List of hackathons about industry in 2017

Students in and around Oxford! Want to showcase your hacking skills? You're invited to sign up to participate in the Hack@Brookes 2017 24-hour hackathon at Oxford Brookes University. This year's event is all about cyber security. You'll be challenged to work with Kali Linux -- the advanced penetration testing distribution of Linux to explore how you can tighten security on your network.

Software and hardware makers in and around Cleveland! Interested in building solutions to help your local communities? DigitalC, US Ignite, and others invite you to sign up to participate in the Impact Pitch. At this reverse pitch competition, you'll hear pitches from local civic organizations describing their pressing challenges. You'll then chose your challenge and compete in a two round solution development competition for a prize pool of up to $60,000.

Tech experts, innovative thinkers, AgTech leaders, local Ag professionals! Microsoft, BCC, Manawatu-Rangitikei Federated Farmers, and others invite you to signup to participate in the AgTech Hackathon: Manawatu! In the AgTech Hackathon, the local farming community will present their everyday on-farm opportunities and problems. You'll then be challenged to conceive, design and prototype innovative smart on-farm solutions that could help them and their peer farmers around the world work more efficiently.

Hackers in and around Minsk, Belarus! Are you planning to participate in the SCIHACKATHON, an event focused on finding technology solutions to scientific problems? You're invited to attend an introductory meeting for the hackathon, at which scientists will introduce their scientific problems that will be your hackathon challenges.

Christian technologists and entrepreneurs! Your challenge is to innovate culture shaping technologies that would reclaim our times for the Gospel. Come participate and you will be confronted with challenges such as how technology can: » bring the word of God to the first generation of children who are growing up with mobile devices? » help cut and/or combat the effects of fatherlessness in a child’s life? » foster a culture of generosity towards each other? » identify, promote, test, collaborate, augment, and fill the gaps of ministry programs around Nashville? » disrupt human trafficking?

Engineers, developers, designers! Interested in solutions top reduce CO2? Your invited to sign up tyo participate in a smart industry CO2 reduction Hackathon. You'll be challenged to conceive and create innovative solutions to help reduce CO2 emissions in housing, logistics and energy.

Student and professional hackers! Interested in Smart City solutions? Creative Valley invites you to participate in the Citizens of Wallonia hackathon to propose ideas to make smarter cities in Wallonia! You'll collaborate with like-minded individuals to imagine solutions that will make the cities in Wallonia more connected, greener, and more sustainable. You'll be challenged to create Open Data solutions that will encourage citizen interaction, urban and rural mobility, and increased employment.

Hackers, programmers, designers, startup person or wannabe founder in and around Chandigarh, India? Want to take part in arguably the world's biggest hackathon of 2017? You're invited to participate in the local Chandigarh location of the golbal UN Influx Global Hackathon - Connect2Effect. Come and create a world-changing social startup idea and win the chance to demo your project at the UN Headquarters in NYC this year!

Software developers and engineers! auLAB and Randstad Technologies invite you to sign up to participate at TECH Hackathon 2017. You'll be challenged to design and develop a software solution to a problem given by the event organizers. You can compete on your own, or as part of a team. It's your choice!

Software developers, data scientists, engineers, designers, entrepreneurs, and industry insiders in the global resources sector! Come to this info session and prepare yourself to participate in the Unearthed Melbourne 2017 open innovation hackathon. 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. You'll get to learn about this weekend-long hackathon, the challenges that you'll face, and the prizes you can win. You'll also network with potential teammates and form your team for the hackathon. Visit the hackathon tips pagefor useful info on participation in Unearthed Melbourne 2017!