National Missing Persons Hackathon

TOP STATE TEAM ANNOUNCEMENT (2 of 2) We couldn’t go without a shout-out to all of the teams who just missed out on a national placement, however, your contribution to the event is much more than just a prize. A big thank you to all the teams who continued to submit leads during the extended deadline on all five missing person cases. The Top 3 State Teams will be notified by email to receive a special acknowledgement from the National Missing Persons Hackathon. More announcements and final statistics are on the way over the coming days so keep an eye on the socials! Thank you to our State Leads who created an environment that supported such a great outcome! ACT Bianca Puglisi 🦊 Caitlin S. James Mouat NSW Louisa Partridge Linda Cavanagh NT Carter Smith QLD Mina Zaki @CiarronBeggs Lynore Close SA Jasmine F. Katie Perry TAS Dr Tristan Richards MACS CP Claire Batchelor Vic Shannon L. Chathura Abeydeera WA Simon Carabetta Biljana R. Thank you to our Principal Sponsors IAG and Stone & Chalk #NMPHackathon24 #OSINTForGood #OSINT 

NATIONAL WINNER ANNOUNCEMENT (1 of 2) After correlating 2000+ individual team submissions and reviewing 200+ Information Reports on five missing person cases, our Case Managers have definitely earned any and all kudos for such a mammoth effort! And an even bigger thank you to all the teams who took advantage of the extended submission deadline - we have received some very promising leads to hand over to law enforcement. The 2024 National Missing Persons Hackathon national team placements are: 🏆 Phish & Chips | Virtual | 16418 points 🏆 Thick Thighs Saving Lives | TAS | 9692 points 🏆 Gridware (Mel) | VIC | 8202 points 🏆 SA Team 5 | SA | 8104 points Winners will be notified by email on receiving their prize. Thank you to our sponsors for your generosity in providing prizes for our top placed teams Australian Information Security Association (AISA), Cygenus Pty. Ltd., OSINT Combine and My OSINT Training. More announcements and final stats are on the way over the coming days so keep an eye on the socials! #NMPHackathon24 #OSINTForGood #OSINT 

As the potential leads keep rolling in for this year's Hackathon, we wanted to give one more massive shout-out to our incredible sponsors and partners. This event wouldn’t have been possible without your support. Thank you for helping us make a real impact! #OSINTforgood 🔸 IAG | Stone & Chalk 🔸 🔹 My OSINT Training | FIFTH DOMAIN | Haystack Solutions | OSINT Combine | Newrali | MurFin Group 🔹 ♦ CDC | CrowdStrike | OpenSI | Cloudflare | CyberWest Hub | Splunk | Charles Darwin University | TAFEcyber | Department of State Development | North Metropolitan TAFE | The University of Queensland | Sovtech | caIT Cyber Safe | SA Power Networks | Penfolds | Recorded Future | Secure State | Augentis Pty Ltd | Netskope | Penten | University of Tasmania | UpGuard | Telstra | Australian Information Security Association (AISA) | Blackheart Cyber | [redacted] | CyberCX | KPMG | Footprint ♦ Cygenus Pty. Ltd.

Thanks for the write up Shannon Williams 🙌 https://lnkd.in/gc24RfzH #OSINTforgood

Last week, the Hackathon was featured on the Today Show. We were thrilled to see our mission in the spotlight! A huge shoutout to IAG and Stone & Chalk, our Primary sponsors, for their incredible support. Their partnership was invaluable in helping us bring this initiative to life again and make a real difference. 🙌 We are so proud of the incredible response from so many passionate individuals and organisations, all united in their commitment to finding leads and helping to solve missing person cases. Together, we achieved truly remarkable results, showing the power of collaboration! Stay tuned for more updates, and if you missed the feature, catch it below. #OSINTforgood #CommunitySupport #PartnershipsMatter Cygenus Pty. Ltd. | Linda Cavanagh | Louisa Partridge | Katie Perry 🔸 IAG - Elaine Muir | Matt Parrelli 🔹 Stone & Chalk - Christopher Kirk | Paulette Parker | Olivia Grandjean-Thomsen

Tools down for the 2024 National Missing Persons Hackathon 🛎 WHAT. A. DAY!! We will be back for a full wrap up next week but a HUGE thank you to everyone - our Sponsors, our Partners, our Community sponsors, our 646 participants and our volunteers and case managers. Today would not have been possible without all of you! #OSINTforgood Cygenus Pty. Ltd. | Linda Cavanagh | Louisa Partridge | Katie Perry

💙 Team Tassie 💙 #osintforgood

Thank you for all your support Stone & Chalk ✨⭐️✨⭐️

Such an amazing day so far at the Victorian Headquarters for the National Missing Persons Hackathon! Massive shout out to my Co-Lead Chathura Abeydeera our amazing volunteers, case managers and Sponsors Splunk, Netskope, Harod and Recorded Future. Thank you The Hon. Mitch Fifield for spending the day with us! #NMPHackathon #NMPHackathon24 #OSINTForGood