List of hackathons in Bexhill, United Kingdom in 2017

On April 19 we’ll be considering one of the most fascinating topics in the world of tech: how AI and robotics are going to interact with and affect human sexuality. We’ll be welcoming Dr Kate Devlin, one of the UK’s foremost experts on human sexuality and technology, who will be talking us through the history of sex and tech, before explaining where artificial intelligence and robotics, and sex and love meet today - and where they’re going. Along the way we’ll be examining the ethical and social implications of a world where human computer interaction moves way beyond the mouse and keyboard. Kate is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Computing at Goldsmiths, University of London, where she investigates how people interact with and react to technologies, both past and future. She works in the fields of Human Computer Interaction (HCI) and Artificial Intelligence (AI), focusing on cognition, sex, gender and sexuality, and how these might be incorporated into cognitive systems. She was Co-Chair of the widely reported Love and Sex with Robots conference in 2016 and ran the UK¹s first sextech hackathon. It’s a controversial field crammed with preconceptions - many of which are likely to be overturned and sooner than you think. The lecture will be at the Yorkshire Grey on Theobalds Road, London on April 19. The doors will be open from 6pm, with the talk proper kicking off at 7pm. And yes, there’ll be refreshments, both liquid and solid, on hand. Kate will give you a 40 minute dive into the topic at hand, with at least the same amount of time for questions. After a suitable break for refreshments of course. And there’ll be plenty of time to quiz our speakers after the main talk, and to connect with your fellow Reg readers before and after. We look forward to seeing you there.

Are you interested in improving patient care in the NHS? Imperial College Healthcare Trust have launched a new series of iQI Sprints to tackle problems that staff are facing in their daily working lives. An iQI Sprint is an intense day of team work where healthcare staff, patients, artists, engineers and designers work together to come up with innovative solutions and test these new ideas with patients and hospital staff. “It ignited a spark between patients and healthcare professionals” Sprint attendee, patient representative The iQI Sprints are open to anyone; you might have a particular interst in healthcare, or an interest in service design or quality improvement or you might be really skilled at problem solving. The iQI Sprints bring together a fantastic mix of people. The day will be facilitated by Dan Phillips, an independent service designer who is also a visiting tutor at the Royal College of Art, helping teams to navigate the design processes in a complex healthcare setting. BOOK NOW FOR Wednesday 12th April 2017, 09:00 - 17:15 (Registration starts from 08:30 with pastries, coffee and tea) Oak Room, W12 Conference Centre, Hammersmith Hospital Lunch and refreshments provided. Reinbursement for travel costs. For further information please contact us on QI.hub@imperial.nhs.uk or call 020 331 25259

Healthcare professionals, patients, artists, engineers, and designers in the greater London area! Are you interested in improving patient care in the NHS? Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust invites you to sign up to participate in the Imperial Quality Improvement (iQI) Sprint. You'll get to work with like-minded individuals to conceive innovative healthcare solutions, prototype these new ideas, and test them with patients and hospital staff.

Start-up techies in the greater London area! Are you interested in smart, sustainable cities? If you're planning to attend the Smarter Cities NOW forum, why not decide to participate in the Smarter CitiesNOW Solution Challenge and City of London Hackathon, which will be kicked off at the forum. This will be your chance to collaborate with like-minded individuals to conceive, design and build data-driven apps for the City of London.

Fintech hackers in the UK! Starling Bank invites you to sign up to participate in the Starling Hackathon. You'll be challenged to leverage Starling's recently announced PSD2-ready public API to build innovative customer-friendly services on top of the Starling Platform. You'll be among the first coders to be given access to Starling's portal and to use the new API.

Interested in sustainability? Sustainability Connections CIC invites you to participate in Think Sustainability and the power of Communities. At this weekend event in Folkestone, United Kingdom, you'll be challenged to do some brainstorming on how to use cutting-edge technology combined with behaviour change to bring sustainable practices into local communities.

