10x AI Hackathon

Published

April 15, 2024

Welcome to the event page for the 10X AI Hackathon, presented by the data science team of 10 Downing Street (10DS) in collaboration with Imperial as part of the Evidence House program.

You can find a map of the venue here.

The hackathon will take place on the main campus of Imperial College, with doors opening from around 9am Monday (we will provide a more detailed schedule shortly).

Before you attend, make sure you’re ready to hit the ground running on day 1!

For the duration of the event, use the Imperial-WPA network, using username guest980354 and password TWGkgawJV6dm. Alternatively, you can use _The Cloud.

Key Challenges

How could we use AI to…

  1. Ministerial Correspondence : Help government and No10 manage and act upon incoming handwritten correspondence
  2. Emerging Situations and Crises : Help the National Situation Centre react to new and emerging biosafety threats
  3. Legislation : Write better legislation, with better evidence, that’s better understood
  4. Communications : Brief the Prime Minister and help us deliver effective and informative communications
  5. Meetings and Transcription : Understand, digest, summarise and actionise meetings across the civil service
  6. Manage Major Projects : Measure, manage and deliver major projects
  7. Grants and awards : Ensure government effectively distributes grants and financial assistance tot hose who need it
  8. Skills : Make sure the UK economy is ready for the AI led skills revolution

Teams

Each team will be randomly assigned 3 problems, and we’ll be asking you to decide on one to focus your tool on at the end of day 1!

Expect more information in the next few days.

Agenda

Datasets

We’ve prepared a selection of datasets for the event, and these can be viewed on our datasets page.

Where data has been pre-prepared, we have hosted it on a S3 bucket.

Confirming your problem

Remember, you need to confirm a problem by 5PM on day 1!

Once you’ve decided, please can one person per team to submit a form here.

Tools and Resources

Problem Statements

Problem Statement Room
Handwritten Correspondence LG19 B Downstairs
National Situation Centre LG R Downstairs
Legislation LG S Downstairs
Communications Room 200 (main lecture hall) Main lecture hall
Meetings 650
Major Projects LG19 A Downstairs
Grants & Awards 649 Take the lifts from beside main lecture hall
Skills 651 Take the lifts from beside main lecture hall

Armoury Sessions

Company Room
Google / Ancoris LG19 B
Microsoft LG R
Open AI LG S
AWS Room 200 (main lecture hall)
Anthropic LG19 A