List of hackathons in Abbotsford, Australia in 2018

The Girls in Tech Catalyst Conference is back—making it's way to Melbourne for the FIRST TIME! Girls in Tech is focused on the empowerment, entrepreneurship, engagement, and education of women in technology. We are proud to announce the expansion of the Catalyst Conference, a very special event designed to celebrate women at all levels of their career. Now in its sixth year, the Catalyst Conference attracts a powerhouse audience from every corner of tech: entrepreneurs, software engineers, product marketers, venture capitalists, high-tech employees, students, digital marketers, innovators and more. Join us for incredible, raw, gritty, and authentic “TED-style” presentations from some of the most revered women in tech, business and leadership. This will be the “largest intimate” tech conference you’ll ever attend, as you hear revolutionary speakers share tales of their journey to the top, career advice, how they made tough decisions—and, most important—what sage advice they want to pass on to the next-generation of the female tech workforce. Mark your calendars! http://catalystmelbourne.girlsintech.org/ Take a first look at our agenda: Day 1 (Day) - Inspire Streams: Join us for TED style inspirational and practical insights from both national and international speakers!  Day 1 (Evening) - Mentor and The Great Debate; we'll about be chatting the startup vs corporate world. Don't forget our mega fireside with international speakers — a close and intimate discussion. (True to Girls in Tech Australia style, we'll be serving gorgeous wines, cheeses and canapes) Day 2 - Learn Masterclasses: Join Australia’s best skills, startup and corporate training academies to learn new skills and apply them to your job or start up.  First look at just some of our speakers. The Hon. Philip Dalidakis MP  Dr Kate Cornick - CEO of Launch VIC Amy Glancey - Director of Communications Atlassian Adriana Gascoigne - Founder of Girls in Tech Alysha Naples - Formerly Magic Leap  Helen Souness - Etsy, RMIT Online Monique Morrow - CTO Cisco Fran Maier - Cofounder match.com Patrycja Slawuta - Founder SelfHackathon Shahirah Gardiner - Co-Founder Finch Christine Rodrigues - Head of Partnerships for Braintree Susan Brown - MD Girls in Tech Australia Alita Harvey-Rodriguez - CEO and Founder Milk it Academy Not only will you be inspired by keynotes from female thought leaders, you'll also have plently of networking opportunities, a platform to exchange ideas, workshops, and of course — a cocktail party!  This is your chance to create lasting business relationships and learn concrete skills that could have a considerable impact on the technology industry at large—and your career. 2 Day tickets include: Access to all sessions, the great debate + networking day 1 drinks and meet the speakers & access to all day 2 skills training masterclasses + goodie Bag & wag valued at over $100 Title sponsor:

Coder? Marketer? Activist? Graphic Designer? Heard of #TestFestVic? A unique competitive event in which the participants create a digital-related invention & video campaign to increase HIV testing in Victoria. Gain total of $9,000 cash prize, $10,000 invention development grant, mentoring and networking. Be part of the global solution in HIV testing! For more info visit www.testfestvictoria.com

