List of hackathons about health in 2018

NeuroTech professionals and interested techies in Hamilton and the Greater Toronto Area! You're invited to participate in the NeuroTechHa: Hackathon. Bring your own project, join an existing team, or pick a challenge presented by one of the participating neurotech companies. You don't need a programming background to take part -- everyone can bring something new and valuable to a project team.

Healthtech hackers in Germany! If you're passionate about using technology to bring progressive ideas to healthcare, then HealthCare Futurists invite you to participate in the innovate.healthcare hackathon. You'll be served with a challenge prepared based on submissions from healthcare professionals and industry partners. Your solution will address an issue relevant to patient empowerment and patient centricity.

Developers, designers, gamers, physicians, therapists, psychologists, and educators in Germany! If you're passionate about using technology to bring progressive ideas to healthcare, then you're invited to participate in the St. Mauritius Therapy Clinic's Virtual Reality in Rehabilitation hackathon (VR4REHAB 2018). Working as part of a multi-disciplinary team, you'll be challenged to conceive and design a prototype VR therapy that can improve the therapeutic success of children and young people with disabilities.

California hackers! If you're passionate about clean and safe drinking water, then you're invited to participate in the California Water Data Hackathon. At the event, you will take the California Safe Drinking Water Data Challenge and collaborate to imagine and design an innovative way to increase community access to safe drinking water. Present your project and demonstrate its Impact, Scalability, and Innovation for your chance to win $1,500, as well as accelerator services to complete and deploy the solution.

Women in sextech -- designers, developers, marketers, entrepreneurs, project managers, therapists or sexologists! Future of Sex invites you to participate in SexTech New York. People of all genders and sexualities are welcome, although a focus of the event is on making space for women-identified people. You'll be challenged to create and prototype an innovative new technology project -- app, website, robot, or VR -- that can help enhance human sexuality and the human sexual experience.

Medical technology and engineering students and professionals in New South Wales! You're invited to participate in the Society of Medical Innovation x MedTech's Got Talent: Health Hackathon. Come with a team, or join one at this 3-day event and develop your own innovative medical idea! You'll be challenged to identify a pressing healthcare problem, build a business model, and pitch your project to an expert panel. Compete for a cash prize and an accelerator slot!

Developers and scientists in the San Francisco Bay area! If you're passionate about the use of technology to solve pressing biomedical problems, then you're invited to participate in the QBI Hackathon. This 48-hour event is organized by the University of California San Francisco's Quantitative Biosciences Institute. You'll be challenged to apply technologies like computer vision, AI, and machine learning to biomedically relevant light microscopy, electron microscopy, and proteomics data in order to make an impact on global healthcare.

Hackers in and around the City of Austin, Texas! Do you have an awesome idea as to how blockchain technology can be used to help improve the services provided to the homelessness in Austin? The Office of Mayor Steve Adler, the City of Austin Office of Innovation, and Dell Medical School invite you to participate in The Mayor's Blockchain Challenge. You'll be challenged to imagine and prototype an innovative blockchain solution that can store and maintain important documents and transactions that make up a person's identity. Your solution will respond to use cases that cover bulk document uploads, notation of assets that are verified in real life, smart contracts, opt-in/consent process, private blockchain, and non-transferable assets.

Imaging and visualization techies in the United Kingdom. You're invited to sign up to participate in the first CCP PET-MR Hackathon at the Atlas Visualization Facility of Rutherford Appleton Laboratory. You'll get to meet and collaborate with the best-of-the-best imaging technologists while working on your choice of the following projects: »The completion of SIRF 1.2 milestone »Implementing new algorithms in Python »Using SWIG to create Python/MATLAB interfaces

Data scientists, developers, designers, and fitness enthusiasts in the Bay Area! You're invited to participate in the Silverberry Genomics Hackathon -- an event where wellness meets data science. You'll be challenged to build and pitch solutions leveraging the Silverberry platform to build an innovative genetic consumer app, website or marketplace. Come as a team, or join one at the event. Collaborate to conceive, design and prototype your idea on the theme of using DNA and Genetic Assessment for Behavior Change. Present your project to a panel of judges to earn industry recognition as well as some awesome sponsor prizes.