List of hackathons organized by qut foundry in 2017

Hacking Health 2017, Brisbane, Australia Would you like to help identify and solve problems and work on projects to improve healthcare, and potentially win prizes?  If so, Hacking Health is for you. Australia's Hacking Health 2017 calls upon people interested in improving healthcare to come together to innovate to deliver value and connect care.   Who's invited? Innovators, entrepreneurs, developers, designers, analysts, health practitioners, community groups, patient and consumer advocates, academics, students (from across different disciplines), and others interested in coming together to improve healthcare. What Solutions Does Hacking Health Seek? Hacking Health is an opportunity to explore what's possible in a connected health system.   Examples of innovations to deliver greater value in healthcare could, for example, include solutions for: better patient and consumer outcomes;  improved experience for health practitioners and patients;  greater system and payment efficiencies; and higher quality of care. What solution could you come up, working in a team with the help of mentors, experts, and access to data?  Participate in Hacking Health and find out! Hacking Health Timeline & Events Australia's Hacking Health hackathon 2017 will be held in Brisbane from 7-9 August 2017.  Before then, you'll have an opportunity to think of problems, projects, and find, join or form teams, at the 26 July pitch Night at QUT.   There's also an online community for Hacking Health Australia 2017 for connecting with people and projects, which you can sign up to now.   Hacking Health Pitch Night - 26 July at QUT If you're serious about Hacking Health, or want to know more, register now to come to the Hacking Health Pitch Night at QUT on 26 July.  Note: spaces are limited. Benefits of Hacking Health Pitch Night The Pitch Night at QUT is open to all and is designed to help you:  pitch a healthcare problem to be solved at, or project for, the Hacking Health hackathon find, create, and join teams for the Hacking Health hackathon practise your pitch before the Hacking Health hackathon learning more about the Hacking Health hackathon prepare you to register your project/team for the hackathon by the deadline (1 week) before the 7-9 August hackathon network and connect with others, including experts, interested in improving healthcare, whilst enjoying complimentary food and drinks meet some of the people involved with Hacking Health, including organisers from HISA and sponsors including ADHA, ehealth QLD, Oracle, QUT, & DXC Technologies meet some of the experts, researchers, and mentors from QUT who will assist at the Hacking Health hackathon, including people experienced in innovation, entrepreneurship, tech, health research, and commercialisation  *Note: pitching times are limited to one (1) minute and friendly feedback from peers may be provided. Hacking Health Hackathon 7-9 August Hacking Health culminates in a hackathon on 7-9 August at the Brisbane Convention and Exhibition Centre, during HIC 2017 - Australia's premier digital health, health informatics and e-health conference - bringing together health's most forward thinking innovators.   I'm Interested - What Do I Do Next? Register now to come along to the 26 July Pitch Night at QUT foundry via this Eventbrite invitation. Please also sign up here. Join the online community, including your details in the "people" section.  If you have a problem/project idea, you can add that too in the "projects" section.  You can also indicate the help you can provide or seek. Register here  to attend the 7-9 August Hacking Health Hackathon. $10 for students; $50 others; complimentary for HIC 2017 attendees)    Organiser & Supporters of Hacking Health   Organiser  HISA is the Health Informatics Organisation of Australia. HISA is organising Hacking Health and HIC 2017. www.hisa.org.au.   Supporters   Australian Digital Health Agency (ADHA) was established by the Australian Government in July 2016 to drive digital health for the Australian community. We are working with the Australian community, clinicians, researchers and industry to connect people and their clinicians, and ultimately, to improve health and care in our community.     eHealth Queensland was established in response to the growing importance of technology in the delivery of quality, safe and efficient healthcare. eHealth Queensland is a fundamental support agency for the delivery of health services to the community, supporting the ICT needs of the state's 16 Hospital and Health Services (HHSs) and the Department of Health. eHealth is about enabling greater access to information, anywhere, anytime - working towards a fully integrated healthcare system, where staff can easily access patient information, where and when they need it.       QUT is proud to support Hacking Health, including by providing mentors and experts to assist teams, sharing research findings and insights, and hosting the Pitch Night event. QUT Foundry exists to inspire and enable students, staff, researchers, graduates and alumni to solve problems, shape and seize opportunities, become founders and social change agents, and build, grow, and scale startups and social enterprises.  For more information visit the QUT Foundry website. QUT bluebox is the innovation, knowledge transfer, and commercialisation company of QUT. www.qutbluebox.com.au. Real Health Matters was launched by QUT Faculty of Health in 2016 to enable the achievement of its five year vision to change the narrative around health issues in Australia. It has a focus on improving the wellbeing of the more vulnerable in society thorugh engagement with industry, government and NGOs and embedding this learning into the curriculum, research and service. In 2017, a Real Health Matters Virtual Network was established through which to take forward ideas and opportunities to improve the lives of the more vulnerable in society. www.realheathmatters.org.au. QUT IHIBI The Institute of Health and Biomedical Innovation is an Australian collaborative medical research institute based at the Queensland University of Technology in Brisbane, Queensland.   Oracle offers a comprehensive and fully integrated stack of cloud applications and platform services. www.oracle.com.   DXC Technology is the world’s leading independent, end-to-end IT services company, helping clients harness the power of innovation to thrive on change. Created by the merger of CSC and the Enterprise Services business of Hewlett Packard Enterprise, DXC Technology serves nearly 6,000 private and public sector clients across 70 countries. Healthcare organisations across the world are looking to improve the quality of care, while managing its cost. With extensive domain knowledge, best-in-class technology, consulting services and years of experience working with some of the largest and most complex healthcare organisations, DXC Technology is ready to help your organisation transform for the future. www.dxc.technology.

