List of hackathons in Cambridge, United Kingdom in 2018

Customers are at the heart of everything we do at NewDay. The Manifesto is a positive force within our organisation. It is a platform on which we can make positive changes to people’s lives by helping them be better with credit. It also serves as a springboard for innovation, encouraging us to create new tools that help people manage their credit more easily and access the benefits it provides. For our first ever Manifesto Hackathon, we’ll be using our Manifesto to unlock the power of digital, developing new ideas with the potential to transform our products, services, and business processes. We’re excited to see the positive impact digital can have on making our Manifesto real for more customers.

Pitch, Build & Launch a Startup in a Single Weekend Ever had a great idea for a web, app or tech startup business but not had the time, experience or connections to bring it to life? This weekend-long event is dedicated to team building, expert mentoring, networking and pitching to help you turn your business idea into a ready-to-launch startup. With a mix of technical and non-technical attendees, it doesn't matter what experience or skill set you have, as long as you have enthusiasm to try new things and work together on new ideas. Over the 3 days you will: • Share your business ideas with a receptive audience• Learn how to validate and develop a business idea• Meet like-minded individuals and potential co-founders• Get help from experienced business mentors• Connect with Leicester’s thriving startup community WHEN: Friday 30th Nov (evening), 1st & 2nd Dec (weekend) WHERE: LCB Depot (Fri), University of Leicester (Sat), DMU Innovation Centre (Sun) COST: Standard: £20+VAT / Student & Unwaged: £10+VAT  Students & Unwaged email Pete Hitchings for discounts and free passes.     We’re looking for innovative, creative and passionate aspiring entrepreneurs. Whether you’re actively working on a startup already, you want to learn more about what it takes to create a startup or you want to test a spark of an idea, this is the place for you!  Previous participants had this to say: "It was brilliant, I have never enjoyed a business experience as much as this...a very practical/real life experience" "the chance to build something that can really take off and attain investment is better than any other uni project" "DO THIS ONCE A MONTH PLEASE!"    DETAILS ON THE WEEKEND The Startup Weekend is a 'hackathon' style event where teams form around the most popular and feasible ideas and work together to develop and refine them; including speaking with mentors, attending short workshops and pitching their idea to a panel of entrepreneurs.  It doesn’t matter what experience or skills you have, or whether you’re actively working on an idea or not, as long as you have the enthusiasm to try new things and work together on new ideas.   Timings  Friday 30th November, 5.30pm - 7pm - you'll get pizza and refreshments at LCB Deport's Last Friday event, hear from the organisers, meet potential team memberscand mentors. Saturday 1st December, 9am to 6pm - those with ideas will pitch to the group and teams will form based on which are most feasible/popular, teams will work on their ideas with guidance from expert mentors, the day will be broken up by expert-led workshops designed to help you develop your idea and regular tea/coffee/lunch/dinner breaks.Sunday 2nd December, 9am to 5pm - After continuing to work on your idea during the morning your team will pitch to a panel of experts who will identify a winning team. Support The Leicester Startup Weekend is supported by University of Leicester, De Montfort University, LCB Depot, Leicester Startups network and funded by the UK Space Agency. Our mission is to support the creation and development of innovative new businesses in Leicester, including but not limited to those that want to work in the exciting field of space entrepreneurship.  Take the next step towards startup success and book your place now!

Professionals, designers, builders, students…anyone with a passion for sustainability! The UK Green Building Council invites you to participate in the UKGBC Sustainable Innovation Sprint. In this hackathon-like event, you'll join a team and design an innovative solution to one of the following challenges identified by the Council's members: » Making the most of existing buildings, » Reusing materials from existing buildings, » Retrofitting outdated services, » Reducing construction waste.

Coder, designers, and AI enthusiasts from academia, industry, and government in the defence and security arena! The Defence and Security Accelerator (DASA) invites you to participate in the DASA Defence Logistics Hackathon. You'll be expected to showcase your logistics skills and creativity by solving a given Defence Logistic Challenge that requires the analysis and sharing of structured and unstructured multi-source data. Compete for the opportunity to bid for funding through DASA Open Call.

