List of hackathons in Wellington, New Zealand in 2017

What is the future of how we connect Aotearoa's youth to Latin American languages and cultures? Join us at the EduHack Pitch Showcase & discover the possibilities!  Come and experience the innovative solutions developed after just 12 hours of intense focus and effort. The Hackathon teams will share their journeys and vision for the future with you and a live panel of judges. Don't miss this opportunity to learn from passionsate changemakers and network with industry leaders. About the Hackathon: Multiple teams, made up of participants from different disciplines will be united at Victoria Universtiy 1 & 2 December to shape the future of Latin American language and culture learning across New Zealand. Ideas will be hatched and developed, and the solutions pitched. The teams will be presented with the challenge below:    The newly formed Latin America CAPE * and Creative HQ have come together to bring you the first-ever Latin American EduHack. Over the hackathon we will explore language and culture learning in our schools and innovate ways to enhance this. Latin America will be an exciting part of New Zealand’s future. Together, we can make this happen. Discover the impact we can make when multiple groups from all areas of our education arena unite. How can we share the rich cultures of Latin America here in Aotearoa? How can we encourage our young learners to take Spanish for NCEA? How can schools better celebrate, enable and sustain language learning? How can we leverage emerging technologies to introduce unfamiliar regions in world-leading ways? How do we show our youth that learning other languages can translate to rewarding career paths and the brightest futures? *Latin America Centre of Asia-Pacific Excellence Registration  You will need need to register to attend the Pitch Showcase, your Eventbrite registration is your ticket in.  This Eventbrite registration is for the Pitch Showcase event only.  To participate in the full 12 hours, you will need to register seperately for the EduHack: Latin America Hackathon. Getting There  Parking is very limited around the university.  Please make sure you give yourself enough time to park and arrive at the The Hub (3 Kelburn Parade).  Wilson Parking has a 24/7 access lot at 216 The Terrace, this is 1km for the Showcase venue.  There will be signage to guide you.   If you are travelling by foot, come to 3 Kelburn Parade and follow the signage to the exact location.  Please email ceara@creativehq.co.nz if you have any questions. 

Gaming the Digital Curriculum Start - with “Future Realities VR | AR | IoT Hackathon” @Projectr Add - two great ideas: Jim Taylor - “Pop-up Museum” for HoloLens Marianne Malmstrom - “Sandbox platform for students to create content” Team up - with three enthusiastic university students  Win - “Future Realities VR | AR | IoT Hackathon” Develop - prototype @Theta Innovation Lab Collaborate - with students, aka MiniDevs, @Newlands Intermediate School Design - game concepts using student-driven ideation Contribute - 3D scans, courtesy 3Dfy.me & Theta Innovation Lab Create - extraordinary model for developers & students to game the digital curriculum Share - @Projectr, where it all got started Come meet the developers, teachers and students who are reimagining how we can work together, as a community, to design learning opportunities based on real-world challenges. Read more: Future realities hackathon – AR/VR and IoT Hackathon Innovation lab working with Newlands Intermediate on HoloLens exhibition tech Developing for HoloLens: Tips, tricks, and technical challenges Mixed reality for education, exhibition and industry: HoloLens use cases

Welcome to impactNPO! We are pleased to announce our very first Wellington impactNPO event.  To be part of this amazing weekend, all you need to do is get a ticket. The weekend starting on Friday 11th August from 6 pm to 8 pm with networking, charity introductions, and team formation. You will be volunteering your weekend (Saturday 12th August and Sunday 13th August from 9 am to 5 pm) where we all will be giving back to the community by providing IT solutions to charities. We will be providing the food and drinks this weekend to keep you well fed and energised! A big thank you to our lovely sponsors, emhTrade who are sponsoring the food for the weekend and BizDojo via the Collider Programme, who are sponsoring the venue. The Charities that will be attending the event are: Boomerang Bags Wellington, a grassroots, community driven movement tackling plastic pollution at its source. Volunteers from all walks of life get together to make re-useable ‘boomerang bags’ using recycled materials, as a means to provide a sustainable alternative to plastic bags Fundraising Institute of New Zealand (FINZ), is looking to advance fundraising through industry standards, education and advocacy. Their vision is for New Zealanders to have confidence in the Charity sector and for the Charity sector to realise its mission to help their communities. Dev2 is a New Zealand group of IT professionals supporting education in the Philippines. Their mission to provide underprivileged youth in the Philippines with programming skills to bring them out of the cycle of poverty. Pomegranate Kitchen is a Non for Profit in the Community Development, Refugee and Migrant space. Their vision is to provide an improved social and financial outcomes for people from a refugee background. FAQs What do I need to bring? An open mind, a smile and your own computer/laptop. Don’t forget your phone, chargers or any other gadgets that you rely on. What's in it for me? First and foremost we aim to help local non-profits. NPOs often have quite a lot of IT challenges. Through this, you may find that you meet new people from different companies or industries, find contacts if you're looking for work, or get to step outside of your comfort zone and learn something new through a weekend project. Or just have a fun weekend working in a team to deliver something that is really useful to the community!  Sweet stuff! What can we expect as results for the NPOs? This depends on you, your team and the needs of your chosen NPO!  Over the many successful weekends we have run in Auckland, we have helped numerous NPOs with websites, IT infrastructure, design, branding, content as well as general advice. For a list of some of our accomplishments, and the NPOs that we have helped during the past weekends, have a look on our website: impactnpo.org What about catering options? To help us plan ahead and order food, we would love to know about your dietary requirement so please specify during registration whether you would require normal, vegetarian, or gluten-free option when you register. How can I contact the organiser with any questions? If you have any questions, please feel free to email us at info@impactnpo.org or drop us a message on Facebook (www.facebook.com/impactnpo) or Meetup (www.meetup.com/impactnpo) What if I have a change of plans? Please remember to let us know at least 3 days before the event if you're no longer able to come for the full weekend, as this will allow us to free up the reservation for people on the waiting list. Look forward to seeing you all there :) From the impactNPO organising team

