List of hackathons in Genk, Belgium in 2016

Governments and companies have huge tourist data that could make much more possible than it is doing now. Your challenge will be to work with datasets from Tourism Flanders, the City of Mechelen, Westtoer, Lannoo, the Province of Antwerp and RouteYou, to conjure up an innovative concept, an interesting business case or a technically idea that will make a change! Whether you are a professional developer, hobbyist or student: anyone who knows something about coding with data can participate!

Hackathon – Manufacturing Sustainability – P&G Partner with us and Pioneer the new benefits of bigdata and datascience to help us Preserve our environment. Interested ? We provide 1 year of process data Using your data science skills, help us make our plants greener Compete to win one of these 3 challenges : Green dashboard, Sustainability Predictive model,  Out-of-the-box Sustainability concept Planning of the activities : February 9th  - 18:30 IBM Bluemix at HUB   February 26h - 14:00 Presentation at P&G B.I.C.   March 3rd      - 18:30 Hack 1 at diHUB March 10th    - 18:30 Hack 2 at diHUB March 17th    - 18:30 Hack 3 at diHUB March 21st    - 18:30 Hack 4 at diHUB March 23rd    - Presentation at DIS2016 Terms and Conditions: Ordering your ticket implies that you agree with the terms and conditions set up for this hackathon. https://goo.gl/PZC4Fe A hard copy will be made available for you at our first meeting on February 26h - 14:00 at P&G B.I.C.     About P&G P&G serves consumers around the world with one of the strongest portfolios of trusted, quality, leadership brands, including Always®, Ambi Pur®, Ariel®, Dash®, Gillette®, Head & Shoulders®, Lenor®, Olaz®, Oral-B®, Pampers® and Pantene®. The P&G community includes operations in approximately 70 countries worldwide.The P&G Brussels Innovation Center hosts the biggest Fabric & Home Care R&D facility for P&G in Europe.A Company of Leading Brands Across our ten categories, P&G has 21 brands with annual sales of $1 billion to about $10 billion, and 11 brands with sales of $500 million to $1 billion – many of those with billion-dollar potential. Please visit http://www.pg.com for the latest news and information about P&G and its brands. Sustainability at P&G P&G is committed to touching and improving lives in a way that preserves and protects the planet. We have established a long-term vision which can only be achieved by setting short-term goals to ensure we stay on track. We want people who choose P&G brands to know that our products are created with a commitment to sustainability. From formulation to manufacturing to package design and shipment, our products are made responsibly and without trade-offs in performance or value. Our approach to bring our strategies to life and accelerate progress is to Preserve, Partner and Pioneer. We Preserve We are working to use less while doing more by reducing our environmental footprint and increasing our positive impact on the communities we serve. Our Pampers teams in Western Europe cut packaging by 80% by moving from “box-to-bag” packaging, saving 6,000+ tons of material, 430+ truckloads and 160+ tons of CO2 emissions per year. In the last 20 years, Pampers has reduced 50% of the weight of each diaper and 70% of the external packaging. We Partner We can accomplish more with partners than we can alone. P&G plans to meet its North America electricity demands by using 100 percent wind power to make iconic Fabric & Home Care brands, such as Tide and Dawn. This is possible thanks to a new partnership with EDF Renewable Energy (EDF RE) which will see a new Texas based wind farm generate 370,000 MWh of electricity each year. The wind farm will be fully operational in December 2016. With support of more than 150 global partners, our key corporate cause,The P&G Children’s Safe Drinking Water (CSDW) Program, marked its tenth year supporting families and children in some of the most remote parts of the world with clean drinking water. We Pioneer We aim to improve tomorrow through industry-leading innovation. We are turning agricultural corn waste into a key cleaning ingredient for Tide Coldwater. Working with DuPont, we developed a breakthrough process that will turn 7,000 tons of agricultural waste annually into cellulosic ethanol. Tide Coldwater is the first brand in the world on a path to blend cellulosic ethanol in a scalable and commercial way. For more details on our sustainability goals and progress, please go to www.pg.com/en_US/sustainability/report.shtml.

Hack the massive photographic heritage content on Europeana, ESpace and other public repositories to mix them up with user-generated smartphone photos and stories. Get creative and develop a new environment to re-experience our cultural past, using apps, websites and virtual environments. It’s all about telling stories, tapping into emotions and exploring new business models involving photography!

