List of hackathons about industry in 2018

Techies with a background in engineering, software development, or biology! Are you interested in the application of technology to agriculture! If so, then you are invited to participate in the >sudo : grow hackathon! Space is limited, so be sure to apply soon! You'll be challenged to design and prototype digital solutions to one of the most pressing issues facing the agricultural industry today -- in an area such as vertical farming, non-chemical crop protection, or poultry management. Come and create an innovative solution and compete for recognition and terrific cash prizes!

Coder, hackers, designers in Alameda County and beyond! You're invited to participate in the San Ramon Hackathon to help the City of San Ramon improve its emergency preparedness. You'll be challenged to design and prototype an innovative technology solution that addresses an issue such as communicating government disaster recovery plans to citizens, prepare citizens for an emergency, communicating the latest information to citizens during and after emergencies, enabling collaboration of all parties responding to an emergency, and more. Present your project to a panel of experts for a chance to win one of the cash prizes.

Enter the first ever Access to Justice or “A2J” InnoTech Law Hackathon hosted by the Law Society of Hong Kong. Build Apps and Web Solutions to bring access to justice for public good. Join if you are in Law, IT, Public Policy, Startups - anyone with passion for practical innovation and justice. When: 7-8 April 2018 (weekend), 9am-5pm Where: Cyberport, 100 Cyberport Rd, Telegraph Bay Hong Kong

Programmers, designers, QA types—and other techies around the world! If you are an open-source enthusiast and would like to help advance the Collaboration Tree (cTree) web platform for community think tanks, then signup for the online weekend hackathon. You'll get to network and build your resume while working with like-minded techies to help advance the cTree project by helping create an open-source tool for online collaboration around specific topics or goals. Search the expert tips page for useful information on hackathon participation!

Each challenge represents a real problematic for the company: ➤ Data science and machine learning ➤ Data transmission ➤ Behavior Detection Four teams will compete to win 3000€ per challenge and a high-level incubation program to implement their solution within the Vinci Energies network!

The Amazon Alexa team focuses on bringing user-delighting, voice-activated experiences to its customers. Voice can be used anywhere where humans and machines need to communicate, from smart homes to toys and wearables. Systems like Alexa are an early sign of a massive shift in how we interact with machines, but what’s next? How about interoperability? How can we use Alexa to design products that interact with each other?

With healthcare at a critical point, the need for new products and services to move forward, faster and more effectively, is more important than ever. Participants will have 36 hours to collaborate and create meaningful solutions, with the 8 most impactful projects sharing more that $80,000 in prizes. The industry is looking to you to accelerate innovation and drive meaningful change locally and globally. Register now and join us in Vegas from May 5-6 on our mission to reshape healthcare.

HYPHEN is the first of its kind two-day hackathon for the microfinance industry! We're coming up with ideas using Fintech, Software Development, Edtech & Clean Energy. If you are for poverty alleviation, financial inclusion & women empowerment, join us at HYPHEN!

Summer of Weather Code is open to all developers, startups, weather professionals and scientists who are interested in weather forecasts and the visualisation of weather-related data and who are keen to collaborate with world-class scientists. ECMWF presents exciting challenges aimed at improving how weather and climate data and related software are provided to user communities. The new developments will help ECMWF to support national weather services in its Member and Co-operating States.

Create 'actionable insight' from network alarm data The resulting scaling of data provides an opportunity to review and rethink event alarm management and prediction. This includes both integration of existing alarm data management systems and enhancing the logic modelling used to enable prioritisation of events.