List of hackathons in Bolton, United Kingdom in 2017

Open to Edge Hill Computer Science Department students Computer Science - ROQ Defectives Tester Challenge comes to Edge Hill University - Halloween Special! Monday 30th October/1pm – 4pm Location: Tech Hub The Computer Science Department are pleased to invite you to engage with this exciting Web based Hackathon in partnership with ROQ.  Defectives Challenge has been designed to challenge you and provide you with an opportunity to learn and experience a little about the testing phase of the software development lifecycle as well as an opportunity for networking with the technical staff from ROQ. There is no prior experience required all you will need is a laptop, tablet or mobile with a browser.  After a brief introduction and some helpful pointers, teams will work together to find defects on specific websites against the clock with a chance to win ‘Edge Hill Defectives University Challenge’ with some spooky prizes up for grabs. No previous knowledge of software testing is required to take part, as training will be given; participants simply need a general interest and appreciation of IT and a sense of fun.

Everyone is invited to our 24 hour non-stop hackathon looking at the challenging and exciting area of FinTech in partnership with major technology leaders (HSBC, IMC, AQL and others). Join us for this event, work in a team and propose a concept, or build a prototype, or design a start-up – whatever you do you will have the chance to win a portion of over £2,000 in prizes, continued mentorship, and gain access to job opportunities. In 1957, the University of Leeds was one of the first universities in the UK to buy a computer. This was a revolutionary development in university science and engineering, and the springboard for academic computer science in the university. 60 years on, computer science underpins nearly everything we do. The sponsors have provided a set of topics in the areas of financial tech, digital identity, security, and personal digital assistants. Your team 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 Over £2,000 of prizes to be won across sponsor led challenges as well as opportunities for sponsor mentorship and recruitment. 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 Friday 20th October (18:30) - Welcome reception for delegates and sponsors with an introductory talk by Dr Chris Sier Fintech Envoy for the North Saturday 21st October (10:30) - Hackathon Start Sunday 22nd October (12:00) - Judging/prizes by Sponsors (scheduled close 15:00) FAQs  Are there restrictions on who can take part? There are no restrictions on who can take part (other than age requirement of 18+). We would particularly like to see as many students (undergraduate, masters, and PhD) involved as well as 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. You can register as a team online before the event or else you can let us know on Friday that you've got team sorted. If you haven't 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.  

Description This Propensity to Cycle Tool Hackathon is designed for advanced users and developers of the tool to share ideas, use-cases and skills. The aim is to build know-how of the tool and how it can be used, modified and extended to improve its ability to help provide an accessible evidence-based for transport planning. Attendees will likely split into teams at the outset to work on issues such as: How to best make use of data generated by the PCT New scenarios (e.g. 'Go York') Modifications to the PCT (this could have multiple teams) It is hoped that the knowledge learned will be shared beyond the event via write-ups, workshops and extensions to the PCT by attendees. Prerequisites R must be installed, in addition to the development version of the stplanr package: https://github.com/ropensci/stplanr It will help if you have Git installed on your computer. With it installed the following commands will download all files you need to reproduce the tool: # clone the pct data creation scripts git clone git@github.com:npct/pct-demo If you want to work on the 'full' PCT you'll need these on your laptop before the hackathon. To download the input data, install git lfs from GitHub and run the following lines of code from an appropriate shell (e.g. bash on Linux or Windows Powershell): git lfs install # check lfs is working # clone the data (warning - large) git clone git@github.com:npct/pct-inputs.git # raw input files git clone git@github.com:npct/pct-outputs-national.git # national outputs git clone git@github.com:npct/pct-outputs-regional-R.git # regional outputs used by pct-shiny The contents of the regional outputs are used by the code in pct-shiny, which can be downloaded with: git clone git@github.com:npct/pct-shiny.git Agenda See full draft agenda here: https://github.com/npct/pct/blob/master/minidocs/pct-hackathon.Rmd The rough running order of the event will be as follows: Getting up to speed 9:00-10AM (optional) The aim of this section is familiarise attendees with the PCT. Optional for experienced users. Policy relevance and the type of questions we want to answer (15 minutes) Open question and answer and a chance for people to ask technical questions (15 minutes) Meet and greet and team formation - talk to person next to you and decide what you want to get out of it (15 minutes over coffee) Coffee break, discussion and set-up (15 minutes) Learning to use and hack the PCT (10 - 12) Live demo and where we're at with the Propensity to Cycle Project and quick demo (Robin - 15 minutes) The aim of this section is to learn skills needed for the hackathon. By the end of it everyone should be in a team with a plan. Split session. Getting up to speed with the tool - Robin, Nikolai and Ali to do tech explanation for people with PCT installed, others to demonstrate use cases for people without (45 minutes) Free time to play with the tool, test hacks and network to finalise teams (1 hr) Lunch: 12 - 1PM The hackathon (1 - 4pm) This is where the bulk of the work will take place Reconvene to hear and discuss team ideas (30 minutes, ~5 min per team) Free time for hackathon (2 hrs) Feedback (4 - 4:30PM) Presentation of hacks and discussion

