List of hackathons in Brighton, United Kingdom in 2018

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Agile Scientific and The UK Oil and Gas Authority invite you to take part in the latest hackathon for subsurface scientists! There's also an optional Bootcamp for those new to programming. The theme is Machine Learning. As part of a teams of 6 participants, you will find a project to work on, then spend the weekend working on a prototype web app, proof of concept service, or machine learning model — or whatever you think will bring your idea to life. Geologists, geophysicists, petroleum engineers, mathematicians, interpreters... all are welcome. Whether you've been coding for 2 hours, 2 years, or 20 years, you'll fit right in. Let's solve some hard problems in the subsurface! NOTE: When you register, you will have the option of adding the BOOTCAMP to your order. The Bootcamp will run from about 8:30 am until 4:30 pm on Friday 23 November.

Tech Executive Update on Brexit, with Tech For UK & Best For Britain Thank you for signing the UK Tech Industry Letter to MPs called for a 'final say' on Brexit via a People's Vote!Please click to continue to share the letter with your networks.Share our tweet about the letter.EVENT:We would like to invite you to an event in London specifically for key tech company executives, founders, CEOs and key tech industry influencers, on the next steps in Brexit, hosted byTech For UK and Best For Britain. "Tech Executive Update on Brexit" • 6pm doors open. • 6.45-7.30 - Panel, Speech, Q&A • 7.30 - Networking  You’ll hear from: • Eloise Todd, CEO, Best For Britain • Key tech founders  Sponsor: Knotel HACKATHON: Do you know engineers, designers, UI/UX, social media experts? Encourage them to apply for our weekend hackathon for a people's vote on Brexit here. ABOUT Tech For UK is lobbying for a ‘People’s Vote’ on Brexit, with the option for the UK to remain and lead in the EU. We are working closely with Best for Britain, which is a non-political movement with no other aim other than to stop Brexit and allow Britain to retain and enhance it’s incredible position as a leader in the EU. Tech For UK represents the position of many of the most innovative businesses leaders in the UK including Martha Lane Fox of Lastminute.com and Doteveryone, Ben Whitaker, Founder of Masabi, the UK rail ticketing startup, Bernhard Niesner, founder of the language learning giant Busuu, lending giant Zopa, and George Bevis, founder of small business banking provider Tide, Simon Murdoch, founder of Episode 1 Partners, among many others.  Our aim is to assist Best For Britain by producing tools and data to campaign better with, to move public opinion with scalable tech products, and to fund-raise from the tech community to fund both our tech products and Best For Britain’s campaigns.  Products produced so far include MyEU.uk and FinalSay.app   VENUE: Knotel, 7 Soho Square, Soho, London, W1D 3QE Map Email: info@techforuk.com Send us your ideas for tech products to Stop Brexit Website  Twitter Instagram Facebook Facebook GroupSlack 

      Data Warehouse Automation     Red Olive and WhereScape are providing interactive training and practical demonstrations - 22 / 11 / 18       What's happening at the event?   Red Olive and our partner WhereScape offer you the opportunity to create a fully funcitional, automated and documented data warehouse in under two hours, without writing a single line of code! Join us for a interactive session in which you will test drive WhereScape Data Automation software for yourself, followed by an educational keynote on data ethics. This event is perfect for business leaders looking for tools to improve their teams's efficiency and speed up the development / delivery process. It will also interest techies looking to try out data warehouse automation for themselves, to see how much time and human error it would save in their daily working lives.  The event takes place in the beautiful grade II listed Waterhouse Square near Chancery Lane station. Snacks and drinks will be provided after the event. Key Note  Is doing no harm good enough? or should we always strive to do good with the data we hold? Jefferson Lynch will set the scene for the afternoon's discussion around how to use data ethically, not just legally, and facilitate as the event produces any questions or learnings.   Schedule 13:30 - 14:00 Arrivals and introductions 14:00 - 16:00 Opening session, building an automed Data Warehouse 16:00 - 16:15 Break (coffee, tea and snacks) 16:15 - 17:00 Data Warehouse evaluation, business applications 17:00 - 17:30 Keynote speech (Ethicial Use of Data) 17:30 - 18:30 Drinks, snacks and networking Directions The closest stations are Chancery Lane, (central line) and Farringdon (national rail / circle line). The building is a large victorian red brick building, walk through the arch into the center square and follow signs for 3 Wework. Once inside, please sign in giving ben.white@red-olive.co.uk as reference. A member of staff will come and greet you.        Website Page Interested in finding out more? Further details and the full agenda are on our website. You can also register via the EventBrite service. Read more →     Test Drive - What to expect? Watch a recent WhereScape test drive event at Amsterdam to hear feedback and see the experiences. Watch here →     Email You can get in touch with the Red Olive team at hello@red-olive.co.uk Send an email →   Website Visit the Red Olive website for the latest on news, articles and events Go to website → LinkedIn You can contact and connect to Red Olive employees via LinkedIn Find us on LinkedIn →