   Learn Innovation Logic Six easy steps to innovate any product or process -&- access the 'global brain' Join us at QUT in a practical workshop teaching you innovation logic, based on an award-winning method and software, used by innovative companies and universities, led by an international visitor to QUT, Simon Dewulf, CEO of AULIVE.  What You Will Learn   This workshop is packed with practical learning opportunities aimed to improve innovation outcomes: Discover how you can use big data inherent in the ‘global brain’ to think like the best innovators. Learn how to abstract and re-apply innovations past to prompt innovations of the future. Understand who has solved similar problems before, and how you can use that knowledge to create innovative solutions today. Learn a 6-step approach to systematic creativity. Learn how to access inspirational ideas from across many domains through www.moreinspiration.com. Learn data mining techniques to help you search a database of 90 million patents to trigger divergent possibilities across the widest range of fields. www.patentinspiration.com AULIVE Innovation Logic AULIVE's Innovation Logic is a collection of hands-on tools and a systematic method designed to demystify and systematize the space of creativity, innovation and value creation. Based on 20 years R&D development in the innovation domain, the AULIVE method has been distilled into 6 easy steps to innovate products or processes, with the inspiration tools. AULIVE runs programs for leading companies and universities globally, including CSIRO, GE, GSK, Holmen, Kimberly-Clark, Kodak, L'Oréal, PMI, Philips, P&G, SABMiller,  Siemens, SKF , TATA, Toyota, Unilever, and many more.   Who Should Attend? This workshop will provide practical benefits, aimed to improve innovation, for:  Innovation Professionals Startup teams Entrepreneurs & Social Enterprises New Product Development Teams R&D Managers Patent Attorneys Commercialisation Managers IP Lawyers Researchers/Scholars/Educators interested in Technology, Innovation, IP, Big Data, Artificial Intelligence CTOs CEOs & Senior managers  Product Designers Marketers Data scientists  Artificial Intelligence experts (& others with an interest) Small Business Owners Business Consultants Places are limited, so register now. Our International Guest Presenter     Simon Dewulf will take you through his easy 6-step approach to systematic creativity. He is the director and creator of AULIVE, an award-winning online resource for creativity and innovation, including an online database of over 90 million patent documents. Today, over 1500 people are trained in the AULIVE method, which has been used in hundreds of innovation projects over the past 15 years. AULIVE’s method and research tools run in technology driven companies such as L’Oreal, DSM, Shell, SKF, Toyota, GSK, P&G, SIEMENS and universities such as Nottingham, Liberec, Brno and Talca. The AULIVE method and software was awarded the INSEAD Innovator Prize in 2010, and Gartner Cool Vendor 2016.   For more information, visit: www.aulive.com; www.patentinspiration.com - a free online patent search and analysis tool that helps support your innovation process, made by www.aulive.com; and www.innovationlogic.com.au.   Sponsors & Supporters   This event is brought to by QUT foundry,  QUT Business School's "Dynamic Capabilities of Innovation and Change" Research Group and QUT Starters.     QUT foundry exists to inspire and enable students, staff, researchers, graduates and alumni to be founders and social change agents and to help build, grow, and scale startups and social enterprises.  For more information visit the QUT Foundry website.   QUT Business School's "Dynamic Capabilities of Innovation and Change" Research Group helps organisations, industry, managers, teams, and stakeholder networks to be more innovative and build and leverage their capabilities to strategically adapt to change, grow, and prosper. We conduct and apply findings from world-class research to advance and apply knowledge for economic and other positive impacts. QUT Starters is a student run society supporting students from all disciplines who have interest in discovering their inner entrepreneur. We do this through connecting with the local start-up community, industry, running workshops and hosting events. Our doors are welcome to anyone who is interested in entrepreneurship or innovation, regardless where you come from. Visit the QUT Starters website.  Want to participate in a program to learn how to be an entrepreneur? Apply to QUT Starters' Startup Hatch program.     QUT Code Network aims to help produce the best developers on the planet. Collaborate, practice and develop skills in creating quality software, and meet and network with professionals and academics. We host hackathons, industry sponsored events, weekly meetups and workshops! We are also heavy participants in the Brisbane startup scene. Build whatever, as long as it is awesome. Visit the QUT Code Network: Website; Facebook page; Github; and Twitter.  QUT Code Network's flagship event is the famous Code Network Winter Hackathon, held this year August 10-11, at QUT Gardens Point campus. 

