List of hackathons about fintech in 2016

Hackathons are often focused only on the technical side of business. Expand your horizons with hackathon focused on legal training for your business! iHub will be teaming up with uWakili and m:lab East Africa to lecture and give advice on Founder Stock Agreements, an important part of any fledgling business with more than one owner.

Come and join the U.S. Bank Small Business Hackathon. Developer teams will be asked to leverage U.S. Bank and MasterCard APIs to create innovative solutions that improve productivity, financial stability and customer experience for all small businesses.

College students, developers, designers and tech rockstars! Are you passionate about creating innovative tech solutions? Then sign up for the U-HAC : Unionbank Hackathon. You'll be challenged to create projects that have potential to improve people’s lives -- maybe new and cool apps suited for millenials. Or maybe take a corporate approach and build a fintech project that will help consumers and institutional customers? Be creative...games, virtual reality, IoT projects, robotics, or whatever wild and wonderful idea springs to mind!

Interested in learning about what it takes to be a startup? Sign up for the 3-day Hatch KMUTT: Startup Bootcamp 2. You'll learn about the startup process and have the chance to participate in a team pitching a startup idea to the audience. Topics for the event are: →Aging Society →Fintech →Education →Agriculture You'll compete for the right to participate in an incubator program, with a working capital award with an initial total value of more than one million baht.

Join Los Angeles city officials as they discuss the new initiatives to grow the tech and entrepreneurial scene implemented by recently elected mayor and long time Silicon Beach supporter Eric Garcetti. already mayor Garcetti has created many new positions to encourage innovation within the local government, opened city data to public use, and is in the process of updating city websites, speaking at many startup focused events, and he has much more planned!

Interested in the concept of an Unconditional Basic Income? Come participate in the Creathon on Basic Income. This hackathon-style event will be held over two and a half days, with creative people from different backgrounds: artists, activists, programmers, etc., who share an interest in basic income. Participate to discuss how a UBI might simplify the functions of the government, and provide each Quebecer with a life of dignity and the capacity to pursue their ambitions.

The Fownders $10K Start-Up Pitch Competition is happening! The goal is to mentor and guide early stage entrepreneurs to take their ideas from seed to scale.  Teams will be judged on:  ⇒a solid MVP + ⇒understanding of their market + ⇒growth and sustainability planning + ⇒branding and design + ⇒and execution.

Cyber Traders Sydney has teamed up with Quantopian to put on a hackathon to remember! The focus of the hackathon will be how the public opinion of news articles affects the price of a companies stock. Trading experts will be walking around the hackathon to assist hackers in manipulating the data sets provided by Quantopian as they compete to see who can create the most profitable algorithm. The cost of entry is $50 day of or $40 if you buy your ticket in advance. Hacking time is from 10AM-6PM, catered lunch will be provided.

College students, developers, designers and tech rockstars! Are you passionate about creating innovative tech solutions? Then sign up for the first U-HAC : Unionbank Hackathon. You'll be challenged to create projects that have potential to improve people’s lives -- maybe new and cool apps suited for millenials. Or maybe take a corporate approach and build a fintech project that will help consumers and institutional customers? Be creative...games, virtual reality, IoT projects, robotics, or whatever wild and wonderful idea springs to mind!

Sign up for Big Data & Hadoop certification training. You'll get live instructor training and hands-on experience on industry specific projects. This course is designed to guarantee project experience and hands-on practical knowledge of working with Hadoop. You can select from the following projects to work on: →Data Analysis on Medicare Data (Healthcare Sector) →Perform Call-Drop Analysis (Telecom Sector) →Identifying Mortgage Defaulters (Finance Sector) →Real-Time Twitter Data Acquisition (Product Development/Marketing Sector).