List of hackathons in Australia in 2017

This HR Hackathon is a forum for new ideas on how we can supercharge recognition to power cultural outcomes for today’s global business. With the growing trend of disparate workforces, increasing availability of new communication technologies and shifting organisational cultures: how do we harness recognition to make it count? We all know that recognition helps to engage employees at all levels, champion positive behaviours and drives real business outcomes. With the right recognition systems, we can make work a better place for everyone from frontline staff to CEOs and boost performance in the process. In this non-technical HR Hackathon, your team will develop a disruptive workforce recognition solution and go head-to-head with like-minded thought leaders in this space. Whether you are a CEO, HR practitioner, people manager or anyone in between, we are seeking a diverse range of participants who have something to say about talent, culture and technology. Let's get recognition back on our radars with innovative ideas and fresh perspectives, to empower employees across global workplaces.  The Perks: This is a great opportunity for anyone looking to make their mark on workplace recognition and connect with like-minded thought leaders in the people and technology space! The day will also include:*$3500 in cash prizes up for grabs*Full catering + barista coffee all day*Post-event networking session Questions? Check out more info or chat with us here.  Registration info All Hackathon teams will consist of 4 or 5 people.  I have a group of 4 or 5 people already Simply select a group ticket, choose a team name and enter the details of all your team members in the one form. I have a group of 2-3 people Follow the instructions above, and we'll add additional members to your team to make a group of 4 or 5. I am an individual entrant Order an individual ticket and we'll add you to a group.  Frequently Asked Questions Who can enter? If you are great at working in teams, know how to think outside the box and have something to say about talent, culture and technology - then you are welcome to participate! Whether you are a CEO, HR practitioner, marketing professional or anyone in between, we are seeking a diverse range of "Hackers" to be involved. How will teams be formed? Teams can register together in a single registration. Or, if you would like to be placed in a team, simply register yourself only and we will formulate individual entrants into diverse groups. All teams must contain 4 or 5 people. What does it cost? It is 100% free to participate in this hackathon. What do I need to bring? Simply bring along your own laptop or device, and we will provide everything else you need. What resources are provided? Whiteboards, pens and flipcharts will be available for each team. The event will also be fully catered with lunch and snacks on the day. And most importantly, there is a coffee machine! How long is the Hackathon? You will have 7 hours to create your solution (10am - 5pm). The whole event will run from 9am to 7pm including the introduction and post-event celebrations. What's up for grabs? Prizes will be announced via our social media channels leading up to the event so stay tuned for updates.  

