List of hackathons about industry in 2016

Code for the Kingdom Hackathon is bringing together technologists, entrepreneurs, creative’s, and anyone with a love for technology and faith, to developing solutions for real-life society, community, families, and spiritual life issues. Providing the opportunity to use your talent and be the change that is needed and helping release the oppressed, teaching God’s Word, healing the sick, feeding the hungry, clothing the naked, and supporting the church. Tackling challenges with 21st century technologies to serve God’s Kingdom and encourage Christian innovators. A Nashville Area judging panel will choose the awards for best projects.

The JOLT Hackathon Program provides professional development experts for the technological community in Central Arkansas combining development of soft skills such as communication, leadership and collaboration with real-world, technical hard skills. In this 24-hour “game of codes,” teams of developers, engineers and programmers compete with each other to accomplish technical feats organized on a Jeopardy!® style game board. Don't worry if you are not an expert, the JOLT Hackathons are designed to be an immersive, fun learning experience. You'll have a chance to contribute as well as learn from seasoned professionals and technical mentors, no matter your skill level.

This is a mini hackathon organized for the Black History Month 2016. This event will be focused on the black trans community through a variety of virtual events featuring trailblazing technologists, culminating with this one day hackathon in San Francisco.

This Qredo Hackathon, wil help ios or Android app developers discover how easy Qredo SDK makes it to get app security right. Bring your own equipment and development tools and be among the first app developers to work with the Qredo open sourced privacy SDK. Win prizes for the best apps developed during the weekend.  The Qredo SDK, documentation, sample code and support of the Qredo dev team will be provided You can compete as an individual or in teams of up to 5 people

The Square kilometer Array (SKA) Africa project's aim is to change humanity and life as we know it. With this hackathon will provide the SKA Knowledge for you to search for uses of the data that will result and realise socio-economic value for the people of South Africa.

A hackathon to improve your local government. Bring your ideas and technological skills and take the Challenge. Showcase your own ideas or collaborate with others in your community to see how quickly and accurately you can design and create a software app or concept that addresses a community need in Alameda County.

The goal of ATHack is to bring awareness to the important field of developing assistive technologies. Pairing teams of students with clients in the Boston/Cambridge community who live with a disability. Each client has a problem in mind which they face because of their disability. Over the course of the hackathon, students brainstorm, design, and create prototype solutions for their client. On February 8, teams will meet their clients at the Meet the Clients Dinner to understand the problem and start brainstorming solutions. On February 27, the actual hackathon occurs where you will work at creating the team's solution.

AEC professionals in and around Philadelphia, PA—developers, UI/UX designers, civil engineers, built environment professionals! You're invited to take part in the AEC Hackathon 3.1 - Philadelphia. At this weekend-long event for the Architecture, Engineering, Construction (AEC) sector, you will be challenged to create cutting-edge solutions that can revolutionize the design, construction, and maintenance of the built environment. Check out tipsfor maximizing your hackathon experience.

Flint, Michigan is undergoing a water contamination crisis so severe that the Environmental Protection Agency has issued an immediate emergency order. Politics are moving too slowly for the residents of Flint. They need solutions and ideas! Join startup weekend, and build a viable solution!

Hacking Health Hamilton Hackathon is organized to improve healthcare by mixing technology creators and healthcare professionals to work on realistic, human-centric solutions to front-line problems. Come and tackle real problems together with the support of professional mentors!