List of hackathons about industry in 2016

Do you want to help break down the barriers to female entrepreneurship? Want to help more women enter and succeed in the technology sector? Come and participate in the Lady Problem Global Hackathon Series in Vancouver, BC! Collaborate with like-minded women—and men—in an effort to build creative solutions to realize the potential of the female half of our world population! Among other challenges, you'll be asked to hack a solution to one of the following challenges: Health: Help women access health resources to ensure that they can have successful careers, regardless of whether or not they choose to have children. Safety: Help ensure that women can be safe when they go to, are at, and come home from work. Economic Empowerment: Help women gain financial literacy and access the resources they need to grow their businesses. Culture: Help women access better mentorship and feel less isolated in the workplace. Our tips page contains valuable infoon hackathon participation!

Calling all Buffalo area women techies and designers! Sign up for GDI Hacks. Girl Develop It Buffalo invites you to participate in this all-female hackathon. Come help redesign the websites of local minority or women-owned businesses and improve their on-line presence! You'll be able to network and collaborate with other like-minded women and compete for prizes for the most innovative and useful websites.

Programmers, students, professionals — anyone interested in the impact of climate change! Come and participate in the Hackathon Open Data Gov - Crisis Climática. Collaborate to lend your vision, experience and skills to provide useful and viable solutions. Bring your technical expertise to help develop of technology solutions to address the climate crisis and its consequences.

Kenyan techies and entrepreneurs! Come and showcase your skills in building solutions to challenges presented at the DeKUT X-FAIR hackathon and buildathon. You will be presented with business challenges for which you will have 48 hours to conceive, create and present a technology solution in the form of hardware, software or both. Judges will select the top 3 winning teams.

Coders, developers, designers, innovators, big data experts, machine learners, do-ers, maker-ers, think-ers! Anyone who believes passionately that no one is above the law! Sign up to participate in Hack the Change and be part of the world's first Hackathon to progress the Rule of Law. Bring your skills and creativity and collaborate to find solutions that help the 57% of the world’s population who live outside the shelter of the law.

Interested in education? Come and participate in the Hackathon: Education Data Scrutinized! Showcase your development skills! Create an innovative app using DUO's new API for education, to visualize education data in an understandable way! Show how pressing questions from parents, students, teachers and school administrators can be answered through access to the available open educational data. In what creative ways can the available data be presented so that the quality of education can be even better?

Designer and developer professionals in and around Hampton Roads! Come collaborate with like-minded individuals at Ferguson Enterprises' Up to Code hackathon! Showcase your technical and design skills by creating good experiences for home repair/improvements professionals to kickstart Ferguson’s innovation programs. Compete with your peers in the Hampton Roads area, meet new people and build your resume.

Student techie designers and developers in and around Hampton Roads! Come collaborate with like-minded individuals at Ferguson Enterprises' Up to Code hackathon! Showcase your technical and design skills by creating good experiences for home repair/improvements professionals to kickstart Ferguson’s innovation programs. Compete with your peers in the Hampton Roads area, meet new people and build your resume.

Aston University students and graduates! Are you passionate about finding innovative solutions to global issues? Come and participate in the Social Storm - 24 hour Virtual Hackathon. You'll collaborate with like-minded individuals to tackle two global issues; food security and sustainable housing. You'll work in a team with students from other universities to find a sustainable solution to a real life problem, and to present a video pitch to a team of judges.

Bangalore hackers! Come and participate in the Open Hackathon — a 24-hour event. Network with your peers — the most talented hackers in the city and prove you belong up there with the best! Showcase your coding skills and compete with other ethical hackers, coders and startups. Pitch your solution to the panel of judges for a chance to win an awesome prize!