Our third Major League Hacking Hackathon based in the University of Sheffield - for students and recent graduates across the world! For more information, visit hack.sheffield.ac.uk! Facebook Event

University of Chester students! You're invited to sign up to participate in the 24-hour HackThornton hackathon. Come as a team, or join one at the event. You can pick one of the designated hackathon tracks -- voice UI, virtual reality, gaming, or innovation -- or work on your own idea.

HR professionals, researchers, and interested citizens in the Greater Manchester Area! If you are interested in issues related to parents and families in the workplace, then the Manchester Branch of The Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD) invites you to participate in their Big Conversation Hackathon. At this event, you will get to share experiences and identify challenges such as maternity discrimination, childcare, carers, making shared parental leave work, adoption leave and flexible working. You'll collaborate with like-minded individuals to come up with practical ideas that HR people can implement in their organisations, as well as public policy issues that need to be addressed.

Event Overview: Join us for our exciting ‘Hackathon’ event exploring improvements to Children and Adolescent Mental Health Services (CAMHS) across the North West! This event forms part of our ongoing scoping exercise exploring a North West CAMHS improvement programme. Hackathons aren’t your usual type of event. This is a fantastic opportunity to share some of the challenges facing CAMHS services with colleagues from across the region, and intensively collaborate to form innovate solutions. Whether you’re new to Hackathons or you’ve tried one before, we highly recommend you give it a go. How will the hackathon event work? The Pitch - Teams will share their specific CAMHS related problem or issue with the wider CAMHS community via an initial one minute 'pitch'. This should focus on crisis avoidance and crisis support, although other specific pitches will be considered. Sprints – Teams then move through a series of fast-paced structured exercise, or ‘sprints’ to develop outlines for potential quality improvement projects. Judging Panel - The day will conclude with a presentation of each of the QI proposals, with a brief Q&A session with a judging panel. The best projects / teams will then form the final part of our CAMHS improvement scoping exercise. Who is this event aimed at? The Hackathon is for CAMHS teams from across membership, who have a distinct idea for a one year quality improvement project.  Each team will be different but may include: Commissioners Providers Young people Social care Non statutory services  Teams are also welcome to invite partners involved in their services. What will attendees learn at this event / workshop? Attendees will share thoughts, ideas and insights into service needs across the region, and work together to help to shape a possible improvement programme to support members. Further information: Please note this is an expression of interest and due to the size of the venue places at the event will be limited and we will confirm your place prior to the event.  Event Conditions: Events are free to all Advancing Quality Alliance (AQuA) member organisations. In some cases, places can be paid for by non-members. If you’re interested in attending an AQuA event and are not a member then contact us at AQuA@srft.nhs.uk. If you are unsure whether your organisation is an AQuA member, please click here. Paid places on AQuA events are non-refundable however can be transferred. If you are no longer able to attend and wish to transfer your place, please contact the team on the details above. Final event arrangements are confirmed with the venue up to two weeks before the event. In order to ensure that places are not wasted please let us know at your earliest convenience if you are no longer able to attend. Many of our events operate waiting lists so this will enable us to reallocate your place to someone else on the list. We take photographs and occasionally video/live stream at our events. We use these pictures and video on our website and in other media such as Twitter and news publications. If you do not want to be photographed or filmed please let a member of the AQuA team know at the event. By signing up for an AQuA event, we will add your contact details to our CRM system and let you know about future events, as well as send you our fortnightly e-bulletin. If you do not want to receive information from us, please let us know by sending us an email to AQuA@srft.nhs.uk and we will remove your name from our mailing list. Supporting resources, presentations and other materials from the event will be made available on our website after the event for 30 days. By registering for an AQuA event you consent for us to share your attendance information with your organisation for reporting purposes. If the event is held jointly with one of our partners we will share attendee names, organisations and email addresses. When you register for this event you’ll automatically be agreeing to our terms and conditions and privacy statements. If you would like further detail on any of the above, please contact AQuA@srft.nhs.uk

