List of hackathons in Cape Town, South Africa in 2018

Rehive Pop up Hackathon  Are you a passionate developer, entrepreneur or designer? Team up with other like minded individuals at our hackathon on 21 July 2018 and build your ideas in 24hrs! "Hacking is building things that you always wanted to have but no one has built it yet. It's to come up with an amazing idea and work tirelessly on it. It is to fail, fail again and fail better. Try out new things and learn while doing that. It's to work together, collaborate and build things that are innovative. It is to be a better programmer." -Anonymous About us Rehive is a platform and toolkit for developing and launching fintech apps. Our mission is to accelerate fintech innovation by breaking down the technology barriers for launching new fintech businesses. We believe it should be as easy to setup a fintech business, as it is to setup an e-commerce store on Shopify. We are backed by leading investors including Tim Draper (investor in Tesla, Skype, Twitch), Jed McCaleb (co-founder of Ripple and Stellar), Jesse Powell (CEO of Kraken) and more. We believe we are the fastest and most affordable way for you to build and launch your fintech app. Test us and let us know if it's true! This hackathon forms part of a series of hackathons leading up to the final Rehive Fintech Challenge. Throughout the series sponsors will give away over $100k in prizes for the best projects in fintech. Who can join? All developers, entrepreneurs and designers welcome! All our hackathons are free to join. Read more about our previous hackathons here. We are super excited to start building fintech and blockchain solutions with you. You'll need a Laptop What you'll walk away with: Get invited to join a curated community of passionate developers worldwide via our slack channel. We will be giving away R15,000.00 in prize money on the day! You will meet other passionate developers, entrepreneurs and designers. You will build some cool stuff in less than 24hrs. Exciting announcements! Keep an eye on our Twitter page for some super cool announcements leading up to the hackathon. Event Schedule Saturday 21 July 10am - Event opening. 10.30am - Sponsor speech and kick off 12pm - Lunch 7pm - Dinner Sunday 22 July 10am - Breakfast snacks 11am - Submissions close and on stage pitches start #RFH2018 This hackathon is hosted in partnership with FLASH.

Hey Cape Town! After a very successfull hackathon on 24 March we have decided to bring you another Rehive and FLASH pop up hackathon! Read more about the previous hackathon here. In case you missed it This 24 hour event forms part of a series of hackathons leading up to the final Rehive Fintech Challenge. Throughout the series sponsors will give away over $100k in prizes for the best projects. There will be R10 000 prize money up for grabs on the day! Who can join? All developers, entrepreneurs and designers welcome!  Event Schedule Saturday 19 May 10am - Event opening. 10.30am - Sponsor speech and kick off 12pm - Lunch 7pm - Dinner Sunday 20 May 10am - Breakfast snacks 11am - Submissions close and in person judging starts 1pm - On stage presentation and prize giving What to bring: - Laptop - Hoodie or something warm if you are staying the night - Toothbrush ( if you feel like freshining up in the morning) We are super excited to start building fintech solutions with you. See you there! Cheers, The Rehive Team For more info, please feel free to contact nina@rehive.com

About FishackathonFirst organized by the US Secretary’s Office of Global Partnerships in 2014, Fishackathon inspires the creation of digital solutions to address sustainable fisheries challenges. Overfishing and other serious problems harm marine environments and can devastate already-struggling, small-scale fishing marketplaces and communities, many of them in developing countries. Protections exist, but actual enforcement faces major obstacles. To combat this, Fishackathon brings together thousands of concerned designers, developers, and subject matter experts for a weekend to build practical tech solutions to endemic problems defined by the world’s most respected fisheries experts. Save our waters, save our world! How it worksTeams of volunteer coders and technologists take a weekend-long challenge to consider problem statements from fisheries experts around the world and present usable solutions. An expert panel of judges evaluate the presentations to select a winner from each Fishackathon contest site, and a grand prize is awarded to the global winning team. Demos and Judging Teams have 3 minutes to demo. Cities may have multiple local prizes available, but only 1 "city winner" team moves forward to the global finals from each city. These teams have 7 days to submit a 3 minute demo video (in English OR with English subtitles) for global judging. [#PROTIP] Strong demos usually answer these questions:     1. Who does your project benefit; who are the main users?     2. What problem are you solving?     3. What is your solution?     4. What does a successful outcome look like; what impact will it have? Judging criteria:     - impact (how will this improve things?)     - practicality (can it be implemented, is it adaptable?)     - creativity and technical innovation (how cool is this?)     - polish (how well-put-together is the team/demo?) Global Prizing Our prizing aims to help teams succeed at getting their product to market. We are finalizing partnerships for the following:     - acceptance into a prestigious incubator/accelerator     - mentorship from/intros to potential investors     - demo spot at a major conference     - useful prizes from AWS Rules     1. We're all in this together; treat each other right.     2. Team maximum is 5 people.     3. You must participate in person.     4. Fresh code expected, but hardware may be pre-built (i.e. a mobile phone = hardware).     5. Follow the HackerNest Code of Conduct. Schedule Saturday 8:30 AM  Registration (come early!) 9:45 AM Welcome Note 10:00 AM  Overview and instructions      10:30 AM  Hackathon starts, team matching session14:00Mentoring Sessions Sunday 08:30 Breakfast            2:30 PM Hackathon stops, teams practice demos for mentors. 3:30 PM  Teams demo for judges 5:30 PM  Deliberations 6:00 PM  Closing remarks and winners announced