List of hackathons in Brugge, Belgium in 2018

Last extensive workshop one month from the hackathon that will take place on November 23rd & 24th.

A full hands-on coding weekend for newbies in VR, organized around workshops, exercises & coaching. 3 different tracks (Unity3D, WebVR & Blender) to chose from. If you got what it takes, you might succeed. This is an original program specifically tailored for this weekend, based on VR & coding teaching experience. Join in !

1 weekend/ 48 hours to build a VR experience from a coding or a 3D design point of view !2 technologies will be proposed : WebVR or Unity3D - stick to the one that suits you.1 hardware : Oculus Go Friday 12 October - 6pm, bring your computer, download your pack with the essential code scripts, 3D assets & scenarios - you have a full weekend (on your own, or as part of a team) to cross the finish line on Sunday 4pm with an operational/ working VR scene. Throughout the whole weekend, numerous workshops on dedicated tech topics will be given any time of the day / night in order to help you out, and coaches will deblock you on these expected "ahaaaaa-I'm-blocked" moment. Coaches/ experts will be actively participating on their own challenge : get at least 75% of the participants crossing the finish line of a working experience & improving their coaching/teaching skills. Sunday 14 October - 6pm, go home and get some well deserved sleep - you got some new tech skills to test a growing industry. This program is completely tailored for participants eager to increase their tech skills. This is not a start-up weekend,  a hackathon nor a linear workshop - but more a coding "bootcamp" program organized around exercises and coding challenges. Part of a team or alone, deliver on time & beat the LearnAthon ! Certificates will be delivered after the session. An original program initiated from a collaboration between Elewa Bootcamps, Altheria Solution & Immersive Reality Hub of DigitYser. Any questions - tanguy@digityser.org(Background Photo by AJ Colores)

About the chainPORT initiative Curious to know how world leading ports enable collaboration throughout global supply chains? Discover chainPORT, initiated in 2016 by several world ports to create value to global port end-users and customers. They do so  by developing leading-edge processes & technology and advocate & shape industry policy. Since then no less than 10 port authorities play an active role in this unique collaboration! ​ Do you want to be part of it? Enter the first edition of the chainPORT hackaton where participants from all over the world will work on well thought out global and local port challenges! ​This fall, the Port of Antwerp and Los Angeles will be the playground of innovation during the first simultaneous chainPORT hackathon! Antwerp chainPORT hackathon Organizing partners The chainPORT hackathon is organized by the Port of Antwerp, AlfaPort Voka and NxtPort. 5 challenges chainPORT hack will focus on 5 different challenges, each having a place in the port of Antwerp. These challenges are selected by NxtPort, port of Antwerp and AlfaPort Voka. 3 days - 2 nights 3 inspiring days and 2 nights of developing innovation on logistics in the port. You can hack day AND night from 11 – 13 October 2018. Participation fee To participate you just need to register and buy your ticket. Tickets have a no show fee which means the fee will be refunded after participation at the hackathon. More information at chainporthack.com

I4NATURE Hackathon Vlissingen Leer over duurzaam ondernemen met een leerzame hackathon.  Wil jij leren over duurzaam ondernemen? En kennis vergaren van ondernemers uit het vak? Op 8 en 9 oktober van dit jaar organiseert I4Nature in samenwerking met SPIE Nederland een 48 uur durende hackathon in Vlissingen. Op een industriële locatie ga jij aan de slag met vraagstukken die spelen binnen het bedrijf SPIE over energie transitie, zorg&welzijn, data safety en sustainability. Van het bedenken hoe een product op de markt profileren op een duurzame manier tot aan het bedenken van een nieuw verdienmodel.  Tijdens deze twee dagen is er een afwisseling tussen hard werken, ontspanning en muzikale optredens van (lokale) artiesten. Aan het einde van deze hackathon heb jij indirect je steentje bijgedragen aan de natuur door je kennis te delen om een vraagstuk op te lossen. Je kan je al laten zien aan de arbeidsmarkt, en wat ook een interessant punt is bij deze hackathon is dat je met jouw deelname je een aandeel krijgt in het bedrijf van SPIE.   Programma 8 oktober08.00 uur: ontvangst.09.00 – 17.00 uur: start programma. 20.30 - 22.00 uur: hapje, drankje en een optreden.  Programma 9 oktober 08.00: begin van de dag.09.00 – 17.00: werk aan de cases. 18.00 – 20.00: Afsluitende borrel.   Mis het niet & reserveer snel je ticket. Meer informatie ontvang je dan persoonlijk over financiele bijdrage (jouw aandeel in het resultaat), huisvesting, topacts en andere topbedrijven die mee gaan doen! Tot maandag 8 Oktober!

