1.
Tech FTW
Wildfire response &
disaster relief innovations
Alyssa Haerle
KIT Community Founder

2.
About the KIT Community

3.
Hackathon: Responding to Needs

4.
Friday – Opening Night
• Dinner by Union Station Deli
• Guest Speaker: Neal Preston
• Idea Pitches
• Formation of Teams

5.
Saturday - Discovery
• Workshops
– Community Impact
– CAPK | 2-1-1 Kern
– Kern County Fire Department
• Lunch by CAPK

6.
Sunday – Build & Complete
• Workshop
– Pitch Presentation
• Mentoring
• Food and Drinks by All for One
• All leading up to tonight

7.
Slideshow

8.
THE PRIZE
CASH PRIZE
• Half of Raffle Ticket Sales
- $40.00 Friday
- $? Tonight
• AT LEAST - $20.00
TROPHY

9.
Judging the Victor
Criteria
Prototype
Community Impact Report
Presentation
Stakeholder Map
The Judging Panel
• Alyssa Haerle
• Kevin Mershon
• Lyndsey Mourelatos
• Tag Lyons
• Bart Kicklighter

10.
Participants
Business
Marketing
Communications
Programmer
Engineer
Non Profit
Community
Government
Compassionate
Citizen
Total
Tickets
Sold
6 16 1 2 25
Formed
team
3 14 0 1 17
Attended
DYI
0 3 0 1

11.
THE TEAMS
Team: Ian R., Beth, Tanner,
Nick, Cris
Team: Scott, Chris, Jen,
Joe, Andrew
Team: Tomas, Ian S., Wyatt,
Prosper, Stephen
Team: Justin, Kevin P.
Dr. SIMS
Beacon
Icarus
FireLine
Fire Team: Ivan, Ramon

12.
Find the Fox
• Issue: wildlife displaced
during wildfires
• Area of focus: tracking kit
foxes
• Solution: process image
data from networked wildlife
cameras to determine kit fox
movements and migrations
• Because you have to find
the fox before you can
follow the fox
Because Judges Alyssa Haerle and
Kevin Mershon wanted to build
something too…
Nature &
Wildlife
Conservancies
Government
Organizations
Displaced
Wildlife
Public
Displaced
Domesticated
Animals

13.
Thank You!
Gold Sponsors
• Mershon Enterprises
• MESH Cowork
• ARRC Technology
• KGFM 101.5
• Kern 1180 | 96.1
Silver Sponsors
• CAPK | Kern 2-1-1
• Union Station Deli
• Bakersfield Blaze
Bronze Sponsors
• iSafetyPro
• PDL Enterprises
• IDI-Tech
• Creative Cowork
• Mantis Energy Drink
Community Experts
• Tyler Townsend, KCFD
• Esperanza/Louis, CAPK
• Bart Kicklighter, USFS
• Neal Preston, All for One
• Tag Lyons, retired Fire
Volunteer
• Travis McElroy