List of hackathons in United States in 2016

Have an app idea or need an app built for your business? Whether you are a backend person, designer, entrepreneur, student, or just interested in tech, you are invited to attend this special IoT-focused Mobile App Hackathon. Come and hack and build apps/mobile apps, and compete for prizes across different categories. Experts from AT&T and the local technical community will be onsite to assist with your development. Just bring your laptop, skills & ideas. Come with a collaborative, team-focused mindset and/or team-up in advance using the #atthack hashtag on Twitter/Facebook/Google+.

Bot Developer Camp is one of the most pure and original hackathons with the freedom to choose any project that relates to chat bots. Chat bots are simple, early forms of artificial intelligence that have grown massively on mobile and desktop messaging platforms in the past year. Create an intelligent bot that relies on a certain pattern to create trust and foster cooperation, hack with a team, and validate your ideas!

Colorado students and technology enthusiasts! Come and participate in the inaugural Tackle S.T.E.M Colorado All-Stars Hackathon! You'll be challenged to explore feasible technology concepts, as well as to develop your team skills. You'll get to work and network with like-minded individuals, as well as expert professionals from the high-tech industry. You'll compete for prizes such as United Airlines travel vouchers, Broncos tickets, pregame field passes, and much more.

Entrepreneurs, developers, and students! Interested in technology solutions that can transform the supply chain? Sign up to participate in the Supply Chain Digital Transformation Hackathon. Collaborate with like-minded individuals to create innovative technology solutions for global supply chain operations and management and compete for a prize pool of $15,000.

Transportation and supply chain techies! Think you can contribute to the transformation of the supply chain? Have ideas about innovative solutions that revolutionize the IT systems of Ports? Whether you're a professional developer or a student, you are invited to compete in a hackathon to innovate on cost-effective, user-friendly information-sharing technologies for the Port Community. You'll be challenged to create a prototype for a web-based IT system or app that shares specific data elements that port community stakeholders need to have in advance of container vessel arrival.

Curious about the web? If you're a coding school student, a developer at any level, a marketer, or a designer, then Hack the Dot Seattle #10: Post-Election Edition (11.17) is for you. It's a two-hour hackathon where participants collaborate to create a functioning site for a given domain name. The team that produces the most creative and fun site wins. So sign up and be part of Hack the Dot Seattle and meet like-minded kids in the Seattle technology and startup space.

Whether you are a bootstrapped founder, engineer, doctor, PhD scientist, business hacker, or student, you are invited to join this must attend Hackathon. Global Startup Hackathon is open to anyone who is planning to start, work, mentor or fund a startup. If you are seeking to launch a startup across a large market, you will enjoy this chance to mingle and network with potential co-founder, partner, corporate clients or investors along top industry domain experts. This event will focus on Digital, IoT, Health/BioTech, CleanTech, or Media.

Hackers! Interested in conserving energy? Come and participate in the Campus Total Energy Usage And Building Control Hackathon. Come and help improve University of Chicago campus energy usage and increase energy efficiency. You'll select from a series of challenges and compete to identify features in campus data or propose new designs for tools that could be developed to improve understanding of campus energy usage and increase energy efficiency.

Fernanda Foertter (ORNL), Guido Juckeland (HZDR, Germany) and Sunita Chandrasekaran (UDEL) in coordination with OpenACC President, Duncan Poole are creating an OpenACC User Group.  We will have our first kick-off meeting at Salt Lake City during SC16. Given your interests in OpenACC via workshops, papers, hackathons, we would like to invite you to attend this kick-off meeting.  We will also be giving away the newly published book on Parallel Programming with OpenACC, 1st Edition Edited by Rob Farber http://store.elsevier.com/Parallel-Programming-with-OpenACC/Rob-Farber/isbn-9780124103979/ Kindly register ASAP if you would like to attend this meetup https://www.eventbrite.com/e/openacc-user-group-kick-off-meeting-tickets-29084627905 Topics to discuss (further ideas welcome!!)  - Soliciting scientific codes that can be ported to OpenACC - Soliciting benchmark codes that can be used for stress testing hardware, contributing to SPEC ACCEL consoritum, https://www.spec.org/accel/ - User group playing a vital role in driving the OpenACC standard/specification  - Running hackathons and hands-on tutorials in our respective locations  - Running workshops co-located with major conferences like SC, ISC, IPDPS, PPoPP  - Running OpenACC booth at the upcoming SCs Please feel free to bring up other topics you may want to during the meet-up.  Note the time zone. Wine and appetizer will be served.  Looking forward to seeing you at the event!! Cheers Sunita, Fernanda, Guido and Duncan Poole

Students and digital technology enthusiasts in the Denver area! Interested in brand marketing? Come and participate in a Brand Hackathon and explore ways for Miller Lite to use digital and technology solutions to get millennial men to buy more beer at liquor stores and bars. Research shows that choosing a beer brand is largely an impulse purchase. Your challenge is to show how technology can be used to close the gap between traditional media and moment of purchase.