List of hackathons about industry in 2016

The perfect mix of hackathon, party, and competition, DesignSmash is an all-in-one one day hackathon, where prototypes get presented at the end of the day at a public event.

IT security professionals! Sign up for the B-Sides St. John's event! Share your security expertise with others in the community in search of the “next big thing” in information security. B-Sides are free, community organized events put on by local individuals with the expressed goal of enabling a platform for information dissemination.

Curious about the web? If you're a coding school student, a developer at any level, a marketer,or a designer, then Hack the Dot Seattle is for you. It's a two-hour hackathon where participants collaborate to create ideas around a domain name. Hack the Dot Seattle is a short, fun and fast way to build a functioning product, while at the same time meeting like-minded folks in the Seattle technology and startup space.

Learn to Code at Hack the Dot SF! This is the event where school students, junior developers, experienced developers, marketers, and designers come together to build ideas. Hack the Dot is a two-hour hackathon—a quick and fun way to build a humorous (and functional) product quickly, while meeting people in your tech/startup community. You'll participate in a team and be given a single premium domain name at the beginning of the event. You'll then have two hours to come up with a functioning site inspired by that domain. The most creative and funny idea for the domain wins!

Join HackHorizon's third installment of their meet up series, TravelTech Tuesdays! Each month, residents of Hong Kong's rapidly growing TravelTech ecosystem meet to network and collaborate on projects. This months topic will be "The Data Behind Travel" and will be discussed by representatives from related companies!

Get ready for the Firebase hackathon that's going to be held at GDG DevFest Depok 2016. Come and learn how to create applications using Google's Firebase service.

Join STEM4US! for the third annual Energy, Tech, and Education Festival, #ETE16. The theme for the #ETE16 Festival is “Mission Critical: Training the Cybersecurity Workforce of Today, Tomorrow.”   The event will feature a hackathon that is open to participants of all ages. During this workshop, participants will work in teams to create an idea for a mobile phone app or social media campaign aimed at stopping police brutality and/or racial discrimination. Participants will form teams, develop concepts and build models of apps or social media campaigns.  Teams are expected to present their innovations to a panel of judges representing various #ETE16 partnering companies.

Tech communities in the 21st century are not just for large cities and economic hubs, or so the patrons of HackerNest believe! The residents of Mississauga and visitors alike are welcomed to participate in HackerNest's tech social, where hackers will convene for free drinks and conversation on all things tech and business!

Blockchain is the hottest new thing in the world of virtual banking, and there is no better service to power your blockchain app than HyperLedger. Join field professionals as they discuss the entry requirements and bottlenecks to implementing a HyperLedger system, network within the financial tech community, and learn more about other improvements in the field.

European Innovation Day is the flagship pan-European conference in Silicon Valley, where fluid conversations and networking between high profile stakeholders from both continents occur. Investors and corporates meet policy makers and the best scaleups (growth stage companies - the next unicorns) and leading entrepreneurs from the EU. 2016 key topics include: ⇒Encryption, Privacy, and Security ⇒CRUNCH SEC2SV - The launch of a report on exits between EU & US (A study by Crunchbase and MTB) ⇒Open Innovation - The launch of a public directory of EU corporate outposts in SV ⇒The next EU Unicorns ⇒Scaling up the Shared Economy ⇒Digitizing European Industry ⇒Gender Equality - Women 2.0 ⇒Policy Hackathon - by Dell inc.