List of hackathons in United States in 2017

Fintech hackers, developers, designers, and entrepreneurs in the San Francisco Bay Area! AngelHack invites you to participate in Hack Your Tomorrow. You'll be faced with the U.S. Bank & AARP Challenge to design and prototype easy, accessible solutions that help people budget for caregiving, work independently, and protect their loved ones from financial exploitation.

AR hackers in the Seattle area! Ratio and Globant invite you to sign up for the Hack the Now & Next: ARKit Edition hackathon. You'll be challenged to design and prototype an innovative augmented reality app for iPhone and iPad using Apple’s new ARKit framework.

Put on your white hat and send your team to join us for a weekend of unique and entertaining competition. JOLT is a weekend-long cyber security-themed "game of codes." On-site, expert Game Masters monitor and adjust the challenges in a responsive, real-time environment to ensure that everyone has tons of fun while leveraging advanced open source technology and using the tools that power some of the most complex real time solutions in the world. Connect with some of Arkansas’ best tech wizards and explore new tools. Really, it’s the most fun you can have in one weekend without landing in jail. Learn more at venturecenter.co/jolt MAX of 4 people per team. Check out what happened at the October 2015 JOLT!

The rapid advancement of Blockchain and IoT technologies present a challenge to businesses of all scales. Join us for a weekend of exploration into the industry’s most cutting edge innovations and how participants address specific challenges aligned to their business needs. Plug and Play is hosting a Blockchain + IoT hackathon at the Plug and Play Tech Center in Sunnyvale, California on October 6th-8th. The hackathon will bring together a mix of developers, designers, entrepreneurs and tech visionaries to develop innovative and demonstrative IoT prototypes with a payments or finance component. The event is sponsored in part by EY, and we will announce more exciting tech partners offering their APIs and hardware soon! Prizes will also be announced shortly :)  SCHEDULE Friday, Oct. 6th 6pm-7pm: Arrival/Check-in | 7pm-7:30pm: Kickoff + Introductions to Challenges | 7:30pm-8pm: Idea Pitches | 8pm-8:30pm: Team Formation | 9pm: End Saturday, Oct. 7th 9am-9:30am: Welcome + Breakfast | 9:30am: Hacking Begins | 12pm: Lunch | 5pm: Project Registration | 6:00pm: Dinner | Hacking Overnight Available Sunday, Oct. 8th 9am-9:30am: Welcome + Breakfast | 9:30am: Hacking Continues | 12pm: Lunch | 1pm: Code Freeze | 1:30pm: Hackathon Presentations | 4pm: Judges Deliberate | 5pm: Winners Announced + Closing Ceremonies | 6pm: Close Hackathon Participation Agreement

Mobile techies in the Greater Seattle area! The Seattle GiveCamp Organizing Committee invites you to sign up to participate in the Seattle GiveCamp 2017. You'll be challenged to help deserving not for profit organizations solve their toughest problems. How will you do that? You'll create an innovative mobile app using the Xamarin mobile development platform.

