List of hackathons about industry in 2017

Bangalore coders! Come and participate in the 2nd Edition of the Bangalore Bugasur. Showcase your bug finding skills in an open hackathon environment. Bring your Android/IOs and laptop devices and be ready to hunt bugs in eight new mobile/web apps that are soon to be released on the unsuspecting public! Prizes for top 3 bugs for each of the 8 apps — that means 24 opportunities to win.

Musicians, composers, computer programmers, hackers in and around the Big Apple! Come and participate in a Music Composition Hackathon. Collaborate with like minded individuals and compose music from scratch and perform your composition before a jury of your peers.

Kids age 9-13 in the Toronto area! Want o learn about entrepreneurship and technology? Come and sign up for the Explorer Session: Tech Entrepreneurship. You'll learn a lot and then work in teams to create a technological venture. You'll be challenged with a hackathon theme which will be provided to you on your first day at the program!

Developers, designers and experts in the tourism sector! Come and participate in #hackaTrips. You'll be part of a multidisciplinary team and challenged to develop an innovative prototype solution using Microsoft and Carto APIs.

AI hackers! General Assembly and IBM invite you to participate in the Watson Workspace Hackathon. You'll team with like-minded indidviduals to build an app for IBM's Watson Workspace collaboration tool. The event is being held in three cities — Los Angeles, New York and Austin — and the winner in each city win a trip to present their solutions at IBM Connect 2017 in San Francisco.

Young engineers and entrepreneurs in Hong Kong! Microsoft Student Partners invites you to participate in ImagineHack 2017. You'll collaborate and compete with like-minded individuals — leveraging cutting-edge Microsoft Azure technologies to create innovative solutions that address one of the following categories: FinTech, HealthTech, or Social Innovation.

Want to help break down the barriers to female entrepreneurship? Want to help more women enter and succeed in the technology sector? Come and participate in the Lady Problem Global Hackathon Series in Sofia, Bulgaria! Collaborate with like-minded women—and men—in an effort to build creative solutions to realize the potential of the female half of our world population! You'll be asked to hack a solution to one of the following challenges: »Health: Help women access health resources to ensure that they can have successful careers, regardless of whether or not they choose to have children. »Safety: Help ensure that women can be safe when they go to, are at, and come home from work. »Economic Empowerment: Help women gain financial literacy and access the resources they need to grow their businesses. »Culture: Help women access better mentorship and feel less isolated in the workplace.

Girls in the 7th and 8th grades in and around East Hartford, Connecticut! Are you interested in all things tech? Want to showcase your coding skills? Want to learn more about computer programming? Come and participate in the Pathways All Girl Hackathon! You'll meet and collaborate with computer science mentors and build technology tools that will promote social good by helping local community organizations.

Interested in seeing real scientific ideas presented in new innovative ways? Want to see science teamwork at its best? Come to the env.infohackit evening presentations @Manchester. You'll see the project presentations made by teams of PhD environmental scientists, designers, developers and other creative types. They will present the results of their hackathon participation where they will compete to create the most exciting, informative and compelling infographics to communicate their research topics.

Innovators, entrepreneurs, change-makers in Hong Kong! You're invited to participate in ICE Days 2017 in StartmeupHK, a special 5-day idea and experience sharing marathon. You'll network with like-minded individuals to brainstorm in areas such as fintech, digital health, smart city technologies, IOT, retail innovation and more.