List of hackathons in Windisch, Switzerland in 2018

7 CHALLENGES FOR A SMARTER CITY We are bringing together the local hacker/maker community and the city administration to explore new ways of solving problems of our city with the help of open networks and civic tech. More info: makezurich.ch SCHEDULE Kick-off: Friday, 22nd June at Kraftwerk, Selnaustrasse 25, 8001 ZürichView map Open Lab Week: from Saturday 23rd June until Thursday 28th June at MechArtLab, Hohlstrasse 52, 8004 ZürichView map The lab will be open in the afternoons for everyone who needs a place to hack on their projects or simply wants to chat about their progress. Hackathon: Friday, 29th June until Saturday, 30th June at Kraftwerk, Selnaustrasse 25, 8001 ZürichView map FAQs Do I have to be a "hacker" to join? No! Everyone is welcome to join! Hacking is creative problem solving. It does not have to involve technology. It's very beginner friendly. But I'm really a complete beginner. Can I still come? Of course! Check out this great post by Oleg about getting started with hackathons. The greater the diversity of backgrounds and skills, the more awesome the solutions will be! How much does it cost? Nothing. It is totally free. What is LoRaWAN? It's a wireless technology, much like your regular WiFi, but it's ideal for IoT and battery powered sensors because it has a huge range. Head over to The Things Network website, and check out the LEARN section and the forum. What is civic tech? It is technology that enables citizen engagement. It means citizens building infrastructure for their city, instead of governments building it. That's what The Things Network communities are doing with LoRaWAN in multiple cities of the world, among them, here in Zurich we are part of a community that has already deployed a LoRaWAN network in the city. What hardware will be available to use? We will provide a selection of microcontrollers, sensors and components that we believe are suitable for the challenges. Do we get to keep the provided hardware? Yes. What should I bring to the event? Bring your laptop and your ideas on how to improve your city! Feel free to bring your own hardware (microcontroller, sensors, etc), designs, enclosures, or whatever to help you create a solution for a challenge. The development board is The Things UNO, which has an operating voltage of 5v in case you want to prepare something upfront. Where can I get in touch with other participants? On Slack! If you haven't joined already, sign up for it. A large part of communication during the event will happen there! How do I get to the location? We recommend to use public transport to get to the event. The location is a few steps away from train, tram and bus stations. Is there a code of conduct? Yes, there is. How can I contact the organizer if I have questions? Get in touch with us via email info@makezurich.ch or via twitter @makezurich. I want to be a sponsor! Awesome! Contact us via email info@makezurich.ch!

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

+ We promise you won't be the only woman in the room and in your group! + Sleep hard, work even harder from 8am to 8 pm. We know you'll perform better after a recovering sleep. + On top of usual tech talks, our sponsors and partners will provide numerous female mentors on site, who are specialists and leaders in their domains. + Childcare for parents who need a babysitter & Coding 4 Kids for every girl and boy 4+ to will learn the principles of coding in a playful way.

Never been to a hackathon? Or been to one but would love to attend pitch training, or hands-on blockchain and machine learning workshops? This will be perfect for you! The info event will happen 3 weeks before the hackathon Hack'n'Lead. Come by and we will tell you how to make the most of this experience! What is Hack'n'Lead? Hack'n'Lead is the first women-friendly hackathon in Switzerland happening in Zurich in June. We believe that the world needs more female leaders, therefore we made a great effort to re-invent the concept of hackathons. See our website for more details. What is Hack'n'Lead Prep Event? We invite anyone interested in applying to Hack'n'Lead to this preparatory event. It will not only help you find your feet in the hackathon event format but also enrich your skillset with fun technical workshops. Program - General introduction to hackathons,- Google intro into Machine Learning: Code Lab workshop,- Validity Labs on blockchains & coding smart contracts,- Pitch trainingMore info1. General intro- info about Hack'n'Lead,- application procedure,- benefits of taking part in hackathons explained.2. Machine Learning with Google: 1h educational session on ML during the prep event.(more details soon)3. Blockchains & smart contracts by Validity Labs- a practical introduction to coding smart contracts even for people that have never been in touch with blockchain;- basics about the smart contract language Solidity and development tools,- deployment of your first smart contract on the Ethereum blockchain.4. Pitch Training(more details soon)www.hackandlead.comWhat to bring charged (!) laptop, charger, interest in attending Hack'n'Lead, confirmation from EventbriteDISCLAIMER: Pictures help us tell our story and secure funding for future events. By attending this event, you consent to be photographed, filmed and/or otherwise recorded. Your entry constitutes your consent to any use of such photography, filming and/or recording in connection with the undertakings of women++.

Melonport is hosting a hackathon and we would like to invite our fellow members of the blockchain community to join us as we build the future system for asset management together! We would like to invite anyone within the community who is interested in using The Melon Protocol for future business cases to come and experiment with us, learn from us, and contribute! Together, let’s reinvent the world of finance.

