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What are the top hackathons in Singapore?
Hello! Thanks for your request to provide the top hackathons in Singapore. The most useful sources I found were the official websites of the hackathons themselves. The short version is that Hack&Roll, Hackathon@SG and F&B Hackathon are currently the biggest hackathons in Singapore.
Below you will find a deep dive of my findings.
METHODOLOGY
I first consulted several tech sites and blogs regarding the hackathon communities in Singapore. After discovering that there are only a handful of hackathons that could be considered the biggest, and that I could not provide you with a complete list of 10, I decided to categorize my findings. I made a section for the consistently recurring and top established hackathons and another for the top new or one time hackathon events by emerging hacker communities.
TOP ESTABLISHED HACKATHON EVENTS
A Hackathon, organized by NUSHackers, open to students in any educational institution in Singapore, including exchange students. Anyone awaiting entry into an educational institution in Singapore (such as NSF or PhD candidates), is also eligible for entry. Non-students may also participate but will not be qualified to win prizes.
The 2016 Hack&Roll event comprised of 350 students and 60 projects, while the 2017 Hack&Roll event had 94 unique projects.
The 24 hour event is the largest student-driven hackathon in Singapore.
Last year's winning projects had a broad variety ranging from sensory augmentation to a robotic assistant for the elderly and young.
Participants are not required to pay an entrance fee.
Organized by the Restaurant Association of Singapore, F&B Tech Hackathon focused on creating the next technology start-up that aims to help innovate the food and beverage industry of Singapore.
Over 100 Poly, ITE and University students who are currently still studying gathered in the 48-hour event.
Participants were required to pay $20 but had $10 refunded after the event. Payments are strictly done online to prevent no-shows on the day itself, as well as to prevent food wastage.
Organized by the Infocomm Development Authority of Singapore and the Information Technology Standard Committee, Hackathon@SG 2015 had 1100 participants.
The hackathon was divided into 4 categories locally.
1.) Junior Category - Limited to children 12 years and below, participants are required to create animations or games using Scratch, a free educational programming language.
2.) Student Category - Limited to participants currently in educational institutions. Participants are required to develop their project around wearables, virtual reality, cloud computing, big data or open data.
4.) HackMed - The main objective of this hackathon is to gather healthcare professionals, engineers, students, programmers, designers and entrepreneurs in an event focused on solving some of healthcare’s biggest challenges through next-gen technology.
All categories focus on turning the entirety of Singapore into a "Smart Nation". According to Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong, "A Smart Nation is where people live meaningful and fulfilled lives, made seamless by technology, offering exciting opportunities for all. We should see it in our daily living where networks of sensors and smart devices enable us to live sustainably and comfortably. We should see it in our communities where technology will enable more people to connect to one another more easily and intensely."
TOP EMERGING HACKATHON EVENTS
With it's 97 000 developers, designers, and entrepreneurs, Angelhack is the biggest and most diverse hacker community worldwide. It is also owned and managed mostly by female developers.
They will have a hackathon in Singpore this coming June 17-18 where participants will be faced with challenges that will be announced only during the first day of the event.
Anyone is welcome to participate and there is no entrance fee.
Over 100 participants were selected to partake in challenges that involve data science, data collection and data analysis.
Organized by DBS, a digital bank services company, Hack2hire is a hackathon with the objective to discover and hire fresh talented developers and designers that will be trained further to improve upon DBS’s digital offering, leveraging cloud technologies, machine learning, artificial intelligence, big data, analytics and any subject necessary to innovate banking in the digital space.
Participants are required to have a degree in computer science or any related technical field of study. They are also required to have strong knowledge of data structures, algorithms, distributed systems, asynchronous architectures and web applications.
The hackathon will also be used to gauge the abilities of 100 participants that may possibly be hired after the event, depending on their performance.
There is no entrance fee required to participate.
Organized by Saber Dev Studio, Destination Hack Singapore is a hackathon that aims to further develop current innovations in the travel industry.
There is no fee required to participate and anyone is allowed to join.
CONCLUSION
To wrap it up, Hackathon@SG, F&B Hackathon and Hack&Roll are currently the biggest hackathon events in Singapore.
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