Student hackers in Belgium! You're invited to apply to participate in HackerGames! - Business Meets Tech Hackathon at IdeaLab! in Vallendar, Germany. You'll get to design and build an innovative mobility project and present your prototype to a panel of top investors at Europe’s premier student-led startup conference. Compete to win cash prizes worth € 5.000 and showcase your skills for career opportunities with Amazon, FreightHub & Co, and others.

Our Challenge Take part in 'The Challenge 2', the second edition of our ArcelorMittal Belgium' hackathon.  The topics of this years' Challenge are: ‘Chatbots’, 'Vision AI’ and 'Natural Language Processing'.  What can be expected? The topic Your challenge this year consists of creating a safety assistant of the future. Do you have what it takes to design a chatbot that raises safety awareness? Can you train a system to automatically detect if everybody is wearing his/her personal safety equipment? Or/and can you structure unstructured data to give a simple answer to a question asked? #Industry4.0 - The techologies we expect you to use are Chatbots, Vision AI and Natural Language Processing. What's in it for you? Up to €6.000 in prize money, experts at hand & of course a healthy dose of fun moments.  Who can participate? The Challenge is open to (BE residents), to students, young entrepreneurs with a strong interest in IT, design, …. Registration only as a team (min 3/max 5 p). If you don’t have a team, have a look at our Slack channel to find kindred spirits, also eagerly awaiting others to form a team with. (see http://challenge.arcelormittal.com) By registering to the event you accept the Terms and Conditions. More info: http://challenge.arcelormittal.com

Mixed reality encompasses a wide range of experiences that previously were considered to be only augmented reality or only virtual reality. In mixed reality, people, places, and objects from your physical and virtual worlds merge together in a blended environment that becomes your canvas.  Interacting with holograms in mixed reality enables you to visualize and work with your digital content as part of your real world. Realize mixed reality’s promise with Microsoft HoloLens. In this developer session, you will learn about Mixed Reality and the HoloLens and get a hands-on introduction to developing applications for the Windows Mixed Reality platform. Your host of the day will be Nick Trogh, Senior Technical Evangelist at Microsoft. A lunch will be offered during the session.  Prerequisites: This is a hands-on developer session so bring your developer laptop. If you already have a HoloLens, make sure to bring it too! :) We will be using the Unity middleware to develop applications – this session is not an introduction to Unity, so make sure you’re proficient with Unity development. There are great learning resources available on the Unity website. Make sure your laptop has the necessary software installed on it – you don’t want to miss out on the hands-on exercises because you need to install the tools! Agenda: 9:30-12:15:  Introduction to Mixed Reality and the Hololens. Developing for Windows Mixed Reality. Hands-on-lab: introduction to Windows Mixed Reality development.  12:15-13:00: Lunch (included) 13:00-17:00: Hackathon

The B-Hive FinTech Hackathon addresses real and urgent challenges in the financial and insurance sector. It’s backed by 6 major European banks, insurers and market infrastructure players. These partners intend to take on and fund the most interesting solutions presented at the hackathon as Proof of Concept projects. Every team will have the opportunity to pitch for and meet with 10 key decision makers of major financial institutions.

4th Workshop in preparation of the HIV Drug Resistance Hackathon! A first Dataset on drug resistance cases around the world will be presented. A more specific example based around Tansania will also be shown. First examples of Data Visualisation will be done. TO PARTICIPATE, simply register here on Eventbrite, show up at the following time and place and jump in the think tank!  >> 28th August 2018, 18 : 30, DigitYser (40 Blvd d'Anvers, 1000 Bruxelles). Join us in the fight of HIV Drug Resistance! Agenda: Part1: 20’ - Serge/Annelie - Introduction about the objectives of the hackathon Part2: 20’ - Jenny - How to find data how to selected the valid variables introduction to the first model Part 3: 20’ - Presentation of the dataset of the world database Part 4: 20’ - Serge will explain what he discovered about the Tansanian data Part 5: Start Workshop: Worksession on strategy to find data (for the non-technical people) Hands-On exercise - about visualisation