Transgender techies and allies! WeAreTechWomen invites you to sign up to participate in the Trans*Code International Transgender Day of Visibility Social and Hackathon. This is an all-day hackathon to mark International Transgender Day of Visibility. You'll collaborate to discuss and create ideas that will help raise awareness of -- and help counter -- the discrimination faced by the transgender community worldwide.

Transgender techies and allies! WeAreTechWomen invites you to sign up to participate in the Trans*Code International Transgender Day of Visibility Social and Hackathon. This is an all-day hackathon to mark International Transgender Day of Visibility. You'll collaborate to discuss and create ideas that will help raise awareness of -- and help counter -- the discrimination faced by the transgender community worldwide. Sign up here for the pre-hackathon social.

Blockchain Technology will have a major impact across many industries and bring radical change to existing business models. We believe that Blockchain Technology has a bright future. Join our two-day developer focused hands-on workshop and be at the very forefront of this new technology. Day 1 Intro to Blockchains, Bitcoin, Proof of Work and Mining Intro to Ethereum and Smart Contracts Hands-on development on Ethereum Day 2 Smart Contracts Security and Ethereum Internals - Cryptography, Consensus, EVM, Privacy What to know as a Blockchain Developer Hands-on development on Ethereum Recommended development experience Minimum of 6 months object-oriented development experience is recommended We have a great line up of trainers that will help you break into the Blockchain space. Nick Zeeb Nick is a passionate advocate for Blockchain Technology and loves teaching technical concepts in an understandable way. He was previously the Lead Engineer at Clearmatics, a London Blockchain financial start-up and has expertise in high performance trading systems. Nick holds a Master’s degree in Engineering and Computer Science from the University of Oxford. He has given a number of talks on the subject of Blockchain Technology. Nick will be introducing developers to the way the Blockchain works technically, and what its potential applications could be.  He will cover the workings and history of the Bitcoin Blockchain, as well as Ethereum and its concept of smart contracts that allow Turing complete code to execute on a virtual machine on the Blockchain. Nick will hold a Q&A session after each topic. Matthew Di Ferrante Matthew is a Software Engineer with a passion for Information Security, Cryptography, and Distributed Networks. He has worked in many different areas, from hardware, embedded and kernel programming, to data mining, analytics, and network / systems programming. He first started learning programming at 12 years old, and is completely self taught, both on the practical side of programming, and on the theoretical side of computer science, mathematics, and cryptography. Matthew was first exposed to Bitcoin in late 2010 due to his interest in information security, as Bitcoin was first mainly used on darknets/Silk Road, and got fully involved in the Blockchain space around the time Ethereum started to exist - beginning his foray while living with Vitalik Buterin and long time friend Vlad Zamfir (Creator of Ethereum's Casper Protocol) in London for a few months. Matthew currently works as a Technical Lead at Clearmatics, developing Blockchain Technology for financial use cases. In his free time, Matthew works on personal hardware projects, gives Information Security and Blockchain related talks at various events, and organise one of the largest monthly Information Security events in the North-West. Matthew’s design for a Secure Oracles Reputation System on Ethereum recently won first place for Smart Contract Security at the Thomson Reuters HackETHon. Matthew will talk about Smart Contracts Security and Ethereum Internals. He will discuss the most important areas to know as a Blockchain Developer. Matthew will hold a Q&A session after each topic. Laurence Kirk After a successful career writing low latency financial applications in the City of London, Laurence was captivated by the potential of Blockchain Technology, and in particular smart contracts. Two years ago, Laurence moved to Oxford and set up Extropy.io, a consultancy working with start-ups in the UK and overseas, developing applications on the Ethereum platform. He brings with him a wealth of real world experience that he loves to share with those new to this area. Laurence hold a Physics degree from Durham University, and currently taking his MSc in Software Engineering at Oxford University. In addition to giving talks, mentoring at hackathons, and running groups about Blockchain Technology, Laurence also organise Artificial Intelligence and Data Science groups in Oxford. During the workshop, Laurence will be teaching Solidity (an object-oriented programming language for writing smart contracts) from the simplest smart contract up to interacting with a web application. The focus is very much the practical techniques that are needed when developing on Ethereum. The sessions will be very hands on, encouraging students to practice and explore Ethereum and raise any questions students might have regarding the Ethereum platform. Andy Baloiu Andy has been working on Ethereum since Jan 2015, the pre-release version of the platform. Andy loves to teach others in a practical manner on the potential of Blockchain Technology. In addition to running the Ethereum London group, Andy has won several hackathons and acted as a mentor at Blockchain related hackathons. He is currently a senior Full Stack Developer at RS Components. He holds a Engineering Degree with a focus on mathematical analysis and solid physics from Politehnica University of Bucharest. Andy will be focusing on teaching students the Solidity language and how to develop smart contracts during the hands-on sessions, and will give students the opportunity to ask questions in relation to the Ethereum platform. There will be a Q&A on each day of the hands-on session. Date: Thursday 30th & Friday 31st of March, 2017 Time: 08:30 to 17:00 Workshop Location: Rainmaking Loft, International House, 1 St Katharine’s Way London, E1W 1UN Secure your ticket early as spaces are limited. Please present your ticket confirmation receipt upon arrival. *Breakfast and lunch are provided during the workshop on both days. For further details on our workshop, please email us on info@theblockchainconnector.com or contact us on 0044 (07)923 521 833. Follow us on Twitter @bc_workshop Tweet us on hashtag #theblockchainworkshop Join our meetup group https://www.meetup.com/Blockchain-Workshop-for-Developers/ (Photo image from last Blockchain Workshop, Jan 2017, courtesy of ©matteogiachettiphotography)

