List of hackathons in South Africa in 2018

IoT is short for Internet of Things. The Internet of Things refers to the ever-growing network of physical objects that feature an IP address for internet connectivity, and the communication that occurs between these objects and other internet-enabled devices and systems. This hackathon event will take place over three days , 11/12/13 December 2018  Disclaimer: If you do not attend after registering for the event , you will be liable to pay a fee of R1500 which will be invoiced by DUT. 

Kimberley's tech ecosystem grows at its own pace with various activies happening on the ground. The Big Hole Hackathon is about learning how to apply our skills in real world senarios, like Digitalizing our cities most well known tourist attraction site. We need to assess, monitor, nurture, account, guide and forecast the grow of the digital ecosystem. Big Hole Hackathon is a 2-day of coding where one learns from the community and gets rewarded on the effort. Creating an enabling environment for local techies to connect and build capacity on their skills. Target: Aspiring developers, high school learners, designers, government officials/techies, adults, etc. 

Kimberley's tech ecosystem grows at its own pace with various activies happening on the ground. The Big Hole Hackathon is about learning how to apply our skills in real world senarios, like Digitalizing our cities most well known tourist attraction site. We need to assess, monitor, nurture, account, guide and forecast the grow of the digital ecosystem. Big Hole Hackathon is a 2-day of coding where one learns from the community and gets rewarded on the effort. Creating an enabling environment for local techies to connect and build capacity on their skills. Target: Aspiring developers, high school learners, designers, government officials/techies, adults, etc. 

TADHack Johannesburg runs on the 13th and 14th October 2018, in parallel with 20+ other locations around the world. TADHack is a hackathon that helps people learn about the latest Internet, IT, and Telecoms technologies; and use those technologies to solve problems that are important to you.  TADHack is for Everyone!, what matters is that you are interested in technology and how it can solve problems that are important to you, and perhaps even change the world,   Our hacks have included programmable telecoms (voice, video, messaging), internet of things, cloud computing, robotics, machine learning, speech and face recognition, mobile payments, enterprise communications, decentralized web, blockchain, encryption, open source, and many other technologies. Check out previous years’ hacks from 2017 , 2016 , 2015 and 2014 . To win one of the many cash prizes is simple: create hacks using the global sponsors’ technologies. Current total cash prize pot is $45k (+lots of goodies). At TADHack you’ll have fun, meet amazing people from around the world, learn important new skills, and perhaps even change the world with your hack!

WHAT IS IT? TUT SOSHANGUVE Campus' first Annual Agile Hackathon organized by students community and academic staff in collaboration with the agile community in the industry.   WHY ARE WE DOING IT? To close the agile system devlopment knowledge gap between the industry and university students.                    The KASI CREATE-A-THON will use a hackathon format, underpinned by Agile practices, to deliver fresh ideas  and solutions to the surrounding community. Objectives To create a knowledege sharing plartform for the latest agile and software development trends To nurture a playground away from work routine to grow the agile community in SA,through training and mentorship To disrupt the university September/October recess with a fun, focused learning platform   HOW DOES IT WORK? Students will register cress-functional teams, of four to seven team members. The number of teams is limited to 10.The KASI CREATE-A-THON will kick start with aday of workshops hosted by local and international Agile volunteers. Thereafter the students will start to work on their ideas! An industry mentor will collaborate with each team to guide the devlopment for 2 days. On Saturday afternoon, each team will have the opportunity to showcase their ideas.

Greetings and Salutations mere mortals of the Kubernetes realm. We are here today to inform you of an upcoming situation that requires your involvement. People, start your orchestration engines.  The Azure Challenge: Kubernetes We need you, to come along to Microsoft in Bryanston and bring your best development skills to take part in a true Battle Royale (Last Team standing) K8s-Off.  You and your team will be faced with a multitude of challenges to overcome during the course of the day. Our team of adjudicators will scrutinize your every move, identify the holes in your code while investigating your approach to: Availability Throughput DevOps Innovation Fault Tolerance Security Cost Management We provide you with all the necessary resources to achieve the goals set out at the beginning of the day.  1st place winners will walk away with a Raspberry Pi B+ Version 3 kit each and 2nd place winners a Raspberry Pi Zero kit each. See you there :)

