List of hackathons in Australia in 2019

This Hackathon is being held on Tuesday 09th April 5-7pm by Eric Jong and Gordon Chen from Research Platform Services.  About this Event: This is a 2hr 3D printing drop in sessions hosted by two experts in 3D modelling and printing output for researchers to come in at a time of their convenience. Researchers will bring models to work on that they’d like advice for, from either experts or each other for casual discussion . This event is bought to you by Research Platforms Services. Contact us at research.bazaar@gmail.com.

This Hackathon is being held on Thursday 04th April 5-7:30pm by Eric Jong and Gordon Chen from Research Platform Services.  About this Event: 3D Printing Hackathon: learn the tools to build and design for 3D printing! Be creative, innovate and collaborate in small teams of fellow researchers. Find something you are really passionate about, design it, 3D print it, and share it with others in a presentation to a special guest panel. This event is bought to you by Research Platforms Services. Contact us at research.bazaar@gmail.com.

Join us for a one-day hackathon to learn design thinking skills and develop concrete proposals to make the most of diversity in your personal, professional and learning environment. Open to post-secondary young Victorians and international students, the event will provide participants to develop skills in design thinking and apply it to a concrete challenge: how can we make the most of diversity to live better, work better, and learn better? This hackathon will bring together domestic and international students, working in mixed teams. The more diverse the group, the more adapted the tool. Whether you want an opportunity to think out of the box, tap into your inner rebel, or simply learn how to better engage with a broader range of people, this event is for you! The workshop will be run entirely in English, with consideration paid to linguistic diversity. Light lunch will be provided What is Design Thinking? Developed around Stanford D.School and Silicon Valley, adopted and improved in leading centres of innovation – Shenzhen, Bangalore and Amsterdam, Design Thinking is a methodology teaching systematic strategies to solve complex problems. Why participate? Design thinking, problem solving, teamwork and intercultural communication are important enterprise skills to develop to prepare for the future of work that is increasingly networked and global. Design thinking, in particular, is one of the most critical tools for future workplaces, particularly for anybody looking to work in an emerging field, engage with complex problem. Who should participate? This hackathon is open to post-secondary domestic and international students, including students enrolled in TAFE, ELICOS, private providers and universities. Event details Date: 30 March; 31 March or 13 April 2019 Time: 10am-4pm Venue: Foundation of Young Australians, 21 – 27 Somerset Place, Melbourne Light lunch will be provided Register Places are limited and registrations are essential.  Register here for a place. Photo Source: pixabay.com

Australian Sports Technology Cup 2019 is a 2-day hackathon to celebrate innovation in Sports Analytics, and Sports Data. Hosted at La Trobe University City Campus in Melbourne Victoria, the 80+ person event is a fun, innovative competition for top professionals, academics, and university students to collaborate and showcase creativity, and passion for innovation in sports analytics & data. A maximum of 100 spots. It’s a Free event! For this Hackathon, the themes around the Challenges will be around A) Stadium and Fan experience and B) Sprots Business.   MAJOR SPONSORS & PARTNERS La Trobe University | Melbourne Cricket Club | Launch Victoria 

The Global Service Jam: an event where you explore and experience Design Thinking. Super-charge your creative confidence with a team to make a new service in 48-hours. Be part of the global movement.  In a spirit of experimentation, co-operation and friendly competition, teams will have 48 hours to develop brand new services inspired by a shared theme. The theme will be announced on Friday night at the event.   You can expect to: 1. Have fun. 2. Build creative confidence through applying design thinking tools and methods. 3. Hone your persuasion, facilitation and collaboration skills with people you meet and choose to work with. 4. Meet new people, make new connections, build a network of like-minded explorers looking for new and better ways to create and deliver value. 5. It's fully catered: Food, Drinks, Snack... COFFEE!   Schedule: The Jam will kick off at 6 pm on Friday the 29th and pack up at 6 pm on Sunday the 31st. The kick-off on Friday night will include drinks & dinner - this is where you will meet your fellow Jammers, watch some inspirational speakers, meet your teammates and get the secret theme for the Jam from Global HQ. Over the course of Saturday and Sunday, your Juciy Jam organising team will guide you through the bringing to life of your team's ideas & exploring ways to refine them. Sunday will wrap up with the teams all presenting their final concepts to a small panel of judges - then we talk next steps and how you can all keep up the momentum after the Jam! Friday 29th March : 6pm - 9pm including Dinner & Drinks Saturday 30th March : 9am - 5.30pm Including Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner & Drinks  Sunday 31st March : 9am - 5.30pm Including Breakfast, Lunch & Drinks FAQ's will be published on the event Facebook page: facebook.com/JamMelbourne   What is a Jam? A jam is a human-centred design-led hackathon. It uses the musical metaphor of "jamming" together, where a team of individuals who are unrelated come together to make great and new music. In a service design jam, the people are the musicians, their experience and imagination the instruments and the music made: novel products and services they could not create alone.  You will learn to use design-thinking methods to rapidly define and refine your ideas. Moving your ideas from concepts to prototypes. Prototyping is where the magic happens. Prototypes make your concept real in the world. They provide a reference that you can test with each other and with your market. Other people can play with your prototype, ask questions, add features, remove features, help you make something that others will be delighted to use. Jams are about empathy, collaboration and experimentation. They promote co-design and participation. Come and stretch your understanding of what you are capable of creating in 48 hours.   Be part of a global event with more than 100 cities participating! Join us for the weekend of 29 to 31 March 2019 This year's Jam will be held at: LOCATION TO BE CONFIRMED   More about the Melbourne Service Jam: @JamMelb facebook.com/JamMelbourne globaljams.org/jam/globalservicejam 

