List of hackathons in Ashford, United Kingdom in 2015

Want to master your hackathon skills but don't have a weekend to give up? Not sure what a hackathon is? Curious about how fun they are? The best kept secret is that you don't need to be a developer or "techie" to win a hackathon. A winning team contains a mix of people with different skills and ideas, all coming together to create a solution to a problem and explain what they've done to others. So, if you're a designer, a marketeer or even a footballer, come and join us for what must be the shortest hackathon ever. Practice your skills and learn what it takes to win. If you're a ready made team or you're an individual just looking to build something fun. Come along and get involved. There'll be time to meet people and form teams and discuss ideas before the build time begins. Once the build has ended, teams will get a few short minutes to present their ideas before a winner is chosen. NOTE: This is a free event, but you need to be registered in-advance to attend. Thanks go to PA Consulting for providing the venue. Agenda  6:30pm Arrival, chat and drinks  7:00pm Build time!  8:00pm Team presentations  8:30pm Winner announced and wrap-up

This workshop is designed for startup founders at the early or idea stage. Do you have a startup idea but aren’t sure how to take it forward without capital, technical skills, or expensive equipment ? Are you curious about Lean Startup and how it can help you and your startup succeed? If so, this is the workshop for you. This workshop will lead you through the initial business idea iteration process, helping you to test the market. Lean startup techniques do not require any coding, and you won’t waste time and money creating a website, product, or service that no one wants to use or pay for. After the exercise, you will have the clarity and confidence to take your idea forward. Outline of the workshop: ­  A brief introduction to Lean Startup ­  How to know if your target customers will love your idea ­  Tips for customer interviews ­  MVP (Minimum Viable Product) techniques to test the market  Instructor: Josh Liu Josh is an serial entrepreneur with 8 years of startup experience. He has done startups in enterprise software, hardware, the two­sided marketplace and the consumer Internet. As a keen Lean Startup practitioner, he co­organises Lean Startup Circle London, the largest Lean Startup community in Europe. He conducts Lean workshops at the Hackathon event and Google Campus, and also runs Lean Startup Machine, a 2­day Lean Startup bootcamp.  He is now a partner at Source Institute, an entrepreneurship education and support organisation. He is also a managing partner at HardwarePro, a early stage hardware advisory and investment firm.

Interested in hacking, making or coding things? Interested in the stories that objects can tell us about everyday life? Join us on Saturday 14th November 2015 for the 'My Object Stories' Hackathon! We want you to help us make an interactive digital archive of young people’s everyday objects and the stories behind them. Working with a team of expert hackers and archivists, you’ll get the chance to help design and make something that has never been built before! To take part you need: • To be aged 13-16 years • To have an object that you’re comfortable sharing the story of on the day (you’ll be able to take it home with you afterwards!) • To be prepared to help design and build an interactive archive of young people’s everyday objects. No previous technical experience is required, you just need to be willing to work as part of a team and have lots of enthusiasm! For more information on the hackathon (including directions to the event) go to: http://blogs.sussex.ac.uk/everydaychildhoods/hackathon/  Spaces are limited, so sign up today! Lunch and refreshments provided (please specify any special dietry requirements in the form).

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What is UnituHack? UnituHack is the first student & staff hackathon, bringing them together to form a team for one day to co-create technological innovations and solutions for specific challenges found in universities. This is an opportunity for all types of university staff and students who may have an idea they would like to create and improve their own academic experience. Attendees do not need to come up with their own ideas, but instead they can join a team once they get to the event. NOTE: After you attend the event, we will reimburse your ticket on Eventbrite! What is a Hackathon? A hackathon is an event where people with ideas come together for the purpose of solving a problem that exists, or creating a product that is needed in the real world. Why should I go? Some of the benefits delegates have experienced at our previous event are: Creating solutions to your educational challenges Networking with other staff and students in different universities Developing and learning new professional skills Having free food served to them all day (breakfast, pizza, sandwiches and snacks) Chance to win prizes worth over £1,000 Getting some great hackathon swag Having fun and be part of the hackathon community What are others saying about UnituHack? "Thank you to you and the team for hosting such a brilliant event. I am particularly interested in student-staff partnerships, and it was a fantastic way to see some front-line work. It is interesting to see the areas that are consistently identified by students as being ‘problematic’- from staying abreast of information to peer support and communication with lecturers (not to mention food!). The atmosphere was incredibly positive and I can only imagine how much work went on to pull together this event." Rebecca Rochon, Senior Lecturer in Education @ Buckinghamshire New University Click here to see what others tweeted on the day: Tweets about #Unituhack 2014 What is the refund policy? Tickets can be refunded 48 hours or more before the event. Once you get to the event, you must abide by the Code of Conduct. Further details: Please visit www.unituhack.com or contact Ana Jalba at ana@unitu.co.uk

