List of hackathons in India in 2016

CSI is  planning to conduct a hackathon & Startup Meet on Jan 14, 15 as a part of its academic event technext. The venue is IIT Bombay. Details of this are being planned. We are looking at partnering with various organisations at this moment.  This Saturday November 17, we are inviting technical people in areas of Blockchain, Artificial Intelligence and Internet of Things who are interested to volunteer for this event are invited to attend a briefing session.  Volunteers are expected to prepare technical support in creating problem statement for hackathon, conducting workshops / lectures at venue, providing sponsorship, prizes, or cloud Infrastructure for event etc. The attendees will be largely IT, Computer engineering and MCA students, startups and young software professionals. This will be a meeting to discuss ideas in general for the event and there is no seminar or talk being given here.  There are no charges to attend but everyone is expected to be on time.  Direction : The venue is close to Seepz. Call CSI office 022 2823 5546 for any help Regards Ajit Joshi 

Developers, hackers and IT students in and around Bangalore! Interested in diving down into Linux source code? IF YES, THEN... Sign up to participate in the Linux Kernel Hackathon, Bangalore. You'll meet with and learn from some of the best Linux technicians and kernel enthusiasts in the industry. There will be sessions on Linux Kernel Hacking, File-System Internals & Btrfs, and Linux Tracing. In between, you'll get to work on as many Linux kernel patches, as you can crank through!

Agenda [please read till the end for full details] :  This is going to be one helluva "eventful" meetup. We are taking this opportunity to visit the Microsoft Mumbai campus after an extensive renovation. And its the ideal location to kickstart two local Azure chapters in Bombay: namely Azure IoT and Azure Cloud. For those interested, I would urge you to join the individual meetups group [link given below each talk ] because from hereon both these groups will traverse on their own separate trajectories. This meetup will also be the fifth and the last in the Dockercon 2016 Recap Series ==================================================================================== Time: 12.00 pm  - 1.00 pm  Session: Microsoft Bot Framework and Cognitive Services The Microsoft Bot Framework lets you build and deploy bots across a variety of channels, like Facebook, Skype and Slack. In addition, Microsoft Cognitive Services lets you build apps with deep, powerful algorithms centered around things like vision, speech, language, and more. In this session, we will explore the Microsoft Bot Framework while building a simple bot or two, and then combine that knowledge with Cognitive Services to create something more useful and engaging Speaker: Maninderjit Bindra  Bio : Maninderjit Bindra (Mani) is a Senior Tech Evangelist at Microsoft. In his current role, he helps partners, customers and developers in building scalable and resilient solutions. He has over 16 years of industry experience and has designed and implemented several high volume, business critical applications and APIs, using Open Source as well as Microsoft Technologies. You can connect with him on Twitter @manisbindra Target Audience : Devs, Bot and Machine Learning Enthusiasts  Link:: https://www.meetup.com/Azure-Cloud-meetup-Mumbai-chapter/ ==================================================================================== Time: 1.15 pm  - 3.00 pm  Session: The Internet of Things: Connecting everything Speaker: Gandhali Samant Bio: Gandhali is a Sr. Technology evangelist from Microsoft India. Spending over 15 years in IT, Gandhali has worked with several MNCs in India and abroad, primarily in the insurance and retail domain. In her current role as a certified cloud architect, she helps partners, customers and developers in building world-class solutions on Microsoft’s Cloud platform. Her primary focus is on working with startups and helping them to move to cloud. A graduate in Computer Engineering from the University Of Mumbai, Gandhali holds a Master’s degree in Computer Science from the Florida Institute Of Technology. You can connect with her on twitter @s_gandhali and her blog link is http://blogs.msdn.com/b/gsamant/  Target Audience: IoT enthusiasts Link: https://www.meetup.com/Azure-IOT-Mumbai-chapter/ ========================================================================== Time: 3.10 pm  - 4.00 pm  Session: DockerCon 2016 Recap - Microsoft Speaker: Augustine Correa Bio: Loves exploring new technologies, have a voracious appetite for food and knowledge. Trekking and heavy lifting in real and virtual world, organizing events are my forte apparently. Unlike my NPM packages, my TV series torrents are always updated except when NPM breaks the internet :-) Target Audience - Beginners's knowledge of containers & Azure technologies ========================================================================== MTP Talks ========================================================================== Time: 4.00 pm  - 5.00 pm  Session: Getting hands-on with Graph-databases Speaker: Kaushik Chaubal Bio: Kaushik is a Java developer in BlackRock-London, an investment management firm, since early 2012 and works in the Core Software Infrastructure team. In his spare time, he enjoys reading and trying new technologies, attending Hackathons and building new things! He holds a masters degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh. Target Audience: The focus of the talk is walk through the fundamentals of graph databases, their storage mechanisms and processing engines. The talk will also include demos on implementations and examples of some popular graph databases, such as Neo4j, Titan and Sparksee. As such, the target audience is anyone who is interested to learn about the world of no-SQL databases, distributed storage, scalable solutions to deal with complex and unstructured big-data. ========================================================================== Time: 5.00 pm - 6.00 pm Session: Real time app development using RethinkDB Speaker: Shahid Shaikh Bio: Shahid Shaikh is an Engineer, Author and Blogger. He works full time at Accion Labs inc where he designs and develops backend applications. He has authored a book on Sails.js - MVC framework for Node.js and is currently writing one on RethinkDB. He blogs about programming at codeforgeek.com Target Audience: Backend developers ===========================================================================  Important notes: 1. The meetup is free and open to all technology enthusiasts ONLY. Recruiters and entrepreneurs who are looking to hire, please excuse, this is a purely technical event. Ours is a community run meetup. 2. Its mandatory for all those who are attending to get the tickets for the sessions they intend to attend.[Soft copy is preferrable...a QR code + 2 barcode will be generated for you when you buy a ticket] 3. DO NOT issue tickets if you are not sure of attending. If you get tickets issued and do NOT attend, you go into our blacklist which will be to your disadvantage for ALL our future meetups 4. Please watch out for changes in schedule. We will communicate with you on the email provided during registeration.  5. Right of admissions reserved. Since we have limited seats, we want to ensure the correct audience partakes in the individual sessions. Hence its vital you fill up the relevant boxes on various technologies while registering. 6. There will be timeouts for 10 minutes coffee/tea and bio breaks but we do not serve lunch. Why? See last statement of point 1 above :-)  ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Maninderjit Bindra (Mani) Microsoft India Senior Tech Evangelist Kaushik Chaubal BlackRock-London Java developer Augustine Correa #mumtechup Organizer Gandhali Samant Microsoft India Sr. Tech Evangelist Shahid Shaikh Accion Labs Inc Software Engineer

