List of hackathons in Australia in 2018

A short, fun, co-creation research challenge based on blockchain at the centre of convergence around Artificial Intelligence, Robotics, Internet of Things and Machine Learning. The day will include Lunch and networking drinks.  We begin with high-powered morning talks to define Blockchain within the context of Industry X (formerly Industry 4.0)  We move into a swift mini-sprint of fun Design Thinking & rapid prototyping.  A final pitch session is judged by research and industry practitioners who offer feedback on the day's activities and outcomes. The Challenge Focus on Blockchain solutions and the challenges and opportunities it presents for professionals across all industries; design, computer science, health, finance, engineering, manufacturing, architecture, media, business, and policy.  What to expect Teams will examine issues and opportunities for Blockchain in the design of automated systems with a focus on the ethics of new, trust-based cultures. What are the social and ethical implications of Blockchain as a new system of communication and commerce? Program 10:30am - Registration10:45am - Hackathon commences12:45pm - Networking lunch4:00pm - Final pitches4:30pm - Networking with drinks and canapes Speakers Jason Potts - Director of Blockchain Innovation Hub, RMIT University Ellie Rennie - Blockchain Innovation Hub, RMIT Mark Staples - Senior Principal Researcher, CSIRO's Data61 Jack Stevenson - Industry X.0 Delivery Lead A/NZ, Accenture DigitalChris Zhong - Industry X.0, Senior Advisor and President of Blockchain Philanthropy Foundation  Leaders Danielle Kennedy - Director, Active Integrated Matter Future Science Platform, CSIRO Lisa Dethridge - Researcher, RMIT School of Media and Communication Caryl Hertz - Industry Engagement and WIL, College of Business, RMIT University Anne-Laure Mention - Director of RMIT Global Business Innovation Enabling Capability Platform Limited seats! Register now to secure your place in the challenge!

  For the first time, the World Hospital Congress, being held this year in Brisbane, Australia, will feature a one-day Design Jam. The aim is to identify significant problems and opportunities in health - and bring together bright and diverse thinkers (from across and beyond health) to ideate, co-create, validate, develop, and pitch solutions to improve health and care.   Design Jam - 9:00am-5:00pm Participants will be guided by mentors to apply a collaborative human-centered design approach to solving some of health's biggest problems, drawing inspiration and input from diverse stakeholders and experts on call.  Food and beverages will be provided to fuel the day - turning problems into great ideas and tested solutions.        Pitch presentations - 5:30pm-6:30pm Following the Design Jam, participants, judges and guests will be invited to the Auditorium for the formal Pitch presentations.   Each team will nominate one or more team members to present their solution to the audience and expert panel of judges.   There will be an opportunity for both judges and the audience to provide input and feedback to the ideas pitched, such as regarding the desirability, feasiblity, viability and future development of ideas.  The judges will decide and announce the winners and prizes.   Attend Pitch Presentations Even if you don't participate in the Design Jam, you can come to the Pitch Presentations. Register here.   Prizes for winning pitches Prizes for the winning pitches are amongst some of the many benefits of participation at the inaugural World Hospital Congress Design Jam.  Prizes include: free one year personal AHHA memberships for all winning team members; free idea development program opportunity, to progress ideas to the next level, including co-working space membership for winning teams' members, mentoring sessions, exclusive access to events and key contacts/mentors in the health industry; free innovation and design resources; and more!   Pitch presentations - General public tickets A number of tickets to the Pitch Presentations will be made available, closer to the date, for special guests, World Hospital Congress attendees, and members of the general public to attend the Pitch Presentations.   Design Jam preparation No formal preparation is required to participate in the Design Jam. Just come along with enthusiasm to share and openness to new ideas! If you are, however, passionate about working on a particular challenge or opportunity, you will have an opportunity to propose it for selection.     Opportunities for all to suggest problems & opportunities World Hospital Congress attendees, from around the globe, and others interested in improving health may submit suggestions for problems or opportunities to feature in the Design Jam in response to calls for same.   Special dietary requirements If you have special dietary requirements, please let us know when completing your order.    Special discount to World Hospital Congress For Design Jam attendees, World Hopsital Congress organisers AHHA have offered a special discount price to attend the World Hospital Congress.  Design Jam participants can enjoy a special price of $1000 (discounted from $1650/$2000) on non-Design Jam days (October 10 and 12).   If you are interested in this offer, please select this option on registering and you will be sent a promotional code.   Design Jam organisers and facilitators The Design Jam is organised and facilitated by mentors from Nous Group, Hacking Health Queensland and QUT foundry, with support from World Hospital Congress 2018 organiser AHHA.   Nous Group is an award-winning management consulting firm with over 270 people across eight locations in Australia and the UK, and a strong track record assisting organisations in the health sector to deliver high quality outcomes for patients and stakeholders.      Hacking Health Queensland is part of a global network, acting locally to share knowledge and enable innovation and entrepreneurship to advance and improve health and healthcare, including through the design and faciliation of hackathons, design jams, innovation and educational events. We connect and collaborate with the health sector, government, academia, research, startups and industry.  QUT foundry is part of Queensland University of Technology's (QUT) entrepreneurship ecosystem, being a hub for innovation and entrepreneurship, serving to inspire, enable, and connect current and future innovators, change agents, social entrepreneurs, and founders. It offers co-working space, events, mentoring, an incubator program, and more to benefit the QUT community and wider ecosystem. AHHA is Australia's national peak body for public and not-for-profit hospitals and healthcare providers, and the organiser of the 2018 IHF Brisbane 42nd World Hospital Congress.  The World Hospital Congress of the International Hospital Federation (IHF) is a unique global forum that brings together leaders of national and international hospital and healthcare organisations to discuss key drivers of national and international policy, management, financial trends and solutions in healthcare management and service delivery. Through this forum multidisciplinary exchange of knowledge, expertise and experiences are facilitated, together with dialogue on best practices in leadership in hospital and healthcare management and delivery of services. The IHF World Hospital Congress is a one-stop shop for the healthcare professional seeking the opportunity and environment in which to engage in a 360-degree learning and knowledge-sharing experience among peers.    

