List of hackathons about bigdata in 2016

Developers, designers, hackers! Interested in smart city solutions? BEST Ljubljana invites you to participate in a FIWARE BDTN Hackathon to build sustainable ecosystem solutions using public, royalty-free software platforms. Come as a team, or form a team at the event! You'll be challenged to build innovative solutions on the Smart City theme. Network and collaborate with like-minded individuals and compete for a cash prize!

Innovators, developers, entrepreneurs, start-up people! Interested in how technology can help improve the quality of life in a connected city? Come and participate in in the Connected City Hackathon! You'll be challenged to create innovative solutions to leverage the A2A sensor data collected throughout the city of Milan to help build a digital city and improve the lives of the citizens of Milan.

Developers, designers, open data techies! Interested in trains and how open data can make railway travel in Germany better? You're invited to sign up and participate in the Deutsche Bahn (DB) Open Data Hackathon. You'll be challenged to help shape the future of the railway with digital technology. You'll be introduced to open data APIs and data sets provided by Deutsche Bahn and use them to design and develop working prototypes with a 24-hour period. Collaborate and compete to win prizes for your app prototypes using data from the DB APIs.

The Canadian Astronomy Data Centre and the Mikulski Archive for Space Telescopes invite data engineers interested in the Common Archive Observation Model to attend a workshop and hackathon. You will work on the CAOM open source project — to collaborate to help evolve the data model and support new use cases. Should you choose, you may participate in the one-day hackathon to further develop the observation model data and to stage test datasets for complete end-to-end use of CAOM.

Hackers from schools, startups and corporations in and around Helsinki! Come and sign-up for Ultrahack 2016 Finals Day 27.11. Attend and participate in Ultrahack - Hackathon of the Year and you'll get the opportunity to be exposed to awesome new technology and you'll meet and network with like-minded future technology oriented people.

Students, recent graduates, creative designers, developers, data analysts and marketers in the United Arab Emirates! Accenture Digital invites you to sign up and participate in the inaugural Connected Hackathon in Dubai. The event will run at the same time as similar events in Rome, Dubai, Prague, London, Dortmund, Madrid, Amsterdam and Istanbul. You'll be challenged to create and prototype innovative ideas that bring economic and social value for your community. You may utilize everyday objects, open data, open source libraries, rapid prototyping frameworks, microcontrollers, sensors, 3D printers, beacons, wearables, etc.

Calling all experts who are passionate about combatting dengue fever! Come and participate at DengueHack.org in order to help correct that! Collaborate and use your expertise to tap into private and public datasets to develop new insights and understanding of this disease, for which currently there is no specific treatment! You'll be asked to consider the following challenges: »Assessing factors influencing the spread of dengue. »Predicting the next outbreak. »Visualizing the spread of the dengue virus. »Mapping the research field.

Get ready to Ultrahack, one of the biggest hackathons in Europe for the development ideas and software. Ultrahack has top notch industry players to provide never-before-published APIs and tools. You can join with your pre-existing software and get expert evaluation and coaching or you can start from the scratch. All participants will have a good chance of winning during this extraordinary hackathon experience!

IoT Hackers! Professional coders, hackathon veterans, university students. Come one come all and strut your stuff at Melbourne's premier IoT Hackathon — the Spotless Hack @ the 'G. You'll be challenged to build an awesome IoT or data solution that will enhance the customer experience in one of the following key service areas for sponsor Spotless: »Catering and Food Services »Facility Maintenance »Cleaning and Waste Management »Security

This is a hackathon organized for coders, data scientists, business developers, marketers and travel lovers to come together to solve problems in the travel industry by using Big Data. You will be asked to work together to build a commercially viable product or service tackling a challenge in the travel sector and compete for prizes like cash, pitching opportunities in front of investors and trips. You will build an actual prototype of a new service or product by using existing sets of data based on real online user interactions on travel sites!