List of hackathons in Watsonville, United States in 2016

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!

Ready to make waves in point of sale? Participate in Verifone's first-ever Appathon. Create innovative customer and merchant apps for Verifone devices at a 2-day learning and building event. Learn about Verifone's best-in-class developer tools and be the first to build apps for the new App Marketplace. Three grand prize winners will have their app published in Verifone's App Marketplace, in addition to press coverage and showcase during Money20/20 in Las Vegas. This is a unique opportunity to create business applications, and develop for Verifone before the App Marketplace or its dev tools are formally released.

Developers, Project Managers! Sign up for Codegeist 2016: Atlassian's Add-on Hackathon! Your challenge is to build an innovative new add-on or integration that helps software teams, business teams, and IT teams work together better with Atlassian products. There are no limits to what you can build for Codegeist 2016. Compete for prizes for the best integration, best data center add-on, and best add-on for software, IT, and business teams. You'll make a huge impact on how teams around the world get stuff done. Most Atlassian customers use add-ons, and soon they could be using yours.

Sign up for the IBM Hack Night @ Hacker Dojo for an intro to the Insights for Weather API and example applications that can be created on IBM Bluemix. The Insights for Weather API provides weather data from the Weather Channel service. Spend the rest of the evening working in groups or on your own and build something cool to show off. All skill levels are welcome to join. A laptop, a willingness to try something new and meet a new friend, is all that is required.

iOS Dev Camp 2016: Wearables and Civic Engagement 500 developers, designers, entrepreneurs, and testers are invited to come together for a 3-day hackathon for iOS and related applications on the eBay Campus, San Jose, CA. It is set to be the most vibrant hackathon ever thanks to Apple Watch, Apple TV, and the upcoming releases at WWDC 2016.

Come, listen, learn and interact at the AI Meetup with Baidu Research: →Q&A with Baidu Chief Scientist Andrew Ng →Presentations from researchers from Baidu's Silicon Valley AI Lab •Bryan Catanzaro on HPC and Deep Learning •Eric Battenberg on Baidu's Deep Speech 2

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.