List of hackathons about industry in 2018

Fintech dreamers and risk-takers! AngelHack and Money20/20 invite you to participate in the Money20/20 Hackathon. At this event, you'll be challenged to design an innovative fintech solution that will result in a simpler, fairer, faster and more inclusive financial system for business and society as a whole. Put on your creative hats and bring technologies such as blockchain, machine learning, IoT, big data, and more, to the party! You get to choose from challenges posed by financial movers such as PayPal, Synchrony, Visa, andYodlee. The overall winning team will present their solution on the Money20/20 Keynote Stage. Come with your team and compete for $100K in cash prizes and international recognition. But before that, be sure to check out practical advice for hackathon participants!

Developers, designers, engineers, entrepreneurs, astronomers, and space enthusiasts in the San Francisco Bay Area! WeSolve World invites you to participate in the 2018 NASA Space Apps Challenge—a 48-hour global weekend hackathon focused on space exploration. Join the contest to design and build a prototype solution to a designated space challenge. Two winning teams from each location will be nominated for global judging. Your team will create a short video project demo and present it to a jury of NASA experts for the chance to win a trip to NASA's Kennedy Space Center for a rocket launch! Advice from our hackathon tips pagecan improve your 2018 NASA Space Apps Challenge experience!

Technologists, scientists, designers, artists, educators, entrepreneurs, developers, and students in and around Singapore! NASA has commissioned the NASA International Space Apps Challenge (ISAC) to get people around the world to collaborate on its mission directives. If you're interested in space travel, then you are invited to sign up for the Singapore edition. You'll be part of a 48-hour global collaborative hackathon focused on space exploration.

Malaysian developers, designers, engineers, entrepreneurs, astronomers, and space enthusiasts! UNLOCK DESIGN INTERNATIONAL invites you to participate in the NASA Space Apps Challenge in KL 2018—a 48-hour global weekend hackathon focused on space exploration. Join the contest to design and build a prototype solution to a designated space challenge. Visit the expert advice pagefor answers to your hackathon participation questions!

A one-day hackathon for women from experienced coders to total newbies. Note: No coding experience is required to participate in this hackathon, you just need passion   Only 20% of hackathon participants are women, similar in scope to the underrepresentation of women in computer science and other tech fields.   The Expat Woman has been addressing this gender gap by hosting these all-women hackathons for the last two years. Our talented participants with backgrounds in coding, design, entrepreneurship, business, product etc ranging in age from 15 to 65 have developed innovative websites, games, cloud-based services, and mobile apps to address various challenges.  "What an incredible day. Thanks to The Expat Woman team for all you did to pull it off - it was by far the BEST hackathon I've ever attended. So well-organized, and tons of talented, impressive women to connect with." - Ginny, Software Engineer and Sept. 2017 hackathon participant   Join us for our 5th WomenHack - The All-Women Hackathon on October 20, 2018. Come with an idea, and form a team or join a team on-site and spend the day building a great project with enthusiastic, talented, fun people. You do not need to have coding experience to participate We will have mentors at the hackathon who can assist you with your projects. Registration | We have limited slots available, so please sign-up here. Your registration fee covers all meals (breakfast, lunch, and dinner) Teams | Teams of  6 women will be formed Saturday morning.  Judges | Our judging panel is made up of industry influencers, educators, hackathon pros and civic leaders. Bring |Your laptop, skills & ideas. Come with a collaborative, team-focused mindset and/or team-up in advance on Twitter/Facebook with #tewhack.  Food, fun, swag and prizes  HACKATHON CHALLENGES Hackathon Challenge 1: Hack a solution that will help end the gender gap in tech, startup or venture capital Hackathon Challenge 2: Hack a solution that ensures that women can be safe at the workplace, school or home, while traveling or out in the community Hackathon Challenge 3: Hack a solution that empowers women to start and run a business, succeed in the workplace or become leaders in the community Hackathon Challenge 4: Hack a solution that helps new immigrant or refugee women access resources and support and succeed in the US Hackathon Challenge 5 : Design a crypto or blockchain business or solution   Join our Hackathon Event FB page  for updates and to connect with other participants. If you have coding/hackathon experience and are interested in volunteering as a mentor, please register here   For sponsorship, prizes or demo table inquiries, please e-mail us at info@theexpatwoman.com We have four Winning Categories 1. Originality: How unique is your idea 2. Technical: Best use of code to create your product 3. Design: Best looking product 4. Business Model: Is there a viable business model attached to the idea Agenda 9:00am- 10:30am Registration, breakfast, team & idea forming, and kickoff 10:30am - 12:30pm work on project 12:30 pm - lunch and continue working on project 6:00pm - 7:00 pm dinner and final project submission deadline 7:15 - 9:30pm - introductions, hackathon presentations and awards If you are interested in participating as a panelist, speaker or mentor at our events, please apply here Terms of Participation Agreement You agree that you are responsible for any accidents or damages that you cause. You also agree to not hold The Expat Woman, or any of the event supporters liable for any loss, damage, injury, or any other unforeseeable incident. You agree The Expat Woman, is not responsible for circumstances that may necessitate for substitutions or cancellations of speakers. By Participating at the event, you grant The Expat Woman permission to capture photos/videos of the event. By registering for this event, you also consent to receive email communication from The Expat Woman and its programs about events and updates that may interest you. Tickets to this event are non-refundable. If you are unable to attend, you have the option of giving it to a friend or team member to attend in your place.

