List of hackathons in Hong Kong in 2018

RADICA works with different universities each time to present Big Datathon. The competition gathers real business challenges and data from actual companies for you to solve. This round we have topics from Radica, UBS, and Poly U! Great way to fast-track your career in the corporate world. We welcome any students, graduates from different universities, startups, working professionals to join the 24 hours challenge!

Our 7th Hackathon for Data Science: a full day of fun and working together on YOUR data science projects! We have a new event on April 15th at Accelerate. At this event attendees will have the chance to pitch their projects, or join other people’s. And in the beginning of the day we will host some fantastic industry specialists to share their experiences operating in the data science field. Speakers: To be announced Schedule of events: 9.30am – Arrive, registration 10am – Welcome 10.15am – Talks begin 11.30am – Pitch session, recruitment  12pm – Work on projects 5.30 pm – Present results of work session Location: Accelerate HK 16F, 40 Bonham Strand, Sheung Wan Requirements  Laptop / charger for those joining the coding Prepared data, and projects pitches for the ones submitting projects If presenting, send us your presentation slides ahead of time so we can prepare them 50HKD in cash for the space rental Recommendations for project submissions: Prepare data in advance as much as you can; spending the day cleaning or retrieving data won't gather crowds of DS! Contact organisers if you need a data repository to share data with all your team members. If the project is already underway, prepare an introduction to it so that people can join (if you're presenting slides, send them to us before you arrive), and make sure the task you propose is feasible during the time of the event, and describe the skills you expect your team to have: R or Python? AWS, Spark? etc. for final presentations : Start writing the final presentation right from the start and add elements little by little all day long. Recall the context of the project and articulate the presentations to make it understandable by the non-initiated public around you. If you wish your work will be published on the website datasciencehongkong.com with your bio, name, etc. Other details 50 participants max Food / drink : Only water, coffee and snacks are provided. Attendees can order their own food to the venue, take a break to find a restaurant in Kennedy Town or bring their own lunch. Price : 50 HKD.We charge a fee to cover venue and food costs. We are not a for-profit organisation and will aim to keep the costs of our events as low as possible to make it accessible to all.

Enter the first ever Access to Justice or “A2J” InnoTech Law Hackathon hosted by the Law Society of Hong Kong. Build Apps and Web Solutions to bring access to justice for public good. Join if you are in Law, IT, Public Policy, Startups - anyone with passion for practical innovation and justice. When: 7-8 April 2018 (weekend), 9am-5pm Where: Cyberport, 100 Cyberport Rd, Telegraph Bay Hong Kong

Come learn how AI and Blockchain can work together to empower the economy of the future, the payments prototype which won First Runner Up in a Bank of China Hackathon, and how you can quickly prototype your own AI or Blockchain solution. We will cover over the basics of both image recognition and Blockchain, and showcase the technical blueprint of the app. 

Classified Post is proud to announce the launch of their first Hackathon, a 24 hours challenge for students to build winning digital solutions for large corporates. The event is for students to turn ideas into reality and will serve as a platform for students and fresh graduates to develop their prototype, enhance their problem solving skills and to learn and meet with technology industry leaders. And at the same time for corporates to explore shining stars from the participants. Who can enter? The Contest is open to teams of 3 – 5 members, all of whom are: Hong Kong undergraduate students Graduates with maximum 2 years’ experience There is no limitation and restriction on faculty or field of studies. Participants who are creative, think without boundaries, curious and passionate are encouraged to join the competition. Why should you take part? By taking part in this competition, you will be giving the opportunity to boost the CVs, network with fellow students, meet with industry leaders and gain real-life experience of pitching ideas.  How does it work? Teams will be assigned to 2 different categories by ballot: Media and Insurance.  A contest briefing will be held on March 21, 2018 at the Classified Post Career Forum to provide background information about the companies in respective categories. The Hackathon will be held on March 24 - 25, 2018.  Rundown March 24           11:00am            Registration and teams assigned into different categories March 24           11:30am            Opening Ceremony March 24           12:00nn             Beginning of 24-hour brainstorming session March 25           12:00nn             End of brainstorming session March 25           1:00pm             First round presentation ( 3mins per team ) March 25           4:00pm             Final round presentation ( 15mins for shortlisted teams ) March 25           6:30pm             Prize Presentation Ceremony Judging Criteria There is no fixed answer to the question itself, and it will be judged by: Quality and innovative nature of the idea / demo Utility of the idea / demo Use of the sponsors technologies and tools Prize Both category will have champion, 1st runner up and 2nd running up winners. Prizes are as below  1st place HK$8,000 cash Trophy and certificate for each team member 2nd place HK$5,000 cash Certificate for each team member 3rd place HK$3,000 cash Certificate for each team member All participants Outstanding participants will be invited by participating companies to attend their internship programmes Certificate for each participants   Application deadline: March 12, 2018   Notes: 1.     All participating teams grant the organiser and supporting partners the right to use the entry work and idea submitted / presented at the event, including presentation deck and/ or any prototypes developed within the event.2.     All entry should be original work by the participants. Plagiarised or published work (including on the Internet) or work already involved in other competitions will not be accepted. 3.    Winning teams are obligated to comply with the organisers’ requests for media interviews and photo/ video shooting (if applicable).4.     The organisers and their affiliates are not responsible for, and expressly disclaim, any and all liability with respect to or in any way arising from this programme and/or acceptance or use of the prizes, including liability for personal injury, death, damages, or loss.5.     All matters and disputes will be subject to the final decision of the organiser.  

