List of hackathons in Canterbury, United Kingdom in 2018

Please note: this event is open to business users, non-technical users, developers, investors and blockchain enthusiasts. We require each attendee to register on Eventbrite to attend this event. Please complete the registration form provided. Security at the venue will not allow entry to anyone without a valid ticket. This is a private event and we have the right to refuse entry. This event is brought to you by The Blockchain Connector and our venue sponsor WeWork. Headline: Nuggets - Take Back Control of Your Data Abstract: We will cover the following areas: -          Developing one of the first consumer blockchain platforms to give users a single biometric tool for payment, login, and identity verification, without sharing or storing private data. -          The privacy crisis: each of us has private data stored with 100+ services, creating vast and vulnerable silos of sensitive customer information. -          How Nuggets is using blockchain technology to solve that crisis, with huge benefits for consumers and corporates alike. -          Where next for Nuggets? Bio of speaker: Alastair Johnson, Founder & CEO, Nuggets Alastair has spent over 25 years as an entrepreneur and innovator, almost entirely in digital innovation: taking big ideas and design through to delivery. With deep knowledge across technical, production and commercial areas, he has led global integrated product development and product marketing for brands like Microsoft, Skype, Office, Xbox, Hololens, Disney, TED and the BBC. He has created and led multi-disciplinary global teams in both start-ups and multinational corporations, both client and agency side. About Nuggets Nuggets is an e-commerce payments and ID platform. It stores your personal and payment data securely in the blockchain, so you never have to share it with anyone – not even Nuggets. It was inspired by CEO Alastair Johnson’s experience of having his payment details used fraudulently – and the complicated, frustrating process that ensued. Nuggets solves this problem, using zero knowledge storage, encryption, privacy, security and trust, all combined with the decentralised immutable ledger. For consumers, Nuggets is a single, secure sign-on for payment, login and ID verification, with no tracking or selling of your activity. Access is purely through biometrics to replace usernames and passwords. For businesses, Nuggets will mean the end of vast, vulnerable databases of customer data, minimising the risk of regulatory issues. The Nuggets platform is agnostic, and will be available across e-commerce platforms and payment gateways. https://nuggets.life/ Location:  WeWork, Waterhouse Square, 138 Holborn, London, EC1N 2SW Schedule: 18:00 Registration and networking. Refreshments sponsored by WeWork 18:45 Quick intro from WeWork and The Blockchain Connector and lightning intro from the audience 19:00 Presentation from Alasdair at Nuggets followed by Q&A 19:45 - 20:15 Panel session led by Alastair Johnson and Alpesh Doshi, CEO and Founder of Fintricity.  20:15 Networking session. Refreshments sponsored by WeWork EVENT ORGANIZER This event is brought to you by The Blockchain Connector and sponsored by WeWork. Antonio Sabado is the founder of The Blockchain Connector, a training and recruitment company focusing entirely on Blockchain technology. If you are hiring or looking for your next job opportunity in the blockchain space, please get in touch. Antonio has 10+ years experience working closely with global Investment Banks placing and managing highly skilled eTrading Technology professionals. Antonio has an extensive network, ranging from mid to senior level technology and business professionals across various sectors. He is an organiser of several Blockchain focused events in London aimed at software developers and business users. The Blockchain Connector’s goal is to build a vibrant community of professionals working in the blockchain space. We are building a blockchain developer community by helping regular developers become blockchain developers. We host regular hands-on developer workshops, technical deep dive sessions and hackathons. We train and recruit developers on behalf of start-ups and global firms working on Blockchain related projects. We are also planning a series of Blockchain focused seminars for business users/non-technical users to take place in London. Hackathons: We have the resources to organise and mentor blockchain based hackathons. Contact us if you are a blockchain based company who would like to sponsor one of our hackathons or you would like us to lend you a helping hand with organising a hackathon. Developer Training: We have the resources and expertise to offer companies a blockchain developer focused training on site. Alternatively, developers can join our monthly hands-on developer workshop in London. Click HERE to join our next workshop.  Hiring: We have the network to help you build your development team. Contact us if you are a company looking to hire or a developer looking for your next job opportunity. Volunteer Developers: We have access to developers who are looking to contribute to open source projects on a volunteer basis. Contact us if you have an Ethereum based project that require volunteer developers. Alternatively, contact us if you are a developer looking to gain commercial blockchain development experience. Future events: Click HERE to view all our up and coming blockchain related events. Contact: If you have any question, please contact us on antonio@theblockchainconnector.com or +44 7923 521 833. Web: https://www.theblockchainconnector.com/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/thebc_connector & https://twitter.com/bc_workshop LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/15221081/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TheBlockchainWorkshop/ Join our developer focused meetup group held monthly in London. This meetup group is strictly for software engineers, software architects and computer science/software engineering students only. Technical talk made for a technical audience. Join us on https://www.meetup.com/Blockchain-Workshop-for-Developers/

