List of hackathons in Rockdale, Australia in 2018

Techie, engineering and social impact students, social entrepreneurs and startup peeps! Are you passionate about facing the challenges of financial exclusion? Great! Then Vibewire invites you to participate in their Hack for Financial Inclusion #Hack4FI. You'll be challenged to create a sustainable, innovative way to overcome the exclusion of fellow citizens who struggle to generate income, budget and manage their finances, and enjoy a reasonable quality of life. This is your chance to make a real difference to the lives of real people including indigenous Australians, sole parents, the aged, the homeless, victims of domestic violence, the disabled, and the mentally ill.

Hackers in the Sydney Area! QuickBooks and @IntuitDev invite you to participate in the 2-day Small Business Hackathon Sydney. You'll be challenged to come and develop a brand new solution to help small businesses save time or money. Compete for recognition and cash prizes.

Macquarie University students! Are you planning to participate in Health-Hack '18? If so, be sure to sign up for the hackathon Information Session. The theme of the hackathon will be "How can we harness modern technologies to improve the fitness & wellbeing of the Australian population?" Attend the info session and you'll learn more about the challenge, gain insight into how the hackathon works, and meet with other participants before the event.

"Hackathons are not only for programmers or ‘hackers’, they’re an experience which everyone should be going through." - Angela Bee Chan, founder of Hackathons Australia, UTS alumni, and competitor in the 2014 UTS hackathon UTS Programmers' Society and UTS Robotics Society are proud to announce the Code2Learn Stuvac Hackathon, which is sponsored by WiseTech Global, to encourage UTS students in cultivating their interest in Information Technology and Engineering. Design and build a solution within 29 hours for a chance to win cash prizes from a pool of $8,000. You can be an entrepreneur, a software developer, a hardware developer, and/or a UX designer. The solution can range from a web application to an electronic device. Use this opportunity during Stuvac to network with mentors from WiseTech Global, collaborate with fellow UTS students, and build new skills (psst, it'll look really good on your resume). There are two events for the Code2Learn Stuvac Hackathon. 1. Information SessionThursday 19 April 2018From 6:30PM to 9PMBuilding 10, Aerial UTS Function Centre 2. CompetitionSaturday and Sunday 21-22 April 2018From 9AM to 7:30PM the next dayBuilding 11 You will be in a team of 3-6 people, which you can form and finalise at the Information Session that's held on the Thursday before the overnight Competition. There will be food and drinks at the Information Session and at the Competition. The Competition will include caffeinated drinks. A judging panel selected by the Programmers' Society and Robotics Society will judge the Submissions based on criteria that will be provided and communicated at the Information Session. The theme of your solution will also be revealed at the Information Session. Judges will determine an overall winner, second place and third place. 1st Prize: $5,0002nd Prize: $2,0003rd Prize: $1,000 By registering, you accept the 2018 Code2Learn Terms & Conditions. (Amendments to the Eligibility section, where participants of age 17 or older can attend instead of age 18 or older, will be put up and need to be re-signed at the Information Session) Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) Are there ID or minimum age requirements to enter the event? (Revised on Tuesday, April 17) Participants have to be aged 17 years or older who are legal residents of Australia and current students of UTS, including full-time, part-time, international and/or local students enrolled at UTS and are current members of the Programmers’ Society or Robotics Society. You can join as a member of either society through the Activate UTS website. Please bring your UTS Student ID to show us upon event sign-in. If you are 18 or over and are intending to drink alcohol, also bring along ID such as driver's license or passport so security can check your date of birth. What are my transportation/parking options for getting to and from the event? It's best to use public transport to get to UTS Building 10 for the Information Session and UTS Building 11 for the overnight Competition. Please arrange your travel home; it is not advised to drive home after the Competition unless you did not stay overnight