List of hackathons in Salinas, United States in 2016

Whether you are a bootstrapped founder, engineer, doctor, PhD scientist, business hacker, or student, you are invited to join this must attend Hackathon. Global Startup Hackathon is open to anyone who is planning to start, work, mentor or fund a startup. If you are seeking to launch a startup across a large market, you will enjoy this chance to mingle and network with potential co-founder, partner, corporate clients or investors along top industry domain experts. This event will focus on Digital, IoT, Health/BioTech, CleanTech, or Media.

Banking Executives, Fintech Innovators, Venture Investors! Come participate at Silicon Valley Innovation Center's "Banking Disrupted" Summit and meet face-to-face with leading innovators and disruptors from Silicon Valley to discuss the threats and opportunities arising from emerging technologies. Don’t miss your chance to become a part of this powerful dialogue. Gain valuable insights and make meaningful connections that might define the future of your business!

European Innovation Day is the flagship pan-European conference in Silicon Valley, where fluid conversations and networking between high profile stakeholders from both continents occur. Investors and corporates meet policy makers and the best scaleups (growth stage companies - the next unicorns) and leading entrepreneurs from the EU. 2016 key topics include: ⇒Encryption, Privacy, and Security ⇒CRUNCH SEC2SV - The launch of a report on exits between EU & US (A study by Crunchbase and MTB) ⇒Open Innovation - The launch of a public directory of EU corporate outposts in SV ⇒The next EU Unicorns ⇒Scaling up the Shared Economy ⇒Digitizing European Industry ⇒Gender Equality - Women 2.0 ⇒Policy Hackathon - by Dell inc.

If you like free hardware, learning about the internet of things, or data collection from web capable sensors, then consider attending the AT&T IoT Coding workshop. AT&T has partnered with AnnieCannons to supply Texas Instruments MSP432 LaunchPad and CC3100 SimpleLink Wi-Fi BoosterPack Internet-connected development boards for each attendee, and will be teaching how to use the above hardware in useful applications.

Watch the "Iron Chef meets Real Food" Hackathon where students and guest chefs compete for the prestigious Golden Fork Award. Gather in the beautiful Palo Alto Media Arts Center for a conversation on how anyone can become an advocate and educator in the fight against excess sugar and processed foods.

Come and join the U.S. Bank Small Business Hackathon. Developer teams will be asked to leverage U.S. Bank and MasterCard APIs to create innovative solutions that improve productivity, financial stability and customer experience for all small businesses.

CHIME FOR CHANGE, Global Citizen, and Facebook—with support from Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers—are hosting CHIMEHACK 3, The two-day hackathon at Facebook’s headquarters. The event will bring together hackers along with issue experts and non-profit leaders to create tech-driven solutions focused on gender equality. Participate to identify ways for disruptive technology to advance solutions for reporting and eliminating violence against women.

Techie kids! Ask your parents if you can participate in Hack the Future? It's an all-day hackathon to show you what it's like to be a hacker and see if it's for you. You'll be free to work on whatever you want. There will be experts who will give you a place to start (if you want one) and try to keep you from getting stuck! This is a unique opportunity to learn about state-of-the-art software, hardware design, and engineering from mentors working for Bay Area startups as well as big companies like Google, Nvidia, Intel, Facebook, and Microsoft.

Plug and Play, a Silicon Valley tech startup accelerator is co-hosting a Hackathon with Philips. Teams of 3-4 students are invited to compete in creating the best software solution to a B2B and B2C hardware problem.

Are you ready to accept the challenge of NGA's Expedition: Hackathon? There are mountains of data collected on everything -- from day-to-day activities such as pulling directions to the grocery store, to specialized data for first responders attending a disaster zone. Much of this data sits unused! The National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) is looking for the best data explorers and developer storytellers in the US to find stories lying in these disparate databases. Using the heaping piles of data made available at the hackathon, your challenge is to develop your next generation geospatial story that educates and demonstrates data exploration at its finest!