3Hack is a 12 hours long open-ended hackathon. In this epic hackathon, you will be creating your idea, application or whatever you want to do. More importantly, we will be fueling you with plenty of free food and drinks throughout the day. It is focused on bringing together students interested in one of the 3 major areas: graphic designing, entrepreneurship, and engineering/programming to create something new while building connections with one another. Participants will have the opportunity to attend workshops given by current Microsoft seniors as well as the opportunity to speak to recruiters and get feedback on their CVs. 3Hack mentors will consist of people from all skillsets, committee members from an incredible amount of different societies at Imperial College London, Microsoft employees and many others including an entrepreneur whom have accumulated five-digit revenues as a teenager and a mobile app developer who has easily gotten over a million downloads. They will be here to help you! We are proud to have connected so many different societies of Imperial College London. The large prize pool and all the swag for hackers have been kindly donated by Microsoft. Limited-edition laptop stickers (designed by our graphic designer) specifically for this event are sponsored by EESoc.For more information, please see https://3hack.co.uk/.

Techie students from London, the UK, and Europe! The City, University of London Tech Society invites you to participate in HackCity18. You'll be challenged to 24 hours of hacking on challenges that are provided -- or anything you like! Hack in teams of up to four in order to be eligible to win prizes.

Students and educators with an interest innovation! You're invited to participate in TOT-UP 2018: (Research + Apps) x (Students + AI) / Gamification = Innovation. This event is focused on innovations in gamification, interaction, and mathematics learning. Come and pitch your idea and develop an elevator pitch to compete to win a prize.

Designers, coders, programmers, and entrepreneurs! You're invited to participate in the Kingston University Hackathon February 2018. You'll be part of a team that will attack one of the three challenges that will be revealed at the event! Come collaborate and compete for prizes -- for the winning team and the two runners-up! Oh, by the way, everyone's a winner -- all participating teams will get Love2Shop vouchers!

Kingfisher staff in the UK! Do you know kids aged 5 - 12, who are interested in stories and making stuff? If so, Accenture & Kingfisher Digital invite you to bring them along to participate in Kidovation! In this kid-friendly, where participants will have a day to play, learn, sketch ideas and turn them into reality.

Researchers, journalists, scientists and anyone interested in Wikidata! Wikimedia UK invites you to participate in a Wikidata hackathon in London. You don't have to be an expert -- all levels of experience are welcome to attend. Come and learn how Wikidata works and how you can use it.

Edtech enthusiasts in the UK? Are you interested in helping design digital solutions that help solve rural unemployment in India? The London Chapter of Asha for Education invites you to participate in their Asha for London Edtech Hackathon. You'll be challenged to design and prototype an innovative digital solution that addresses the problem of matching people to work opportunities in their local area and elsewhere, as well as helping them acquire needed new skills.

Socially minded people in and around Barking and Dagenham! If you're interested in issues of gender equality, then you're invited to participate in the Gender Equality Hackathon. You'll be faced with developing approaches and solutions to two challenges – inequalities in employment and pay, and safety. Your goal will be to develop a prototype solution to address one of these challenges.

