List of hackathons in Biel, Switzerland in 2018

Born in 2017, the Basel Hackathon is organized by the non-profit organisation BaselHack, consisting of 22 creative enthusiasts from different backgrounds and organizations from the Basel Region with a diversity of skills. We want to inspire talents, thinkers and creative spirits to come together, work in teams as equals, creating solutions for the region. The goal is to present running prototypes at the end of an about 30 hour weekend.

Sur le modèle des hackathon, la Working Session vous permet d’abattre des tâches que vous avez tendance à repousser, entourée et soutenue par les autres Mampreneurs présentes et une experte. Pour cette première nous avons choisi le thème des publications sur les réseaux sociaux.  Venez abattre des kilomètres de boulot ensemble avec nous. Efficacité assuré et temps gagné. Avec Laurence Zaied experte dans la matière

Solve companies real challenges within 24 hours by using AI, IoT, Azure Tech Stack and the APIs of the participating companies in an amazing atmosphere at the Stade de Suisse! An eSports Corner and a Maker Space with 3D-Printers, Laser Cutters etc. are part of the program, too. A lot of fun is waiting for you!

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. 

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!

The Developer UnConference is an exchange and learning platform for Developers and Non-Developers (really!): IT Architects, Data Scientists, Analysts, Managers... and all interested people in topics like Hacking, Cloud Computing, Data Science, Analytics, Big Data Analytics, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Blockchain, Research, DevOps, Robotics, Quantum Computung Open Source and other emerging technologies. This event is free-of-charge. Food and beverages are in general not covered - except indicated. The main event page is here: https://www.meetup.com/Big-Data-Developers-Switzerland/. "TALKS & DEMOS" [AUDITORIUM] Agenda 1800-1805 Talk 1: "Welcome & Future Perspectives“ (Holger Kyas, IBM Switzerland)1805-1830 Talk 2: "Startup in a third world country" (Issam Ourrai, L'Etabli de L’Innovation, France)1830-1855 Talk 3: "Scaling Jupyter Notebooks with Distributed Kernels" (Kevin Bates, IBM USA)1855-1920 Talk 4: "Are data scientists the true "rock stars" of the Roskilde Festival?" (Frank Ketelaars, IBM Netherlands)1920-1940 Talk 5: "Beyond DevOps" (Michael Wechner, Wyona Switzerland)1940-2000 Talk 6: "X2Go: OpenSource Remote Desktop & Application Services for Linux” (Stefan Baur, X2Go Germany) 2000-2100 Reception: Social Networking enjoying Pizzas & Beers (sponsored by Hortonworks & IBM) [TOWNHALL] DETAILS  Talk 1: "Welcome & Future Perspectives" (Holger Kyas, IBM Switzerland) Objectives: Welcoming idea guidance on the Developer UnConference and future vision on latest technology trends analyzing their overall impact. About Holger: Senior Technical Client Architect@IBM, https://www.linkedin.com/in/holgerkyas/, https://twitter.com/holgerkyas Talk 2: "Startup in a third world country" (Issam OURRAi, L'Etabli de L'Innovation (France)) Objectives: How an entrepreneur can use the positive and avoid negative part of creating a startup in a third world country. About Issam: https://www.linkedin.com/in/samourrai/  Talk 3: "Scaling Jupyter Notebooks with Distributed Kernels" (Kevin Bates, IBM USA) Objectives: The Jupyter Notebook Stack has become the "de facto" platform used by data scientists to build interactive applications and with the popularity of deep learning, there is an increasing need of resources to make deep learning effective. In this session, we will discuss how one can scale their Jupyter Notebook deployment by enabling kernels to run in a distributed mode using multiple compute nodes, an analytical engine such as Apache Spark or even containers managed by Kubernetes. About Kevin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kevinbatessoftware/ Talk 4: "Are data scientists the true "rock stars" of the Roskilde Festival?" (Frank Ketelaars, IBM Netherlands) Objectives: Everyone who has ever been to a large music festival knows first-hand about seemingly being lost at sea as crowds of people push you in a direction you do not necessarily want to go. How do you get to the stage with your favorite band, find your friends and an acceptably clean toilet? The Roskilde Festival, a yearly rock festival in Denmark, has lots of similarities with large cities where people get together for a bit of fun, sleep, eat ... and drink. Crowd managers are equipped with years of experience running festivals like this and they have established a good gut feeling on the behavior of people in crowds and when/where it gets too busy. IBM and the Copenhagen Business School have run yearly hackathons around the festival to validate how data and analytics can help the organization to be more efficient and effective in the future. Frank will talk about the organization of the big data lab and its accomplishments, but also the challenges faced during the hackathons. About Frank: https://www.linkedin.com/in/frankketelaars/ Talk 5: "Beyond DevOps" (Michael Wechner, Wyona Switzerland) Objectives: DevOps is great, but I believe it is important to bridge the gap between all major project stages, including requirements engineering. This can be done by using BDD scenarios for all project stages. We have developed a tool called Yulup to support this approach https://www.yulup.com/en/why_yulup.html. I will explain how the BDD approach for all project stages works and demonstrate it by using real world examples. I will also give an outlook how NLP will help to execute tests automatically and how AI will help to generate documentation automatically, in order to make code maintenance more efficient. About Michael: https://www.linkedin.com/in/michaelwechner/ Talk 6: "X2Go: Free/Libre/OpenSource Remote Desktop and Remote Application Services for Linux" (Stefan Baur, X2Go Project Germany) Objectives: Pretty much everybody knows what Citrix offers on the Microsoft Windows platform. But did you know that the same core functionality - full remote desktops and seamless remote applications - is available for Linux servers, and for free? This talk/demo will give you a quick overview of the most important features, focused on deploying X2Go using a Linux system on POWER platform hardware, but also showing the other end of the connection, the ready-to-use (and also free) ThinClient image X2Go provides. About Stefan: https://www.linuxday.at/stefan-baur

