List of hackathons about industry in 2016

The Culture Shift hackathon is organized to help motivate cultural economies across the globe. The model has a proven track record of stimulating innovation in the cultural sector worldwide. This event is similar to a hack weekend; where business ideas are generated and tested over a short period of time by designers, developers, innovators, individuals and groups from the local cultural sector. You will aim to develop a range of ideas and digital prototypes that solve or build on challenges regarding the cultural sector in Cyprus.

This is a 36-hour hack-a-thon organized for the students of the University of Rochester. The event invites all computer programmers and others involved in engineering fields to collaborate on hardware and software projects and help students and programmers express their creativity and bring their ideas to practice. All levels of programming and CS experience are welcome. There will be free food, coffee and snacks, cool workshops, free T-shirts, and prizes will be given out to best projects!

Software developers, engineers, data scientists, designers, UX designers, and industry insiders in Western Australia's energy/resources sector! Are you planning to participate in Unearthed Perth 2016? If so, then be sure to mark your calendar and attend the Unearthed Perth 2016: Info Session. You'll get to learn about this weekend-long hackathon, the challenges you'll face, and the prizes you can win. You'll also network with potential teammates and form your team for the hackathon. Access practical advice on participating in Unearthed Perth 2016 on the expert hackathon tips page!

Come to this hackathon to help make the city of San Diego one of the greenest and most connected cities in the world. Register for this San Diego Smart City Hackathon Kickoff & Info Session, to learn more about the format, specific objectives, challenges, tools and data sets for solving real city problems based on input from multiple city departments. The target is to come up with original creative solutions to difficult city problems, which require wireless sensors and a lot of data. Something, which has not been done before. Come to this info session to take part in this event and learn more about the hackathon!

This will be the first Missoula Civic Hackathon. Civic Hackathons are events where developers, designers, artists, students, researchers, civic leaders, and citizens come together to share ideas, form teams, and work towards tangible solutions to the problems we all face daily in the towns we live. Local technical experts, professors and civic leaders will be on hand to coach teams. Come meet other developers and people with pressing civic problems and to work towards a common goal, while having fun, learning much, and making friends!

This is a hackathon which is originally a gathering for developers and project leaders with the goal of producing a prototype application with the idea of the first edition, solutions that would add value to the events through the use of connected objects. You will have access to technologies and tools throughout the evening. (3D Printers, Digital milling machine, electronic equipment, Arduino, Raspberry Pi ...)

TechLatino is organizing The Ninja Hack-athon is an all day long event where developers, entrepreneurs, innovators, and designers can come together to form teams and program together. The goal of this “Hack” introduce new concepts that address an issue in the Latino community or tap into the Latino market. You don’t have to be an expert developer to participate, you just need to have the drive to learn and play with code! El Hackeo is part of the #Emerging Tech Leadership Summit 2016. You do not need an extra ticket to take part in the hackathon, all you need is a laptop, a great idea, and the power to work on your project for 14 hours!

The Microst Build for Africa Hackathon is inviting all hardware developers, Cloud developers and software developers to come along and work on various technology platforms. The main goal is to make technologies made in Africa for Africa. There will be presentations from indusrtry professionals and on this topics.

This is an Open Innovation Event to help you solve your current startup or innovation challenges. Nano Labs is a mix of a barcamp, hackathon and un-conference. Come along to present your ideas and work together with others to develop unique solutions. In the Creativity Labs, you will create new ideas and in the Systems Labs, you will learn new approaches. There will be professional coaches and specialists in startup and innovation methods like Co-Creation, Lean Startup and many more present. All founders, startuppers and all interested people who want to actively participate and engage with Berlin's Startup Eco-System are invited!

This hackathon will offer an exciting journey to undiscovered playgrounds; a living lab researching the Heartbeat of the City. Come and join this community as data provider, tools master, designer, player, hacker, app developer, scientist, marketer, or investor. This challenge includes a platform for long term development and a ground for start ups, social enterprises, community initiatives, to incubate, mature and scale up.