List of hackathons in Kowloon, Hong Kong in 2017

What: TechCrunch Shenzhen 2017 When: June 17-20th, 2017 Where: I-Factory, Nanshan District, Shenzhen It has been four years since TechCrunch.cn and the TechCrunch China Summit landed in China. In that time, we have seen 6 sessions in Beijing and Shanghai with more than 300 speaker, including the world’s most famous entrepreneur, venture investor like Alphabet/Google CEO Mr. Eric Schmidt, Xiaoping Xu, Fan Bao, Kaifu Li, Yossi Vardi, Davide Cole, and Huateng Ma, CEO of Tencent as well as other high-profile guests from around the world from companies including, Twitter, ZTE, DJI, Xiaomi, iRobot, Smartisan, Mobike, Sogou, Mogujie, Ele.me, and NextVR. Each session has attracted 200+ startups, 170+ media around the world, furthermore, our feature VC Meetup sessions attracted 800+ startups to participate. The annual TechCrunch Summit is the definitive international venture conference in China. In previous years, the Summit was hosted in Beijing, the best entrepreneurial environment of China, and Shanghai, a top-ranking global city for its innovation. In 2017, we go to Shenzhen, the Silicon Valley of hardware! Starting in 2015, Shenzhen has gone from strength to strength and picking up speed due to its strong entrepreneurial culture and policy support from all levels of the government. According to data from the Shenzhen government (in Chinese), there are already more than 1 million startups in the city as of August 2016 and 128 companies listed on the city’s Growth Enterprise Market (GEM) and Small and Medium Enterprises (SME) boards. With mottos like “The more competent, the more successful” and “To be wrong is to lose,” Shenzhen is a city of practicality and real success, promoting perseverance, excellence, and creativity and attracting entrepreneurs from all corners of the globe to test themselves. TechCrunch Shenzhen: gathers leading domestic and foreign media: organized by TechCrunch and TechNode, both platforms are providing extensive coverage throughout the event. In addition, we are also hosting Forbes, Nikkei, CCTV News, First Financial, Xinhua News Agency, Dragon Television as well as other top domestic and foreign media. shows the best hardware that China has to offer, from companies including Huawei, ZTE, Oppo, Vivo, DJI, and many more. hosts an international startup exhibition with more than 200 startups from around the world showing off their latest products and services. Startups from Singapore, Japan, Israel, Australia, the US, UK, and Germany will all be showcasing their latest products. brings together resources and talent with BMW, PSA Peugeot Citroen, Unilever, CITIC Group, and other leading corporations looking for companies and entrepreneurs at the cutting edge of innovation. provides an innovation tour to some of the city’s top companies and manufacturers, allowing guests to catch a glimpse of Shenzhen’s tremendous innovation and production capacity. organizes large-scale offline activities for startups and venture capitalists. Over the last two years, our VC Meetup has created opportunities for over 150 venture capital funds and over 1000 startups to exchange ideas. Make sure you take advantage of our Early Bird tickets before April 30! We are also accepting applications for the VC Meetup, Hackathon and Startup Alley! If you have any other questions, contact us directly at event@technode.com. See you in June!

Foundations of UX Design and Design Psychology This free workshop is for beginners and non-designers who want to: Learn the UX design principles behind creating digital products that are useful, delightful, and easy-t0-use. Understand the tricks and techniques for turning insights from users and human behaviour into refined user interface designs Get comfortable with prototyping products at different levels of realism to test ideas in the real world No previous experience required. Limited spaces available! About the Speaker: Barney Yau has 8 years of design experience and has worked on over 200 projects with startups, SMEs and multinational corporations. He has also taught design to over 850 students at Google Campus London, The University of Oxford, The London School of Economics, Imperial College London, The University of Warwick and The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology for over 3 years, and has run private design sessions with startups, hackathons and incubator cohorts. Website: www.notes.designPortfolio: www.behance.net/notesdotdesignYouTube channel: https://goo.gl/H897oV

Coders, designers, and entrepreneurs in Hong Kong! AngelHack invites you to sign up to participate in the AngelHack Global Hackathon Series: Hong Kong. Compete on your own, or collaborate as a member of a team to come up with an idea and turn it into a functioning prototype. You're not limited! You could build an app that delivers positive value to your community, a website satisfying an unmet financial need, a virtual reality game, or whatever your imagination can conceive.