and had a good night's sleep. What can I bring to the event? Yourself, your UTS Student ID, your portable devices such as laptop and mobile phone, adapters and chargers. If your team is considering a hardware solution, bring your own platforms such as Arduino and Raspberri Pi. If you're planning to stay overnight, it's advised to bring toiletries and a change of clothes. Details on the location of nearby showers on campus will be added as soon as they're confirmed. Do I have to stay overnight? No, you can go home to sleep in your own bed and return to the Competition the next day. However, it's advised you work with your team on your unavailabilities. How can I contact the organiser with any questions? Send an email to media@progsoc.org with the subject line that starts with 'Code2Learn' or 'Hackathon'.  What's the refund policy? Registration for the 2018 Code2Learn Stuvac Hackathon is free. However, you have to be a current member of either the UTS Programmers' Society or UTS Robotics Society, yearly membership fee for students to either society is $5. The amount of food and drinks at the Code2Learn Stuvac Hackathon will definitely cover your membership fee. You can cancel your registration but please do so as quickly as possible. Having accurate attendance details is crucial for the UTS Programmers' Society and Robotics Society to run high-quality events. Do I have to bring my printed ticket to the event? Bring your UTS Student ID instead. Make sure the name on your UTS Student ID matches with the name you put on your registration form. Can I update my registration information? Yes. It is highly encouraged! Please keep it updated or cancel your registration depending on your situation. Is it ok if the name on my ticket or registration doesn't match the person who attends? Please make it match to ensure the event sign-in goes as smoothly as possible on the day. 29 hours isn't a long timeframe, let's make use of all the hours. What's the problem that we have to solve? What's the theme for our solution? The theme for the hackathon has not been released yet, we will reveal it at the Information Session. Although, keep your eyes out for any clues that we may release closer to the Information Session. Can I attend the information session but not participate in the competition? No, the information session is for competitors who are looking for other competitors and/or a mentor to work with during the competition. Having observers would detract this goal.But you can attend the presentation session on Sunday from 3PM to 7:30PM where the teams present their solutions to the theme that will be officially announced at the information session. Contact us if this is your intention. I'm not a current UTS student. Can I still attend the hackathon? Unfortunately, the Stuvac Hackathon is only open to current UTS students due to the theme of the solution. Check out other hackathons you can possibly attend in NSW by going over to the Hackathons Australia website. Can I still work on the team solution during my commute home/back to the competition building? Yes, participants are allowed to work on the solution during their commute home or back to the building. However, be advised that you may miss the free food and the general atmosphere of the overnight competition if you stay at home. Is it required to have the entire team at the presentation? We'd need to be aware if the entire team is not there beforehand or it might be interpreted as lack of participation by one of the team members. Nevertheless, no presentation = no possibility of winning. Any tips for first-timers? - Learn git/version control if you haven't done it before. - Decide on a tech stack BEFORE the competition. - Remember to use the available mentors at the competition for idea bouncing, design help, etc. They'll be wearing black t-shirts with the orange Code2Learn logo at the front -- it'll be easy to spot them. If one mentor cannot help, they'll call over another mentor that may. - As a team, better to overcommunicate than fear about communicating too much and causing misunderstandings that suck up time. - Cliche, but have fun! You already took a big step in undertaking your first hackathon. Now persevere to the end and reap the results. If we're building a website, can we use Wordpress or Squarespace? Yes! You're allowed to use third-party solutions for the wheel in your contraption. Don’t try to reinvent a wheel or gear in your contraption when you only have 29 hours to build the contraption prototype. UTS ProgSoc is a proud Community Partner of Hackathons Australia

