List of hackathons in Helsingfors, Finland in 2018

Technological advancements have flattened the world and brought people from across the globe together via the ever-growing cyberspace.  Industry experts predict there will be 6 billion internet users by 2022 (75 percent of the projected world population of 8 billion). Cybercriminals smell blood now, not silicon:) This rising tide of cybercrime has pushed cybersecurity spending to more than €69.7 billion in 2017. That doesn't include an accounting of internet of things (IoT), automotive/drone security, and other cybersecurity categories.  We have to fight against this incoming tide. It is hard to believe that people used to keep their money under their mattresses.  Common illnesses that are now easily treated used to take lives of millions. Modern advancements have solved these problems but opened the door for cybercrime.  Two of the top targets of cyber attacks involve the healthcare and financial sectors. We are all vulnerable and need to work together to find smarter ways to fight these threats! Please join us for the Garage48  Cyber Security Hackathon from 20-22 of April @ IT College! The main aim of the  Garage48 Cyber Security hackathon is to find solutions to some of these recurring problems or come up with completely fresh approaches which would take the cybersecurity to the next level! Through intense brainstorming, different expertise and top-notch mentors, a lot can be done in a weekend. What might be a daunting task alone, can be easily done together! We are looking for : data experts,  non-technical cybersecurity or data protection professionals, UI/UX designers, front-end developers, back-end developers, electronics engineers, mechanics engineers, marketers, visionaries, experts, marketing gurus and passionate project managers! Join us for this weekend-long intensive development event where we will develop working prototypes in 48 hours! Prepare yourself for 48 hours full of hacking, coding, designing, building, selling and thinking BIG! If you’re ready to create something crazy and innovative, then this is the event for you! Join the FB Event for inspiration and more information:   https://www.facebook.com/events/217638592305995/ More info about the Cyber Security Hackathon on our website: http://garage48.org/events/cyber-security-hackathon Pre-events We have already organized 2 Idea Garages on Cyber Security in VILNIUS and in RIGA and the final one before the hackathon is taking place on the 28th of March in Tallinn. Idea Garage Cyber Security Powered by UK is a perfect place to meet your future teammates and validate your ideas for the full-on hackathon. Please join for the final  Idea Garage Cyber Security Powered by UK here https://www.facebook.com/events/2086277461608394/ The event is brought together by Startup Estonia and British Embassy.

The field of construction is something every single person has at least some contact with : either you're a real estate owner or tenant or you're one of tens of millions people who actually work in the industry. Although the construction business involves tens of different counterparts like architects, developers and actual construction workers the mechanisms of the field are outdated. Let us name just few of the top challenges the industry is facing :1)Poor productivity and profitability 2)Lack of on-time and on-budget projects 3)Very little digitalization and digital collaboration and the list goes on. Garage48 was reached out by the e-difice, the digital construction cluster of Estonia in order to get the brightest minds together and really get things going for good! We're inviting the real field experts, business people, developers and designers to join us at Tallinn University of Technology to bring innovation and technology to the build environment and be part of a weekend which will be remembered as the one that changed how things work in the construction world! Do you have an idea how to get access to important information so job could get done faster and projects would keep on moving faster? Or do you have a genius idea of a field specific communication tool that doesn't exist yet? Do you know how to best get all the drawings, schedules, process performance, budgets and reports to one place? Then please join and present your idea to others and combine a dream-team! Right now the biggest strengths of the construction field stands in construction but the planning process plays a huge role in the field and innovation together with technolgy can make a real big change! Let's build a better indsutry together! Join the event on Facebook: Register to the pre-event here:Join the pre-event on FacebookThe pre-event is meant for the participants of Garage48 hackathon to get to know each other, mix & mingle, share their ideas and get a better understanding of what will follow in the hackathon weekend. Have questions? Contact us at info@garage48.org Follow Garage48 on Twitter HERE

Students, teachers & EdTech developer teams from in and around Helsinki! The Metka Centre for Media Education invites you to participate in the Metka EdTech Hack. You'll get to collaborate with professional IT developers from connected learning companies to develop solutions to pedagogical challenges for real classroom situations.

This pre-event is meant for the participants of Garage48 Digital Construction hackathon to get to know each other, mix & mingle, share their ideas and get a better understanding of what will follow at the hackathon.  We’ll be giving a chance to 5-7 idea owners to pitch their idea and get feedback from other participants and mentors. This is a perfect opportunity to practise pitching and get a team together already before the main hackathon event Find out more about Garage48 Digital Construction hackathon on homepage and join the Facebook event Register to the pre-event and hackathon on Eventbrite