Coder, designers, and AI enthusiasts from academia, industry, and government in the defence and security arena! The Defence and Security Accelerator (DASA) invites you to participate in the DASA Defence Logistics Hackathon. You'll be expected to showcase your logistics skills and creativity by solving a given Defence Logistic Challenge that requires the analysis and sharing of structured and unstructured multi-source data. Compete for the opportunity to bid for funding through DASA Open Call.

London's best and most popular experience inside the world of entrepreneurs, tech startups and innovation. In a revolutionary, mind-shifting new way - with Airbnb. Why join. With Airbnb, the world's largest community driven travel company, The Airbnb Startup Experience, London programme revolutionises how people from around the world experience learning about building and accelerating startups, and explore London's startup ecosystem - in one day. Attended by 300+ startup founders, teams from Apple and Google, governments, Youtube stars and innovators from more than 140 cities around the world. What you'll do. We begin in Tech City and Silicon Roundabout, with insights about the rise of London's tech startup ecosystem - from its hackathon days to its growing trends, new players and what is happening now - as we visit the coolest new concepts in coworking space you'll see anywhere in the world.* Then, we visit one of London's best startup communities, to learn the startup process, and how entrepreneurs are solving big problems, creating new business models and building innovative companies - in artificial intelligence, fintech, blockchain and more - all within startup communities. Also discover what investors look for when funding startups and why, how to pitch your startup for venture capital and to apply to accelerators. Finally, we'll explore one of the best locations in Europe for innovation and the design thinking behind products that have changed the world. From brands like Apple, Google and Facebook to the future of revolutionary technologies like augmented reality, smart cities apps, fashion tech, and 3D printing. Get answers to questions, discover your next steps and foster genuine connections along the way - in this truly eye-opening, mind-shifting, learning experience - for individuals, partners, teams and groups. Where we go. We begin at 11am in East London's Tech City, Shoreditch and Silicon Roundabout area: the world's 3rd largest technology startup scene, after San Francisco and New York. Then jump on the tube to central London. And finally, finishing the day in Kensington at 3pm.* The format. The day is designed as a tour, visiting a number of startup locations through the city, as a very small group of just 2 to 4 people for better discussion, engagement and learning. Larger group? You can also arrange your own group experience, for between 5 to 50 people, with an adjusted format to learn about growing trends in London's startup ecosystem, the startups disrupting your insustry, and innovation and design thinking - simply select your group size when registering.  Previous attendees.  Teams from Google, Ebay, Apple and IDEO, startup founders, government teams and leaders, company heads of innovation, property entrepreneurs, Youtube stars, digital marketing managers, women in tech, venture capital analysts and more. Organised by. Anthony David King Anthony David King develops and supports new kinds of startup programmes for innovators, partners and tech communities around the world, including Airbnb, O2, Techstars, Silicon Valley Comes to the UK and Bank of Korea to build new ventures and address future trends -- with a mission to revolutionise the world’s human and startup experience. With... Airbnb The global travel community that uniquely leverages technology to economically empower millions of people around the world to unlock and monetize their spaces, passions and talents. Confirm your spot now. If you see the date you want available, book it immediately. Don't wait. One of the most frequent messages received is: "Hi, I saw the date I wanted earlier, but now its gone!" This is because it was booked full by others, and there's no way to squeeze anyone else on once a date is full. Watch the preview video. More than 160+ reviews ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ "Game changer experience" - Rui ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ "The best thing I've done this year" - Goeun ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ "A masterclass in building a start up company." - Ayob ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ "The Startup Experience topped my imaginations by far!!" - Frank ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ "Like someone was showing me electricity for the first time." - Barligea ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ "Beyond worth what we paid for - this was awesome!" - Adrianne ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ "If there were six stars, I would give six stars!" - Sasha Read all 160+ reviews Photos: ----------------------------------------- Also running during London Fashion Week, Open House London 2018, London Tech Week, Job Fair, London Design Festival, Black History Month, Halloween and Global Entrepreneurship Week. Not running during Christmas season up to New Years Eve. *When you arrange your own team or group day of 10 people or more, the day begins in central London at a startup community.

