List of hackathons in Watsonville, United States in 2016

Developers, Designers, Idea Generators, Industry Experts! Interested in security, banking, finance or transportation? Come participate in the GlobalPlatform TEE Hackathon and develop secure applications on connected devices. Build your own app at the event or bring in your current app where security and privacy are needed. Bring your apps, your team and your ideas to learn, code and compete for cash prizes!

The PINKconcussions Symposium on Female Concussion/TBI and Hormones is co-hosted by the Veterans Adminstration and Defense and Veterans Brain Injury Center (DVBIC) with the purpose to present current research and partner industry, academia and adovcates to set an agenda for future research milestones through a hackathon. There will be a civilian and a military keynote.

2016 Bay Area Code for the Kingdom HACKATHON Presented by Venture Christian Church and Leadership Network  All meals and drinks will be included in the $20 event fee.     Transforming The Bay and Beyond Hackathon Ideate. Build. Impact. Create technology that matters. A hackathon movement to ignite the passion and purpose of technologists and entrepreneurs to innovate culture shaping technologies that would reclaim our times for the Gospel. Engage, envision, challenge, and release the culture makers for sustained impact.   WHAT IS IT? On the weekend of September 23-25, 2016, we are bringing together technologists, entrepreneurs, creative’s, businesspeople, ministry leaders, visionaries, and anyone passionate about faith and technology, to create technologies what would address significant issues confronting society, community, families, and spiritual lives. For more event information, visit, http://codeforthekingdom.org or click here to the Bay Area Hackathon Promo Video.   Together our vision is to provide more opportunities for people like you to use your talent and be the change by addressing a number of challenges aimed at helping release the oppressed, teaching God’s Word, healing the sick, feeding the hungry, clothing the naked, and supporting the church and the body of Christ. WHY ARE WE DOING THIS? We want to catalyze friendship, passion, purpose, and collaboration in technical and entrepreneurial communities. To challenge and release you to create and use 21st century technologies to serve God’s Kingdom. To create a scalable community across the world to accelerate and encourage Christian innovators.  A Bay Area judging panel will choose the awards for best projects SOME OF THE CHALLENGES FROM PREVIOUS CODE FOR THE KINGDOM HACKATHONS INCLUDE: HOW CAN TECHNOLOGY... • be leveraged to create, cultivate, and strengthen society's foundational relationships of marriage, family, friendships? • bring the word of God to the first generation of children who are growing up with mobile devices?  • help cut and/or combat the effects of fatherlessness in a child’s life, in turn strengthening families, reducing poverty and crime?  • foster a culture of generosity towards each other? • identify, promote, test, collaborate, augment, and fill the gaps of ministry programs around the city? • disrupt human trafficking?    Join us on Sept 23-25, 2016 - make new friends, get inspired and build something that matters.    Everyone is welcome regardless of faith or worldviews - come as you are and join-up with a team on the Friday night, or bring a team with you. The Friday will start with food and then individuals / teams will pitch their idea, and invite people to join with them to hack for the weekend.   What can you do? Get some friends together - bring a team - or just come as you are. Think of a product you would like to build.  We can't wait to meet you.    Your Bay Area Organizing Team  For more information visit our full website.   Parking at MixBook.com Park in the parking lot across the street from the Mixbooks.com office building, parking is free.   Event Schedule   Friday, September 23rd 7:00 PM Doors Open  7:00 - 8:00 PM Dinner & Networking  8:00 - 8:25 PM Welcome & Review Format  8:25 - 8:35 PM API Presentations  8:35 - 8:50 PM Review - Official Challenges  8:50 - 9:20 PM Open Floor - pitch your own project  9:20 - 11:59 PM Team Formation/Create Away   Saturday, September 24rd 12:00 AM - 11:59 PM Creating  8:30 AM Breakfast  9:00 AM Schedule and logistics announcements, team rebalancing  12:00 PM Lunch  4:30 p.m.   Optional progress briefing, more developing   6:00 PM Dinner  9:00 AM - 5:00 PM Meet with Mentors and Subject Matter Experts   Sunday, September 25 12:00 - 2:15 PM Creating  8:30 AM Breakfast  10:30 - 11:30 AM Option to join with Sunday Service  12:00 PM Lunch  1:00 PM Presentation Walk-thru & Judges Make Rounds  2:30 PM Submission deadline; Team Presentations Begin  4:30 PM Judges adjourn  4:50 PM Call-back  5:00 PM Awards Ceremony 5:30 PM Closing

Interested in solutions to address homelessness? Come participate in the Hack Homelessness Hackathon. You'll be immersed in the problems facing the homeless in the Bay Area and inspired to come up with creative solutions to those problems. If you're up to hack for a great cause register for the Hack Homelessness Hackathon!

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.