Deutsch unten************************* Passionné d’informatique ? Envie de créer une solution innovante ? Le Hackathon Winbiz sera l’occasion parfaite pour développer une application compatible avec Winbiz Cloud. Winbiz est un logiciel de comptabilité, facturation et gestion salariale pour les PMEs suisses.   Quelle est la mission durant ce weekend ? Créez une application qui se connecte à Winbiz Cloud grâce à l'API en un weekend. Vous aurez plus de 44h pour concrétiser un projet.En manque d’idées ? Une série de projets est déjà disponible et toutes autres idées sont bienvenues.   Qu’est-ce qu’il y à gagner ? Deux prix de CHF 2'000.- chacun seront décernés. Un pour la « Most promising App » et une autre pour la « Most promising Team ».   Peur de se lancer dans cette aventure ? N’ayez pas peur, l'équipe de développement du logiciel Winbiz sera sur place et pourra répondre à toutes vos questions.    Toujours en hésitation ? La participation est gratuite, donc rien à perdre :) ************************* Computerfreak? Wollen Sie eine innovative Lösung schaffen? Der Hackathon Winbiz ist die perfekte Gelegenheit, um eine mit Winbiz Cloud kompatible Anwendung zu entwickeln. Winbiz ist eine Software für Buchhaltung, Fakturierung und Lohnverwaltung für Schweizer KMU.    Welches ist die Aufgabe an diesem Wochenende? Erfassen Sie ein Bedürfnis der Schweizer KMU, schätzen Sie das Marktpotential ab und entwickeln Sie eine Anwendung, welche dieses Bedürfnis erfüllt. 44 Stunden erscheinen Ihnen nicht ausreichend für die Fertigstellung der Anwendung? Das macht nichts. Wir beurteilen Ihre Idee und den Entwicklungsbeginn.    Was gibt es zu gewinnen? Es werden zwei Preise von je CHF 2'000.- verliehen. Einer für die „Most promising App“ und einer für das „Most promising Team“.   Sie trauen sich nicht, sich in das Abenteuer zu stürzen? Haben Sie keine Angst. Das Entwicklerteam von Winbiz ist vor Ort und kann alle Ihre Fragen beantworten.    Immer noch unsicher? Die Teilnahme ist kostenlos, Sie haben nichts zu verlieren :)

La HES-SO Valais-Wallis organise un hackathon sur le thème de l'agriculture, le 18 mai prochain à Sierre. Cet événement interdisciplinaire rassemblera agriculteurs, informaticiens, designers et autres curieux de tout bord souhaitant collaborer à la production de prototypes d’outils et de services innovants destinés au milieu de l'agriculture.

La HES-SO Valais-Wallis organise un hackathon sur le thème de l'agriculture, le 18 mai prochain à Sierre. Cet événement interdisciplinaire rassemblera agriculteurs, informaticiens, designers et autres curieux de tout bord souhaitant collaborer à la production de prototypes d’outils et de services innovants destinés au milieu de l'agriculture. Les résultats, incluant des prototypes techniques ainsi que des vidéos présentant le fonctionnement de chaque solution, seront communiqués et pourront être réutilisés par la suite selon les besoins. Lieu Salle ElectraTechno-Pôle 10, rez-de-chaussée3960 Sierre Programme 08:00 Accueil des participants dans l'Espace Mérope08:30 Introduction09:00 Génération d'idées & Formation des groupes09:30 Travail en groupe12:30 Repas13:30 Travail en groupe19:00 Repas19:30 Travail en groupe23:00 Présentation des résultats24:00 Clôture