List of hackathons about industry in 2016

Are you a cybersecurity fanatic? Want to shake up the Insurance industry? Coders, developers, designers, observers...you'e invited to join Startupbootcamp InsurTech's Hackathon. This event is focused on disruptive insurance innovation and connecting with startups focused on the insurance market. You will work on one of the challenges: Cyber Risk Scoring, Safety and Security Beyond Traditional Passwords, Cyber Bullying Prevention and Support, Unified Reconciliation, Personal Data Sharing as a Service, Fighting Fraud with Social Proof, Crime in Motor Car Insurance, and Detecting Fraud in Cyber Insurance.

The TECHFACTOR brings together students who aspire to work in the digital industry and employers looking for tomorrow's technology leaders. Leading industry mentors will take attendees through fast-paced Creative-Mindset workshops on the skills and knowledge they'll for the digital industry. Teams will then complete and get their Digital business prototypes ready to pitch to a jury of young leaders and top employers, who have the power to bring their ideas to life!!

The MIT App Inventor Summit 2016 is annually organized by the MIT Center for Mobile Learning and the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL). The event will include workshops, DIY, and hackathons for learning new skills and creating apps. The Summit will be organized into tracks. Two tracks identified thus far are Education and Health/Medicine. A diverse range of individuals, including: research scientists; educators from formal and informal settings; NGO staff members; computer scientists; representatives from industry; entrepreneurs; and others are all welcome to attend this exciting 3 days. Get the opportunity to share current work, form new collaborations, and stay abreast of the latest developments within the MIT App Inventor community. The theme of this Summit is MAKE!

Students and professional developers across the Bay Area! Come and participate in HACK-AN-APP—AdsNative’s first ever Hackathon. Your goal will be to hack an effective, elegant and scalable ad experience into your favorite app. Be part of the conversation about AdsNative products and the future of digital advertising.

VR & drone enthusiasts! Come and participate in the tool.Up Workshop. Throughout the day you will experience lectures, brainstorming and workshops that will inspire and prepare you to collaborate and produce solutions such as VR technology, IoT solutions for everyday life, and the development of Drone solutions.

Techies and urban farming nuts! Come and collaborate in an innovation event targeting new opportunities around urban food systems -- with the goal of creating projects that will directly benefit urban farmers and the urban food system in Atlanta, GA. The UrbanFoodTech Hackathon is targeting innovation in these technical areas: --> Mobile: Designing new mobile interfaces that simplify tasks, present data, consume APIs, and facilitate communication for urban farming practioners, their customers and community easily using standards compliant HTML, CSS, Javascript and UI/UX principles and tools such as Bootstrap, Angular, and React, etc. --> Data: Communicate complex information clearly and efficiently to the urban farming practitioner, their customers and community, helping them analyze and reason about data using open source tools such as D3, SVG, Open Street Map, GeoJSON, TopoJSON, R, etc --> APIs: Creation and Utilization of new and existing RESTful web application programming interfaces that create value for the urban farming practitioner, their customers and community utilizing professional practices and API development tools like Swagger, Kong, Apiary, and Postman. --> Hardware: Creating open source hardware solutions, utilizing micro controllers,the internet of things (IoT), sensors, and drones, that collect data, exchange information, automate urban farming operations, and inform the urban farming practitioner, their customers and community in real time.

Code Vadodara is Vadodara's very own hackathon where techies come together to solve real world problems through collaboration & innovation. This will be a fun full-day of coding to help build innovative solutions along with likeminded people. Unleash the hacker in you and bring out your genius. Code, collaborate and compete with the best. A theme will be given on the event day!

Data hackers! Come and participate in the Euroclear Text Mining Hackathon. The aim will be to identify key fields in unstructured financial legal documentation—unlocking access to data in thousands of legal documents available through the Euroclear platform.

The need for no-fee access to legal information is greater than ever before, and law librarians are on the front lines of this crisis. The American Association of Law Libraries is hosting this hackathon for a day of civic app creation! Law librarians know 1) the needs of the people when it comes to legal information, and 2) what data is available. Hackers know how to make this information accessible. A $250 cash prize will be awarded to the creators of the winning entry.

Developers, designers! Collaborate with APM members at the first APM hackathon. Build a prototype of a growing, sustainable business. APM brings together French business leaders and young entrepreneurs who are dedicated to improve themselves in order to sustainably grow their businesses.