The creators of the National Future Work Summit have put together a pre-summit panel to highlight the future of work for emerging business! The panel will consist of members from IBM, SALESFORCE, GITHUB, MICROSOFT and HUDSON. Our speakers will discuss their business journeys and how they manage technology, agility, skills and capabilities gaps while experiencing significant growth. Facilitator: Michelle Mannering- Hackathon QueenKnown as the Melbourne's “Hackathon Queen”, Michelle Mannering is at the forefront of the city's startup, science, and tech scenes, running a number of hackathons and helping to drive the city’s entrepreneurial culture. She facilitates a multitude of events around innovation, entrepreneurship, technology, science and the arts, which has given her insights into the professional culture of Melbourne. Not only has she founded several companies, but she is heavily involved in the startup ecosystem. She is currently involved in a new venture, MishManners, running innovation workshops and hackathons. Panellists: Travis Smith - Teacher Engagement Manager at MicrosoftTravis Smith has over 11 years of experience in the classroom and has managed one of the first 1-to-1 technology programs in the country. During his teaching career, he lectured at Monash University in the Education Faculty and has worked as an Assistant Principal. Travis has presented at conferences worldwide on the effective use of technology in the classroom and has co-facilitated events including the Worldwide Microsoft Partners in Learning Forum in Washington DC and Prague for teachers and leaders from over 70 countries. His current role at Microsoft involves managing Microsoft’s education programs, professional learning experiences and providing insights into the role of technology in education.Sam Hunt - Director of APAX at GithubSam Hunt is GitHub’s Director for APAC. Sam leads a talented local team and is responsible for overseeing regional partnerships, community engagement, customer support and sales across the region. Sam joined GitHub in 2015, bringing 18 years of local IT industry experience. He specialises in business efficiency applications with a focus on improved collaboration. Prior to GitHub, Sam worked for organisations such as Progress Software, Alfresco, Intelledox, Hitachi Data Systems and Corporate Express, specialising in business solutions driving efficiency, transparency and cost reduction. Sam is passionate about bringing better technology education to the K-12 community in ANZ and throughout APAC. Ben Smillie - Director of Strategy and Architecture at SalesforceBen Smillie studied Manufacturing Systems Engineering at RMIT and worked as an Electronic Technician on Arcade games and Audio Systems in Melbourne. After several years in the industry, he returned to study computer science and programming. He spent 3 years at Telstra in Information Management and Datawarehousing then moved to Financial Services with GE Capital Australia and New Zealand. After working for 18 years in Banking and Financial services, he joined Salesforce. Ben is currently a Director of Strategy and Architecture at Salesforce in Melbourne, driving enterprise adaption and value from the Salesforce platform and ecosystem.   Leon Gouletsas - Experience Lead for the IBM Cloud GarageLeon is the Experience Lead for the IBM Cloud Garage, a consultancy that teaches developers, designers and architects from organisations into a co-design, co-develop facilitation to build new experiences and services in the cloud. After launching the business in Australia and New Zealand market, Leon with his team at the IBM Cloud Garage has helped countless enterprises and government organisations explore new value streams and rapidly build production-quality applications. Leon has a rich history facilitating tech education programs such as Startup Weekend, Google Developer Group and NEXT to help startups validate, scale and grow. He has led disruptive efforts in industries including transport (goCatch), crowdfunding (Indiegogo) and enterprise cloud (Bluemix).Clea Wallage - Operations Director at HudsonClea Wallage is a Registered Psychologist with over 15 years experience designing, managing and implementing a wide range of Talent Management solutions for large global organisations. As Operations Director for Hudson Talent Management, she is responsible for leading the Talent Management solutions strategy that includes assessment for selection, leadership development and career transition. She leads her team to drive innovation and continuous improvement and is particularly focused on ensuring that all solutions are designed in a way that supports clients to understand and be best prepared for new work practices. Join us at WeWork on May 17th 6:00pm | Networking 6:30pm - 7:30pm | Panel and Discussion 7:30pm - 8:00pm | Networking and Drinks WeWork is the platform for creators. We provide beautiful workspace, an inspiring community, and meaningful business services to tens of thousands of members around the world. From startups and freelancers to small businesses and large corporations, our community is united by a desire for our members to create meaningful work and lead meaningful lives—to be a part of something greater than ourselves. Co-founded by Adam Neumann and Miguel McKelvey in New York City in 2010, WeWork is a privately held company with over 3500 employees.

Want to solve a problem that’s bugging Melbourne? Turn up solo or with a team at this mentored hackathon, where you'll unite your loves of design and problem solving. No prior experience is necessary to get involved – kickstart your skills in user experience (UX) design by developing new ways of building community digital literacy – a challenge set by the City of Melbourne. Put your new UX skills into practice, demo a prototype you've designed yourself and present your work to City of Melbourne for a chance to win prizes. [Please note this event is wheelchair accessible] Melbourne Knowledge Week Melbourne Knowledge Week is a week-long festival that melds, art, technology, business and science to explore and co-create our future city. Over 80 events have been designed to inspire curious minds to collide and collaborate to bring future-focused ideas to life. Throw yourself into a week full of innovation and creativity where you’ll hear from international industry leaders, test cutting-edge technology, taste future food and help to solve Melbourne’s future challenges.

How is AI driving faster car sales? Artificial intelligence is here, and it’s already revolutionising how we do business. Chat AI over breakfast with the team behind Cyclops, the image recognition tool that grew out of a Carsales hackathon. Cyclops uses the TensorFlow machine intelligence open source library – and the Inception artificial intelligence mode – to enhance the accuracy and consistency of photos uploaded to the Carsales website. Come fuel up on coffee, hear the Cyclops story and discuss how you might implement AI to boost your business. [Please note this event is wheelchair accessible] Melbourne Knowledge Week Melbourne Knowledge Week is a week-long festival that melds, art, technology, business and science to explore and co-create our future city. Over 80 events have been designed to inspire curious minds to collide and collaborate to bring future-focused ideas to life. Throw yourself into a week full of innovation and creativity where you’ll hear from international industry leaders, test cutting-edge technology, taste future food and help to solve Melbourne’s future challenges.

