List of hackathons in Frankston, Australia in 2017

Hackers in and around Melbourne and the Peninsula! Are you planning to participate in the Peninsula Hack? The Peninsula's first hackathon is designed to promote technology solutions that will help solve unemployment on the Mornington Peninsula. If you will be a participant at the hackathon, then you should attend the FMP Business Breakfast to learn about future trends in entrepreneurship and the workforce.

As a founder, what's your next move? How do you weigh up your options? Is there even life after winding up your first startup? It's a seminal moment in the career of every entrepreneur and a decision point that is too often equated to failure or the end of said entrepreneurial career. It's neither failure nor "the end" but it is scary. For this Startup Leadership event, we've convened a panel of entrepreneurs who have successfully navigated this milestone, to share their insights. Building a startup takes commitment. Commitment to your vision. Commitment to the problem you're solving. Commitment to yourself, your family and friends as well as your team. Persisting every day with the scepticism and the seemingly endless rejections. Experimenting and iterating, to gain some kind of traction in what you offer and your vision. Day after day battling the doubters. Sometimes you wonder if you're deluded or if it's like Steve Jobs' "Reality Distortion Field"? How do you even know as a Founder when you're at that crucial fork in the road? Where one path is persistence and more commitment toward a diminishing chance of success. The other path is closing down your current startup and moving on to something else. When you're at that fork, how can choose the better path confidently?  Join us for Q&A with our panel of experienced founders: Michelle Mannering Coming from both a Science and Arts background at the University of Melbourne, Michelle has spent the past two years in Melbourne’s entrepreneurial landscape. Running a multitude of events around innovation, technology, science, the arts, and entrepreneurship gave her great insights into the professional culture of Melbourne. Not only has she co-founded a company, Michelle is heavily involved in the startup community from running hackathons to MCing, speaking, and facilitating a range of events. She’s currently working with Melbourne-based company BajaBoard. Marie Ng Marie has founded and led 3 internet startups, and a mobile app development agency in NYC. With over 12 years of experience in product management and advertising in New York, London and Melbourne, Marie now leads the growth and innovation teams in Bupa, Australia. Nathan Gunn Nathan loves being an entrepreneur and if you're anything like him, you are also excited, from the time you wake up, about working on your idea/ business. What gets him really excited is programming and what it enables us to do. In particular taking a process that is long, laborious, or convoluted and complicated and simplifying it down. Using programming to make our lives simpler and easier. Work smart, not hard is one of his key mottos. Right now he’s venturing into the HR world, bringing a little disruption to an area that for years has been stuck in a neglected technological backwater. It's time we made things easier for not only employers but also employees. Agenda 6:00 Networking 6:30 Welcome 6:40 Panel Discussion + Q & A 7:20 Overview of the Startup Leadership Program (going in MEL since 2012) 7:30 Networking with drinks and canapés & Closing Startup Leadership Startup Leadership is a selective, General Management program for founders who have achieved a degree of traction and validation of a service or product and are now looking to make the next step as a business leader and to scale their business. Running globally since 2007 and in Australia since 2012, more than 80 founders have been through the Melbourne program so far. We are currently taking applications here for the next cohort and we will provide an overview of the program on the night straight after the panel.

If, like me, you are frustrated that women receive less than a third of the Australian honours, join me in doing something about it. June is ‘Honour a Woman’ month to encourage us all to nominate more women for Australian honours. Nominations are also open for the Victorian Women's Honour role. So if you want to see more women honoured then come to this informal working group - we’ll hear about how to nominate women for honours, brainstorm ideas for who to nominate and then set up some working groups to make it happen!  Bookings free; there may be a cover charge to this event to cover costs.

