Open Food Data Hackdays invite engineers, designers, agricultural/nutrition experts, entrepreneurs, and students to jointly develop new solutions for a transparent, efficient, and innovative food industry based on open food data. Ambrosus is proud to sponsor the upcoming Open Food Data Hackdays, Jan. 27/28 in Lausanne.

The Challenge:

It’s important to know what’s in the products you eat. But public trust in lablels like “fairtrade,” “Organic,” and “IP Suisse,” has eroded in light of recent scandals. How can we really know what we’re consuming?

Ambrosus is working to build trusted data and supply chains to give businesses and consumers a full “farm-to-fork” view of the products they rely on. The problem: there’s very little data about the products themselves, their history, or their certification process.

For the upcoming Open Food Data Hackdays, we’re asking participants to invent and prototype new ways to recreate this trust using the latest digital technologies.

We’ll leverage the Ambrosus API to create a public database where organic certification entities can publish information about each certificate they issue, and leverage blockchain technology to prove the validity of these certifications for producers and individual product batches. A simple mobile/web application can then be used to display and verify whether a given product is valid or not.

Two of our engineers thinking hard about cool demos to be built on top of AMB-Net. Vijay is working on Beerchain — a beer loyalty app that gives you Ambers each time you spot fake beer bottles. In the back, Antoni is exploring a crowd-sourced approach for product recalls!

Access:

We’ll provide participants full access to our private alpha version of AMB-NET they can interacting with through standard HTTP (REST) APIs and we’ll also supply the documentation.

About Open Food Data Hackdays and food.opendata.ch:

Open Food Data Hackdays are a project of opendata.ch. Its three-year “Business Innovation food.opendata.ch” program, in partnership with Engagement Migros, aims to build a publicly available base of nutrition data, to create new innovative and value adding solutions, and to further develop the use of open data for entrepreneurial purposes.

Every year creative, entrepreneurial and scientific projects in the area of food and nutrition data are selected and supported on their way from the first idea to market readiness by providing new open data, intense coaching, mentorship and financial support.

About Ambrosus:

Ambrosus is building the world’s first universally-verifiable ecosystem to ensure the quality, safety, and origins of the products we consume. Combining high-tech sensors, blockchain protocol built on Ethereum, and smart contracts, Ambrosus’ technology will radically improve global supply chains by reliably recording the entire history of products — particularly in the food and pharmaceuticals space. This will enable a more secure and autonomous supply chain, optimize distribution processes, and allow consumers to easily see where their products come from and what’s really in them. Always thinking bigger, Ambrosus aims to drive powerful social change, enabling developers to build solutions to global problems faced by consumers and businesses — both large and small — here and in the developing world. At Ambrosus, we’re building an ecosystem of trust: creating a healthier, wealthier, and more sustainable world — for everyone.

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