List of hackathons in Maroochydore, Australia in 2019

Join BOP Industries and Robotics Playground at the River City Labs for a fun-filled, hands-on STEAM and entrepreneurship workshop!

Design Dash: Service Design On 20th November, Skills of the Modern Age and Sqr One are joining forces to bring the Brisbane community three fast-paced, hands-on Design Dash modules covering some of the crucial design and innovation skills of today. Pick and choose the skills you'd like to learn about, or sign up for all three workshops - and make sure you join us for an exciting Design Leadership discussion and a drink in the evening! At its core, service design is about ensuring a service meets the needs and goals of its users. At its best, it has the ability to take a mundane or routine experience and surprise, delight and make the experience truly impactful. Featuring best-practice case studies and hands-on activities, this workshop will guide you through the process of mapping and improving experiences in your organisation. If you're delivering a product, service or solution and you want to know how to eliminate customer pain points, streamline their experience and create moments of surprise and delight, this bootcamp is for you. What you'll learn: ⚡️ The Service Design philosophy. Understand the core principles of service design and learn how it fits into a wider design toolkit. ⚡️ Customer journey mapping and blueprinting. How to identify key turning points in your user journeys and design a great experience through a service design blueprint. ⚡️ Applying service and experience design in your organisation. Explore best practice service design through practical case studies and real-life examples. We can't wait to see you there! This bootcamp runs 11:00am - 12:30pm, and is one of a three-part series also including Design Dash: Rapid Prototyping and Design Dash: Facilitating Innovation. A ticket to any of our Design Dash workshops also comes with a complimentary ticket to our evening event on 20th November, 'Design Leadership: Building Designers of the Future'. Just send an email to amielcortes@sqrone.com.au to get your promo code. The facilitators: Ale Wiecek, Founder and Chief Empathy Officer at Sqr One, is a respected voice in the emerging space of Innovation, Human-Centred Design, Service Design, Wellbeing and the Future of Work. Her international roots and multinational experience in Digital Transformation and User Experience have been a vital part of Ale’s 20 years’ experience working across 3 continents. Bernard Schokman has been helping professionals and groups turn challenges into pragmatic and innovative solutions using Design Thinking for the last 10 years. He's a master at applying Design Thinking to a wide range of gnarly industry problems, innovative user experiences, usability testing scenarios and process redesign and he's done this across multiple verticals. Most recently, he spearheaded the setup of the Innovation Lab in one of Australia’s iconic retail stores and facilitated their first-ever department-wide hackathon; while designing and usability testing their Augmented Reality shopping experience. Nate Sturcke is passionate educator and supporter of the local Perth innovation ecosystem. Over the last 5 years Nate has worked with over 4,000 entrepreneurs through a variety of programs, including the Silicon-Valley based Founder Institute accelerator; Google-backed Startup Weekend; and RAC SeedSpark seed fund. In both 2017 and 2018, Nate was awarded the WA Startup Community award for his role in promoting early stage entrepreneurship throughout the state. Matt Norman is a learning designer and facilitator working to transform education and training, starting in WA. He has over 5 years of experience running workshops with everyone from social impact professionals to at-risk youth, and has worked in advocacy and recruitment for the innovative Teach For Australia program. A graduate of both the Presencing Foundation Program on systems change, and the KAOSPILOT Masterclass in Learning Design, Matt’s passion is creating experiences that bring out the best in people.

Design Dash: Rapid Prototyping On 20th November, Skills of the Modern Age and Sqr One are joining forces to bring the Brisbane community three fast-paced, hands-on Design Dash modules covering some of the crucial design and innovation skills of today. Pick and choose the skills you'd like to learn about, or sign up for all three workshops - and make sure you join us for an exciting Design Leadership discussion and a drink in the evening! Gone are the days when extensive business plans ruled the world of product and service development. Today, the ability to rapidly prototype your ideas and test their core assumptions with your users is critical to the speed, efficiency and ultimate success of your products and services. This workshop will share with you the knowledge, techniques and tools to rapidly prototype your product, service or solution, and to gain maximum learning with minimum investment of time and resources. We'll explore lo-fi and digital based approaches to prototyping that will arm you with the knowledge and tools to become a prototyping master. What you'll learn: ⚡️ Planning for your prototype. Learning how to break down your project into its core assumptions and identify the most important elements to test first. ⚡️ Tools and techniques. The techniques used to establish your prototype, including lo-fi models such as paper prototypes and digital models that utilise leading online tools. ⚡️ Prototyping strategies. Exploring the different approaches that can be used to develop your prototype, including paper and wireframes, Wizard of Oz, Flintstones and more. We can't wait to see you there! This bootcamp runs 9:00am - 10:30am, and is one of a three-part series also including Design Dash: Service Design and Design Dash: Facilitating Innovation. A ticket to any of our Design Dash workshops also comes with a complimentary ticket to our evening event on 20th November, 'Design Leadership: Building Designers of the Future'. Just send an email to amielcortes@sqrone.com.au to get your promo code. The facilitators: Ale Wiecek, Founder and Chief Empathy Officer at Sqr One, is a respected voice in the emerging space of Innovation, Human-Centred Design, Service Design, Wellbeing and the Future of Work. Her international roots and multinational experience in Digital Transformation and User Experience have been a vital part of Ale’s 20 years’ experience working across 3 continents. Bernard Schokman has been helping professionals and groups turn challenges into pragmatic and innovative solutions using Design Thinking for the last 10 years. He's a master at applying Design Thinking to a wide range of gnarly industry problems, innovative user experiences, usability testing scenarios and process redesign and he's done this across multiple verticals. Most recently, he spearheaded the setup of the Innovation Lab in one of Australia’s iconic retail stores and facilitated their first-ever department-wide hackathon; while designing and usability testing their Augmented Reality shopping experience. Nate Sturcke is passionate educator and supporter of the local Perth innovation ecosystem. Over the last 5 years Nate has worked with over 4,000 entrepreneurs through a variety of programs, including the Silicon-Valley based Founder Institute accelerator; Google-backed Startup Weekend; and RAC SeedSpark seed fund. In both 2017 and 2018, Nate was awarded the WA Startup Community award for his role in promoting early stage entrepreneurship throughout the state. Matt Norman is a learning designer and facilitator working to transform education and training, starting in WA. He has over 5 years of experience running workshops with everyone from social impact professionals to at-risk youth, and has worked in advocacy and recruitment for the innovative Teach For Australia program. A graduate of both the Presencing Foundation Program on systems change, and the KAOSPILOT Masterclass in Learning Design, Matt’s passion is creating experiences that bring out the best in people.

