List of hackathons about industry in 2016

People are always evolving, learning, and adapting. In the 21st century, new technologies force us to change more quickly and dramatically than ever before. Is technology advancing humanity or is it making us lazy? Startup Institute is hosting the HackHuman Hackathon to challenge you to build and pitch a product/service that uses technology in order to advance the way we live, work, or play. Not a coder? Not a problem! This event is open to educators and human services professionals, business minds, artists, students, technologists, and more.

Come learn about OpenStack and how to interface with various OpenStack services via the Shade Python library. Learn about the different SDKs available to develop apps and interact with OpenStack through Shade (Python SDK)

Think of yourself as a maker? Come participate in the MaxQ Challenge—a space-themed maker hackathon. This event brings together developers, designers, engineers, scientists, creators, and other makers to explore the modern world of space data and hardware. You'll get o choose to collaborate on one of the following challenges: »Open Space Data: You’re living on a changing planet, monitored by orbiting spectrometers. You’ve been granted early access to an index of datasets from 5 emissions satellites; AIRS (NASA JPL), GOSAT (JAXA), MOPITT (NASA EOS), OCO-2 (NASA JPL), and TES (NASA JPL). Locate specific sources of greenhouse gasses, identify changes over time or create impactful visualizations. »Physical Prototyping: Design a biofilter that can be packed flat and assembled in orbit, research and propose a culture to treat gray water and gas loaded with ammonia and hydrogen sulfide, or build a purification system to remove enough suspended particles that ultraviolet germicidal irradiation of the output is effective. »Ingenious Creations: You're the boss. Invent an ingenious space-related concept and wow the room with your ability to both identify real-world problems and solve them.

Planning to launch your tech startup? Looking for an audience to download your iOS/Android mobile application? Want to showcase your wearable tech? Do you have promotional items to give away? This is your shot! TeenHackathon.com invites you to exhibit for one or two days in front of 40,000 people per day (total 80,000).

Developers, students, designers, business people, gardeners! Love innovation? Love your city? Want to bring innovation to Montréal? Gestion Immobilière Quo Vadis (Montréal, Canada) and YY Goshti (Dhaka, Bangladesh) are bringing Montréal's first ever simultaneous HACKATHON, a completely unique event that will take place in synch and in coordination with an identical event in Bangladesh! Come and hack the concept of URBAN AGRICULTURE - build and put into action sustainable concepts and practices and innovative city development.

This event is open to anyone who is planning to start, work, mentor or fund a startup. If you are seeking to launch a startup across this industry, you will enjoy this chance to mingle and network with potential co-founder, partner or investors along top industry experts. Whether you are a bootstrapped founder, engineer, business hacker, student, or mentor/investor/attorney interested in tech; you are invited to this must attend event.

Tech in Asia and BRI invites developers and activists to Digital Challenge Meetup: "Innovate to Empower Indonesia"—a meetup to collaborate and innovate the digital services that a startup needs so that digital transactions can run better. For example, payroll, stocking, financing , and so forth.

Protohackers, designers, devs, entrepreneurs, startup founders, or anyone who currently works with product or would like to build one! This Prototyping 101 for Startups Workshop is for you! Prototyping experts from Protohack and Tangent Collective will deliver a workshop on the proto.io prototyping tool, and a web-flow workshop for web apps. In this fun, interactive, hands-on workshop, you will go through your startup concept from a user’s perspective. Gather valuable feedback, attract potential users, and even raise money by practicing rapid prototyping, learn how to use the tools and create a plan of execution.

Plug and Play, a Silicon Valley tech startup accelerator is co-hosting a Hackathon with Philips. Teams of 3-4 students are invited to compete in creating the best software solution to a B2B and B2C hardware problem.

Are you a techie teen — or want to be one? School's out now, so sign up for the Teen Hackathon (teenhackathon.com). Take this opportunity to "watch and learn" how to code!