List of hackathons in Australia in 2018

Important - Please only pick up a ticket if your kid(s) enrollment for this term has been approved. If you have not lodged your enrollment yet please head over to http://altonanorthdojo.com/ and use the "Register Interest" form in the "How To Book A Seat" section of the page. Only once your enrollment has been approved should you pick up a ticket. If you have lodged your enrollment but are on the waiting list please drop us an email at dojo@hack2.live. About Coder Dojo Altona North - At CoderDojo Altona North [http://altonanorthdojo.com/], young people aged between 7 and 17, learn how to code (Scratch, Python, etc.), interact with the real world using sensors and the Arduino, develop programs on the Raspberry Pi, develop websites, develop mobile apps, develop simple programs, develop games, build robots and explore various aspects of technology in an informal, safe, and creative environment.In addition to learning to code, exploring the basics of electronics and robotics, attendees meet like minded people and are exposed to a world of possibilities of technology. An individuals creativity is the only limit.We invite kids of all ages starting 7-17 and their parents to come along.What to Bring Along - Please bring along the following:     A laptop. Borrow one from somebody if needs be.     All hardware you will hack with will need to be purchased for use during the tutorials i.e. Arduino, Raspberry Pi.     We'll let you when you are at a point where you need to invest in the hardware i.e. Arduino, Raspberry Pi, etc. Initially only a laptop is required.     A parent! (Very important). If you are 15 or under, your parent must stay with you during the session.     Intent to learn, make and create...:) So come join us, have fun and share in the learning.Please see http://altonanorthdojo.com/ for details on the session and instructions you would need to follow.Signing up to the LMS - At Coder Dojo Altona North we use a Learning Management System (LMS) called Schoology. You will need to sign up to the Coder Dojo Learning Management System at http://www.schoology.com/ through which your child will be given access to the syllabus for the semester. Each of the weekly tutorials, progress notes, attendance, etc. will be tracked using the Learning Management system. See  http://altonanorthdojo.com/ for details on how to sign up. as a "student" and get access to the relevant Coder Dojo courses.Let's Ignite the flame of learning, let's inspire the maker in you and let's get creating!!!!When and Where - The event will be held weekly on Sat from 1000 - 1200 Hrs AEST at the  "Altona North Community Library". Address for the Altona North Community Library is - Corner of Millers Rd & McArthurs Rd, Altona North VIC 3025.  Please reach out to the volunteers through the email provided at  http://altonanorthdojo.com/ for updates. For additional details on the library please visit - http://libraries.hobsonsbay.vic.gov.au/visit-us/williamstown-library

 Create a Blog Post that impacts the world at the HEARD Blog Hackathon! Watch the Promo Video on Youtube and share with your friends. If you struggle with health-related issues or you care for someone who does, do you feel like your voice is being heard? It can be disempowering when others don't understand what life looks like for you. This has definitely been true for me as a carer to an Autistic child. And I've heard from many others over the last few months who would love to feel more empowered to share their stories but don't know where to start.  That's why I'm hosting the HEARD Blog Hackathon on  March 24. HEARD stands for Heartwarming, Empowering, Acknowledging, Resonating and Daring. The purpose of this event is to empower you to create a blog post so you can express yourself fully and connect others to your experience of life. About The Workshop You will have access to expert support and technology to help you create a powerful blog post in just one day. We'll run hands-on workshop sessions so you can learn how to write an impactful blog post with ease. You'll also hear from others who have started sharing their stories about health and wellbeing and see the impact of this first-hand. Talks by  Author Sally Thibault will share her journey as a carer and how it has inspired her to forge a career in health. Startup entrepreneur at EyeSyght, Santiago Velasquez (accompanied by his guide dog Lockie) will share his journey toward inventing technology that will make it possible for blind people to consume visual digital content in real time. Other Fun Stuff (stay tuned for more) Learn how to DJ with accidental music festival owner James Henderson. Do a green screen vlog in the afternoon with The Australian Acting Academy's Brendan Glanville This is going to be a powerful event and we aim to publish all 150 stories to connect others to your experience of life. Imagine the impact that being HEARD will have on ending health-related discrimination. What to Bring A laptop or tablet to write on. Alternatively, pen and paper. If you want to do audio or video: audio recording device or smartphone with video or audio recording capability. A warm top in case the room is cool. Food, or money for food if you are self-catering. A parent or guardian if you are under 18 (A guardian must be present at all times during the event if you are under 18).  Notes There is wheelchair access to the building. We will have team members on standby to assist but please let us know of your needs ahead of time by emailing support [at] writally.com. This event is proudly hosted by Writally. Supporters A big thank you to Fishburners who have provided the space for our meetup. Fishburners is Australia’s largest community of tech startups and a not for profit organisation. They support over 300 startups in their communities in Brisbane and Sydney and host more than 500 events around Australia. They offer a free one week trial which you can take up here: www.fishburners.org.         Legal stuff: You retain copyright of your blog post and if you agree to be published by Writally, you will be promoted as the author unless you wish to remain anonymous. 

