List of hackathons about industry in 2016

Are you a web developer? Come and try out Simpla! There's pizza, and beer, and an awesome new dev tool -- Simpla -- that lets you build dynamic content in plain HTML, without a CMS. V1 was just launched and your feedback is needed! Come along to this mini-hackathon and build a website for a fictional startup in record time. There'll be a prize for the best use of Simpla, and there's only a few tickets available.

Are you a fan of table-top games? Ultimaker and MakerOS invite you to THE GAMESMASH Playtesting Night, where you'll get to try out the games developed in GAMESMASH - The Game Design & Fabrication Challenge. GAMESMASH is a hackathon-style event where teams compete against each other to create and produce the best tabletop game possible -- given limited time and surprise constraints! Come along to Playtesting Night, where you can try out the games and see them be tested by a panel of judges who are game designers or experts themselves. Click here for adviceon hackathon participation!

Are you a university student, or recent graduate? As the leaders of tomorrow, how can you help ensure sustainable economic growth, and decent work for all? Want to make a difference? Join the hack for two days of innovation, ideation, and getting down and dirty building new apps, services, campaigns, and projects to tackle some of the economy’s most pressing issues. Hackathons are for all types of forward thinking, proactive students. Whether you’re a master coder, design hero, or a sales and biz dev guru, this is the place you need to be!

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!

Come to an info session for the upcoming Unearthed Newcastle 2016 hackathon. In preparation for the hackathon, you will learn how open innovation is being brought to Hunter Valley's resources industry. You'll learn how Unearthed connects the resources and the mining equipment, technology, and services (METS) sector with top Australian entrepreneurs and innovators. Find out how: Resources companies benefit from opening up their internal challenges, The METS industry can showcase its capabilities, and Outside innovators and entrepreneurs can bring their expertise and ingenuity to the table and start new businesses based on their solutions. Our hackathon tipscan help maximize your event experience!

Black Girls CODE and Capital One invite Black Girls CODE Tech Divas (age 11-14) to a special workshop lead by the bank's own software engineers! This 1-day program is designed to expose students to technology and foster a focus on software engineering. Students will work through a lesson that teaches fundamentals of software engineering through hands-on learning.

Women techies! You're invited to participate in "Women in Tech - Leveraging our potential to exploit opportunities in Africa, and make a meaningful impact". This event is free of charge and is open to women in tech who can contribute by sharing their experiences in tech and their insights on the discussed theme. The event is organised by Women in Tech Africa -- the #1 organization for ambitious women in technology from and in Africa, with the vision of enabling women to drive Africa’s growth story and create impact on people's lives.

This is a 2-day event created to connect young talents in the field of design, engineering and entrepreneurship with innovation opportunities presented by major companies. The event will include a vision of the Google Keynote I/O and a hackathon in which participants will compete to find the best creative new solutions to business cases proposed by Google.

Techies in the Toronto area, come join the fun at the first HackerNest Mississauga Tech Social. They're a fun, relaxed way to connect with your local tech brethren. Atmosphere: chill, friendly, unpretentious, agenda-free -- that means no sales pitches -- and brimming with smart people. HackerNest is an international nonprofit uniting local tech communities through unpretentious Tech Socials and hackathons.

Big data and Hadoop interest you? Want to upgrade your skills in that area? Attend this hands-on workshop: Big Data Hadoop Training by Building Projects. Developed in collaboration with industry experts, this live, instructor-lead training will give you project experience and hands-on practical knowledge of working with Hadoop. Topics covered include HDFS, MapReduce, Advanced MapReduce, Hive, PIG, Sqoop, Flume, Oozie, Zookeeper, YARN, Hadoop 2.0, and HBase. You'll work on a project such as : Data Analysis on Medicare Data (Healthcare Sector), Perform Call-Drop Analysis (Telecom Sector), Identifying Mortgage Defaulters (Finance Sector), or Real-Time Twitter Data Acquisition (Product Development/Marketing Sector).