CORE is again hosting this year's Space Apps Challenge hackathon, together with Space Hub Perth, Unearthed and Spacecubed, over the weekend of 20-21 October. The challenge theme this year is Earth & Space, there are some exciting challenges and potential for the winner to head to NASA. Info session Join us at the info session on 8 October to learn more about the challenges, meet other participants and start forming teams.  Agenda CORE Meet the Innovator Special: Space Apps Info Session Guest Enrico Palermo, President at The Spaceship Company will be joining us for the Space Apps 2018 Info Session for a Q&A. Originally from Perth, Enrico is currently based in Mojave, California, where he leads operations for The Spaceship Company - Virgin Group’s first engineering, manufacturing and flight test enterprise, as the world's first company building and testing a fleet of commercial spaceships. Enrico is focusing on the company’s transition from a start-up with one customer and one vehicle in assembly business, to one with 450 employees, multiple customers, flight test operations and multiple vehicles in work, with its first spaceship, VSS Unity now entering flight test phase. Enrico has lived and worked in Australia, Europe and the US, with experience across cities, offshore gas platforms and remote deserts. Enrico's participation is supported by  the Perth USAsia Centre for the The Zone Above: The Ind-Pacific Era in Space on 8 Oct 2018.  About SpaceApps Space Apps is an international hackathon that occurs over 48 hours in cities around the world. Part of the Open Government Partnership, Space Apps is an annual event that pulls citizens together regardless of their background or skill level. Don't let the name fool you... it's not just about apps! Tackle a challenge using robotics, data visualization, hardware, design and many other specialties! Inspire each other while you learn and create using stories, code, design and, most of all, YOUR ideas. Show us your problem-solving skills and share your talents with the world! How it works Participants will organise into project teams to work on solving one of the specific challenges issued by NASA. Teams utilise publicly available NASA data to design all kinds of innovative solutions to the set Challenges. Any project teams get to pitch their solutions at the end of the weekend and there are some great prizes up for grabs. Plus up to two teams from the Perth competition can be selected to participate in the global judging. To register, create a profile on the spaceappschallenge.org website, and will then register for the Perth Hackathon HERE.

Get your startup on and create one over the weekend of October 5 to 7 at our Melbourne Hackathon! Partners include Stone & Chalk, Findex, Fairfax, Meat Livestock Australia and Ruralco. Win cash prizes and meet with the movers and shakers in the industry and meet amazing people. Many successful startup companies started from hackathons - it's a fantastic gateway for getting into either fintech or agtech. Stone & Chalk and SproutX will be hosting the Melbourne Hackathon at the iconic Goods Shed. You can either enter with a team or come on your own! Feel free to enter your OWN idea or solve an existing problem via the listed challenges. Get creative and make your own startup your way!

Hacking for Humanity 2018 | Girls in Tech Australia presents Hack the Home(Pre-Hack: 5 Oct | Hackathon: 13-14 Oct) Hackers - Register here to be a part of Hacking For Humanity 2018. Join us over 2.5 days as we hack away towards a solution for the homeless.  Calling all developers, product managers, designers, UXers, sales and marketing professionals!   Be a part of this year's Hacking For Humanity: Hack the Home, a hackathon presented by Girls in Tech Australia to be held in October. This year's focus will be on the charities that help the homeless. This hack aims to solve some issues for charities focused on homelessness using technology. Whether it is coming up with a new marketing or communications strategy or creating an app to engage with a diverse audience, hackers have the opportunity to choose from a broad spectrum of business problems. The problems will be pitched to you during the Pre-Hack (October 5) when you will also form teams - bring your girl gang and help drive innovation in these charities. Following that, the teams of hackers will invent, problem-solve and prototype for two days over a weekend (October 13 & 14). Join the brightest minds and help make a difference. Oh, and we're doing it for love... Gratis! It's on us! PRE-HACK - Meet and greet with the charities Friday, 5 October6 - 9pm HACK WEEKENDSaturday, 13 October & Sunday, 14 October (Hack Market on the Sunday!)9am - 5pmFood and drinks provided  