The event price includes goodies, food and drinks for the entire weekend. Australia's first Sextech Hackathon is here. In the next few decades, our sex lives will undergo incredible change.  The roles of apps, websites, robots and VR will continue to expand at the intersection of technology and sexuality, presenting possibilities that are infinite, awe-inspiring and unknown.  A diverse range of voices and ideas are urgently needed to find new and innovative ways to use technology to deliver sex education, products and services for sexual health and wellness, assault reporting and dating. As an industry, 'sextech' is already estimated to be worth A$20B and is set to become one of the fastest growing multi-billion dollar industries in the next few years. If you have an idea or want to be involved in an amazing project that can make a difference in people's lives, join us for this ground-breaking hackathon. What Is Sextech? Most simply, sextech is any technology designed with the intention of enhancing human sexuality and human sexual experience. Solutions may cover any of the areas associated with sexual experience from sexual health and wellbeing, to personal safety, choice of sexual experiences, personal dignity in sex, games, entertainment and dating experiences.  Why Should You Care? Innovations in sextech will allow us to experience, express, and understand our sexualities in ways we never thought possible.  The key value of sextech products and services is that they are designed around relationships, bringing new ideas of intimacy, pleasure and desire to the human experience. While there is plenty of potential in this space, it is largely untapped.  We believe that women-identified technologies and thinkers can influence the direction of this market, while also changing the cultural conversation and attitudes toward female sexuality. This event is designed to be open to all, but our ambition is for women's voices to be contributing elements to all projects arising from our event. The Sextech Hackathon. What’s That? A weekend-long hackathon in which all members will collaborate intensively on creating sextech products. Unlike other hackathons that may require some coding expertise, we are open to all skills and experience levels. Gathering together in teams, you will innovate, and depending on the expertise of the team, generate a working prototype, whether this is a technology product, a design or a campaign.  Who Can Participate? We welcome people of all job descriptions, whether you’re a designer, developer, marketer, entrepreneur, project manager, therapist or sexologist. Diverse groups often work incredibly well together to produce the best results.  In particular, we are focused on making space for, and elevating the voices and perspectives of, women-identified people, although we support inclusion of all genders and sexualities. Program Format & Schedule Kicking off on Friday evening March 23 with talks from inspiring mentors. We will form teams according to categories of interests and problem statements. Following the team forming on Friday night, the remainder of the weekend will be spent working together to bring a project to life, and finish on Sunday with a Shark Tank-style pitch to a panel of judges. Schedule: March 23 FRIDAY 6-8pm - Sextech Talks and Team Formation. March 24 SATURDAY 9am - 4pm - Hack day, work as teams, receiving expert mentoring from industry leaders. March 25 SUNDAY 9am - 3pm - Hack day and pitching. Afterparty! Categories to work on at the Sextech hackathon: Health Education Pleasure Consent Relationships Dating International speakers and mentors We have a wonderful panel of industry experts lined up from across the globe, including: Polly Rodriguez, CEO of Unbound who recently raised $2.7 million for her female-first sex positive brand (USA) Victoria Cullen, co-creator of the world's first sex toy design course at RMIT University (Australia) Maeva Botrel, co-founder of the Sextech lab in Paris (France) Mal Harrison, Director of Center For Erotic Intelligence (USA) Aurelie Salvaire, founder of Shiftbalance, think-and-action tank collecting, producing and spreading information on everyday sexism (France) Ross Dawson, a world-leading futurist, keynote speaker and entrepreneur, is the Chairman of the Advanced Human Technologies Group of companies and the Publisher of FutureofSex.net. Prizes 1st place: Return flight to Paris to the SexTechLab and the opportunity to participate in France's Sextech Hackathon (for project owner), full Academy Xi scholarship (worth approximately $4000) or $1750 Academy Xi course credit for each member of the team and $100 Academy Xi Bootcamp credit for each member of the team. Teams also receive 3 months of co-working at Vibewire and access to their mentor and support program.    2nd place: $1000 Academy Xi course credit for each team member and $100 Academy Xi Bootcamp credit for each member of the team   3rd place: $750 Academy Xi course credit per team member and $100 Academy Xi bootcamp credit for each member of the team ($100) For further enquiries or sponsorship, please contact partnerships@futureofsex.org This event could not be possible without the support and dedication of our partners:

