List of hackathons in Alderley Edge, Sk9 in 2018

Join us for a hacking cool challenge: To develop a solution for Crowd Management and Crowd Experience. Aimed at: developers,entrepreneurs,engineers,startups,SMEs,students,IoT /IT experts and those of you who just feel passionate about tech! The prize: € 5000 cash Growth acceleration programme Pilot test of developed solution Pre-selection for the next IoTTribe programme *Travel bursaries available. More info and applications at http://hackingley.eu/

Machine learning, data science, and data analytics techies in and around Sheffield! You're invited to participate in The Rolls-Royce Manufacturing Hackathon. You'll be challenged to design and build an artificial intelligence (AI) solution that automates inspection, trend detection and measurement adjustments in the inspection process of aero-engine manufacture. Collaborate and compete to win the £10,000 first prize.

King Edward's School (KES), Edgbaston, invite you to join us for our weekend: KES Student MedTech Hackathon,  Friday 12th October - Sunday 14th October 2018 Engage & improve upon your computer coding skills together with medics & professional coders to brainstorm a product targeted at dealing with major global healthcare problems! Network with Tech (MedTech & FinTech) companies looking for talented and motivated individuals in this exciting and expanding sector. All profits generated from ticket sales will be donated to our charity - The King Edward's School Birmingham Trust. This charity supports the Assisted Places Scheme, which allows children to attend KES who could not otherwise afford a place.  Photographic stills and short movie clips will be taken during the event for our social media platforms. Please bring along your laptops and chargers! Prices Early Bird Fee: available until Friday 31st August 2018 £35 Standard Fee: applies from Saturday 1st September 2018 until Thursday October 11th 2018 £50 On-Site Fee: on sale Friday 12th October 2018 until 1700 only £75  (Places are limited to a maximum of 50 students)

Purpose:  The ambition is to bring the open source culture in to the act of building a Smart City in Sheffield. This is about being open and inclusive and no matter what your skill level to help you play a valuable role in building technology that benefits Sheffielders. How the Hackathon works:  The Sheffield Hackspace (Sheffield Hardware, Hackers & Makers – SHH&M) will run a monthly hackathon around Smart City technology for a trial period of 6 months and with a view to extending and expanding if demand is proven. The first hackathon will be on Sunday April 15th (11.00am to 4.00pm).  There won’t be a hackathon in August (holiday season), making the final hackathon due in September 2018. There will be some projects that groups work on and some projects individuals work on. Participants will have access to people with know-how, various equipment and a lab-like environment to work in. We don’t want to impose our agenda so in Hackathon #1 (i.e. 15th April) we will explore how do you want this to work? We expect the 6 hackathons to focus on The Things Network (https://www.thethingsnetwork.org/ ) Gateways and Nodes, as well as Sensors, Apps, IoT Services etc, all to be agreed on the 15th April. Cost:  Hackathon attendance is free to existing members of Sheffield Hardware Hackers & Makers. Hackathon attendance for non-SHH members costs £6 and enables you to visit one of the weekly Special Interest Group (SIG) of your choice and access a drop-in session that runs on alternating Saturdays in the month you attended. This is payable at the door. Existing SIGs are: Monday Evening: (1) Hackspace Meeting, (2) Electronics SIG (6.00pm to 9.00pm) Thursday Evening: Robotics SIG (6.30pm to 9.00pm) Friday Evening: (1) Radio & Mesh Networking SIG, (2) CNC & Machine Building SIG, (3) Open Session (6.00pm to 9.00pm) Alternate Saturdays: (1) Drop in session (11.00am to 6.00pm), (2) Gaming SIG (6.00pm to 9.00pm) If people choose to become members then we could run a Smart City SIG on either a Tuesday or Wednesday evening. SHH membership costs £6/month (See here for more information: http://www.sheffieldhardwarehackers.org.uk/wordpress/become-a-member/ )

Decoding the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals ahead of the 73rd Session of the UN General Assembly (UNGA 73) in New York on September 20th, 2018. Dates: Saturday 8th of Sept and Sunday the 9th of September 2018.  We're organizing another Global Goals hackathon before we head off to New York!!!  Join us!! It's free, and it's for everyone — not just programmers! Are you concerned about the World Current affairs? Want to make an impact and learn how to code? Then mark on your calendar the weekend of 8th and 9th of September 2018. Sign up 2018 with a friend, and come to the Unilever Offices at Port Sunlight for the most creative 48 hours you'll spend this year with the amazing and inspirational Marieme Jamme who will facilitate the 2 days event. Don't Miss it!!  Where: Unilever Offices in Port Sunlight  What: to take part in a two-day hackathon experience and learn about: the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals practice Design Thinking explore the Kano Computer Kit the iamtheCODE iDEA Curriculum and World's Largest Lessons. create with technology and code  By the end of the weekend, participants will have had the opportunity to: Decode the 17 UN Sustainable Development Goals (also known as the Global Goals) and understand key indicators that could drive social change Get hands-on with the iamtheCODE Design Thinking framework to build technology solutions related to the SDGs: Empathy, Define, Ideate, Prototype, Test Make technology and create with code using Kano Kits  Use technology to design a solution to raise awareness around or address specific SDGs including Goals: Zero Hunger, Gender Equality, Quality of Education and Climate Change Win a prize for your group or your school. Children must be accompanied by a teacher or an adult if under 16. All food and transportation will be provided upon receipt. The Cost: FREE Host and Backer: Unilever Port Sunlight Local Partner:  www.the2030hub.com Prizes: Inspiration, DIY Computer Kits, mentoring, and tee-shirts Get in touch with us:  Mariéme Jamme at marieme@iamthecode.org or David Connor at david.connor@the2030hub.com for more information about the event.

