List of hackathons about retail in 2016

Interested in FinTech? Developers, designers and ideas people! Participate in the FinTech Lusaka hackathon. Bring your best ideas to develop innovative financial solutions and apply new technologies to solving problems. Example apps include innovations in risk management, trading, investing, personal finance, big data, retail banking, regulatory compliance, mobile payments and social enterprise.

Hackers! Sign up to participate in a hackathon to integrate with MercadoLibre--the largest Latin American marketplace. You'll have 24 hours to show how good you really are! Your app must run on Microsoft's Azure cloud computing platform.

Louis Vuitton invites students and graduates interested in the challenge of managing a supply chain in real time. Come and create innovative approaches that will help this luxury brand leader develop its future supply chain.

Louis Vuitton invites students and graduates interested in the challenge of managing a supply chain in real time. Come and create innovative approaches that will help this luxury brand leader develop its future supply chain. For this second Unlock Supply Chain, participants will create and operate a simulation model of the Louis Vuitton business over 48 hours using Louis Vuitton provided customer data and the Anaplan cloud-based business modeling and planning platform.

This is a hackathon on the digital future of banking. Participants will be looking at how topics like retail and smart data play a role in the banking world and hack the fin-tech to find new and innovative solutions to questions addressed at the Post/ bank hackathon series. All developers, designers, start-ups, students and everyone who's interested in joining is welcome to join this event in Cologne, Hamburg, Berlin, Munich, Stuttgart, Frankfurt and Bonn.

Rise Hackathon is designed to test stellar teams and brilliant individuals for an exclusive opportunity to launch their start-ups or just showcase their apps to the world with the Barclays India Rise Program. Developers may join forces with any of the three squads presented to save the world from an alien invention. The mission is to tackle the Alien Race that have launched a three-pronged attack on critical Innovation Hubs on planet Earth. The Space Defence Command & Control Center (SDC3) is looking for geeks like you to rise against the evil intruders and defend the planet. You may join Squad I to defend the Blockchain Innovation Hub, Squad II to defend the FinTech Bot Army Base, or Squad III to fire your secret weapon!

Wanted disruptors! If you're an aspiring entrepreneur with an idea that could disrupt the status quo--and make our lives better--then sign up for Hacking Transportation: @StartupBusSF and @UberDevelopers. StartupBus is an annual competition that challenges top tier talent to hop on a bus and conceive, build and launch a startup in 72 hours. Starting in San Francisco, participants will compete with fellow travelers on buses from 5 other cities, to see who can create the most innovative business to pitch on stage at Techstars' Boulder Startup Week.

TADHack and and Universidad ORT Uruguay are partnering up for a mini hackathon in the city of Montevideo. All universities and local developer are invited to participate. The event will run in Spanish, with some English translation, and pitches can be Spanish or English. This event aims to unleash the creativity and engineering excellence of Uruguay through telecom application development.

At this Hackathon developers will have approximately 24 hours to turn their ideas into applications using their own programming skills and design, working in teams of 4 people, with the support of experts. Teams will be free to use any programming language in order to develop applications that improve the community. What you will need is your laptop with charger, cell phone charger, gadgets, blanket or sleeping bag for the night, personal cleaning articles. The event is completely free of charge and anyone who has the skills to develop software (students, programmers, freelancers and anyone who knows develop code) is welcome!

Charlotte Hack wants to bring together innovative students to solve problems and find a fresh perspective to improve the current state of the technology. Anyone with any kind of skill is welcome to come and create ideas. A compiled a number of resources will be provided to you to help you during the weekend together with a number of tutorials on tools to get you started and a series of tech talks throughout the event!