List of hackathons about bigdata in 2016

The TM Forum Open Hack is an open collaborative hackathon taking place during Action Week, Lisbon 2015.  This is an opportunity for you to bring your product and rapidly build innovative new prototype solutions on an open ecosystem platform. Experiment with the open platform, Open APIs and creative new solutions exposed by others in the hack. You will be able to networking with hackers and 150+ global TM Forum experts to make a difference in the world through developing game changing applications!

Hull UK City of Culture Hackathon is inviting marketing agents and digital companies to come together and work on a hack involving data around an aspect of the City of Culture and exploring its key digital themes. Attending will be David Watson, Head of the City of Culture’s digital team, along with Microsoft officials who will be providing guidance, experience and training to those who get involved.

The Microsoft Student Partners in Paderborn want to start the new year with a new Hackathon. This time, everything revolves around Internet of Things and cloud. The challenges include creating apps on the Raspberry Pi, creating a REST API with ASP.NET 5 and Entity Framework for database access, Website Development with SignalR for real-time communication between the Web browser and API, and Hosting in the Cloud with Microsoft Azure. Come, learn, create and meet fellow peers!

Festivalhackday is a data-driven Hackathon at Eurosonic Noorderslag Music Festival in Groningen for improving festival production for Eurosonic Noorderslag and other festival organizers. Come as an individual or in teams of up to 5 members and bring your laptop and sleeping bag.