Don’t know what a hackathon is? Why not find out? Do you enjoy thinking creatively? Do you have an idea that you would like to bring to life?  JA Australia is hosting a Hackathon where participants will come up with ideas for possible products they would like to create.  The only limit is up to your imagination! This is open to high school and university students (at any level, any degree). Over two days, you will be guided through the process by our mentors. They will help you and your team come up with an idea and turn it into an actionable plan for potential business. The Agenda: Saturday 24th March, 10am - 5pm - Registration - Breakfast/Networking - Induction to Phase 1:              - Stage 1: Company Culture & Team Establishment              - Stage 2: Product Ideation Process - Phase 1 Execution Sunday 25th March, 10am - 5pm - Breakfast & Reflection - Phase 1 Execution (Stage 1 & 2) - Validation & Pitching - Successful Idea Selection - Team Formation Don’t worry if you’re not a JA Australia member yet, you can sign up here! https://www.jaaustralia.org/about/ We look forward to seeing you there!

The event price includes goodies, food and drinks for the entire weekend. Australia's first Sextech Hackathon is here. In the next few decades, our sex lives will undergo incredible change.  The roles of apps, websites, robots and VR will continue to expand at the intersection of technology and sexuality, presenting possibilities that are infinite, awe-inspiring and unknown.  A diverse range of voices and ideas are urgently needed to find new and innovative ways to use technology to deliver sex education, products and services for sexual health and wellness, assault reporting and dating. As an industry, 'sextech' is already estimated to be worth A$20B and is set to become one of the fastest growing multi-billion dollar industries in the next few years. If you have an idea or want to be involved in an amazing project that can make a difference in people's lives, join us for this ground-breaking hackathon. What Is Sextech? Most simply, sextech is any technology designed with the intention of enhancing human sexuality and human sexual experience. Solutions may cover any of the areas associated with sexual experience from sexual health and wellbeing, to personal safety, choice of sexual experiences, personal dignity in sex, games, entertainment and dating experiences.  Why Should You Care? Innovations in sextech will allow us to experience, express, and understand our sexualities in ways we never thought possible.  The key value of sextech products and services is that they are designed around relationships, bringing new ideas of intimacy, pleasure and desire to the human experience. While there is plenty of potential in this space, it is largely untapped.  We believe that women-identified technologies and thinkers can influence the direction of this market, while also changing the cultural conversation and attitudes toward female sexuality. This event is designed to be open to all, but our ambition is for women's voices to be contributing elements to all projects arising from our event. The Sextech Hackathon. What’s That? A weekend-long hackathon in which all members will collaborate intensively on creating sextech products. Unlike other hackathons that may require some coding expertise, we are open to all skills and experience levels. Gathering together in teams, you will innovate, and depending on the expertise of the team, generate a working prototype, whether this is a technology product, a design or a campaign.  Who Can Participate? We welcome people of all job descriptions, whether you’re a designer, developer, marketer, entrepreneur, project manager, therapist or sexologist. Diverse groups often work incredibly well together to produce the best results.  In particular, we are focused on making space for, and elevating the voices and perspectives of, women-identified people, although we support inclusion of all genders and sexualities. Program Format & Schedule Kicking off on Friday evening March 23 with talks from inspiring mentors. We will form teams according to categories of interests and problem statements. Following the team forming on Friday night, the remainder of the weekend will be spent working together to bring a project to life, and finish on Sunday with a Shark Tank-style pitch to a panel of judges. Schedule: March 23 FRIDAY 6-8pm - Sextech Talks and Team Formation. March 24 SATURDAY 9am - 4pm - Hack day, work as teams, receiving expert mentoring from industry leaders. March 25 SUNDAY 9am - 3pm - Hack day and pitching. Afterparty! Categories to work on at the Sextech hackathon: Health Education Pleasure Consent Relationships Dating International speakers and mentors We have a wonderful panel of industry experts lined up from across the globe, including: Polly Rodriguez, CEO of Unbound who recently raised $2.7 million for her female-first sex positive brand (USA) Victoria Cullen, co-creator of the world's first sex toy design course at RMIT University (Australia) Maeva Botrel, co-founder of the Sextech lab in Paris (France) Mal Harrison, Director of Center For Erotic Intelligence (USA) Aurelie Salvaire, founder of Shiftbalance, think-and-action tank collecting, producing and spreading information on everyday sexism (France) Ross Dawson, a world-leading futurist, keynote speaker and entrepreneur, is the Chairman of the Advanced Human Technologies Group of companies and the Publisher of FutureofSex.net. Prizes 1st place: Return flight to Paris to the SexTechLab and the opportunity to participate in France's Sextech Hackathon (for project owner), full Academy Xi scholarship (worth approximately $4000) or $1750 Academy Xi course credit for each member of the team and $100 Academy Xi Bootcamp credit for each member of the team. Teams also receive 3 months of co-working at Vibewire and access to their mentor and support program.    2nd place: $1000 Academy Xi course credit for each team member and $100 Academy Xi Bootcamp credit for each member of the team   3rd place: $750 Academy Xi course credit per team member and $100 Academy Xi bootcamp credit for each member of the team ($100) For further enquiries or sponsorship, please contact partnerships@futureofsex.org This event could not be possible without the support and dedication of our partners:

