List of hackathons about industry in 2016

Join CEO of Verge Matt Hunckler as he discusses main points from his soon to be released book, The Pitch: A Proven Methodology to Getting Funded Outside of Silicon Valley. During this workshop, attendees will learn to break down their pitch in to manageable pieces. Each person will get real time feedback from groups and instructors, and come out with a cleaner pitch and pertinent experience.

Have you ever asked yourself or your dev-ops why you preferred cloud platform X over Y? Cloud is one of the most essential components of your product and everything suggests that it will grow to be even more prominent in years to come, it's also one of the most costly expenses that your company makes! How do you chose between them? Cloud offerings tend to be complicated to understand, and it's hard to perform an "oranges to oranges" comparison. At Clash of the Clouds!!!, representatives for the four major offerings—Amazon, Microsoft, IBM and Google—will be on one stage for you to ask them the tough questions!

Interested in citizen-critical issues? Come participate in BRIDGE SF — a four-day collaboration of public, private, non-profit, and academic institutions coming together to challenge assumptions, develop skills, share best practices, and build partnerships that drive innovation for a better tomorrow. →Day 1 - Partner Sessions: Demo Day, Hackathon, and Partner Sessions featuring some of the Bay Area’s most impressive innovators →Day 2 - VIP Workshops: 200 VIPs participating in 6 Workshops ​led by a team of 20+ Experts →Day 3 - Thought-Leadership Panels: ​400 attendees featuring 40+ of the Top Minds in 12 Thought-Leadership Panels + Evening Closing Ceremony →Day 4 - Open City: Open City experience in partnership with local institutions will share the nature, history, arts, culture, and innovation of San Francisco

UTS and Meshed are pleased to invite you to an exciting workshop and mini-hackathon featuring the Co-Founder of The Things Network Wienke Giezeman from Amsterdam!  Come and explore new ideas and applications of how to use the free LoRaWAN network. Feel free to bring your LoRaWAN devices or just come along and join in the brainstorming sessions.

For those that have ventured farther into blockchain 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.

Virtual Reality has risen to the top of the tech scene as everyone begins to see the first mainstream prototypes and uses come to market. If you have an interest in VR or are currently working in this innovative field, then gain some more experience and compete for great prizes at the We Are Code VR Hackathon! The event will be sponsored by Oculus with the chance to win cash, gadgets, free coding classes and more!

Tech geeks and entrepreneurs with innovative ideas! Come and participate in the Sandbox Hackathon 2016. Collaborate on interesting areas and applications. This event will be a good platform to showcase your technical talent & impress technology partners and potential employers.

Interested in a sustainable food eco-system? Then sign up to participate in Food, Glorious Food: Reinventing a Sustainable Food Ecosystem. Join MakeSense to focus on the Food Security Cause. Collaborate with like-minded individuals to help Food Social Entrepreneurs to tackle their challenges with innovative design thinking workshops, a mini-hackathon, public debate blended with live music and a day long festival “Farmers of the Future” and its focus upon Food Production.

Our world has alot of problems, and often the solutions provided by organizations don't fix or only partially fix the problem. If this sounds like a conversation you feel needs to be had, and are a current student enrolled in a degree from the faculty of Humanities and Social Science at the University of Queensland than this event was created for you! Join the HASS Hackathon to learn through hands on experience about social entrepreneurship and how it mixes business with charity to solve pressing problems in communities around the world.

Interested in agile development? Come participate in Hackathon Design Thinking! Attend this workshop and you will learn a methodology to: »Identify community needs, aligning and expanding the project opportunity win-win for organizations and society; »Learn approaches and agile tools for problem solving and Innovation through Design Thinking, Lean Thinking and Gamification; »Develop skills (creativity, collaboration, problem solving, thinking) to generate solutions to your organization's challenges; »Design solutions geared to development of shared business value; »Test solutions generated assertively and lean form.