Barkathon2017 We love our canine companions, but barking from some dogs can be a nuisance. In fact, barking dog complaints represent one of the largest service request types for Ipswich City Council!  Traditional ways of addressing barking dog complaints can be resource intensive treated on a case-by-case basis, and interventions can inconsistent or short-term fixes. We invite you to help us discover and develop solutions that will benefit dog owners, their neighbours and the wider community through technology and innovation. Are there new ways to capture grievances? What tools can we put in the hands of our residents? Are there new technologies, platforms, or applications we can introduce that would make it easier for customers? What else can we and our systems do to help make people’s lives in our cities more connected and enabled to enrich quality of life? Barkathon2017 is the concept of using ideas and technology to fix the pesky problem of noisy dogs via a 48-hour weekend hackathon. Ipswich City Council has partnered with Fire Station 101 to connect entrepreneurs, developers and environmentalists with a unique opportunity to create a digital solution to solve the barking dog problem. This Hackathon is open to any individuals or groups with a great idea, and with the passion and motivation to make it happen. Winner/s will receive up to $30,000 in product development funding plus mentoring support to grow their idea through a Fire Station 101 Innovation Hub membership. Once the product is developed and launched, the winner/s will retain intellectual property ownership and will be enabled to further commercialise their product with Ipswich City Council becoming their first customer. Join us at Fire Station 101 for a unique 48-hour collaboration opportunity as Ipswich City Council offers technologies and data to hack a solution and possibly even start a new business! What to expect We begin the weekend on Friday evening with dinner and networking, followed by presenting the challenge and forming teams around ideas.   Some teams will come in already knowing each other, and other teams will find each other on the night. What follows will be 48 hours of developing business models, designing, maybe coding, building, and engaging actual customers to validate your ideas. Build networks and relationships: You will work alongside people from diverse skills and experience in a supportive community focused on helping each other achieve outcomes. Mentor support: You will be supported by mentors from diverse backgrounds including successful entrepreneurs, IT, animal management, data, and more. Actual Data: You will have access to council data related to animal management and community data Learning support: Education sessions will run Saturday and Sunday to provide tips and tricks on business models, development of minimum viable products, customer engagement, and pitching. Food!: Great quality meals and drinks provided through the weekend to keep you fuelled and caffeinated. Limited Edition T-shirt and a water bottle The weekend will wrap up with a pitch to expert guest judges who will decide on the project selected for funding for the next stage of development. You bring the ideas and the energy, we provide the space, mentors, data, food, and drink through the weekend. Come along to not only help our community and our pets but start a new globally scalable business in the process! Registrations essential About Ipswich City Council Located 40 minutes from Brisbane with a population of 200,000, Ipswich is the fastest growing region in Queensland.  Ipswich is leading the way in smart technology, ranked as one of the Top 7 Intelligent Communities of the world as assessed by the New York-based smart cities think tank, the Intelligent Communities Forum (ICF). About Fire Station 101 Fire Station 101 helps entrepreneurs build, grow, and scale their ideas to ignite innovation in Ipswich and beyond.  We bring together mentors, investors, corporate partners, volunteers, and service providers all focused on one thing: the entrepreneur’s success. An initiative of Ipswich City Council, we are passionate about impacting our local community with solutions that can scale globally. KEEN TO FIND OUT MORE? Come along to our Barkathon2017 Info & Ideation Night on Tuesday 28 November 2017 from 6 – 8 pm Register HERE for the Ideation Night

Ok, fellow tech startups, we know hiring the right tech talent for your business is extremely time-consuming, expensive and most importantly, you cannot be certain that the candidates you have all have the right attitudes you're looking for.  There's good news! We're here to help you hire great junior developers through a hackathon where the students will complete a series of challenges to showcase their skills and attitude to solve problems independently under pressure. Startup Summer is a 7 day, intensive qualifier event where we've hand-picked the top 10-15 candidates from a pool of hundreds across UNSW, UTS, and USYD, to complete a series of tech challenges around full stack web development.  Our metra in selecting our candidates is focused on a student's attitude, ability to solve problems independently and if they have an "entrepreneur's mindset". Rather than selecting students just because they are from a computer science degree but doesn't have the right attitude and understanding towards product and customers, we back students who've got the correct attitude and have shown incredible initiative through their ability to solve problems, learn quickly and ship features within our 7-day qualifier. We have an extremely exciting pool of candidates such as an ex-day trader with advanced math majors who's made tremendous progress building JS stack application, all the way to high school graduates who have made a chatbot in Angular and Node.js to help manage his school's timetabling.  We are specifically looking for 10 early stage, funded startups who have a clear need to recruit great tech talent efficiently with confidence. We'll work closely with these 10 companies to validate our approach to help companies hire clear insights and data. Instead of paying the current tech recruiters a hefty cut of 10% - 15% first-year base salary, we'll take a small referral fee of $800 per successful candidate hire, which is a fraction of the cost in terms of founder's time, effort or recruitment costs. Interested? Here are the next steps: Make sure you sign up to our limited company tickets to our candidate meet up session on the 30th of Nov at Stone & Chalk Boardroom Click interested in our facebook event here: https://www.facebook.com/events/808291609342813/. We'll be doing daily company profiles Cheers!