  Learn to Code & Create Web Applications Beginner & advanced programmers: you're invited to attend the Ruby on Rails InstallFest, a training workshop by reinteractive teaching the popular progamming language Ruby on Rails (aka 'Rails'), in a relaxed and friendly atmosphere at the QUT foundry entrepreneurship hub.   What You'll Gain From Attending By attending this event, you can: learn how to code, with help from industry experts, in Ruby on Rails - a programming language that's both beginner friendly, powerful, and in-demand  get help setting up your laptop so it's ready to develop Ruby on Rails applications meet industry mentors/developers who use Ruby on Rails in business, working with startups to scaled businesses develop a web application using a helpful framework (we can get you building a blog at the event so that by the end of the night it's online and published - then we'll get your published blog personalised, with Javascript, CSS and headers and footers) become familiar with a tool useful for founders/startups doing prototyping, startups & scaleups meet others in the vibrant Ruby on Rails community Freebies including delicious pizza (the good stuff) and drinks & vouchers to various training tools and sites   Workshop Program 4:00PM - 4:10PM: Welcome 4:10PM - 7:10PM: Ruby on Rails Workshop led by experienced trainers 7:10PM - 8:00PM: Network over free (gourmet) pizza and drinks   Who Should Attend Whether you're an absolute beginner new to programming, or you have coding skills and want to learn a useful and popular new language, this workshop will suit you. People who may benefit include: Entrepreneurs Programmers Website / web application designers/developers Marketers Bloggers Anyone wanting a practical introduction to coding   Limited Workshop Spaces - Registration Essential Places are strictly limited, and past events have quickly reached capacity, so we recommend you register now.  Important Note: If you do register, and later cannot make it, please free up your registration at the earliest opportunity so that someone else may attend. Things to Bring & Do (Pre-Event)  Please bring your own laptop (Mac or PC). For Mac Users If you're planning to work from your Mac, please visit the itunes store to download and install Xcode installed before the event. If you have any questions about this, please contact Contact Community Manager Rachelle LeQuesne: community@reinteractive.net.   Sponsors     Reinteractive are Ruby on Rails Developers, Ops, UX & Design experts based in Australia creating custom web, mobile & social apps that return real value for our clients. It's a focus that drives our entire company and we are proud to be Australia’s largest Ruby on Rails focused development shop. einteractive has become a thought leader in the Industry creating free community training initiatives and have introduced hundreds of new developers to the language at the InstallFest. Visit the reinteractive website to learn more.     QUT Foundry exists to inspire and enable students, staff, researchers, graduates and alumni to be founders and social change agents and to help build, grow, and scale startups and social enterprises.  For more information visit the QUT Foundry website.   Other Groups/Events You Might Like If you're interested in coding and/or entrepreneurship, here are some great local groups running excellent events: Rail Girls Brisbane aims to breakdown barriers to technology and make it more accessible for women. Rail Girls is an international community dedicated to introducing women to software development in a safe and inclusive environment.  Our aim is to empower women to take the initial steps to conquer the online world. View details of the upcoming Rails Girls Brisbane event on 21 and 22 July 2017. QUT Starters is a student run society supporting students from all disciplines who have interest in discovering their inner entrepreneur. We do this through connecting with the local start-up community, industry, running workshops and hosting events. Our doors are welcome to anyone who is interested in entrepreneurship or innovation, regardless where you come from. Visit the QUT Starters website.  Want to participate in a program to learn how to be an entrepreneur? Then apply to QUT Starters' Startup Hatch program which launches July 19.    QUT Code Network QUT Code Network aims to help produce the best developers on the planet. Collaborate, practice and develop skills in creating quality software, and meet and network with professionals and academics. We host hackathons, industry sponsored events, weekly meetups and workshops! We are also heavy participants in the Brisbane startup scene. Build whatever, as long as it is awesome. Visit the QUT Code Network: Website; Facebook page; Github; and Twitter.  QUT Code Network's flagship event is the famous Code Network Winter Hackathon, held this year August 10-11, at QUT Gardens Point campus.