novel technologies and solutions within the sector of defence. 🪖The makeathon will address the 5 following thematic areas:•	development of unmanned systems•	armaments•	maintenance of combat equipment•	individual equipment systems and components for soldiers•	cybersecurity, as well as information and communication technologiesThis makeathon is organised as a team-based event. While individuals are invited to register for the event, all individual makeathon participants will be required to either form a team with other individual participants or join a pre-existing team. ❗If you wish to register as a team, then only one registration per team is required. The captain of the team fills out the registration form by entering all the requested data regarding the rest of the team. Teams can be composed of students, researchers, experienced innovations, and/or startup representatives – citizens of the Republic of Latvia, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, the European Union, or the European Economic Area countries. Registrations should be submitted no later than 2022 December 5, 12:00 PM (EET). NB! Employees of the Latvian defence sector (e.g., those in the service of the Latvian National Armed Forces (NBS), as well as those employed in the Ministry of Defence and its subordinate institutions) are required to register separately for participation in the event by sending an application email to Valters.Lacis@mil.lv. ℹ️ <a href="https://ej.uz/defence_guidelines" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">More in the makeathon guidelines. </a>_____________________________AGENDAFriday, 9st of December- IDEA AND PROTOTYPE DAY 17:00 - Check-in, networking, coffee, snacks 18:00 - Opening remarks 19:00 - Presentation of ideas 20:30 - Team formation and idea management session 21:30 - Late, late pizza 22:00– Prototyping workshop 23:00- theLab visit with Linards 24:00- Prototyping night Saturday, 10st of December – PROTOTYPE DEVELOPMENT DAY 00:00- Prototyping night 05:00- Silent hours 9:30 - Coffee &amp; breakfast 11:00 – Prototyping workshop 12:30 - Lunch 13:30 - Checkpoint #1 with prototyping mentors/ def 15:00 – Solution development continues 16:00 - Checkpoint #2 with defenece industry mentors/prot 17:00 - Dinner 18:30 - Pitch training (theory) 19:45 - Solution development continues Sunday, 11st of December – PITCHING DAY 00:00- Prototyping night 05:00- Silent hours 09:00 - Coffee &amp; breakfast 10:00 - Checkpoint #3 Pitch/prototype drill with mentors 11:30 - Coffee break with light meal/snacks 12:30 - Final Pitches 14:30 - Winners &amp; networking &amp; coffeeNB! The schedule might slightly change!

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