List of hackathons in Lakeland, United States in 2017

Developers and designers from the military, academia, and industry! Are you interested in wearable technologies for use in austere environments such as remote medical facilities, conflict zones, and emergency/disaster response? MD5 -- the Department of Defense's National Security Technology Accelerator -- and Sofwerx invite you to participate in MD5: Hacking the Human Element -- a 3-day event that focuses on wearables and their applications. Collaborate to design and build an innovative application and present it to a panel of judges for a chance to win recognition and up to $15K to further develop your project.

The second annual #SRQHacks Hackathon will expose and equip 13-18 year old students with the skills and knowledge to pursue potential careers within the Computer Science and Business fields. Students connect with mentors from the Technology, Design and Business industries to brainstorm, build and pitch a mobile app that addresses a community issue like mental health, homelessness, safety, youth engagement and more. Event Schedule Friday, October 13, 2017 - 5:00-9:00pmSaturday, October 14, 2017 - 8:00am-8:00pmSunday, October 15, 2017 - 8:00am-3:00pm Students and Mentors are required to commit to the entire weekend if they wish to participate - If you cannot commit to the full event, please consider signing up as a volunteer! Click here for more information. Please email jsams@edfoundationsrq.org or call 941-927-0965 with any questions.

Designers, programmers, game engine and UX/UI experts, designers, and other techies in the Tampa Bay area! Do you want to help combat the Zika virus? Code for Tampa Bay invites you to sign up to participate in -- a community-powered civic hackathon to write apps which to help the Hillsborough County Public Works Mosquito Control District fight mosquitoes through education, data collection, and analysis. You'll get to address one of the following challenges: Mosquito Education Computer Game, Digital Inspector (reduce county staff time spent on service calls), Spray Truck Router, or Zone Picker (select daily spray zones based on relevant data).

Hack Hospitality is a weekend long deep dive into the problems that some of the leading companies in the Hospitality industry are trying to solve. Our hackathon will bring together the best builders and problem solvers in the Tampa Bay technology community to create real solutions for challenges presented by select companies in the Hospitality industry. Every participant will receive 7 meals throughout the weekend, caffeine, alcohol, swag, a t-shirt, and has a chance to bring home the $3,000 cash prize brought to you by our event sponsor, Sourcetoad.  This will be the last hackathon to happen at The Iron Yard Tampa Bay so let's send them out with a bang! Check out tampabayhackathon.com for more details.  Friday – August 25th:Hackathon begins and teams finalize. Partners detail their challenges. Teams start building.Saturday – August 26th: Teams work on solutions and company partners are available to answer questions.Sunday – August 27th: Teams finish their projects and pitch solutions to the judges. Winners are chosen. Afterparty! This event places a heavy focus on building functional solutions so developers, designers, and non-technical people with experience in hospitality or technology are encouraged to attend. These tickets operate on the honor system. If you buy a developer or designer type and your team finds out that you have no technical skills you may be asked to leave the team and potentially the event. If you're interested in learning development or participating in a less technical event the organizers will be happy to point you in the right direction.  

Orlando Tech Community,  Come out and join us as we kick-off the "Smartest City Challenge" to support the City of Orlando's Smart City initiative. This will be the formal announcement from OTAB and the City of Orlando for the Aug. 26th - 27th hackathon being held at UCF. We encourage you to join us and to push the boundaries of creativity, innovation, reality, and tech to build solutions and concepts that have the potential to make a difference in our community and in the city of Orlando. Our goal is to provide support to the city of Orlando in its efforts in becoming a Smart City and also showing our capabilities as a community in becoming “The Smartest City”.  To start off the evening we will have a presentation from Chris Castro, Director of Sustainability and Co-chair of Smart Cities for the City of Orlando. We will then proceed with an overview of The Smartest City Challenge and our overall goal as a community. Our mentors will also be introduced as well as our supporting partners. Food and drinks will be provided for those in attendance and we encourage the tech community and those interested in the future of our city and businesses to join this conversation.  For more information and to sign up to participate or to become a mentor please visit the contest page. We look forward to seeing you next week as we kick off this great challenge. If you are looking to get involved to help support this event please contact us at info@techandbeers.com.  Sincerely, OTAB

Orlando Tech is excited to announce  Launch Orlando Momentum. Organized by Orlando Tech Association in conjunction with the Orlando Regional Chamber of Commerce, Launch Orlando Momentum is a weekend of civic problem solving, bringing together creative thinkers from Orlando's non-profit, business, and tech communities. We call it "civic hacking" but not a "hackathon" because technology is only part of the solutions we'll bring to this purposeful community engagement. Hosted at Credo Conduit, participants from Orlando's tech and business communities will gather with community organizations dedicated to making our city one we are all proud to call home. We asked independent community organizations doing well by doing good every day in the City Beautiful to identify a real and immediate need they face and submit it to us as a challenge. We asked them to think big, and to be prepared to describe the desired outcome as produced by a well-crafted solution that requires technical expertise they don’t have on staff.   We invite YOU -  developers, designers, marketers, instructional designers, HR directors, accountants, sales wizards, customer service mavens, and other professional movers, shakers, doers. Whatever your specialty and experience, we welcome your unique perspectives as creative thinkers to ensure the best results as we address the challenges introduced by our participating community organizations on Friday evening.   Through the weekend we'll develop customized solutions to the presented challenges. We'll define viable use cases that our teams of diverse experience – organizational domain expertise, applied business and technology savvy  - will prototype and test by Sunday evening when our teams present their results to the judges.  Come discover your creative power for building community good. Join us for this  rewarding weekend of collective engagement toward a more collaborative, more inclusive, more connected Orlando.

