HACK 2020
WINNERS
1ST PLACE
Marginal Utility (Macquire Gig)
Team: Chris Hull, Juliana Lu-yang, Kailash Raman, Will Butcher
2ND PLACE
Currents of Change (Nextera)
Team: Casey Goldstein, Daisy Wang, Hassan Mohiuddin, Rosa Golchin
3RD PLACE
Joules in Lockdown (Chargepoint)
Team: Lisa Wang, Rachel Tham, Rohan Jakhete, Will Cooper
FINALISTS
Enerhack International (Sterlite)
Team: Tamir Peleg, Yoni Peleg, Mariko Ogawa, Grace Cassidy
Mardi Gras (Iberdrola/Avangrid)
Team: Kevin Wu, Ken Droddy, Ozgur Yalcin, Harisankar Nagarajan
Fourier Eyez Only (Chevron)
Team: Alec Nguyen, Yeji Cho, Brendt Stephens, Max Burns
The Green Electron (Saint-Gobain)
Team: Gayatri Sundar Rajan, Tyler A. Smith, Keeley Bombard
THEMED CHALLENGES WINNERS
MOST OUT-OF-THE-BOX
UBC Smart City
Team: Fayaz Damani, Mustafa Adil, Parsa Shani, Sophie Varabioff
MOST COMMUNITY-ORIENTED
Space Jam
Team: Adam Potter, Jocelyn Ting, Manuel Morales
BEST VISUALIZATION
Tech Support
Team: Eeshta Suresh, Elbert Wang, Riya Mody, Saurav Prakeerth
GAG PRIZE WINNERS
BEST TEAM NAME
Big DK Energi
Team: Valdemar Søgaard, Oliver Jensen, Marcus Garsdal, Jonas Broge
HIGHEST SLIDE COUNT (22 SLIDES)
UBC Smart City
Team: Fayaz Damani, Mustafa Adil, Parsa Shani, Sophie Varabioff
EARLIEST SUBMISSION (8:08 AM)
Quadripower
Team: Jen Lessick, Madonna Miranda, Mahmoud Ghanem, Mostafa Genena
MOST EVENTS ATTENDED
Tobias Carrigan
KEYNOTE SPEAKERS
James Rincon
Iberdrola/Avangrid
James Rincon is a Manager in AVANGRID’s CEO Office and leads corporate innovation. In this role, James manages strategic partnerships with top tier universities, startups and external technology partners, working to implement innovative technologies and business models to advance AVANGRID’s Networks, Renewables and Corporate areas. He also collaborates with Iberdrola’s global Innovation, Sustainability and Quality team to share and leverage resources and best practices from across the Iberdrola Global Group. James previously served as Lead Analyst for Corporate Innovation in the CEO Office and is a graduate of the AVANGRID Innovation and Learning Enterprise (AGILE) Talent Program, a two-year rotational leadership program for early career professionals at AVANGRID. James began working at AVANGRID as an intern in 2017 while completing his MBA at Quinnipiac University with a focus on Financial Analysis.
Todd Dinoia
Saint-Gobain
Todd DiNoia is the VP of Research and Development (R&D) for CertainTeed, North America’s leading brand of exterior and interior building products and a subsidiary of Saint-Gobain, one of the world’s largest and oldest building products companies. With more than 20 years of experience in the field of construction, he oversees research and development for a wide variety of construction products and building materials at CertainTeed with a focus on sustainability, building science, and advanced material platforms. Todd has a Ph.D. in chemical engineering from The Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland and a Bachelor of Science in chemical engineering from Worcester Polytechnic Institute in Worcester, Massachusetts.
Kevin Doyle
ChargePoint
Kevin Doyle joined ChargePoint in 2012, where he has taken the lead on several interoperability initiatives, including roaming integrations with third party networks, bringing stations manufactured by partner companies onto ChargePoint, implementation of open standards for energy management, and adoption of both cloud and station based protocols, which enhance communication with the vehicle and infrastructure. As a technology pioneer for EV charging, ChargePoint offers solutions for drivers to charge their electric vehicles at home, work, fleet, around town, and on the highway. Kevin manages a global portfolio of products, which allow ChargePoint to integrate its charging solutions into the larger transportation electrification ecosystem.
Prior to joining ChargePoint, Kevin worked in the building automation and pharmaceutical laboratory automation industries, where he developed solutions for scientists and engineers to optimize their operations, reduce energy usage, and bring mission critical data in complex environments to key stakeholders in an understandable way. Kevin holds two Bachelor’s degrees in Electrical Engineering & Computer Science and Brain & Cognitive Science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.