Got some writing to do? Hate sitting down to it all alone?  Join my Writing Hackathon for two hours on Thursday. Just bring along your writing project, and work in quiet companionship. There is no charge, but you must book using Eventbrite. This is not a workshop. It is an opportunity set aside time to get your writing work done alongside other quiet and purposeful writers. There's how. We have four 25-minute writing sprints with five minutes debrief between. We are focused and task orientated. I hope you can make it. There’s enough room for eight of us. First in, first served. No latecomers. 

The explosion of chatbots, wearables and Internet of Things (IoT) devices is changing the way we approach design. Could these new interfaces bring on the death of the screen? Imagine if consumers no longer relied on their phones for information, but relied instead on the integration of technology in all living, working, and social spaces. Amazingly, this is already starting to happen.   Smart speakers like Google Home and Amazon Echo combine artificial intelligence and voice command, integrating design, technology, and information, all wrapped up into one neat product. Devices like these are changing the role of service, product, and user experience designers.   This panel event held on November 29 will look into the future and discuss where the technology and design industry is heading. Is voice command the next big thing? Just like the digital age has seen the decline of consumption of physical media like books, newspapers, and magazines, will the age of IoT see the death of the screen?   We bring you the rise of conversation designers, with a panel of chatbot, IoT, wearable and User Experience Design experts.  Julian Bright : Founder Amelie.Ai Julian is the founder and CEO of Amelie, a mental health startup that uses Artificial Intelligence to connect people with support when they need it most. One in every five people are affected by mental health every year, and Julian is passionate about making a difference. In 2016, Amelie won Hacking Health, an Australian healthcare hackathon. Prior to Amelie, Julian worked in Melbourne as a Data Scientist, where he developed machine learning algorithms for recommendation and search products at job platform SEEK. Suneel Jethani : PHD candidate, Department of Premier and Cabinet (VIC) Suneel is a wearable academic and focuses his research on the convergence of location-aware and body-aware media technology. His research seeks to investigate how body and self is projected through health and fitness tracking devices. Suneel also looks at the marketing side of wearable devices and how self tracking is changing idiosyncratic behaviours and the problems associated with the sharing of personal data. Jacinta McMahon : Exeprience Director at Downstream Jacinta is the Experience Design director at Downstream, a company that specialises in connecting people and places with technology. Her role is to create strategies that make experiences with environment and technology as engaging as possible. Working at the crossroads of Experience Design and technological innovation, Jacinta helps to crJaceate a more connected environment through data visualisation, technology integration and intelligent devices. Matt Sinclar : Senior Technology Specialist at Telstrs Matt is a senior technology specialist at Telstra, specialising in IoT. He focuses on identifying technology trends, and advises and educates on new concepts and products. Part of Matt’s role as an educator, enables him to work closely with customers to design fully-functioning and seamlessly-integrated IoT solutions. So far, Matt’s key achievements at Telstra include launching the IoT lab: Australia’s first publicly-accessible IoT lab, and facilitating the intelligent design of hardware, software and connectivity. Gendry Morales : Founder Style Hacker (moderator) Gendry is an entrepreneur working on creative use-cases for the blockchain. She tries to understand how decentralised management models will impact the future of work, how the fashion industry can leverage blockchain and data science, and the implications of digital asset ownership and collectible art on the blockchain. After graduating with a Computer Science degree, Gendry started her career as a backend developer and has worked in senior technical leadership roles. She has specialised in modern Product Delivery across a number of industries, including Financial Services, which is where her interest in cryptocurrencies began. Gendry also specialises in modern leadership principles including self-organisation and decentralisation and regularly speaks at conferences covering topics of data democratisation, game theory, and new ways of designing governance.

Hackers in and around Melbourne! You're invited to participate in the Innovation Impact Hackathon. You'll get to collaborate as part of a multi-disciplinary team to design an innovative concept that will re-define the landscape around the Queen Victoria Market. Pitch your project to the panel of judges for the chance to win prizes worth over $2,000.