  Overview Located in a great place for sky high ideas, coding and views - Level39 at Canary Wharf - the 12th edition of Hack/Make The Bank Fin Tech Hackathon will host up to 80 programmers, designers and members of the financial services industry who will come together for two days of brainstorming and software creation. The room will be full of innovation and game changing ideas in retail banking, capital markets, payments, big data and beyond! Attendees have a host of application programming interfaces (APIs) and services they can leverage and combine in order to bring their innovative ideas to life. They can participate alone or join a team. Each team will work on a FinTech idea developed during the hackathon or prior to it. All the participants will demo their hacks to a panel of bank executives, FinTech entrepreneurs and the general public at the end of the day. This hackathon will be held at Level39, Europe’s largest accelerator space for fintech, located in Canary Wharf - London's leading finance and business district. This event is sponsored by Accenture and Temenos and co-organised by TESOBE / Open Bank Project and Level39.                           

   Welcome to the first ever Product Hunt Hackathon in London www.producthunthackathon.com #PHLDNHACK On November 6-8th we are hosting a 48hr event with 200 of London’s best designers, developers, marketers, hackers and business folk to create explosive solutions to world problems at a superb venue, WeWork.    The Hackathon Brief How can we make use of our (local, national, global) comunities to effect change?     The Weekend Agenda Friday 6th November:  18:00: Networking 19:30: Briefing 20:00: Inspiration Hour 20:30: Pitches (1m each) 21:30: Voting & Establishing Teams 23:00: Get rest for the weekend   Saturday 7th:  08:30: Yoga  09:00: Breakfast 09:30: Business Principles 101  10:15: Get Making  13:00: Lunch 14:30: Mentors walk in 18.00: Dinner 20:45: Inspirational Talk   Sunday 8th:  08:30: Yoga 09:00: Breakfast  09:30: Mentors walk in  13:00: Lunch 14:00: Round 1 Pitches 17:00: Round 2 Pitches 18:00: Results  18:30: Drinks & networking    Our Judges:  Diane Perlman - CMO at MassChallenge  George Berkowski - Co-Founder of IceCream & Head of Product at Hailo Craig Crawford - Creative Director at CrawfordIT Hercules Fisherman - Founder, Dr Voxx  Daniel Harvey - Experience Design Director at Sapient Nitro Mark Jenkins - UX/UI Designer Ari Helgason - VC at Dawn Capital   The Rules 1. You cannot work on your project before the event begins. 2. Don't use code you have previously worked on. 3. You cannot use another team's source code. You may only use what is available publicly to everyone. 4. The decision of the judges is final for determining prizes and awards 5. Please comply with all instructions from Product Hunt hackathon organizers 6. Make sure to read the T&C’s before confirming your ticket Judging criteria:  Scores are out of 35/40 points for the following criteria:  Impact        (5 points) Design        (5 points) Creativity    (5 points) Simplicity    (5 points) Scalability   (5 points) Optional/Bonus Points: Use of Braintree API (5 points)    Tweet your excitement here   Sponsorship:    Interested in Sponsoring?   We'd love to hear from you, download our sponsorship pack for more information [www.producthunthackathon.com] or email hello@adpreneurs.com and we'll send you more info!  FAQs Q: What is the Product Hunt Hackathon? A: This is a three day event bringing together the best designers, developers, marketers, hackers & business folk to create explosive solutions to world problems. Q: Do I have to be a programmer or designer to attend? A: Preferably, while it’s important you have an interest in technology and building things, we’re looking for passionate hustlers to participate in as part of our community, so if you are a kick ass ideator, you’re more than welcome to join in on the fun. Q: How do I find a team / how are teams formed? A: Teams are created on Friday night during the briefing. If you have an idea, you will have 60 seconds to pitch it to the whole group, if you don’t, not to worry, you’ll get to mix and mingle so you can find an idea you believe in and help lead your team to victory! Q: How do I/we get involved? A: Sign up on here obviously! Otherwise see more information at: www.producthunthackathon.com Q: What are we being judged on? A: Scores are out of 35/40 points for the following criteria:   Impact (5 points) Customer Validation (5 points) Design (5 points) Creativity (5 points) Simplicity (5 points) Business Model & Scalability (5 points) Technology (5 points) Optional/Bonus Points: Use of Braintree API (5 points)   Optional Usage of Braintree_Paypal API (5 Points) Q: Who owns the IP I create during the hackathon? A: You and/or the team. Please make sure to read the Terms & Conditions before hitting ‘I agree’ on Eventbrite.   For Hackers: http://phhackertermsandconditions.strikingly.com/  For Industry Delegates: phdelegatestermsandconditions.strikingly.com  For Founders (To use at your discretion): http://phfoundersagreement.strikingly.com   Q: What are the prizes? A: Apart from the admiration of everyone in the building, you’ll receive an awesome prize which we’ll be announcing closer to the event. (Ssshhh! you might be receiving grant money to take your idea on further) Q: Will there be food? A: You’ll be eating top end filling food options for breakfast, lunch and dinner, so don’t worry, you won’t be going hungry. If you have special dietary requirements please don’t forget to email us at hello@adpreneurs.com so we can prepare you a special meal. Q: Who is organising the Product Hunt Hackathon? A: Nicole Bosky & Jamahl McMurran from Adpreneurs ltd. (www.adpreneurs.com)  in affiliation with Product Hunt (www.producthunt.com).   Q: Do I have to bring my printed ticket to the event?  A: If you have the Eventbrite app on your smartphone make sure you have the ticket saved, but might be a good idea to bring a print out just incase!  Q: What is the refund policy? A: Don't do that to us! If you have to, pop us an email at hello@adpreneurs.com and we'll sort you out. We will not be refunding any tickets within 7 days of the start of the event.      Q: How can I get in touch with the organisers? A: Email hello@adpreneurs.com or send us a friendly tweet @adpreneurs Brought to you by:                                   By registering for this event you acknowledge that you have read and agreed to our terms and conditions.     Entrant T&Cs                 Industry T&Cs   Join the conversation using #PHldnhack View #PHldnhack posts    