Ever wanted to disrupt the energy industry?  Here’s your chance to shock leaders from across the sector into action with your radical ideas!  Participate in the Western Power hackathon to shock its innovative leaders into action with your radical ideas that disrupt the energy industry. When5 + 6 October 2018 (8.30am - 4.30pm) WhoWe're after the game changers, engineers, developers, organisational psychologists, business developers and the innovators moving from deep knowledge to real action. WhereKick off and tour of Western Power @ 8.30am on Friday 5 October at Western Power’s office, 363 Wellington Street, Perth.Hack continues at EY and Tank Stream Labs @ 11 Mounts Bay Road, Perth. What to expect A significant amount of collaboration, post it notes and design thinking Empathising with real users to understand their needs Building prototypes of solutions to meet customer needs Pitching your ideas to leaders from the energy and utilities sector Prizes! Winners will take home:1 Month Full Time Tank Stream Labs MembershipA copy of Dave Clare's book SimplifiedTank Stream Labs Merch

HBF is organising their 10th annual Run for a Reason in 2019. But they need some ideas to make the entertainment at the event awesome. Therefore, you are invited to participate in the HBF Hackathon where you'll be brainstorming ideas, and competing to present the best 'entertainment' ideas to HBF to be used at next year's HBF Run for a Reason. Whether you have great ideas, want to meet some friends, want to bring some friends along, or just want to have a bit of fun, we hope you'll get on board and support the upcoming HBF Run for a Reason. There are great prizes on offer for the winning teams including a Garmin Sports Watch, $100 rebel vouchers and A HBF Run for a Reason VIP Package (with pre and post event hospitality). In addition, there will be free t-shirts, caps and water bottles for all participants. And to top it all off, you'll receive a certificate of participation simply for being there, a great addition to any portfolio or resume. Are you sold yet? Signup today, and help make the next HBF Run for a Reason even more awesome, while having a whole lot of fun at the same time.  The HBF Hackathon will be held on Tuesday 2nd October from 4.30 - 8.00PM on Curtin Campus, and it's only $5 for everything including food, drink and anything else you could possibly need to come up with great ideas. It's going to be crazy awesome, inspiring, motivating and of course you'll have great networking opportunities with other students and HBF. We will be putting everyone into groups for the event, however, if you would like to be with friends, please just send us a message, and we'll be happy to put you together.  We hope you can make it! Cheers, Curtin Marketing Association, Curtin University (School of Marketing) and HBF

The Actuator, in collaboration with Peak 15 HealthTech, is running an information session to help participants prepare for the upcoming Hackathon that will take place at the end of October 2018 [more information will be provided soon].  The pre-hackathon will also include a panel session where experts are going to share their views, perceived challenges and barriers in the aged care health sector.

Are you keen to help create the future of Road Safety Education in WA? If you are a current primary school teacher who has ideas about how road safety education can be improved we want you to be part of this hack! You’ll be led by an experienced Innovation Coach, learning about design process in a friendly event with like-minded professionals. We invite current primary school teachers to register to join us at RAC West Perth for a road safety education hackathon! WHAT IS IT?  A hackathon (hack) is a creative problem-solving methodology that sources inspiration from the crowd. You’ll work in a team to come up with solutions to a series of problems or challenges. An Innovation Coach will lead the group through design thinking concepts to solve problems around road safety education. WHY ARE WE DOING THIS?  RAC Community Education work in partnership with the Network Teach Road Safety Team to provide free road safety education to primary school students in WA. To help us continue to improve our current road safety education offering we are running this event to work together to innovate, inspire and develop ideas that will improve road safety education for primary school students. WHAT DO I GET?  Each attendee will receive a $50 gift card plus morning tea and time to network on the day. Spaces are limited, so please register your interest asap!

WHEN: Friday, Sept 28, 2018 - Sunday, Sept 30, 2018Visit the event page for more information on times. Friday: 18:00 - 20:00, Saturday: 09:00 - 18:00, Sunday 09:30 - 14:00 (Judging at 14:00 - 16:00). WHERE:River City Labs, 315 Brunswick St,Fortitude Valley QLD 4000 1ST PRIZE:Flights and accommodation for a team of 3to compete in the global VR Hackathon in China. DETAILS:- VR Headsets will be available for the event.- Development machines are limited so pleasebring your own.- Judges will be announced prior to the event.- You can use existing code and assets, however,judges will mostly consider your work completedduring the event.- Beginners welcome! PRICE:$10-$20 entry fee, BYO food.