List of hackathons about industry in 2016

Hackingfest is a hackathon series on software and hardware organized for those developers and designers who are passionate about hacking for real-world issues. Come along to gain new experience, realize great projects and make many new friends! Awards will be given out best ideas and projects!

This is a special hackathon for entrepreneurs and hackers to come together and launch a startup with a system that can engage with customers. Most entrepreneurs fail because they consume too much time in product development instead of the customers. Often entrepreneurs talk about how to raise the fund but less talk about how to create revenue and it's almost impossible to get investment without having customer and revenue. This hackathon will ask you to form a team and build a system that can engage with customers and make your startup ready for traction from investors!

This hackathon will brin together three countries, three time zones and three tech hubs. Crowd2Map Tanzania was one of 7 projects selected in the Open Seventeen challenge, which rallies the public to use open data as a means of achieving the 17 Sustainable Development Goals. This event is part of the project, organizing a triple mapping day in Dar+London+Vilnius. This will be a fun hackathon between the three "camps", as all will compare the results at the end, and  bridge techies in the 3 locations via video conference and chat throughout the event across locations.

This is a FREE hackathon organized with the aim to create a FinTech community in Romania. Think about Paypal, Stripe, Bitcoin, Ethereum, Venmo, anything related to finance. The FinTech Camp Hackathon will propose a two-day challenge for the best programmers in Romania that want to be part of a new FinTech movement in Eastern Europe. Fintech enthusiasts from Romanian startups and companies like Minutizer Pay Per Minute, SmartX Net Apps, Salt Edge Inc., Clever Taxi and Finland Fintech will be present. All tech developers and Business-oriented people that want to build something together for the Fintech space are invited. The financial industry needs its digital heroes, so join this week-end of pure coding and a chance to be part of a new FinTech movement!

54 Hours Hackathon for Testing your innovative Idea for the Food System. You will learn the basics of founding and launching a successful startup while solving real problems we face in the food industry. Pitch your idea, form a team around an idea, get coached by experts, and win amazing prizes!

The HackHalton is a hackathon brought to you by Haltech, Sheridan College, and, TechUnder 20. This event will aim to provide you with an open data hackathon focused on improving quality of life in the Halton region through turning data into insights in order for you to produce useful solutions through collaborative software engineering.

Blue Weekend is an event focused on solving challenges and the development of technological projects in the marine sector. Meet for 2 days with 50 people with different profiles, concerns and problem-solving to address challenges in the marine sector, both in the port field, such as sports, fishing, science, etc. with the aim to solve challenges related to the sea. You and your team will have about 48 hours to create prototypes that solve the challenge chosen and present it to other colleagues and jury.

This is the first grassroots hackathon for Hillary 2016. The events aim is to help Hillary Clinton get elected as the next President of the United States by creating innovative new technology to get more votes! This event is inviting all engineers, technologists, designers, policy wonks, and volunteers to work on next-generation campaign tools that will reach new voters and donors, motivate and coordinate volunteers, and analyze data. Come and win tickets to an event with Hillary Clinton!

After the tragic attacks of 22 March 2016, MolenGeek decided to host a hackathon for creating applications which will optimize the emergency services in Molenbeek in case of rescue operations. The focus will lie on protection, alerting and rescuing. Join this event to to help improve the care of victims, communication, ease of logistical support, information management and optimization of the rescue organizations.

The inaugural ATHackathon aims to create innovative tools to track & analyze data related to trafficking. Human Trafficking is a multi-billion dollar criminal industry that enslaves over 20 million people around the world. Reliable data remains a major challenge at the heart of anti-human trafficking efforts. Lack of data = lack of issue legitimacy, data informed solutions, and public awareness. Come and be part of a change!