Have an app idea to improve government services? Interested in creating innovative applications that will harness the “Internet of Things” enabling the Federal Government to better serve their employees and the citizen? Come to this special Internet of Things (IoT) and Government focused hackathon, produced by the AT&T Developer Program.With the adoption of mobile broadband, the Federal Government and their industry partners are searching for new creative applications in the areas of: Smart City, Public Safety and more. We are looking to connect people to information enabling the Government to better serve the citizen. Imagine this! You develop a new public safety application that improves law enforcement and citizen interactions with the potential of saving lives.How can you help? Work with AT&T and other high technology companies to show case your creative thinking and application development talent. Develop your idea on commercially available software and leverage sensor technologies from leading commercial companies.The Federal Government is an important market with many opportunities for developers. By hacking new mobile applications, developers can mature their ideas, get involved in an exciting community, and create something to further the greater social good. You Bring... Your laptop, skills & ideas. Come with a collaborative, team-focused mindset and/or team-up in advance on Twitter/Facebook/Google+ via the #atthack hashtag. Whether you are a backend person, designer, entrepreneur, student, or just interested in tech, you are invited to attend this event. Every group needs a good balance of talent and your development skills are needed! We Supply... Quick presentations and code samples that help to bootstrap your hacking, food to keep you going, and caffeine to keep you awake. We will have technical mentors to assist you in building faster, smarter, and with new tools. We will also have loaner hardware on-site for you to use in your solutions. Arduino Boards: Sunfounder Super Kit with Uno R3 for Arduino (Documentation) RobotLinking 37 Sensor Kit Intel Edison (Documentation) + Grove - Starter Kit Plus Intel IoT Edition with Intel Gateway Technology + Arduino 101  CanaKit Raspberry Pi 2 Complete Starter Kit (Monitor and keyboard not included) Raspberry Pi 2, Model B 1GB, Documentation (Monitor and keyboard not included) CanaKit Raspberry Pi 3 (monitor and keyboard not included) Photon Board Maker Kit (Documentation)  GoPro Hero3 (GPL Libraries) Event Schedule The following is a list of the weekend's agenda:   Day 1 6PM - Kickoff event with dinner, networking and developer dating 7PM - Speakers present 8PM - Pitch idea and form teams 9PM - Technical workshops Day 2 9:30AM - The fun continues with coffee and breakfast served in the morning! Work with the teams from Day 1 to complete the app spec'd. Mentors will be available throughout the entire day to help you code your solution. App submissions will be accepted throughout the day with a deadline of 4PM. 12:00PM - Lunch is served 4PM - Deadline for team registration 5:00PM - Dinner is served 6PM - CODE FREEZE. Pitches start promptly at 7PM and are limited to three (3) minutes per team. PowerPoint presentations are NOT recommended! Prizes The following prizes are experiential and geared towards accelerating you towards a successful business as well as expanding your network and industry knowledge: Best Overall App: $2,000 (in Amazon gift cards to be split between team members or donated to charity) Best Smart City App: $500 (in Amazon gift cards to be split between team members or donated to charity) IBM Excellence Award: $1,000 (in Amazon gift cards to be split between team members or donated to charity) Best Howard Overall App: $1000 (in Amazon gift cards to be split between team members or donated to charity) Best Howard Smart City App: $500 (in Amazon gift cards to be split between team members or donated to charity) Judging Criteria Apps will be judged based on the criteria below and weighted accordingly. 33% Weight - Ability to clearly articulate what your app does 33% Weight - Originality of idea 33% Weight - Technically creative and/or challenging implementation Speakers Rocky Thurston - Client Executive Vice President - AT&T Global Business, Public Sector Solutions Rocky Thurston leads business activities and is responsible for delivering integrated solutions to the U.S. Air Force, USTRANSCOM, and USSTRATCOM. He is highly skilled at applying AT&T services and solutions to meet enterprise and mission needs, including Open and Closed Network Modernization and Transformation, IOT, Smart Bases, Mission System Cyber Defense, Cloud Enablement, and Mobilization. Hackathon Legal Hackathon terms: https://goo.gl/iDVmvx We expect all participants to abide by the Hack Code of Conduct: http://hackcodeofconduct.org/attdeveloper.  FAQ: https://goo.gl/26H8rZ Social Media Follow us, @attdeveloper, for live updates and photos from the event "Like" us on Facebook! https://www.facebook.com/ATTDeveloper Sponsors

Are you passionate about climate change? If you're in the Washington DC area and want to help make a difference in preparing DC residents for merging impacts, then you should sign up to participate in the 2017 DC Climathon: Resilience. You'll be challenged to collaborate to create solutions that empower grassroots preparation and responses to climate change events such as urban heat island effects, extreme weather events, and increased flooding.

Join us for a mid-day lunch break as we discuss Artificial Intelligence and the basics of Machine Learning with Val Ward. Converse with like-minded individuals while enjoying the ambience of the only incubator in the city exclusive to the VR/AR industry. Lunch and good conversation provided.  Val Ward is a longtime A.I. aficionado currently working in Machine Learning / Computer Vision for Advertising technology.  He has won many awards, patents, and hackathons.  For fun, ask him about mathematics or cats!