Join us at the first StartupBus.Accelerate event in Europe for a few fireside chats with software developers, CTO's and the like to find out how free and open software is giving them a technological advantage in order to succeed in their company's mission. This event coincides with the largest European open-source software event FOSDEM. Fireside chats Chats with: Kris Buytaert (Inuits) Jessica Rose (DreamFactory) Nils De Moor (WooRank) Lien Van Den Steen (DataCamp) Donald Whyte (Bloomberg) Food & Drinks Food and drinks are kindly provided by WooRank, Co.Station Brussels, TechBelgium.io and DataCamp. DataCamp are hiring developers. The event's venue is right in the center of Brussels so we'll have easy access to bars afterwards. About the speakers Kris Buytaert Kris Buytaert is a long time Linux and Open Source Consultant. He's one of instigators of the devops movement, currently working for Inuits. He is frequently speaking at, or organizing different international conferences and has written about the same subjects in different Books, Papers and Articles. He spends most of his time working on bridging the gap between developers and operations  with a strong focus on High Availability, Scalability, Virtualisation and Large Infrastructure Management projects  hence trying to build infrastructures that can survive the 10th floor test, better known today as the cloud while actively promoting the devops idea! His blog titled "Everything is a Freaking DNS Problem" can be found at  http://www.krisbuytaert.be/blog/ Jessica Rose Jessica Rose is a self taught technologist obsessed with working to foster more equal access to technical education and digital spaces. She's currently working with DreamFactory to help them better reach developer communities with their open source project. She’s also founded the Open Code meetup series and co-founded Trans*Code. She’s always interested in hearing about your newest project so come find her for a chat. Nils De Moor Nils De Moor is a self-identified “pure techie” and holds a Masters degree in Computer Science. Joining WooRank in 2011 as its CTO, he brings a broad range of development experience. De Moor began his career as a PhD researcher but couldn’t hold back from getting his hands dirty and quickly shifted into a consulting role with major Telecom and software companies. He speaks regularly at local and international tech conferences while leading WooRank’s team of talented developers. He also organises the AWS and Docker Belgium community meetups. Lien Van Den Steen Lien Van Den Steen started her career as a junior web developer at Engagor where she got to experience all the stages of a growing startup (new hires, international offices, funding) while growing herself into a team lead. She's now a developer at Datacamp, a leading company that educates people to get into data science. DataCamp is hiring developers, by the way. She's thrilled to share this insight as a coach at Le Wagon: a 9 week web development bootcamp where entrepreneurs learn to code their own MVP. Lien is passionate about baseball, street art, hackathons and everything related to women in technology. She's an avid comic reader, pizza chef and vinyl collector. Donald Whyte Donald Whyte is currently a software engineer at Bloomberg L.P. He takes an active part in the London tech scene, attending hackathons, conventions and general meetups. He has industry experience working on back-end systems and web applications. In particular, he focuses on machine learning (e.g. malicious code detection and recommendation systems) and realtime graphics applications (e.g. big data visualisation tools and computer games). Disclaimer The code of conduct is simple: we like to have this event interesting, fun, safe and inclusive so don't be an asshole. In case of any problems during the event please text or call the Directors of StartupBus Europe 2016: Steven (+32 495 75 45 84) or Keit (+44 7847 674007). Original picture by Deborah Bryant; licensed CC BY2.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/); changes were made.

A hackathon to think about opportunities for refugees and their place in the hosting societies/countries. Turning their arrival into opportunities with the power of technology. Beyond the emergency and the positive emotional reaction generated by the massive arrival of refugees, it's time now to think about mid-term and long-term issues and opportunities. What can be done to increase the probability of success that refugees and migrants will find - temporarily or definitely - their place in the hosting societies / countries ? How can we turn the refugees' arrival into opportunities together ? How can we as positive impact entrepreneurs contribute to this while leveraging the power of technology ? After collecting ideas on the platform http://ideas.refugees.net/ for 8 weeks, we will meet in transforma bxl to work on the top voted ideas and turn them into scalable projects.

VR Hackathon is coming to Europe! Hosted in the heart of Europe, the city of Brussels. Save the date: 15, 16 and 17 January 2015! We want to create an environment that embraces new ideas and technology solutions for immersive technologies. We know it takes longer than a weekend to build great solutions, but this is ample time to form teams of good people and begin creating great solutions. This is a call for European tech developers, game programmers, makers, UI/UX designers, artists, animators, storytellers, enthusiasts, professionals, students, and all that want to spend a weekend creating solutions with virtual reality and other immersive technologies! Our Program: Friday: 17h30-19h15 Registrations  18h00   VR Meetup & Cocktail Dinner  19h30   Program Kick-Off 20h15   Hackathon Kick-Off/Lightning Rounds/Team formation 22h15   Adjourn - overnight hacking possible Saturday: 8h00     Breakfast 9h00     Morning announcements & Hackathon Begins 10h00   Workshop Sessions Start 12h00   Lunch 19h00   Dinner 00h00   Overnight Hacking Sunday: 8h00     Breakfast 12h00   Lunch 13h00   Hacking concludes / Team Presentations & Judging 16h00   Winner announcements 16h15   Hacker Expo: doors will open to external attendees (ticket registration compulsory on Eventbrite). You will have the chance to show them your result and let them experience it  18h00   Doors Close with a Cocktail Dinner   This event will he held in English. The venue is located in the heart of Brussels, right at the city centre (5min walk from Grand Place and Gare Centrale) and therefore it is very accessible! Check out www.hostelsclub.com, www.hostelworld.com for hostel options. Also www.airbnb.com for appartments. We recommend nearby hotels: Scandic Hotel Grand Place (Rue D Arenberg 18, Brussels City Centre, Brussels), ibis Hotel Brussels off Grand Place (Grasmarkt 100, 1000 Brussels) or NH Hotels Grand Place Arenberg (Rue d'Assaut, 15 1000 Brussels – Belgium.) *Upon registration, particants accept and agree that photos will be taken (which may include them) for communication purposes surrounding the event. *Upon payment of a ticket, no refund policy is applied.