List of hackathons about industry in 2017

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.

Students in the New York metropolitan area! Microsoft and The Sankofa Global Project invite you to participate in the Spread Harmony Hackathon to be held at Micorsoft's flagship 5th Avenue New York store! On the day of celebration of Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Junior's birthday, you'll be challenged to address one of the following challenges: »Building Trust between the Community and the NYPD »Gender Equity in Schools and the Workplace

Comedians, developers, designers in and around Toronto! HackerYou invites you to chuckle along to Comedy Hack Day Toronto. You'll be challenged to collaborate with other crazy techies to build a side-splitting, hilarious technology product in just a single day! You'll then get to demo your creation onstage before a panel of celebrity judges and a raucous live audience.

Tech community women in and around Minneapolis! Want to showcase your tech skills? Want to make connections with influential people in the Minneapolis tech community? Come and sign up for Hack the Gap, Minnesota’s all-women hackathon! You'll get to form a team of 4 to 6 like-minded women techies — coders, designers, testers, and creative ideas people — and then get to conceive, design and build a product from scratch. Collaborate and compete for prizes! Any technology can be used — it's your choice!

Students in and around Redmond, WA! Microsoft invites you to sign up and participate in the Def Hacks Hackathon for Students. Only requirement is that you must be aged 22 or less! All levels of coders are welcome! You can learn new stuff as you collaborate and compete for swag and awesome prizes such as drones, robots, and even cash!

As a civic-minded individual, were you scandalised by the Newham Council LOBO loan scandal? Worried about the type and level of risky and expensive loans that have been sold to local authorities? Debt Resistance UK invites you to sign up to participate in the on-line LOCAL FINANCE HACKATHON. You'll be challenged to review and analyse a dataset of LOBO loan contracts and to make create new analyses or visualisations to help others to clearly understand the scale of the problem facing local authorities.

Students at the University of South Florida and surrounding schools! Manufacturing firm Jabil Circuit, Inc. invites you to participate in the Jabil Hackathon 2017 "ChatBots Assisting in the Manufacturing World". You'll be challenged to design and create chatbots for use in the manufacturing sector. Your chatbots will act like a knowledge base, or intelligent assistant for factory and shop floor operators.

Women designers, data people, testers, programmers, and ideas people! Come and participate in the Hack the Gap All-Women Hackathon. You don't code? That's OK, you're still invited! The event is a two-day weekend hackathon, where you can network and collaborate with like-minded women to build a project with a team. Bring your laptop and charger and any other stuff your idea requires!

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 NYC 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!

Cal Poly students! Interested in social entrepreneurship? Come and participate in the university's Camp Polyhacks hackathon. It's guaranteed to change your life! You'll get to network with like-minded individuals and collaborate in a team to create a fully-functioning app, website, or some other digital media device to solve a real-life problem. You'll then get to pitch your project to a panel of judges for the chance to win awesome prizes.