For full detail please visit http://yoyowallet.com/playground    Friday talks (November 6) 12:00 Doors open 12:00 14:00 Discover Mark Munson Innovation partner Visa Collab Payments in the evolving world of commerce Philipp Bieberstein Head of Google play  Google Mobile commerce and retail James Allgrove Head of Growth  Stripe Infrastructure powering new business models Break 14:00 15:00 Watch Michael Langguth Co-founder Poq Cloud platform for next gen of app commerce Tom Hutchinson Mobile Engineer  Yoyo Mobile wallet platform Richard Muirhead Partner Firestartr TBC Break 15:00 16:00 Think Michael Rolph    Co-founder Yoyo Powering complexity so you can focus on beauty J F Grossen Exec Creative Director Frog Designes that build businesses  16:00 17:00 Make Hafez Rafirasme Head of partnerships   Yoyo Next Gen commerce hackathon Drinks      Weekend Hackathon (November 7-8) It's time to play and we're bringing out the toys! This is a commerce hackathon so think payments, loyalty, analytics, vouchers, ticketing, identity, marketing, you name it and it's possible with the sweet APIs we have hand picked. The Yoyo API delivers everything you need for a smart mobile wallet in a single API & SDK. Twilio is all about communication and Estimote is the mother of all beacons and Pusher's real time API. The perfect blend to unlock your awesome ideas. Get ready to trans-hackt! What's the drill? Come as a pre-formed team or team up at the event Bake your hack over the weekend Present in 3 minutes Recourses provided Yoyo API &SDK Estimote API & Beacons Pusher API Twilio API $100 in AWS credit for all teams Lots of beer and food  Prizes First place: Sphero R2D2s 2nd place: Quadcopter drones 3rd place: Raspberry Pis Firestartr favourite: 90 minutes business plan workshop with Firestartr 

You are invited to: The Kingdom Code November Meetup Monday, 02 November, 7pm The Ace Hotel, 100 Shoreditch High St in the back bar at the rear of the lobby Whether you are an entrepreneur & ideas person, designer, engineer or simply passionate about technology and faith - please join us. This will be a great time to meet new friends, people to collaborate with, catch up with friends from the hackathon - and to find out more about what Kingdom Code is about. Who knows - maybe you will leave with a new idea and new team to work on an exciting venture with. It could be a business, or nonprofit, or ministry idea... or you may just enjoy hanging out.  This is a social meetup. Looking forward to seeing you there. The Kingdom Code Team :) PS. If you have a hackathon T shirt, do wear it so that others who might want to know more about it can spot you and ask you about it.

