The Boston Cleanweb Hackathon is a two-day prize competition to demonstrate the impact of applying information technologies to energy and resource constraints, known as the cleanweb. Entrepreneurs, developers, designers, and business professionals create web and mobile IT applications to solve some of our biggest energy and sustainability problems.

A weekend-only hack prize competition, participants have up to 30 hours to create an application of their choice that addresses energy, waste, water, transportation, food or other energy and sustainability issues using web, data analytics, and mobile technologies. Solutions may range from allowing homeowners to monitor and reduce energy usage, to giving people a way to price comparison shop for solar panels. The coding must be fresh; a celebrity panel of judges will choose winners.

Come with a team, or come as yourself and join a team. Bring an idea, or jump on board with someone else’s. Judges, teams, and guests will be from some of the biggest companies in the Boston area, all brought together for a single purpose: to explore the wealth of public and private environmental data and to use their skills to solve pressing sustainability problems.

We’ll provide the great food from local restaurants, some entertainment, and special guests. But we need you to provide the ideas, talent, and hard work.

*Want more time to make your idea a reality? You can also participate in the Data Jam Challenge Competition. Developed in conjunction with the White House Office of Science and Technology and the City of Boston’s Greenovate program, it is a 90-day ‘sprint’ for teams to turn their hackathon ideas into actual products and launch companies, working to advance a clean energy economy.*