List of hackathons about industry in 2017

Techies in the Washington DC area? Do you want to be a digital volunteer and help FEMA with their disaster response and recovery efforts? You're invited to participate in the Disaster Crowdsourcing Exchange -- FEMA's Disaster Hackathon. You'll learn about FEMA's current crowdsourcing coordination efforts, participate in building new projects, experiment with new tools, and shape the future of crowdsourcing in emergency management. Projects include: Operationalize Crowdsourcing for Emergency Management, Crowdsourcing Analysis of Imagery, Prototype Tools for Field Data Collection, and Open Street Map (OSM) Mapathon.

Techie students in Hungary! You're invited to participate in HackBudapest 2017 -- a 24-hour hackathon in the heart of Central Europe. You'll be challenged to collaborate to create an innovative solution to one of a number of given challenges: HackBudapest Challenge, OTP retail banking challenge, or Skyscanner Challenge.

Hackers in Hong Kong! Are you interested in the use of technology to make smart cities? If so, you're invited to participate in the SmarTone Hackathon "Smart Properties" event. You'll get to choose from one of two challenges: Smart Workplace, or Smart Property Management -- you'll be expected to design and prototype an innovative and creative technology solution that enhances customer experience and enables smarter living and business operations for both landlords and tenants.

Massachusetts professionals and students interested in sustainability! Sustainability Projects Abroad (SPA) invites you to participate in the Sustainathon @ UMass. This is a creative marathon and software coding is not involved! The 24-hour event will focus on sustainability challenges faced by the UMass campus is facing as well as problems faced by communities both domestic and abroad.

Young technical students, graduates, and professionals in and around Munich! You're invited to sign up to participate in the HackAdemy Munich innovation boot camp. In this 2-day workshop event, you'll learn lean innovation methodologies and then apply them to meet specific challenges and earn points. Collaborate and network with like-minded individuals and compete for recognition and prizes.

Dublin City University (DCU) students! Do you have a great startup idea? DCU Ryan Academy and Intel Ireland invite you to participate in the DCU Student SteAm Hackathon Weekend. You'll be challenged to pitch your startup idea to your student peers. Your project might be selected to be further developed by a team of students and presented to a jury of local entrepreneurs.

Civic-minded hackers in the Fort Lauderdale area! Covalence Academy and General Provision invite you to participate in the Civic Hackathon for Hurricane Relief. Hurricane Irma and Maria have exposed the critical need for effective tools that can help eliminate or mitigate the problems faced by victims of such storms. At this event, you'll be challenged to design and prototype technology solutions, datasets, and tools that help many people during times of need.

Techie students at the University of Florida and other schools in the Gainesville area! Do you want to participate in the fourth VandyHacks at Vanderbilt University? UF's hacker community invites you to ride the bus with them to this collegiate hackathon in Nashville, Tennessee. At this 36-hour event, you'll collaborate with like-minded student techies to bring your ideas to life -- and have fun doing it!

UX/UI designers, researchers, developers, and aspiring UX professionals! Want to practice your UX skills by helping an EdTech startup improve education? The Beginex UX Program invites you to participate in the UX Mini Hackathon Series. You'll be challenged to design and prototype a solution to a design problem posed by the Edtech Startup company. You'll get to present your design to the Startup and UX experts. The winning team might be asked to continue development of their solution.

Security techies in the Benelux region! The Computer Incident Response Center Luxembourg (CIRCL) invites you to register to participate in the second Open Source Security Software Hackathon. You'll collaborate with like-minded cybersecurity professionals to come up with innovative open source solutions to critical security problems such as information sharing, network/system forensic, data mining challenges, crypto-currencies, and more.