List of hackathons in Genk, Belgium in 2016

Data hackers! Come and participate in the Euroclear Text Mining Hackathon. The aim will be to identify key fields in unstructured financial legal documentation—unlocking access to data in thousands of legal documents available through the Euroclear platform.

Come attend OSCE Days 2016 Maastricht--a global hackathon-style event and community to create open resources and possibilities for a global shift towards a waste-free, sustainable and an environmentally friendly Circular Economy. People from industry, grassroots, maker & hacker movements, students, etc. will work together on all kinds of challenges discussing, developing and experimenting with the Open Source Circular Economy (OSCE).

Passionate about the new economy, new media and everything that goes with them? Come and flex your creative muscles at the new Mission: Economy hackathon. Bring your idea - for business, media, news, content, social media, digitization, knowledge management, content creation and distribution, or media transformation. Develop the idea on your own or team with like-minded attendees in an intense 2.5 day startup atmosphere. Present your concept--or even your product proto-type--and win for best overall, most innovative, best pitch or more.

Gaming designers and developers! Sign up for the Microsoft GAME JAM--a free 2-day hackathon at Media Design University Dusseldorf. Come and get introduced to game development for the Universal Windows Platform and other platforms. Work with experienced Microsoft technology experts and build a cool game for the Universal Windows dev platform--then compete against other participants for a chance to be a winner.

This hackathon is inviting all developers, designers, entrepreneurs, healthcare professionals and patients to hack for healthcare and travel to multiple cities in the Netherlands. The goal is to work collaboratively on innovative solutions for health and care. Dutch Hacking Health is the initiative of four Dutch Academic Medical Centers: LUMC, Maastricht UMC+, UMC Groningen and Radboudumc. Teams will work together in Groningen, Leiden, Maastricht and Nijmegen on the future of health. The winners of Dutch Hacking Health will have the possibility to get stagetime on one of the events during the Start Up Fest Europe week.

DiHack is a 36-hour hackathon which will be taking place at the Data Innovation Hub in Brussels. More information will be given during our Data Innovation Summit On March 23 but there will be 2 to 3 preparation meetings organized for the participants in April.

After the tragic attacks of 22 March 2016, MolenGeek decided to host a hackathon for creating applications which will optimize the emergency services in Molenbeek in case of rescue operations. The focus will lie on protection, alerting and rescuing. Join this event to to help improve the care of victims, communication, ease of logistical support, information management and optimization of the rescue organizations.

Join the AR Standards Hackathon to learn about and develop AR (augmented reality) experiences using existing and emerging standards. You will get an introduction to existing and emerging specifications designed for AR experiences, there will be augmented reality experts on site, devices for testing AR, food, beverages, and sample or suggested use cases. All you need to bring along is your programming skills, your laptop, an open mind for augmented reality, and user cases you want to work on.

This hackathon will offer an exciting journey to undiscovered playgrounds; a living lab researching the Heartbeat of the City. Come and join this community as data provider, tools master, designer, player, hacker, app developer, scientist, marketer, or investor. This challenge includes a platform for long term development and a ground for start ups, social enterprises, community initiatives, to incubate, mature and scale up.

Join the mobile health revolution! Join the mHealth Hackathon to bring healthcare home to millions of patients, to create new services that absolutely delight patients, and that lead to exciting new businesses in the mobile health field. Registrations open January 18, 2016! BLOCKBUSTER DRUG OF THE CENTURY? A major medical breakthrough is staring us in the face and it isn’t a drug. The little smartphone is empowering patients and care givers with unprecedented medical intelligence and capability. It is nothing less than a medical revolution. March 18-20, 2016, at the mHealth Hackathon in Brussels, you can be a part of that revolution. We'll help you ride the (mHealth) wave with real-world challenges The mHealth Hackathon is built around 18 real-world Challenges identified by top minds in Belgian healthcare and technology space. You can bring your own ideas, but these challenges will certainly boost your impact! The entire healthcare ecosystem wants you to succeed! mHealth Hackathon is supported by a stellar group of partners from industry, healthcare and government (Pfizer, IBM, Base Company, Artilium, Partena, Mutualités Libres/Onafhankelijke Ziekenfondsen as well as Ministers De Croo and De Block). Their experts will be available throughout the hackathon for advice and contacts. And thanks to our partners, successful teams will gain unprecedented media attention. Are you ready? Join us at mHEALTH HACKATHON in BRUSSELS, MARCH 18-20, and help build the future of healthcare. More information at mhealth.be