HackTrain Conference 3.0 The best RailTech conference is back for another year! In the words of one of last year's attendees: "It was the first conference I have attended in a long time, where I didn’t get bored, didn’t fall asleep! and was totally entertained and informed throughout the whole day". This year, The HackTrain Conference 3.0 will be a one-day event on the 22nd of November, which will provide insight on the outcomes from our annual 48-hour hackathon on a moving train. This highly anticipated conference is a mighty combination of the top ideas from HackTrain 5.0 and InnoTrans 2018. Their ideas will be re-pitched to industry leaders and voted on. The innovators would have had the opportunity to work on and hone in on their ides over the weeks leading up to the conference.  Expect to hear specialists assess and outline: Outcomes from previous hackathons How hacks are converted into implementation projects How the rail industry can take advantage of technology and case studies from other industries on how they have made use of AI and Data These conversations will provide some insight into how we can accelerate change and protect against the latest threats faced by the rail industry! Our jam-packed day of talks, workshops, panel discussions and networking will spark conversations for years to come! You can learn more about conference at: https://hackpartners.com/events/conference/

Europe’s Most Forward Thinking UX / Design Conference is back for its 4th year MUXL Annual Conference returns for its 4th iteration this November, to bring you insights from the best minds in User Experience (UX) and Design. The focus for 2018 is User-Centred Design and how new technologies (Virtual Reality, Artificial Intelligence, Augmented Reality, Connected cars and homes) are going to change the way we design for these new modes of interaction. Your ticket will give you know-how into designing for AR, AI and IoT technologies and to help you understand the process behind them, we've brought together top speakers to share their case studies in: - Facebook's AR platform with Stef Smet, AR Designer at Facebook - Raising the life expectancy of prototypes with Marion Duncan, Creative Director at Liquid Studio - Accenture Technology - Designing a voice experience for preschoolers with Paul Jackson, Senior UX Designer at BBC - Browsing the world with Computer Vision and AR with Marco Paladini, Research Engineer at Blippar - Designing for smart homes, Prototyping XR products, Design Thinking and more in the MUXL workshops (included in the ticket) - And more! Browse the event agenda here Why Attend MUXL 2018? 1. It's like no other conference Mobile UX London is not a traditional business. We are a community of passionate designers, developers, project managers and more dedicated to showcasing the best in UX. We bring UX’ers from all walks of life together at our Annual Conference providing a breadth of knowledge and expertise unparalleled by our competitors. 2. Be a part of a real communityWe’re not just a one-off Annual Conference, we are a community of UX’ers. We are always looking to push UX forward and keep an eye out for new trends and developments across the sector. We run Hackathons, meet-ups, and our UX Academy where you can learn from industry leaders. Attending MUXL 2018 will introduce you to our community and the innovative and groundbreaking things it comes up with. 3. Learn from the bestAt MUXL 2018, we have industry leaders from Accenture, Adobe, BBC, Facebook and Google speak about UX and give valuable insights into their fields of work. They will give you the chance to get practical advice you can apply to your future projects and inspire you to develop new ideas you never thought possible before. Check out the event agenda 4. Network with a diverse and enthusiastic conference At MUXL 2018, you’ll be learning both on and off the conference floor whether you’re speaking to a beginner UX’er or a seasoned pro like one of our industry leading speakers. Plus, the Conference is not just for those working as UX'ers - the event is open to designers, product developers, innovators and anyone with an interest in UX. With MUXL 2018 being such a diverse conference, you’re sure to find others working in completely different fields to you. The knowledge and skills you can impart on one another is truly priceless. 5. Because it’s not just about the education. We consider every little detail when designing and planning our Annual Conference to ensure every moment is enjoyable for our community. Whether that’s the excellent catering, the free flowing drinks or the regular opportunities to network and engage with peers, we strive to make MUXL 2018 a highlight of your UX year. Check out our 2016  and 2017 conferences to catch a glimpse of our events Speakers:Kane Simms - VUX World Stef Smet - Facebook Marion Duncan - London Liquid Studio, Accenture Technology Peter Hodgson - Google Adam Delinde - Orange Group Stacey Seronick - Catalia Health Paul Jackson - BBC Elvia Vasconcelos - Pepita Platano Marco Paladini - Blippar Sam Clark - Conjure Sjors Timmer - Designit Froso Ellina - Pivotal Labs Veiko Raime and Laura Leon - Mobi Lab Stefano Zanini, Carlo Luccioni and Danny Martucci - Assist Digital And more! FAQsDo you offer discounted tickets?Yes, we have an Early Bird Ticket available. If you would like to enquire about special discounts for charities, non-profits etc then please email raluca@mobileuxlondon.com Do I need to be a professional UX'er to attend?No - this conference is targeted to all people interested in UX in design. Can I pay by invoice?Yes, please email alice@mobileuxlondon.com to arrange a payment by invoice. Can I be a partner/sponsor for MUXL 2018?Yes, we have a limited number of partnership options and sponsorship packages remaining. To enquire about partnering or sponsoring us then please email raluca@mobileuxlondon.com Do you accept refunds?Yes, we can accept refunds up to 7 days before the conference Please note: Ticket sales will end on Tuesday 20 November 2018 at 16:00. Make sure you have purchased your ticket before this deadline

