List of hackathons in Heijningen, Netherlands in 2017

Belgian hackers! You're invited to sign up to participate in Apps for Ghent // Abs for Ghent. De sport & beweging hackathon. You can participate in one of two ways — either bring your existing project to the showcase hackathon, or participate in the "from scratch hackathon", where you build your project from the ground up!

Students, hackers, young professionals! Are you passionate about global warming? HTCDelft invites you to sign up to participate in the Bezoeker Hackathon CO2-reductie - Smart Industry. You'll be expected to collaborate in teams to conceive and design smart solutions for reducing CO2 emissions in the areas of housing, logistics and energy.

Engineers, developers, designers! Interested in solutions top reduce CO2? Your invited to sign up tyo participate in a smart industry CO2 reduction Hackathon. You'll be challenged to conceive and create innovative solutions to help reduce CO2 emissions in housing, logistics and energy.

Hobbyists, IT students, designers, IT professionals and laymen in and around the city of Gent! You're invited to sign up to participate in the Datadive Apps For Ghent hackathon. Come as part of a team or join a team at the event. You'll be challenged to use open data sets for both sports and health to build an innovative new app. Present your project to a jury and compete to win a prize.

Engineers, designers, ICT-specialists in and around Eindhoven! Are you interested in how technology can help people who are struggling with disabilities or other setbacks? Come and showcase your creativity and skills -- in collaboration with like minded individuals. Demonstrate your mastery of augmented reality, artificial intelligence, gaming-technologies, or robotics to help make Holland a safer, friendly and helpful place to live for people with disabilities.

Original thinkers, concept developers, creative coders and designers from the Netherlands! Are you interested in innovative narrative forms for poetry and literature? VPRO Medialab invites you to sign up to participate in the Open Demos VPRO Hackathon - Literature & Poetry. You'll be challenged to come up with novel and creative ideas -- maybe 360 degree VR books, or poetry based literature games, or novel new digital forms for storytelling -- and present your prototype to each other and the jury.

Hackers, designers in Belgium! Get ready for Hack Belgium with the pre-event workshops. You'll get the chance to explore the newest disruptive technologies, and decide how you can use them to tackle one of the 20 challenges at Hack Belgium. You'll hear from experts from Belgium’s top universities, research institutes, and fab labs. They'll share the latest developments in areas such as advanced materials, artificial intelligence, genomics, robotics, energy storage, Internet-of-Things, additive manufacturing, virtual & augmented reality, renewable energy technology, blockchains, and drones.

Coders, designers, journalists and anybody who cares about good journalism! Come and help Build the Future of Journalism. Collaborate with like-minded individuals who are passionate about journalism to come up with ideas and ways to make a difference. Come and help save journalism from the avalanche of fake news.

Professional game designers, or interested gamers who would like to develop your own game! Kartfabrique invites you to participate in Hack the Game - Prison Island Hackathon. You'll be challenged to brainstorm to create an awesome 'grand finale' for the Prison Island game. Compete for terrific prizes. The winning team's concept will become part of the escape game from Prison Island and you'll be immortalized in a mural in Prison Island.

t/f/o/d stelt scherp op mogelijke toekomsten van data. In maandelijkse talks & showcases zoomen we telkens in op één topic. De centrale vraag: "wat is de impact van data op onze levens vandaag en morgen". Klaar om een glimp van de toekomst te vangen?  Het thema van de eerste editie is open data. We gaan na welke opportuniteiten er schuilen in het open en vrij maken van data (van overheden, bedrijven, organisaties, ...). Wat is de toekomst van open data in België (Alexander De Croo)? Wat als steden de burgers zelf laten innoveren met open data van de stad (Bart Rosseau)? Wat is de rol van jonge hackers (Pieter-Jan Pauwels)? Hoe creepy wordt het als je live politie interventies en noodoproepen in Seattle kunt afluisteren en bekijken (Dries Depoorter)? EXCLUSIEF: Dries Depoorter komt zijn installatie "Seattle Crime Cams" opstellen. Met dit project haalde hij wereldwijde persaandacht (o.a. The Washington Post, Wired, Dazed, Independent, ...) Wees er snel bij, want plaatsen zijn beperkt!Tickets kosten 10 euro en zijn inclusief walking diner.  TIJDSCHEMA (UPDATED!) 18:30-19:30:Afterwork food & drinks + showcase "Seattle Crime Cams" (Dries Depoorter)19:30-20:00:Bart Rosseau (Chief Data & Information @ Stad Gent) geeft ons een blik achter de schermen van het Gentse databeleid en vertelt hoe open data steden zullen veranderen.  20:00-20:30:Alexander De Croo (Vicepremier en Minister van Digitale Agenda) vertelt ons wat de toekomst van open data in België is. Wat zijn de krijtlijnen van het databeleid van de Belgische overheid en hoe zullen die vertaald worden in de praktijk? 20:30-21:00:Dries Depoorter (Media-artist & digital creative) komt vertellen hoe enkele van zijn projecten wereldwijde buzz veroorzaakten.21:00-21:10:Pieter-Jan Pauwels (Open Knowledge Belgium + Digipolis) leert ons hoe jongeren door o.m. hackathons gebruik maken van open data en welke impact dat kan hebben op bedrijven, overheden en andere organisaties. 21u10 - 22u30:Bar / Networking / Showcase "Seattle Crime Cams"