After a highly successful 2nd General Assembly in Heidelberg, AI4Life took advantage of the gathered members and organized a Hackathon & Solvathon. The event was held from October 10th to 13th, 2023, with a total of 25 participants.

Two parallel events ran during this period:

• Hackathon: Focused on building and deploying AI tools for bioimage analysis, enhancing scalability and FAIRness. Participants engaged in discussions, formed interest groups around projects, and collaborated on various web & cloud bioimage analysis topics.
  The Hackathon members participated in a number of projects:
  • EDAM & bio.tools collaboration with AI4Life
  • Segment Anything in the BioEngine
  • Segment Anything in the BioImage Model Zoo
  • bioimageio Python packages
  • bioimageio uploader
  • ChatBot for the BioImage Model Zoo
  • Documentation improvement
  • Kubernetes BioEngine on Google Cloud
  • Semantic Segmentation of cartilaginous tissue
• Solvathon: Experts from AI4Life and beyond worked together on the 8 selected open-call projects. Detailed progress updates on these projects will be shared soon.

Both tracks achieved remarkable outcomes. Stay tuned for the next event!