List of hackathons in Hongkong, Hong Kong in 2018

***SPECIAL NOTE: Participation for this event is FREE. The 120 HKD 'ticket price' is simply a deposit and it will be fully refunded post-event. Please note there is also a screening process and we will refund your deposit if you are not accepted into the hackathon. We will let you know if you are accepted into the hackathon by batches. The earlier you apply the higher chance you can get in! Calling all data scientists, developers, UX/UI designers and supply chain professionals! Fung Group is hosting its next hackathon on June 22-24, bringing together tech professionals, industry experts, entrepreneurs and students over 2.5 days to co-create solutions for the digital supply chain.   Participants will be provided with actual data from the retail, logistics and sourcing businesses within Fung Group to tackle real challenges facing the industry today. This is a great opportunity to stretch your imagination and creativity, collaborate with experts in diverse fields, and utilize data to devise, plan and prototype solutions for real business challenges. You will work in teams from the start of the Hackathon on Friday evening; the event concludes with a prototype pitch on stage to industry experts during the finale on Sunday, June 24.  To get you ready for the hackathon, we will provide hands-on training workshops from our sponsor Microsoft, as well as experienced mentors to guide participants throughout the journey. And what’s a hackathon without some brain food right? Food and beverage will be provided throughout the event.  Prizes including Microsoft Surface Pro, DJI spark drone, BeatsX wireless headphones - more to be announced! For more information about the event and the incredible prizes up for grabs, please visit our official website: http://www.hacktherack.org See you there! #hacktherack

FinHACK 2018, the FinTech Hackathon organized by WHub and Societe Generale will be held between July 6-8th, 2018. It's time to arm yourself with knowledge in different aspects to get yourself ready for 36 hours of inspiration, innovation and interaction! Secure your spot for this workshop to get yourself FinHACK-ready! This workshop is focused around teaching Developers how to get Blockchain using Hyperledger up and running. * This workshop is open to the public, however, priority goes to FinHACK attendees.  If you have any enquiries, please contact the FinHACK team at team@finhack.io

Smartz.io is the platform for launching and managing smart contracts. On June 9-10, the Smartz team will participate in the first EOS Hong Kong hackathon with their IoT-billing project.The day after the hackathon (June 11) we would like invite you to a meetup, where we will share the latest experience of blockchain development.We will talk about the application of smart contracts in everyday life. We will describe how to launch your smart contract in a few clicks and how to develop it for Ethereum and EOS blockchains.Blockchain enthusiasts will learn how to:- launch ERC20 token- launch and hold an ICO or a crowdfunding campaign- launch collectible ERC721 tokens- launch multisignature wallet on EthereumDevelopers may be interested in the following topics we are going to cover:- Development Features on Ethereum- Smart contract Security- Ethereum vs EOS comparisons- Hierarchical EOS Accounts- Comparison between the implementation of different contracts for Ethereum and EOS- Real case of launching DPoS Block Producer on the EOS networkCome and join us, we assure you an interesting time!Food and beverages to be provided.This event is free of charge. https://www.meetup.com/Smartz/ Disclaimer: Event details are provided by smartz.io. Genesis Block is only the venue provider for this event.

Blockchain enthusiasts and hackers in and around Hong Kong! You're invited to participate in the EOS Hackathon: Hong Kong. You'll get to join with other hackers, product developers, marketers, and business leaders and be challenged to create an awesome blockchain-based dApp that secures life, liberty, and property. You'll get to present your project for the chance to participate in the Grand Finale Pitch Competition. Those placing 1st - 3rd in this event will receive $2,000 USD per winning team member for travel and lodging to the Grand Finale in TBA.

