List of hackathons about health in 2017

Innovators, entrepreneurs, change-makers in Hong Kong! You're invited to participate in ICE Days 2017 in StartmeupHK, a special 5-day idea and experience sharing marathon. You'll network with like-minded individuals to brainstorm in areas such as fintech, digital health, smart city technologies, IOT, retail innovation and more.

Students, staff and researchers at the University of Sussex! Researchers from gender research projects! Sexual health care professionals and manufacturers! The School of Global Studies at the University of Sussex invites you to participate in the Sex, Rights and Pleasure Lab. You'll be challenged to create new interventions to digitally mediated gender-based and sexual violence. Your pitch of your intervention to an international panel of gender research specialists will be recorded for subsequent judging by an expert jury and online voting by the general internet audience.

Innovators, entrepreneurs, change-makers in Hong Kong! You're invited to participate in ICE Days 2017 in StartmeupHK, a special 5-day idea and experience sharing marathon. You'll network with like-minded individuals to brainstorm in areas such as fintech, digital health, smart city technologies, IOT, retail innovation and more.

Are you interested in happiness? Digital Catapult invites technical professionals from disciplines such as machine learning, data science, design and software engineering to participate in the Hacking Happiness hackathon. You'll be challenged to collaborate with like-minded individuals to conceive and prototype innovative solutions that address happiness. You have a choice of challenges on measuring, understanding, predicting and increasing happiness: 1.Quantified happiness: Using personal, geographic, social and environmental data sets. 2.Augmented happiness: Using wearables or sensors. 3.Interactive happiness: Using novel human-AI collaborations and interactions.

Tech entrepreneurs, health enthusiasts, UX designers, students and business developers in and around Berlin! Are you interested in how digital technologies and the Internet of Things can be applied to the health sector? Startupbootcamp Digital Health Berlin invites you to sign-up to participate in the Startupbootcamp Digital Health Hackathon. Network and collaborate with like-minded individuals in a weekend full of challenges, hacking, and prizes! You'll be able to tap into the expertise of the Startupbootcamp mentors in order to create innovative digital health solutions that can be used as a consulting tool for health market.

Interested in the possibilities for blockchain technology? Sign up and participate in the HackCity: Blockchain Hackathon. You will meet and collaborate with techies who are knowledgeable and passionate about blockchain. You'll get to create solutions for challenging problems in sectors such as Insurance, GovTech, Energy, Healthcare, IoT, and Supply Chain Management. You'll work in teams of between 3 and 5 people and compete for the opportunity to pitch your project to representatives from venture capital firms Boost VC, Unbank.Ventures, and Day One Investments.

Healthcare professionals and other interested parties in Kenya and East Africa. Amref Health Africa invites you to participate in Innovate4Life Meet Up 1 as a precursor to the upcoming hackathon to be held in Nairobi. You'll be challenged to create innovative solutions that will help reduce the high rates of maternal and newborn deaths in Africa.

All students and recent graduates in and around Mumbai! Interested in using technology for social good? Intertrust invites you to come and participate in Hack for Change: Mumbai. You'll collaborate with like-minded individuals to help solve real-life problems! Compete for great cash prizes and a guaranteed interview for a position at Intertrust. You'll be challenged to create innovative solutions for: »Healthcare for the Elderly »Air Quality Improvement »Food Security »Smart Villages