Deep learning has the ability to transform many parts of modern life as recent innovations show. The Pistoia Alliance want to bring the deep / machine learning community together with the life-science and healthcare industry to demonstrate the potential of deep learning to aid drug discovery and bring new life saving treatments to the world. We’d like you to help our industry accelerate the pace with which deep learning can transform scientific R&D and healthcare. Come and join Pistoia Alliance’s first ever hackathon! Format: You will have 2 days to build new teams and partnerships, plan, prototype and test your deep / machine learning idea. The only limits are time and your inspiration. Plenty of food and drinks will be available over the 2 days. Lunch is included on both days. At the end of the 2 days, you will present your ideas and judges will score and then announce the winning team of the hackathon and present the prizes. ScheduleDay 1 - Saturday 25th March 10am- Doors open 6pm Drinks (or continue hacking if you prefer!) 7pm Go home for the night! Day 2 - SUNDAY 26th March 8am Venue open for business! 3:00pm - Stop working, prepare your pitches 3:15 - Presentiations and judging 5:00 - Judges collate scores and decide winner Winners presentation 6pm Close Why join in? By the end of the weekend you will be part of a team that's designed and/or created a potential solution that could help accelerate new life saving solutions or could help reduce the time and cost of bringing new medicines safely to patients. If you are a current student or recent graduate, we will help you find out more about the major organisations in the industry that you could potentially work for. Your team mate at this event may be your future colleague! We hope you will make new connections from new areas and disciplines, perhaps even see new career directions you never thought possible. Most importantly we hope you have fun and will make a difference! FAQ’s Do I need to know science and deep learning to attend? No, hackathons work best with diverse skillsets. We want to bring together both expertise and creativity at the event. The aim is to forge new relationships between science and deep learning experts to look at established healthcare data in a different way. So if you are a scientist or a deep / machine learning specialist we want you to be there. Other disciplines are welcome, if you have a creative mind and this topic interests you please consider joining. Mentors will be available to support your creative process, provide scientific or technical input and support. I don’t have a team, can I join by myself?Teams will be formed on site so just bring yourself and meet the rest of the attendees on Saturday morning. Do I need to bring my own laptop/PC?Yes, please bring your own computer and devices. Who owns the IP of our ideas? Pistoia Alliance waives all rights to any ideas from the event. More details on the prizes and challenge will appear closer to the event, so please keep an eye on this site, the Pistoia Alliance home page or follow @PistoiaAlliance on twitter, tag #Pistoia2017 Come and join us to help lower the barriers to R&D.