List of hackathons about industry in 2017

Makers, entrepreneurs, social innovators and students from Georgian College and Lakehead University! Interested in the application of technology to environmental issues? The Henry Bernick Entrepreneurship Centre invites you to sign up and participate in the greenHACK 2017 hackathon. You'll learn lots of stuff that will help you, including idea creation, value propositions, lean startup methodology, customer validation, and making the perfect pitch. You'll network and collaborate with like-minded individuals to come up with solutions to environmental challenges.

Community activists, legal, law enforcement and criminal justice professionals, and technology stakeholders! Interested in how technology can be applied to help address the tensions points between law enforcement and communities of color? Come and participate in the ABA JusticeHack Miami and collaborate in a multidisciplinary team to conceive and develop innovative, technology-based solutions! The event itself is on Saturday February 4th, but there'll be a pre-hackathon exploratory get-together on February 2nd.

Developers, designers, marketers, entrepreneurs, etc.! Are you dissatisfied with the 2016 election cycle? Step up with an idea that could improve the next one. Debug Politics invites you to participate in the nonpartisan Debug Politics: 1st Los Angeles Hackathon. Come along and collaborate to find innovative ways to make a real difference. You'll be part of a team that will be challenged to identify one specific thing about the election cycle you were dissatisfied with and build something to fix it. You can come as a team or form one on the night!

NUS students, prospective students, researchers, entrepreneurial former NUS students! Interested in the education space? Come and participate in the NUS Ultimate Learning Weekend. Unlike a typical hackathon, you won't have to code a prototype — this event's about well thought out concepts and ideas. Collaborate and brainstorm to create the best ideas for new learning technology solutions.

Aspiring makers in the south of France! Fablab Marseille invites you to sign up to participate in the Makers' Original Challenge 2017. Collaborate as a member of a team of like-minded individuals to prototype a project from concept to prototype using the equipment and skills of Fablab Marseille. You'll have 48 hours to get your prototype ready for judging by a jury of expert entrepreneurs.

NUS students, prospective students, alumni and researchers! Your invited to participate in the NUS EdTech Challenge. You'll be challenged to conceive and prototype an innovative EdTech solution using cutting edge technologies, such as artificial intelligence, cloud and mobile computing, augmented and virtual reality. You'll collaborate in a team to create and present your working prototype by the end of the two day event.

Aspiring entrepreneurs in the East Midlands! Got an idea for a techie startup? Leicester Startups invites you to bring your project to their hackathon-style "Pitch, Build & Launch a Startup in a Single Weekend" event. You'll collaborate with like-minded individuals to develop and refine your start-up concept, reviewing it with mentors and then pitching your project to a panel of entrepreneurs.

Sustainable Minerals Institute students and faculty, programmers and mining industry professionals! The Centre for Applied Neuroscience in Business invites you to sign up and participate in the Brain Reprogramming Hackathon at Sustainable Minerals Institute UQ. You'll be challenged to collaborate to design and build the world’s first end-to-end multiplayer 3D Virtual Mining video game — a state-of-the-art research and design tool for all stakeholders in the industry.

Aston University students and graduates! Come and participate in UniHack! Collaborate to create innovative solutions to real-world challenges. Be one of 50 participants and team to develop an app, service, product or campaign that solves a real-life problem. Meet like-minded hackers and build innovative and incredible things!

Entrepreneurial, creative and hacker-friendly people! Think you've got what it takes to do a start-up? Sign up to participate in the second Omaha JumpStart Challenge. This is a two-part challenge! In this first part, you'll be challenged by a major corporation to come up with creative, technology-based solutions for problems they face on a day-to-day basis. These problems are so tricky that no one has solved them.