A3C Festival & Conference is the preeminent Hip-Hop event in the US, commonly referred to as, “Hip-Hop’s family reunion.”  We engage and educate the artists, creatives and entrepreneurs that shape the music industry and hip-hop culture.   Come to the 13th annual A3C Festival & Conference to connect, learn and create.   A3C Festival @ The Georgia Freight Depot is a 2-day outdoor festival in the heart of downtown Atlanta featuring some of the most talented and renowned artists in hip-hop.  Thousands of fans from around the world gather at the A3C Festival from Sat, Oct 7 through Sun, Oct 8th to enjoy Hip-Hop music, art and culture. Throughout the week A3C partners with brands, labels, media outlets, promoters and tastemakers to program, events and activations across Atlanta. A3C's showcases are one of the most influential artist discovery and promotional platforms in hip-hop. A3C hosts more than 50 Shows, Events and Parties with over 1,000 performers across 10+ venues between Wed, Oct 5th - Sunday, Oct 8th. The A3C Conference brings together artists, creatives and entrepreneurs in the music industry to connect, learn and create.  The 3-day conference aims to empower and educate those that shape hip-hop music and culture. Conference Center @ The Loudermilk Center [Wed, Oct 4 - Fri, Oct 6] Creator Complex @ Georgia State University's Creative Media Industries Institue [Fri, Oct 6] Action Summit @ Auburn Ave Research Library [Thur, Oct 5 - Fri, Oct 6] Topics Include: Trends and future of music industry, Creating and monetizing new media, Transformative music technology, Entrepreneurship in the creative economy & Social justice and community engagement Featured Tracks: Artist, Music Entrepreneurship, Producer & Music Maker, Label and Social Impact Programming: Welcome Reception, Keynotes, Interviews, Panels, Mentor Sessions, Breakout Sessions, Presentations, Demos, Brunches, Meet-Ups, Meet & Greets, Pitches, Hackathons, Master Classes, Podcasts, Makerspaces and Workshops. After your purchase, you will receive an order confirmation email from Eventbrite on behalf of A3C.  If you do not see your order confirmation in your inbox, make sure to check your junk/spam folder.  If you are having any other technical ticketing-related issues with your order contact Eventbrite. Print your pass or bring a valid ID to any A3C Registration or Will Call location.  You can pick up your wristband at any A3C Registration or Will Call location during hours of operation. All sales final.  No refunds or exchanges.  You may give your pass away. You can upgrade your pass on-site.   Event is rain or shine. Line-up and schedule are subject to change. A limited number of passes available at listed price.

PLEASE NOTE YOU MAY PURCHASE UNLIMITED PASSES BUT YOU MUST BUY ONE TICKET AT A TIME. Slated for October 4th in Los Angeles at The Line Hotel in Koreatown, Hispanicize Los Angeles’ Hispanic Heritage Month edition will focus on the industries of diversity tech, content creators and entertainment. If you are a Latinx content creator ( blogger, youtuber, instagrammer, FBer,) a musician or filmmaker, or in the tech industry, you won't want to miss this event. Come network with brands, PR & Marketing professionals, social media influencers, musicans, actors and producers. VIP Tickets include breakfast, lunch, and swag bag. Event will also serve appetiers, snacks, drinks, and host giveaways. For the Latest SCHEDULE and NEWS, VISIT www.HispanicizeLA.com The three industry showcases that form the core of Hispanicize L.A are: Digital Creators Showcase: Led by HMG’s DiMe Media team, the Digital Creators Showcase will connect brands with influencers through a variety of dedicated sessions, workshops and sponsor activations that will take place throughout the entire event. Diversity Tech Showcase: The Diversity Tech showcase will be co-presented in partnership with the San Francisco-based Latino Startup Alliance and will feature keynotes, entrepreneur workshops, a hackathon and Office Hours, among other activities. ​Entertainment Industry Showcase: Curated by Hispanicize Pictures, The Hispanicize Music Board, and the Latino Filmmakers Network, this showcase will focus on Latinos in Hollywood, including actors, producers, directors and writers, and Latinos in the music industry, musicians, label executives, concert promoters, DJ’s and producers.