Join us for a 24 hour code fest!  Choose your challenge and test your skills, in a cool space with food and drinks flowing, good company and some great prizes to be won. Enter as full or part teams...or as an individual. All experience levels welcome! Are you up for the challenge? Book your ticket and join us for 24 hours of problem solving, inspiration, fun and networking. EVENT DETAILS: DATE: Saturday 23rd September 2017 VENUE: Ziferblat, St Pauls Square, Liverpool, L3 9SJ. START TIME: registration @ 10.30am - speaker @ 11.30AM  EVENT ENDS: 1pm - Sunday 24th September ​MORE INFORMATION CONTACT US TWITTER

Next Thursday 21st September, the University of Sheffield is the first partner in Siemens investment in a new multi-million pound network. The MindSphere Innovation Network (MINe) will link businesses with UK and global universities to exploit opportunities in the Industrial Internet of Things. As part of the launch there will be demonstrations of how the IIoT can make a difference and how data from the campus can be made available in teaching. Come to the MindSphere Lounge in the Diamond and sign up for free MindSphere training and the chance to register for a hackathon with Siemens later in the year.  And if you have new ideas for how the Industrial Internet of Things can be disruptive then Siemens will be offering a prize for the best ideas and have staff on hand to answer your questions. Time: Informal drop-in session between 2 & 4 pm.

Brings you..... Hackcess Reality - VR 4 Good!! HackcessReality aims to bring together interdisciplinary minds to explore how Virtual Reality technology can be used for social good. Barclays and experts from our partners are coming together for two days in Manchester to address accessibility and inclusion. A very interesting perspective The World health organisation definition of Disability is “a mismatch in interaction between the features of a person’s body and the features of the environment in which they live”.  Overcoming the difficulties faced by people with disabilities requires interventions to remove environmental and social barriers. So in essence the word disabled as most people understand it is incorrect. In reality a more accurate description would be, ‘an individual who hasn’t been properly considered in a design process’. By considering potential barriers encountered by people that require more bespoke personalisation and designing products, services, or buildings that are truly flexible it could almost be possible to remove the word disabled from our vocabulary. How cool is that!!  The Problem So what does a VR hackathon have to do with any of this? One of the biggest challenges encountered in the Accessibility world is getting people to understand the barriers faced by those with disabilities. Most people through no fault of their own are simply not aware of the impact their decisions and actions can have on others. This can cover small things such as petting a guide dog without asking, standing over someone in a wheel chair, right through to building an app or a website that doesn’t consider how someone with an impairment would use it. The Challenge What we aim to create, is an immersive experience that will help give users a brief insight of what it is like to have a disability and how this can impact everyday interactions. The hope is that by triggering an emotional response, users will be more likely to champion an inclusive way of thinking in the future. We believe that with the right VR experience, we can deepen empathy and understanding of designers and architects creating products and premises. There’s a ton of benefits that VR can bring to people with disabilities too which we’re only starting to scratch the surface of. We aim to take a collaborative approach with this Hackathon rather than a competitive one. The aim of the project will be to harness your skills and expertise to enable and encourage innovation and shared ideas to achieve an outcome for ‘Social Good’! By bringing together a fully resourced and diverse team in once place, we hope to create an environment that will enable the delivery of an end to end solution. The output of which will made available in an open source manner for the benefit of all. Technology & Support We want our event to be as inclusive as possible. Don’t worry if you have never encountered VR in your career before: chances are that your personal experience in another field, be it game design, photography or something business related will give you all the tools you will need to cooperate with other enthusiastic participants to create a unique experience. If you are familiar with VR you will be happy to know that we will be working with some really interesting pieces of technology: HTC Vive for the full room-scale tracking experience and Samsung Gear VR for mobile – all powered by the graphics engine of your choice. Harvey ‘theStoneFox’ Ball will be with us to support with his VRTK (Virtual Reality Tool Kit) so that even if you never created anything in VR before, with a little help you will be able to put together blocks in a drag-n-drop way and build a fantastic prototype from scratch! Barclays Creative team will be providing a series of digital assets to use, and several other artists taking part to the hackathon will be covering any gap with their mad skills. The Event: Launch: 7th September – 18:00 – 21:00 Challenges launch, teams assemble, VR demos, partner presentations and networking Hackathon: 8th September – 08:00 – 20:00 The hack, a day of creativity and building, concluding with pitches, judging and a drink or two Next Steps: We will be in touch to request some additional information and to let you know shortly if your application has been successful.