List of hackathons about media in 2016

Do you think technology can help democracy? Do you have any practical ideas? Come join the Open Democracy Now! hackathon #4. This fourth running of this civic-tech hackathon allows existing projects to continue their development, but is also an opportunity to create new civic-tech projects. Particular emphasis will be placed on how digital technology can help increase citizen inclusion -- especially of young people -- in city neighborhoods.

Come along to PubHack -- a 10-hour digital hackathon that takes place in a pub. Collaborate in teams of up to 4 strong and you'll have 10 hours to make something based on a theme -- that will be announced at 9am on the day!

create to use the margin of the UN General Assembly, the GODAN summit hackathon will be a tool used to urge world leaders to release their data sets on agriculture and nutrition, which will aide in ending world hunger but defining the problem and allowing leaders to set goals. The goal of the hackathon is to provided example solutions for the question: "How might we allow for better utilization, collection, and/or accessibility to open data such that we can improve our food system and our chances at food security?"

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.

The Workbar at Staples Brighton will be holding a hackathon to gather ideas for a creative and modern grand opening for each of three new workbar locations opening in October. If you have creative ideas along the vein of celebrity telepresence, VR coverage, local food, interactive AR, or something even more awesome, then grab a team and win some prizes!

The perfect mix of hackathon, party, and competition, DesignSmash is an all-in-one one day hackathon, where prototypes get presented at the end of the day at a public event.

Looking to launch your own media startup? Come attend POV Digital Lab Ice Cream Social for screenings of past POV projects, adventures in hackathon from POV Lab alumni & ice cream! This is a weekend media incubator with a track record of launching funded, highly viewed, and Webby- and Emmy-award nominated media. Over two days, teams work with experts and mentors to build media prototypes merging storytelling and technology.

If you like free hardware, learning about the internet of things, or data collection from web capable sensors, then consider attending the AT&T IoT Coding workshop. AT&T has partnered with AnnieCannons to supply Texas Instruments MSP432 LaunchPad and CC3100 SimpleLink Wi-Fi BoosterPack Internet-connected development boards for each attendee, and will be teaching how to use the above hardware in useful applications.

Developers, computer sci students, security hackers, devops and sys admins! Interested in developing apps with Verizon assets including Wireless, Wireline, SDN, NFV, Cloud, Machine-to-Machine (M2M), Internet of things (IoT), Content Delivery Network (CDN), Go90, AOL and MapQuest? Come participate in Verizon's Hack Day—an extra-long hackathon event to give developers enough time to build applications that leverage Verizon’s diverse portfolio of assets. Participation is free but space is limited. Verizon experts will be on hand in case to answer questions and demos will be available for you to experience Verizon's current applications/platforms.

You've already seen the rise of smart cities, from Barcelona to London to Nairobi and beyond.  IoT, VR, and AI have made massive strides in the past few years. Come collaborate and demonstrate how our lives are going to change in the future. Hack one of the following topics: »Education: How does the rise of AR/VR change the classroom? »Entertainment: What does the future living room look like? »Sports: What does the future of football viewing look like?