List of hackathons in Bern, Switzerland in 2018

The open cultural data hackathon brings people with different backgrounds together for three days at the Swiss National Museum in Zurich (Landesmuseum Zürich), where they are invited to interact around specific topics, share experiences, and develop concepts and software prototypes. Typical participants include software programmers, researchers, data providers, designers, artists, and other people interested in open cultural data. On Sunday, the projects will be presented to the public and a jury will select the best ones for different categories. Further information about the programme and the open datasets made available for the hackathon can be found at the hackathon website: http://make.opendata.ch/wiki/event:2018-10 The Swiss Open Cultural Data Hackathon 2018 is part of the campaign #Kulturerbe2018.

Brainhack workshops offer an open platform for brainimaging scientists of all levels of experience to meet and discuss new ideas and hackathons.www.brainhackzurich.chWe welcome neurologists, psychiatrists, neuroscientists, computerscientists, engineers and artists.Thursday at ETH-CAB building, room F.21, Raemistrasse 6, 8092Friday at the University Hospital of Zurich, Raemistrasse 100, 8091 ZürichThe Zurich Brainhack will focus on introductory hands-on tutorials on tools for (neuroimaging) data analysis to promote reproducible science. The free event also aims to connect the Swiss neuroscience community by providing a space for open discussion.During the two days event we will host a hackathon. The hackathon will give you an opportunity to collaborate on projects. You can suggest projects and look for collaborators, or join an existing project. Throughout the hackathon, there will be talks and tutorials, that you can attend if they interest you - alternatively, you can also continue working on the projects. http://www.brainhackzurich.chThe admission is free but online registration until October 4th isrequired: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfU-R3qblYyJYaf2fHXVZZ1osIC9WkebF3UXD4KgmGUQaMMng/viewformTRAVEL AWARDS: We sponsor a limited number of active participants not from Zurich up to 100CHF. After registration please send an email to alessandro.crimi@usz.ch explaining from where you are coming and your situation.Remember to Tweet and post using #brainhackzurich

With the increasing number of available data sets, Data Science has influenced a broad range of fields including economics, science and society. Organisations use Data Science methods for decision-making, data-driven journalism is becoming popular in mass media, and new empirical scientific disciplines have emerged thanks to the application of Data Science methods. In order to be able to find meaning in these large amounts of data, artificial intelligence is needed to search, filter and mine the data.  But humans are still a key resource to audit and enhance the algorithmic output of machines. Crowdsourcing is a technique to involve humans in the loop, that has proven to be successful in academia and industry.  The goal of the hackathon "Crowdsourcing Data Analysis" is to encourage participants to implement data analysis on open data that we will provide, and to implement tools that facilitate new workflows of crowdsourced data analysis. Please find here more informationen on the Hackathon. Requirements: Coding skills, some data knowledge or graphic skills are very welcome. Please bring your own laptop. The event will take place in Englisch/German. Participation to this event is limited to 50. If you have registered and you will not be able to take part, please cancel your participation. This will allow others to take part.

This course will allow participants to master core skills for smart contracts development. After completion, participants will understand the technology and the fundamentals of smart contracts programming enabling them to apply it and develop key use cases on Ethereum. Participants will be able to: Understand Blockchain for the decentralization of internet and a new paradigm for solution-enabling. Setup the developer environment for smart contracts, both in testnet and production.  Understand Ethereum as the platform for developing top and key blockchain-based applications.  Develop smart contracts for solving real-life problems through key use cases of Blockchain.  Goal & Target This course is open to anyone with no previous or minimum experience in Ethereum interested in becoming a top blockchain developer. Participants will learn and develop fundamental skills for using and understanding the technology. They will be able to design, code, deploy and call smart contracts. Requirements We strongly recommend a minimum of 6-months experience as a developer, preferably of web applications. Advised but not required proficiency in the following topics: Object-Oriented Programming C++, Python or JavaScript Git, Terminal & VM Tool Profile of Trainer  Carlos is a Nicaraguan engineer. In addition to his Bachelor degree in computer science, Carlos holds a master's degree in Information Technology, master's degree in Science, Technology and Society, master's degree in Innovation Economic and PhD candidate in Innovation Economics. Before joining Consensys Academy, Carlos co-founded a startup dedicated to web application dev back in 2001. It was acquired by an IT company from Panama. Then he moved to Spain where he was working as a tech consultant and data intelligence manager. He launched a second startup - a semantic-based marketplace for technology solutions - in 2010. It was acquired by one of its shareholders. Since then, he lead the Academy Program of Opinno, a innovation and tech consultant firm and Spanish editors of MIT Technology Review and Harvard Business Review. He has been working for the banking, health and energy sector with top players and tier-1 companies. He's been involved in the blockchain space since late 2014. He was awarded 2nd place in a national-level blockchain hackathon organised by UST Global in Spain and he has co-authored 2 blockchain books with top experts from top players like Santander, BBVA and Telefonica to name a few. He is also Ethereum trainer for Blockchain España, the main blockchain community in Spain. 

