Landmark Hosts Emerging Technologies Hackathon To Inspire AI And Machine Learning Innovation

Landmark Hosts Emerging Technologies Hackathon To Inspire AI And Machine Learning Innovation

Landmark Information Group, the property, land and environmental data specialist, is hosting its second Emerging Technologies Hackathon of 2018 at multiple locations around the UK this week.

With three primary offices connected and collaborating via Surface Hubs, over 50 software engineers, data experts and product specialists are collaborating on a number of projects that will provide new mechanisms for understanding land usage, enhancing historic environmental datasets, and gleaning fresh insight in to land sustainability and urban change management to support legal and property professionals.

The teams are being joined on location by members of Microsoft’s Cloud Solutions Architecture team for AI and Advanced Analytics, who have been actively supporting Landmark’s recent developer events. In addition, remote support is being provided by Patryk Laurent, the Daily Mail & General Trust’s (DMGT) Group Director of Emerging Technology, who is participating from California.

Kris Clark, Group Head of AI, said “Our first event in July saw eighteen teams come together to use new tech solutions to tackle a series of business and data problems we had defined. This included everything from image and language recognition, document reading, extraction of unstructured datasets, and bot frameworks that could potentially be deployed to enable new capabilities in our numerous customer facing service environments and applications.

“One of the most successful outcomes from the event was a project that detects and tracks changes between historic mapping, modern mapping and aerial imagery over fixed periods of time.

“When we storyboarded what the underlying machine learning processes were achieving, we were able to derive a number of possible use cases for this type of intelligence in the worlds of PropTech, LegalTech and EnviroTech. Eight of these potential applications are now being experimented further at this week’s event.”

Added Patryk Laurent: “We are excited to see DMGT-operating companies supporting the group strategy of leveraging advanced technologies in innovative ways. These Hackathon events demonstrate how new solutions emerge from the combination of hard-earned domain expertise, unique data insights, and recent advances in machine learning and cloud computing.”

For more information, telephone 0844 844 9960, or visit www.landmark.co.uk for more information.

Landmark Information

http://www.landmark.co.uk

As the leading property and land data business in the UK, Landmark Information Group plays a vital role in the entire value chain of the property industry. Leveraging unparalleled datasets, a dedicated in-house team of experts, a vast partner network, and cutting-edge technological innovations, our mission is to streamline every property transaction, making the process simpler and faster while reducing risks for all stakeholders. With over 25 years of experience, we empower informed property and land decisions for a diverse range of professionals, including architects, surveyors, estate agents, environmental consultants, mortgage lenders, conveyancers, real estate professionals, land developers, property lawyers, and search providers across all these markets. A recent milestone for Landmark Information Group is the launch of LandmarkConnect— a series of open, accessible and standardised hubs which will connect people, tech and data, designed to streamline the home buying and selling process. For more information, please visit our website: www.landmark.co.uk For more information on LandmarkConnect visit: www.landmark.co.uk/our-group/landmarkconnect/

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