AgTech Startup Hackathon 2024

By AgX Escondido and Fresh Brewed Tech on March 7-9, 2024

The AgX Escondido and Fresh Brewed Tech are partnering to bring the AgTech community together! By bringing together farmers, technologists, community leaders, engineers, and more, we hope to better understand today’s agriculture and food system problems and build solutions together with our local customers for the world.

San Diego, and specifically Escondido is one of the densest farming communities in the state. No better place than to mix our agriculture and tech communities!

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Who Should Attend
Farmers
Employers
Technologists
Entrepreneurs
Developers
Scientists and more…
Why You Should Attend
To advance your innovative idea into a business
To help connect and grow the AgTech ecosystem, right in the City of Escondido.
To see the new potential Escondido AgTech Incubator
To meet mentors, investors, possible co-founders, and employees
What You Should Be Prepared For
Be prepared to lead a team with your idea or join a team where you believe in their idea
Be prepared to test assumptions and learn to ask questions
Be ready to work on your idea from Friday to Sunday in a team environment
AgTech Event Timeline
Whether you want to field a team at the Hackathon, join the opening ceremony social, or watch the closing pitch competition, there are events for everyone. See the agenda below!

Day 1: AgTech Community Social and Hackathon Kickoff
Thursday, March 7, 3 – 9 p.m.

Community social/networking, with food and drink
Company exhibitions
Keynote talk
Presentation of ideas by attendees and group up into teams
Orientation on how to progress your idea over the course of the weekend

Day 2: Let’s Get Down To Business
Friday, March 8, 8 a.m. – 5 p.m.

Breakfast for teams and mentors, intros by mentors
A talk on how to do customer development
Teams go out and get feedback from customer development (2-4 hours)

Lunch
Come back to analyze results and mentor office hours
Analyze learnings, build an early prototype
Start putting together presentations and pitch practice

Day 3: Show Us What You’ve Got!
Saturday, March 9, 8 a.m. – 3 p.m.

Breakfast
Put together slides, more mentor office hours
Pitch competition presentation with judges, scoring, and prizes ($10,000+)
Lunch/social/networking