List of hackathons about health in 2016

TADHack and and Universidad ORT Uruguay are partnering up for a mini hackathon in the city of Montevideo. All universities and local developer are invited to participate. The event will run in Spanish, with some English translation, and pitches can be Spanish or English. This event aims to unleash the creativity and engineering excellence of Uruguay through telecom application development.

Hackingfest is a hackathon series on software and hardware organized for those developers and designers who are passionate about hacking for real-world issues. Come along to gain new experience, realize great projects and make many new friends! Awards will be given out best ideas and projects!

This hackathon is organized by Harvard and Blue Umbrella with the aim to meaningfully improve the lives of people with autism. Students and community members are invited to join for a day of brainstorming, ideating, and prototyping. Participants will form teams, and then present final pitches to a judging panel, highlighting innovative solutions to address the challenges surrounding autism. Attendees will be asked to develop products and/or business concepts or come with existing ideas to help or feedback on. This could include designing a solution to address language and communication disorders, outlining a new concept for adaptive play, pitching a solution around employment services, or designing a plan for a new residential community. There will be end-users on hand to help participants better understand these challenges. You do not need to bring any additional materials, but may bring a laptop or other supplies that you may find helpful. Participantscan be from any kind of background including healthcare, business, education, tech, design, and more. No technical experience or prior knowledge on autism is required for this hackathon.

The HackHalton is a hackathon brought to you by Haltech, Sheridan College, and, TechUnder 20. This event will aim to provide you with an open data hackathon focused on improving quality of life in the Halton region through turning data into insights in order for you to produce useful solutions through collaborative software engineering.

VentureLAB is hosting the 4th annual GO OPEN DATA CONFERENCE 2016 (GOOD16), supporting innovative entrepreneurs, many of whom use open data to build businesses based on open data or create disruptive solutions to an existing problem. The theme for this year's conference is "Better Living Through Open Data." Focusing on how open data can be used to create innovative solutions and new businesses that help address community problems such as transportation or affordable housing. Anyone is welcome to join this event, open data is the potential to create a better future for everyone!

Blue Weekend is an event focused on solving challenges and the development of technological projects in the marine sector. Meet for 2 days with 50 people with different profiles, concerns and problem-solving to address challenges in the marine sector, both in the port field, such as sports, fishing, science, etc. with the aim to solve challenges related to the sea. You and your team will have about 48 hours to create prototypes that solve the challenge chosen and present it to other colleagues and jury.

​This is a 12-hour event open to all female high school and college students to come and work on websites, games, or mobile apps that address a real world challenge. There is no prior programming experience required! programming is allowed until the day of the event. ​Projects will be judged in 4 categories: Appropriateness to Theme, User Experience & Functionality, Originality & Impact, and Technical Difficulty.

After the tragic attacks of 22 March 2016, MolenGeek decided to host a hackathon for creating applications which will optimize the emergency services in Molenbeek in case of rescue operations. The focus will lie on protection, alerting and rescuing. Join this event to to help improve the care of victims, communication, ease of logistical support, information management and optimization of the rescue organizations.

At this Hackathon developers will have approximately 24 hours to turn their ideas into applications using their own programming skills and design, working in teams of 4 people, with the support of experts. Teams will be free to use any programming language in order to develop applications that improve the community. What you will need is your laptop with charger, cell phone charger, gadgets, blanket or sleeping bag for the night, personal cleaning articles. The event is completely free of charge and anyone who has the skills to develop software (students, programmers, freelancers and anyone who knows develop code) is welcome!

This is a hackathon organized for the development of an innovative ideas for developing a mobile app for EFSA. You may participate as an individual or as a team by submitting a prototype of a mobile app that gives access to EFSA’s recent work. The deadline for submissions is 30 June 2016. You should work on your idea before applying. You may not have a fully functioning product when you apply, but as long as the idea is in place, you’re in good shape. The creators of the five best prototypes will be invited to present them at EFSA’s premises, in Parma. By this time, your app should fully work! This is a competition but it’s also a place to meet interesting people and learn something new. Just have a good time and do your best!