List of hackathons in Wettingen, Switzerland in 2017

Swiss programmers, designer, hackers, developers, and students! If you're interested in the field of Climate FinTech, then you're invited to participate in the Climate FinTech Hack. You'll be challenged to come up with an innovative financial services solution that supports sustainable development.

Become a climate hacker and be part of the 24-hour #Climathon in Zurich on October 27! Solve the climate challenges put forward by the City of Zurich and Energie 360° in the area of food, e-mobility, energy and climate change adaptation. Join the #Climathon Zurich as a developer, entrepreneur, technical expert or student with an existing idea, or simply to work on a new solution with an inspiring team. Experts and mentors will support your team in finding the best solutions to the challenges during the 24 hours. A vibrant atmosphere, energising food and drinks, inspirational workshops and talks, like-minded people, a chill-out and sleep area, as well as many other surprises await you. Sign up for one of the two tracks: TRACK 1: NEW IDEA For developers, students, technical experts or entrepreneurs with or without a precise idea, who want to create new solutions on the day of the Climathon. The best solutions will get the chance to enter the Climate-KIC Greenhouse to get accelerated. TRACK 2: EXISTING START-UP For start-up teams who already developed a product or service that can be adapted to one of the challenges. The best solutions will get the chance to be further developed with the support of the City of Zurich and Energie 360°. Track 1 and Track 2 teams can win start-up training vouchers, get the possibility to present the idea to city officials and will receive various goodies.   CHALLENGES The City of Zurich and Energie 360° are calling for your innovative ideas and solutions to four climate change challenges: 1. Food How can residents of Zurich be motivated and empowered to contribute to an "edible city" by cultivating and harvesting crops, fruits and flowers and/or using wild edible plants from the urban area? The solutions should focus on: Motivating people to do gardening activities that are beneficial for all residents e.g. lease or share a family garden, take part in a community garden, look after wild plants, look after a neighbour’s garden and support elderly people Motivating people to eat and use wild plants 2. Energy How to make energy data more understandable for the user? When we hear energy data, the first thing we think of is technical information - numbers,  units and graphs which no one really understands. How can energy data be used to motivate homeowners and renters to be aware of energy consumption and to save energy in their daily life routine? How can we include energy data into our daily routine in a meaningful way? The solution should focus on: Giving homeowners and renters access to all available energy data of their home in an understandable format Transferring technical information into a user-friendly language that allows users to play with energy data Motivating homeowners and renters to save energy in their daily life Helping homeowners to better understand what climate-friendly heating systems are 3. Climate change adaptation How can residents contribute to climate-friendly city planning? Due to climate change and increasing density of buildings, urban spaces are getting hotter and more crowded. To be able to maintain a high quality of life in the city of Zurich these urban spaces need to stay attractive for the local population, city planning measures should reflect the needs of the inhabitants and be climate resilient.   How can the needs of the local inhabitants and commuters in a district be collected and transferred to the city administration so this information can be used for climate-friendly city planning? Solutions should focus on: Including information to be able to make overheated urban spaces more pleasant (e.g. where to put shading) Integrating available city data and offers about  urban spaces Upgrading the urban spaces to favour pedestrians, cyclists and general recreational uses Finding an attractive way to collect information from the inhabitants (e.g. participation- platforms, etc.) Including a feature for inhabitants to interact with each other and also with city experts 4. E-Mobility How to fit charging into the user’s daily routine, so that the driver does not see e-charging as a constraint? To access e-mobility charging-infrastructure today, users of electric transport only have the option to search for charging infrastructure via websites/ mobile apps, which then display the charging stations on a map. How can we change this way of thinking and make e-mobility charging-infrastructure more attractive and convenient for e-mobility users? Solutions should focus on: What services/entertainment can be offered during the charging time Real-time offerings that are available when the driver needs it. Ideas about interaction or integration into the car on board system SCHEDULE Friday 2:30 pm    Check-in 3:00 pm    Opening and Challenges explained 4:00 pm    Start of Hackathon 7:00 pm    Dinner 9:00 pm    Workshops (e.g. Business Modelling, Coding & App Development) Saturday 0:00 am    Midnight Yoga and Snack 8:00 am    Breakfast 12:00 pm  Lunch 4:00 pm    End of Hackathon 4:15 pm    Jury Presentations 5:30 pm    Festival of Ideas 6:45 pm    Appraisal Ceremony (with prizes for all) FAQs   Who can participate? Start-ups, students, app developers, technical experts and citizens who want to contribute to the sustainable development of Zurich. How do we work on the day?  You can come along with a pre-existing idea and work with a team to develop this during the 24 hours, or can develop an idea with a team which is built on the day. I cannot program, can I still join the event? Yes you can, we encourage people with various backgrounds to join the event. Innovative solutions to the local climate change problems can take different forms and do not need to include an application. What are the follow-up options? The best teams will get the chance to enter the Climate-KIC Greenhouse, receive start-up training vouchers and/or be able to further develop the idea with the support of the City of Zurich (city meeting) or Energie 360° (investor coaching and assessment) . Everyone will be able to participate in a business development workshop a week after the Climathon. How can I contact the organiser with any questions? Please send an email to fabienne.lang@climate-kic.org What shall I do if I cannot or do not want to participate anymore? Please cancel your ticket or send an email to fabienne.lang@climate-kic.org. We will keep track of the no shows. Can I come as a guest? Yes you can, please let us know and write an email to fabienne.lang@climate-kic.org