How can we come up with a product or service to change behaviours for a cleaner energy future? When we think about how we can move to a clean energy future, maybe the first question that comes to mind is how can we develop technology to enable this? But what gets ignored is the social and behavioural change that also needs to happen for us to realise that clean energy future. If CleanTech isn’t easy, accessible and attractive for people to ACTUALLY USE, then even the most innovative technologies will struggle to have any impact.The change makers having a real impact now are those who realise that we need to innovate for behaviour change. See how Tesla made electric vehicles attractive. Think portable solar panels that you can take camping or on a boat. Think how LEDs have replaced light bulbs in most places, saving an incredible amount of energy. What could be the next step? Your mission if you choose to accept it is to come up with a product idea that could radically change the way people consume or produce energy. This hackathon is a CleanTech women initiative. We invite teams with female leaders to participate. Currently, only 19% of startups are founded by women and only 7% of women lead tech startups which ultimately leads to very few female CEOs. Only 4.6% of Fortune 500 companies have a female CEO. In STEM sectors and particularly CleanTech the female engagement is even lower. The energy transition is on the agenda of every country. The market for CleanTech products is growing and expected to boom in the coming years. Women can’t be left aside of this market. In 10 years we want to see female and male leaders equally represented at the top of major CleanTech organisations. Cleantech women is an initiative to support female entrepreneurs on their journey.  We are organising events to create a community and inspire women to take the next step in their career. We’re building a network of mentors to provide our fellow female founders with strong supporters and advice. Details: 15 March (evening) Info Night Introduction to the problem statements and speed networking + Workshop with Stuart Auld, COO at EnergyLink. missed the info night? No problem, you can find the video on our Facebook page and we'll give you all the details when you register. 23 March (evening) Hackathon Starts + Design Thinking and Designing for Behaviour Change workshop with Catherine Raffaele (Learning Director at EnergyLab) 24 March (all day) Hackathon with access to mentors, judging and prizes   You won’t be alone to solve this challenge, we’ll help you find a team of 2 to 4 people and we will be providing access to mentors. To understand all the nuts and bolts of energy behaviour, Stuart Auld, COO at EnergyLink will run a workshop on behavioural data they’ve collected on energy usage.Catherine Raffaele, Learning Director at EnergyLab will also run a workshop on Behaviour Change.   All meals, snacks and drinks are provided during the hackathon. Light snacks and drinks will be provided during the info night and the pitches.   You will also get access to: Resources on behaviour change and design thinking API from our partners EnergyLink and Wattwatchers   Rules The idea you’re going to present can’t be an existing business You cannot have won another hackathon with the same business idea You cannot have been part of an accelerator program with the same business idea All the teams must have at least one female leader No discrimination of any kind will be accepted. Any participant not respecting this rule will be excluded immediately from the hackathon. The Challenges You can choose to tackle one of these 4 challenges or work on your own idea during the Hackathon Problem A: How might we support the behaviour change needed to help large commercial buildings increase their environmental (NABERS/Green Star) ratings?  You might consider:  What tools and services could you develop to help? How you might incentivise stakeholders and get traction? What resources you can use, e.g. electricity data from existing main meters and installed sub-meters? Problem B: We are gaining more and more data on electricity usage behaviour, but most of the data still comes in a 30-minute interval data. How can we make this data useful for consumers and businesses? You might consider: How can we make a compelling value proposition for better metering equipment? How can this data be used to encourage consumers and businesses to consume less energy (by upgrading some of their appliances for example) and/or shift their demand to reduce pressure on the grid (by running their washing machine or charging their EV at night for example)? How can we best leverage the 30-minute data to offer a product or a service? Problem C: How might we support the behaviour change needed to engage consumers in energy? You might consider: What sort of UX or interfaces are needed for different consumer segments, families, singles, low socio-economic, high socio-economic etc? What technologies are required to deliver this? Where would you start such an interaction (e.g. Solar Schools are starting with schools in QLD via the curriculum)? Problem D: In Australia, energy efficiency is potentially the next largest supply of energy after coal. How do we make energy efficiency 'consumerised'?  You might consider: How do we interface energy efficiency with house construction and regulatory settings How do we communicate on energy efficiency so the 'person in the street' can understand what we are talking about? What technical channels would make this work? Mentors You will have access to amazing mentors to assist you during the competition the list includes: Anne Foster, Senior Vice President, Quinbrook Infrastructure Alice Lang, Scenario planning and Strategy, AGL Energy Emma Wartski-Coonan, Group Counsel - New Energy, Legal, AGL Michele Santosa, Senior UX Designer, Cozero  and more to be announced! Judges Justine Jarvinen, Chair, Wattwatchers and Chief Operating Officer, UNSW Energy Institute  Justine Jarvinen is the Chief Operating Officer of the UNSW Energy Institute. Justine has more than 23 years of experience spanning the energy value chain in technical, commercial, strategic, advisory and board roles. She has been employed by ExxonMobil, Shell and AGL Energy, and was a leading energy equity analyst at JBWere. Justine has a track record of ‘future proofing’ the energy sector and was instrumental in establishing AGL’s New Energy division. In addition to being Chair of Wattwatchers, she is a director of ASX-listed Milton Corporation, and social enterprise Pollinate Energy. Joel Courtney, Chief Technology Officer, EnergyLink As Chief Technology Officer Joel is responsible for the delivery of EnergyLink - a cloud-based platform increasing energy productivity with powerful analytics, benchmarking, and performance tools.Before joining EnergyLink Joel was a founding member of Ausgrid's Smart Grid engineering team, helping deliver their Smart Grid programme. In his spare time, he enjoys time on the bike, on the slopes and capturing the world around through photography. Piers Grove, Managing Director, EnergyLab Piers is the co-founder and Managing Director of EnergyLab and sits on the investment committee of the Early Stage Clean Energy Fund. He serves as a founding director of Climate KIC Australia and as a Governor of WWF-Australia. Katie Vines, Director of Sustainable and Resilient Cities, Climate-KIC Australia Katie Vines is Director of Sustainable and Resilient Cities at Climate-KIC Australia.  She brings expertise and experience working with mega-cities around the world to create innovative, end-user led transformation towards sustainable and resilient Australian cities and regions. She previously worked as the Head of Adaptation Research at C40 Cities climate leadership group.  In this role she led a program of research and facilitated a global network of city staff that drove meaningful, measurable and sustainable climate change adaptation. Katie has worked in State and Federal government in Australia where she collaborated with communities, local governments, researchers and public and private organisations on building adaptive capacity. Prizes $500 cash prize for the winning team and $200 for the runner-ups Free hotdesk at EnergyLab and mentorship to get your idea to the next stage Possibility of collaboration with our sponsor’s teams Guaranteed access to the CleanTech Women Fellowship for female founders in the winning team Our sponsors The CleanTech Hackathon cannot happen without the generous support of our sponsors. A big thank you to Wattwatchers and EnergyLink for sponsoring the event and providing participants with access to their API and datasets. Volunteers needed If you don't want to participate, but still want to be involved, we'd love some people to help out on the day. We'll need volunteers for the 15/03, 23/03 and 24/03. Please email Sarah at sarah@energylab.org.au if you're interested.

