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The Cajun Code Fest 2012, part of Innov8 Lafayette, a week long celebration of Innovation, is a FREE two-day coding competition focusing on transforming “data” into health care solutions, specifically addressing childhood obesity.
This exciting coding marathon will bring together innovative thinkers and programmers of all types: professional software developers, software designers, undergraduate and graduate students, health care leaders, educators, and entrepreneurs. Participants will organize themselves into teams, either before arriving or during the event, and over a 36-hour period will build exciting new prototypes and tools for improved health care.
The event will feature a number of excellent tech talks and buzz-worthy speakers including Todd Park, US Chief Technology Officer; Bruce Greenstein, Secretary, Louisiana Department of Health and Hospitals; Eric Dishman, Intel Corporation Fellow and Director of Health Innovation and Policy, Digital Health Group; Jay Walker, Founder of Priceline.com and curator of TEDMED.
$25,000 Grand Prize and U.S. Health Datapalooza Qualifying Entry for Cajun Code Fest 2012 Winner!
Date : April 26th – 28th 2012
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This is incredibly exciting. Focus on Big Data is key! For too long big data has been a problem - I have all this data, where do I store it, how do I store it, what can I do to catalog it so I can later retrieve it. Now the paradigm is changing. We realize "Big Data" offers solutions to "Big Problems" that we face as a society. UL Lafayette was recently recognized by the National Science Foundation as a industry-university center of excellence, "Center for Visual and Decision Informatics (CVDI)", in partnership with Drexel university and industry. Look to this center for exciting solutions to complex big data problems. I applaud Todd Park, HHS and the BigDataWeek team for their sharp focus on producing data-driven innovations!