List of hackathons in Calgary, Canada in 2016

The Calgary Regional Partnership and The City of Calgary want you to participate at this year’s Hackathon! You will have three-days to develop a software solution, such as a mobile app, website, or mapping product that uses open data from the Calgary region. This year’s theme is connectivity – how will your idea help connect the Calgary region? You will be given the opportunity to pitch your product to a panel of judges for the chance to win cash prizes!

Join the 48-hour CSUS Coding Hackathon 2016 to compete for a prize pool of $2000! Your challenge will be to design, together with a team, an app, website, game, or another type of program based around a given theme which will be given to you on the day of the event. Please note, to only undergraduate students at the University of Calgary can participate in this hackathon.

The Global Game Jam (GGJ) is the world's largest game jam event (game creation) taking place around the world at physical locations. Think of it as a hackathon focused on game development. And this year we are back at Mount Royal University. The weekend stirs a global creative buzz in games, while at the same time exploring the process of development, be it programming, iterative design, narrative exploration or artistic expression. It is all condensed into a 48 hour development cycle. The GGJ encourages people with all kinds of backgrounds to participate and contribute to this global spread of game development and creativity. People are invited to explore new technology tools, trying on new roles in development and testing their skills to do something that requires them to design, develop create, test and make a new game in the time span of 48 hours. The GGJ stimulates collaboration and is not a competition.  The structure of a jam is usually that everyone gathers on Friday late afternoon, watches a short video keynote with advice from leading game developers, and then a secret theme is announced. All sites worldwide are then challenged to make games based on that same theme, with games to be completed by Sunday afternoon.  At the end the teams will showcase their game to the other Calgary teams. Cost of the event covers supplies and a unique event T-Shirt **** Only small and medium tshirt sizes are left ****