List of hackathons about industry in 2016

If you are interested in making a real difference in how we treat our planet, join the Hub Culture hackathon. During this event top developers and innovaters will work on technologies to benefit the UN Sustainable Developement Goals. Using technology provided by event sponsors venue host Rise, Forbes, ClimateWeekNYC, MIT Connection Science, Ven, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and the American Carbon Registry. At the end of the hackathon, a 5 person panel will be awarding one skilled hacker a $1,000 prize for best technology.

Utah County students, grades K through 12! Come and participate in the Utah County 4-H Hack.A.Thon. This is a free technology event, where you will take on challenges ranging from learning computer languages, programming robots, designing new tech spaces, 3-D printing, and much more.

The Department of Economic Development and Tourism in collaboration with Geekulcha will once again be hosting their annual provincial hackthon, NCDevHack 2016. The goal of NCDevHack 2016 is to develop more entrepreneurship in the province, along with a focus on diversity and youth skills development.

Do you have an app idea to improve government services? Are you interested in creating innovative applications that will harness the “Internet of Things” in order to enable the Federal Government to better serve its employees and citizens? AT&T invites you to sign up to participate in the AT&T Mobile Application Hackathon — Government Solutions. With the adoption of mobile broadband, the Federal Government and their industry partners are searching for new creative applications in the areas of: Smart City, Public Safety, Sustainability, and more! Come and apply your creativity and skills to connect people to information enabling the Government to better serve the citizen. Collaborate and compete for your share of a prize pool of nearly $20,000! Maximize your hackathon experience with advice from our tips page!

Come and participate in Global Goals Jam. Help design an intervention that can help achieve short-term targets that support the Global Goals. Edinburgh Living Lab is hosting a branch event of the Global Goals Jam that will focus on Goals 7, 11 and 12: »Goal 7: Ensure access to affordable, reliable, sustainable and modern energy for all »Goal 11: Make cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable »Goal 12: Ensure sustainable consumption and production patterns

Developers, engineers, scientists, designers, tech innovators and college students! Collaborate in teams to produce prototype solutions to address climate change adaptation and improve climate resilience. Come and apply your creativity to producing solutions to climate-related risks and disasters. The Hack The Climate Business Unusual hackathon is focused on non-traditional issues, such as: »Increasing costs for natural resources, raw materials »Water and energy security »Threats to human health and life »Greater exposure to natural disasters, changing weather patterns »Transportation risks »Risk of flood and drought »Threats to ecosystems and biodiversity »Infrastructure failure »Communication systems

For those that have ventured farther into block chain than most, this full day workshop will take a look beyond the theory of many concepts related to block chain, and give in-depth instruction on how to apply concepts to create a functioning decentralized application. Going beyond fintech's previous block chain workshop, this second installation will focus on building DApps on blockchain.

create to use the margin of the UN General Assembly, the GODAN summit hackathon will be a tool used to urge world leaders to release their data sets on agriculture and nutrition, which will aide in ending world hunger but defining the problem and allowing leaders to set goals. The goal of the hackathon is to provided example solutions for the question: "How might we allow for better utilization, collection, and/or accessibility to open data such that we can improve our food system and our chances at food security?"

Whether you are a bootstrapped founder, engineer, doctor, PhD scientist, business hacker, or student, you are invited to join this must attend Hackathon. Global Startup Hackathon is open to anyone who is planning to start, work, mentor or fund a startup. If you are seeking to launch a startup across a large market, you will enjoy this chance to mingle and network with potential co-founder, partner, corporate clients or investors along top industry domain experts. This event will focus on Digital, IoT, Health/BioTech, CleanTech, or Media.

The Workbar at Staples Brighton will be holding a hackathon to gather ideas for a creative and modern grand opening for each of three new workbar locations opening in October. If you have creative ideas along the vein of celebrity telepresence, VR coverage, local food, interactive AR, or something even more awesome, then grab a team and win some prizes!