List of hackathons about bigdata in 2015

The #MentalHealthHackathon wants you to use open data to identify new opportunities to strengthen mental health awareness and suicide prevention in the U.S. The White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) and U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) are organizing a series of suicide prevention hackathons in five different cities across the United States: Boston, Chicago, New York, San Francisco, and Washington.. The Obama Administration places a top priority on science and data as tools for solving complex challenges including public health, mental health, and suicide prevention. The hackathon will bring together data scientists, innovators, designers, and next-generation technologists with subject matter experts in suicide prevention. All are united for one common purpose - to prevent suicide!

Deutsche Bahn manages stations, railways, bridges, tunnels, parking spaces and large construction projects. For their 3rd Hackathon, they will be providing their information to the general public to find innovative ideas and collaborative cooperation to suit their infrastructure.

48 hour hackathon about developing ideas for digital health and devices solutions for people with neurological disorders. Innovators with backgrounds in IT, engineering, biology/neuroscience, medicine, etc. are invited to work in diverse teams to bring real change to real people and their care environment.

IIIF Community is part of the world’s leading research libraries and image repositories that have embarked on an effort to collaboratively produce an interoperable technology and community framework for image delivery. The event is devided into different IIIF events associated with the Ghent symposium: the technical pre-event workshop, the IIIF Community Roundtable, the Mirador Contributors Group, the Newspaper Interest Group, the Universal Viewer and Manifesto, and the Unconference.

TransferWise is a major financial institutions through Enables people to send money internationally online using a peer-to-peer marketplace charging drastically lower fees than the major wire transfer services. With "Break The Banks Hackathon" we want you to utilize modern technologies to distort the current banking systems in order to benefit the customers. We want to look at real issues and help create solutions for some of the industry’s biggest problems. During the weekend you will be learning new skills, creating amazing connections, you will get non-stop food and drinks, as well as tech tools and other goodies.   TransferWise & Co are offering cash prizes and business support for the top teams and ideas coming out of the weekend.

Tnooz is the leading provider of news and analysis about global digital travel economy. The THack series brings together developers, entrepreneurs and innovators to invent the future of travel. Join Tnooz together at the THack in Bengaluru to find solutions to real-world travel challenges.

Join us for a special Smart City Mobile App Hackathon, produced by the AT&T Developer Program. Hangout with us as we hack and build apps/mobile apps, get fed, compete for prizes across different categories and most importantly: meet new people and scout for teammates to work on new or current projects. We will have experts from AT&T and the local community onsite to assist with your development.

Ragusa Digital is hosting #GaranziaHack, an initiative promoted by the Garanzia Giovani programme. The contest is targeted at young people aged between 15 and 29 who took part in the Garanzia Giovani project, carried out by the Ministry of Labour and Social Policy to develop a prototype of an innovative app that will evoke the professional skills of members of Garanzia Giovani, facilitating the matching for job searches. The winning project will be awarded a grant of 10,000 Euros, as well as the possibility of developing the official app for the Garanzia Giovani project.

Sustainable SF is a public engagement and social impact business booster based at Impact Hub San Francisco. They build solutions for a sustainable San Francisco. Join this event to learn about the current political climate in San Francisco, and what organisations such as Kiva and La Cocina are doing to support small businesses in San Francisco.   Speakers: Jim Lazarus, Senior Vice President of Public Policy at the San Francisco Chamber of Commerce Geetika Agrawal, Senior Program Manager, La Cocina Spencer Larkin, managing growth for the Bay Area Kiva Zip Program

Hive Colab is an organization which supports the growth of new technologies in Uganda by building local tech capacity. The MSE App Challenge Launch gathers health and technology experts as well as young people from around Uganda for a three-day hackathon to create a mobile app and web-based solutions for real sexual and reproductive healthcare challenges.