Come to this mobile app hackathon, make a mobile app with your friends or colleagues and WIN great prizes.

This hackathon aims to make mvp mobile apps for local startups.

What if your idea couldn't fail? We know we need to innovate, but sometimes it seems risky.  The BOLT Asset Management Hackathon is a fun and safe environment to explore ideas and work together to create solutions to asset management challenges. Dedicate a day to work on asset management challenges in a collaborative environment and share ideas across industries and disciplines. Join your professional colleagues or bring a team for this intensive day of creativity and innovation.  What is the BOLT experience? You'll work in a team of three to five on the challenge you've chosen. We'll start at 9:00 am. This is the time for your team to narrow down the challenge you'll focus on. We'll work in short, intense 'bolts' and we'll keep the coffee coming.  You'll have expert guidance from Dr Monique Beedles, a globally recognised thought leader in asset management. You'll have access to curated tools and resources to help you through the process. By the end of the day your team will have a proposed solution to the challenge you've chosen. You'll have the chance to pitch your idea to your BOLT cohort and to industry guests. Take away a ready to use business case presentation for your chosen stakeholders. Who'll be there? A diverse group of participants from different professional disciplines with an interest in asset management. Anyone with great ideas to contribute to asset management challenges Click here to hear what some of last year's attendees had to say about their BOLT experience. BOLT Brisbane Monday 4th November, 2019 9:00 am to 5:00 pm Brisbane Powerhouse 119 Lamington St Newfarm Qld 4005 Ticket includes breakfast, lunch, morning and afternoon teas. Please advise any special dietary requirements.  Parking is available. Pricing is inclusive of GST and booking fees Standard tickets: $275 How to get there: CITYCAT: The New Farm Park CityCat jetty is a short 300m walk from Brisbane Powerhouse. BUS SERVICE: The 195 and 196 bus services stop at the end of Brunswick Street at Oxlade Drive, on the East side of New Farm Park. The 199 bus stops at Merthyr Road and Hawthorne Street. Both stops are a short walk away from Brisbane Powerhouse. For more information on public transit schedules and stop locations visit translink.com.au PARKING: The Brisbane Powerhouse carpark has over 100 free car parks. During busy times we open a one way link road that connects to New Farm Park carpark that provides more than 200 additional car spaces. If you have a dinner or show reservation, we encourage you to arrive early to give yourself enough time to find a park (and our tip is to head to New Farm Park first as these parks don’t fill as quickly). Secure bicycle racks are available outside of the Stores and Turbine buildings. TAXI: The taxi collect and drop off area is in the car park beside the Stores Building. Free taxi phones are located in the foyer opposite the box office

It’s that time of year again - the Tanda Hackathon is back for 2019!

Scientists, artists, programmers, storytellers, students, makers, and space enthusiasts in Brisbane and throughout Queensland! Rodney Persky and Olena Tymchenko invite you to participate in the 2019 NASA Space Apps Challenge, Brisbane. At this 48-hour global weekend hackathon, you'll be challenged to address challenges in Earth science and space exploration. Two winning teams from each location will be nominated for global judging. Your team will create a short video project demo and present it to a jury of NASA experts for the chance to win a trip to NASA's Kennedy Space Center for a rocket launch! Enhance your hackathon experience with expert advice from the tips page!

NASA's Space Apps Challenge is an international hackathon for coders, scientists, engineers, storytellers, technologists, and students.

Join the whole intelliHR team for a 2-day intelli hackathon event on one of our core platform features - GOALS! intelliHR is all about empowering leaders and their teams with their performance goals, so we want you to help us hack and design a completely new goals feature. Whether you're a customer, a part of our community or just interested in business technology, we need your help! No design or software coding experience required, just bring your amazing ideas. There are no limits on your creativity, THINK BIG! Refreshments provided to keep your brain thinking! Watch the video intro here https://youtu.be/jYLBa0ekoZ0 Register today to secure your seat. Spots are limited, unfortunately :)