List of hackathons in Hong Kong in 2017

Coders, designers, and entrepreneurs in Hong Kong! AngelHack invites you to sign up to participate in the AngelHack Global Hackathon Series: Hong Kong. Compete on your own, or collaborate as a member of a team to come up with an idea and turn it into a functioning prototype. You're not limited! You could build an app that delivers positive value to your community, a website satisfying an unmet financial need, a virtual reality game, or whatever your imagination can conceive.

This free workshop is for beginners and non-designers who want to: Learn the creative process behind designing brand identities from start to finish Understand the tricks and techniques behind creating an attractive and meaningful logo that people can recognise and remember Get comfortable with turning ideas and sketches into digital form on the computer so that the logo can be used on marketing material. No previous experience required. Limited spaces available! About the Speaker: Barney Yau has 8 years of design experience and has worked on over 200 projects with startups, SMEs and multinational corporations. He has also taught design to over 850 students at Google Campus London, The University of Oxford, The London School of Economics, Imperial College London, The University of Warwick and The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology for over 3 years, and has run private design sessions with startups, hackathons and incubator cohorts. Website: www.notes.designPortfolio: www.behance.net/notesdotdesignYouTube channel: https://goo.gl/H897oV

This free workshop is for beginners and non-designers who want to: Learn the graphic design principles that are crucial for designing professional looking layouts Understand the tricks and techniques that go into supporting the ability to tell more engaging, persuasive and memorable stories Get comfortable with being able to design at speed for when there’s little time to improve an existing presentation or create a new one No previous experience required. Limited spaces available! About the Speaker: Barney Yau has 8 years of design experience and has worked on over 200 projects with startups, SMEs and multinational corporations. He has also taught design to over 850 students at Google Campus London, The University of Oxford, The London School of Economics, Imperial College London, The University of Warwick and The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology for over 3 years, and has run private design sessions with startups, hackathons and incubator cohorts. Website: www.notes.designPortfolio: www.behance.net/notesdotdesignYouTube channel: https://goo.gl/H897oV

This free workshop is for beginners and non-designers who want to: Understand the fundamental principles of design (colour, typography, layout and psychology) Discover the tricks and techniques that go into making a design effective (e.g. attract attention, communicate information clearly, make something easy to use/remember etc.) Explore design (i.e. how to start, ways to get better, how to find opportunities to practice etc.) No previous experience required. Limited spaces available! About the Speaker: Barney Yau has 8 years of design experience and has worked on over 200 projects with startups, SMEs and multinational corporations. He has also taught design to over 850 students at Google Campus London, The University of Oxford, The London School of Economics, Imperial College London, The University of Warwick and The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology for over 3 years, and has run private design sessions with startups, hackathons and incubator cohorts. Website: www.notes.designPortfolio: www.behance.net/notesdotdesignYouTube channel: https://goo.gl/H897oV

University students and alumni from universities around the world! The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology invites you to participate in the hackUST 2017 / hardUST 2017 events at the University's Clear Water Bay campus. These are two hackathons running in parallel -- one focused on software, the other on hardware solutions. It's your choice which one you want to enter. In either case, you'll be able to develop your project prototype and also to network with entrepreneurs and industry experts to pitch your ideas.

Hackers in Hong Kong! Recime invites you to sign up to participate in the 1st Hong Kong Bot Hackathon. You'll be challenged to create innovative bots to work with social media and cloud apps such as Facebook Messenger, Slack, WeChat, Pipedrive and more! Come and demonstrate your javascript skills and showcase your mastery of natural language processing (NLP).

Students in Hong Kong! #WeCodeBusiness invite you to sign up to participate in the E.C. Jamming - Hackathon. You'll be challenged to work on a technology project that can help enrich the lives of student. You'll be expected to work in teams and to collaborate to achieve your goals. You don't need to be a techie to take part -- all university students from all faculties are welcome.

Do you have a passion for open data projects? Open Source Hong Kong invites you to sign up to participate in the Open Data Day 2017 Hong Kong Hackathon. You can help grow the open data community by working on projects such as open research data, protecting the environment with open data, and using open data to improve the lives of Hong Kong residents. Come and showcase your creative and technical skills to collect, visualize, and analyze data.

Do you have a passion for open data projects? If you're planning to participate in the Open Data Day 2017 Hong Kong Hackathon, then consider attending the pre-hackathon workshop (presented in Cantonese) on using the Python language to retrieve and extract data from raw HTML pages. You'll be prepared for the hackathon where you'll be able to showcase your creative and technical skills to collect, visualize, and analyze data.

Developers, designers, travel industry techies in and around Hong Kong? Are you planning to participate in the upcoming Hack Horizon TravelTech hackathon? If so, you're invited to attend TravelTech Tuesday #8. In addition to panel discussion of whether Hong Kong will become the next TravelTech hub, you'll hear what you'll need to learn about Hack Horizon, the first TravelTech hackathon on the plane. You'll be walked through the essentials of the application process and have the opportunity to get all of your burning questions answered.