List of hackathons in Sion, Switzerland in 2016

Interested in mobile ecommerce? Come and sign up for MobileHackGeneva! Collaborate and compete with some of the best entrepreneurs in Geneva to create innovative solutions that will help change the future of mobile e-commerce. You'll have the opportunity to create your e-commerce solution from scratch and then kick-start your company, taking advantage of 6 months of free office space and mentoring.

Developers, designers, businesspeople! Are you interested in tackling Switzerland's food waste? Come and participate in the FoodHack Geneva. Join like-minded individuals to collaborate in on the creation of solutions to help reduce the amount of wasted food and food-related emissions. You'll be part of a team that is expected to conceive, build, and present a great solution to tackle food waste. Potential solutions might include: »Mobile Apps, »On-Demand Services, »Online Gaming, »Concept Stores, or »Innovative Packaging.

Visit the banking Mecca of Switzerland to learn more about blockchain and discuss ways that this versatile technology can be applied in new areas. Some knowledge is recommended but many topics will be discussed including blockchain in banking, capital markets, regulation, and much more!

Le Temps is organizing a hackathon on for historians, developers, designers, journalists, scientists, and anyone who is interested in exploring the two hundred years of history seen through the daily press of Le Temps. At this event, the numbers of all newspapers prior to the creation of Time will be accessible, that is to say: La Gazette de Lausanne (1798-1998), The Journal de Genève (1826-1998), and Le Nouveau Quotidien (1991-1998). No prior training is required. Participants will be invited to form groups. The type of project you make is free, You can for example make the home page of the website more engaging to users by presenting a selection of content, inviting exploration of archives through games, to work on innovative interfaces to program the bots able to share content on social media, or to create a work of historical analysis to map the places in the articles, etc. The projects that will reach an advanced level of achievement can be integrated with the permission of their authors, on the current site of the archives: http://www.letempsarchives.ch/ This website is freely accessible, and not commercially exploited. You will have access to archiving of data, flipboards, the required means, and internet.

This is a hackathon on creating "Smart Cities" organized by Ecovillage. At this event you will develop new applications and tools for villages. The main theme of this edition is "Access, Mobility & services for the villages". So come participate in this event and be part of the design of the connected world of tomorrow!

The Ecovillages Hackathon is all about "Smart Cities" and "Smart Villages". To accompany the 5th edition of its annual forum, which will deal with the digital revolution, Ecovillage is organizing this hackathon in order to develop new ICT applications and tools. The central theme of the hackathon is "Access, Mobility & services for the villages'. Setting up a creative space for coworking, networking and brainstorming. Come participate in the design of the connected world of tomorrow!

This is a hackathon organized around the theme of mobility. This event is open to all computer scientists, designers and professionals to develop innovative IT solutions.

THEPort Association in partnership with the Geneva Creativity Center (GCC), the SITG, the HUG and TPG have have joined together to organize this Open Geneva Hackathon 2016. Come along to form teams with individuals from the most various fields and backgrounds and with different age, gender and agenda, to face the challenge of creating your projects’ prototype in a tight 60 hours workshop and present it. The topics you will be asked to chose from are: Navigation for People with Visual Impairment, Forecasting Emergencies, On-line Hospital Registration, Health Data Collecting and Handling, Preventing Suicide by Tech-Assisted Means, and Sensor Sock for babies with Clubfoot. The public is welcome to attend the final presentations and entrance is free of charge!

The goal of "Power (2.5) Hackathon" is to design an Android application to enhance the lives of seniors. Participants will work in teams of 3 persons for 25 hours (= 32 hours) in the premises of La Haute école d'ingénierie et d'architecture de Fribourg.