Bangalore hackers! Come and participate in the Open Hackathon — a 24-hour event. Network with your peers — the most talented hackers in the city and prove you belong up there with the best! Showcase your coding skills and compete with other ethical hackers, coders and startups. Pitch your solution to the panel of judges for a chance to win an awesome prize!

Join the organizers over at HiveMinds Innovative Market Solutions to participate in a 24 hour data hackathon that is sure to feature stiff competition, great ideas, and new unique ways to solve problems. The theme of the hackathon is data, and structured data about startups will be provided at the beginning of the hackathon, however hackers are also invited to use any unstructured public data such as scraping blogs or twitter accounts they may have access to in order to further their ideas.

Want to help break down the barriers to female entrepreneurship? Want to help more women enter and succeed in the technology sector? Come and participate in the Lady Problem Global Hackathon Series in New Delhi! 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. Safety: Help ensure that women can be safe when they; go to, are at, and come home from work. Economic Empowerment: Help women gain financial literacy and access the resources they need to grow their businesses. Culture: Help women access better mentorship and feel less isolated in the workplace. The winning team from Delhi will be inducted into AngelHack’s Social Good Accelerator, a 12-week mentorship and acceleration program. Our expert advice pagegives you insights into hackathon participation!

Developers and designers? Passionate about coding? Want the chance to work on DigitalOcean, the world's second largest cloud platform? Here's your chance to take a sneak peek into DigitalOcean @ the DigitalOcean Cloud Hack. If you are passionate about coding and you want to test your development skills then this fun hackathon is for you!

Do you want to make a difference in the lives of millions of Indian citizens? Come and Build for India! Be a part of the cashless revolution and help build a corruption-free India! Collaborate to build apps that create a tangible impact.

Calling all Fintech techies! Participate in the "Rise Hackathon - Episode 2 - The Bank Awakens" sponsored by Barclays Bank. Choose between three world missions for a chance to win a single prize awarded for that mission. You may choose to enter one of: →World I: The Consumer Cosmos: Customer payment solutions →World II: Rebellion of the Corporate Treasurer: Innovative solutions to manage risk →World III: The Payments Parallax: ZeroUI solutions

Join the Royal Bank of Scotland in their 3rd Annual Hackathon, where you can use the banks API to create new apps and services that work with RBS's banking capabilities. Developers, designers, and members of the banking community are welcome to come provide input and create new software.