Student hackers in Switzerland! You're invited to apply to participate in HackerGames! - Business Meets Tech Hackathon at IdeaLab! in Vallendar, Germany. You'll get to design and build an innovative mobility project and present your prototype to a panel of top investors at Europe’s premier student-led startup conference. Compete to win cash prizes worth € 5.000 and showcase your skills for career opportunities with Amazon, FreightHub & Co, and others.

After our Wikidata Zurich Workshop in 2017 and our Wikidata Zurich Datathon in June 2018, we would like to encourage everyone to put their knowledge into practice and have fun coding with and for Wikidata. We will work in teams (that will be formed during the event) to code, for example: visualizations of Wikidata's data applications for Zurich that use Wikidata and open data sets from the statistical offices of the city and the canton of Zurich tools that support the Wikidata ecosystem There will be challenges encouraging people to develop specific ideas (that we are about to publish), and you can also bring your own ideas. Let's code for wd:Q72 and wd:Q11943!

Finding «Truth WithIn StatisTics» (#TWIST2018) TWIST, the first Swiss Statistics Hackathon. TWIST will be held on August 25th and 26th at the University of Zurich. Developers, statisticans, designers, journalists, hackers and citizens of all backgrounds will be working with open data on the subject of statistics and  emotions, evidence based decision making and fake news. It is the Pre-Event of the Swiss Statistical Meeting 2018 in Zurich. Participation is free of charge. The Hackdays start on Saturday, August 25th, at 9 o’clock  The Hackdays end with final presentations on August 28th at 16 o’clock. You'll find more information in detail on www.twist2018.ch. Catering around the clock and efficient WIFI are provided. Finally, the results of the hackathon will be presented to the public at the Swiss Statistical Meeting on Tuesday 28th August. TWIST is a coproduction ofStatistisches Amt Kanton ZürichOpen Data Stadt ZürichOpen Network Infrastructure Association Zurich R User GroupCristina Sarasua, Universität Zürich, Mitglied von Wikimedia CH

A really cool BärnHäckt-weekend in an inspiring atmosphere awaits you! Bring in your talent by engaging in a creative team with an exciting challenge, working out a clever solutions, building a prototype and presenting the result at the end to the community. BärnHäckt winners will get valuable prizes!

Learn to work with open data and help to prepare resources for the upcoming Open Food Data x Smart Kitchen Hackdays. We encourage people of all skill levels to take part in this event facilitated by the School of Data. The workshop will be followed by opendatabeer.ch from 18:30. Whether you are a data connaisseur or beginner, this pre-event is the perfect chance to get ready for a hackathon!

Security techies in Switzerland! SWITCH-CERT invites you to register to participate in the 3-day Open Source Security Software Hackathon 2018. You'll collaborate with like-minded cybersecurity professionals to come up with innovative open source solutions to critical security problems such as threat intelligence sharing, network/system forensic, data mining challenges, crypto-currencies, and more. Hackathon participants will also have the chance to be among the first players of the new SWITCH-CERT "Hack The Hacker" escape room!