List of hackathons about industry in 2017

Nigerian techie entrepreneurs! Have a great idea for a unique project with a profound social impact and a profitable business plan? You're invited to bring it along to the RB Maverick Hackathon. You'll compete with young people from India, South Africa and Brazil over five rounds for a chance to represent your country in the grand finale in Dubai.

MoveIt hackers in Singapore! The ROS-Industrial Asian Pacific Consortium invites you to participate in their World MoveIt! Day Hackathon. You'll collaborate with like-minded techies to close as many pull requests and issues as possible. You'll also get to be creative and explore new features and improvements for the MOVEit managed file transfer software framework.

Programmers, web developers, and Architecture/Engineering/Construction professionals! Are you planning to attend the 2017 AEC Tech Symposium? Be sure to sign up to participate in the Hackathon that will take place at the event. You'll be challenged to prototype an innovative new app that will help generate novel ideas and process for the AEC industry. You'll have access to the Rhino 3D computer graphics and computer-aided design (CAD) application software.

High-performance computing geeks in and around Berlin! You're invited to attend the HLRN Parallel Programming Workshop Fall 2017 and to participate in the hackathon at the event. At the workshop, sponsored by the North-German Supercomputing Alliance (HLRN), you'll learn advanced code optimization and programming techniques for existing and next-generation processors. Bring your own code and showcase your modernization and optimization skills, as you squeeze more performance from your code than your competitors.

MoveIt hackers in the Greater London Area! Shadow Robot Company & UCL invite you to participate in their World MoveIt! Day Hackathon. You'll collaborate with like-minded techies to close as many pull requests and issues as possible. You'll also get to be creative and explore new features and improvements for the MOVEit managed file transfer software framework.

Developers and hackers in and around Munich, Germany. Are you planning to attend the AGILE SYSTEMS CONFERENCE 2017 (ASK)? If so then Agile-by-HOOD invites you to participate in the hackathon at the event. You'll work with like-minded techies to apply agile approaches in projects not only related to software, but also to systems and hardware.

Drupal techies in the Philippines! You're invited to participate in the #AppHack2017 hackathon, where you'll be challenged to use Drupal 8 open source content management framework to build an awesome website or web app. There are separate tracks and prizes for apprentices and for professionals. In either case, you'll need to register to attend the pre-hackathon session prior to the solution pitching, judging and award session.

Tech-savvy teens? Come participate in the TeenTechSF Civic Hackathon and collaborate ideas for tech solutions for the most pressing issues facing teens today! Your project can take any form—app, Arduino project, website, video, 3-D printer prototypes! Compete and win a chance to participate in the TeenTech Civic Hackathon World Pitch.

Come and make something STUPID in Denmark! Stupid Hackathon DK 2017 is a 1-day event where participants battle to create a working prototype of the most useless and terrible idea which creates absolutely no value for anyone. Apart from being a fun and surprising difficult assignment, it's a satirical reply to the trend for start-ups and disrupters to describe even the plainest and ordinary run-of-the-mill tech product, as the most disruptive, peace-making and world-saving innovation in the history of tech.

Techies and non-techies in and around Berlin! Women and men who support women! Geek Girls Carrots Berlin invites you to sign up to participate in Hack Like a Girl! - Travel. You'll be challenged to collaborate with developers, designers, women with startup ideas, computer science students, and others to create and prototype an innovative travel solution using the travel domain data and APIs provided by event sponsors. The whole idea behind “Hack Like a Girl” is to promote diversity, collaboration, meeting new friends and the exchange of experiences.