Think you've got the solution to reducing congestion in Sydney? App Developers, Designers and University students - Transport for NSW invites you to register for CongestionHack 2018! Join us on the weekend of 23 - 25 March 2018 to develop your solution. Winning teams will be eligible for prize money!

Hackers and transport techies -- students and professionals -- in New South Wales! You're invited to participate in Transport for NSW's CongestionHack. Enter with a team of between 3 to 6 members and compete for great cash prizes. You'll be challenged to design and prototype an innovative solution to one of following four transport challenges: 1. Real Cost of Driving vs Other Modes of Transport: A tool that allows users to compare the total cost of driving with other modes of travel. 2. Road Less Travelled: A solution that encourages alternate, less congested routing. 3. Saturday Snarl Buster: Discover non-congested geography of leisure in Sydney. 4. Truckie's Angel: Tool to reduce impact from truck breakdowns, crashes and impact from tunnels/bridges.

You're invited to help us craft a vision for cancer innovation in Australia. Cancer is the number one killer in Australia with over 47,000 deaths last year alone and an estimated 1 in 3 Australians will be diagnosed with some form of cancer before the age of 75. In Australia, we invest millions in cancer research all aiming to find new treatments and early detection mechanisms. But what about how someone experiences the journey from pre-diagnosis to post treatment? How about their family, friends or co-workers? What about clinicians and nurses? What are the big challenges not being addressed and how can we find new ways to innovate? What role can we play as designers, developers, advocates, networkers, investors? We invite you to spend some time with us to think about these questions and more to help craft a vision for how we can accelerate meaningful change that impacts millions of lives. We don’t know what the exact approach should be, or what the mission will be. But we see an exciting opportunity to bring together a diverse group of passionate and dedicated individuals who can help shape an Australian cancer innovation initiative. Here is what we have planned for the opening "Discovery" session: 2.30pm  Why we're here. Who's in the room and why each person has decided to take part 2.45pm  The cancer experience map (from different perspectives - patient, clinician, family, carer, co-worker) 3.30pm  How might we? Question generation activity. Where are the gaps? Who is operating in this space already. 4.15pm Prioritise questions. Where should we focus our efforts? 5.10pm Final thoughts and next steps 5.30pm End Who has inspired us? We are hugely inspired by the Cancer Innovation Challenge in Scotland - £1M project funded by the Scottish Funding Council (SFC) to encourage Innovation Centres in Scotland to work in partnership to help Scotland become a world leading carer for people with cancer through open innovation funding calls for data science solutions. We are also inspired by the Australian disability tech accelerator Remarkable - a 16-week program for early stage startups looking to build sustainable enterprises that have a big social impact. As well as it's accelerator program, Remarkables runs annual design-athons to help stimulate new ideas. The many great hackathons running around Australia in the last few years - Techfugees, Chronic Pain Hackathon, Hack for Homelessness.  For further information contact Margaret or Michael as per the information below.