List of hackathons in Bedford, Canada in 2015

Two days. Three cities. More than 400 participants from across Canada. SportsHack will bring together teams of hackers in Toronto, Vancouver and Halifax to compete in developing innovative sports-related software solutions. This year, in partnership with the Canadian Football League (CFL), SportsHack challenges you to develop real world technologies from the CFL's real world data. The final challenge(s) will not be announced until the event begins, but all of the necessary materials and data will be released prior to the event. Follow #SportsHack15 for upcoming details, so that your team can start planning. We will be hosting a prep event on Nov 19th so that you can access the data sets. Register your team here! At the end of the weekend-long hackathon, regional finalists from the three locations will advance to the national round, where they will have the opportunity to make a virtual pitch to our panel of judges. The winning team will have an opportunity to work with the CFL and mentors to bring their solution to market. This hackathon is a great opportunity to make cool hacks and meet fellow developers, programmers, designers, hackers, data scientists and fellow data-enthusiasts. There are over $16k in national/regional prizes. You get to keep anything you make, including IP. You can create whatever you want, but only sports-related hardware/software will be judged. National prizes include: First prize: $4,500 cash, Support services to bring your hack to market, Time to meet and connect with the host partners of your choice, An opportunity to work with the CFL and mentors, and Four tickets to the 2016 Grey Cup game in Toronto! Second prize: $2,500 cash, and Support services to bring your hack to market. Third prize: $1,000 cash. Atlantic region judges include: Gord Dickie - President GoalLine Julia Rivard - Olympian, Co-founder Eyeread, Partner at Norex Shaun Johansen - CTO and Co-founder of Eyeball    For more information, please visit sportshackweekend.org. Development Partner   Thanks to the CFL’s generous support, teams this year will work on real world challenges to develop products with commercial potential. If you're a sports fan and want to create your own start-up, this event is for you.

Hoist – Halifax Outreach Initiative for Startups and Technology Hoist is a new tech club for teens interested in coding, design or entrepreneurship. If you’re age 12 to 19 and have an interest in startups or coding, then come check it out! (Don't forget to bring your laptop and charger) Hoist is held on the third Saturday of every month.  What Happens at Hoist?  Learn The first half-hour will be a lesson from a pro on the topic of the day –  App basics, coding (android/ios?) - MVP demo at demo camp Mentor about app build out? Programmers work with each team feature design session Lunch Have some free pizza with your new friends.  Hack Build or design something, apply what you just learned…it’s a mini hackathon. Work in a group or on your own to create the next big product or service! Discuss Reflect and discuss the day…what did you find challenging or exciting? Chill out and talk to your new pals about what you created!    Hoist is organized by Volta – a startup house for early stage tech companies in Halifax. Volta is located in downtown Halifax, Nova Scotia and is the residence for up to 12 high-potential technology companies.   Volta is a non-profit created by founders for founders. Volta’s focus is on building a community where entrepreneurs can come together to learn from each-other, grow their companies and expand to new markets.

One day to bring creative ideas to life, meet cool, like minded people, drink beer, and win awesome prizes. REDspace’s inaugural Hackathon is inviting developers and designers from all over to come together and collaborate on creating a project. Whether it’s building an app, website, or anything else you can manage in a day’s time, it’s free-range. Did we also mention there are a ton of wicked prizes to be won? Don’t wait too long to sign up.

Hackamarine 2015 is a student-led hackathon for Oceanography and other Marine programs. This is the launching year for this special hackathon, the very first of its kind, since Hackamarine is going to be an annual event held at Dalhousie University - a school well known for its one of best Marine programs in Canada. For this event, we are looking for rebels who are brave enough to "hack" concepts and principles in Oceanography and Marine programs and eventually turn your research findings and ideas into business startups. This event is organised and managed by Dalhousie Entrepreneurship Society.

A Retail Hackathon:  All of us purchase a huge variety of items from retail outlets: clothing, gifts, and of course, food.  With every grocery cart filled with fresh vegetables, cereal, and cans of soup, comes an incredible array of point of sale, services, supply chain, and customer data.   Sobeys - Helping Canadians Eat Better, Feel Better, Do Better - has compiled a huge, anonymized retail data set that participants will use for this analytics focused hackathon.   During the kick-off on October 2, teams will be introduced to retail challenges and data use-cases from Sobeys.  Participants will then learn about analytics and marketing techniques that will help them delve into the data.   Experts from IBM will provide access to IBM Bluemix, a next generation innovation platform, and provide tutorials on how to use Bluemix to create apps for the competition. Participants will also be introduced to IBM Watson, which can help teams find insights where no one ever thought to look before, using advanced analytics. We provide the data, software and training -  you generate the ideas.   Competition Categories 1. Retail Insights 2. BlueMix and Watson technologies 3. Business Innovations Over $9,000 in prizes will be awarded to the most innovative solutions.  The winning team will also be invited to a 2-day Bluemix Garage Design Thinking Workshop with Sobeys and IBM, valued at $15,000.  The workshop will focus on further developing the winning team's concept.  Judging Criteria: 1. Useful and intuitive app design 2. Robustness (does not crash) 3. Technical complexity - good use of general technology (database, web, mobile, cloud) - use of Bluemix and Watson (especially for IBM prizes)   4. Retail Value - product assortment and merchandizing decisions - customer behavior 5. Business case     Eligibility The hackathon is open to all current university students and recent graduates (graduated since May 2013).   We strongly encourage collaborations between developers, designers, and business students.  We hope to see students from all Nova Scotia post secondary institutions participating!    Schedule:  October 2 2015  Registration:  9:30am Tutorials: 10:00am - 12:30pm  (Please bring your own computer) Lunch:   12:30pm - 1:30pm Tutorials: 1:30pm - 3:00pm   October 9 2015 Team Pitches - Round One Judging:  10:00am - 12:00pm Lunch:  12:00pm - 12:45pm Finalists - Round Two Judging:  1:00-1:45 Awards:  2:00pm - 2:30pm