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It’s always great to be able to spread news of Australian success stories in technology and today that story is Kerb. An Australian-founded global parking app have won the first Toyota Hackathon in Melbourne on the weekend. In Australian cities and the world over, parking is a major hassle....
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The National Australia Bank have teamed up with Alibaba’s Cloud division to host a hackathon this weekend, to explore new ways to help Australian small businesses leverage opportunities to do business with Asia. The 3-day event will see more than 100 people across 15 teams look at how data...
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What happens when the panda people hold a hackathon? Recently the charity WWF-Australia partnered with Schneider Electric, University of Technology Sydney (UTS), NAB and Hackathons Australia, to host the second Future Cities Hackathon. Also on hand was Brooklyn-based, ConsenSys, a blockchain venture production studio. Held at UTS, the hackathon brought together some...
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Schneider Electric is the company that owns Clipsal, those light switches and powerpoints in your house, but the company is much broader than that. Its a global specialist in energy management and automation, that has just held their first hackathon, ) in partnership with Blue Chilli and Transport for...
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If you’re a student in Victoria and love to hack on code, hardware or just problems in general, you should know UNIHACK is back for 2015. The student hackathon, is coming back this August, with registrations open now. For the very first time, all university and TAFE students from...
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After 24 hours of development, many participants without sleep, Ford’s first Melbourne-based Hackathon is over. The entries spanned many industries, with plenty of creative ideas and all seemed to target different driving problems. After the 5 minutes pitches (including demos) there was an opportunity for the judges to ask...
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Starting at 9AM yesterday morning, Ford Australia’s 24hr hackathon got underway. As we approach the 24 hour mark where the hacking stops, it’s worth taking a look at the progress so far. Ford have released two videos of developers hard at work. You’ll spot plenty of software simulations, even...