List of hackathons about wearables in 2017

Young techies aged 14-20 years old in and around Paris! Demain Commence Aujourd'hui invites you to sign up to participate in their Technological Revolution event, which is focused on how are we going to work in the future. You can choose to participate in either the Job Lab or -- if you're more hands-on -- in the hackathon. In the hackathon, you'll get to design and build your own work of the future leveraging state-of-the-art technologies such as 3D printing, artificial intelligence, virtual reality and augmented reality, or robotics!

High tech businesses, innovators, designers, data scientists, coders and business strategists! If you're interested in rail transportation, then you're invited to participate in the HS2 Hackathon. You'll be challenged to come up with an innovative new idea that will help deliver the High Speed 2 infrastructure project. Working on a team of up to five people, you'll collaborate to explore how technologies such as wearable technology, machine learning, and virtual reality might help key aspects of the HS2 project, including staff safety, customer experience, maintenance operations and community impact.

Coders, designers, communicators, and other techies in and around Piacenza! Confcooperative Piacenza invites you to participate in their first Social Hackathon -- a 12-hour marathon, where you'll be challenged to design and prototype an innovative human-machine solution that can help a person with disabilities build new social relationships and enjoy an improved quality of life.

Developers and designers from the military, academia, and industry! Are you interested in wearable technologies for use in austere environments such as remote medical facilities, conflict zones, and emergency/disaster response? MD5 -- the Department of Defense's National Security Technology Accelerator -- and Sofwerx invite you to participate in MD5: Hacking the Human Element -- a 3-day event that focuses on wearables and their applications. Collaborate to design and build an innovative application and present it to a panel of judges for a chance to win recognition and up to $15K to further develop your project.

Technology entrepreneurs in the Mid West! If you're interested in smart community technology solutions, then Colony 5 invites you to participate in their 2017 Civic Tech Challenge Hackathon. Bring your best early-stage idea -- Internet of Things, wearables, driverless cars, etc. -- develop it at the event and present it to the expert panel of judges. You could be one of the three chosen to become Entrepreneur in Residence at UI LABS and receive over $100K in support!

Useful and valuable digital idéas will be developed during 24 hour Kholmhack100. Needs and challenges from organizations, municipality and small business are input to the teams. Participants interested in digital development are welcome to join, free of charge and "all inclusive". Full pro programmers on place.

Programmers, engineers, entrepreneurs, business minds, product designers, and makers in Singapore! You're invited to participate in the #STARTINGUP 2017 #STARTATHON -- a 30-hour intense innovation event for rapid development, prototyping, and validation of tech solution ideas. You'll get to attend masterclasses on topics such as Internet of Things, Mobile App Development, Digital Fabrication, and Business Modelling. You'll then get to prototype your idea with the latest tools in open source hardware and IoT development boards.

French hackers! If you can make it to Paris, you're invited to participate in a hackathon to be held at the E-Tonomy. You'll be challenged to create an innovative technology solution that will help promote the digital transition of personal care services in the health, medical and social care sectors. The sky is your limit, but think digital, home automation, robotics, Internet of Things! Your solution must be capable of making the world a better place for someone tomorrow!

Hackers and designers in and around Paris! Are you interested in ergonomics and workspace design? Foncière des Régions and Orange invite you to participate in the 48-hour HACKATHON CTRL + ALT + DESK. You'll be challenged to design and prototype digital spaces and apps that will revolutionize the workspace of the future. You can reinvent the physical design of workspaces, or create your own innovative digital app to serve tomorrow's office workers -- a conversational app, a vocal assistant, connected objects, etc.

Interdisciplinary teams have been participating in 60-hour THE Port 2017 Hackathon. You are invited to attend the final presentation of participating teams to the judging panel. The teams have been tasked with developing humanitarian technology solutions to challenges including Age Assessment for Migrant Children, Renewable Energy App for Rural Electrification, Waste Management in Refugee Camps, Wearable for Parkinson Development Monitoring, and Cheap Sonic Wobble-Board for Lower-limb Amputees.