BizSprint Operation Startup (OPSU)*, in partnership with Hillsborough County, Hillsborough Community College, SOFWERX, Entrepreneur Collaborative Center, Code for Tampa Bay Brigade, and The Iron Yard, presents BizSprint, an event to bring Military Veteran Entrepreneurs** together with Business Development Teams (BDT)*** will work together to further develop their Veteran Owned Businesses. BizSprint is a hybrid Hackathon/Startup Weekend that will begin with pitches by Vetrepreneurs** to BDTs. Vetrepreneurs will follow two tracks: those whose pitches are selected will begin working with the BDT; those not selected will be provided with mentorship, training and resources to refine their pitches and business design. Who: Military Veteran Entrepreneurs and Business Development Professionals What: A business development hackathon Where/When: 21 July:   5pm-10pm @ SOFWERX, 1320 E 9th Ave Suite 100, Tampa, FL 33605 22 July:  8am-6pm @ OPSU @ the ECC, 2101 E Palm Ave, Tampa, FL 33605 22 July:  After party @ Bad Monkey, 1717 E 7th Ave, Tampa, FL 33605 Why: To help Vetrepreneurs further develop their business concepts How to get involved: 1)     Word!  Help spread the word about Operation Startup and the BizSprint which are designed to support Veterans and their families after they have served our Nation.  Nearly one in four active duty service members and Veterans want to open and operate their own business. Opportunity, freedom, and solving problems attract them to the challenge of entrepreneurship. 2)     Sponsor!  We are looking for sponsors to support our aspiring Vetrepreneurs.  Let’s help our Veterans and their family secure economic success post military service through entrepreneurship! 3)     Participate! Have you struggled to find a way to give back to our Nation’s Heroes other than a monetary donation to a non-profit?  This is a great opportunity to get to know our Veteran community and network with like-minded Entrepreneurs! Register at EventBrite as a Sponsor, Vetrepreneur, Business Development Team Member, or audience member.   * Operation Startup (OPSU) is a startup lab for Military Veterans, Service Members, Spouses and social entrepreneurs. **Military Veteran Entrepreneur and Vetrepreneur is defined as a business owned by a:  Military Veteran, Active Duty Service Member in transition, Reservist, National Guardsman, or Spouse.  Eligible companies must be minimally 50% owned by a Military Veteran Entrepreneur.  If you are a Vetrepreneur planning to pitch please email TPC-Vellis@hccfl.edu, asap.   ***Business Development Team Member is a business professional who has skill or knowledge that could support the success of any business.  Some professions are listed below, BUT are not limited to this list. Feel free to contact organizers with questions. Business Generalist, Business Development Experts, Designers, Coders, Technologist, Chemist, Engineers, Financial Experts, Marketing Experts, Prototyping Experts. 

Calling all Automation Nation innovators! Today, the ability to create a more seamless experience with your software solutions is easier than ever. And we want you to show us just how easy it can be to extend the functionality of ConnectWise Automate. During Automation Nation 2017, we’re giving you the opportunity to show off your skills and enhance your ConnectWise Automate experience by utilizing the SDK. Demonstrate how you can unleash innovation, take ConnectWise Automate out of the box and solve for your specific business challenges. What you are solving for For the Hackathon, we will have a few scenarios for a team of technology integrators to solve for using our latest and greatest SDK.  Contestants will have the opportunity to attend a pre-day session to learn more about the Ignite Manager and the Computer screen from an Automate Developer.  Time to take the Computer Management screen and Ignite Manager to the next level! Judging the Integration All integrations will be judged on the following criteria: Technical Difficulty UI Usefulness Business Potential Overall Quality The Contestants Individuals or teams of up to three can take on the challenge and participate in our first ever Automation Nation Hackathon. Here’s how it works: 1. Register!  2. We'll send you a link for a dedicated pre event webinar full of tips and tricks to get your ready for action  3. Receive the scenarios via email 4. Show up to the Solutions Pavilion  5. Code for two days  6. Present how you took ConnectWise Automate out of the box to our esteemed Judge’s panel 7. Win some seriously awesome stuff including a free spot to Automation Nation 2018 8. Go back to the office and wow your team with your awesomeness Please note: participants should have some knowledge of the ConnectWise Automate SDK (ConnectWise.com/developer) VB.NET or C# and Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF), participants are able to code outside designated Hackathon hours but must be present for entire Hackathon event.  You can participate in both the Scriptathon and Hackathon! Questions? Send a note to Platform@ConnectWise.com. We look forward to seeing you there!

Come join the global community focused on telecom application development. Discover the latest ways to add telecommunications to your application, service or business to solve global and / or local problems that matter to you. TADHack is the only global meeting place for people (hackers, hustlers and hipsters: developers, business-types, and designers) who want to learn, share, code and create using the tools and technologies available in telecommunications. Our first mini-hackathon of 2017 will take place the weekend before Enterprise Connect 2017 in Orlando.  Developers who hack at TADHack get 50% off the onsite price for the Enterprise Connect Orlando 2017 conference (use code ECHACK17 when registering).  Winners and runners up from TADHack-mini Orlando will pitch at Enterprise Connect for even greater exposure!

Students at the University of South Florida and surrounding schools! Manufacturing firm Jabil Circuit, Inc. invites you to participate in the Jabil Hackathon 2017 "ChatBots Assisting in the Manufacturing World". You'll be challenged to design and create chatbots for use in the manufacturing sector. Your chatbots will act like a knowledge base, or intelligent assistant for factory and shop floor operators.