List of hackathons in Darlinghurst, Australia in 2017

Hackers, hipsters, hustlers, and generalists in New South Wales! The Smith Family and Pfizer Australia invite you to participate in The Smith Family Hackathon in West Ryde, NSW. You'll be challenged to showcase your creativity and technical skills to design and prototype solutions that help The Smith Family work more effectively with corporate partners and improve their fundraising activities.

Developers, designers, city planners in and around Sydney! Schneider Electric invites you to sign up to participate in the Smart Cities Hackathon in Sydney. You'll get to apply your skills and creativity to help make our cities smarter and better places to live. You'll be challenged to design and prototype solutions that make more efficient infrastructure ecosystems for energy & electricity, transportation, accessibility, health services, food, and water, etc.

Developers, designers, city planners in and around Sydney! Schneider Electric invites you to sign up to participate in the Smart Cities Hackathon in Sydney. You'll get to apply your skills and creativity to help make our cities smarter and better places to live. You'll be challenged to design and prototype solutions that make more efficient infrastructure ecosystems for energy & electricity, transportation, accessibility, health services, food and water, etc. Come to this Info night to learn everything you need to know for the upcoming hackathon.

Coders, designers and entrepreneurs in Sydney, Australia! AngelHack invites you to sign up to participate in the AngelHack Global Hackathon Series: Sydney. Compete on your own, or collaborate as a member of a team to come up with an idea and turn it into a functioning prototype. You're not limited! You could build an app that delivers positive value to your community, a web site satisfying an unmet financial need, a virtual reality game, or whatever your imagination can conceive.

Are you interested in startups, growth hacking, marketing, fintech, or data? If you're in the Sydney area, then why don't you plan to sign up to participate in the H2 Growth-Hackathon at Haymarket HQ? Over a long weekend -- from Friday evening, through Saturday and Sunday, you'll collaborate with like-minded professionals to hack for a real-life startup. The event finishes with project presentations and the announcement of prize winners.

Come see the screening of Seed Movie with other hackathon enthusiasts in Sydney.  Trailer: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B06Y19FVK6/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_ep_dp_bfQ5yb8M6P4ZS Run time: 1 hour 19 minutes Synopsis: Seed follows three startups’ from around the world as they descend on San Francisco for AngelHack’s Silicon Valley Week. Ethan, Devin, and Pulkit are high school kids from Palo Alto who think they’ve got a new breakthrough technology, and Shaher drives an Uber in New York to fund his company back home in Palestine, where his partner Ahmed keeps the coding going while supporting his family. Bettirose and team Report Taka traveled all the way from Nairobi, Kenya with an app they hope can save lives back home. Dreams will become uncertain and partnerships will be tested. Q and A Panel with last year's AngelHack winning team (Lustr) who also got to experience the journey with the teams in the movie afterwards.  Gold coin donation on entry.  NO food and drink will be provided. Burgers and drink available on sale via Eventbrite only. Drinks available for purchase on the evening. Profit directly goes to maintenance and running of HackAUS community.  Venue generously provided by Aeona.  Partnered with AngelHack. This event is brought to you by Hackathons Australia. Website: www.hackathonsaustralia.com Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/hackathonsaustralia/ Twitter: @hackAUS #hackAUS Subscribe to our monthly newsletter for news and upcoming hackathons.

