List of hackathons in Camden, United Kingdom in 2016

This robot hackathon wants to challenge you to develop an application in which a robot engages in meaningful interaction with humans or other robots. The event is open to all developers interested in applications that make use of social robots. There will be some robots on-hand but if you already own a robot, feel free to bring it!

This is a huge event inviting over 300 inventors, investors, researchers, and entrepreneurs to innovate our way to a cleaner, healthier, more efficient future. Together you will aim to reimagining waste as a resource, advance science, develop new technologies, and create novel market opportunities. Waste and resource topics will be covered by looking at biotech, medicine, materials, AI, fin-tech, and consumer goods. This conference is not to be missed! A series of innovative programs culminating the brightest minds in the world, all in one day. The event will include the UK’s first Bio-Hackathon, the 2nd annual Sustainable Futures Challenge finale, and a sustainable technology start-up exhibition. There will be local and international media coverage from Bloomberg, WIRED, BBC and more!

Interested in helping overcome barriers to cycling in the Borough of Camden--and across London? Join with a diverse group of people to identify those barriers and generate ideas that eliminate them. Work in tandem with other CycleHack Camden participants to make your ideas become real. Help prototype them and see how they'll work in the real world. The best ideas win a CycleHack award and some of the awesome prizes on offer.

Are you a cybersecurity fanatic? Want to shake up the Insurance industry? Coders, developers, designers, observers...you'e invited to join Startupbootcamp InsurTech's Hackathon. This event is focused on disruptive insurance innovation and connecting with startups focused on the insurance market. You will work on one of the challenges: Cyber Risk Scoring, Safety and Security Beyond Traditional Passwords, Cyber Bullying Prevention and Support, Unified Reconciliation, Personal Data Sharing as a Service, Fighting Fraud with Social Proof, Crime in Motor Car Insurance, and Detecting Fraud in Cyber Insurance.

This is the best data festival for all data enthusiasts in London, powered by The DataFoundry movement. Business people, data analysts, data hackers and data scientists all come together for a full weekend of exploring the data world. The DataFestival.London is primary for three groups. For business users there is the Friday event which will be filled with real people stories and learnings about how they've transformed their business thanks to data and it's democratization. For the data geeks there is afternoon hacking from Friday night to Sunday for anyone interested in working on data sets with fellow minded people and great tech to try for free. Note: this is not a competition event. This event is just for learning, bonding, and having fun!

The TECHFACTOR brings together students who aspire to work in the digital industry and employers looking for tomorrow's technology leaders. Leading industry mentors will take attendees through fast-paced Creative-Mindset workshops on the skills and knowledge they'll for the digital industry. Teams will then complete and get their Digital business prototypes ready to pitch to a jury of young leaders and top employers, who have the power to bring their ideas to life!!

This hackathon is inviting all Software Hackers and Hardware Makers to come along and heat things up with the power of FLIR ONE and Lepton. There will be two challenges open to new and existing projects. The new projects will use the FLIR ONE SDK and/or a FLIR Lepton developer kit to create totally new consumer-ready thermal-imaging solutions. Whereas, the existing projects will integrate the FLIR ONE SDK and/or a FLIR Lepton solution for innovative consumer-ready thermal-imaging solutions.

Come attend OSCEdays London 2016 a global hackathon-style event and community to create open resources and possibilities for a global shift towards a waste-free, sustainable and environmentally friendly Circular Economy. This event will be an opportunity to collaboratively imagine a future where London embraces open source and circular economy thinking. People from industry, grassroots, maker & hacker movements, students, etc. will work together on all kinds of challenges discussing, developing and experimenting with the Open Source Circular Economy (OSCE).

Come join in the Circular Towns - Circular Mapping Challenge at Reading Green Festival, which is part of London/ READING OSCEdays. The focus will be around sharing, learning, meeting new people and exploring new places through a circular lens. Participants will have a chance to explore the city and engage in mapping the local activities and related places – putting circular initiatives on the map (literally). The goal is to create an open map of the towns circular related activities and connections that will be of use and can be built upon further by local groups.

Participate in a day of creating open guidance and resources for shared community spaces wanting to go more circular or encourage its users to in their work. This year's challenge activity focuses on Circular Maker Spaces and Open Energy Life Cycles. Participants will be developing circular guidance, inspiration, signage and more and exploring what platform is the best for this. Open Energy Monitor will also be on hand to share and develop further resources around embodied energy and LCA to aid hardware design considerations.