The 'Designathon on Tour' brings together talented people from the creative economy of both cities – Zurich and San Francisco – during the weekend of October 20/21. The Swiss Designathon Team and swissnex San Francisco invite you to participate in the co-creation process on topics around urbanization and technology. The Designathon is a hackathon for design-thinking among curious and motivated people. Together, in interdisciplinary teams, participants think critically about the future and search for productive solutions throughout the weekend. The goal is to create synergies between design and the economy, science and the arts, as well as individual people — while generating innovative, fresh, visionary, but also critical, ideas. Download the .pdf for more information. Best pitches will be awarded and build the framework for the Urban Tech Summit taking place on October 23 at the same venue. Presented as part of the Festival "Zürich meets San Francisco" and in partnership with the Canton of Zurich. Program Saturday 8:30am — doors open, registration9:00am — kick-off talks10:00am — coffee break10:30am — kick off and design tasks11:15am — speed brainstorming11:30am — team building session12:00pm — lunch buffet1:00pm — individual team work with snacks & drinks bar1:30pm — "ideation" and group mentoring4:00pm — "conception" and group mentoring6:00pm — "concretization" and group mentoring10:00pm — doors close Sunday7:00am — doors open for team work11:00am — workshop: "How to Pitch" and individual group-mentoring3:00pm — workshop concludes4:30 pm — Designathon on Tour: Showcase + SF Design Week Pop-Up commences5:20pm — 90-second pitches, open to the public6:45pm — keynote and networking7:00pm — performance by None of Them8:00pm — awards, closing speech8:30pm — networking9:30pm — doors close Speakers Danny StillionExecutive Design Director at IDEO Danny Stillion is a Partner and Executive Design Director at IDEO. With a background in fine art, visual communications and product design, Danny was drawn to the field of interaction design through his interests in visual design and shaping services that enhance our lives. Danny's deep grounding in interaction design richly intersects with IDEO's transportation and mobility work. Working with many of the world's leading automotive manufacturers and mobility startups, Danny has helped shape a variety of Human-Machine Interfaces and services. Work includes designing for the coming age of automobility, vehicle-to-vehicle interactions, active heads up displays, and a wide range of ownership, training and telematics services. His award-winning work and perspective have been featured in the Museum of Modern Art in New York, WIRED, BusinessWeek, Fast Company, Bloomberg, The Atlantic, the IDEA Awards, and has resulted in various patent awards. He speaks internationally about designing for mobility, interaction design and design thinking. Dawn ZidonisSan Francisco chapter of AIGA & San Francisco Design Week As Executive Director of the San Francisco chapter of AIGA and San Francisco Design Week, Dawn is eager to help designers stake out their place in the entrepreneurial culture that defines the Bay Area. Her vision for the San Francisco chapter is to build on the passion people bring to the design community, create connections between members and business, foster the cross-pollination of ideas among design disciplines, and ultimately add valuable, meaningful content to the design conversation. Dawn is the co-founder and current Vice President of World Design Weeks, a non-profit organization dedicated to connecting international design weeks, sharing resources and content and fostering conversations between design cities. Pietro MasiSketchin Pietro Masi runs the San Francisco Design Studio for Sketchin, one of the leading Experience Design firms in Europe. He applies a unique approach which blends Service and Product Design to innovate complex ecosystems such as urban planning. His international work bridges and combines Silicon Valley and Europe design philosophies. Pietro also mentors European startups aiming to break through the US market. Wilfried AnreiterHead of the Transportation Planning Division, Canton of Zurich Wilfried Anreiter is member of the management board of the Office for Transport within the Canton of Zurich and Head of the Transportation Planning Division. In his position he is in charge of devising and implementing the Canton’s strategic Transport Master Plan, thereby overseeing and assessing the various road and infrastructure projects. He is also, amongst others, responsible for developing integrated transport and land use schemes, for transport modeling, implementing the cycling action plan, for mobility management as well as research into innovative forms of mobility. Wilfried Anreiter graduated both in Civil Engineering and in Urban Planning, at Graz University of Technology (Austria) and at Oxford Brookes University (UK) respectively. He obtained a PhD from the Vienna University of Natural Resources (Austria) for his thesis on quality management and competitive tendering in public transport. Before taking up his current position in 2008, he had worked as a transport planning consultant and as head of business development of Swiss Federal Railways, rapid and regional transit division. Jury Anmol ChaddhaResearch Director of the Equitable Futures Lab at the Institute for the Future Anmol Chaddha is a Research Director of the Equitable Futures Lab at the Institute for the Future, which considers how economic and technological changes might create opportunities to address the problems of social inequality. The Equitable Futures Lab aims to innovate and shape interventions particularly on wealth inequality, job quality, and ongoing economic transformations. Anmol has extensive policy and research background in the political economy of inequality, low-wage work and job quality, racial inequality, debt and wealth. Prior to joining IFTF, he developed policy and research at the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston, where he established an initiative to improve the quality of jobs in low-wage industries, led research on racial wealth inequality, and examined the rising debt burdens of low-income families. He holds a PhD from Harvard University, where he was a Fellow in the Multidisciplinary Program in Inequality and Social Policy at the Kennedy School of Government, and a BA from the University of California, Berkeley. Başak AltanAdjunct Professor in Industrial Design at the California College of the Arts Başak is an Adjunct Professor in Industrial Design at the California College of the Arts (CCA). She is an Entrepreneur, Senior Design Strategist and Design Educator trained in Industrial Design and Business Strategy services and has been shaping, driving and accelerating innovation for organizations for over 20 years. In her recent