List of hackathons in Liverpool, Australia in 2017

On any given day Macquarie Park is home to over 40,000 students, 60,000 workers, 7,000 visitors and 13,000 residents. Movement both to-and-from and within Macquarie Park presents a major opportunity for the precinct. The Macquarie Incubator will host the MPID Transport Hackathon - to look at solutions which enable mobility and connectivity for Macquarie Park. How can we continue to transform the precinct into a world-leading hub to learn, work and play?

Developers, designers, entrepreneurs, and community members in the Greater Sydney Area! Are you stirred to action by the Iraqi/Syrian refugee crisis? Come and help by participating in the third Techfugees Sydney Hackathon. This event will focus specifically on hacking the challenges faced by newly arrived refugees. Come and collaborate to develop creative tech solutions for themes including: » Employment and under-employment where jobs don't match skills or overseas qualifications » Social integration and community connectedness » Timely access to support » Negotiating life events » Cultural adaptation » Transitioning to different labour market, education system » Financial security » Rental stress and securing long-term accommodation close to work/family

NOTE: This event is for high school students only.  Learn how to build your very own startup in 48 hours! Initiate 48 will connect you with entrepreneurs, mentors, and other like-minded high school students to transform your dream into a reality. You will learn everything from the lean business model canvas to gaining traction to pitching your startup to investors in a hands-on weekend experience. You will get the chance to: Pitch an idea or join a team Collaborate with entrepreneurs, mentors and like-minded students to build upon that idea, to ultimately, Have fun, win prizes and start up your very own business within 48 hours!  Don't miss Australia's largest hackathon for high school students. What your purchase entitles you to: Full access to Initiate 48 for 3 days (Oct 20-22, 2017) Access to startup workshops (Business Model Canvas, Customer Development, & Startup Pitching) The chance to build your own startup The opportunity to pitch to investors and entrepreneurs Access to mentors, who are a combination of investors, entrepreneurs, developers and designers Dinner catered on Friday, Saturday and Sunday night! A lot of fun! Be sure to checkout our frequently asked questions: http://initiate48.com.au/faqs/ This event would not be possible without the generosity from our sponsors: UNSW Business School, The Foundation of Young Australians (FYA), Academy Xi, Coderfactory Academy, Project Academy, Aeona, Haymarket HQ, Data61 (CSIRO), & Marque Lawyers Venue Providor Special shoutouts to Fishburners, our Venue provider for their wonderful generosity. Fishburners is Australia's largest start up space, a non-for-profit focused on helping startups grow. They accomodate over 300 entrepreneurs in it's coworking space and host more than 500 events a year. For more info visit: Fishburners.org To keep up to date with ticket releases, make sure to sign up to our email list: http://eepurl.com/c10j_D] By purchasing a ticket, you agree to our Term's and Conditions listed here: http://generationentrepreneur.com.au/terms-and-conditions/ Need to contact us? Get in touch at: http://generationentrepreneur.com.au/contact

*Changed date as we're working on an exciting secret COLLAB that we'll annouce very soon! IMAGINE AND TELL STORIES BETTER THAN J K ROWLING AND GEORGE R R MARTIN, COMBINED.  We coach the 2030 ENTERPRISE SKILLS: presentation skills + communication + teamwork + creativity. These are monthly 60 minute improvisation public speaking workouts as a part of the Vibewire Jungle Gym.  What is SOAPBOX CLUB? Think Toastmasters meets NIDA – we’ll have a series of on your feet exercises to challenge your presenting, pitching, debating and negotiating skills through business and life. August's session is all about creating and taking people on your journey, looking at things from a different perspective and challenging your imagination with unexpected endings. Keep an open mind, be prepared to give your energy and please wear comfortable shoes.  Workout spots max. of 15 people.  YOUR SOAPBOX COACHES Susan Shi & Neil Gomez have run a series of these workshops at the Commonwealth Bank across the product development and technology teams. They've spoken at TEDx Sydney, won pitches at Google and AWS Hackathons and more importantly, experts in first aid if you get faint during the workshops - you're in very safe hands ;)