Hello folks2017 has been a smashing year for the blockchain industry. 2018 is going to be even bigger! Get ready for 2018!Three preeminent Blockchain projects from around the world will speak to the audience about how they are disrupting entire industries with blockchain applications.31 Jan 20186:00 pm to 9:00pmVenue: London Business School Campus LBS Samy Ofer Centre (New Campus), Marylebone Road Lecture Theatre LT18  About Capital Coin: Global Tour to unleash blockchain led paradigm shift in Capital Markets   Speakers: Luke Shipley will present R_Block "R_Block is a decentralized, anonymous hiring network., powered by a blockchain based referencing dApp. They believe in the world of Web3.0 everybody will be rewarded for sharing their time and data. They're tackling worthwhile problems of data abuse, prejudice and centralisation in hiring. They have a Beta dApp running on the Ethereum testnet that has received some promising feedback from early customers; GOCardless, Qualcomm, Booking.com and Aventus. Talent Manager - GoCardless: "R_Block is a simple easy to use intuitive piece of software that I foresee completely rejuvenating employee & employer referencing using intuitive Blockchain technology." They've recently published a new Whitepaper and they have a shorter synopsis in a paper they call, the Blackpaper"     Arifa Khan will present Capital Coin Arifa Khan, a former investment banker with Credit Suisse and UBS has embarked on her global DGCAMP tour to disrupt traditional Investment Banking industry with Blockchain and Smart Contract led Fintech Innovation. She is Ethereum India Partner.Through the DGCAMP platform, she intends to bring transparency to the global capital market ecosystem which would empower both asset issuers and investors to discover and conduct transactions in a transparent manner. This would shake up the $66 trillion-dollar global securities market backed by cozy investment bankers.The innovation would usher a beginning of a new era with no role for intermediaries. The platform would knit a core blockchain led infrastructure that would open immense possibilities - Digital IPO, Start-ups raising Venture and Private Equity capital, Corporate Bond Issuance, M&A’s and Cross-Border Transactions, Governments issuing Treasuries and other infrastructure bonds – that without paying a hefty fee to Investment Banks!The technology driven platform would open a channel for the best minds in Asset Management and Investment Banking industry to design innovative applications adding value to both investors and capital seekers. This would be a Google, Apple moment for the Financial Services Industry! And an Uber moment for Investment Banking! Arifa had a successful tour Sep-Dec 2017 : Dubai, Singapore, Hong Kong, Beijing, Shanghai, Kiev, Brussels, Paris , Seoul, Mexico, Davos, Zug, Chennai, Macau, Kualalumpur. She has been meeting Bitcoin and Blockchain community, potential investors, market participants, strategic partners and potential team members in order to build a user community for Capital Coin.Investment Banks and Trading Exchanges across the world are demonstrating their interest in these technologies with super disruptive potential.Arifa Khan speaking at a Blockchain Technology Panel at Bengaluru Tech Summit 17-18 Nov 2017 hosted by Govt of Karnataka, India.Blockchain World Showcase - Dates - January 20184-6 January - Ethereum Dev Hackathon on Decentralised Exchanges - Singapore 8 Jan Seoul , World ICO Showcase, South Korea 8 Jan Hong Kong 9 Jan Shenzhen, Blockchain Showcase, China10 Jan Shanghai, Blockchain Showcase, China12 Jan Tokyo, World ICO Showcase, Japan16 Jan Mumbai, World ICO Showcase, India22 Jan Davos, Switzerland - World Economic Forum Special !!This series is a gathering of “thoughtful, iconoclastic blockchain enthusiasts” from around the world who share a common interest in how can we solve problems with decentralized solutions for sustainable development through global innovation. Our vision is ambitious, which is nothing less than to reshape the entire way we think about decentralized development and growth.   Zero Field Labs, Fintech Storm and Himalaya Labs are joining forces with some leading lights in Asia to bring disruptive blockchain platforms to capital markets and financial securities industry (stocks and bonds) which is estimated at USD85 trillion, with over USD3 trillion of trading daily.All blockchain disrupters, inventors, ICOs, Cryptocurrencies, Tokens who want to present can get in touch with us. Team@Himalayalabs.comThis event is brought to you by DGCAMP - HimalayaWe are mighty thrilled to be presenting Himalaya ICO - DGCAMP for the blockchain cryptocurrency community.Read more on our ground-breaking innovation DGCAMP that will break the bank!https://medium.com/@misskhan/what-is-dgcamp-2a6fae4cf699 Two years since invention, Ethereum has already disrupted one industry big time. Venture Capital and traditional equity funding. Now for those naysayers who say tokens are Ethereum's killer app, we will prove them wrong!Here's yet another disruptive solutionLadies and Gentlemen - presenting DGCAMP to you!DGCAMP is potentially one of the biggest real world applications for Blockchain. DGCAMP takes direct aim at investment banks and intermediaries. DGCAMP can raise capital for anyone without the need