Australia's first Sextech Hackathon is here. In the next few decades, our sex lives will undergo incredible change. Sextech is already estimated to be worth A$20B and is set to become one of the fastest growing multi-billion dollar industries in the next few years.A diverse range of voices and ideas are urgently needed to find new and innovative ways to use technology to deliver sex education, products and services for sexual health and wellness, assault reporting and dating.Join a team, or bring your own idea, and work on solving issues related to sexuality through technology. What Is SexTech? Most simply, SexTech is any technology designed with the intention of enhancing human sexuality and human sexual experience. Solutions may cover any of the areas associated with sexual experience from sexual health and wellbeing, to personal safety, choice of sexual experiences, personal dignity in sex, games, entertainment and dating experiences.  • Why Should You Care? Innovations in sextech will allow us to experience, express, and understand our sexualities in ways we never thought possible.  The key value of sextech products and services is that they are designed around relationships, bringing new ideas of intimacy, pleasure and desire to the human experience. While there is plenty of potential in this space, it is largely untapped.  We believe that women-identified technologies and thinkers can influence the direction of this market, while also changing the cultural conversation and attitudes toward female sexuality. This event is designed to be open to all, but our ambition is for women's voices to be contributing elements to all projects arising from our event. • The SexTech Hackathon. What’s That? A weekend-long hackathon in which all members will collaborate intensively on creating sextech products. Unlike other hackathons that may require some coding expertise, we are open to all skills and experience levels. Gathering together in teams, you will innovate, and depending on the expertise of the team, generate a working prototype, whether this is a technology product, a design or a campaign.  • Who Can Participate? We welcome people of all job descriptions, whether you’re a designer, developer, marketer, entrepreneur, project manager, therapist or sexologist. Diverse groups often work incredibly well together to produce the best results.  In particular, we are focused on making space for, and elevating the voices and perspectives of, women-identified people, although we support inclusion of all genders and sexualities. • Program Format & Schedule Kicking off on Friday evening March 23 with talks from inspiring mentors. We will form teams according to categories of interests and problem statements. Following the team forming on Friday night, the remainer of the weekend will be spent working togethr to bring a project to life, and finish on Sunday with a Shark Tank-style pitch to a panel of judges. Schedule: March 23 (evening) - Sextech Talks and Team Formation. March 24 (day) - Hack day, work as teams, receiving expert mentoring from industry leaders. March 25 (day) - Hack day and pitching. Afterparty! Categories to work at the sextech hackathon: Health Education Pleasure Consent Relationships Dating International speakers and mentors Polly Rodriguez, CEO of Unbound Mal Harrison, Director of Center For Erotic Intelligence Aurelie Salvaire, founder of Shiftbalance, think-and-action tank collecting, producing and spreading information on everyday sexism  Victoria Cullen, sexologist and co-founder of the world's first academic sex toy design course at RMIT University

How can we come up with a product or service to change behaviours for a cleaner energy future? When we think about how we can move to a clean energy future, maybe the first question that comes to mind is how can we develop technology to enable this? But what gets ignored is the social and behavioural change that also needs to happen for us to realise that clean energy future. If CleanTech isn’t easy, accessible and attractive for people to ACTUALLY USE, then even the most innovative technologies will struggle to have any impact.The change makers having a real impact now are those who realise that we need to innovate for behaviour change. See how Tesla made electric vehicles attractive. Think portable solar panels that you can take camping or on a boat. Think how LEDs have replaced light bulbs in most places, saving an incredible amount of energy. What could be the next step? Your mission if you choose to accept it is to come up with a product