The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are a collection of 17 global goals designed to be a "blueprint to achieve a better and more sustainable future for all". The SDGs, set in 2015 by the United Nations General Assembly and intended to be achieved by the year 2030, are part of UN Resolution 70/1, the 2030 Agenda.

SDG Open Hack! is the first Chinese open innovation festival for the achievement of the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). SDG Open Hack! is a festival of hackathons aimed at tackling key challenges for the SDGs over one weekend. The event aims to launch 10 hackathons (in urban farming, new energy vehicles and mobility, AI for development, pollution sensing, and more), generate 100+ concrete innovations for the SDGs and host up to 500 participants, including students, engineers, professionals, academics, policy makers, impact investors & business leaders.

As a collective effort to promote understanding and action-taking towards the Sustainable Development Goals, the Global Shapers Beijing Hub, together with Tsinghua University Global Practice Association, and the School of Economics and Management, hosted the sub-hackathon of de-materialization. The hackathon brought business leaders, policy researchers, investors, and entrepreneurs together to help the facilitation of ideas among the twelve teams competing in the sub-hackathon.