How might we use low-cost technologies to address healthcare gaps and improve the management of noncommunicable diseases (NCDs) in underserved but emerging markets? Join us on this 2.5 day Hackathon and help us to create global solutions to global problems. The goal of this hackathon is to tackle the world’s biggest killers: non-communicable diseases (NCDs) by identify promising new solutions using low-cost technologies to address healthcare gaps and improve the management of NCDs in underserved but emerging markets Help us create practical solutions that are central to improving the health of millions of people worldwide, particularly in those in resource-poor settings. Individuals, teams of individuals, are all welcome to participate. As long as you are affiliated with UNSW or The George Institute. By attending this 2.5 day hackathon you will be part of a global community of medtech entrepreneurs pioneering the creation of affordable and scalable healthcare solutions that transcend social and economic and geographical barriers. Schedule  *  Fri 29 March: 5.30pm - 8.30pm  *  Sat 30 March: 9.30am - 8.30pm   *  Sun 31 March: 9.30am - 8.30pm  Limited spots available so sign up now! Visit https://mcichack.com/ to read more about this Hack. By registering for this event/workshop you grant UNSW Founders full rights to use the images from any photography/video footage for publicity and education purposes. This may include (but is not limited to), the right to use them in their printed and online publicity, coursework presentations, social media and press releases. If you do not wish to be photographed please inform an event organiser.

Digital Vaultz Hackathon “Making the Impossible Possible” Innovation Centre USC, Sippy Downs 4556 Prizes: First - 15000 USAT Tokens + 5000 dHt Second - 6000 USAT Tokens + 2000 dHt Third - 3000 USAT Tokens + 1000 dHtCheck out the details on the Sunshine Coast Blockchain Meetup Group

This 3D Printing Hackathon is being held on Thursday 28th March 5-7:30pm by Eric Jong and Gordon Chen from Research Platform Services.  About this Event: 3D Printing Hackathon: Learn the tools to build and design for 3D printing! Be creative, innovate and collaborate in small teams of fellow researchers. Find something you are really passionate about, design it, 3D print it, and share it with others in a presentation to a special guest panel. Come along for an excellent introduction to the world of 3D printing. 3Device is a 4 week 3D printing hackathon that promotes device innovation for any field, inclusive of medicine, engineering, dentistry, design, veterinary science or any other faculty. It will run every Thursday night from Marth 28th to April 18th inclusive. Students at the University of Melbourne will come together in teams and use 3D modeling and printing to develop a device product during workshops blended with training in all parts of the 3D printing workflow. By rapidly prototyping their ideas with access to 3D printing facilities, teams will finally share their device and pitch it to an incredible panel of industry and specialist judges. Winners will receive fantastic prizes while everyone gets the opportunity to speak to industry experts and get their product off the ground.Join in for an opportunity to upskill in technology that’s changing research, to collaborate across disciplines and to produce a potentially tangible business product! This event is bought to you by Research Platforms Services. Contact us at research.bazaar@gmail.com.

The Train the Trainer event will run over 2 x 4-hour sessions. The purpose is to equip staff with an understanding of how to run an effective Hackathon or Innovation Challenge. It will be an experiential event which provides participants with the chance to work in teams to design their own Hackathon as well as give and receive feedback from their peers. There will also be involvement from RMIT University experts including: Dr Reza Mohammed - Manager, Program Development - Research and Innovation Rebecca Taube - Senior Legal Counsel Leonie Russell - Senior Advisor, Learning and Teaching Participants who attend the program will receive editable templates for slides, emails and legal contracts. Ongoing support (approx. 2 x coaching sessions) will be provided by RMIT Activator staff. Access to the RMIT Activator Sandbox community will be made available to all participants as a prize which can be offered for the winning teams of any Hackathons hosted. For the full experience, it is important that you register for both days. Please note, this workshop is for RMIT staff only. If you are not from RMIT but are interested in what we do here at Activator, drop us a line at hello.activator@rmit.edu.au.

With the turn of the millennium nearly two decades behind us, and the world changing quicker than ever, smart technology is becoming increasingly commonplace. Whether for cost savings, convenience or efficiency; from recurring orders to automatic bill payments, our obsession with automating our lives is far from unfounded. But how can this approach serve the energy sector? In this event, brought to you by EnergyLab, we explore how building automation can benefit both the occupants and the electricity grid. We hope you can join us for drinks and a discussion on automation with a panel of experts. This is a chance to meet like-minded people to discuss startup opportunities in smart buildings. Free to attend, drinks provided. The panel Panelists to be announced soon. Timing 5:30pm: Doors open 6:00pm: Panel discussion followed by Q&A with the audience 7:00pm: Continue the discussion over drinks and light snacks 8:00pm: Event concludes About EnergyLab EnergyLab is Australia’s leading platform for launching new energy businesses. Our integrated approach draws on the community of clean energy entrepreneurs and offers a range of ways to engage and leverage their ideas, technologies and resources. To read more about EnergyLab head to energylab.org.au. Want more? This is the second event in EnergyLab's three-part series on smart buildings, leading to a hackathon to generate related startup ideas. More information on each upcoming event can be found below: EnergyLab Brisbane Smart Buildings Series: Data & Analytics EnergyLab Brisbane Smart Buildings Series: Demand Response EnergyLab Brisbane Smart Buildings Hackathon If you would like to receive invitations to other events EnergyLab organises in the future, please sign up to our mailing list.