Serena Williams, who in a personal essay lamented that black women in America earn 17% less than their white female counterparts. “Even black women who have earned graduate degrees get paid less at every level. This is as true in inner cities as it is in Silicon Valley,” wrote Williams. “We are going to have to fight for every penny.” There are similar data for the UK – black women, for example, have seen virtually no progress in closing the gender pay gap between them and white men since the 1990s, which according to the Fawcett Society, still stands at 19.6%. (The Guardian) Is it any wonder that black women in the UK are between two and a half and ten times more likely to become entrepreneurs? (ibid GEM, London Business School 2004) Black Women Tech Talk, featuring black women tech entrepreneurs and female pioneers who will come together to network, share their stories and opportunities that are available for women of colour to launch, grown and raise finance for their start-ups while tackling our unique challenges. Their mission? “To inspire and support women of colour to build the next multi-million tech company.” The event will feature an amazing line-up of presenters and the opportunity to network with passionate and motivated women. Speakers: Dayo Akinrinade Founder Africlick - @AfriClick Dayo is the founder the app I’m sure many a singleton has been awaiting! Africlick is a new dating/networking app for professionals & creatives of African & Caribbean heritage. The mission is to empower global Afro-Caribbeans to connect to their culture by using a unique “cultural” matching algorithm. She is the Partnerships Lead at startup community Your Startup Your Story, a thriving startup community of founders, developers, creatives and investors on a mission to make a difference. Dayo’s background is IT Management Consulting at Accenture and Deloitte, she has delivered several large-scale fintech and analytics transformation programmes. She holds a Bsc in Computer Science from the University of Manchester and MSc in Technology at University College London. Bayo Adelaja Bayo is the Programme Manager for Hatch’s incubator program for women of colour running tech and non-tech businesses in London. Hatch Enterprise works with entrepreneurs from underrepresented communities to grow smart ideas into successful businesses.  Partners on the program are eBay, Natwest, Academy London (Google UK), Campus London (google for Entrepreneurs), and YSYS. Bayo is also the POC Tech and Africa-tech Startups Ambassador at Google with objectives to create a UK-Africa investment focused ecosystem that empowers fundraising African startups to pitch to investors in the UK as well as bring Africa-focused startups in the UK the community and opportunities they need to createstartups that are impactful in Africa.   Ekua Cant, Founder DrinksBot - @TheDrinksBot Ekua is a career chameleon, she has founded 2 startups, Layover Adventure and the Hackathon Queen. She left a successful carrear at the Civil Service and became a Digital Project Manager contractor. DrinksBot was founded when Ekua came up with the idea to provide an on-demand craft drinks service for office workers to wind down after a long hard week. Ekua launched DrinksBot in 2018 with an inclusive drinks experience extravaganza with a Robot Carnival at Mindspace co-working space.  An avid runner, Ekua successfully completed the London Marathon this year. She was also awarded a ticket to Barack Obama’s acceptance for the nomination to the Democratic party for her campaigning work for the civic voluntary organisation DCVote. She has volunteered with a local voluntary organisation that helps homeless people called WSUP near her home and always has a listening earn to advise and provide career coaching for those in need of guidance.   Event schedule Arrival and registration 5.30pm Speakers from 6pm Q&A 7pm Drinks and networking 7.30 Finish 8pm   Location We Work Paddington 2 Eastbourne Terrace London W2 6LG   Although this event is aimed at empowering women, all genders are most welcome to attend.