A Shearwater Ethical Hacking & Security Innovation Initiative 1-Day Application Security Challenge & Learning Event ▶ Play from Sydney or join remotely from anywhere in Australia. Open to Individual Players & Teams of up to 4 Please note that each player needs a ticket. Teams can purchase up to 4 tickets depending on the number of players they include. Based on an authentic banking application: Shadow Bank, and includes 48 vulnerabilities that cover various vulnerability classes including the OWASP Top Ten and CWE Top 25 Want to get your teams genuinely excited about Web Application Security? Attend this Hackathon and plunge into the dark world of cyber attacks and view applications through the eyes of a rogue adversary. Guided by cheat sheets, Security Innovation's “ninjas” and Shearwater Ethical Hackers, you will become immersed in a “find the vulnerabilities” game where you will quickly learn and apply hacking techniques in a sandbox environment - and all the while, acquire the skills needed to keep data safe. Utilizes proven Capture-the-Flag (CTF) techniques in real-world settings Fully functional banking application allowing users to exploit features they often build and use such as transferring money and applying for a loan Clever pop-up messages, humorous sounds, and "Easter Eggs" throughout the sites make hacking them even more fun Real-time scoring creates friendly competition and motivation ⌛ Strictly limited places available, book now and secure your spot. An Intentionally vulnerable website Includes 48 vulnerabilities that cover various vulnerability classes including the OWASP Top Ten and CWE Top 25 Each challenge has a point value based on complexity, with challenges ranging from common vulnerabilities such as SQL Injection (SQLi) to advanced cryptanalysis and cipher cracking tests Vulnerabilities are represented in a variety of forms just as they appear in commercial applications Ideal for all skills Got a question? Experts are readily available Need to overcome difficult challenges? Grab a cheat sheet or buy a hint using your points Want to maximize scoring? Team up for a broad scale assault Use post-game reports to identify skills gaps  Prizes $400 JB HIFI Gift Card for the winning team or individual. $200 JB HIFI Gift Card for the runner up Morning tea, lunch, and afternoon tea are included for onsite players. Bonus: We will keep the Hackathon platform open until Friday 13 October, 5 pm. That’s an additional 48hrs of access so you can make the most out of this learning experience and complete the challenges at your own pace.

Australian hackers in the IoT community! Are you planning to attend the Everything IoT Global Leadership Summit 2017? If so, then Everything IoT invites you to participate in the Everything IoT HackLABS 2017. This weekend event will take place in Sydney with the Leadership Summit, but you can also participate in a simultaneous HackLAB in Melbourne! How great is that? You'll be challenged to compete against teams of IoT enthusiasts from corporations, government, startups, and academia to come up with new innovative IoT solutions! Everything IoT sponsors have submitted challenges for you to address. If your project is one of the top three, you'll be selected to present it to an expert panel at the Leadership Summit for your chance to be the grand winner.

Stefan Qin, is a 20 year old UNSW student (now deferred) whose passion for bitcoin and trading has led him from UNSW hackathons to joining the Unswot Program and raising $3M+ in just the last 3 months. He now is based in San Francisco and Asia but is on campus at UNSW for one day to share his insights, lessons and predictions on cryptocurrency, tech startups and his personal journey.

Hackers in Sydney! Are you interested in hacking for the climate in the Bonn Hackathon, held in parallel to the COP23 Climate Conference? If so, come to the free ideation workshop in Sydney and learn how you could be one of 100 fully funded hackers heading to Bonn, Germany.

Australia's First University Virtual Reality Hackathon At  Uni VR Hackathon – We want students with various skills from programming, designing businesses to come together and have a fun 2 day coding party to make VR applications for education You will: Form diverse teams with new people you meet, Brainstorm unique ideas, Explore new  tools,technologies and methodologies, Practice time management in getting a demo out in 2 days, Networking Win prizes and swag Have lots of fun! www.univrhack.com Powered by V-KAIWA

