List of hackathons in New Zealand in 2018

Maui o Te Huapae! Maui Beyond the Horizon! Let us be like Maui Potiki - Maui the Explorer and join together at Otiria Marae to explore, create and innovate at our techno - engineering hackathon! We will host a hackathon where in teams participants will complete challenges in: 1. Building a test catapult  2. Exploration of hydraulics 3. Geometric activity (based on sheet metal design) 4. Floating a model waka hourua 5. Exploring the design process 6. Bridge buildingTower design with tooth picks Te Matarau Education Trust in partnership with Ngati Hine Health Trust welcomes young and old to join us at Maui o Te Huapae!

A hackathon with the aim of exploring the ideas and practice of making legislation into machine consumable 'digital rules' that can be reused and integrated across domains for the benefit of businesses, individuals and communities. The aim is to understand the feasibility of providing government hosted machine consumable legislation as part of Government as a Platform. We want to understand how well aligned existing standards, languages, and toolsets are for across domain integration, and what the options are for how machine consumable legislation can be presented as authoritative open data. We also want to understand the value of machine consumable legislation to community and industry.Hackathon participants will be required to build a working demonstrator that benefits their sector or community using digital rules from more than one source, for example, legislation from multiple agencies, or trade agreements, or any other form of rules from more than one source. Teams will need to show the value of digital rules, how they made the digital rules consumable by everyone, and share their lessons learnt.This event is jointly run with Legal Hackers NZ and Venture Centre and will be run in Wellington, with a follow up hackathon in Tauranga on 16 & 17 June.Further details can be found at https://legalhackers.nz/betterruleshack/This event is part of the TechWeek series on Building Government’s Digital Service Innovation Capability.

AgTech Hackathon: Manawatu presented by CEDA and powered by Microsoft, Accelerate25 and BCC connects smart farmers with smarter on-farm solutions. The Hackathon will enable our farming community to present on-farm opportunities and challenges to technology experts, who can then creatively solve these problems drawing on their hardware and software programming skills together with corporates who use their business experience to bring teams together integrating the bigger picture into their solution. This year Mat Hocken and James Stewart open a challenge to the community during New Zealand AgriFood Week, identifying problem statements in their day to day lives. Problems are to be chosen by Mat and James and announced mid-April allowing participants to begin working on solutions before the competition begins. During the AgTech Hackathon teams will form, and work will begin on solutions from May 3rd. Over two days teams will be put to the test where they hack away at their solution, ready to present at Dragons Den on May 5th.  Successful solutions will lead to business opportunities and the products could ultimately end up in market helping to make farmers work more efficiently all around the world. AgTech Hackathon is designed to not only help solve problems, but enable a connection and conversation between our rural and urban communities. Register for AgTech Hackathon now to create change and solve problems in your community.  ** Register before April 6th and go in the draw for $250 cash! **  For more information: https://www.hackathonmanawatu.nz

Welcome to impactNPO! We are pleased to announce our 16th event in Auckland at GridAKL, 101 Pakenham Street West, Auckland. To be part of this amazing weekend, all you need to do is get a ticket from Eventbrite. The weekend starting on Friday 20th April from 6 pm to 8 pm with networking, charity introductions, and team formation. You will be volunteering your weekend (Saturday 21st and Sunday 22nd April from 9 am to 5 pm) where we all will be giving back to the community by providing IT solutions to charities. We will be providing the food and drinks this weekend to keep you well fed and energised! A big thank you to our amazing partner GridAKL who are sponsoring the venue. The details of the 4 amazing charities that will be joining us on the Hackathon weekend will be announced soon. FAQs What do I need to bring? An open mind, a smile and your own computer/laptop. Don’t forget your phone, chargers or any other gadgets that you rely on. What's in it for me? First and foremost we aim to help local non-profits. NPOs often have quite a lot of IT challenges. Through this, you may find that you meet new people from different companies or industries, find contacts if you're looking for work, or get to step outside of your comfort zone and learn something new through a weekend project. Or just have a fun weekend working in a team to deliver something that is really useful to the community! Furthermore, all volunteers that have successfully participated and contributed in a team for the entire hackathon will receive a Certificate of Participation for their efforts. Sweet stuff! What can we expect as results for the NPOs? This depends on you, your team and the needs of your chosen NPO! We have run many successful weekends, and have helped numerous NPOs with websites, IT infrastructure, design, branding, content as well as general advice. For a list of some of our accomplishments, and the NPOs that we have helped during the past weekends, have a look on our website: impactnpo.org What about catering options? To help us plan ahead and order food, we would love to know about your dietary requirement so please specify during registration whether you would require normal, vegetarian, or gluten-free option when you register. How can I contact the organiser with any questions? If you have any questions, please feel free to email us at info@impactnpo.org or drop us a message on Facebook (www.facebook.com/impactnpo) or Meetup (www.meetup.com/impactnpo) What if I have a change of plans? Please remember to let us know at least 3 days before the event if you're no longer able to come for the full weekend, as this will allow us to free up the reservation for people on the waiting list. Look forward to seeing you all there :) From the impactNPO organising team

