List of hackathons in Ultimo, Australia in 2016

Are you a university student with a passion for solving some of the pressing problems facing the Government of New South Wales? Come participate in SydneyHack and compete to win a prize of $5000 AND a paid internship at the Data Analytics Centre (DAC)**. SydneyHack is a 48-hour hackathon organised to come up with data-driven solutions to the pedestrian safety problem in New South Wales. Pedestrian fatalities represent about one-fifth of the road toll and as high as a third of all road deaths in metropolitan areas in the state. ** Subject to eligibility for Australian employment

UTS and Meshed are pleased to invite you to an exciting workshop and mini-hackathon featuring the Co-Founder of The Things Network Wienke Giezeman from Amsterdam!  Come and explore new ideas and applications of how to use the free LoRaWAN network. Feel free to bring your LoRaWAN devices or just come along and join in the brainstorming sessions.

Come join the UTS Connected Intelligence Centre (CIC) to celebrate the CIC's latest hackathon win at Unearthed Sydney.

Sydney Hackastars is Australia's premier hackathon hosted by Tech Pilot Fund. With one of the largest prize pools in Australia, the stakes are high meaning only the best will get to compete. Are you good enough? Are you one of Australia's fifty best coders (developers), creatives (designers), or capitalists (bus-dev people)? Participants will be 50% women 50% men!

Software developers, data scientists, engineers, designers, entrepreneurs and industry insiders! Participate in the 54-hour open innovation Unearthed Hackathon to develop prototype technology solutions to resource challenges. Participants will have the unique opportunity to work on real industry data as well as data from government partners. Unearthed Sydney will feature Big Data related challenges with large operational, maintenance, productivity and geological data sets.

Each year, B&T Magazine recognises inspirational women in Media at its annual Women in Media Awards. In the spirit of collaboration, this year there will be a hackathon element to the event, attendees split into groups to come up with three actionable ideas to meet challenges facing women in the industry. Every attendee should walk away with at least one step they can take immediately to contribute to the promotion of women in media.

Cyber Traders Sydney has teamed up with Quantopian to put on a hackathon to remember! The focus of the hackathon will be how the public opinion of news articles affects the price of a companies stock. Trading experts will be walking around the hackathon to assist hackers in manipulating the data sets provided by Quantopian as they compete to see who can create the most profitable algorithm. The cost of entry is $50 day of or $40 if you buy your ticket in advance. Hacking time is from 10AM-6PM, catered lunch will be provided.

Aspiring and established coders! Sign up today to participate in the 2nd annual Qantas Codeshare Hackathon. Collaborate to create apps, products and solutions that improve the lives of all travellers. You'll have access to publicly available fare information, a feed of available hotels for a particular destination on hooroo.com and more, to come up with awesome solutions to travelling problems.

Are you an aspiring female startup founder? Come and join like-minded people like yourself and receive guidance on how to take your first steps? You don't need to have a background in tech or startups to participate, just an enthusiasm to try this out. You can work on any idea that has a large potential market, and is using technology somehow to capture that market quickly - there are no set challenges to solve, and judging is purely constructive feedback. Come along and help create the jobs, exports, investment and prosperity that great Australian startups can provide.

Are you a web developer? Come and try out Simpla! There's pizza, and beer, and an awesome new dev tool -- Simpla -- that lets you build dynamic content in plain HTML, without a CMS. V1 was just launched and your feedback is needed! Come along to this mini-hackathon and build a website for a fictional startup in record time. There'll be a prize for the best use of Simpla, and there's only a few tickets available.