List of hackathons in Eindhoven, Netherlands in 2016

Passionate about the new economy, new media and everything that goes with them? Come and flex your creative muscles at the new Mission: Economy hackathon. Bring your idea - for business, media, news, content, social media, digitization, knowledge management, content creation and distribution, or media transformation. Develop the idea on your own or team with like-minded attendees in an intense 2.5 day startup atmosphere. Present your concept--or even your product proto-type--and win for best overall, most innovative, best pitch or more.

Gaming designers and developers! Sign up for the Microsoft GAME JAM--a free 2-day hackathon at Media Design University Dusseldorf. Come and get introduced to game development for the Universal Windows Platform and other platforms. Work with experienced Microsoft technology experts and build a cool game for the Universal Windows dev platform--then compete against other participants for a chance to be a winner.

If you are eager to make and invent stuff and love the idea of LAN-parties to come up with bright solutions for global education problems then this event is for you! Everything that's needed to have an amazing time is covered: food, drinks, tents to sleep in and educational speakers like Jason Silva, Prince Constantijn van Oranje, Neelie Kroes!

This hackathon is inviting all developers, designers, entrepreneurs, healthcare professionals and patients to hack for healthcare and travel to multiple cities in the Netherlands. The goal is to work collaboratively on innovative solutions for health and care. Dutch Hacking Health is the initiative of four Dutch Academic Medical Centers: LUMC, Maastricht UMC+, UMC Groningen and Radboudumc. Teams will work together in Groningen, Leiden, Maastricht and Nijmegen on the future of health. The winners of Dutch Hacking Health will have the possibility to get stagetime on one of the events during the Start Up Fest Europe week.

This is the eighth Dutch Meet Magento event where hundreds of shop owners, e-commerce experts and developers will join to gain knowledge, exchange experiences and network. Learn more about Magento 2 Marketing and Conversion, linking with Magento backend systems development, theming and Magento's Enterprise and Community versions, and get inspired to get more out of your the Magento platform. The actual hackathon Meet Magento Netherlands will take place on may 14.

Join the AR Standards Hackathon to learn about and develop AR (augmented reality) experiences using existing and emerging standards. You will get an introduction to existing and emerging specifications designed for AR experiences, there will be augmented reality experts on site, devices for testing AR, food, beverages, and sample or suggested use cases. All you need to bring along is your programming skills, your laptop, an open mind for augmented reality, and user cases you want to work on.

Come to this 24-hour hackathon for you to code for a better environment! Around a 100 professionals, designers, programmers, hackers and innovators will be present to work togethe on one goal: creating the best, most innovative concept to improve the climate in the Dutch cities. Not only will you contribute to making the environment more liveable, you and your team can also win up to € 3000!

This hackathon will offer an exciting journey to undiscovered playgrounds; a living lab researching the Heartbeat of the City. Come and join this community as data provider, tools master, designer, player, hacker, app developer, scientist, marketer, or investor. This challenge includes a platform for long term development and a ground for start ups, social enterprises, community initiatives, to incubate, mature and scale up.

Governments and companies have huge tourist data that could make much more possible than it is doing now. Your challenge will be to work with datasets from Tourism Flanders, the City of Mechelen, Westtoer, Lannoo, the Province of Antwerp and RouteYou, to conjure up an innovative concept, an interesting business case or a technically idea that will make a change! Whether you are a professional developer, hobbyist or student: anyone who knows something about coding with data can participate!

Hack the massive photographic heritage content on Europeana, ESpace and other public repositories to mix them up with user-generated smartphone photos and stories. Get creative and develop a new environment to re-experience our cultural past, using apps, websites and virtual environments. It’s all about telling stories, tapping into emotions and exploring new business models involving photography!