List of hackathons about iot in 2016

Come and do battle for your OS! Apps Landing is in a state of unmitigated chaos. The Wired Throne has not had a fitting heir in years. A mob led by a zealot called 'The Parrot' is ruling the people, but he is all talk and no work. Amidst the discord, people have lost hope and faith of any progress in the kingdom of Apps. In the corners of the world, four Houses have been covertly engaged in a war to take over the Wired Throne. Each House has a different strategy and a proven line of work in app warfare. The four Houses – Windows, Android, iOS & HTML5 will face each other to battle it out at the OS Wars, to ascend the throne and restore people’s faith in technology.

College students, developers, designers and tech rockstars! Are you passionate about creating innovative tech solutions? Then sign up for the U-HAC : Unionbank Hackathon. You'll be challenged to create projects that have potential to improve people’s lives -- maybe new and cool apps suited for millenials. Or maybe take a corporate approach and build a fintech project that will help consumers and institutional customers? Be creative...games, virtual reality, IoT projects, robotics, or whatever wild and wonderful idea springs to mind!

Sign-up for training on the Internet of Things (IoT). Be part of the revolution of everyday objects interconnected via the Internet. This hands-on training will teach you the basic components in the architecture of Internet of Things solutions. Here's some of what you'll learn: »The Vision of the Internet of Things »The key components of Internet of Things solutions »How to create a basic IoT proof of concept solution from the Edge to the Cloud »How to define the dev environment required to deploy IoT devices »The available connectivity and protocols to communicate IoT devices with the Cloud »The APIs, Services and Platforms available

Passionate about the Ocean? Come participate in Hack for the Sea - A Hackathon to Create Real Solutions for our Oceans. The event will center on creating novel solutions using the inexpensive and easily reproducible ocean-going sensors developed by engineers at Gloucester Innovation. Using Arduino, Raspberry Pi, public databases, communications and networking participants will compete to create unique, useful solutions for the benefit of the sea and those who depend on her.

App developers, engineers, electronic engineers, scientists, technicians, managers! Come participate in AgriHack Dakar -- a hackathon organized around connected objects. Collaborate in teams of 3 to 5 and develop innovative connected solutions that will improve the research sector in agriculture by collecting and managing relevant information for improved farming and gardening systems.

All you Android techies! Come along to the Android Summit 2016 -- a two-day multi-track conference focused on designing, developing and testing for Android. It is the second annual event dedicated to Android in the Washington, DC area. Learn more about Android development, design and testing! Meet other developers, designers, testers and enthusiasts! And be sure to get the limited-edition t-shirt!

Aussie software developers, data scientists, engineers, UX designers, entrepreneurs, and industry insiders in and around Newcastle, New South Wales! Participate in Unearthed Hunter Valley 2016, a 54-hour open innovation hackathon that is focused on the global resources sector. Come with a team of 3-4 like-minded individuals, or join a team at the event. Collaborate and compete to design and develop prototype technology solutions to a resource challenge posed by large resources companies in the Hunter Valley region. You'll have the opportunity to work on real industry data, as well as data from government partners, and compete for your share of a cash prize pool. For useful info on participation in the Unearthed Hunter Valley event, check the hackathon tips page!

Prior to the upcoming Unearthed Hunter Valley 2016 hackathon, you're invited to attend an info session to learn about the Hackathon event's challenges, and to discuss the opportunities on offer. Anyone who has already signed up for the Hackathon or anyone who is interested in taking part should attend this session. Go to the tips pagefor useful hackathon advice!

Come and participate at HackFEST 2016. This year's event will centre around the theme of the wild, the unexpected, and the fun side of life, in short — playing games! Attendees can spend the day programming a collective app / website / program / game to that end, experimenting on their own projects, sharing ideas and even just observing the action. Also, if you want to bring robots to play with that's cool... Robots are cool. Just saying.

Designers, marketers, entrepreneurs, VR enthusiasts, forward-thinkers, curious minds! Ready for a challenge? Think how mobile transformed how you manage your everyday life! Your mobile device is now the center of your daily routine -- alarm clock, workout companion, grocery list, entertainment system, local yellow pages, and more. Now, re-imagine what this daily routine would look like in virtual reality. At the 24 Hours in VR hackathon, your team will choose an hour of the day and create a conceptual mobile VR product to showcase how you can transform daily routines with virtual reality.