List of hackathons about industry in 2017

Students -- high school, undergrads, grads, and post-docs -- in the Calgary area! Come and participate in the ProtoChallenge. You'll get the opportunity to pitch ideas that help the community, then build a prototype to gain skills, find potential employers, and win prizes. Collaborating in a group, you'll pick one of the event's themes, then validate the market and technical feasibility, before actually creating your prototype. Event themes are: »Information Technology and the Internet of Things, »Towards a low carbon energy future, »The 3Cs of Radical Change: Creativity, Community, and Collaboration, or »Wild card: Any other idea.

AquaHacking is a five-month long hack-a-thon that catalyzes stakeholders who want to protect our freshwater – citizens, decision makers, practitioners, researchers, NGOs – to take action. AquaHacking challenges young digital designers and coders, aspiring water experts and entrepreneurs to develop applications that raise awareness about water issues, and that solve water problems. There is $75,000 in prize money available, in addition to access to local accelerators and mentors for winning teams. The Challenge: Water experts, hackers, engineers, and other creative minds work together as a team for 10 weeks to develop functional, marketable innovations to help solve Lake Erie’s water issues. The competition runs from April - September, with semi-finals in June and the finals in September. Anyone 18 or older is welcome. We are looking for creative minds, whatever their field of expertise, but especially students, water researchers, developers, digital designers, programmers, engineers, technology enthusiasts, entrepreneurs and people who want to save the world! The Issues Teams Have to Tackle This Year: Spreading #LakeErieLove All eyes on Erie Stopping the invaders to keep our fisheries fishable Stemming the plastic tide Taking on the algae monster Join us on March 29 at the University of Waterloo for an information session on how you can be a part of this innovative movement!

Students, entrepreneurs, problem solvers and innovators in and around Atlanta! Georgia-Pacific invites you to sign up to participate in the Amazon & Georgia Pacific Idea Hackathon. You'll be challenged to come up with new and innovative ways with Amazon.com to make shopping for everyday essentials faster, more convenient and less stressful for people.

Designers, coders, and marketers in Milan! Showcase your creativity and skills at the Hackathon Facile.it 2017. You will collaborate in a team of 3 to 5 like-minded individuals. You will be challenged to design, code and test an application prototype and then present your solution to a panel of judges. With skill and courage, your team may succeed and be judged the winner and receive some awesome prizes.

Hackers in Rabat, Morocco! ScreenDy invites you to sign up to participate in the Hack & Pitch Hackathon "Industrie 4.0" @Ecole Mohammadia d'Ingénieurs. Come and showcase your ingenuity and creativity. You'll be challenged to conceive and build innovative new mobile applications using the ScreenDy mobile app development platform and Microsoft Azure cloud for the back-end. At the end of the Hackathon, your goal should be to create a minimum viable product that you can present to the jury.

College students aged 18 and over! Are you passionate about tech? Want to showcase your skills with software and hardware — see how you measure up against your peers? UVa-Wise Abingdon invites you to sign up and participate in their inaugural WiseHacks hackathon! You'll get to spend 24 hours learning, networking and collaborating to solve a problem of your choice! Build your website, mobile app or hardware hack and demo a usable prototype to a panel of judges. Have fun, learn a lot, meet great people and maybe win some sweet prizes.

Health professionals, patients, developers, designers, entrepreneurs! Are you motivated to change the world of health! Come participate in the Hacking Health Halifax Hackathon. This hackathon is intended to help bring IT and healthcare professionals together to conceive & design an app, a device, or other solution for patient-centric care. Join a multidisciplinary team and create a prototype of a mobile or web-based application or a hand-held device that could make a dramatic difference in patient care!

Moroccan techies and geeks in and around Tangier! Hack & Pitch invites you to sign up for Geeks On A Bus to the HEM Tangier Campus. This event is designed to promote entrepreneurship and encourage the creation of new technology startups. This will be one of twelve regional Hack & Pitch Hackathons and the best projects will be selected for a pre-acceleration program. Be prepared for Hack & Pitch with the best hackathon advice!

Moroccan techies and geeks in and around Tangier! Hack & Pitch invites you to sign up for Geeks On A Bus to the Faculty of Sciences and Technologies Tangier. This event is designed to promote entrepreneurship and encourage the creation of new technology startups. It is also intended to prepare you to participate in one of twelve regional Hack & Pitch Hackathons, where you can compete to have your project selected for a pre-acceleration program. Be prepared for your Geek Bus Ride with the best hackathon advice!

Techies and geeks in and around Tétouan, Morocco! Hack & Pitch invites you to board the Geeks On A Bus adventure to the Faculty of Sciences Tétouan. This event is designed to promote entrepreneurship and encourage the creation of new technology startups. This will be one of twelve regional Hack & Pitch Hackathons and the best projects will be selected for a pre-acceleration program. Get insights on participation from our expert hackathon advice page!