List of hackathons in Brazil in 2016

Interested in ways to advance the economic development of the city of Curitiba? You're invited to form a multi-disciplinary team and participate at the 36-hour Hackathon Curitiba 2016! You'll be provided with a development topic by the city and be challenged to create an innovative application prototype that helps strengthen the economy and ecosystem of the city of Curitiba.

Brazilian university students and post-grads! Interested in business ideas for senior citizens? Come and participate in teams -- a developer, a health science professional, a business professional and a designer at the the 48 hour Hackathon Challange: Opportunities for Active Aging. Conceive, design and create an app or website, etc. that addresses one of the Hackathon challenges that will be unveiled at the event!

Brazilian hackers, designers, entrepreneurs, social activists, and more! Do you want to help break down the barriers to female entrepreneurship? Want to help more women enter and succeed in the technology sector? AngelHack invites you to come and participate in the Lady Problem Global Hackathon Series in São Paulo! You'll get to collaborate with like-minded women—and men—in an effort to build creative solutions to realize the potential of the female half of our world population! You'll be asked to hack a solution to one of the following challenges: Health: Help women access health resources to ensure that they can have successful careers, regardless of whether or not they choose to have children, or Safety: Help ensure that women can be safe when they go to, are at, and come home from work, or Economic Empowerment: Help women gain financial literacy and access the resources they need to grow their businesses, or Culture: Help women access better mentorship and feel less isolated in the workplace. Compete for an array of awesome prizes from sponsors and community parters including Women Who Code, IBM, Proctor & Gamble, and Hewlett Packard Enterprise. The winning team in each city location of the Lady Problem Global Hackathon Series will be inducted into the AngelHack social good accelerator, a 12-week mentorship and acceleration program. Visit the hackathon tips pagefor the best advice on how to participate in the Lady Problem Global Hackathon!

Hackathon Sendi will consist of 4 simultaneous challenges. Registration should be made to only one of the challenges, In the event of double registration, the organization will eliminate surplus registrations without consultation prior. The focus of Challenge 2 is intelligent energy, so the goal is to create an app or program that helps to minimize energy usage, or more efficiently uses current energy.

Hackathon Sendi will consist of 4 simultaneous challenges. Registration should be made to only one of the challenges, In the event of double registration, the organization will eliminate surplus registrations without consultation prior. The focus on Challenge 3 is Operation and Automation for Intelligent Distribution Networks with the goal of generating solutions and innovations to automate the power distribution sector or improve day to day activity in plants and offices.

Hackathon Sendi will consist of 4 simultaneous challenges. Registration should be made to only one of the challenges, In the event of double registration, the organization will eliminate surplus registrations without consultation prior. The focus of Challenge 4 is build an app or program that will improve cohesiveness of city structure or facilities or improves how infrastructure does its job in some way.

So you're not a coder? Here's a hackathon for you! ProtoHack exists to show non-coders that they can create something amazing from nothing. Sign up today for this code-free event. Instead, you will use the best tools for non-coders—prototyping tools, drag and drop editors, mockups, wireframes—to VISUALLY demo your idea on stage. ProtoHack will be a 12-hour experience where you will build a prototype that communicates an idea visually.

Java techies in Belo Horizonte, Brasil! Come and participate in the first Belo Horizonte hackathon for Java. Half of the participants will be women! The theme of the event is "Gender and Citizenship" and your challenge is to create a web system, an app, or any technology solution that helps address the problem of gender and citizenship.Your team must generate an idea and a web development project related to the theme.

Hackers and healthcare professionals! Come and showcase your creativity at Hacking Health Ribeirao Preto! Come and create innovative ways to reduce or eliminate the waste and misuse of resources available to hospitals, clinics, laboratories, and health centers. Collaborate with like-minded designers, entrepreneurs, practitioners, developers, and patient enthusiasts to help improve the quality and effectiveness of healthcare in Brazil.

Healthcare developers, professionals and entrepreneurs! Participate in the Hack4Health Hackathon and help address major challenges for the health system in Brazil. This year sponsors GE Healthcare and Optum will present you with two Big Data & Healthcare Analytics challenges. You must come up with creative solutions for integrating data and extracting intelligence that can help improve overall Public Health. You may choose from the following challenges: »GE Challenge: In mining structured and unstructured healthcare data, how do you interpret signs and symptoms and turn them into well-founded budgets and projects that promote overall public health? »Optum Challenge: How best can you combine disparate patient medical histories and databases that exist in Brazil to help improve the quality of patient care?