List of hackathons about health in 2018

Blockchain developers, enthusiasts, students, or interested techies in the Silicon Valley area! If you are planning to attend the Blockchain Connect Conference - Silicon Valley 2018, then be sure to sign up to participate in the hackathon at the event. You'll get to collaborate and compete for the opportunity to present your blockchain project to potential investors at the conference!

Hackers in the Greater London area! If you're interested in healthtech and blockchain, then the Government Blockchain Association invites you to participate in the GBA Hackathon! Healthcare. Come with your team, or join one at the event. You'll be challenged to design and prototype an innovative healthcare solution that utilises blockchain. You'll be featured in the hackathon videos, plus you'll have the chance to be one of the three teams presenting their project to the Council of Nodes.

Techies, designers, business people, or anyone with experience dealing with Seniors! The Interactive Media Lab at the University of Toronto invites you to participate in Tech Hack - Solutions for Seniors. Come with your team, or connect with one at the event. You'll be challenged to design an innovative solution that uses the Centivizer platform to address issues of physical and cognitive inactivity in an aging population.

Mapping volunteers in and around London! It doesn't matter if you're a beginner or an experienced mapper, you're invited to participate in the Missing Maps Hackathon at Imperial College. Imperial's Friends of Médecins Sans Frontières challenges you to help map the most crisis-prone parts of the developing world. Help MSF map villages in order to estimate populations and help understand the spread of disease and identify areas of highest need.

Tech experts, mental health practitioners...anyone in London who is interested in mental health issues! The Hackney Business Network invites you to participate in the London Tech Week Hackathon - Dementia Friendly Hackney. You'll be assigned to a team and be challenged to come up with an innovative solution to the day-to-day barriers faced by dementia sufferers. Each team will be supported by an app developer and a dementia expert. Compete to win a small prize, as well as the satisfaction that your solution might help thousands.

Health professionals, techies and business people in and around Paris! Startup Inside invites you to participate in the Hackathon Health Lab - Let's Innovate in Health with Researchers! You'll get to collaborate with a multi-disciplinary team of like-minded individuals to develop and present an innovative healthcare market project.

Deep-Tech startups in Singapore and South East Asia! You're invited to sign upm to participate in the SLINGSHOT@SWITCH Startup Challenge. At this international deep-tech startup competition, you'll be expected to showcase your ground-breaking idea and compete for more than SGD 700,000 worth of prizes. Startups in all industries are invited to compete in any of the following categories: →Manufacturing, Logistics & Transportation →Urban Solutions & Sustainability →BioTech & MedTech →FinTech & InsurTech →Media & Advertising →Retail →Consumer Products & Services →FoodTech/AgriTech

Developers, designers, hackers in the Netherlands! Are you passionate about data-driven health sciences? Planning to attend the Dutch Data Science Week 2018? You're invited to participate in a hackathon that will be run in conjunction with the cardiovascular department of the University Medical Center Groningen. You'll be challenged to build on recent advances in the field of automated segmentation on the 4D (spatiotemporal) MRI data. Come and collaborate with leaders in the field and showcase your own creativity and technical skills.

High school and middle school techies in the New York area! Do you have an idea for a mobile app? Great! Then Mentoring in Medicine invites you to participate in the Mobile App Hackathon in the Bronx! Come and showcase your stuff as you learn and build Android mobile apps.

Coders, designers, and entrepreneurs in Japan! AngelHack invites you to sign up to participate in the AngelHack Global Hackathon Series: Tokyo. Compete on your own, or collaborate as a member of a team to come up with an idea and turn it into a functioning prototype. This year’s theme is Seamless Technology -- and in Tokyo, the focus is on healthcare solutions for the aging society. You're not limited! Build an app that solves a social or environmental problem and positively impacts your local community -- you might win the Code For A Cause Impact Award. Use the Agora real-time-communications (RTC) platform and you might win the Agora RTC App Challenge Award. The AngelHack Grand Prize will be awarded to the project that is innovative without limits and brings positive change to the world.