Full Session Description

Call for Code a five-year program that inspires developers to create practical, effective, and high-quality applications that can have an immediate and lasting impact on humanitarian issues as sustainable open source projects. Building on the success of the 2018 and 2019 competitions, the Call for Code 2020 Global Challenge asks teams of programmers, data scientists, designers, business analysts, subject matter experts and more to build solutions that significantly address climate change through solutions for energy and water sustainability and disaster resiliency. A second track was added for solutions to the social and business aspects of COVID-19 which include crisis communications, remote education, and community cooperation. Learn about this year’s Call for Code Challenge (which has a top prize of $200K USD), be inspired by the 2018 and 2019 winners (Project OWL and Prometeo), and discover the new Code and Response™ with The Linux Foundation initiative which supports the most promising solutions.

Daniel Krook

CTO Call for Code + Code & Response @ IBM

About the author

Daniel Krook is the Chief Technology Officer for The Call for Code Global Initiative & IBM Code and Response. He was a catalyst behind Call for Code, a five-year initiative that inspires developers to create sustainable software solutions to the world’s most pressing problems. As CTO, he ensures that those ideas are delivered where they can make the greatest impact through the IBM Code and Response Initiative.