B&T 30 Under 30 Awards 2017 Date: 27th April 2017 Time: 6:30pm – 11pm  Celebrating and recognising our industry’s next generation Presented by principal sponsor NewsMediaWorks, the 30 Under 30 Awards are widely regarded as the leading showcase for the brightest young talent working across marketing communications. With a number of newly introduced broad industry categories, three outstanding individuals will be recognized for their achievements in each of the 10 categories, as well as a Grand Prix Award for the most influential individual overall. Categories Creative Entrepreneur Journalist/Producer Marketing Media Planner/Buyer             PR Project Manager Sales/Account Manager Strategy Tech Towards 2030 Forum Date: 27th April 2017 Time: 8.45am – 4.45pm  The inaugural Towards 2030 Forum, presented by News Corp Australia (TBC), is a natural extension to B&T’s 30 Under 30 Awards. Attendees have the chance to take part in speed mentoring with the top 8 senior leaders from across the marketing, media and advertising industry; as well as participate in a cross-agency, cross-business hackathon, guided by 16 top experts from the industry, with the aim of driving tomorrow’s talent forward in thinking what an ideal agency should look like in 2030. Attendees will benefit from the rich pool of ideas on how agencies and media companies can respond to increasing disruption to take back to their respective agencies and companies. Proposed Agenda 8-8.45am: Arrivals and registration – ivy Ballroom 8.45-8.50am: Welcome remarks 8.50-9.10am: Keynote address 9.15-12.10pm: Speed mentoring - 8 mentors, 20 min each 12.10-12.55pm: Lunch 12.55-4.45pm: Collaborative brainstorming - Create your ideal agency of the future - 8 groups of 20 attendees each, each group lead by 2 table captains

Girl Geek Sydney and Hackathons Australia are teaming up for a joint meetup at Fishburners from 6:30pm on Tuesday 28th March, 2017.  We'll be hearing from Liz Kaelin, CEO of Caitre'd (Formerly YouChews) who has previously appeared on Shark Tank on her transformation from hackathon idea to Australian startup. We also have Amanda Caunt, the brains behind Remarkable's Designathon focused on building solutions identified by peple with disabilities, therapists and caregivers.  Azadeh Khojandi, Microsoft tech evangelist who attended Girl Geek Sydney's #SheHacks Hackathon; and Manuel Betancurt, IoT Specialist who attended Remarkable's Enabled by Design-athon will also be pitching and sharing their learnings at the event.  Thank you to Fishburners for providing our venue, food and drinks.  Agenda 6:30pm - Welcome and networking games 6:45pm - Hackathon to Startup, Liz Kaelin 7:05pm - Using design thinking to create accessible, usable and desirable technologies, Amanda Caunt 7:35pm - Project Pitches 7:50pm - Noticeboard (anyone who is looking for a job, job offers, hackathons coming up, etc) 8:00pm - Networking  Food and drink will be generously provided by Fishburners.  Speakers Liz Kaelin is a dietitian, nutritionist and foodie-turned-founder of leading Australian food tech startup Caitre'd, a catering concierge service. Recently featured on last season's  Shark Tank, she is a SydStart top 10 finalist, a muru-D class#2 alumni, a portfolio CEO of Heads over Heels, a Telstra Women in Business spokesperson, was recently named one of Australia’s Top 50 Female Entrepreneurs two years running and was the only startup founder recipient of last year’s prestigious Marketing Academy Scholarship, Sydney cohort. Amanda Caunt is a passionate hackathon organiser, an events and communications specialist who has worked across both corporate and not for profit sectors. Her design thinking methodology in the events spectrum has given her the upper hand when coordinating Remarkable's programs. Amanda is also well known for drinking those healthy green juices. For any enquiries about the event contact Angela (hackathonsaustralia@gmail.com) or Maria (girlgeeksydney@gmail.com) This event brought to you by  

Hackers in and around Sydney! Want to help promote and innovate Women's football in Australia? NodeGirlsAustralia invite you to sign up to participate in the Female Football Week Hackathon. You'll be challenged to create and develop technology solutions that can help improve the experience for women as they participate in football, and also increase fan engagement with the Westfield W-League.

Virtual reality enthusiasts! You're invited to sign up to participate in the Sydney VR Hackathon March 2017. You'll be challenged conceive a winning VR/AR project and then, in collaboration with your team mates, you'll be expected to bring it to reality with a demonstrable prototype. You'll be able to use leading VR technology such as the Oculus Rift/Touch and HTC Vive. The team with the most promising project will win a AORUS X7 DT gaming laptop.