Smart City Hackathon 2025 — Hackathon

About This Hackathon

The Smart City Hackathon challenges participants to design tech-driven solutions for urban challenges including traffic management, waste reduction, public safety, and citizen engagement. Work with real open city datasets and IoT infrastructure to prototype solutions that local governments can actually deploy and scale.

Themes & Problem Statements

Traffic Optimization, Waste Management, Public Safety Tech, Citizen Engagement, Smart Utilities

Prize Breakdown

$9,000 for 1st, $5,000 for 2nd, $2,500 for 3rd, $1,500 for most deployable solution

Rules & Guidelines

Projects must use at least one real city open dataset. Solutions must be scalable and cost-effective for municipal budgets. Teams must present a deployment and cost plan. No surveillance solutions that violate civil liberties.

Resources Provided

City of Chicago Open Data, NYC Open Data portal, Mapbox API credits, Azure IoT Hub sandbox, Twilio SMS API

Schedule

Reg. Opens 06 May 2026

Reg. Closes 26 May 2026

Hack Starts 31 May 2026

Hack Ends 10 Jun 2026

Results 16 Jun 2026

Participation

Team Size 2 – 5 members

Max Teams 100

Eligibility Open to all

Tech Stack

Python IoT/MQTT React Node.js PostgreSQL GIS/Mapbox Azure IoT Hub Power BI

Location

Chicago, Illinois, United States

Organizer

UrbanTech Consortium

Michael Brooks

Registration Closed

Closed on 26 May 2026

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