  Register for Fintech Storm - 29 October at http://fintechstorm29october2015.eventbrite.com   In continued tradition of our stupendously successful Fintech Storm Series Genius Incubator Presents   Fintech Storm - IOT, Telematics & Payments 29 October 2015   Come meet the disruptive thought　leaders that are imagining the future of banking.   We invited the most innovative firms applying technology to solve industry problems This is a Meetup not to be missed with talks and a round table where the movers and shakers of the hottest new industry - Fintech - will debate opportunities, and challenges of the new age bank! Register here: http://fintechstorm29october2015.eventbrite.com   What: Fintech Storm featuring disrupters Meet the CEOs See Product Demos Join the Fintech Revolution! When: 6:00pm-9:00pm 29 October 2015 Where: Rainmaking Loft, International House 1 Saint Katherine's Way, London, E1W 1 UN 2 min walk from MOORGATE and 4 min walk from Liverpool street stations   "besotted with blockchain.." On @Linkedin by our Founder Arifa Khan. https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/besotted-blockchain-arifa-khan    Joe Nash, Developer Advocate, Braintree Payments Joe is a Developer Advocate at Braintree Payments, a PayPal Company. Having learnt the dark arts of FP at the University of Nottingham, Joe is passionate about functional techniques and their benefits to developers. He believes in the educational benefits of hackathons and hack culture, and helped kickstart student hackathons in the UK as part of the European team at Major League Hacking. Insert Token: Tokenization and Immersion Tokenization is a vital technique for insuring security of critical user information, from usernames and passwords, to credit card numbers. But it's capable of more than just keeping us safe; it can improve the experience of our apps beyond measure. In this lightning talk, we'll do a quick, deep dive into what immersion means, and how you can ensure it in your apps using tokenization. Andy Goldby, Chief Product Officer, The Floow    Andy is a highly respected General Insurance industry executive and Qualified Actuary, with significant experience of industry issues built up over years of participation on the ABI Motor Committee and MIB Levy Committee.   He is responsible for ensuring that the telematics product delivered to insurers and fleet managers is tailored to the client’s needs and that the scoring derived from The Floow's low-cost telematic system can be provided to motor insurers, car makers and fleet operators with actionable insights to improve pricing and increase customer loyalty and ROI.    The Floow   “Independent UK based telematics company The Floow supports leading insurers across the globe. It was founded in 2012 by sector leaders specialising in computer science, business and insurance. It produces comprehensive analytics and digital end-user services; delivering the world’s most advanced, low cost telematics - making vehicles safer and cheaper.”   Thibaut Rouffineau, IOT Expert, Canonical   Thibaut will show how to simply build an appstore for your IOT Gateway (or for that matter your fridge, your drone or your router).    It will explain how applications can be delivered in a simple and secure manner and let end user reconfigure or add new functionalities to their IOT Gateways in a click!     Lui Smith, UK Lead, Coinjar      As UK lead and general manager for Australia's largest Bitcoin wallet and exchange service,  - Setting up the legal, financial, and regulatory infrastructure for CoinJar's UK/Europe operation. - Building and leading a marketing strategy for UK service. - Assisting with recruitment of London engineering staff. - Establishing support services team for European timezones. - Generally leading and taking responsibility for CoinJar's UK/Europe operations as they grow.Postgraduate Researcher University College London September 2012 – September 2014 (2 years 1 month)Department of Anthropology conducted ethnographic research examining the politics and motivations of the Bitcoin community as part of UCL's digital anthropology program. My research included the largest qualitative survey of Bitcoin users to date (1000+ responses). I also examined the unique role of the block chain as a shared community canon, the demographics of early adopters, and the social processes that allow digital tokens to hold financial value. maintained a blog throughout my research at http://simulacrum.cc/category/bitcoin/     Dagmara Lacka, CEO & Co-founder, Boldmind     Boldmind, an Internet of Things company, we create innovative applications for real world devices. We tailor strategies for organizations looking to unlock the wealth of intelligent data generated by connected devices.  We believe a competitive advantage will be achieved     by connecting the dots of various data points generated between humans and machines.   Boldmind was founded in 2012 by leading professionals in the digital, marketing, technology and media spaces. The aim was to use our multi- disciplinary knowledge to bring dedicated software and product solutions to clients who were beginning to realise the marketing potential of web, mobile and connected devices to drive business growth.   Boldmind delivers a viable, cost effective and rapid route to market for organisations looking to leverage the growing opportunities driven by the Internet of things.   Thrilled to announce our next debate on capital markets 6-9pm in London featuring the most awaited  innovations : Otonomos, Heckyl, Blockchain Tech corp and Streamdata.io to embrace the technology for banking. Our debates are high in Intellectual quotient, scholastic ability and debate to transform the world banking and financial order.      