We are hosting a hackathon this May 17 - 19 with the theme 'Reinvent Finance' and we would love to see you there!A total of CHF 50 000 (paid in MLN tokens) will be awarded to the winners of the hackathon. Out of this CHF 50 000, the grand prize for the overall winner will be CHF 25 000 (paid in MLN tokens).Want to participate?Sign up here: http://hackathon.melonport.com/We welcome all developers and members of the blockchain community to come and join us as we shape the future of digital asset management together! Developers will be working on specific solutions aiming to solve current problems in the financial industry using the Melon Protocol. (Experience in coding required for most topics, blockchain specific knowledge not required).Topics include:Compliance-KYC/AML-Legal-Risk ManagementFront-End and Design-UX/UIPerformance Enhancements-Light Client-NetworkingAsset Managers-Trading BotFreestyle-Choose your own topic(deadline for submission of these topics for approval from our team ofdevelopers is May 10).The event begins on Thursday, 17th May 2018, at 17:00 with a meet-and-greet for the attendees, followed by opening presentations by some interesting minds in the crypto space. Then.... the coding begins! You have time until Sunday at the closing time of 14:00 to deliver your product. The prize ceremony and closing social event will follow.The event will take place at the Lucerne University of Applied Sciences in Zug/Rotkreuz (Switzerland). During this 3-day event, developers get to put their skills and knowledge to practice at real life applications in the blockchain asset management industry,Help us remove the inefficient tasks of day-to-day back office administration and replace them with automated smart contracts, so you can focus on the things you really want to do: like investing!We look forward to seeing you there,The Melon Team

Join us for a pre-reception in Zürich where we celebrate the future of Artificial Intelligence, and reflect on how it will help ensure that Switzerland keeps pace with the World as it becomes ever more connected. CHAI 2018 is a series of Artificial Intelligence (AI) hackathons which occurs in Switzerland to dovetail with the invite-only MindFire Global Missions. CHAI 1 is an opportunity to ideate new AI solutions by providing the time to soundboard and test them with world-class AI experts in Davos. At CHAI 2, we provide leading experts to help build-out working prototypes for the best ideas from CHAI 1. Hack Outliers work to assist clients in solving big problems and testing new ideas. We put together world-class hackathons by tapping our international expertise and partners, to help make the use of technology more exciting and better than what exists today. We adapt the traditional hackathon approach to encourage deep problem solving – so if you have an inquisitive mind and a growth mindset within your organisation, then our hackathons are for you.

In this hackathon, we are designing the future of Advanced Cell Classifier and CellProfiler Analyst. Our goal is to build easy-to-use machine learning tools for the biological community. Build on tensorflow.js and react, we are aiming to design a fast and beautiful web-based classifier. Your data never leaves the browser. Join us!

Change the future of beer! The Beer Hackathon will inspire developers to focus on performance and concepts, not just functionality. The challenges pertain to packaging, transportation, technology and more. The winner concept will get the opportunity to participate in the Swiss Startup Factory Accelerator batch, a three month program aiming to bring your idea to reality!

1st Swiss-UN Day / 1. Schweiz-UNO Tagung / 1ère Journée Suisse-ONU, 23.03.2018University of Bern, UniS 8:45-9:15          Registration and coffee 9:20-9:30         Welcome remarks by Sebastian Justiniano Bircher, Chairman, Gesellschaft Schweiz-UNO (FR-DE-ENG) 9:30-9:45Opening Speech by Prof. Joseph Deiss, former Federal Councillor, former President of the UN General Assembly, Honorary Chairman United Nations Association Switzerland (FR) 9:45-10:00The UN and Switzerland in a time of feminism and “hackathons”Emilia Pasquier, Director, Foraus (DE) 10:05-11:20Panel Reconciling environmental limits and economic growth. Is the UN fit for purpose? Switzerland in international environmental negotiations: a bridge-builder for a better world?Ambassador Franz Perrez, Federal Office for the Environment (DE) Economic effects of natural disasters: what we know and what this implies for policy Prof. Eric Strobl, Chair Environmental Economics, University of Bern (EN) Building institutional architectures that support integrative implementation of the 2030 Agenda Tatjana von Steiger, Deputy Assistant Director General, Global Cooperation, Swiss Development Cooperation (DE) Tackling environmental challenges in the UN and beyond: views of a young generation Océane Dayer, Project Manager Agriculture and Politics, WWF Switzerland/ Founder-President, Swiss Youth for Climate (DE) Moderator: Prof. Thomas Breu, Director, Centre for Development and Environment, University of Bern (DE) 11:30-12:50Panel The UN and the support for economic development – below the radar of high politics The WIPO development agenda (FR) Georges Ghandour, World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) Cooperating with the ILO to support better working conditions along the value chain Monica Rubiolo, Swiss Secretariat for Economic Affairs (DE) Making the international investment regime work for sustainable development: UNCTAD's reform package Elisabeth Tuerk, United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (DE) International Telecommunication Union: Developing countries and the digital divide Fernando Rivera, International Telecommunication Union (FR) Moderator: Prof. Damian Raess (FR) 12:50-14:00Lunch Break 14:00-15:20Panel: Towards reaching an internationally actionable plan on migration withAmb. Pietro Mona, Swiss Development Cooperation (DE) Disasters, climate change and the Global Compact on Migration Prof. Walter Kälin (DE) Beyond statism: regions and cities in global migration governance Prof. Sandra Lavenex, Global Studies Institute, University of Geneva (DE) Moderator: PD Dr. Marion Panizzon, Institute for Public Law (Institut für öffentliches Recht), University of Bern (DE) 15:30-16:50High-Level Roundtable: UN institutional reform and the place of Switzerland in the UN  Mr. Carlo Sommaruga, Member of the Foreign Affairs Committee, Swiss Parliament (FR) Amb. Thomas Gass, Director, South Cooperation, Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (EN) Prof. Thomas Biersteker, Global Governance Center, Graduate Institute (EN) Mr. Salman Bal, Chief Political Affairs and Partnerships, Office of the Director-General, United Nations Office at Geneva Moderator: Prof. Manfred Elsig, Deputy Managing Director, World Trade Institute (EN) 16:50-18:00Drinks reception (apéro)