


Bayer is expanding its global digital and IT footprint, starting with a Digital Hub in Warsaw! The initial focus of the Hub will be the delivery of digital transformation projects within Crop Science where Bayer is using its unique position as an agricultural leader to deliver innovation that helps farmers grow more sustainably and responsibly. To accomplish this, the Hub will host a variety of talent, including Software Engineers, Full Stack Engineers, Data Engineers and Data Scientists with expertise in machine learning, AI and Operations Research and cyber security experts.
Bayer was so impressed with world-class talent in Poland, it was a no-brainer to start with, well, YOU! The talented developer community from Warsaw, from Poland, from Central Eastern Europe! While Bayer has been a fixture in Poland and CEE for decades, it’s presence as an IT leader is new. To showcase the exciting digitization happening throughout the company, globally, we are hosting this hackathon.
Participants will work on specific digital challenges around new solutions for health and nutrition. Our goal is to get to know the digital talent in Poland and neighboring countries and give them a chance to better know us and the exciting topics and technologies we are tackling. Our vision is “Health for all, Hunger for none”. Everything we do at Bayer should bring us closer to this vision and we hope the digital talent in Central Europe find it as inspiring as we do.

Health for All
How did and will COVID-19 change our consumers
perception of „immunity”.

Hunger for None
Tool to help farmers combat plant disease.
Deena Gergis
Giuseppe La Tona
Adrienne Leighton
Łukasz Olejniczak
Raju Reddy
Alexander Roth
Peri Subrahmanya
Anna Trembicka
Eric Turcotte
Maria Wyżga
Judges
Bijoy Sagar
Markus Baltzer
Jeanne Kehren
Mikhail Kachala
Mark Sparks
Speakers
Priscilla Beal
Bijoy Sagar
Markus Baltzer
Mikhail Kachala
Anthony Savio
PJ Amini
Jason Clark
Stefan Wilhelm
Łukasz Cioch
Lars zur Mühlen
Danny Williams
Catherine Sirven
Balathasan Giritharan
Arwa Al-Dilaimi
Hackathon
ScheduleBAYER SPECIALISTS SESSION
Venture Investing - Bayer's LEAPS for LifeScience - PJ Amini (Director of Venture InvestmentsLEAPS by Bayer)
Bayer Foundation Intro - Lars zur Mühlen Digital Communication and Foundation Programs at Bayer Foundation & Stefan Wilhelm- Program Manager Social Impact at Bayer Foundation
Accelerating Health Care at Bayer with Science and Scale and Federated Learning - David Ruau (VP, Head of GDA&DS)
Foresight - Using Data to Forecast Consumer Behavior -Mikhail Kachala(Global Head of Data Science Consumer Health)
Women in Data Science - Arwa Al Dilaimi (Computational Life Science SMol CLS digital transformation and collaboration lead) and Catherine Sirven (Computational Life Science SMol CLS digital transformation and collaboration lead)
Data Warehousing Automating ingestion of ERP data - Anthony Savio - Data Warehouse Engineering Lead Crop Science, IT
Kubernetes - Jason Clark (Senior Principal Data Engineer Crop Science Global Data Assets)
Engineering new business models, speed, test & learn, and scaling - Danny Williams (Head of Solutions Engineering Crop Science, IT).
Deep learning/imagery modeling and why that is important for Agriculture - Balathasan Giritharan (Lead Data Scientist – Sensors and Insights Crop Science)
FINALIST PITCHES
-4 minutes presentation and 3 min LIVE Q&A
(tu na stronie mają być podpięci wszyscy JUDGES).
-JURY deliberation / Łukasz Olejniczak Interview "WORK WITH BAYER"
-1st Challenge HEALTH FOR ALL winners announcement - Mikhail Kachala
-2nd Challenge HUNGER FOR NONE winners announcement - Mark Sparks
-CLOSING REMARKS - Bijoy Sagar