Want to cut your carbon footprint and help the environment but don’t know where to start?  Want to feel empowered to make a difference? We break down the big issues around climate change and carbon emissions into easily digestible, bite-sized chunks and guide you to find the solutions that work for you. Carbon Footprint Workshop: 10.30 am to 1 pm on Saturday, 29 July You’ll get a clear overview of what causes carbon emissions and climate change, the environmental impact and social cost, as well as insights into how individuals, governments and business are working to fix the problem (or not). You’ll learn about practical eco-projects and local volunteering options. By the end of the day you’ll have created your own personal, practical plan to measure and reduce your individual carbon footprint.  We’ve even teamed up with cool places like Stanford Uni so you can see how your carbon footprint measures up against other people around the world. Carbon Footprint Hackathon: 10.30 am to 1 pm on Saturday, 5 August You get to think laterally and come up with ideas to tackle climate change and carbon emissions. It’s a no-holds-barred innovation challenge with a human-centred design thinking approach - you’ll work in teams to come up with creative ideas that you pitch to a panel of innovators ... the best one wins a prize! Up to the minute, live case studies of the creative ways people around the world are tackling climate change will help get your creative juices flowing. Together, the Workshop and Hackathon make up the Carbon Footprint Think Lab. They are designed to be taken together but you can sign up for just one session if you want. Who is it for? You don't need any background in science or the environment - this event is designed for anyone who would like to understand more and do their bit to help, and for everyone to learn together. Come on your own or bring your own team. Who is running it? Ailsa Lamont from Pomegranate Global.  With 25 years of experience working in more than 60 countries around the world in capacity building and economic development, and as a senior executive at global universities responsible for international education and social innovation, Ailsa combines her extensive knowledge and experience with her passion for environmental action and empowering individuals to make social change.  What you get out of it Workshop Enough knowledge to empower you to take action to help the environment Create your individual carbon footprint reduction plan Hackathon Practise your creative problem-solving skills by working on the biggest challenge of our age Work in a team, and prepare and deliver a pitch (all great skills that employers love by the way, so it’s especially useful for students who also get a 20% discount!) Think Lab (Workshop + Hackathon) All the above, plus a great chance to meet other curious, interested and fabulous people who want to make a positive difference. All Think Lab participants will get an information kit with links to explanatory videos, articles and great research so you can take a deeper dive into the topic in your own time. What to bring Catering is not included but the venue is located right next door to the Cornershop Cafe and there are lots of other great cafes nearby. What to wear Whatever you want, casual is fine.  FAQs  What are my transport/parking options for getting to and from the event? The community classroom is easily accessible by public transport - Yarraville train station is just a 2-minute walk away. It is located at 9 Ballarat Street, Yarraville directly opposite the Sun Theatre and next door to the Cornershop Cafe. Parking Street parking is available with parking tickets.  How can I contact the organiser with any questions? You can email ailsa@pomegranateglobal.com.au or make contact via the Pomegranate Global Facebook page or Twitter @pomegranglobal or via www.pomegranateglobal.com.au What's the refund policy? Refunds can be applied for up to 7 days before the event. Is my registration fee or ticket transferrable? You may transfer your ticket to another person but please let us know in advance.  Is it ok if the name on my ticket or registration doesn't match the person who attends? Yes, it is okay to pass on your ticket to a friend.  

Start-ups, innovators, ideas people in and around Melbourne! The Melbourne Innovation Centre invites you to participate in the CAIxMIC Innovation Hackathon. This event allows you to present your technology invention or innovation to be analyzed in real-time using M.CAM’s industry technology analysis techniques.

