List of hackathons in Lahti, Finland in 2015

The Junction 2015 hackathon is open for public both on Nov. 7th and 8th. During the weekend all enthusiasts who don’t participate to the hacking are welcomed to come to the former boiler hall see the latest tech, hear awesome keynotes and see the hacks! Saturday Nov 7th, 12.00-18.00 At the Junction Tech Day you'll get to see all the latest and greatest technology in use and hear a variety of keynotes related to awesome new tech. The exact program will be published closer to the event.  Sunday Nov 8th, 15.00-18.00 During the Junction Demo Expo you'll get to see all the amazing hacks that the teams have created during the weekend and see which teams get to continue on to the main stage at Slush to compete for the main prize of 20 000€. No travel reinbursements are provided for the attendees of the Junction Tech Weekend

Do you want to save the world? Welcome to Global Sustainability Jam 2015 – Helsinki Edition – a hackathon to create prototypes for sustainable solutions.   This is an open event for anyone from any background who is passionate about sustainability. Come join us for a weekend of fun, creativity and brainstorming!   Global Sustainability Jam takes place each year in November and gathers a multitude of people from various backgrounds who get together to brainstorm on creative solutions for sustainable world.     So how does it work?   ...We will get together on Friday evening and get to know each other first. Then, the global secret theme will be revealed  - it can be anything – a picture, a piece of music, a poem…But that will help us to kick off our super brainstorming session. After brainstorming, each team will choose an idea to proceed with.   ...On Saturday the teams will work on their ideas towards creating a prototype – that can also be in any form! We will continue having fun until Sunday afternoon when all teams have to submit their prototypes to the global platform!     Event programme:   Friday, October 30 17.30 Meet up 18.10 Games, getting to know each other 18.30 The secret theme announced 18.40 Group brainstorming 19.30 Dinner, informal discussions and brief pitching session   Saturday, October 31 Morning street research, collation, ideation 13.00 Status reports from teams Afternoon Design, first prototype 17.00 Status reports from teams Evening Evaluation, ideation, design, second prototype 20.00 Status reports from teams   Sunday, November 1 Morning Evaluation, ideation, design, final prototype 12.00 Status reports from teams Afternoon Prepare presentation and prepare upload 15.00 Upload documentation of prototypes 16.00 Team presentations 17.00 Wrapup Sponsoring and joining our event are: Bullet Meal - mobile hunger stoppers Froodly - startup that fights food waste in Helsinki   What is sustainability? We take the term “sustainability” in its wider sense. In the context of our event, we will be concentrating on prototyping solutions that solve economic, environmental and social problems. Bring your own understanding of sustainability to the Jam!   How is this jam global? Global Sustainability Jam takes place every year in November in more than 20 locations throughout the world.  You can check locations for 2015here.   What is a jam? Our jam is a hackathon and our goal for the weekend is produce something. Whilst at it, we’re going have lots of fun and enjoy the company of each other. The jam is about doing stuff, developing something in your team! Creativity is king!   Can I come alone or should I have a team? Up to you! You can join the event and choose your team mates for the weekend or you can apply as a team (8 people max)!   Is this event for me? The Jam is for anyone out there, be you a designer, a programme, a business person, a scientist, whoever else - you’re welcome!   Who is organising the event? The event is organised by a group of very enthusiastic students from the University of Helsinki and Aalto University on behalf of Aalto Sustainable Business Club.   Why does it cost? The event is organised by volunteers and we do not take any share in this. We do ask you to pay 7 euros to cover the cost of the ending dinner on Sunday evening.   Is food provided? We do not aim to provide food for participants, feel free to bring your stuff (there will be a kitchen at the venue) and use the nearby stores.     Questions? Contact us at gsusjamhelsinki@gmail.com Global Sustainability Jam Helsinki on Facebook

Turn your idea into a product demo. Join the hackathon with hundreds of developers. Get your hands on +50 000€ in prizes. This bootcamp is aimed to help you get a fast-start to Slush Hacks, so you can be better prepared, learn the tech and get feedback on your ideas. The training is free for all. All attendees should bring their own development machine, equipped with their preferred development environments and the appropriate Azure SDK downloadable from http://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/downloads/ This technical training will focus on Ultrahack's Nordea Universal Fintech -challenge and the Azure Cloud Challenge, through which you can win additional 10 000€.  How to perceive customers' everyday reality as a potential for financial transactions happening everywhere and anytime? When you look around - everything has a financial value for buying, selling, constructing more value, lending, leveraging, maintaining or servicing. How to couple this idea with present banking systems and applications and create something totally novel? How does the cloud play into this? Providing every customer a unique experience might seem difficult, but you can always leverage solutions created in past to achieve something that has not been done before. Recommendation engine is a the classic example of Machine Learning that almost everybody is familiar when browsing online stores or Netflix. Sentiment Analysis gives you the insight on how customers perceive certain topics, do they respond positively, neutrally or is the response negative? Also to consider: In addition to easy and fast data science, Azure is still the only cloud platform that has been approved to be secure by EU's data protection authorities. You can find premade data analytic models or ideas from the Azure ML Gallery: http://gallery.azureml.net/  Time Title 09:00 - 09:20 Welcome to the bootcamp 09:20 - 09:45 Introduction to Ultrahack and the challenges 09:45 - 10:00 Connect with Porvoo 10:00 - 10:15 Presenting the Nordea Universal Fintech challenge 10:15 - 11:30 Machine Learning - Recommendation engine and sentiment analysis 11:30 - 12:15 Lunch 12:15 - 14:00 Hands-on: Recomendation engine 14:00 - 15:30 Fast-start with your own project 15:30 - Event closing Slush Hacks Tour by Ultrahack and Junction in partnership with Microsoft is coming to Porvoo. Join us to learn more about the hackathons and get technical training. Read more about Slush Hacks at www.slush.org/hacks (or directly at Ultrahack and Conjuction) This event is presented in co-operation with All Challenges You can participate any of the challenges below through Slush Hack. In this event we will use the Nordea Challenge as an case example, so you get some hands-on experience. You can join our training to get a broad overview the events and challenges, even if you're not planning to participate in the Nordea challenge in particular. Health Games: Happier Hospital Hack // HUS  Smart City / Civic Tech // City of Helsinki & Open Challenge Finland  Mobility as a service: Seamless and agile mobility experiences // Liikenne- ja viestintäministeriö, Trafi, Liikennevirasto Creative chairty: Funraising hack: Have Fun and Change Lives! // Nenäpäivä  Internet of Things: Gamifying Brick & Mortar Shopping with IoT // Tieto  Next Gen Ecomm: Smoother Ecommerce // Posti  Sports Tech: Sports & Fan Experience // SAP Universal Fintech: Anywhere and Anytime // Nordea  Pre-emptive Healthcare and Advanced Diagnostics // IF Futulabs // Futurice The Future of Digital Payements // Klarna  The Future of Commerence // Shopify Air Travel. Redifined. // Reaktor & Finnair  Improving Cities // Uber  Aaltoes Unlimited feat. Supercell