List of hackathons about media in 2016

This mini 8 hour hackathon will have participants both student and professional compete to design, code and create an app or program on a theme that will be announced at the beginning of the event. Both open teams and solo participants are welcomed, and first timers are encouraged to get their feet wet in hacking at this mini hackathon with a shorter, more friendly atmosphere.

Entrepreneurs, Designers, Software Developers and Makers! Interested in the new media? Want to demonstrate your mastery of emerging AI technologies? Come participate at NBCUniversal's hackathon and help show how emerging technologies can drive viewer engagement. Get access to exciting new platforms, APIs, SDKs, and content from leading edge technology firms. Pickl one of the following challenges: »Challenge 1: GolfNow: Deliver GolfNow to a New Generation of Golfers! »Challenge 2: Telemundo: Keep Me Updated »Challenge 3: Telemundo: Fast Video »Challenge 4: NBC News: Creative Viewer Engagement

Artists, makers, designers, activists, and other creative types! Interested in the intersection of public space and digital media? Come participate in ART\HACK a collaborative hackathon-type event. Register as a team or fly solo! You'll have 24 hours to prepare and present your prototype. Your project will be judged by a panel of art- and space-hacking experts. The winning team will earn a spot on the 2016 Night\Shift lineup.

MediaShift invites you to the third annual Journalism School Hackathon. Join with a group of top students (graduate and undergraduate), faculty and professionals, with a real-world mission of creating startups around fact-checking and verifying online media. Participants will collaborate with diverse teams of students with faculty and pro facilitators. And they will be able to create startups in one of four threads: social media, photos, video or data. No coding background is needed!

Whether you are a bootstrapped founder, engineer, doctor, PhD scientist, business hacker, or student, you are invited to join this must attend Hackathon. Global Startup Hackathon is open to anyone who is planning to start, work, mentor or fund a startup. If you are seeking to launch a startup across a large market, you will enjoy this chance to mingle and network with potential co-founder, partner, corporate clients or investors along top industry domain experts. This event will focus on Digital, IoT, Health/BioTech, CleanTech, or Media.

Join the free business bootcamp prior to the Forbes summit for some of the best advice on entrepreneurship from successes and gurus from across the world. This event will feature a series of rapid fire workshops ranging from customer acquisition to leveraging the startup scene. Join the event for free, but if you'd like to compete for the $500 prize and legal filing, then you'll have to sign up for the Startup Pitch Off extra, which will take place at the end of the day!

InnovatED.LA is a hackathon event lasting 8 hours that will be available to all ages that have a love of building. By shortening the length of the event, more age groups are able to participate to the fullest. Join students, parents, teachers from the school and others in this family friendly event where serious hackers can compete and those less experienced can learn along the way from workshops on Design, App Developement, Ceramics, Robotics and more!

Coming to the laut.fm DJ-Convention/Conference/Hackathon? Participate in the Music Hackday hackathon. You'll use the new DJ API laut.fm open infrastructure that allows radio producers to develop software and hardware to produce their live broadcast programs. What can you do with the API? On the Music Hackday let's finds out what is possible.

Creative developers, designers, musicians, and product visionaries! Come participate in Music Hackday! Find new ways in reinventing and reengineering music for the digital age. Music Hackday is the perfect environment to test your ideas, to find a team and to launch your own project. Collaborate to reinvent the making, producing, distribution and monetization of music.

Do you ever feel like your skillset would be well used in a way that gives back to the community? Do you have great ideas relating to innovating the current systems for education, energy, healthcare, or women empowerment in pakistan? Then form a team, consolidate your idea, and then pitch to investors all over the course of just 48 hours! The best team from your cities hackathon will then present at the next round at Global Finals in DC on November 19th.