List of hackathons about industry in 2016

Interested in the plight of refugees? Think you know how technology solutions could help? PeaceGeeks & Simon Fraser University invite you to come and participate in #PeaceHacks. You'll collaborate with like-minded individuals in a mini-hackathon, where you'll explore ways in which innovative technology solutions can help increase access to services for refugees and strengthen intercultural integration.

Women hackers! Come and participate in the Women Creativity Hackathon 2016 - Nice. Collaborate with your peers to build technology tools that can help safeguard your loved ones. Showcase your skills by addressing challenges such as: »Safety Outdoors »Safety in the Home »Security On Line »Safety and Security at Work »Personal Safety »Health Safety

Developers in Spain! Sign up today to participate in the Blockchain Hackathon sponsored by UST Global, IBM, and UNITE. This event is focused on the use of Blockchain technology solutions to problems such as: »digital identity, »electronic voting, »digital property, and »medical history. You'll use the Eris platform from Monax Industries to build your solution and deploy it using IBM's Bluemix.

Security professionals and hackers in Costa Rica! Come and participate in the Hackathon | Día Internacional de la Seguridad Informática. Collaborate with like-minded security technicians to understand the techniques that are used to attack networks in order to commit cybercrimes. You will be challenged to find and exploit security problems in given vulnerable applications. You will be scored on your ability to locate and address each information security problem in the applications.

The Ministry of Education, University and Research invites students in and around Caserta and Napoli to sign up for the hackathon at the Week PNSD Caserta 2016. You will be challenged to hack in areas such as logic and computational thinking, education to media, STEM and educational robotics, educational innovation, art and digital culture, and environmental design.

Data hackers in Extremadura, Spain! Sign up to participate in the second Caceres Open Data Hackathon. You will be challenged to create an innovative GIS-based app that helps improve the experience of citizens and tourists to the city of Caceres. Your app can run in a web browser, or on an Android or IOS device. You can be on-site to present your project, or present it remotely via a YouTube video.

Coders, designers, makers, scientists, citizens, space nuts! Sign up to participate in the SpaceUp Hackathon in Manchester. Come and collaborate on your choice of challenge: XploraSat Challenge: Develop hardware for use on the XploraSat platform Destination Discovery Network Challenge: Propose a future Space Mission Compete for awesome exclusive prizes including the chance to send your hack into Space. Get hackathon advice from the tips page!

Coders, designers, makers, scientists, citizens, space nuts! This is a virtual event—you don't have to be on-site in Manchester to participate! Just register for the SpaceUp Virtual Hackathon. Sign up and collaborate on your choice of challenge: XploraSat Challenge: Develop hardware for use on the XploraSat platform Destination Discovery Network Challenge: Propose a future Space Mission Compete for awesome exclusive prizes including the chance to send your hack into Space. For SpaceUp Virtual hackathon advice visit the tips page!

Coders, designers, makers, scientists, citizens, space nuts! Sign up to participate in the SpaceUp Hackathon in Manchester. Compete for awesome prizes including the chance to send your hack into Space. Come and collaborate on your choice of challenge: XploraSat Challenge: Develop hardware for use on the XploraSat platform Destination Discovery Network Challenge: Propose a future Space Mission Get your hackathon advice here on the tips page!

Interested in how technology can help improve the lives of people with disabilities? Want to use your creativity and skills to build apps that provide greater accessibility? Come and join the Neue Nähe, the hackathon for more inclusion and participation that is sponsored by Aktion Mensch and Microsoft Deutschland. You can choose from three projects, which are available on GitHub: »Interchangeable Communication »Extend Accessibility Now »Inclusion Promoting Life Hacks