role as the Chair of Industrial Designers Society of America, San Francisco Chapter, she leads the efforts of bringing communities together by organizing events that spark meaningful conversations. Dawn ZidonisExecutive Director of the San Francisco chapter of AIGA and San Francisco Design Week As Executive Director of the San Francisco chapter of AIGA and San Francisco Design Week, Dawn is eager to help designers stake out their place in the entrepreneurial culture that defines the Bay Area. Her vision for the San Francisco chapter is to build on the passion people bring to the design community, create connections between members and business, foster the cross-pollination of ideas among design disciplines, and ultimately add valuable, meaningful content to the design conversation. Dawn is the co-founder and current Vice President of World Design Weeks, a non-profit organization dedicated to connecting international design weeks, sharing resources and content and fostering conversations between design cities. Jennifer StojkovicExecutive Director at sf.citi Jennifer Stojkovic serves as Executive Director at sf.citi and is responsible for operations, strategy, and growth. sf.citi strives to strengthen San Francisco’s reputation as a leader in both technological innovation and social responsibility. Connecting San Francisco’s tech leaders, nonprofit organizations, and city policymakers, sf.citi advocates innovation and collaboration to create meaningful change around pressing issues affecting the San Francisco community. Sophie LamparterFounder, DART  Sophie is the founder of DART (dartlabs.io), a testing lab bringing design, art, research, and technology together to build clever human machine interfaces. Her passion is finding new ideas and talent with a creative approach to technology. Before starting DART, she was Associate Director at swissnex San Francisco, Switzerland’s Innovation outpost in San Francisco. There she has initiated a number of interdisciplinary exhibitions, programs, hackathons around the future of cities, including Data Canvas, a program to empower citizens around the world to engage with DIY and open government data. She has spoken at many conferences, including SXSW, Austin, Gray Area Festival, San Francisco, Lift Conference, Geneva, Ars Electronica, Linz and at the European Commission for STARTS (Science + Technology + Arts). Performance None Of Them None Of Them are an avantgarde duo consisting of Signup (vox, synths) and Michal Ho (electronics, vox). N.O.T. are constantly deconstructing stylistic boundaries and assimilating musical traditions so as to subvert them. They draw upon rock, rap, electro, punk, funk and goth, and infuse these 20th century husks with their own vision. On stage, Signup is the master of ceremony, Michal Ho is the selector. Vocals glide over beats generated in LED-lit steel bricks bristling with knobs. The duo was founded in 2012, in Zürich. They have released three vinyl albums on the label Nice Try Records and produced five video clips with distinct styles. They have been performing shows in an extended formation since 2015, with bass (Flo Götte) guitar (Franziska Staubli) and drums (Vincent Glanzmann), among other instruments, as well as dancers and pyrotechnics. They are currently working intensely on their fourth studio album. Designathon Team Johanna Scheurer Johanna Scheurer is a swiss designer working as an assistance and professor at the art and design school F+F Schule in the department photography. Meanwhile she is engaged and since 2018 also working for Designathon Verein. Both working fields – education as a place for experimental work and the knowledge transfer happenings by co­creation events like Designathon 15/17– are important tools for Johanna to express her deep belief in a more openminded and critical discussion about our future, which should be build by the people (bottom up) and needs to include more awareness – also for the nature. For several years she has been co­creating and organizing different events, where she is expressing her passion for designing atmospheres and participative get­togethers and happenings. Education: Product Design, BA Product Design, in the field of Trends and Identity, ZHDK Nadja Müller Nadja Müller is a passionate designer located in Zurich working in the fields of experience and interaction design. With a background in graphic design for print she came to web design and further into experience design. Today she aims at bringing together the analogue and digital world to one human experience. She believes in the creative mind of everybody in their own field and uses co­creation as a key for a successful collaboration. She strives to enable peoples knowledge and transforming this power through design methods in common solutions. Nora Gailer Nora Gailer is a Swiss designer working in the field of digital branding and interaction design. She is curious how people can get involved using different media and ways of communication. In her opinion co­creation and participation in design are important and will be even more in the future. To find solutions to complex problems need the idea and knowledge of many. She focuses in her work and on the different levels of inclusion and methods of addressing people when asking for co­creation and joining processes. Education: Graphic Design Apprenticeship, BA Interaction Design Sidney Sutter Sidney Sutter is a Swiss filmmaker currently working in the field of online and explainer videos. He is curious about how to break down difficult topics in a nutshell and tries to find new ways to tell stories which are created by a swarm. Co-­creating stories is a key to storytelling of the future.You need to get as many opinions as possible to break down a difficult topic into a believable video. In his work, he tries to combine the fun part of the internet with serious topics and through that make boring sounding videos accessible to everyone. Education: Draftsman Apprenticeship, BA Audiovisual Media Simon Oschwald Simon Oschwald is a Swiss designer working in the fields of product and spatial design. In his opinion, the quality of design gets better when it is discussed from different perspectives. Therefore he sees co-­creation as a crucial part when it comes to find new solutions for the complex problems of our time. In addition to this aspect, he always tries to find a playful approach to problem solving in his work. Education: BA Industrial Design swissnex Salon The swissnex Salon is a new model for dialogue on how the future of our society is shaped: a platform that includes multiple perspectives and provides a critical lens on possible emergent futures. Taking inspiration from the values articulated within the Preamble of the Federal Constitution of the Swiss Confederation, we examine the role of technology in shaping, distorting, and expanding societal foundations.

