List of hackathons in Australia in 2016

Interested in making waves in the energy sector? Come participate in the Energy Hackathon. You'll get access to data, experiment with new forecasting and machine learning methods, test your ideas with business mentors. Collaborate with like-minded hackers and experts from the Powershop and Melbourne Energy Institute teams. You'll have the opportunity to create solutions to challenges such as: »The Virtual Powerplant »Electric Vehicles, and »Community Power

Want to use technology to help break down the barriers to female entrepreneurship? Want to help more women enter and succeed in the technology sector? Come and participate in the Lady Problem Global Hackathon Series in Sydney! Collaborate with like-minded women—and men—in an effort to build creative digital solutions to realize the potential of the female half of our world population! You'll be asked to hack a solution to one of the following challenges: Health: Help women access health resources to ensure that they can have successful careers, regardless of whether or not they choose to have children. Safety: Help ensure that women can be safe when they; go to, are at, and come home from, work. Economic Empowerment: Help women gain financial literacy and access the resources they need to grow their businesses. Culture: Help women access better mentorship and feel less isolated in the workplace. Sydney's winning team will be inducted into AngelHack’s Social Good Accelerator, a 12-week mentorship and acceleration program. For insights on hackathon participation, <go to our expert advice page!

Healthcare researchers, professionals, students, software developers, educators, storytellers, engineers, data geeks, and designers! Sign up today to participate in HealthHack 2016 Canberra! You'll spend an exciting weekend helping create awesome technology solutions that address important problems in health and medical research! Answers to commonly-asked hackathon questions can be found on the tips page!

Healthtech hackers and health professionals in Queensland! HealthHack Australia invites you to participate in HealthHack 2016 Brisbane—a non-profit, volunteer-led initiative focused on creating solutions in the health and medical research fields. Grab a team or show up solo and be prepared for a 48-hour frenzy of coding, building, hacking, and presenting with like-minded individuals! Each team will work together on an interesting, health-related problem set forth by experts from non-profits, and facilitators will help with questions and problems through the event. Check the hackathon expert tips pagefor useful info on HealthHack 2016!

Healthtech hackers, researchers, and health professionals in the Greater Sydney Area! HealthHack Australia invites you to participate in HealthHack 2016 Sydney—a non-profit, volunteer-led initiative focused on creating solutions in the health and medical research fields. Come with a team or show up solo and be prepared for a 48-hour frenzy of coding, building, hacking, and presenting with like-minded individuals! Each team will work together on a challenging health-related problem presented by a non-profit organization, and facilitators will help with questions and problems through the event. Visit the hackathon tips page for the best advice on how to participate at HealthHack 2016 Sydney!

Healthtech techies, professionals, and researchers in Perth and across Western Australia! HealthHack Australia invites you to participate in the Perth edition of HealthHack 2016—a non-profit, volunteer-led initiative focused on creating solutions in the health and medical research fields. Come with a team—or form one at the event—and participate in a 48-hour frenzy of coding, building, hacking! Each team will work together on an interesting, health-related problem set forth by experts from non-profits, and facilitators will help with questions and problems through the event. Check the hackathon expert tips page for useful info on HealthHack 2016!

Data visualisers, designers, UX-pros, developers, and all healthcare techies in the Melbourne Area! HealthHack Australia invites you to participate in HealthHack 2016 Melbourne—a weekend-long event focused on creating solutions in the health and medical research fields. Come on your own or with a team and participate in a 48-hour frenzy of coding, building, hacking, and presenting with like-minded individuals! Each team will work together—building mashups, data visualisation, and apps—on a challenging medical research problem. If you need answers to your hackathon questions, then visit the tips page!

Software developers, engineers, data scientists, designers, and industry insiders in the energy/resources sector in and around Melbourne! Unearthed Solutions invites you to participate in Unearthed Melbourne 2017. At this weekend-long hackathon, you'll get to collaborate with like-minded professionals. With access to proprietary industry data, as well as data from government partners, you'll be challenged to solve a meaningful global resources challenge. Come with a team, or join one at the event and compete for awesome prizes. Winning projects will also be given the opportunity for support for accelerated growth. Prepare yourselfwith the best hackathon advice!

Flux is Australia's first hackathon to explore the future of human behaviour. We'll be exploring the role of people, culture and creativity in designing a better tomorrow and examining questions like; where are human beings going? What can we do to improve or enhance human life and happiness? and how might we hack culture? There will also be some epic prizes including a fully-funded two-week mission to Silicon Valley in November which includes spending time with the likes of Facebook, Google, Twitter, and Airbnb and rubbing shoulders with Aussie tech entrepreneurs and investors in Silicon Valley. Launch party: 6pm Thursday 13th October Hackathon: 14th & 15th Oct 

Project Management professionals! Do you want to be at the cutting edge of project management best practices? Come and participate in the GAPPS project hackathon at the upcoming GAPPS TLF36 Thought Leadership Forum. Share your ideas, energy, and insights to challenge current practice and design project futures. Collaborate with academics and practitioners to share knowledge and work together to build open source tools, that can be shared with the wider project management community.