Real-World Incident Response Hackathon Improving the way we investigate incidents through the application of Multimedia Analysis and Artificial Intelligence. For this event, we are looking to bring together the best from academia, industry and government in the defence and security arena. Participants will be asked to process large amounts of real-world incident multimedia data and rapidly identify key information for on-site experts - people, places, events, in fact anything that may assist an investigations team. We’re interested in how entities relate to each other, the event timeline and narrative, and near-term predictions. Data will mostly take the form of video which will be varied in quality, source, and format. Some will be live-streamed during the event. This is a unique opportunity for participants to demonstrate their ability to extract useful information and insights from large multimedia data sources which would help teams respond to incidents more quickly and effectively.  We expect the successful hackathon attendees to leverage Artificial Intelligence techniques including Machine Vision, Facial Recognition, and Object Recognition, as well as being able to process multimedia sources in a variety of formats from a variety of sources. Benefits of Attending Attendees of the event will network and collaborate with likeminded experts in their field creating teams to tackle a challenge that has potential commercial applications across a range of business sectors. It is your chance to: develop and test your digital product to boost its potential showcase your prototype to international defence and science professionals and technology experts seize the opportunity to take your solution to Minimum Viable Product (MVP) The team outputs will be assessed, and prizes awarded to the winners. The first prize is a guided tour through the underground Burlington Bunker in Corsham, Wiltshire. This is a unique opportunity to visit a complete underground city, built in the 1950s to house the UK’s entire cabinet in the event of a nuclear attack. This prize is subject to confirmation and suitability of the winners. More information about this Hackathon is available on GOV.UK.  Please note: If you are registering as part of a group, please ensure all members of the group register individually Once you have registered for this event your details will be shared with a third party company BeMyApp and you will be invited to join the Slack channel The venue information will be detailed on your ticket confirmation The start and end times for each day are as follows:            Day 1- 9am to midnight            Day 2- 8am to 7pm Registration closes on 18 November 2018 at 6pm Places for this event are limited and if the event is oversubscribed, we reserve the right to limit attendance if needed This event is free to attend. Please make sure you can definitely attend before signing up. If you need to cancel please contact accelerator@dstl.gov.uk so we can offer your place to someone else as early as possible

The DASA hackathon focus on improving the way how the UK Government investigate incidents through the application of Multimedia Analysis and Artificial Intelligence. Participants should be able to process large amounts of real-world incident multimedia data and rapidly identify key information and how entities relate to each other, putting togethert narrative, and near-term predictions for the key stakeholders in minutes.

Hatch is organized by Shecancode and the Women in Tech division from UCL Entrepreneurs society. The mission of both organizations is to encourage more girls and women to enter the technology space. Additionally, the hackathon encourages non-coders to apply to the business role; every team comprises of an equal number of coders and non-coders.