Hong Kong’s designathon. Challenge your thinking and build your creative confidence at this design-driven hackathon. Try, mess up, struggle, have fun. You’ll have three days to jump into a team and design a service or experience. Get excited about an idea. Put all your effort behind it. Run up against a wall, then climb over it. Collaborate with new people. Make it work in a weekend. Build invisible things. Services aren’t tangible, and designing them is a challenge. You’ll get the chance to try new tools and approaches, and get help from top-notch mentors along the way. Ideate: Come up with a billion ideas and learn how to pick just the right one. Research: Talk to people and learn what they want. Prototyping: Build it. Make your idea real, through maps, visualisations and prototypes. Who can jam? DesignersBigger than your job title?Designers who can do more than their job titles demand design services. You’ll learn to take a broad approach and have a bigger impact. ProgrammersDesign-curious coder?Code is great, but it’s just one part of the puzzle. Learn how to use tech to make human-friendly value propositions. EntrepreneursStruggling to design your business?Making something from nothing is scary. You’ll learn how to swim through ambiguity and make decisions your customers will love. BusinessNew to design-thinking?Design is a powerful way to solve sticky problems and give your business strategic direction. You’ll skip the slides and theory, and learn by doing. Schedule Saturday, you’ll be up to your ears in post-its. Sunday, you’ll have a finished service. Friday, 7pm to 11pmFind out the surprise theme. Come up with ideas. Build teams. Get to work. Saturday, 9am to 10pmWork in teams. Research the problem. Talk to users. Maps and sketch solutions. Make rough prototypes. Make fancy prototypes. Make mistakes. Have fun. Sunday, 9am to 5pmKeep talking to users. Keep building your idea. Keep prototyping. Concoct a business model. Present your prototype. Win a prize. Celebrate.

Open Data Day is a annual global hackathon at cities to hack about some open data ideas. 2018 hackathon will be hosted on 3 March (Saturday). Event Page on OSHK: https://opensource.hk/open-data-day-2018

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Our 5th Hackathon for Data Science: a full day of fun and working together on YOUR data science projects! We have a new event on February 4 at the Hive. At this event attendees will have the chance to pitch their projects, or join other people’s. And in the beginning of the day we will host some fantastic industry specialists to share their experiences operating in the data science field. Speakers: Pranav Agrawal, HKUST masters student, will give an introduction to Pytorch https://github.com/pranav-ust/pytorch-tutorial Hang Xu, PhD Candidate, ‘Application of word2vec to represent biological sequences’ Schedule of events: 9.30am – Arrive, registration 10am – Welcome 10.15am – Talks begin 11.30am – Pitch session, recruitment  12pm – Work on projects 5.30 pm – Present results of work session Location: 10/F Cheung Hing Industrial Building12P Smithfield Road, Kennedy Town Requirements  Laptop / charger for those joining the coding Prepared data, and projects pitches for the ones submitting projects If presenting, send us your presentation slides ahead of time so we can prepare them 50HKD in cash for the space rental Recommendations for project submissions: Prepare data in advance as much as you can; spending the day cleaning or retrieving data won't gather crowds of DS! Contact organisers if you need a data repository to share data with all your team members. If the project is already underway, prepare an introduction to it so that people can join (if you're presenting slides, send them to us before you arrive), and make sure the task you propose is feasible during the time of the event, and describe the skills you expect your team to have: R or Python? AWS, Spark? etc. for final presentations : Start writing the final presentation right from the start and add elements little by little all day long. Recall the context of the project and articulate the presentations to make it understandable by the non-initiated public around you. If you wish your work will be published on the website datasciencehongkong.com with your bio, name, etc. Other details 50 participants max Food / drink : Only water, coffee and snacks are provided. Attendees can order their own food to the venue, take a break to find a restaurant in Kennedy Town or bring their own lunch. Price : 50 HKD.We charge a fee to cover venue and food costs. We are not a for-profit organisation and will aim to keep the costs of our events as low as possible to make it accessible to all.

There are a lot of travel blogs in China and Taiwan that sharing comments in the text with photos about different travel spots in Hong Kong.Participants will be provided with 24 web documents acquired from different traveling blogs and to develop smart algorithms that can identify the 5 key data elements from the documents. Join the challenge is free at https://www.datavalleyhk.com/c05. Challenge will close on April 9. Don't miss the chance to win the award of HK$20,000