Fintech is at one of the most exciting points in its evolution, with disruption occurring everywhere you look. Alternative financing models, mobile payments and  bitcoin are gaining increasing traction with consumers and businesses alike. Some challenges remain for certain fintech businesses targeting the mainstream, but there’s no denying 2015 is proving a huge year for the global fintech industry.      “The top 12 VCs that are reputed for spotting billion dollar valuation unicorns early such as Benchmark, Andreeson Horrowitz, Union Square Ventures and Sequoia are investing in Fintech in 4 main verticals of Online Lending, Personal Finance Management, Bitcoin & Cryptocurrencies, Marketplaces and Peer to Peer platforms.     We are helping emerging talent in Fintech get that early exposure to the banking & financial services ecosystem  as well as investors, facilitating a deeper understanding and dialogue. We are also evangelising Fintech and bringing sophisticated knowledge of research labs of disrupters like Coinsciences, Cubits, Blockchain.info, Symbiont.io and their futuristic thinking to the common man.     Talk to our audience. And we have fiercely loyal repeat audience. And they can now debate confidently with technologists on topics as esoteric as blockchain to as mundane as mobile payments.      The most sought after Fintech companies share a number of characteristics:     They operate in large growing global markets  They are world class in their niche  They have attractive underlying business models with strong recurring revenues  Demonstrable opportunity to drive top line growth  World class talent and teams      Come along for a rich education on this hot new industry thats growing fast and reimagining our economy. Come join a lively evening of insightful presentations from disruptive fintech players and engaging discussions, rounded off by networking drinks with more senior executives from major banking and financial services companies, hot startups and investors.    More profiles to come..                              Arifa Khan Founder Fintech Storm Series     Arifa Khan Founder Fintech Storm   Read what the Londoners have to say about http://FintechStorm.com the spectacularly successful brand monthly series Arifa Khan has built, here.   Arifa Khan is a former investment banker in Private Equity led Leveraged Buyouts Mandate M&A transactions, a seasoned finance, strategy and operations executive based in the city of the London, with over 15 years experience in finance, specialising in Leveraged Finance/ Financial Sponsors Coverage/ Debt Products & Credit. She has worked with two suisse banks Credit Suisse & UBS. She has deep sector expertise in finance, operational insights, and the business acumen to forge big strategic partnerships.   Arifa has independently advised companies of all sizes from pre revenue to deal sizes of GBP300m on venture capital funding, scaling, international expansion, strategy etc. As an investment banker she has executed LBOs of sizes upto several billion USD across Europe across verticals such as Healthcare, Media Telecom & IT, Financial Institutions. She is a thought leader on innovation and disruption in financial services and a sought after speaker on payments and fintech at international conferences such as ICBI’s Payments International in London Mar 17-20, and will be speaking at Women’s Economic Forum Goa May 7-11. She currently architects Wharton Distinguished Dinner Series for Wharton UK Alumni Club as a Wharton Club Committee Member, and is currently the Chairperson London Chapter for All Ladies League.   Arifa has an MBA from The Wharton School of Business, a B.Tech degree from IIT Madras in Chemical Engineering. She is passionate about fintech and Blockchain. See her vision of Blockchain here. Read "besotted with blockchain.." An overview of Blockchain's potential by Arifa Khan on Linkedin. https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/besotted-blockchain-arifa-khan Read a review of Fintech Storm's recent event Open Bank / Marketplace Banking held on 22nd July here : "A tale of APIs.." By Arifa Khan   Read an article "war for your wallet.." on Payments and mobile wallets by Arifa Khan on Linkedin  https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/war-your-wallet-arifa-khan?trk=prof-post     Who should Attend?   Senior  directors or advisors   Professionals working in banking and financial services industry   Compliance or Regulatory professionals   Managers and strategists of finance or investment companies   Advisers and Financial services consultants   Digital transformation specialists   Blockchain researchers   Fintech startups   MBA & other students specialising in finance   Public policy makers     See Fintech Storm in action here   Dont miss Fintech Storm Capital Markets  October 15 http://fintechstorm15october2015.eventbrite.com Dont miss Fintech Storm Cloud computing & Cloud Storage November 12 http://fintechstormnovember2015.eventbrite.com Look up our upcoming events at one place http://finetchstorm.eventbrite.com                               Join the delegation of European Technology firms to India December 17th 2015, to New Delhi at Hotel Taj Mahal  Europe-India Conclave Future of Banking, Payments & Technology 2015 https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/europe-india-conclave-banking-payments-technology-december-arifa-khan  http://fintechstorm.com/europe-india Read "Technology for Transportation" on Linkedin by Arifa Khan https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/road-indias-riches-technology-transportation-from-europe-arifa-khan See Fintech Storm in action here