Techfugees Australia is proud to announce the next Techfugees Meetup in Sydney hosted by Atlassian. Techfugees was founded in 2015 to bring the tech start-up and NGO communities together with refugees settling into a new life in Australia. Our community of 'Hackers, Hipsters, Hustlers and Humanitarians' has grown beyond the first event to further Hackathons and Meetups in Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane and Adelaide with our national community launching numerous refugee businesses and social ventures. These meetups between Hackathons help us to maintain connections and welcome new friends into the Techfugees community.  For our second Sydney meetup, we are excited to have as our guest of honour Nahji Chu, former refugee, entrepreneur, restauranteur, and the Founder, former CEO and Creative Director of misschu. Following the talk and fireside chat with Nahji, our great friend Dor Akech Achiek from Settlement Services International will give a short briefing on the next Techfugees hackathon site at Fairfield. We will finish the formal part of the evening with a pitch session with refugee-led businesses and ideas. The evening will conclude with have an opportunity to network with start-up mentors and food catered by Parliament on King, a social enterprise which offers authentic food cooked by refugees in Newtown. We are so grateful that the event will be hosted by Atlassian one of Australia’s most innovative companies both in the tech sphere and in the world of corporate philanthropy. Back when Atlassian was a small company, the founders Scott Farquhar and Mike Cannon-Brookes made a commitment to divert 1% of equity, 1% of product, 1% of profit, and 1% of employee time to charitable causes–a corporate philanthropy model pioneered by Salesforce. As the company has grown, they have maintained the "Pledge 1%" model with significant financial resources allocated. Importantly, Atlassians are encouraged to use 5 days per year for the good of the community. AGENDA FOR THE EVENING 5:30 – Registration 6:00 – Welcome from Techfugees and Atlassian 6:10 – Talk/Fireside Chat: Nahji Chu, Entrepreneur 6:30 – Fairfield Briefing: Dor Akech Achiek, Settlement Services International 6:45 – Pitch Session: four businesses or startup ideas, then feedback from the Panel 7:30 – Followed by food with the Techfugee Community networking with mentors Talk and Fireside Chat We are honoured to have as our guest speaker Nahji Chu: entrepreneur, restauranteur, art collector and activist. Born in Luang Prabang, Laos in 1970, Nahji and her family escaped the Pathet Laos Regime in 1975. Inhabiting various Thai refugee camps over a four year period, the Chu family eventually became one of the first Vietnamese / Laotian refugee families to settle in Australia. Nahji Chu is a recognized social commentator on refugee rights, a collector and commissioner of contemporary Australian visual art and a sought after public speaker. But it is her work in hospitality that is the focus of Nahji’s efforts to reshape Australian perceptions of Chinese and Vietnamese culture to be more than just dumplings, spring rolls and Phở. For Nahji hospitality is a platform for discussing what kind of society we want to live in. The spatial design, the service and the menus Nahji creates are an expression of her desire for people to have enjoyable conversations about how to make our cities more open, inclusive and beautiful. Briefing on Fairfield Fairfield will be the site of our next Hackathon in October. It is one of the most multicultural diverse cities in Australia; more than half the residents were born overseas and over 70 per cent speak a language other than English at home and it also has a long tradition of refugee settlement. Our long-term partner from Settlement Services International Dor Akech Achiek will give a brief profile of the refugee arrivals we will be working alongside in October and issues they face. It’s an incredibly diverse mix of people with some interesting differences from our previous Hackathons. Mini Pitch Session Teams will pitch to our experienced Panel of Startup Founders, Investors and Mentors. The purpose of this session is to get quality feedback from our panel which will help move your idea or business forward. IF YOU HAVE AN IDEA YOU WANT TO PITCH FOR A BUSINESS OR SOCIAL VENTURE, PLEASE CONTACT US AT techfugeesaustralia@gmail.com Panel Peter Huynh: Partner at Qualgro, Startmate Investor and Mentor  Jessica Glenn: Chief Technology Officer, skilld_team and meet_tamme Anthony Farah: CEO, Vivant, Director Code Club Australia, Serial Angel Investor Sally-Ann Williams: Engineering Community & Outreach Manager for Google Australia, Director Fishburners Anu Bharadwaj: Co-Host and Head of Product Management at Atlassian, Director Atlassian Foundation Food and networking with the Experienced Mentors and Advisors After the formal event closes, we will have an opportunity for to catch up and network with mentors and advisors who support refugee business and social ventures. NUMBERS ARE LIMITED SO PLEASE SIGN UP TODAY! HOST SUPPORTERS Tripadvisor Catalsyr: Refugee and Migrant Entrepreneurship Settlement Services International Fishburners Awesome Foundation Sydney Refugee Talent / Migrant Talent Thrive Parliament on King Chief Disrupter We can't wait to see you all again on 30 August! Regards Annie, Anne-Marie and Nicole