List of hackathons in Maastricht, Netherlands in 2017

The Living Data City Challenge hackathon is a two-day event where people with technical -, design -, and creative backgrounds come together to create new solutions through collaborative development. The goal: to use Open Data – information everyone can freely use – for public space, social innovation and living quality... Create playful applications for the municipality of Eindhoven, to inspire and challenge people to become more active, aware, social and happy! Public space is an important ingredient in the concept of a livable and healthy city. Open data and digital communication have given new perspectives to the design of public space. It allows transparency, participation, collaboration and opportunities to the people. During the hackathon you will research the Heartbeat of the City, finding a way to make Eindhoven an even more exciting place by making IT useful in a playful way. The Living Data City Challenge offers an exciting journey to undiscovered playgrounds. You and your team will be given a real challenge, and you will need your creative mind to find a solution. Register here to take part in the hackathon challenge for free. Hack your way to the grand prize and make a difference!

University students in Holland, Belgium and the Euro Region! Are you interested in how technology and digitization permeates everything we do today in our personal and business lives? You're invited to sign up to participate in the Hack 4 Smart Services 'Interaction of the Future' Hackathon. You'll be challenged to collaborate in a small -- 4-6 people -- team to conceive, design and prototype a solution to one of the following challenges: »Communication of the Future »Ethical trading of the future »Advice of the future »Citizen of the future

Im Kontext der Digitalen Transformation berichten erfahrene STARTPLATZ Partner gemeinsam mit ihren Kunden von erfolgreich umgesetzten Projekten, beispielsweise Hackathon Touren durch Deutschland oder Internet Of Things Prototyping Workshops. Fachvorträge zu den Themen Digitalisierung und unternehmensinterner Innovation bieten Ihnen die Gelegenheit, von erprobten praxisorientierten Lösungen und Erfahrungen Anderer zu profitieren, neue Ideen zu entwickeln und auf den eigenen Kontext zu projizieren. Bei diesem Prozess stellen sich mehrere Fragen, wie zum Beispiel: Wie funktionieren Kooperationen zwischen Unternehmen und Startups? Welche Faktoren müssen für eine erfolgreiche Zusammenarbeit betrachtet werden? Welche der verwendeten Methoden von Startups können auf bestehende Unternehmensprozesse übertragen werden? Um diese Fragen zu beantworten, bietet diese Veranstaltung etablierten Unternehmen die Möglichkeit mit lokalen Startups in Kontakt zu treten, sich über die neuesten Trends zu informieren und von bestehenden Corporate-Startup-Kooperationen zu lernen. Erhöhen Sie das Innovationspotenzial Ihres Unternehmens Lösen Sie Herausforderungen im Kontext der Digitalen Transformation Erfahren Sie mehr über Business Model Innovation and Disruption und setzen Sie diese aktiv in Ihrem Unternehmen ein Erweitern Sie Ihr Netzwerk Lassen Sie sich inspirieren Einen Überblick über unser Programm für Unternehmen finden Sie auf www.startplatz.de/corporate-services. 

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.

Students and business people in and around Hasselt and the greater Brussels region! Are you interested in the use and application of open data? The Hogeschool PXL invites you to sign up to participate in an event to develop best practices for open data and a parallel hackathon. Datasets from a number of external parties, including City of Hasselt, City of Genk and Tourism Flanders will be available for the hackathon. You'll collaborate in teams to work with these datasets to develop new innovative services that will help cities, institutions and businesses serve their constituents.

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.