for investment banks and intermediaries. DGCAMP envisages a smart contract architecture replacing the manual processes involved in investment banking, in the issuance of corporate equity and debt securities — processes characterised by opacity and high fees. (Read our preliminary paper on http://himalayalabs.com/Himalaya-Executive-Summary2.pdf ) "Intermediaries in complex markets thrive on “the theory of opacity” and deliberately propagate the theory to further their own interests. The theory simply states that opacity of a process attracts intermediaries, and the more the opacity of a system or process, the more the intermediary can take away from the buyer or seller surplus. DGCAMP aims to do away with opacity in capital markets." - Arifa Khan, Founder Himalaya Labs — July 2017 Decentralised Global Capital Markets Platform ( DGCAMP ) is a new-age architecture where investors of capital and seekers of capital can interact freely, trustlessly and with minimum friction. The platform can operate with and without intermediaries. DGCAMP — A definition:DGCAMP is a blockchain and smart-contract driven platform where issuers (public and private firms, governments, non-profit foundations) can access a broad class of primary market investors (both institutional and retail), complete a variety of automated transactions and processes (such as book building, auctions, syndications, dividend distributions) and can issue a broad array of digital assets to investors. Investors of every type, jurisdiction and financial status can use the platform to learn about investment opportunities across the globe, their regulatory aspects, risks and expected returns, to access due diligence reports, and to invest directly without having to go through intermediaries. A secondary market layer with buyers, sellers, arbitrageurs can easily complement this system. The system can first be envisaged as a single-country system and then extended to a multi-country global marketplace.Capital allocation will be made in a cryptographically secure, quick, efficient, trustless way. If you are a cutting edge blockchain developer, technical architect, UX UI designer, Dapps developer , strategist, financial services expert, Intellectual Property, Patent and Legal expert, this is your chance to join this game changing revolution now! Blockchain applications and ICOs so far have targeted well known industries and applications that were elaborated in Satoshi Nakamoto and Vitalik Buterin white papers.The real Wall Street is still a blue ocean opportunity for blockchain. We are the first to take aim at it. Come create history with us! Join the task force which is aiming to create a disruptive blockchain platform to take on wall street!We have hosted hackathons in India with Vitalik Buterin, Founder of Ethereum where we partnered with Ethereum Foundation and Consensys for Blockchain India Week May 2017! To kickstart the new year with a bang, we are doing the World ICO Showcase in January 2018. Join us and start your community building and outreach mission right away if you have a world changing, disruptive ICO.9 Jan Shenzhen10 Jan Shanghai12 Jan Tokyo16 Jan Mumbai22 Jan Davos, Switzerland just before the World Economic Forum.31 Jan LondonTeam@himalayalabs.comSponsors and Partners, ICOs that want to join us on roadhsows, get in touch with us!About DGCAMP & Capital CoinRead our preliminary paper on Decentralised Global Capital Markets Platform (DGCAMP) here (https://medium.com/@misskhan/what-is-dgcamp-2a6fae4cf699). http://himalayalabs.com/Himalaya-Executive-Summary2.pdfWhat is DGCAMP ?https://medium.com/@misskhan/what-is-dgcamp-2a6fae4cf699DGCAMP is potentially one of the biggest real world applications for Blockchain. DGCAMP envisages a smart contract architecture replacing the manual processes involved in investment banking, in the issuance of corporate equity and debt securities — processes characterised by opacity and high fees.(Read our preliminary paper (http://himalayalabs.com/Himalaya-Executive-Summary2.pdf)) DGCAMP aims to do away with opacity in capital markets. Decentralised Global Capital Markets Platform ( DGCAMP ) is a new-age architecture where investors of capital and seekers of capital can interact freely, trustlessly and with minimum friction. The platform can operate with and without intermediaries. DGCAMP — A definition: DGCAMP is a blockchain and smart-contract driven platform where issuers (public and private firms, governments, non-profit foundations) can access a broad class of primary market investors (both institutional and retail), complete a variety of automated transactions and processes (such as book building, auctions, syndications, dividend distributions) and can issue a broad array of digital assets to investors. Investors of every type, jurisdiction and financial status can use the platform to learn about investment opportunities across the globe, their regulatory aspects, risks and expected returns, to access due diligence reports, and to invest directly without having to go through intermediaries. A secondary market layer with buyers, sellers, arbitrageurs can easily complement this system. The system can first be envisaged as a single-country system and then extended to a multi-country global marketplace. Capital allocation will be made in a cryptographically