RE-IMAGINE A Fintech Future  Calling problem solvers, innovators and entrepreneurs. Grindrod Bank Limited is hosting the RE-IMAGINE Hackathon on 28th-30th September 2018. This is a 36-hour event that will run from Friday 10:00am to Sunday 15:00pm, including judging and prize giving. The Challenge Within the guidelines of the theme; RE-IMAGINE A FinTech Future, you are encouraged to challenge yourselves to innovate without limits and push boundaries; to create something that brings positive change to solving real problem. Team entries of between 3 and 5 team members of any age, gender and skill level are invited. Hackathons are the epitome of innovation and due to the time limits imposed, rapid development and constant challenges adds to the excitement of the event. Your team will be provided with a developer key to access Grindrod Bank's Open Banking API upon registration. Prizes Prizes to the value of R50,000 will be awarded to the top 3 teams.      First Prize:      R25,000      Second Prize: R15,000     Third Prize:     R10,000 Support You will have the opportunity to get to know our carefully selected mentors and judges, who will be onsite for the duration of the event to offer their support; ideation to implementation and launch of products/solutions.  In addition, network with other professional developers, designers and entrepreneurs, including event guest speakers.   The Itinerary Day 1 – 28 September 2018      09h00 : Registration and Set up      10h00 : Opening and Welcome      10h15 : Guest Speaker      11h00 : Caffeine and Code      19h00 : Sleep when you’re dead, for now just code Day 2 – 29 September 2018      All Day: Code, Code, Code Day 3 – 30 September 2018      08h30 : Rush to Finish (After pulling an all-nighter)      11h00 : Times up, prepare for greatness      12h30 : Presentations and Demonstrations      14h30 : Judging and Prize giving   Judging Projects will be judged based on the following criteria, with a total of 5 points per criteria. Fundability: How fundable is this idea? Is there potential for a sustainable business model?  Execution: How well was the project executed and explained? Did it work? UI/UX: Beyond design, was the end-to-end user experience for the solution considered? Originality: How original, creative or unique is the idea? Scalability: How scalable is the solution? Will it make an impact?

Northern Cape Developer Hackathon (NCDevHack) is an annual provincial hackathon (coding and innovation festival) aimed at stimulating and developing more ICT/Entrepreneurship in the province. The 2018 Theme: Digital Innovation for Connected Governance and Sustainability With a culture of hackathons on the rise, we need to explore the role that hackathons in academic access, excitation and acceleration in bringing about excellence. Participants will be challenged to contextualize their solutions for the betterment of life and channel economic growth.

Blockchain & Fintech Hackathon Are you a passionate developer, entrepreneur or designer? Team up with other like minded individuals at our Blockchain & Fintech Hackathon and build your ideas in 24hrs! Who can join? All developers, entrepreneurs and designers welcome! All our hackathons are free to join. Read more about our previous hackathons here. We are super excited to start building fintech and blockchain solutions with you. #RFH2018 #LetsBuild

Blockchain & Fintech Hackathon  Are you a passionate developer, entrepreneur or designer? Team up with other like minded individuals at our Blockchain & Fintech Hackathon and build your ideas in 24hrs! "Hacking is building things that you always wanted to have but no one has built it yet. It's to come up with an amazing idea and work tirelessly on it. It is to fail, fail again and fail better. Try out new things and learn while doing that. It's to work together, collaborate and build things that are innovative. It is to be a better programmer." -Anonymous Who can join? All developers, entrepreneurs and designers welcome! All our hackathons are free to join. Read more about our previous hackathons here. We are super excited to start building fintech and blockchain solutions with you.  You'll need a Laptop  What you'll walk away with: Get invited to join a curated community of passionate developers worldwide via our slack channel. We will be giving away R45,000.00 in prize money on the day! Everyone that participates will recieve 150 XML  There will be free workshops on the day. You will meet other passionate developers, entrepreneurs and designers. You will build some cool stuff in less than 24hrs. Exciting announcements! Keep an eye on our Twitter page for some super cool announcements leading up to the hackathon. Theme The theme is anything fintech and blockchain. We will be looking for products that are using the Rehive Platorm!  In short, you have to use some of Rehive's API's, but does not need to be the primary backbone of the app. You may use any other API of your choice.  Check out some of our resources: Rehive documentation Browsable API Demo guide #RFH2018 This hackathon is hosted in partnership with BCX.