List of hackathons about health in 2016

Foodies, developers, designers, entrepreneurs, and innovation lovers in the Barcelona area! Do you have creative ideas for technology solutions for the food industry? Come and participate in the Food Hackathon: Pepsico challenge. Help conceive, design and build prototype solutions that will help promote healthy eating without causing consumer inconvenience. Collaborate with like-minded individuals, showcase your skills, and compete for awesome prizes.

MedTech and virtual reality hackers! Think you have the creativity and skills to make a difference to modern surgery with an innovative virtual reality (VR) application? Come and participate in the MedTech VR Surgery Hackathon. You'll be teamed with like-minded developers and — given a theme on the day — you will have just over a day to plan, create, test and present your own unique VR application for the given topic.

Techies and business professionals in and around Barcelona! Foundation SP and the SharePoint Users Group of Catalonia invite you to participate in the Solidary SharePoint Hackathon. This event runs in parallel with the TV3 Marathon which will focus on stroke and traumatic spinal cord and brain injuries. Participate and do your part! On your own or collaborating with a group, you will develop an innovative SharePoint app or functionality that helps address these pressing health issues!

Hackers and wannabees in and around San Salvador de Jujuy, Argentina! Interested in solutions to help NGOs? The Technological Innovation Collaboratory invites you to come and participate in Hackdata Jujuy 2016 — a collaborative event to create innovative tools and technology solutions that will help the flow of information between the citizens, NGO agencies and the City Council of San Salvador de Jujuy.

Designers, developers, students or professionals in the sciences and humanities in and around Bogota! Are you interested in how technology can help address major human rights, health and environmental issues? The Institute Francais invites you to participate in BOG LABCIUDADANO Hackathon 2016, a "citizens lab" and collaborate to create new digital tools that can power human rights in Latin America and internationally.

Come and participate in the Softonic Better Life App Challenge. See the top ten hackathon finalists compete, as they work to put the finishing touches on their projects. The Better Life App Challenge began with the hackathon focused on projects that addressed the following themes: Personal Goals, Lifelong Learning, Work-Life Balance, Better Life At Work, Respect, Collaboration, Privacy and Safety.

Professionals and students in open data, hacking, coding and design! Interested in how technology can help improve public health? GGD Hart van Brabant invites you to participate in The Big Date, and event where you'll collaborate to conceive and prototype a state-of-the-art public health application for tomorrow? Working with like-minded techies and health professionals, you'll be challenged to develop innovative ways to leverage open data and digital information to change the way the public lives, works and plays.

Performers and developers! Are you interested in how technology can foster innovation in dance? Kinetech Arts & CounterPulse invite you to participate in DanceHackDay 2016. This is a daylong event that combines the traditional hackathon with a dance lab. You'll get the opportunity to create new and innovative applications of technology and dance material to create awesome live audience experiences. You'll be challenged to use DIY wireless heart monitors to create a cloud-based dataset of the heart rate of performers and use it to create interactive performance pieces based on the actual live heart rate of performers in multiple cities.

Hackers and makers! How'd you like the chance to win up to $1 million in start-up funds? You just have to come up with an awesome idea for a new Moto Mod for Motorola's new Moto Z phone. Choose from one of these three challenges: » Health and Fitness: What could make health diagnosis easier? » Retail: How could a Moto Mod change the way people experience their favorite stores and restaurants? » Multimedia: What Moto Mod would upgrade phone hardware to better suit user media preferences?

Coders, designers, techies in and around Lagos, Nigeria! Are you passionate about helping using technology for good in developing countries? Come and participate in the Code2Earn Hackathon and create solutions that will help reduce unemployment and drive up income levels. You'll collaborate with like-minded individuals to develop apps to tackle issues in health, education, and the environment. Showcase your creativity and skills and compete for the chance to win seed funding for your project from Microsoft and The Future Project.