List of hackathons about industry in 2017

Creative? Interested in sustainability? Sign up to participate in the World Port Hackathon 2017--24 hours of hacking for an innovative, safe and sustainable port. It'll be a high energy event, with loads of data, creative thinking, collaboration, inspiration, coding, innovation, and more. Sign up today to be a part of it! Come and collaborate on port industry challenges along one of the following themes: 1. Infrastructure & Assets 2. Cascading effects in the network of networks 3. Energy 4. Logistics & Mobility 5. Autonomous Shipping 6. Data, Documents & Integrity

Entrepreneurs in and around the Windy City! Are you planning to participate in the Civic Tech Challenge Hackathon in early November? Are you interested in learning how to construct a solid design approach? If so, then Colony 5 invites you to attend the workshop -- Your App-Enabled Business & the Colony 5 Civic Tech Challenge. This event will help you build upon your initial idea and help you understand tools and opportunities that are available for you to use in introducing technologies such as Internet of Things, Wearables, Driverless cars, etc. into your business concept.

Software developers, data scientists, engineers, designers, entrepreneurs and industry insiders! Participate in Unearthed, a 54-hour open innovation Hackathon that is focused on the resources sector. Collaborate with like-minded individuals to develop prototype technology solutions to resource challenges. You'll have the unique opportunity to work on real industry data as well as data from government partners.

Techies and non-techies in and around Chicago! Interested in the application of technology for the civic good? Come and participate in Chi Hack Night! You'll collaborate to build, share and learn about civic tech and conceive and build tools that will help serve the good of the people of Chicago. You don't have to be a techie to participate and contribute. You'll be able to network and team with some of Chicago's smartest techies, bringing a diversity of background to your team project.

Developers, designers, and AI enthusiasts! TrueFace.ai invites you to sign up to participate in the TrueFace.Ai Facial Recognition Hackathon. You don't have to actually be in San Francisco! You can attend in person, or participate from anywhere in the world! Your challenge will be to use Trueface.ai's face recognition technology portfolio to do something awesome! For example, you could create an app to take classroom attendance, or measure whether a person is drunk! It's your choice. Be creative and compete for prizes!

Teenage techies in the UK! Acorn Aspirations invites you to participate in #ACORNACCELERATOR2017 -- a 2-week accelerator, where you'll be challenged to create an innovative technical solution to a social problem that you find in your local community and communities around the world. You'll get to use tools and techniques like artificial intelligence, and virtual reality to help address problems such as depression, anxiety, stress, phobias and more. At the end of the accelerator, Acorn Aspirations invites your friends and the general public to the #AcornAccelerator2017 DEMO DAY, as you and your fellow participants demo your projects before a panel of judges.

Software developers, data scientists, engineers, designers, and entrepreneurs in Australia? Are you planning to participate in Unearthed, Sydney Hackathon? Please plan to attend this pre-hackathon information session to learn more about the event's challenges focused on the resources sector.

Boston area techies interested in the application of technology to physical infrastructures--roads, bridges, tunnels, utility structures, etc.! BIMobject invites you to participate in BIMscript® Hackathon 2017, 15th-16th August, Boston, MA. You'll learn how to use BIMscript to create BIM (building information modeling) objects. You'll also get to build your own limited access catalog that you can use for non-profit purposes, demonstration, test, and education.

Techie friends of the 2SLGBTQ+ community in Montréal and the province of Quebec! QueerTech invites techies of all genders and sexual identities to take part in a PrideHacks one-day hackathon! At this event, leaders from the LGBTQ community will challenge you to design and build an innovative digital solution that addresses problems faced by charities as they provide essential services to marginalized community members. Make sure you're prepared for your PrideHacks experience — visit the hackathon tips page!

High school techies in the Greater Toronto Area! Cipher invites you to participate in Bonfire '17 -- a 24-hour hackathon where you will collaborate with like-minded student coders to use technology to create innovative projects, and make their ideas into reality. Come as a team of four people, or form one at the event. You don't have to be an expert -- you can use one of your four team slots to add a hand-picked expert mentor to your team.