secure, quick, efficient, trustless way.Decentralised Capital Markets Platform for Digitally Represented Assets (DGCAMP)Benefits of DGCAMP:Disintermediation of Investment Banking by a Digital Asset Issuance Platform:A Smart Contract Architecture can replace everything an investment bank does in securities issuance — book building, IPO pricing, algorithm-based allotment of digitised assets to various subscribers, accepting payments and issuing digital securities, custody of digitised assets Cost saving, for example:Taking Away IPO fees of 7–10%De-risking of issuance process :Eliminating counter-party and settlement risksPost-issue management of investor base and performance reportingDigital coupon and dividend distributionGlobal Open Access Trust-less Platform for direct interaction between Investors and Capital-seekersGlobal efficient capital flows between countriesPotential App Market Place for Asset Management Industry and intermediaries to build on our Core PlatformReputation scoring of investors and issuers enabled over timePotential platform for independent service providers to sell Research, Due Diligence, Legal and Regulatory ProductsDecentralisation of Access to Capital!Decentralisation of Innovation!“As a professional provider of investment advisory services, including, for example, management of liquidity funds on stock exchanges, we are very interested in lowering the transaction fees as those direct expenses paid to different counterparties like DMA brokers, custody etc lowers the returns for our customers. So we are very interested in such an exchange that would give us the reasonable safety within the regulated scope and good fees to more bigger returns.” - Alexander Zitsev, Founder, Raison AI"As if online book building/ trading was not enough, the Crypto Economy, with a much more vast array of possibilities is likely to overhaul the way in which primary and secondary capital markets operate. To pick just a couple of aspects that are 'ripe targets’ - the current, less than optimum allocation and settlement protocols are suddenly looking almost archaic, highly inefficient and often described as bordering on being unfair."- Maneesh Malhotra, Capital Coin ICO Adviser, Senior Debt Capital Market Specialist, having worked with HSBC for almost 2 decades in India and South East Asia, opened new currency and geographical markets for a vast array of capital raising entities, while maintaining a deep interaction with regulatory bodies in different jurisdictions. He now works at a boutique Corporate Finance Advisory outfit in Singapore, covering Asia Pacific region.DGCAMP serves as a substitute to the current manually-intensive, time-bound and costly processes involved in the issuance of real world securities for corporates, governments, and non-profits.About Ms Arifa Khan, Founder Himalaya Labs, Capital CoinArifa Khan is Ethereum India Partner.Arifa's latest project is setting up a Decentralised Capital Markets Platform for Initial Public Offerings through a tokenised platform for securities. She will be leading the Capital Coin ICO in early 2018 as CEO and Founder. Arifa is Member WhartonUK Club Committee, Founder Europe-India Conclave Series, speaker at ICBI's "Payments International 2015" and an acclaimed painter. Arifa has spoken at several international blockchain conferences alongside Vitalik Buterin. She was a speaker at several international blockchain conferences in 2017 in Macau, China, Ethereum India Summit featuring Vitalik Buterin, Davos (D10e), Istanbul (ICO Summit), Bengaluru Tech Summit, Kiev (Blockchain UA) etc.She is a London based Blockchain & Fintech expert, a seasoned Banking & finance, strategy and operations executive, with over 15 years experience in Investment banking, Leveraged Finance/ Financial Sponsors Coverage/ Debt Products & Credit. She has worked with two suisse banks Credit Suisse & UBS, which honed her ability in deal origination, analysing strategic growth maps of companies, leading teams for impeccable execution. She has deep sector expertise in Banking & Financial services & Fintech, operational insights, the business acumen to forge big strategic partnerships. She currently advises Government of India on infrastructure financing. Arifa has an MBA from The Wharton School of Business, USA. She is also mathematically gifted, and has a B.Tech from IIT Madras. She is a Blockchain evangelist. Her profile features in Femtech Leaders.Arifa is also the architect of Europe India Conclave and Token Storm Global Tour.She writes a popular series chronicling her Blockchain World Tour on medium.com "Tales of a crypto nomad".https://www.asiasentinel.com/econ-business/attack-global-securities-industry/https://medium.com/@misskhan/tales-of-a-crypto-nomad-fbb30066c2dahttps://medium.com/@misskhan/daring-diaries-of-a-crypto-nomad-part-1-a628390089c7( http://www.femtechleaders.com/europe/arifa-khan/ )Here is what Londoners say: ( http://www.haggerston-times.com/fintech-start-up-storm-discusses-online-payments-asks-if-banks-are-losing-ground-in-the-battle-for-financial-services/ )Join us on our upcoming Token Storm World ICO Showcase!     Drop us an email team@himalayalabs.com   Join our wechat group "Capital Coin" . If you'd like to talk to the organisers, or join their project - drop an email to team@himalayalabs.com