Coders, artists, storytellers, communicators, college students, and other interested citizens in and around Wellington, New Zealand! You're invited to participate in GovHack NZ - Wellington -- a weekend-long hackathon, where you'll be challenged to work with government data to innovate conceive and create innovative new solutions to challenges facing New Zealand society both locally and nationally.

Coders, artists, storytellers, communicators, college students, and other interested citizens throughout New Zealand! You're invited to participate in GovHack NZ -- a weekend-long hackathon in a location near you, where you'll be challenged to work with government data to innovate conceive and create innovative new solutions to challenges facing New Zealand society both locally and nationally.

Calling tech developers, students, creatives and ideas people.  The AR/VR/IoT Hackathon is on for mashing up technology to connect the real world to the virtual world. What's your big idea?  What do you want to experiment with?  What's the challenge you want to solve? Whatever your background, find some new friends here, and discover how to connect up with new tech directions. Push your boundaries of using AR/VR/IoT, and join up with other tech-heads for an outstanding experience.  This is an inclusive event, so bring along your ideas, knowledge and experience.  We're after bright minds with great ideas to make the hackathon an outstanding event, so you don't need to be a technology guru to have fun here. Running over two days on Saturday and Sunday 13-14 May. Put your learnings into action and take part in a weekend hackathon. Play with new technology, meet interesting people and create an application in two days. It'll be fun and intense! Who should come? - Developers, designers, students, creatives, filmmakers, producers, marketeers, gamers and anyone curious about virtual reality and the Internet of Things. Bring your tech and experience - beginners to experts, there is something new for everyone. Overview: The hacking track is for participants to dive into problems. Often groups of 3-7 individuals form around a project, such as building a new data visualization, writing a document, or collaboratively investigating a problem. Participants take out their laptops, connect to power and wifi, and get working. Hacking begins with project introductions. Participants that bring projects to the event have an opportunity to briefly (1 minute max) explain what they are working on at the very start of the event so that other participants can join that project. At the end of the event, a wrap-up session gives each project a chance to demonstrate some accomplishments. We will assist in building teams and helping team to progress. 1.       Pitch an idea, build a team 2.      Define goals and outcomes:  Problem, solution, stakeholders, benefit and business model. 3.      Regular pause and review.  Do you have a plan?  Is there progress?  Are all team members happy and productive? 4.      Prototype and Demo.  It’s better to make small steps that demonstrate progress.  ‘Eat the elephant!’ 5.      Test and refine.  Who are your users?  Test with them, and make sure value is being built 6.      Demo time.  Explain the problem, who it is for, your solution, what is the business model   ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------  Judge and Mentor  Alan Kan Technical Lead - IBM Hybrid Cloud Software and Digital Innovation Having had experience throughout the software delivery process, Alan now helps his customers to deliver higher quality software innovation at speed, and drives thought leadership in Cloud software delivery best practices.  He is an adjunct lecturer at Unitec Institute of Technology, and founded an Agile course and a Cloud course for next generation developers.  A frequent speaker in conferences and mentor in hackathons, Alan holds a Master's in Information Systems degree from the University of Auckland.  He is an IBM Agile Champion, an ICAgile Authorized Trainer, and IBM Certified Solution Advisor for Cloud Computing Architecture. Prizes: Best Cognitive Hack Using Bluemix - a one-year membership of the Global Entrepreneur Programme Future Realities is a leading event in the #Techweek17 programme.

Hackers in and around Wellington! Developers, designers, analysts, or just an all-round IT guru! Think your techie skills can help make a difference? charity-IT invites you to sign up to participate in the "charity hackathon 2017". You'll collaborate with like minded people and be challenged by the technology problems of charities in the region. Who knows, maybe you can build a database app, a brand new web site, or even a web-app! You'll meet great people and help great charities!

New Zealand designers, developers, artists, filmmakers, animators, project managers, entrepreneurs! If you're interested in the merging of real and virtual worlds, then you should sign up to participate in New Zealand's first ever Mixed Reality Hackathon. You don't need to be an expert -- you just need to have a passion for the magic of mixed reality.