List of hackathons in Australia in 2016

This night hackathon includes fun, games, music and amazing prizes while getting to know a bit more about the world around you. You will discover the fun side of Pakistan which not many are familiar with. Come along with your friends, by yourself or with your family, there will also be activities for kids. The main focus of this event will lie on entertainment, then on to ideathons, networking and finally the hackathon.

This is a hackathon where teams of designers, developers, tinkerers and thinkers are invited to get together and build something from start to finish in just 24 hours. You are free to create any technology you like including apps, software or physical products. At the end of the weekend, teams will be asked to pitch their ideas and completed products to a panel of notable judges. There will be a cash prize for overall winner.

It’s back, bigger & better than ever: The 2016 Tanda Hackathon! This year we’re doing things a bit differently, and co-inciding the hackathon with the launch of our official Tanda API. As always, you’ll also get a heap of data to play with. So get together as a team and build something cool - there will be prizes for the best project, and we’ll be featuring projects that use the API on the add-ons directory on our site. The lucrative Tanda Selfie Competition will also be back. Bring your blue steel. Your ticket gets you free food, drinks, and a place to work for the entire event. All you need is a laptop charger. And as usual, all ticket proceeds will go back to IT and programming clubs at local unis. Read more about what is a hackathon? Interview with attendees from last year's event  Check out all the photos from last year! Read more about our awesome 2015 Hackathon: Our post-event wrap up blog post A great blog post by Keran Mackenzie, one of the judges Interview with hackathon runner-up, Kelsey-Lee Stay How does it work? About a week before... we'll have an info night where we step you through the API and answer any questions you might have. Friday 22 April 6:00 - Registration & beers. Arrive at Tanda HQ and get checked in. We’ll have a keg and plenty of food. 7:00 - Welcome. We’ll brief you on what the next 24 hours holds, and introduce judges and mentors there to help out. 7:30 - Team forming. Pitch your idea, form into teams, and start hacking. Saturday 23 April 8:30 - Doors open. Get some work done before brekky. 9:00 - Start the day right with a filling continental breakfast. 12:30 - Lunch is on us. Get keen, get fed. 6:00 - Presentations and judging. Dinner, as usual, is on us. 7:00 - Awards and beers. 9:00 - Go home... or to a pub across the road. Judges: Brett Hooker Group Director of Research & Development @ TechnologyOne Brett Hooker is recognised as one of Australia’s leading IT professionals with more than 25 years of experience in the national and international sectors. His specialty lies in international scale business applications and software technology. As Group R&D Director of the Brisbane-based software firm TechnologyOne, Brett delivers up-to-date enterprise software for organisations all around the world, and in particular is responsible for the redevelopment of TechnologyOne’s applications for delivery on the Cloud. Adrian Karzon Group Technology Manager @ Indoor Skydive Australia Group Having a mixed background in Finance & IT has lead Adrian to hold a variety of roles within the leisure industry including Ardent Leisure and more recently Indoor Skydive Australia Group as Group Technology Manager. He has expertise in designing customer experiences that leverage technology, helping blend the physical and digital worlds and building out information technology strategies that span holistically across an organisation. Adrian’s technology passions lies with digital strategy, IoT and mobility.   Prizes: iFLY Indoor Skydiving Intro Pack This beginner level package includes everything that you need to experience what indoor skydiving is all about. DigitalOcean Credit Deploying an SSD cloud server in just 55 seconds, DigitalOcean is simple cloud computing, built for developers. More awesome prizes coming soon...    Watch this space... We'll continue to update http://hack.tanda.co/ with more information as it gets closer to the event.   

This 54-hour Hackathon will give early career exposure and cross-disciplinary design experiences to ICT, Design, Business and Health students, informed and shaped by experienced clinicians, consumers and carers on contemporary healthcare issues. The challenge will be to design 1st generation concepts and technical prototypes to address a healthcare problem with targeted use of contemporary technology. Participants will develop a strong working understanding of the challenges, constraints and possibilities in an intensive crucible of health and tech curiosity.

This hackathon aaims to help those in need! It will bring together developers, designers, entrepreneurs and community members to develop creative tech solutions to help refugee families settle into the Australian community. Former refugees who have already settled in Australia will participate in the event to help teams deeply understand problems and challenges faced by new settlers and co-design solutions. Prizes will include runner up prize package of $3,000 sponsored by LawPath includes a free company registration, 12 month subscription to 200+ customisable legal documents and a $300 discount off the first legal quote. A free 3 month LawPath account will also be available for all attendees. So what are you waiting for? Come make a difference, have some fun, learn a lot and help to welcome refugees to the Australian community.

PharmHack is a hackathon for the development of innovative ideas that will change the pharmacy industry in Australia today.  Come and be a part of the change!

The Telstra Hackathon is a free weekend-long Hackathon where you will be competing for cool prizes and receive any IP generated during the event.

In an era of Connectedness, we still face rising tides of loneliness, need for authentic connection through our life course and the challenge of preserving vitality. Clinicians, Carers, Consumers and Policymakers are navigating their way through the maze of technology changes + challenges, but need help sorting signal from noise, fact from fiction, progression from stasis and decay. Our Hackathon experience at the University of Newcastle will give early career exposure and cross-disciplinary design experiences to ICT, Design, Business and Health students, informed and shaped by experienced clinicians, consumers and carers on contemporary healthcare issues. Their challenge, over 54hrs, will be to design + develop 1st generation technical prototypes to address a healthcare problem with targeted use of contemporary technology. In doing so, our event attendees will develop a strong working understanding of the challenges, constraints and possibilities in an intensive crucible of health+tech curiosity. Let's work together to see what can be cooked up with the right ingredients of our 5CFocus: Care, Clinical Skills+Experience, Connectedness, Creativity and Cutting Edge technology. Our event winners will be eligible for a range of cash and in-kind incentives from local companies and Sydney technology incubators. An Eventbrite ticket is required from https://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/hacking-healthtech-tickets-21541000713, with event attendee numbers capped at 90 people to fit within our intended venue. However, we're also making remote teaming options possible, so if you want to interact from outside the Hackathon room, you'll still be able to work with embedded teams.

WIRED Monash and UNIHACK are hosting another hackathon. The UNIHACK Mini is a hackathon targeted for first-time hackers, and is only open to Monash University students, including students from Caulfield, Berwick, Parkville and Peninsula, to practice their coding skills while being mentored by the best of the best. Teams of four students will have 27 hours to create a prototype of their idea, and get feedback from mentors before pitching them to a panel of judges. Coders, designers, thinkers regardless of the skill level, come and participate in UNIHACK Mini!

The Unearthed hackathon is a 54-hour long open innovation event for software developers, engineers, data scientists, designers, and industry insiders to come together and develop prototype solutions to energy and resources sector challenges. Participants will have a chance to work on proprietary industry data as well as data from our government partners. Cash prizes and real business opportunities are all up for grabs. There will be a range of challenges from global resources companies as well as proprietary data. If you don’t have a team, you can form one at the prelaunch event and on the opening evening.