idea that could radically change the way people consume or produce energy. This hackathon is a CleanTech women initiative. We invite teams with female leaders to participate. Currently, only 19% of startups are founded by women and only 7% of women lead tech startups which ultimately leads to very few female CEOs. Only 4.6% of Fortune 500 companies have a female CEO. In STEM sectors and particularly CleanTech the female engagement is even lower. The energy transition is on the agenda of every country. The market for CleanTech products is growing and expected to boom in the coming years. Women can’t be left aside of this market. In 10 years we want to see female and male leaders equally represented at the top of major CleanTech organisations. Cleantech women is an initiative to support female entrepreneurs on their journey.  We are organising events to create a community and inspire women to take the next step in their career. We’re building a network of mentors to provide our fellow female founders with strong supporters and advice. Details: 15 March (evening) Info Night Introduction to the problem statements and speed networking + Workshop with Stuart Auld, COO at EnergyLink. missed the info night? No problem, you can find the video on our Facebook page and we'll give you all the details when you register. 23 March (evening) Hackathon Starts + Design Thinking and Designing for Behaviour Change workshop with Catherine Raffaele (Learning Director at EnergyLab) 24 March (all day) Hackathon with access to mentors, judging and prizes   You won’t be alone to solve this challenge, we’ll help you find a team of 2 to 4 people and we will be providing access to mentors. To understand all the nuts and bolts of energy behaviour, Stuart Auld, COO at EnergyLink will run a workshop on behavioural data they’ve collected on energy usage.Catherine Raffaele, Learning Director at EnergyLab will also run a workshop on Behaviour Change.   All meals, snacks and drinks are provided during the hackathon. Light snacks and drinks will be provided during the info night and the pitches.   You will also get access to: Resources on behaviour change and design thinking API from our partners EnergyLink and Wattwatchers   Rules The idea you’re going to present can’t be an existing business You cannot have won another hackathon with the same business idea You cannot have been part of an accelerator program with the same business idea All the teams must have at least one female leader No discrimination of any kind will be accepted. Any participant not respecting this rule will be excluded immediately from the hackathon. The Challenges You can choose to tackle one of these 4 challenges or work on your own idea during the Hackathon Problem A: How might we support the behaviour change needed to help large commercial buildings increase their environmental (NABERS/Green Star) ratings?  You might consider:  What tools and services could you develop to help? How you might incentivise stakeholders and get traction? What resources you can use, e.g. electricity data from existing main meters and installed sub-meters? Problem B: We are gaining more and more data on electricity usage behaviour, but most of the data still comes in a 30-minute interval data. How can we make this data useful for consumers and businesses? You might consider: How can we make a compelling value proposition for better metering equipment? How can this data be used to encourage consumers and businesses to consume less energy (by upgrading some of their appliances for example) and/or shift their demand to reduce pressure on the grid (by running their washing machine or charging their EV at night for example)? How can we best leverage the 30-minute data to offer a product or a service? Problem C: How might we support the behaviour change needed to engage consumers in energy? You might consider: What sort of UX or interfaces are needed for different consumer segments, families, singles, low socio-economic, high socio-economic etc? What technologies are required to deliver this? Where would you start such an interaction (e.g. Solar Schools are starting with schools in QLD via the curriculum)? Problem D: In Australia, energy efficiency is potentially the next largest supply of energy after coal. How do we make energy efficiency 'consumerised'?  