AI has become one of the hottest topics in technology, and skills in data science and machine learning are highly in demand. According to PricewaterhouseCoopers, AI and AI-related tech will contribute at least USD 15.7 trillion to the global economy in 2030. Does this sound familiar?: You have an interest in Data Science. You’ve taken online courses and are confident in your coding. You want to take the next step but aren’t sure exactly how. Millions of people have signed up for Andrew Ng’s machine learning class, but few take the plunge into an enhanced career. This panel discussion seeks to explore the impact of big data – specifically Data Science, Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence – and the jobs and industries (including Finance) that will be affected. Will you be able to adapt your career? It’s time to understand how you can ride the wave of AI. Our highly qualified speakers will not only discuss which repetitive or labour-intensive jobs will likely be automated, but also explore how continuing lifelong education can help the workforce of today cope with the increasingly rapid changes occurring in the workplace. Who should attend? -Anyone interested in learning about the impact of AI on jobs -Anyone looking for insider tips on how to take steps to build a career in AI -Anyone looking for advice on how to enhance their current role with AI -Anyone interested in finding out if a career in AI is for them -Founders and entrepreneurs -Anyone interested in joining Accelerate’s full-time Data Science course Rodolfo Rosini -  Partner @ Zeroth.ai Rodolfo Rosini – Rodolfo has been CEO and founder of several startups over a career spanning over 20 years. He started his first AI company in 2010, Storybricks, and became one of the most famous game AI startups in the market. Before that he founded companies in cybersecurity providing encryption for secure communications to the military and Fortune 500s. He is a technical advisor on AI to UK Parliament. Efstratios Tsougenis - Overseas Technical & Business Director @ Imsight Medical Technology With a total of 10 years experience in the field of Image Processing, Computer Vision and Machine Learning (Ph.D. (DUTH) & Post-Doc (HKUST)) and 4 of them in the A.I. Hong Kong Market, Efstratios, an experienced A.I. Engineer and Entrepreneur, currently serves as Overseas Technical & Business Director for Deep Learning Medical Imaging Diagnostics company, Imsight Medical Technology (top 50 A.I. companies in China for 2017, 1st place Software Start-up and 2nd place Smart Living for 2018 ICT Awards, 1st place for Bayer Pharmaceutical Accelerator). In the past, he served as Team leader & A.I. Consultant in the A.I. HK Market in the fields of Healthcare (Imsight Medical Tech, Oya Clinics), Retail (Radica Systems, Popsquare), Smart City (HKSTP), Weather Analytics (Hong Kong Observatory), Manufacturing (Lung Kee Group) and Sports Analytics (Statsmaster). He is the founder of Orasis A.I., a consultancy company focusing in Computer Vision and one of the finalists for B4B Challenge 2016. Efstratios is a guest lecturer for HKU Space & Centennial College (Big Data Specialization) and also judge – mentor - speaker for multiple events like Google A.I. Start-up Weekend, HackUST (largest hackathon in China) and Brinc Accelerator (Drones Program). He has been also columnist for IT PRO Magazine HK Ivy Luk - Sales Engineer @ Claire.AI Ivy is the Sales Engineer at Clare.AI, an end-to-end AI digital assistant solution focuses on Asian Languages. She spent half of her professional years in major tech companies, and half in prominent Hong Kong startups, working at the intersection of technology and business. Passionate about bringing technologies to commercial adoption, her work at Clare.AI spans from Presales, Delivery to Product Development. Kirill Pavlov - Recruiter and Head of Data Science @ Terminal 1 Kirill Pavlov is a Recruiter and Director of Data Science at Terminal 1, a Hong Kong-based technology recruitment company. He is responsible for machine learning services helping recruiters to find and assess candidates. Before joining Terminal 1, Kirill was a Data Scientist at Asia Miles (Cathay Pacific) where he was responsible for financial and travel data analysis, acquisition/retention modeling, LTV calculation and operational data analysis using Apache Spark and various machine learning techniques. Prior to that, Kirill developed advertisement relevancy models in Yandex, listed search engine company with 100M user base. Moderator: Lavine Hemlani -  Co-Founder & CEO @ Accelerate Lavine is passionate about eliminating the financial barrier between education and opportunity for motivated learners to unleash their potential. Prior to Accelerate, Lavine co-founded FLYR and worked with deep learning start-up Thread Genius. Lavine began his career in investment banking in NYC at Lazard M&A and held roles at the following funds: Atlas, Marwar Capitaland Union Park Capital.

RADICA works with different universities each time to present Big Datathon. The competition gathers real business challenges and data from actual companies for you to solve. This round we have topics from Radica, UBS, and Poly U! Great way to fast-track your career in the corporate world. We welcome any students, graduates from different universities, startups, working professionals to join the 24 hours challenge!

