List of hackathons about big data in 2020

This event is postponed, new dates will be communicated very soon Santander is on a mission to leverage the power of its APIs to develop cutting-edge digital trust solutions for its customers during this 24-hour hack! To achieve this goal, Santander is calling on developers, fintech experts, data scientists, and digital trust/identity experts to join its internal teams to collaborate and create powerful products that support privacy, protect data, and help individuals and businesses prosper. To support the development of your solution, you'll gain access to: Santander’s Open Banking API Sandbox Built on top of OpenID and focused on Customer Privacy, this API is a proposal for a new Digital Identity standard for Verified Data Sharing Services CSV files with anonymised customer data. Plaid API (tech partner) Plaid’s API allows end-users to build the future of financial services. 4 CHALLENGES: Challenge 1: Verifying Identity Challenge 2: Verifying Authority Challenge 3: Validating Information Challenge 4: Sharing Summary Facts

The2020 Smart Port Challengeis a virtual competition open to anyone with innovative concepts that will revolutionise the current state of Morocco’s port functionality. Participants will have three themes to select from when developing their solution(s), each posing unique challenges. The winning projects will be offered an incubation programtransitioning their idea from prototype to POC! Who can participate?This is a global event, and anyone with an innovative idea is welcome to take part Why participate? Showcase your skills and explore your ideas Make a real-world, lasting impact Win project development opportunities Timeline Registration Opens: November 16, 2020 Opening Webinar: December 17, 2020 Ideation & Project Creation: December 18, 2020 - January 10, 2021 Prototyping: January 11-12, 2021 Final Submission Deadline: January 24, 2021 Judging: January 25 - 27, 2021 Final Demos & Winner Announcements: January 29, 2021

ХАКАТОН FIT-M 2020 — это двухдневное соревнование объединенных команд программистов, химиков, физиков, математиков, инженеров и технологов, нацеленный на поиск новых идей и прорывных решений в области широкого применения цифровых технологий в научной деятельности для создания инновационных технологий в различных индустриальных направлениях. Основная постановка задач индустриальными партнёрами будет нацелена на биоинформатику, генетику, материаловедение (прогнозирование свойств, компьютерное проектирование и дизайн материалов), персональную медицину, синтез новых материалов и компьютерные симуляции научных экспериментов.

Machine learning, data science, and deep learning professionals and enthusiasts in and around Lille! The Centre d'Innovation des Technologies sans (CITC) invites you to participate in the IA Challenge that will be held during the IoT Week. During the 4-day IA Challenge, you'll get to create an innovative solution that addresses one of three real-world problems and associated datasets that are posed by three partnering companies. You can come with a multi-disciplinary team of up to four members -- or join one at the event. Your team is free to use your programming language (Python, R, C, C ++, etc.) and framework (Scikit-learn, Tensorflow, Pytorch, Mxnet, etc.) of choice. Get ready to participate in the IA Challenge with smart hackathon advice.

2020 was, well, 2020. Let’s build a better, more positive future and start 2021 off on a good note! At this hackathon, we want you to create solutions that make the world a better place for yourself, your co-workers, friends, or family. Using Google Cloud and MongoDB Atlas, you will have the opportunity to develop an app that addresses sustainability, improves wellbeing, or connects individuals with the tools to promote the general welfare. Socially responsible solutions are key. In the spirit of spreading positivity, this challenge offers five equal prizes of $2,000 each. Register at https://hack2021forposivity.bemyapp.com

The Huawei European University Challenge 2020 Poland is an exciting opportunity for students to collaborate with one of the industry’s top providers of information and communications technology (ICT) infrastructure and smart devices in a competitive environment. Working independently, participants will design and implement a similarity identification algorithm. To be eligible to take part, students must be enrolled in a Polish university and working towards their Bachelor's, Master's or PhD. International students who are completing an exchange or participating in an Erasmus program in Poland are also welcome to take part. Timeline Registration Opens: November 4, 2020 Registration Closes: December 1, 2020 Challenge Begins: December 4, 2020 Final Submission Deadline: December 13, 2020 Awards Ceremony: December 16, 2020

This is an event where startups present themselves to corporates, investors, and potential customers. Startupnight offers you a great opportunity to get valuable information, meet interesting and experienced people from around the world, meet investors and corporates and to expand your network. Startupnight is an initiative of Deutsche Telekom AG with hubraum, Investitionsbank Berlin and Berlin Partner. Additionally, Startupnight will offer several 1:1 sessionswith investors (WestTech Ventures, HTGF, APX, Business Angels Club Berlin-Brandenburg and more). These are for startups on invitation only. To have a chance to be picked, please get your startup ticket here and fill in the form we will send you afterwards. Tickets are free, but registration will be required.

Bioinformatics techies in Europe! ELIXIR invites you to participate in the BioHackathon Europe 2020. The event is open to participants from both ELIXIR and non-ELIXIR countries and organizations. You'll get to collaborate with your peers to gather, discuss, and implement ideas/projects during intensive and productive coding sessions. The topics will be aligned to challenges proposed by ELIXIR platforms (data, tools, compute, interoperability and training), ELIXIR communities (Human Data, Rare Diseases, Marine Metagenomics, Plant Science, Metabolomics and Proteomics), a selection of new tools and communities (e.g., Cytoscape and reproducible networks) proposed by ELIXIR France, and a set of common challenges proposed by the sister BioHackathon organised in Japan. The expert tips page is a useful source for practical hackathon info!

A hackathon is an event that gathers experienced computer programmers with different skill sets to “hack” or work collaboratively, on a software project. PVS HACKFEST is an annual community themed hackathon hosted by Pearlville School, a co-educational secondary school in Imo State focused on building leaders of the future. The event is for computer science and IT enthusiasts and will also include a special “Girls in Tech” recognition. During the hackathon, participants will be challenged to innovate the next big idea – a sustainable service or product for the community – as the need for this is inevitable given the current status of our economy. We hope that this hackathon will lead to future developments and equip the youth to instill innovation and creative thinking as part of their lifestyle.

Techies, business people, citizens interested in the business of Michigan! Good For Michigan invites you to take part in the Becoming Good For Michigan - Hackathon. First, at an in-person, socially-distance event, you'll get to learn how measuring and benchmarking impacts can help the business community and you will be introduced to a set of free, online tools. In a subsequent virtual hackathon, you will be challenged to use these tools to create a benchmarking roadmap. Check out the tips page for advice on taking part in the Becoming Good For Michigan hackathon!