You might consider: How do we interface energy efficiency with house construction and regulatory settings How do we communicate on energy efficiency so the 'person in the street' can understand what we are talking about? What technical channels would make this work? Mentors You will have access to amazing mentors to assist you during the competition the list includes: Anne Foster, Senior Vice President, Quinbrook Infrastructure Alice Lang, Scenario planning and Strategy, AGL Energy Emma Wartski-Coonan, Group Counsel - New Energy, Legal, AGL Michele Santosa, Senior UX Designer, Cozero  and more to be announced! Judges Justine Jarvinen, Chair, Wattwatchers and Chief Operating Officer, UNSW Energy Institute  Justine Jarvinen is the Chief Operating Officer of the UNSW Energy Institute. Justine has more than 23 years of experience spanning the energy value chain in technical, commercial, strategic, advisory and board roles. She has been employed by ExxonMobil, Shell and AGL Energy, and was a leading energy equity analyst at JBWere. Justine has a track record of ‘future proofing’ the energy sector and was instrumental in establishing AGL’s New Energy division. In addition to being Chair of Wattwatchers, she is a director of ASX-listed Milton Corporation, and social enterprise Pollinate Energy. Joel Courtney, Chief Technology Officer, EnergyLink As Chief Technology Officer Joel is responsible for the delivery of EnergyLink - a cloud-based platform increasing energy productivity with powerful analytics, benchmarking, and performance tools.Before joining EnergyLink Joel was a founding member of Ausgrid's Smart Grid engineering team, helping deliver their Smart Grid programme. In his spare time, he enjoys time on the bike, on the slopes and capturing the world around through photography. Piers Grove, Managing Director, EnergyLab Piers is the co-founder and Managing Director of EnergyLab and sits on the investment committee of the Early Stage Clean Energy Fund. He serves as a founding director of Climate KIC Australia and as a Governor of WWF-Australia. Katie Vines, Director of Sustainable and Resilient Cities, Climate-KIC Australia Katie Vines is Director of Sustainable and Resilient Cities at Climate-KIC Australia.  She brings expertise and experience working with mega-cities around the world to create innovative, end-user led transformation towards sustainable and resilient Australian cities and regions. She previously worked as the Head of Adaptation Research at C40 Cities climate leadership group.  In this role she led a program of research and facilitated a global network of city staff that drove meaningful, measurable and sustainable climate change adaptation. Katie has worked in State and Federal government in Australia where she collaborated with communities, local governments, researchers and public and private organisations on building adaptive capacity. Prizes $500 cash prize for the winning team and $200 for the runner-ups Free hotdesk at EnergyLab and mentorship to get your idea to the next stage Possibility of collaboration with our sponsor’s teams Guaranteed access to the CleanTech Women Fellowship for female founders in the winning team Our sponsors The CleanTech Hackathon cannot happen without the generous support of our sponsors. A big thank you to Wattwatchers and EnergyLink for sponsoring the event and providing participants with access to their API and datasets. Volunteers needed If you don't want to participate, but still want to be involved, we'd love some people to help out on the day. We'll need volunteers for the 15/03, 23/03 and 24/03. Please email Sarah at sarah@energylab.org.au if you're interested.

Hackers and transport techies -- students and professionals -- in New South Wales! You're invited to participate in Transport for NSW's CongestionHack. Enter with a team of between 3 to 6 members and compete for great cash prizes. You'll be challenged to design and prototype an innovative solution to one of following four transport challenges: 1. Real Cost of Driving vs Other Modes of Transport: A tool that allows users to compare the total cost of driving with other modes of travel. 2. Road Less Travelled: A solution that encourages alternate, less congested routing. 3. Saturday Snarl Buster: Discover non-congested geography of leisure in Sydney. 4. Truckie's Angel: Tool to reduce impact from truck breakdowns, crashes and impact from tunnels/bridges.

Think you've got the solution to reducing congestion in Sydney? App Developers, Designers and University students - Transport for NSW invites you to register for CongestionHack 2018! Join us on the weekend of 23 - 25 March 2018 to develop your solution. Winning teams will be eligible for prize money!

Aussie software developers, data scientists, mechanical engineers, UI/UX designers, geologists, entrepreneurs, and industry insiders in the resources sector! If you're intending to participate in the 54-hour Unearthed Perth 2018 Hackathon, then watch out for a series of exciting events—a community night, a UWA x Unearthed breakfast, and skills boot camps—to commemorate 5 years of the Unearthed community. In the hackathon, you'll be challenged to work with actual industry data to solve real-world challenges faced by the global resources sector. Come and collaborate and compete for your share of an awesome prize pool and subsequent product development opportunities. For insights on hackathon participation, go to our expert advice page!

