List of hackathons about industry in 2016

Programmers, designers, hackers in the Phillippines! Are you interested in supporting your Filipino heritage? Facebook and Affinis Labs invite you to come and sign up for the Digital Halo Halo Hackathon. To start, you will learn social media best practices and strategies lead by specialists from Facebook and AJ+. You'll then collaborate with like-minded hackers in a digital literacy challenge and compete for initial seed funding and go-to-market support for your project.

Are you shocked by the amount of food that is wasted, while people around the world are starving? Do you believe that in today's' world, there is a technology solution that could help reduce that waste in Austria and maybe distribute the food to where it's needed? Come and participate in the Food Waste Hackathon Vienna. This event is an opportunity to collaborate with like-minded individuals to reduce food waste in Austria.

Information engineering students at the Università Politecnica delle Marche! Sign up to participate in HackUNIVPM-2016. This year's theme is "A Web Application for deployment of products or services based on the Internet of Things". Bring your ideas for an innovative new web application and go-to-market business plan! Design and prototype your idea and pitch it to a jury panel.

Hackers in and around Brussels! Interested in issues of gender equality? Are you a supporter of open data? Amazone & the Brussels Regional Informatics Centre (CIRB-CIBG) invite you to sign up for the first HACKATHON - Open Data & Gender. The goal of this event is to leverage technology to help stimulate commitment for gender equality in Brussels and the surrounding area. You will be challenged to design and create innovative gender-smart apps that are based on open data.

Coders, designers. hackers in Reunion! DIECCTE, Simplon Meeting, and Digital Meeting invite you to sign up to participate in the Hackathon NxSE. This is the first hackathon in Reunion dedicated to mobilizing developers / designers and students at digital technology schools. You'll collaborate with like-minded technologists to help address challenges related to training and start-ups. You will be expected to develop a prototype solution to a problem that will be unveiled at the event.

Hackers in and around the city of Bologna! Come and sign-up for the sixth edition of the Bologna City Civilian Award. Participate and help create innovative ways in which technology can help improve life, human welfare and the beauty of the city. Showcase your creativity and technical expertise — design and build an app, a web page, a game that responds to the needs of the community of Bologna.

Kids, aged 9 to 15! Form a team of four and sign up to participate in the Startup For Kids Mini Hackathon. Give free rein to your imagination around a theme that you'll be given at the event. Your team can choose how you wish to address the theme: »Making an animated object »Write a story (illustrated or not) »Creating a video game

Interested in data privacy? Come and participate in the hack day that the Data Transparency Lab is hosting alongside the DTL 2016 conference. The theme of the hack day's is “User Education on Privacy and Transparency”. Bring your ideas and creativity to help users understand why they should care about privacy! You'll collaborate with other participants to build a tool to help end-users—an app, a visualization, or educational tool, or whatever you can conceive. Here are some potential challenges: »Raising Awareness of Personal Information Leaks »Privacy Census »How much are you worth for Facebook? »How much is my data worth? »Parent-Child Education Challenge

Dundee University students! You're invited to participate in the first ever Dundee University Computing Society (DUCS) Quackathon! This 24-hour student hackathon is open to all students of all abilities — you don't need to know how to code! You'll participate in a team — either come with your own team or join one on the day! So come, collaborate, code and network with the best and the rest!

Scientists, engineers, computer scientists, designers! If you're 18 or older and are creative and have a love of science, then come and participate in Science Hack Day Dublin. This is a 36-hr hardware and software hackathon where participants are challenged to make interesting things. You'll be challenged to an intense period of collaboration, making, hacking, and building of ‘cool stuff’. Who knows what awesome stuff you'll be able to create?