List of hackathons about api in 2016

Are you an API whiz? Come and participate in a special hackathon and hack around three new APIs provided by Akeneo, OpenIO and Sevenhugs! The challenge! Use one of the three featured APIs to create brand new use cases. Akeneo is a Product Information Management platform; OpenIO is an Object Storage API; and Sevenhugs Smart Remote offers multi-device control from a touchscreen interface. There will be three tracks with a different API for each. Each team compete in one track only for the prizes for that track!

Connected Lab, the global leader in connected software experiences, is hosting the Watson-Powered Chatbots for Smart Devices Hackathon at the Connected Lab’s Headquarters in Toronto, Ontario. This event will challenge you to create new experiences using conversational interfaces on the IBM Watson IoT Platform. There is a $10 registration fee to hold your spot, which will be refunded 100% when you arrive and teams will be assembled Friday night after the workshop. Bring your laptop, charger, and any other hardware you think you might need. You will be provided with dinner on Friday, breakfast, lunch, and dinner on Saturday, and breakfast on Sunday.

Coders, designers, entrepreneurs and business people! Interested in Fintech? Come and create innovative solutions to help banks transform from the world of closed IT structures to one that is more ‘open’ and connected and that fosters inter-bank communication. Your brief is to create and prototype innovative solutions around themes of Disruption, Sustainability, and Technology to enable ‘open banking’. This is a great opportunity for you to showcase your skills to senior leaders in banking and FinTech. You will have access to the ‘Blue Bank’ API sandbox to integrate and test your app with real world banking data.

Hackers! Come and show how you can help build a better workplace with Slack--the fast growing workplace software. Win a prize! Design and build a "Slack bot" that simplifies work habits and increases productivity and makes employees happier. A Slack bot is a command users can run--like ordering a ride, ordering food, and even booking a trip. Your possibilities for bot development are endless!

This is round 2 of the Bloomington Normal's Community Hackathon. 20+ developers came together back in February to build the BNMentor's app. It is close to be finished so come on out to help bring it alive! Enjoy food, drinks and 1GB fiber along side the community's most talented developers, designers, internet doers and tech companies! Build something awesome for the community and that 100,000+ people will see and use!

The Apache CloudStack™is a Collab conference organized by CloudOps for developers and users to regroup and evolve its software and functionality. Come together to collaborate, learn and enjoy Montreal in June, the most beautiful time of the year in the city. Part talks, part workshops, this event will present a great opportunity for attendees and sponsors alike. The main aim of this hackathon is to perform Continuous Integration Tests and solving questions about GitHub pull requests. Please submit your ideas if you are interested in presenting at the event.

Spark Haus by Cisco is inviting all coders, developers, and business minds to come, connect, share, and collaborate in a two-day event of intense hacking, coding and competition using the Cisco's Spark platform. Have fun and win prizes while learning and building on Cisco's communications APIs. These APIs are especially designed to help you collaborate and communicate with customers, partners, and colleagues. Attendees will get the chance to hear from some of the best tech minds from Ireland and abroad. There will be food, drinks, some surprise judges, and great prizes!

Kids! Sign up to attend Paideia Learning Academy's June Holidays Tech Camp. There are a wide range of computing programmes for students from primary to secondary school, with workshops suitable for students with different skill levels and objectives. Available workshops include Games Programming with Unity 3D and Scratch and and Mobile Apps Development with App Inventor for Android.

VR Philippines together with Samsung are bringing you a Workshop on Mobile VR App development in preparation for the Philippine Mobile VR Jam on June 10-12. This workshop is intended for beginners, and will cover everything you need to develop your first Mobile VR App for the Samsung Gear VR. The Samsung Gear VR is a mobile virtual reality headset developed by Samsung, in collaboration with Oculus. This workshop is open to everyone. You don't need to have prior experience in Blender, Unity or C#, but basic coding knowledge is expected. You should bring your laptop with the latest versions of the following free software and tools pre-installed: Blender, Unity, Android SDK (no need for Android Studio), Java Runtime, Environment, and Java Development Kit. Join this workshop to meet brilliant minds, learn and collaborate on creating applications and hardware solutions with immersive mobile virtual reality technologies and help define the future of the technology!

John K. is organizing his first hackathon in a swimming pool !