You're invited to help us craft a vision for cancer innovation in Australia. Cancer is the number one killer in Australia with over 47,000 deaths last year alone and an estimated 1 in 3 Australians will be diagnosed with some form of cancer before the age of 75. In Australia, we invest millions in cancer research all aiming to find new treatments and early detection mechanisms. But what about how someone experiences the journey from pre-diagnosis to post treatment? How about their family, friends or co-workers? What about clinicians and nurses? What are the big challenges not being addressed and how can we find new ways to innovate? What role can we play as designers, developers, advocates, networkers, investors? We invite you to spend some time with us to think about these questions and more to help craft a vision for how we can accelerate meaningful change that impacts millions of lives. We don’t know what the exact approach should be, or what the mission will be. But we see an exciting opportunity to bring together a diverse group of passionate and dedicated individuals who can help shape an Australian cancer innovation initiative. Here is what we have planned for the opening "Discovery" session: 2.30pm  Why we're here. Who's in the room and why each person has decided to take part 2.45pm  The cancer experience map (from different perspectives - patient, clinician, family, carer, co-worker) 3.30pm  How might we? Question generation activity. Where are the gaps? Who is operating in this space already. 4.15pm Prioritise questions. Where should we focus our efforts? 5.10pm Final thoughts and next steps 5.30pm End Who has inspired us? We are hugely inspired by the Cancer Innovation Challenge in Scotland - £1M project funded by the Scottish Funding Council (SFC) to encourage Innovation Centres in Scotland to work in partnership to help Scotland become a world leading carer for people with cancer through open innovation funding calls for data science solutions. We are also inspired by the Australian disability tech accelerator Remarkable - a 16-week program for early stage startups looking to build sustainable enterprises that have a big social impact. As well as it's accelerator program, Remarkables runs annual design-athons to help stimulate new ideas. The many great hackathons running around Australia in the last few years - Techfugees, Chronic Pain Hackathon, Hack for Homelessness.  For further information contact Margaret or Michael as per the information below.

We're thrilled to announce the first official TMA Alumni Breakfast Session in Melbourne. Throughout 2018, the TMA Alumni, Alumni Partners and Event Partners will be spoilt rotten when it comes to food for the mind, and a little food for the belly as an added extra. Our first TMA Alumni Breakfast Session is a very special session featuring two incredible women. From 8am-9.30am on March 21st, Patrycja Slawuta, Founder of SelfHackathon and Annie Crawford, Founder and Chair of CanToo will grace us with their presence and wisdom. Patrycja and Annie will each give us insight into their world and will share lessons learned along the way, with a focus on the increasingly relevant theme of resilience. Both Patrycja and Annie practice and talk about overcoming obstacles and emotions/feelings holding us back to make a meaningful difference, from a practical as well as scientific standpoints. For anyone interested in work-life balance, career progression and making meaningful changes, this will be an invaluable opportunity to learn from and network with incredible people. Tea, coffee and a light breakfast will be provided to ensure you're set for the day! None of this would be made possible without our official alumni sponsor, IAG. More about Annie: Annie Crawford: Can Too Founder and Chair Having lost her own father to bowel cancer at age 51, Can Too founder Annie knows firsthand the devastating impact that cancer can have on an individual and their family. Originally a social worker, working in community mental health and sexual assault, Annie moved into human resources before helping to set up a biotechnology start-up in San Francisco, California. After returning to Australia in 2003, rather than re-enter the paid workforce, Annie decided to work on new project that was all about “making a difference”. Annie decided to combine her passion for running and fitness with raising money for a non-profit organisation. And so, the idea for Can Too was born. Five months later, in May 2005, the first Can Too program was up and running. Can Too has now trained 14,500 participants and raised nearly $20 M for cancer research in NSW, Victoria, Qld and the ACT in running, ocean swimming and triathlon. Annie is Chair of the Can Too Foundation and was on the Board of Cure Cancer Australia from 2011- 2106 and the Board of 10 Thousand Girl Campaign from 2011- 2105. She is currently on the Council of Opportunity International - a not for profit that specializes in giving microfinance to women living in India and other parts of Asia. Annie also works as an Executive Coach, primarily in the not for profit space. She received an AM in 2013 and has received other awards in recognition of her work, including nominations for Australian of the year. More about Patrycja: Patrycja Slawuta, MA, PhD(c) Psych, is a New York City-based behavioural scientist. After spending 10+ years in academia, Patrycja founded SelfHackathon, a boutique consultancy that uses cutting edge scientific research for business innovation. As an expert on the complexity, nonlinearity and messiness of the human nature, Patrycja lectures globally and works with some of the most exciting and disruptive startups and organizations in the world. In her free time she runs marathons, reads scientific articles and meditates. In that particular order.