The first of the UK's ZenME events. Gathering busy professionals together to explore the Resilience Principles and well being skills and attributes. Based upon Egyptian adversity and rules of survival. This workshop will be the first step into self- coaching and a co- worker coaching environment. We are including a self- worth hackathon and we have a guest speaker that will be sharing how she turned trauma into something extraodinary.  This is an Introductory offer and will resume to full price in September. 

Purpose:  The ambition is to bring the open source culture in to the act of building a Smart City in Sheffield. This is about being open and inclusive and no matter what your skill level to help you play a valuable role in building technology that benefits Sheffielders. How the Hackathon works:  The Sheffield Hackspace (Sheffield Hardware, Hackers & Makers – SHH&M) will run a monthly hackathon around Smart City technology for a trial period of 6 months and with a view to extending and expanding if demand is proven. The first hackathon will be on Sunday April 15th (11.00am to 4.00pm).  There won’t be a hackathon in August (holiday season), making the final hackathon due in September 2018. There will be some projects that groups work on and some projects individuals work on. Participants will have access to people with know-how, various equipment and a lab-like environment to work in. We don’t want to impose our agenda so in Hackathon #1 (i.e. 15th April) we will explore how do you want this to work? We expect the 6 hackathons to focus on The Things Network (https://www.thethingsnetwork.org/ ) Gateways and Nodes, as well as Sensors, Apps, IoT Services etc, all to be agreed on the 15th April. Cost:  Hackathon attendance is free to existing members of Sheffield Hardware Hackers & Makers. Hackathon attendance for non-SHH members costs £6 and enables you to visit one of the weekly Special Interest Group (SIG) of your choice and access a drop-in session that runs on alternating Saturdays in the month you attended. This is payable at the door. Existing SIGs are: Monday Evening: (1) Hackspace Meeting, (2) Electronics SIG (6.00pm to 9.00pm) Thursday Evening: Robotics SIG (6.30pm to 9.00pm) Friday Evening: (1) Radio & Mesh Networking SIG, (2) CNC & Machine Building SIG, (3) Open Session (6.00pm to 9.00pm) Alternate Saturdays: (1) Drop in session (11.00am to 6.00pm), (2) Gaming SIG (6.00pm to 9.00pm) If people choose to become members then we could run a Smart City SIG on either a Tuesday or Wednesday evening. SHH membership costs £6/month (See here for more information: http://www.sheffieldhardwarehackers.org.uk/wordpress/become-a-member/ )

Leeds City Centre Network resilience hackathon – by invitation only On Tuesday 10th July Yorkshire Water will be hosting a brand new hackathon focusing on optimising our networks to predict our ever unpredictable weather patterns. We would like to invite you to this exclusive, closed event as part of a unique opportunity to get into the heart of Yorkshire Water and develop new tools and insights that can pin-point the optimal location of over 8,000 network monitors throughout our region. The event will take place at an exclusive location in Leeds City Centre and participants will get the chance to interrogate multiple datasets, from include pollution incident reports, CSO telemetry data & sewer flooding incident history. Geographic identifiers will be included via secure data transfer methods with GDPR protection provided by a licence arrangement developed by the ODI. The event, jointly facilitated by our partners the Open Data Institute (ODI Leeds) and with Yorkshire Water Directors and Jonson Cox, OFWAT chair in attendance, will present a unique perspective to our data and offer brand new insights into how new technology can unlock the secrets of our network infrastructure; something we are all keen to harness in this new world of innovation. The event is a must attend for anyone who has previously attended our data events, those interested in working closely with the water industry and those with a commercial interest in data exploration.Please see the enclosed programme for full details of the event. If you are interested in attending, either as a guest or participant, please register your interest to receive more information. Visitors will be advised prior to the event on the exact location that we will be hosting the hackathon. For more information, please contact our communications team on 01274 804352 or email duncan.macintyre@yorkshirewater.co.uk

The Digital and Creative team are delighted to invite you to our ‘e-Buddy Hackathon’ | Saturday 7th July, 10am – 4pm As a part of your induction to Oldham College we would like to offer you the opportunity to attend an exclusive event supported by Barclays Bank and Microsoft’s Digital Accessibility Teams. “A hackathon is a design sprint-like event in which computer programmers and others involved in software development, including graphic designers, interface designers, project managers, and others, often including subject-matter-experts, collaborate intensively on software projects.” For this event, we aim to ‘Hack’ a student’s first week at College, to see how we can use technology and YOUR innovative thinking to improve and simplify the experience of studying at a new location! This will also be a fantastic opportunity to learn how large Blue Chip organisations such as Microsoft and Barclays are harnessing technology and inclusive design principles to transform the customer experience for EVERYONE, ensuring that NO ONE is left behind in a rapidly changing world. There are only LIMITED places available so if you want to guarantee your spot please RSVP, ASAP, places will be allocated on a first come first serve basis!!! DO NOT MISS this opportunity to meet and spend time with the tutors from the Digital and Creative team and Industry leading experts from Microsoft and Barclays. This workshop WILL increase your knowledge and skills in readiness for your course start! Lunch and refreshments will be provided. If England get to the quarters and happen to be playing at 3pm then we will have screens showing the game! Hackers like football too!

A lively event to launch and grow new collaborations between Alder Hey and University of Liverpool staff, featuring: Collaborative working theme launch & identification of opportunities Mini Hackathon / 60-second Soap Box pitches: your opportunity to build collaborations Funding: The launch of a new £800,000 Hugh Greenwood Legacy Fund for joint Alder Hey – UoL research projects A networking lunch with NHS & academic colleagues Registration and tea/coffee will be from 8:30 am, for a 9:00 am start.