List of hackathons about industry in 2016

Want to help break down the barriers to female entrepreneurship? Want to help more women enter and succeed in the technology sector? Come and participate in the Lady Problem Global Hackathon Series in Gaza! Collaborate with like-minded women—and men—in an effort to build creative solutions to realize the potential of the female half of our world population! You'll be asked to hack a solution to one of the following challenges: »Health: Help women access health resources to ensure that they can have successful careers, regardless of whether or not they choose to have children. »Safety: Help ensure that women can be safe when they go to, are at, and come home from work. »Economic Empowerment: Help women gain financial literacy and access the resources they need to grow their businesses. »Culture: Help women access better mentorship and feel less isolated in the workplace.

Students, entrepreneurs! Sign up for the 3rd edition of Blue Ocean Awards. Your goal is to build an innovative disruptive offering targeted at one of the hackathon sponsors' markets.

Software security professionals! Come and participate in the OWASP London Hackathon and Capture The Flag computer security competition. You'll be presented with a set of challenges and puzzles which test your creativity, technical coding skills, and problem-solving ability. Practice your hacking skills and compete against other participants and teams — solve challenges and puzzles, capture flags, score points and win prizes!

Women developers, business experts, graphic artists, designers, etc.! Come and participate in the second Women Innovation Hackathon 2016 in Paris, France. Collaborate in solutions that address areas such as health, family, displacements, youth, labor, silver economy, and autonomy. The event promotes technology projects aimed at women and attempts to stimulate productivity.

Boys and girls aged 7 to 17 in and around Milan! Are you interested in technology? If so, then sign up today to participate in the Hackathon by CoderDojo @BASE Milan. You'll collaborate with like-minded kids in teams, using your skills, knowledge, and creativity to undertake an engineering challenge. No experience is required — you only need to have desire and passion for technology and to be ready to roll up your sleeves and get involved.

Toronto high schoolers! The University of Toronto invites you to come and participate in the Hi-Skule High School Design Competition. This engineering design competition/hackathon is open to all students in grades 9-12. Come along and enjoy a full day of building, problem-solving, and engineering. You'll collaborate with like-minded students to undertake a design project, which you will present to a panel of judges for a chance to win!

Information security professionals and hackers! You are invited by Hack24 to participate in Hackathon 2016: Security Informatica and Django! You'll be challenged to use your security skills and knowledge of the Django high-level Python Web framework to create solutions to one of two themes presented at the event. Showcase your skills and proficiency in information and web security.

Developers, designers and techies in and around Kano, Nigeria! Come and participate in the Code Pyramid meet up! You'll get the opportunity to network, share ideas, opportunities and collaborate to find solutions to challenges faced by members. In addition to the networking component, you'll be able to participate in a mini-hackathon and compete for some awesome prizes. This month's theme is “Building solutions for the immediate community and creating more awareness for indigenous tech solutions”.

Students, recent graduates, creative designers, developers, data analysts and marketers in the United Arab Emirates! Accenture Digital invites you to sign up and participate in the inaugural Connected Hackathon in Dubai. The event will run at the same time as similar events in Rome, Dubai, Prague, London, Dortmund, Madrid, Amsterdam and Istanbul. You'll be challenged to create and prototype innovative ideas that bring economic and social value for your community. You may utilize everyday objects, open data, open source libraries, rapid prototyping frameworks, microcontrollers, sensors, 3D printers, beacons, wearables, etc.

Women and men hackers in the London area! Come and strut your techie skills at the GDG Hackathon 2. This event will feature female developers competing against their male counterparts. It's still a hackathon — demanding all of your technical creativity, innovation and coding skills. You'll participate in a team and the strongest team will present their project for a code battle!