The Immersive Technology Hackathon for Disability Support aims to bring together bright and motivated individuals, with the goals to develop impactful solutions for the disability sector in a highly collaborative and innovative environment. We will be kicking off this hackathon with a speaker panel featuring subject matter experts in the sector. We welcome a broad range of participants, from engineering, media, design, art, and education who are interested in creating a social impact through immersive technology. Admission is free of charge and food and drinks will be provided. We also have exciting prizes for the top three solutions! The winning team wins a $1000 cash prize and there will be funding of up to $50,000 to take the idea forward. So hurry! Register to secure your spot for the event as soon as possible!

Come and meet the amazing changemakers and see what our hacker community built at the 2017 Summer Hackathon This is the best way to come and check out what RHoK is all about if you are involved with a charity and potentially interested in being a changemaker in the future.  We'll be doing a marketplace style event where you can wonder around all the changemaker teams and hear what they have built directly from the source before voting for who you think is the most changemaking changemaker of them all by nominating them in the peoples choice award.  Arrive at 3pm and then come and grab a drink with us afterwards to celebrate the achievements of the weekend. 

Hackers and makers aged 16 and over in Tasmania! The Innovation Circle invites you to participate in Museum Hack 2017. You'll be challenged to come up with your own innovative way to interact with the collection at the Queen Victoria Museum and Art Gallery! It doesn't matter if you're into hardware or software, coding or design! Come along and showcase your creativity and design something that will benefit the Museum and all its visitors.

Come along to the EyeSyght hackathon to help make history and enable vision-impaired people (VIP) to see and enjoy greater opportunities! The Problem Vision impairment affects more than 285 million people globally and makes it extremely challenging to, amongst other things, interpret complex visual information, including signs, charts, maps, and graphs. This, in turn, creates disadvantage and obstacles to opportunities. QUT engineering student Santiago has lived this experience, being vision impaired his whole life, and has had to overcome challenges along the way to realising his dreams. Whilst he is fortunate to receive support and early access to complex visual information in his engineering studies at QUT, he knows that not all are so lucky. As an entrepreneurial problem solver, he also believes that technology could enable a better solution for vision impaired people to be able to ‘see’ complex visual information - and he wants to bring such a solution to the world as co-founder of EyeSyght.   EyeSyght's Mission EyeSyght's mission is to harness technology to help overcome disadvantage and enable vision impaired people to better see complex visual information, with a focus on ‘touch to see” technology development. They have been working on developing touch to see technology and now hope to harness hackathon people power to manifest their mission, with support from Google, Vision Australia, QUT and other organisations.   EyeSyght Hackathon If you would like to help EyeSyght solve challenges for the world's vision impaired, and have the chance to win prizes, come along to the EyeSyght Hackathon on November 25 2017! A key challenge for participants is to answer "How can we enable vision impaired individuals to feel graphical information such as maps, charts and pictures in real-time?" Hackathon participants will work in teams to develop solutions to this challenge:             • Guided by mentors             • Inspired by technology experts             • Fueled with delicious food and beverages             • AND... there is the chance to win prizes, including $500 cash for the most innovative solution. The EyeSyght Hackathon seeks to bring together a diversity of people to work on solutions. The winning team will receive a $500 cash prize for the most innovative idea, thanks to Bluebox, who are supporting this event. The EyeSyght team will also be looking to connect with a diversity of talent to work with them in the future to help bring their solution to market. So far, attendees include: Passionate problem solvers Students from diverse disciplines : This includes engineering, software, hardware, mechanical,  electrical, mechatronics, design, business, material scientists. Researchers Entrepreneurs Resentatives from Vision Australia and vision impaired people Santiago’s Guide dog, and Buddy Lockie   Event Details The event will be held at QUT on Saturday 25th November from 9am-5pm. We Hope you can join us, and take part on making history. We look forward to seeing you at the event. Please note: There is a Queensland State Election occurring on the same day as our event and we know you'd rather be with us! To make sure you don't miss out please consult the ECQ website (http://www.ecq.qld.gov.au/elections/2017-state-general-election) for details on how you can pre-poll. There is a polling station available at the Brisbane City Hall on the day but that is a 20-30 minute walk each way from the QUT location so we strongly advise you pre-poll. This event has been sponsored by: