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Stemettes Hack Leeds @ UST Global
  29 Oct - 10:00 AM
  Leeds, United Kingdom
UST Global have teamed up with Stemettes to bring you a really unique and exciting event where you can create your very own app! Have you ever used an app? Would you like to make one? Are you interested in technology? Come to the UST Global App Hack in Leeds! No previous coding experience necessary. Done some coding before? Our experts will teach you how to create apps using HTML and other app building tools. Win prizes! Food and Laptops provided – just bring yourself! UST Global App Hack is hosted by Stemettes. Stemettes are working hard to inspire and help the next generation of females get into Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths.  Completely FREE, thanks to our wonderful sponsors UST Global. Here's what happened at our last hackathon >> Sign up below.  What is a hackathon? Hackathons aren't about breaking into things! They're about bringing people together to create amazing things using computers. We think it's really sad that some people have never been to a hackathon or had proper fun with Computer Science, so we want to give you the opportunity to explore and play about in the creative, exciting world of technology. Who Girls aged 5 all the way up to 22. Parents/Guardians. If you're under 16, you'll need to have an adult with you. On the plus side, we'd love it if they helped out with making your game or app! Women (and Men) with a STEM background and are interested in inspiring the next generation. (see below for more details) When Thursday 25th October 10am-5:00pmFriday 26th October 10am-5:00pm Where We'll be at UST Global's office in Leeds.  Address: UST-Global, 33 Park Place, Leeds, LS1 2RY What you need to bring Yourself and any great ideas you have. If you have access to headphones and an Android phone, please bring them with you. We will provide everything else.  Running order Thursday10:00 - Guests arrive. Preback forms handed out.10:30 - Welcome and ice breaker. Event introduction from Head Stemette, Anne-Marie and UST Global11:00 - Brief given, ‘teaches’, begin mini-projects1:30 - Lunch2:15 - Return to projects3:30 - Afternoon tours4:15 - Continue projects5:00 - Wrap up and power down. End of the day. Friday10:00 - Ice breaker and daily brief session. Event introduction from Head Stemette Anne-Marie and UST Global10:30 - Back to projects1:00 - Break for lunch1:45 - Resume projects2:45 - Break3:00 - Finish projects3:15 - Presentations, demo day begins4:15 - Prizes5:00 - Feedback forms handed out. End of day Industry people Are you interested in helping young people learn to code and discover making?  We are looking for adults who have a STEM background to help the girls learn to code in HTML, Appshed and Appinventor tools and show them the range of possible careers you can do after studying STEM subjects.  All you need to do is provide inspiration and help the girls with their projects when they get stuck.  We will provide food and reasonable transport costs to helpers.  Register as a Volunteer. Tools we will be using Appshed - online app-creation tool where anyone can design and publish mobile apps for iOS, Android and web Appinventor - visual, blocks language for building Android Apps Marvel - POP helps you transform your pen and paper ideas into an interactive iPhone or Android prototype. Brought to you by:  UST Global UST Global® is a leading provider of end-to-end IT services and solutions for Global 1000 companies. We use a client-centric Global Engagement Model that combines local, senior, on-site resources with the cost, scale, and quality advantages of off-shore operations. This client-centric focus forms the basis for how we, as a company, operate and serve our clients. Commitment to long-term client success empowers every associate to provide value and flexibility beyond the contract. The industry-leading expertise found within our Centers of Excellence (CoEs) plays a key role in our success with clients. The CoEs deliver pragmatic IT solutions that allow clients to consistently achieve their most critical business objectives. Our Partner Program complements the Centers of Excellence. The program aims to develop strategic relationships with best-of-breed organizations to provide UST Global developers with advance access to new technology and educational resources. We adopt Six Sigma practices for developing our client-facing processes. Our centers in India are ISO 27001 certified and we were assessed PCMM level 5 in 2004. These certifications and practices provide a qualified foundation for all UST Global service offerings and enable our clients to benefit internally. FAQs Can I attend on only one day? It is advisable to attend on both days, but we understand that not everyone is able to do that. The projects are designed to take two days: if you attend on the Saturday, unless you work with someone who is doing both days, you cannot win a prize. If you attend on Sunday, you are eligible to win a prize at 'Demo Day'. Are my boys able to attend too? Brothers and cousins can attend, but only if they bring a sister, female cousin or female identifying friend with them.
    University of Leeds Hackathon
      26 Oct - 07:00 PM
      Leeds, United Kingdom
      Everyone is invited to join our 24 hour non-stop hackathon looking at the challenging and exciting area of Financial Technology in partnership with major technology leaders (PWC, YBS and others). Join us for this event, work in a team and propose a concept, or build a prototype, or design a start-up. Our sponsors have provided a set of topics in the areas of financial tech, digital identity, security, and personal digital assistants. Once you've been allocated a team, you will have 24 hours to propose a great idea for a particular topic and produce an initial prototype. You will then present your idea to a judging panel on Sunday afternoon. A winning team will be chosen for each topic area. Throughout the event you will be given mentoring and support by research staff and engineers in designing and building your concept. Mentors will also be on hand to look at your CV and give you tips on employability etc. PRIZES The winning teams will each receive a £500 Amazon voucher.  TEAMS Teams will consist of 4 people, you can either register as a team or we can help you form a team at the reception event. We encourage multi-disciplinary teams to give you the best the chance of success. AGENDA Fri 26 Oct18.30 Check-in (University House)19:00 – Welcome and Sponsors announce the challenges20:00-21:30 –  Buffet, networking and team building Sat 27 Oct10:00 –  Team registration (Michael Sadler Building)12:00 – Hack, hack, hack with refreshments, lunch, & pizza dinner in between. This runs through the night. Mentoring support will be available throughout the event. Sun 28 Oct8:00  – Breakfast & carry on hacking9:00–11:00 – Opportunity to practice pitching the solution12:00-14.30 –  Pitch presentations, lunch & announcement of winners15:00  – Scheduled close FAQs Are there restrictions on who can take part? There are no restrictions on who can take part (other than age requirement of 18+). The event is open to individuals with an interest in computer programming, students from universities across the country (undergraduates and postgraduates) and staff from the universities in Leeds. We'd also love to see a great mix of disciplines, although having someone with a computing background on your team will help. Are meals provided? Yes, at the reception on Friday we'll provide a buffet. On Saturday we'll provide lunch and dinner. On Sunday we'll provide breakfast and lunch. There will be coffee and soft drinks available throughout as well. There is not cost for the food or drink. Do we need to register as a team? No, teams will consist of 4 people. All members of the team should register individually before the event and you can let us know on Friday that you've got team sorted. If you haven't got a team yet, we'll help you either form or join a team during the reception on Friday and Saturday morning. Are there ID or minimum age requirements to enter the event? Yes, hackathon participants must be over 18 as the event runs throughout Saturday night. What are my transport/parking options for getting to and from the event? After 5PM the University Edge and Multi-Storey car parks are open to the public. Payment is made before exiting. Further details can be found here: http://carparking.leeds.ac.uk/visitors/ What can I bring into the event? Please bring a laptop. How can I contact the organiser with any questions? Either use the contact details on your registration form or contact the School of Computing on 0113 343 5430. Do I need to be a computer scientist or programmer to take part? No, you can either present a concept or form a team with people who can build a prototype with you. Multi-disciplinary teams are often most effective. Do we go home on Friday evening after the welcome reception? Yes, after the welcome reception the hackathon kicks off on Saturday morning and then runs through the night until Sunday afternoon.
      This is #HACKINGLEY
        26 Oct - 03:30 PM
        Leeds, United Kingdom
      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/
      2 Days- Second Edition of iamtheCODE Liverpool Hackathon
        08 Sep - 09:30 AM
        Merseyside, United Kingdom
      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.
        ZenME - Tool kit for busy minds
          21 Aug - 06:10 PM
          Manchester, United Kingdom
        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. 
          Network resilience hackathon
            10 Jul - 09:00 AM
            Leeds, United Kingdom
          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
            e-Buddy Hackathon
              07 Jul - 10:00 AM
              Oldham, United Kingdom
            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!
              Children's Health and Wellbeing Launch Event at Alder Hey
                25 Jun - 08:30 AM
                Liverpool, United Kingdom
              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.
                CodeLife - EMIS Health Hackathon 2018
                  23 Jun - 08:00 AM
                  Bolton, United Kingdom
                EMIS Health build software solutions to support patients, like you and me, live longer healthier lives.   Tech in healthcare is huge at the moment, there are so many new and interesting apps and tools that can support the vision of providing better patient experience when travelling their healthcare journey.   On the 23rd of June at 08:00AM we're kick starting “CodeLife” - our very own Hackathon, inviting people from across the North to join us for 14 hours of pure tech talk and on the spot innovation!  You will be in teams of 4 or 5 (bring your own team or we can team you up) and the day will run from 08:00 - 22:00 and will include Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner for those taking part. It’s a points means prizes day with the topic of choice being "social media vs healthcare" - focusing on current and upcoming technologies. Use your knowledge of social media to prototype an app or tool that could benefit patients in healthcare.  As it’s a long day we will be providing free transport back to the centre of Manchester and then onto Leeds City Centre.  What’s expected of you on the day?  Eat our food  Enjoy yourself  Design/prototype us some software that will support healthcare using any technology and showcase it at the end of the day in front of our panel.  Bring your own laptop and any other supporting technologies. We will provide Internet access and power, as well as the odd Azure server if needed.  You will be in a team. Points means prizes…    The bulk of the day will allow you to focus on the prototype as this will be awarded the most points. There will be other challenges on the day including SQL, Infrastructure, UI/UX and many more. These small challenges will help top up your teams points total!   1st Place Team - £2,000, Raspberry Pi’s  2nd Place Team – Raspberry Pi’s   3rd Place Team – Raspberry Pi’s  Plus other prizes on the day.  The team with the most points at the end of the day wins!  Schedule  08:00 – 08:30 – Arrival and Breakfast 08:30 – 09:00 – Briefing 09:00 – 19:30 – Innovate (Lunch is somewhere in the middle) 19:30 -  Close (~22:00) – Dinner, Showcase to panel, awards. 22:30 – Coach back to Leeds and Manchester. Travel We have ample free parking, we are a 15 minute walk from Horwich Park Way Train station which has a regular service from Manchester and Preston. We will be providing free transport back to the centre of Manchester and Leeds, please let us know in advance. Food We will be providing food on the day of the event  but if ou don't like our offerings we are a 5 minute walk from Middlebrooke Retail park which has all of the usual food outlets. So.... We're inviting you to prescribe us a ground-breaking system, app or whatever to harness the power of social media and use it to positively impact healthcare.....  So sign up and we will see you on the 23rd of June :)   **PLEASE NOTE - NO RECRUITERS** 
                  TechNation & ODI Leeds: #SkillsSkillsSkills - Digital Jobs Dashboard Hackathon
                    09 Jun - 10:00 AM
                    Leeds, United Kingdom
                  Saturday 9 June10:00 - 17:30ODI Leeds, Munro House 'Digital skills' does not mean 'computer wizard.' In a fast and technologically-driven world, most jobs require at least basic IT skills - using email, spreadsheets, word processing, navigating websites, uploading pictures, etc. Jobs in the 'digital' or 'tech' sector require more advanced skills, from knowing programming languages and coding to data analysis and machine learning. There is also the matter of jobs in these sectors that aren't 'techie' but still need appropriate skill and knowledge of digital systems. For example, popular jobs like content marketing and social media management require you to be savvy with computers, mobiles, and more PLUS you also need to be creative with copy and photos. This is a jobs landscape currently without any kind of map or guide. Not for long! We are very pleased to be hosting a hackathon with Tech Nation to explore the data they have collected about skills jobs, and demand for these, accross the North of England. Earlier this year, Henri Egle Sorotos of Tech Nation published this article about the 'North-North' divide when it came to jobs. He found that a greater proportion of digital tech jobs were posted in Greater Manchester compared to our parts of the North. The data he used for this article, plus other datasets collected in the last 12 months, will be used for the hackathon and available to anyone who joins us on Saturday 9th June. Further details about the data can be found on this Google Doc. We also welcome other organisations to bring their own datasets about the digital jobs market. ODI Leeds will host the hackathon at their beautiful, naturally-lit innovation space in a well-connected part of Leeds. Easy to get to by foot, bus and train. As always, it will be a great atmosphere with great food, good company, and plenty of energy.