Our 7th Hackathon for Data Science: a full day of fun and working together on YOUR data science projects! We have a new event on April 15th at Accelerate. At this event attendees will have the chance to pitch their projects, or join other people’s. And in the beginning of the day we will host some fantastic industry specialists to share their experiences operating in the data science field. Speakers: To be announced Schedule of events: 9.30am – Arrive, registration 10am – Welcome 10.15am – Talks begin 11.30am – Pitch session, recruitment  12pm – Work on projects 5.30 pm – Present results of work session Location: Accelerate HK 16F, 40 Bonham Strand, Sheung Wan Requirements  Laptop / charger for those joining the coding Prepared data, and projects pitches for the ones submitting projects If presenting, send us your presentation slides ahead of time so we can prepare them 50HKD in cash for the space rental Recommendations for project submissions: Prepare data in advance as much as you can; spending the day cleaning or retrieving data won't gather crowds of DS! Contact organisers if you need a data repository to share data with all your team members. If the project is already underway, prepare an introduction to it so that people can join (if you're presenting slides, send them to us before you arrive), and make sure the task you propose is feasible during the time of the event, and describe the skills you expect your team to have: R or Python? AWS, Spark? etc. for final presentations : Start writing the final presentation right from the start and add elements little by little all day long. Recall the context of the project and articulate the presentations to make it understandable by the non-initiated public around you. If you wish your work will be published on the website datasciencehongkong.com with your bio, name, etc. Other details 50 participants max Food / drink : Only water, coffee and snacks are provided. Attendees can order their own food to the venue, take a break to find a restaurant in Kennedy Town or bring their own lunch. Price : 50 HKD.We charge a fee to cover venue and food costs. We are not a for-profit organisation and will aim to keep the costs of our events as low as possible to make it accessible to all.

Enter the first ever Access to Justice or “A2J” InnoTech Law Hackathon hosted by the Law Society of Hong Kong. Build Apps and Web Solutions to bring access to justice for public good. Join if you are in Law, IT, Public Policy, Startups - anyone with passion for practical innovation and justice. When: 7-8 April 2018 (weekend), 9am-5pm Where: Cyberport, 100 Cyberport Rd, Telegraph Bay Hong Kong

Come learn how AI and Blockchain can work together to empower the economy of the future, the payments prototype which won First Runner Up in a Bank of China Hackathon, and how you can quickly prototype your own AI or Blockchain solution. We will cover over the basics of both image recognition and Blockchain, and showcase the technical blueprint of the app. 

Classified Post is proud to announce the launch of their first Hackathon, a 24 hours challenge for students to build winning digital solutions for large corporates. The event is for students to turn ideas into reality and will serve as a platform for students and fresh graduates to develop their prototype, enhance their problem solving skills and to learn and meet with technology industry leaders. And at the same time for corporates to explore shining stars from the participants. Who can enter? The Contest is open to teams of 3 – 5 members, all of whom are: Hong Kong undergraduate students Graduates with maximum 2 years’ experience There is no limitation and restriction on faculty or field of studies. Participants who are creative, think without boundaries, curious and passionate are encouraged to join the competition. Why should you take part? By taking part in this competition, you will be giving the opportunity to boost the CVs, network with fellow students, meet with industry leaders and gain real-life experience of pitching ideas.  How does it work? Teams will be assigned to 2 different categories by ballot: Media and Insurance.  A contest briefing will be held on March 21, 2018 at the Classified Post Career Forum to provide background information about the companies in respective categories. The Hackathon will be held on March 24 - 25, 2018.  Rundown March 24           11:00am            Registration and teams assigned into different categories March 24           11:30am            Opening Ceremony March 24           12:00nn             Beginning of 24-hour brainstorming session March 25           12:00nn             End of brainstorming session March 25           1:00pm             First round presentation ( 3mins per team ) March 25           4:00pm             Final round presentation ( 15mins for shortlisted teams ) March 25           6:30pm             Prize Presentation Ceremony Judging Criteria There is no fixed answer to the question itself, and it will be judged by: Quality and innovative nature of the idea / demo Utility of the idea / demo Use of the sponsors technologies and tools Prize Both category will have champion, 1st runner up and 2nd running up winners. Prizes are as below  1st place HK$8,000 cash Trophy and certificate for each team member 2nd place HK$5,000 cash Certificate for each team member 3rd place HK$3,000 cash Certificate for each team member All participants Outstanding participants will be invited by participating companies to attend their internship programmes Certificate for each participants   Application deadline: March 12, 2018   Notes: 1.     All participating teams grant the organiser and supporting partners the right to use the entry work and idea submitted / presented at the event, including presentation deck and/ or any prototypes developed within the event.2.     All entry should be original work by the participants. Plagiarised or published work (including on the Internet) or work already involved in other competitions will not be accepted. 3.    Winning teams are obligated to comply with the organisers’ requests for media interviews and photo/ video shooting (if applicable).4.     The organisers and their affiliates are not responsible for, and expressly disclaim, any and all liability with respect to or in any way arising from this programme and/or acceptance or use of the prizes, including liability for personal injury, death, damages, or loss.5.     All matters and disputes will be subject to the final decision of the organiser.