In today's world, we all rely on technology more than we really want to. Therefore it’s important that technology is available, protected and secure. Unfortunately, the most technology that is available is quite vulnerable and can be easily hacked. Idea Garage Cyber Security Tallinn Powered by UK will bring together people from many different fields: data scientists, non-technical and technical cyber security or data protection professionals, designers, developers, marketers, passionate project managers and much more. Idea Garage is not your regular workshop, where people gather together, talk a lot and then go home and forget about it. It is a much-needed gathering, where initial ideas will mature and be ready for the next stage. Through intense brainstorming, different expertise and top-notch mentors, a lot can be done in a day. What might be a daunting task alone, can be easily done together. Idea Garage: Cyber Security Tallinn Powerered by UK is an event series which has been brought to you by Garage48, British Embassy and Startup Estonia. The idea is to organize 3 Idea Garages on Cyber Security - one in Riga, one in Vilnius and one in Tallinn. The Idea Garage in Tallinn will take place on the 28th of March in LIFT99, Telliskivi Creative City. The main aim of this event series is to bring the cybersecurity communities of Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia and UK closer together and gather ideas and challenges which are ready to enter a full-size hackathon on Spring 2018! Be prepared to get out of your comfort zone, brainstorm and meet exciting new people! Exact agenda on the event website: http://garage48.org/events/idea-garage-cyber-security-tallinn-powered-by-uk  Join the FB event: https://www.facebook.com/events/2086277461608394/  Lunch + quick refreshments included in your small ticket fee, best teams will win awesome prizes and a chance to develop their ideas further!  Join the full-on Cyber Security Hackathon happening in Tallinn on 20-22nd of April here http://bit.ly/cyberhackathon https://www.facebook.com/events/217638592305995/

Frustrated in the food delivery system? Feel bad about food e-commerce not working? Hate how bad the food marketing is? Know how the Finnish food business should be handled?Come hack the food business with us! You can only participate (mainly) in one challenge and book only 1 ticket type per participant! This time it’s not about the food itself, it’s about the business around food. We want to hack the logistics, e-commerce, marketing, business models, exports and internalisation around food.Join the 50 people for a hackathon with a target to disrupt the old. We will have keynote speakers to present their experiences, expert mentors from the current businesses (yes, you can challenge them too) and enthusiastic people to work together with. There will be some nice prizes from our partners, but you should really be there if you want to change something in the current system.Can you hack the food business? Apply now before the seats are takenChoose one of the of the three topics to join a team at the site or a form your own team. More information: http://hackthefood.com/The event is free, but in case of no-show or on-time cancellation, participant will be charged 40 euros.

Garage48 has partnered up with SEB to investigate open banking - new kid on the block, the subject that has made banking interesting to many and will surely gather much more attention in the near future. Garage48 Baltic Open Banking hackathon will take place in the SEB Innovation Center in Tallinn on the 16th to 18th of February 2018  and is meant for corporates and fintech enthusiasts from Estonia, Latvia and beyond. The main goal of the Garage48 Baltic Open Banking hackathon is to create next generation financial services. Best teams will get a chance to develop their ideas and prototypes further into real solutions in cooperation with SEB. Open API could be named as the major turning point in banking after internet- and mobile banking. Banks will start to provide API’s to connect directly to your account, credit card or any other service. This makes it possible to build new solutions that have not been possible until now. Teach Siri to tell you your balance, aggregate data across several banks, automate invoice processing, build a chatbot for banking or connect data from several disciplines in order to create concepts newer seen in the world before. Garage48 together with SEB has the reason to believe that open banking will be the new standard and that the real potential of it has yet to be discovered. We are therefore inviting all the techies, creatives, marketers, data enthusiasts, designers and geeks with a vision to come together and challenge fintech as we know it today and remake banking for the digital age! We encourage you to come and pitch your own brilliant idea, but check out this real life challenges provided by SEB before : SEB has created a Developer Portal with a set of example API-s for co-creating new services to clients in Baltics. www.seb.lv/open-banking SEB is also open to create new API-s depending on your proposed business models. Therefore please join the event on FB and post your thoughts on the wall! Info about mentors and more here Join the event on FB Register to the pre-events in Tallinn and Riga The pre-event is meant for the participants of Garage48 hackathon to get to know each other, mix & mingle, share their ideas and get a better understanding of what will follow in the hackathon weekend.

This pre-event is meant for the participants of Garage48 Baltic Open Banking to get to know each other, mix & mingle, share their ideas and get a better understanding of what will follow at the hackathon. We’ll be giving a chance to 5-7 idea owners to pitch their idea and get feedback from other participants and mentors. This is a perfect opportunity to practise pitching and get a team together already before the main hackathon event Find out more about Garage48 Baltic Open Banking on homepage and join the Facebook event Register for the hackathon hereAttend the pre-event on Facebook

Join the 1st #HackHelsinki community meetup! Location: TBD In this event, we'll gather hackathon organizers and enthusiasts to discuss the secrets behind creating a memorable hackathon. We'll have Joakim Isoaho from Junction speak about his experience in building Europe's largest hackathon. Program: 18:00-18:15 Mingle 18:15-18:25 Introductions from the venue & #HackHelsinki community 18:25-19:00 Junction: behind the scenes of Europe's largest hackathon (Speaker: Joakim Isoaho) 19:00-19:45 Q&A and more mingle Host: Alexandra Petrova, #HackHelsinki community manager