We’re excited to invite you to take part in the World Bank City Resilience Program’s Urban Heat Hackathon — a dynamic, hands-on event that brings together minds from across the urban climate community to co-create solutions for real-world heat resilience challenges.
As UN Secretary-General António Guterres aptly stated, “If there is one thing that unites our divided world, it’s that we’re all increasingly feeling the heat.” This hackathon is your chance to channel that shared experience into actionable solutions. Whether you’re a researcher, developer, policy advisor, or heat resilience enthusiast, join us to turn insights into impact — and help cities around the world beat the heat.
Participants will form teams and take on one of our city-specific challenges:
– Hot spot mapping: You’ll conduct high-resolution mapping of outdoor air temperature, at street or neighborhood scales, to identify the city’s critical hot spots. Your insights, both qualitative and quantitative, will empower policymakers, showing them exactly where interventions are most needed to protect vulnerable communities.
– Adaptation strategies: If hot spots are identified, it’s time to tackle them! You’ll develop and analyze effective urban cooling solutions. Demonstrate the impact of your ideas to inform city planning and directly help cool down the urban environment.
– Indoor heat exposure: Explore how heat affects the indoor environment! You will assess thermal conditions and analyze energy consumption in a school building under different climate scenarios. Then, strategically design solutions, focusing on passive design options, to transform these spaces for optimal comfort and reduced energy consumption.
Date: Tuesday July 8, 14h00 – 19h30 (directly followed by dinner)
Location: ICUC12 Conference Center, Room Leeuwen 1 (on-site only)
Who? Open to all — with a special welcome to participants from low- and middle-income countries.
Dinner: Immediately following the hackathon, hosted by the World Bank (drinks not included).
Please note: ICUC12 conference attendance and travel costs are not covered by the hackathon organizers.
Register now → https://forms.office.com/r/LSnwNZLSES