List of hackathons in Palo Alto, United States in 2016

This event is open to all UX designers, Full Stack Developers (all levels), UAV hobbyists, ROS experience a plus, Data Scientists, as well as to navy service members and the public. Your mission will be to broaden the Navy cyber community and include a broader community of source code programmers and developers. The Naval Postgraduate School set a world record last year for flying the largest swarm of drones ever controlled by a common code base. This control system is now coming to San Francisco for you to hack!

Women in Security and Privacy (WISP) is partnering up with Security Innovation, to bring you the "find the vulnerabilities" game which teaches the importance of secure coding. This CMD+CTRL Web Application Hackathon is a great opportunity for you to learn the importance of secure coding best practices. It features three authentic and intentionally vulnerable websites. Challenges will be ranging from common vulnerabilities like SQL injection to more difficult challenges like cipher cracking puzzles. You will be encouraged to break into someone else's account, transfer or steal money, add items to your shopping cart and buy them at zero cost, and uncover secret information like your boss's salary!

Students and professional developers across the Bay Area! Come and participate in HACK-AN-APP—AdsNative’s first ever Hackathon. Your goal will be to hack an effective, elegant and scalable ad experience into your favorite app. Be part of the conversation about AdsNative products and the future of digital advertising.

Join this hackathon for a 2-day conference for one of the largest communities of design and engineering software developers in the world. Be among the first to learn, experience and use the next generation of Autodesk Cloud Services, a set of web services, APIs and SDKs that span early stage design, engineering, simulation, visualization collaboration, production and operations. Attendees can mix and match between Virtual Reality/Augmented Reality, Internet of Things, AEC, Manufacturing with 3D printers, and Business Development.

Join this conference to share, learn, discuss, innovate and celebrate all things Open edX! The event will be covering Keynotes, 40 minute talks and panels, and lightning talks. There will be Hands-on tutorials and workshops, hackathon kickoff and finally the hackathon and hackathon presentations.

Join the Mobile App Hackathon for an event designed for developers interested in coding mobile apps or hacking hardware solutions. Hack hardware, build mobile apps, get fed, compete for prizes across different categories and most importantly, meet new people and scout for teammates to work on new or current projects. There will be experts from AT&T and the local community onsite to assist with your development. Please bring your laptop, skills & ideas!

This event is open to anyone who is planning to start, work, mentor or fund a startup. If you are seeking to launch a startup across this industry, you will enjoy this chance to mingle and network with potential co-founder, partner or investors along top industry experts. Startups founders will be asked to pitch their project, the demo table is open to any startup at any stage within this industry, and related service providers. If you are a bootstrapped founder, engineer, business hacker, student, or mentor interested in tech, then you are invited to this must attend event. Examples of work to be completed during hackathon are: A) - Team have a very complex solution to a very large market and cannot create an MVP in two days and submit/add it to your application b) - Team has a very simple solution to common problem and can create an MVP in two days and submit/add it to your application

The Future of Encryption, Housing, and Regulation is organized by Data4America bringing together the smartest minds in policy and technology. The event will feature two fireside chats along with a networking reception. Blake Masters will host the discussion with Keith Rabois. Kim-Mai Culter will moderate a conversations with Scott Wiener. The Co-Hosts is Lincoln Initiative, an educational non-profit bringing data science and data visualization to the understanding of politics. So come along, listen, learn, network, and exchange ideas!

Virtual reality technologists, creatives and makers! Come attend #VARForum : WOMEN in VR (Virtual+Reality). Learn from inspiring women Virtual Reality innovators about their successes, leadership styles, tech talents and creativity. V+AR Forum aims to focus on the different sides of production and applications. Through panel talks and demos, the forum is an opportunity to transform ideas on workplace diversity, design adaptations, and social experiences into real solutions.

Developers, data engineers and scientists! Come and show the world how you can do more with Spark! Build an Apache Spark™ app to address a real business problem related to customer care, marketing, risk management, or operations. Your app should be something that a business’s stakeholders could use and deploy in the future.