4 ways to succeed at a hackathon or Challenge Event
It goes beyond winning a prize. Here’s a look at how to get the most out of a weekend or an event.
Source: 4 ways to succeed at a hackathon - Technical.ly Baltimore
About
F³ Tech (Farm-Fish-Food) is a proof-of-concept and commercialization initiative that is creating a renaissance of economic growth and prosperity through innovation and technology that is built upon Maryland’s traditional industries of agriculture and seafood. F³ Tech enables solutions through the development of new products and services in response to market-driven problems and challenges. This is accomplished through a series of stages that guides entrepreneurs from idea through commercialization. LEARN MORE…
F³ Tech Consists of the Following Three Industry Segments
Agritech
offers opportunities for technology and products to feed a projected 10 billion people by 2050. These opportunities include improving yield, efficiency, and profitability.
Aquatech
offers opportunities for improved farming of fish, crustaceans, mollusks, aquatic plants, algae, and other aquatic organisms. Technological innovations include cultivating freshwater and saltwater populations under controlled conditions.
Envirotech
offers opportunities to address the impact of agriculture and aquaculture activity on the environment. This includes applying environmental science, green chemistry, environmental monitoring, electronic devices, and other products and technologies to monitor, model, and conserve the natural environment and resources.
Program
F³ Tech started in 2017 as a Maryland initiative that utilized the rural-urban collaborative environment throughout the State. F³ Tech focuses on Maryland’s traditional industries of agriculture and seafood. Maryland’s rural knowledge and know-how combines with the urban critical mass of talent and ideas. The overall F³ Tech program consists of three stages that provide entrepreneurs, innovators, startups, and existing businesses with the resources to achieve proof-of-concept and commercialization of new product and service ideas and innovations.
Stage 1 – Challenge Events
These are one-day challenge events at colleges/universities or incubator facilities. Teams respond to real-world, market-driven challenges to develop innovations and technologies that can be commercialized. LEARN MORE...
Stage 2 – Pre-Accelerator
This is a six-week virtual program that prepares individuals or teams with early-stage ideas to participate in a traditional accelerator program or plan an early product launch. LEARN MORE...
Stage 3 – Accelerator
This is a rigorous four-month program that prepares startups to launch and commercialize products or services through concentrated mentorship, training, networking, and investment. LEARN MORE...
Symposiums
These are one-day events, held twice a year, that include a broad outreach to industry, entrepreneurs, and innovators. The purpose is to advance awareness and to open a dialogue with stakeholders about agriculture, aquaculture, and environmental problems and challenges.
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Innovation Readiness Course
This is a seven-session course designed in partnership between UMCES Horn Point and hotDesks that helps entrepreneurs and innovators better understand the innovation and commercialization process and how to bring technology to market. LEARN MORE...
Current Accelerator Companies
News & Posts
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UCLA-led researchers urge avoiding prenatal and infant exposure to pesticides to protect early brain development and as a preventive measure against autism spectrum disorder.
Source: Pesticide Exposure Linked with Autism in Epidemiological Study
Growing Hemp
The wide range of industrial hemp products represent the greatest opportunity for American agricultural markets seen within the past fifty years, writes Jon Vaught.
Source: Growing Hemp - AgFunderNews
Team
Mentors, coaches, investors, and other valuable members of the agriculture, aquaculture, environmental, innovation, and startup ecosystems provide their expertise to the accelerator program. The interactions and counsel they provide to participating startups is the most valuable aspect of the program.
Sam Zappas
Serial Entrepreneur
Revenue and Business Strategy
Chris Hlubb
F³ Tech Program Director
Aquaculture | Entrepreneurship
Hannah (Cavey) Callihan
North Central Insurance Agency
Farm Insurance | Risk Management
Peter Ettinger
Aldebaran Partners
Startup | Marketing | Operations
Andrew Rose
MidAtlantic Farm Credit
Technology | Financing
Dan Rider
Maryland Forest Service
Forestry | Farming
Tom Haschen
Novera Protein
Agriculture | Farms | Dairy
Tony Kern
Deloitte (retired) | Pinoak Capital
Technology | Investment
Tommy Luginbill
College of Southern Maryland
Innovation | Startup | Technology
Mike Thielke
Eastern Shore Entrepreneurship Center
Startup | Funding | Innovation | Logistics
Sponsors
Mid Shore Regional Council
USDA Rural Development
Maryland Technology Development Corporation
Rural Maryland Council
MARBIDCO
MidAtlantic Farm Credit
hotDesks
Entrepreneur and Innovation Center
Partners
Tri-County Council for the Lower Eastern Shore
Harry R. Hughes Center for Agro-Ecology
Kent County Economic Development
MD Dept of Commerce
University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science
Maryland Department of Agriculture
Ideagist
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Contact Info
For questions and additional details, you are welcome to contact the Eastern Shore Entrepreneurship Center -- the lead organization administering the F³ Tech Accelerator Program.
Eastern Shore Entrepreneurship Center
8737 Brooks Drive, Suite 101
Easton, MD 21601
www.esec.md- 410.770.9330
- info@f3tech.org