To reach the event space, please use entrance on Parker Street alongside the venue. Artificial intelligence is one of the most untapped areas of expertise among Australian entrepreneurs; while 30% of Australia’s startup supporters focus on the Artificial Intelligence industry, less than 7% of today’s founders are developing ideas in the AI space. Additionally, growing availability of data means there are constantly more opportunities for innovation in how computers respond to data and produce solutions. This month, we will hear from 4 amazing startups within this industry, pitching for $150,000 worth of prizes which includes: Above All Human: 2 x complimentary conference tickets Adventure Capital: 30mins x consultation with the team Amazon Web Services: $5,000 credit to winner and $1,000 credit to each finalist BlueMix: $120,000 credit on IBM BlueMix infrastructure/platform to winner and $12,000 credit to each finalist Coghlan Duffy & Co: 1 hour x free legal advice  Collective Campus: 2 x full time hot desking for 1 month Deskworx: 2 x 2 weeks co-working desk space Digital Affair: 1 x hour consultation on branding, digital and marketing General Assembly: $500 credit for classes & workshops with a 6 month validity Genius Tech Group: 2 hours x product mapping session with the team Inspire9: 2 x full time subscriptions for 1 month Northraine: 10 hours of training and consultation One Ledger: 3-5 x hours consultation on cash flow, budgeting and Xero  Square Peg Capital: 30mins x consultation with the team Prime Accounting: 4hours x consultation for winner and 2hours x consultation for finalists Sportsbet: 1 x hour consultation with data scientist or developer Spotfires: 1/2 day x branding workshop Weploy: 7.5 hour credit staffing assistance  York Butter Factory: 2 x weeks full time subscription  It's still not too late to submit your pitch to us! If you've got what it takes to shake up the Machine Learning/AI space, please submit your pitch deck to us via this form. Photos and video may be taken at the event and may be used for promotional purposes. Your attendance at this event is considered as implied consent for the use of these photographs for these purposes. Pitch Night Judges Salil Ahuja Watson Platform Adoption Leader, Program Director, IBM Watson Salil Ahuja is a subject matter expert on machine learning, cognitive and cloud technologies. He is on a global assignment from IBM US and responsible for adoption and usage of the Watson cloud services in the Australia and New Zealand region. Over the last year, he has been instrumental in several enterprises A.I. transformation journeys and startup & developer community adoption. He is passionate about emerging technologies and building innovative products that transform and create new markets. He was a critical contributor to the successful acquisition of Webify Solutions by IBM in 2006. He is a published author and an active inventor. Elaine van Bergen Technical Evangelist, Microsoft Australia Elaine works with ISV’s and start-ups to enable them to use emerging parts of the Microsoft platform. That includes a wide range of activities from presenting at conferences and events to help drive broad awareness of technical topis , white boarding technical architecture , assisting at hackathons and hands on coding to help overcome difficult technical problems, often all in the same week. She is passionate about grabbing new technology and utilising it to help solve complex business problems in efficient ways. Much of her time at the moment is spent on bots , cognitive services and serverless computing. Prior to joining Microsoft she earned her battle scars working in the IT consulting industry across a range of large and small organisations. Keran McKenzie Futurist in Residence, MYOB Keran has a dynamic background in the technology and business space, with time spent not just cutting code and leading teams but also startup, growing businesses, marketing, advertising and education. This gives Keran a unique ability to take not just a business on a journey of transformation but also the clients, engineers and sales teams. Keran loves when technology and AI gets out of the way and enables true delight for the user. Much of Keran's career has been in the transformation, starting in the mid 90's helping Otago University transition to this new online space and recently driving transformation in Yellow Pages NZ and MYOB Australia from traditional paper/desktop-bound businesses to true digital and cloud providers. Keran’s always been a tinkerer, someone who constantly looks for ways to change things up and do things differently. He loves opening peoples eyes to the power of technology and tools like AI & Machine Learning and his role at MYOB sees him enjoying the best of an enterprise company while spending many of his days immersed in startups, small businesses and future technology. With advisory experience across business efficiency, accounting, connected systems and technology in the workplace Keran shares success stories of technology, tools & processes that transform businesses.  A dad with a young family Keran is amazed at the speed his kids pick up and embrace technology, and as a car nut he can’t wait to buy his first true fully autonomous car (come on Tesal!). Eloise Watson Investment Manager, Rampersand Eloise started at Rampersand in 2015 and is currently the Investment Manager at the fund. With a Bachelor of Commerce majoring in Actuarial Studies and Finance; she completed a thesis on using unsupervised learning algorithms to better analyse financial market movements. Eloise previously worked at Goldman Sachs within the Investment Banking division in the Industrial sector on deals including equity raisings, buy-side and sell-side M&A and debt restructuring. Kristen Moore Data Scientist, Telstra Kristen is currently focused on using artificial intelligence and natural language processing to improve the customer experience. Before joining Telstra, she worked for an AgTech startup in New York, using Machine Learning to develop crop yield forecasting models.  Kristen holds a Ph.D. in mathematics from the Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics in Germany, and has a few years of Postdoctoral research experience – most recently at Stanford University.  Martin Kemka Founder and Analyst, Northraine Over a ten year analytics career Martin has developed a number of predictive solutions across varied industries. He started off working for financial services providers and credit bureaus until he left to work on tech companies including WeTeachMe and northraine. Northraine is a predictive analytics consultancy and a BCorp that has the purpose to ‘recondition the human condition’. Time is split between consulting and research across fields such as food delivery, fintechs, medical abnormality detection, human rights and mental health. Charles Robinson Associate Advisor, Bell Potter Securities As someone who is naturally optimistic, with passions for people and investing, the start-up community is something of a natural fit. With a background in resources and funds management, I have experience in early stage investing across a range of sectors including Agriculture, 3D Printing, Social Media and Finance. My investment philosophy is centred around the belief that people, not products, are the key to a successful business. Official Event Partner: Official Partners Official Event Staffing Supplier:

Women techies -- designers, programmers, marketers, and business women -- in and around Melbourne, Australia! Think you have the next great idea and want to get a start-up going? You're in luck! Girl Geek Academy invites you to participate in #SheHacks -- the world's largest all-women hackathon! At this event -- for women aged 18 and over -- you'll get to meet new collaborators and build your MVP (minimum viable product) and your startup together in a weekend.

