List of hackathons in Cambridge, United Kingdom in 2017

Developers and hackers in the Greater London Area (and beyond)! You're invited to participate in OpenCon London 2017. This is a satellite event to the OpenCon 2017 conference held in Berlin, Germany the week before. The satellite event will feature a hackathon during the day and an evening event. Sign up here for the evening event which features a keynote presentation and a panel on the topic 'Open for Business'.

Developers, designers, data visualization experts! If you're interested in the application of technology to monitor masses of news items, then the BBC Connected Studio Team invites you to participate in an edition of BBC #newsHACK that's focused on applications of media monitoring to data journalism. Participating in a two-to-six person multi-skilled team, you'll be challenged to build a prototype that can help data journalists make sense of the accumulated database of global news stories aggregated by SUMMA platform.

Developers and hackers in the Greater London Area (and beyond)! You're invited to participate in OpenCon London 2017. This is a satellite event to the OpenCon 2017 conference held in Berlin, Germany the week before. The satellite event will feature a hackathon during the day and an evening event with a keynote and panel discussion on the topic 'Open for Business'. Sign up here for the hackathon in which you'll be able to participate on one of two tracks - Open for Reproducibility, and Open for Collaborative-Coding.

AR/VR enthusiasts in and around Cambridge! Allia Serious Impact invites you to participate in the >sudo challenge: immerse. In this mixed reality hackathon, you'll collaborate and compete to design and prototype an innovative augmented/virtual reality solution to a real-world problem.

Women -- or anyone who identifies as a woman -- in the UK! Do feel like a misfit in the techie world? Maybe you're a parent, mother, LGBT, religiously-affiliated (especially Muslim and Jewish women), or an ex-offender (no violent or sexual crimes)! You're invited to participate in the Product Hunt Global Hackathon - The Misfits of Tech. This will be a great platform to showcase your skills to prospective employers.

Fintech developers, designers, and other techies! You're invited to participate in Bank of America Merrill Lynch's (BAML) 2-day Coding Challenge Hackathon Event. You get to learn about the world of financial markets software development and then participate in a coding challenge with the chance to win cash prizes and the opportunity to interview with BAML. The coding challenge is to create a web trading application that BAML traders could use to help them find and uncover new market opportunities.

Teenage VR enthusiasts in the Greater London area! Acorn Aspirations invites you to participates in their #AcornHackVR - Virtual Reality Hackathon for Teens. Not only will you meet experts and entrepreneurs from London's VR community, you'll also learn how to turn your VR concept into a working prototype, with a viable business model. Pitch your project to an expert start-up panel for recognition and an opportunity to move ahead!

People from the African & Caribbean diaspora -- students, graduates, young professionals! Are you interested in how technology can help address the social issues that affect the African-Caribbean community in the UK? If so, then the Young Africa Centre invites you to participate in the YACATHON -- a 3-day sprint to brainstorm ideas that can improve people's lives.

FR professionals in the UK! FDM Group invites you to participate in the Employee Experience Hackathon. Come and collaborate to develop an innovative solution that will help create human connections through digital, sharing stories and breaking boundaries. No technical or coding expertise is necessary...this is a Post-It only event. The best ideas will be entered as UK EX Awards submissions.

About the Event  The TUI Bedfordshire Hackathon is an event exclusively for University of Bedfordshire students. So please dont register if you do not attend the University of Bedfordshire. This is the second annual TUI Bedfordshire Hackackaton, the event is open for all years belonging to the Computer Science department. This is a great opportunity for future graduates to get advice from Industry experts, meet our current IT Graduates, and develop your skills. This is also a chance to show TUI UK & I what you can do while having fun in the process. The Rules Teams between 2 of 5 and ideally mixed year groups. Teams are free to use any technology on the market. Planning can be done before the Event however Do Not attend event with a fully functional prototype More information coming soon!