Our website is now LIVE! Visit innovationcommunity.co.uk for the full agenda and information on all of our fantastic speakers and hosts. TALKS - SHOWCASES - NETWORKING - DEBATES - MINI-HACKATHON Join us on Tuesday 20th November as Lloyds Banking Group host the first in a series of Innovation Community events. Connect, collaborate, share stories, and be inspired by like-minded people who are passionate about building a culture of innovation in their organisations, and supporting each other's transformation journeys. The Main Stage will feature TED-style talks and interactive sessions to bring to life the power of connection, collaboration and knowledge sharing. Talks will include: Designing for Prosperity with Dan Makoski. Design is all about moments of joy. Finance and prosperity can bring people together so we need to change the conversation and our languge to become more human centered. Dan will share how the team is exploring this at LBG. Storytelling for Change with Abhay Adhik. Abhay will explore how you can use the principles of storytelling to encourage incremental behaviour change. The conection between Empathy and Creativity with Moyra Mackie. Moyra focuses on helping people do things differently, think differently and to have much richer conversations. She will run an interactive session on empathy and how this is essential to innovate. Worshiping at the Church of Fail with Ross Breadmore. An interactive session on the absolute necessity of failing at work, why it is a key part of the transformation process and the systems conditions that make failure so tough, but also so essential. Round-table debates are an opportunity to connect on a more personal level to share experiences and different perspectives: Purposeful innovation - exploring how purpose is reshaping how we view the roleof business in society Smart Cities - how do I know if my city is smart, how can we make them smarter and what is our role in this? Mini Hack: Watch our Mini-Hackathon, where teams will be exploring and building on ideas raising through our crowdsourcing tool. They will be focused on how we can create a connected organisation to unleash innovation. Look out for the pitches later in the day! Showcases and Workshops: Stop by our showcase area to get involved with an array of technology demonstrations presented by teams such as Applied Innovation, Risk Innovation and Cyber Security. Visit the Insurance & Wealth area for a chance to win a great prize! Interactive workshops will take place during the day on storytelling, Working Out Loud and Behavioural Experiments. Sign up will be on the day.   Next Big Thing: Join us for this months event on the Internet of Things (IoT) for a live panel discussion over pizza and drinks. We will be joined by panelists from Accenture, LBG and Founders Forum. Most importantly - meet, engage, and build your network with like minded innovators over snacks and drinks!

The UKRI Cloud Working Group (https://cloud.ac.uk/) is organising a technical workshop “unconference”. Following feedback from our annual cloud workshop in January, some members of the community expressed the desire to have a technical deep dive into some of the topics.  We have created this event to provide just this  opportunity and enable researchers, devops and developer to work together and share collective experience. We’re adopting an "unconference" format, which means other than 2 talks (Stig Tefler from StackHPC and Martin O'Reilly from the Turing Institute), we won’t have a fixed agenda ahead of time: everyone will be invited to give a short pitch at the start of the day on a technical topic of their choice.  We will then vote on those they want to devote time to explore in depth. We’ll have several breakout type rooms available so we can discuss several topics if necessary. Different approaches could be applied for each topic, for example a hackathon where groups can focus on solving a specific problem or creating a piece of software or infrastructure configuration, or information sharing and pooling expertise with a technical deep-dive walk through a particular technology. Topics could cover anything from use and deployment of OpenStack, container technologies, integration of storage, application of services and API from public clouds, tools for monitoring and logging or your other suggestions. Who should attend? Those people who have a technical interest in deploying cloud and cloud related services to support research workloads. You will also have some experience of coding and/or using cloud computing infrastructure. You should also be prepared to get involved in the sessions and discussion including leading topics. What do you need to bring? Make sure to bring a laptop!   Tea and coffee will be provided in the breaks but you will need to buy or bring your own lunch.

Good Tech Conference is a not-for-profit event to explore​ the use of technology for social good. We’ll celebrate - and contribute to - projects supporting​ diversity, inclusion​, ​and the ethical application of current and near future technology. This year, Good Tech Conf is supporting causes contributing to reducing food and packaging waste, and homelessness. After a day of tech talks ​from project teams using their skills for social good​, you’ll have the chance to take part in workshops and hackathons to use your own talents for a worthy cause. The sessions will give you the opportunity to build and deliver working software to one of this year’s named causes.