The Melbourne Innovation Centre along with the Centre of Applied Innovation invite you to an evening of innovative technology.  Do you have a good idea? An invention? An innovation? Come along to our Innovation Hackathon to hear from global leaders in innovation analysis whether your idea is viable. As you describe your idea to us, we will use M·CAM’s leading industry technology analyses, and analyse your idea in real time!  We warmly welcome everyone (individuals, groups, small businesses, big businesses) to come along and tell us about your ideas. At whatever stage of the ideation process you are in – we will give you the information and analysis to inform your next step. Our systems allow us to go beyond the limits of human imagination and find the most optimised commercial use for any given idea.  What does this actually mean for you? We can optimise your ideas We can optimise your market position We can tell you who the players around the globe are in your innovation space, so you know who you should be thinking about, be it as competitors, collaborators or partners We can find the lateral opportunities you had never considered Come along for an evening of discussion, innovation and networking! Finger food provided.

ACMI and HTC VIVE are hosting a series of workshops for developers who are interested in VR, AR and MR to meet like-minded people and show off their work. We are excited to host our 2nd workshop as the opening for the Global VR Hackathon - Melbourne! Please join and explore with us all you need to know about VR. You can sign up for the Global VR HAckathon - Melbourne here:  https://www.meetup.com/Melbourne-VR/events/239953446/ Chris Murphy, an Unreal Engine Evangelist, will take us through the basics of creating a VR project without a single line of code. This rapid workshop will cover the basics of creating a VR project, optimisation techniques and common pitfalls for new developers.   Krystal Thompson, Head of Interactive Development from StaplesVR, will be sharing their experiencs on working with businesses to provide VR solutions. Please join us for this wonderful opportunity with the amazing support from Film Victoria!

DESCRIPTION A one day ‘hackathon’ will be held at the Eastern Innovation Business Centre to uncover the possibilities and potential of Business ICT and internet connectivity in South East Melbourne business precincts in partnership with the City of Kingston, City of Frankston, City of Knox, City of Monash and Innovation Melbourne. Hosted at the Eastern Innovation Business Centre on the 6th of June, teams will have the space to ideate and pitch their NOW and their NEXT solutions to a panel of judges and to an audience of potential customers for prizes of cash and services.  WHAT IS A HACKATHON? It’s a bringing together of people for a fast-paced development of innovative solutions to a problem. Coders, technicians, marketers, researchers and hackers form complementary teams and work to look for possible solutions, develop concepts and plans, bringing together with a pitch to specialists and interested parties.  HOW DOES IT WORK Teams register or the organisers will design and create teams from diverse backgrounds to explore and develop ideas. Teams will pitch the ideas with the most market feasible pitch winning a cash prize and an opportunity to further develop their solution with researchers, suppliers and potential clients.  WHO SHOULD PARTICIPATE? If you are involved in information technology or innovative emerging telecommunications you may would do well to register to participate as an individual interested in being part of a solutions team, or as a company team ready to “pitch’ a solution to business case studies on the day. TEAM TICKETS A ConnectHACK Team Pitching Tickets is $200 for 2 or more participants and will involve the whole day participation. You may be an accelerating ICT business owner or IT guru, a Telco or established digital technology company, or an entrepreneur with brave new ideas! INDIVIDUAL PITCHING TICKET ConnectHACK Individual Pitching Ticket is $50. Individuals will need to indicate if they prefer to “pitch” their solutions as a sole participant, or elect to be included in a Pitching Team based on your unique skills and knowledge. If you are an entrepreneur or student with a passion for telecommunications and want to share your ideas and mix with the best of the best in ICT in Melbourne's South East, this is the category for you.  MENTOR TICKET  A ConnectHACK Mentor Ticket is free and available to ICT gurus or geeks who wish to offer an advisory capacity to participating pitch teams or individuals. You will need to provide a brief summary of your area of expertise when registering. BUSINESS INTERNET USER TICKET  ConnectHACK Business Internet User Tickets are free for any business owner or interested person wanting to hear how emerging technologies can be used NOW or NEXT to solve their existing business challenges in internet connectivity or digital efficiencies. Don’t miss out on this opportunity to showcase what you know is possible in emerging technologies and alternative internet connectivity solutions for business and promote what you can offer to attending businesses. You may uncover your next customer or R&D opportunity on the day, or just make some valuable connections with local businesses!