Die Swiss Legal Tech 2017 ist ein dreitägiges Event, das Juristen mit Entwicklern und Designern digitaler Produkte zusammenbringt, um gemeinsam die Rechtsindustrie der Zukunft zu formen. Das Event beginnt am 2. Oktober mit einem 48-stündigen Hackathon; Anwälte und Software Entwickler identifizieren gemeinsam Probleme und suchen nach Lösungen. Begleitet werden sie dabei von ‚Legal Engineers‘, Juristen mit technischem Verständnis. Ideen werden gemeinsam erarbeitet und in einzelnen Teams zu funktionierenden Prototypen umgesetzt. Am 3. Oktober gibt es parallel zum Hackathon ganztägige Workshops, in denen einzelne Probleme näher beleuchtet werden. In ‚Hands-On‘ Workshops werden digitale Lösungsansätze und Business-Modelle vorgestellt. Am 4. Oktober gibt es abschließend die eintägige Konferenz. Bekannte Sprecher aus dem In-und Ausland werden in Kurzvorträgen darlegen, wie die digitale Revolution aus ihrer Sicht das Recht und die Rechtswirklichkeit heute und in der Zukunft verändern werden. Die Gewinner des Hackathons werden ihre Idee und Prototypen den Konferenzteilnehmern vorstellen.

Most people agree that the ‘blockchain/DLT’ (Digital Ledger Technology) is one of the emerging technologies with the highest potential of worldwide system change. At the same time, most people agree that Climate Change is the defining challenge of our time. Now the question: what happens if you tackle this urgent problem with such a promising technology? Impact Hub Zürich is co-organizing #Hack4Climate, a 4-day Blockchain hackathon held in parallel to the COP climate conference this November in Bonn. To reach out to the blockchain community around the world, we are organising preparatory events around the world. “Let’s go to Hack4Climate Zurich” is the first of these workshops. The goal of this workshop is to introduce blockchain enthusiasts to the climate change topic and develop first ideas of applications. This will give the attendees a real edge when applying to be part of the main Hack4Climate in November in Bonn. It will also help you to network with the local blockchain community and allow you to offer your skills for a worthy cause. To learn more about Hack4Climate, have a look at the factsheet and the participants’ FAQ.   The program 18:30 Doors open 19:00 Start of event 19:10 Introduction to climate change and the Paris Agreement and a demonstration how blockchain is relevant 19:20 Introduction to each of the 5 Hack4Climate challenge areas and corresponding use case examples 19:45 Ideation workshop on each challenge areas (participants will choose from parallel sessions) 21:00 Apéro riche   You will be probably surprised how many of the climate change challenges can be supported using the blockchain technology - we surely were. We’re looking forward to having some great Zürich teams apply for Bonn  – a vital part of Hack4Climate’s success!

Come and join SWITCH-CERT in the middle of the summer for a week of creativity, innovation, and coding. The Swiss  Security Tools Hackathon is an event to work and colaborate on Internet security tools and techniques and data exchange. This hackathon is a week long event where people come together to work on colaborative Internet security. There is no attendance fee and no price to win. The goal is to make the life of Internet security professionalls a little easier and the Internet a safer place for its users. The hackathon is open to everyone from the security community who develops or implements open source security tools. We will have a few tutorials as well, but the main goal is to improve and connect open source tools used by the CERT and security community. The developers of these tools already have agreed to join: Entrada APWG EcrimeX (remote) The Secure Domain Foundation (remote) If you are a developer of a open source security tool and want to join us and give a totorial on how to use your tools, please contat us at cert@switch.ch SIDN Labs will give a introduction to entrada on Monday. For those who don't have their own instance of Entrada available, we will provide a entrada instance on the SWITCHengines cloud for the hackathon. If you can bring a pcap file of your DNS traffic! Agenda Mo 7.8: 13:00-18:00 Welcome & Workshops 13:00 - 14:00 Welcome Coffee 14:00 - 15:00 Introduction  15:00 - 16:00 Entrada Introduction by SIDN 16:00 - 17:00 SDF Luminous Introduction by Secure Domain Foundation (remote) 17:00 - 18:00 NodeMCU Workshop by Antoine Neuenschwander (SWITCH) Tue 8.8: 9:00-17:00 Hackathon Tue 8.8: 19:00 Social Event Wed 9.8. 9:00-17:00 Hackathon Thu 10.8. 9:00-17:00 Hackathon Fri 11.8. 9:00 - 13:00 Hackathon & Closing Remarks 09:00 - 11:00 Hackathon 11:00 - 12:00 Project Presentations 12:00 - 13:00 Voting for the best project & closing remarks 

Hackers and makers in and around Zurich! The Things Network & Stadt Zürich invite you to participate in the Make Zurich 2017: Hackathon. You'll be work with like-minded individuals and Zurich city administrators to explore ways of solving the problems of the city. You'll be challenged to create solutions to one of the following areas: »Groundwater meter »Nightlife noise »Bicycle commuter »Bicycle tracking »Environmental Exploration »City gardens »Open Topic