The CanYa - Bountysource - TypeHuman: Binance DEXathon, Melbourne The Problem: Centralised exchanges have existing problems around access, custodianship and a extremely vulnerable to hacking. Mt GOX, BitFinex, CoinEx and BitGrail have all been hacked, with billions of dollars of coins stolen. The holy grail of exchanges is to create a decentralised exchange (DEX) with a fast order matching engine, deep liquidity and zero custodian risk. Kyber, Airswap, 0X are some of the current projects in this space, but with so far low adoption. Currently, decentralized exchanges (DEX) are inefficient and difficult to operate for the average user. As a result, they generally have reduced liquidity. Cryptocurrency is evolving at a rapid rate and we must ensure that blockchain technology is able to keep up. The Dexathon: Binance are one of the world's leading exchanges. They grew from 0 to 400 employees in 6 months and have been the world's fastest-growing revenue generating company. As described in their original whitepaper, Binance fully intend to launch a decentralised exchange, (they currently operate a centralised exchange). To help encourage the open-source blockchain community, Binance are hosting a worldwide hackathon style event to push the envelope in blockchain technology known as the "Binance Dexathon". Their original medium post can be found here: Binance announces Dexathon.  Binance will offer a total prize pool equivalent of $1,000,000 USD, paid in BNB, and university teams are encouraged with the offer of a special grant of $10,000 per qualified team — even if you don’t win. The Melbourne Hackathon: CanYa and Bountysource, in collaboration with TypeHuman, will host a hackathon to foster innovation and encourage teams to ultimately submit an application to the Binance Dexathon, which closes on 30 June 2018. The Melbourne Hackathon will guide teams through a weekend of blockchain principles and protocols, and work with them to theorise, research and pitch a possible solution for a DEX. The organisers will also use their networks to guide the winning teams in the application process and introduce them to Binance.  The Goal: The objective of this event is to solicit prototypes of a decentralized exchange with a focus on speed and capacity, or more precisely, a DEX blockchain that is low-latency and high-throughput. Deliverables: - A 5 minute presentation on the DEX blockchain solution, which may include a working prototype, psuedo code, high-level technical overviews, media or a landing page.  Winning teams (1st, 2nd, 3rd) will be chosen with the following principles: - Idea and Technical Implementation - Presentation Quality Prizes First Prize: 10,000 CAN, Personal introduction to Binance Team, Help with Application Submission Second Prize: 5,000 CAN, Help with Application Submission Third Prize: 1000 CAN, Help with Application Submission Event Details: Time: 6pm Friday 4th May to 6pm Sunday 6th May Location: Young Husband, Kensington Food and Drinks: Provided The format for the weekend will be: Friday: Opening, intros and keynotes Saturday: Hack! Sunday: Presentations and awards

Got some writing to do? Hate sitting down to it all alone?  Join my Writing Hackathon for two hours on Thursday 19 April. Just bring along your writing project, and work in quiet companionship. There is no charge. This is not a workshop. It is an opportunity set aside time to get your writing work done alongside other quiet and purposeful writers. There's how. We have four 25-minute writing sprints with five minutes debrief between. We are focused and task orientated. I hope you can make it. There’s enough room for six of us. First in, first served. Please be on time.

We are very excited to invite you to the first ever African Australian Socialpreneurship Hackathon.  This is an intense workshop designed to solve social problems using financially sustainable business strategies. Do you have an idea that you want to turn into a sustainable business? Are there social problems that you wouldd like to tackle with your team? Are you part of a youth organisation that wants to be more strategic and financially sustainable?  Whatever category you find yourself in, if you are 18-30 years old and you are interested in working with a team to solve social problems to create a financially sustainable enterprise register we'll allocate you to a suitable team.  Themes will be set up shortly so you can choose which problems you want to tackle. Over one weekend, you'll be taught how to turn ideas and social challenges into a financially sustainable model by a leading business strategist with several mentor facilitators guiding you throughout both days.  Each team will also get to pitch their ideas to business experts and serial investors on both days.  The skills you learn here will be the best and quickest way to improve your side hustle, business or orgaisation.  Don't miss this first of its kind opportunity. Do good and make money by registering NOW as seating is strictly limited. Make 2018 count and let this be your year to fly!

The rise of fintech has brought about a variety of incentives for innovation in cross-border dealings. However, many Australian businesses are yet to fully leverage their opportunity to export to the Asia-pacific market via e-commerce channels, as well as effectively engaging with the demographic wave of Asian tourists and migrants travelling to Australia. We believe that businesses have not exploited these opportunities due to a lack of knowledge of the relevant markets and consumers alike. NAB and Alibaba Cloud are proud to present a three-day Hackathon to bring together skilled minds in an attempt to solve these complex problems and deliver both innovative and empowering solutions to our customers via technology. Please check out http://thecrossborder.stoneandchalk.com.au/ for more information.

Got some writing to do? Hate sitting down to it all alone?  Join my Writing Hackathon for two hours on Thursday 19 April. Just bring along your writing project, and work in quiet companionship. There is no charge. This is not a workshop. It is an opportunity set aside time to get your writing work done alongside other quiet and purposeful writers. There's how. We have four 25-minute writing sprints with five minutes debrief between. We are focused and task orientated. I hope you can make it. There’s enough room for six of us. First in, first served. Please be on time.