The need for new and innovative solutions to problems we currenty face in our community, country and this world is paramount and Microsoft is on a mission to help us solve some of these issues. Thats why AgTech Hackathon is proud to partner with Microsoft, providing the latest software to Hackathon participants.   April 19th at The Factory in Palmerston North you'll have the opportunity to whitness the latest techology and software that Microsoft has to offer. This is a great chance for those taking part in AgTech Hackathon to get a feel for the technology available to them during the Hackathon on May 3rd - 5th. While this is a great opportunity for those involved in Hackathon it's also your chance to experience the new and innovative solutions being developed in our country.  Come along and enjoy an evening of problem solving solutions and innovation.  REGISTER FOR MICROSOFT INFORMATON EVENING HERE:  

Impact Challenge 2018 @ Massey Join us for a university-wide innovation hackathon to help solve Really Big Problems. The Impact Challenge 2018 is your opportunity to tackle some of the most significant problems facing us today, as outlined in the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals. This challenge is open to the Massey University community, and organised by the ecentre -- the enterprise and innovation centre at Massey University, along with industry partner PROJECTR®. Make an impact by hacking solutions to global challenges Experiment with new technology Work with interdisciplinary teams Meet amazing people and win prizes  Who can enter? YOU! Students from any of our colleges, both undergraduate and graduate, including business, science, creative arts, humanities and social sciences, and health.  No previous tech experience is required -- but bring an open mind. Why you should enter? Along with some sweet prizes you’ll get to work with industry professionals and experiment with new technology  while trying to solve some of the world’s biggest problems. You’ll get to learn, experiment with new tech and have a heap of fun in the process. Plus -- it looks good on your CV! How do I get involved? Join us at our kick off event to find out more about the hackathon. Wednesday 21st March: 12-2pm Wonderroom Gate 5, Massey University, Oaklands Rd, Albany, Auckland 0632   -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Guest speakers and our sweet, sweet prizes will be announced at the kick-off event.  Not based in Auckland but want to take part? Don’t worry. You’ll be able to stream in from Wellington or Palmerston North campuses.  Register your interest and we’ll be in touch.

We are very privileged to have Meridian Energy demonstrating the Google Nest smart home products. We'll hear about the partnership between Meridian and Nest, and what this means for their customers. By signing up with Meridian as a customer you will receive a free Nest smoke and carbon monoxide alarm. There are also more customer offers of Nest product discounts. Find out more here:https://www.meridianenergy.co.nz/iot Also on tonight:+   IoT news+   Techweek Hackathon planning+   Quick Pitch - your chance to describe your project, capability, ask a question, announce an event, etc. One minute only! *** Your ticket includes a snack meal *** Other events for you:A one day IoT Workshop is taking place on March 12th, organised by Blender and John McDermott. This will be sharing knowledge about IoT opportunities, how to create applications and take them to market.Please read more here and share with your friends and colleagues:https://www.blender.nz/iotworkshop/

Fishackathon is an epic, global hackathon to help make Earth's waters, aquaculture, and fisheries more sustainable & equitable. Simultaneously in cities all round the world, teams will spend the weekend competing to build tech solutions to real ocean problems posed by experts. At our event in Auckland, we will have on hand expert mentors to help you get to grips with the problems. There are massive prizes in the global competition, but also valuable prizes that must be won by local teams: $5000 USD in AWS credits, $3000 NZD in cash from Foundation North/GIFT of the Gulf and the Defence Technology Agency, plus facilities and support from GridAKL. Get your invite at hckrn.st/slackreg and connect with Fishackathoners on the HackerNest Slack. Join the #yourcityname (e.g. #singapore) and #fh04mentor channels to chat up participants and mentors, make some new friends, find a team, and win at life!