This free workshop is for beginners and non-designers who want to: Learn the creative process behind designing brand identities from start to finish Understand the tricks and techniques behind creating an attractive and meaningful logo that people can recognise and remember Get comfortable with turning ideas and sketches into digital form on the computer so that the logo can be used on marketing material. No previous experience required. Limited spaces available! About the Speaker: Barney Yau has 8 years of design experience and has worked on over 200 projects with startups, SMEs and multinational corporations. He has also taught design to over 850 students at Google Campus London, The University of Oxford, The London School of Economics, Imperial College London, The University of Warwick and The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology for over 3 years, and has run private design sessions with startups, hackathons and incubator cohorts. Website: www.notes.designPortfolio: www.behance.net/notesdotdesignYouTube channel: https://goo.gl/H897oV

This free workshop is for beginners and non-designers who want to: Learn the graphic design principles that are crucial for designing professional looking layouts Understand the tricks and techniques that go into supporting the ability to tell more engaging, persuasive and memorable stories Get comfortable with being able to design at speed for when there’s little time to improve an existing presentation or create a new one No previous experience required. Limited spaces available! About the Speaker: Barney Yau has 8 years of design experience and has worked on over 200 projects with startups, SMEs and multinational corporations. He has also taught design to over 850 students at Google Campus London, The University of Oxford, The London School of Economics, Imperial College London, The University of Warwick and The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology for over 3 years, and has run private design sessions with startups, hackathons and incubator cohorts. Website: www.notes.designPortfolio: www.behance.net/notesdotdesignYouTube channel: https://goo.gl/H897oV

This free workshop is for beginners and non-designers who want to: Understand the fundamental principles of design (colour, typography, layout and psychology) Discover the tricks and techniques that go into making a design effective (e.g. attract attention, communicate information clearly, make something easy to use/remember etc.) Explore design (i.e. how to start, ways to get better, how to find opportunities to practice etc.) No previous experience required. Limited spaces available! About the Speaker: Barney Yau has 8 years of design experience and has worked on over 200 projects with startups, SMEs and multinational corporations. He has also taught design to over 850 students at Google Campus London, The University of Oxford, The London School of Economics, Imperial College London, The University of Warwick and The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology for over 3 years, and has run private design sessions with startups, hackathons and incubator cohorts. Website: www.notes.designPortfolio: www.behance.net/notesdotdesignYouTube channel: https://goo.gl/H897oV

University students and alumni from universities around the world! The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology invites you to participate in the hackUST 2017 / hardUST 2017 events at the University's Clear Water Bay campus. These are two hackathons running in parallel -- one focused on software, the other on hardware solutions. It's your choice which one you want to enter. In either case, you'll be able to develop your project prototype and also to network with entrepreneurs and industry experts to pitch your ideas.

Hackers in Hong Kong! Recime invites you to sign up to participate in the 1st Hong Kong Bot Hackathon. You'll be challenged to create innovative bots to work with social media and cloud apps such as Facebook Messenger, Slack, WeChat, Pipedrive and more! Come and demonstrate your javascript skills and showcase your mastery of natural language processing (NLP).

Students in Hong Kong! #WeCodeBusiness invite you to sign up to participate in the E.C. Jamming - Hackathon. You'll be challenged to work on a technology project that can help enrich the lives of student. You'll be expected to work in teams and to collaborate to achieve your goals. You don't need to be a techie to take part -- all university students from all faculties are welcome.

Do you have a passion for open data projects? Open Source Hong Kong invites you to sign up to participate in the Open Data Day 2017 Hong Kong Hackathon. You can help grow the open data community by working on projects such as open research data, protecting the environment with open data, and using open data to improve the lives of Hong Kong residents. Come and showcase your creative and technical skills to collect, visualize, and analyze data.