High quality boot camp brought to you by workonblockchain.com This two-day Blockchain Developer Bootcamp is made possible thanks to our amazing sponsors - Totle and Kings College London. About TotleAllowing users to easily manage their crypto assets, Totle is the world’s simplest portfolio management platform for crypto investing. Keep possession of your assets and easily exchange tokens via peer-to-peer markets. Aggregating several decentralized exchanges enables Totle to provide users maximum security and liquidity. Totle continues to develop new tools and solutions to make crypto trading faster, easier, and frankly, more fun. For the first time in history we have the technical tools at our disposal to build decentralized systems that endow people with more control over their own assets and investment decisions. Check out their website on www.totle.com About Work on Blockchain Work on Blockchain is a global hirirng platform for technical professionals aimed at the blockchain and DLT space. The platform launched on September 2018 and now have over 100+ vetted candidates looking for work and the number of active candidates are increasing daily, most with strong commercial blockchain experience. The platform is a valuable hiring tool to companies in search for technical experts in a “short supply and high demand market” having attracted the attention of smart blockchain developers, software engineers, researchers, architects, data scientists and CTO’s from across the world. Check out their website on www.workonblockchain.com Intro: “Blockchain engineers are in high demand. 14 job openings per one blockchain developer”. Source: Techcrunch, Feb 14th, 2018. Will you be the next blockchain developer? Now is your chance to become one for FREE. Our overall aim is to train as many software developers as possible, provide our students the intuition on distributed systems, cryptography, the blockchain, smart contract security, real-world applications, hands-on coding experience and more... Due to popular demand and positive feedback from our students, we aim to run this boot camp monthly. We have trained over 430+ developers to date since Jan 2017. Our students have gone on to work as a blockchain developer, moved into the research field,  set up their own start-up in the blockchain space and some are now a core part of our workshop team. Our workshop consists of topics that all future blockchain developers must know with plenty of Q&A and we incorporate multiple coding sessions. To help our students further, we provide three month on-line support, students work on a group project and invite them back at the end of the 3 months to present their project to the whole class. Our goal is to help regular software developers enter the blockchain space. This workshop is also available on-site for start-ups and corporates at your desired location (chargeable). Some of the areas we cover but not limited to are: Day OneIntro to Blockchains, Bitcoin and Byzantine Fault Tolerant Networks plus more...Intro to Ethereum and Smart Contracts plus more...Series of hands-on coding on Ethereum and Smart Contracts DAY TWOSmart Contracts Security and Ethereum Internals - Cryptography, Consensus, EVM, Privacy plus more...Smart Contracts Design and Best PracticesDeep dive on a bonus topic chosen by our students What to know as a Blockchain Developer plus more...Series of hands-on coding on Ethereum and Smart ContractsReview the feedback from previous workshops by clicking HERE. Pre-requisite: To qualify, 6 months of current coding experience is a must or either currently studying in their final year, about to graduate or recently graduated from a computer science/software engineering subject. This workshop consists of a series of hands-on coding exercise, hence as a minimum requirement, all our students must be proficient in writing code. We are looking for software developers/computer science students who are GENUINELY PASSIONATE about working in the blockchain space. You must be committed to attend the two day workshop followed by a commitment to work on a group project for 3 months which is conducted remotely together with your chosen group (4-5 hours per week commitment on the project). What's next after the workshop? We hope our students will continue to code and conduct their own research on Ethereum and other blockchain platforms. To help our students succeed, we allow up to three months for further Q&A in relation to Ethereum, Solidity, Smart Contracts, Security, Privacy, Scalability etc. We also have further coding sessions for our students to work on with our guidance. Our students are required to work on a group project and once completed, we will offer our services free of charge to audit the project code (if built on Ethereum) and provide guidance where necessary. Finally, we invite our students back to present their project to the whole class. Securing a job in the blockchain space:Don't worry, we've got you covered. Our goal is to equip our students with the knowledge required to become a blockchain developer and help our students enter this exciting new space. We have built an on-line hiring platform to help our students secure a job when they are ready via www.workonblockchain.com Our team: Antonio Sabado (Core organiser) Founder of workonblockchain.com and organiser of several blockchain tech focused groups. Building a vibrant blockchain tech community since Jan 2017 through a series of technical workshops, hackathons and deep dive sessions. Over 10 years experience building software engineering teams across a number of global investment banks specifically in the front office trading space. Patrick McCorry (Co-instructor and hands-on support), Assistant Professor at King’s College London. His focus is cryptocurrencies, smart contracts, cryptography and decentralised systems. Patrick is the UK’s first PhD graduate in Cryptocurrencies and his work has recently appeared at Devcon 3 & 4, Scaling Bitcoin 2017, Breaking Bitcoin 2017 and BPASE 2018 alongside numerous academic venues. Laurence Kirk (Co-instructor and hands-on support), after a successful 15 year career writing low latency financial applications Laurence moved to Oxford and set up Extropy.io, a consultancy working with start-ups in the UK and overseas, developing blockchain solutions. 