List of hackathons in Heverlee, Belgium in 2016

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.

54 Hours Hackathon for Testing your innovative Idea for the Food System. You will learn the basics of founding and launching a successful startup while solving real problems we face in the food industry. Pitch your idea, form a team around an idea, get coached by experts, and win amazing prizes!

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.

For this edition of Apps For Ghent you will focus on geodata and maps. There are two types of participants. One to be taking part in the "from scratch hackaton", where you will have to start with nothing and produce a tangible, working (web)application or visualisation by noon, and the other one to be taking part in the "showcase" where you will prepare ahead, continue to work during the hackathon and pitch your concept, prototype, idea to the jury. You may also attend the afternoon program as a visitor and see what the contestants have come up with.

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

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!

A 48-hour Hackathon dedicated to Smart Cites in partnership with IBM, Cronos and UMONS, and with the support of Wallonia Digital (Digital Agency), FOREM, the House Enterprise, Cetic and Creative Valley. Open to students, teachers, contractors, start-ups, etc. You will be provided with the technology support of IBM and access to Open Data to create new uses through digital technology and develop applications to that will service the well-being of citizens the 2.0 University, and accelerate workflow.

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.