List of hackathons in 10245 Berlin, Germany in 2016

Developers, designers, open data techies! Interested in trains and how open data can make railway travel in Germany better? You're invited to sign up and participate in the Deutsche Bahn (DB) Open Data Hackathon. You'll be challenged to help shape the future of the railway with digital technology. You'll be introduced to open data APIs and data sets provided by Deutsche Bahn and use them to design and develop working prototypes with a 24-hour period. Collaborate and compete to win prizes for your app prototypes using data from the DB APIs.

If you're a fan of hackathons and are especially keen on finding ways to get from point A to point B quickly, then mobility hacks is the hackathon for you! The goal of the hackathon is to create a concept that combines mobility and tech in urban and rural areas worldwide. Participants will work in teams of up to 5 people, and will present their projects at the end for judging and the chance to win cash and prizes!

Startupathon 2016  IoT for Independent Living Do you have what it takes to be a successful entrepreneur? We’re hosting an epic Startup Hackathon weekend at IXDS, giving you the chance to co-found an IoT startup with Germany’s leading service design studio. The objective is to create a user-centered solution for people living with a disability or impairment. We have the funding, an incredible talent pool of designers and engineers, a great studio space with a hardware lab in Berlin Kreuzberg, a network of industry experts and a business coach who co-founded 3 startups. But we're looking for the final piece before we begin our adventure: dedicated co-founders. That could be you. We're offering €30,000 and a majority stake in the new company to the winners of our Startupathon, who will build this new venture with us. This event is not only for engineers; any enthusiastic entrepreneur can apply. Full story: https://www.ixds.com/events/startupathon-2016 LINE UP We have some amazing speakers and mentors, including: - Matthias Biniok, IBM Watson (leading IoT platform) - Roland Hueppmeier, BOSCH Healthcare Solutions - Dario Sorgato, NoisyVision (visual impairment) - Christoph Raethke, GTEC/Berlin Startup Academy - Christian Lautner, Flying Health Incubator PLEASE NOTE: Registering on Eventbrite does not guarantee you a place at the Startupathon; we will send you a short questionnaire to find out about your skill set and to confirm your place.

Interested in how technology can help improve the lives of people with disabilities? Want to use your creativity and skills to build apps that provide greater accessibility? Come and join the Neue Nähe, the hackathon for more inclusion and participation that is sponsored by Aktion Mensch and Microsoft Deutschland. You can choose from three projects, which are available on GitHub: »Interchangeable Communication »Extend Accessibility Now »Inclusion Promoting Life Hacks

We’re kicking off OpenCon Berlin with a hack / creative collaborative coding event! There’ll be plenty of options to work on a variety of projects according to skills and interest including: Developing the Rfigshare package (figshare new API, in potential collaboration with figshare and Ropensci) Continue the CeTrAn project using the new rfigshare package but we have also come up with a core theme: a paper reproducibility hack! We are all excited by the progress made by many to make their papers fully reproducible by publishing code and data. We know how challenging it can be so we want to showcase the value of the practice, both for original authors and and as a learning experience for the reproducers. Inspired be Owen Petchey’s Reproducible Research in Ecology, Evolution, Behaviour, and Environmental Studies course, where students attempt to reproduce the analysis and figures of a paper from the raw data, we want to attempt to do the same. While they take a few months over a number of sessions, we only have a day so instead we’ll be trying to do the same but with papers that have also published code. What we love about this approach, and why we think it fits well in the space of a hack, is that it provides a low-pressure environment to begin to actually get stuck into some reprodicibility. Attempting reproduction provides an opportunity to test how reproducible papers are ‘out of the box’, enabling evaluation of how successful current practices are, and potentially identifying their most pressing weaknessess. This is by no means an an attempt to defame the writers and consent by authors will be sought and involvement is encourgaed. We see reproduction as useful scientific activitiy in itself, with useful outcomes for the science in the papers themselves. We hope to provide useful feedback to authors if we encounter difficulties and ofcourse spread the word on successful reproductions. Further details can be found here: https://public.etherpad-mozilla.org/p/OpenConBerlin2016 We will be running the hackathon in collaboration with Overleaf and PaperHive, two epic collaboration platforms that we can use to assist with the hack.

Virtual reality techies! Game designers and coders! Come and participate in VR Games Hackathon @ the UX agency AJ&Smart — a two-day hackathon for creating VR games. You'll be challenged to come up with a concept and then refine it into a prototype to be stretched and tested by real gaming humans! You need to be familiar with a creation tool for VR, but then the sky's the limit!

AI techies! Want to showcase your creativity and skills? Sign up now for the Bothack Berlin – Chatbot Hackathon! Demonstrate how your chatbot expertise can help reshape how humans communicate. You'll be part of a multi-discipline team — developers, strategists & designers. You'll have just 48-hours to dissect a chatbot challenge and take it from concept to working prototype!

Get a taste of the VR NOW conference one day earlier and get your creative juices flowing with our one-day VR Hackathon! Bring a laptop, and an idea, and we'll guide you through one packed day of VR development from scratch.  Meet new friends and hack your way into the future! We'll be utilising Unity and will provide each participant with a Google Cardboard, just bring your laptop and Android smartphone! Be aware that your phone needs a gyroscope in order to work with Google Cardboard. Not sure if your phone has a gyroscope? Quickly check with this handy app. About VR NOW - The Tech Biz Art Conference The first stand-alone business and development conference & award exclusively dedicated to VR in Germany connects three essential aspects. The VR NOW Awards 2016 celebrate outstanding technical, business, and artistic achievements in virtual reality. The hackathon ticket does not include a ticket for the conference, these can be ordered seperately here.

Managers, marketers, engineers, developers, hobbyists, artists! Interested in new media? Come and participate in the TICKER TOOLS hackathon in Berlin. Work in small teams and create ideas around the topic of News Journalism in the Berlin newsroom of the DPA news agency. Bring your idea, conceive, build, validate and refine your proposed solution and compete to win one of the prizes!

Students in the Beuth-Hochschule! Are you ready to code your first cross-platform app? Are you familiar with coding for Android or iOS and want to take it to the next level? Sign up today and build smart apps for the cloud at the Beuth-Hochschule Hackathon. Use the Xamarin cross-platform development environment to build the coolest app—for iOS, Android or Windows Phone—and be a winner.