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 organises an Artificial Intelligence group in Oxford. Nick Johnson (On-line support) is a Senior Software Engineer and has been working in the software engineering space for the past 16 years. Nick is currently working as a core Software Engineer for the Ethereum Foundation, and founder and lead developer for ENS, and prior to this, he worked at Google for a number of years. Jack Tanner (On-line support) is a passionate advocate for blockchain technology and loves teaching technical concepts in an understandable way. He completed a Masters in Computer Science at Imperial College London. Previously at Indorse.io as a senior blockchain engineer and researcher. Founder and CTO of workonblockchain.com and has been involved in numerous blockchain projects and educational events around the world since 2015. Julien Bouteloup (Senior hands-on mentor and on-line support) holds a Master’s degree in Electrical Engineering from USA and a Master’s degree in Electrical Engineering from France where he specialised in Artificial Intelligence, decentralised systems and security back in 2009. He has built multiple tech businesses from energy trading, high frequency trading, decentralised identity, autonomous transportation systems and won multiple competitions worldwide. He was first introduced to Bitcoin in 2009 and then Ethereum in 2015. He is now involved full-time in decentralised applications, Blockchain, Ethereum, Game and Computability Theory, AI, Cryptographic and Machine learning algorithms. Ali Azam (Senior hands-on mentor and on-line support) is a senior Blockchain Developer at Vaultplatform, previously worked at King’s College London for over two years and have given various workshops and keynotes at King’s College London, Devcon4, Blockercon and many other places. Ali loves to teach and works hard to make the dream of decentralisation become a reality. Harry Wright (Senior hands-on mentor and on-line support) Harry is a software engineer based London. His passion for blockchain began in 2016 after reading Mastering Bitcoin by Andreas Antonopoulos, which quickly led to an interest in Ethereum and all things crypto. Previously worked as a senior Ethereum Engineer at Totle, a decentralised exchange aggregator, where he spent most of his time developing smart contracts and backend systems. Prior to joining Totle, he worked on the innovation team at Calastone, a fintech company, where he developed a blockchain-based distributed platform for mutual fund transactions. With a background in embedded systems, Harry is currently finishing a part time Masters in Computer Science at the University of London. Testimonials: “This has been an amazing workshop. I learned so so much, got energized and motivated to become a blockchain developer. Don't think twice. Come to the workshop, take a place in first row, learn, code and enjoy”. Source: https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:6457560412182450176/ “Amazing workshop. The content is exactly what developers need to kickstart their involvement with the blockchain. Sound theoretical foundation and good hands-on coding” Source: https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:6457560412182450176/ “A pleasure to spend this weekend learning at Work on Blockchain's blockchain developer training course. Covering smart contracts, lightning networks, and cryptocurrencies, it was a fabulous way to continue my work in blockchain. Would absolutely recommend all their content for any software engineers keen to enter the blockchain space. An excellent introduction, continuing support, and a fabulous network to hook participants into industry.” Source: https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:6445008810993020928/ We are happy to provide as many testimonials as possible. Date: 24th & 25th of November 2018 Time: 10:00 to 18:00 Workshop Location: King's College London, Strand, London, WC2R 2LS (we will notify only our selected students the exact room number) Networking session: Time to ounwind! We invite our students to join our networking drinks from 18:00 onwards on Saturday and Sunday. This is a great opportunity to get to know our students. We want our students to become a core part of our developer community and foster collaboration.  ***SPONSORSHIP OPPORTUNITIES*** As from January 2019, we are looking for a minimum of five companies to sponsor our monthly bootcamp. If your company is looking for developer exposure, looking to hire awesome developers from our class, want to help us drive the blockchain developer ecosystem plus more, please reach out to Antonio Sabado on contact@workonblockchain.com Please view the following sponsorship proposal:  https://drive.google.com/open?id=1A_iQR3KAuePaFqMJtmpTCmkgrwF3s2BRRoo-7Bz1_ks Donations: If anyone want to anonymously donate for the awesome work we are doing for the blockchain community, you can make your donations here. 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