List of hackathons about industry in 2016

Coders, developers, UI / UX designers, marketers & technology innovators! Come collaborate with real estate professionals in #HackRealEstate and create products & apps that can enhance and improve the Property sector. Whether you are a surveyor, broker, estate agent, graduate or an experienced industry professional everyone is welcome to bring their ideas & energy for an exciting 48 Hours. So if you have always had an idea that you think will change the Property sector, or just want to help create the next big thing in PropTech—this is your chance!

Talented Philippine developers! Are you interested in the Internet of Things? How about healthcare and medical tourism? Come and participate in the 1st Masskara Hackathon. You'll collaborate with like-minded individuals to come up with ideas on how technology can help solve a fundamental problem of patient access in healthcare and medical tourism. Compete with teams of your peers to build a product or service prototype that proves the concept.

Hackers and supercoders! How'd you like to exercise your coding skills by designing and building modules for the Redis in-memory database, cache and message broker? You'll use the new Redis Modules API to create a plug-and-play module that will extend Redis in new, exciting ways. Let your creative mind run free! Come up with a scenario that would benefit from Redis and imagine a better way of doing it with Redis.

Eight disciplinary teams will be presenting their new humanitarian technologies for the benefit of society they created during the THE Port 2016 Hackathon. Groups will be answering difficult questions posed by the ICRC, the UN, Handicap International, and various other organizations. For those interested in the new solutions produced for everything from counterfeit drugs to the inefficiencies of current forensic photos.

Join the organizers over at HiveMinds Innovative Market Solutions to participate in a 24 hour data hackathon that is sure to feature stiff competition, great ideas, and new unique ways to solve problems. The theme of the hackathon is data, and structured data about startups will be provided at the beginning of the hackathon, however hackers are also invited to use any unstructured public data such as scraping blogs or twitter accounts they may have access to in order to further their ideas.

Coders, programmers! Join with your friends and participate in Power Up! Weekend – Ocala’s First Hackathon. This is a great chance to showcase your coding skills by building an awesome app! While you're cranking out your code, you'll be able meet other techies in the Ocala area. Sign up soon! Participation is limited to the first 100!

Come and make something STUPID! Stupid Hackathon is a 1-day event where participants battle to create a working prototype of the most useless and terrible idea which creates absolutely no value for anyone. Apart from being a fun and surprising difficult assignment, it's a satirical reply to the trend for start-ups and disrupters to describe even the plainest and ordinary run-of-the-mill tech product, as the most disruptive, peace-making and world-saving innovation in the history of tech.

High school age students attending school or living in the Fourth Congressional District! Sign up and participate in the first Congressional App Challenge Hackathon, which is being held in coordination with US2020. Mentors will be on hand to help students and teams start, develop, or complete an app for the Challenge. The winning app will be featured in an interactive display in the United States Capitol.

Come and participate in Coder Girl Hack Day to celebrate International Day of the Girl and EU Code Week with a magic and colour themed coding hackathon. Attend and focus on all things cool about tech. Learn how to build a webset, or make jewellery! Compete for a prize offerered for the best website built on the day!

Join the free business bootcamp prior to the Forbes summit for some of the best advice on entrepreneurship from successes and gurus from across the world. This event will feature a series of rapid fire workshops ranging from customer acquisition to leveraging the startup scene. Join the event for free, but if you'd like to compete for the $500 prize and legal filing, then you'll have to sign up for the Startup Pitch Off extra, which will take place at the end of the day!