Scientists, artists, techies, designers, engineers, entrepreneurs, astronomers, and space enthusiasts in the Greater Boston Area! Binnovative invites you to participate in the NASA International Space Apps Challenge 2018 Boston. At this 48-hour global weekend hackathon, you'll be challenged to address challenges in Earth science and space exploration. You will get to be part of a diverse technical and professional international team of 5 to 8 participants from Japan and Boston. The Japanese participants will participate via conferencing tools such as Google Hangout and Skype. Visit the expert tips page to prepare for your hackathon experience!

Young technical students, graduates, and professionals in and around Darmstadt! You're invited to sign up to participate in Campus Hackathon Darmstadt 2018. In this 24-hour event, you'll be challenged to design and code a prototype of a cool and innovative project. Collaborate and network with like-minded individuals and compete for recognition and prizes.

Technologists, scientists, designers, artists, educators, entrepreneurs, developers, and students in and around Greater New York City! NASA has commissioned the NASA International Space Apps Challenge (ISAC) to get people around the world to collaborate on its mission directives. If you're interested in space travel, then Space Apps NYC invites you to sign up for the New York edition. You'll be part of a 48-hour global collaborative hackathon focused on space exploration.

Technologists, scientists, designers, artists, educators, entrepreneurs, developers, and students in Spain! NASA has commissioned the NASA International Space Apps Challenge (ISAC) to get people around the world to collaborate on its mission directives. If you're interested in space travel, then you are invited to sign up for the Madrid edition. You'll be part of a 48-hour global collaborative hackathon focused on space exploration.