List of hackathons in Chelmsford, United Kingdom in 2017

Allianz is launching a 48 hour hackathon to develop an innovative solution that helps provide smarter and efficient customer service for their corporate clients.  Let's work together! Industrial Insurance overall is complex and involves a lot of long manual processes. The goal of this hackathon is to come up with innovative solutions that will simplify and reinvent industrial Insurance so that the corporate clients   will receive more positive customer service experience and have better knowledge of their contracts.  Challenges to tackle You will have the choice to choose from the follwing 6 challenges: 1. "Instant information in industrial insurance"  How would you design an outstanding customer experience that gives customers instant access to relevant data and provides instant answers to questions? 2. "Predictive pricing" How can you insure risks where we have no historical claims data? 3. Paying for not having claims? How could you use technology to make money out of loss prevention rather than loss protection (insurance) 4. "The Ebay in Insurance" How would you set up a platform for transferring risks that is easy to use for the customers? 5."Simplify Industrial Insurance" How can you build a user interface that is easy to handle and makes industrial insurance easy to understand? 6. "Industrial Insurance Reloaded" How would you use technology to re-invent and improve industrial insurance? ** More info about the event on it's way** Register now to reserve your spot!  (Once signed up, more info and knowledge on Industrial Insurance will be sent to you.) Event Partners/ Sponsors

Join us and Celebrate the Launch of DfT Hacks on the 24th of March! This March, we have been commissioned by the Department for Transport to host their very own hackathon - DfT Hacks! This means different challenges, datasets, venues, routes, but the same crazy organisers! We're pleased to be able to invite you all to the launch of DfT Hacks on Friday 24th of March, an event in London for everyone interested in technology in the transport industry. This will be a wonderful opportunity to network with all DfT Hacks participants, sponsors, industry leaders, government, and media, to hear more about the Hackathon and to wish the participants well on their 48 hour DfT Hacks adventure. For more information, check out the DfT Hacks website. HackTrain is an initiative that is driving forward innovation within transport, offering an unforgettable experience where a group of the best developers, entrepreneurs and designers from all around Europe will be challenged to solve the trasnport sector's biggest challenges! Visit us at hacktrain.com!

Do you have what it takes to turn Camden's open data into an innovative website or app? Are you passionate about making a difference to our local communities? If the answer is yes, then join Camden's Open Data Challenge . We are looking for coders, developers, designers, programmers, data enthusiasts and anyone else who feels they can make a difference in Camden, to dig deep into our open data and uncover new innovations that could improve the everyday lives of our residents. We have nearly 300 different sets of data available on our open data portal, Open Data Camden – featuring information on everything from parking bays and planning applications to housing stock and road accidents. This data has the potential to change lives and we are asking you to help us unlock it's potential. We’re kicking off the Camden Open Data Challenge with a meet-up on 23 March, hosted by Councillor Theo Blackwell, the Council’s Cabinet Member for Finance, Technology and Growth and leading advocate of open data in local government. We’ll introduce our open data programme, agree the challenge(s) and discuss how we can work together to tackle them. We want to build a network of civic coders collaborating with us to get the most out of the wealth of open data we’re releasing. In true hackathon style, there’ll be pizza and (modest) prizes for the best apps. To get you started, here are some ideas that we think have potential: • Schools waiting list – help parents keep track of where their child is on the waiting list for Camden schools • Council housing data – help prospective council tenants understand how the bidding process for council housing works through data • My local area – help residents keep up to date with activity such as planning, parking, licencing and streetworks in their neighbourhood. We are very open to other ideas – and we’ll do our very best to source the data for you if it’s not already on the site. Check out our open data at https://opendata.camden.gov.uk/browse. To register go to https://www.eventbrite.com/e/camden-open-data-challenge-tickets-32055204981

Artificial intelligence and virtual reality enthusiasts! Realities Centre invites you to sign up to participate in the AI+VR Rise Hackathon. You'll be faced with some of the trickiest problems in AI/VR -- building a smart avatar for VR games, enhancing VR/MR simulations using deep learning, SpatialOS, and computer vision, or deigning and building the best AI/VR app in a short 24 hours. You'll have access to leading experts to mentor you in both AI and VR, and there'll be pre-trained smartbots, data sets and VR headsets, courtesy of event partners.

Hackers in and around Cambridge! Think you'd like to do something to help charities? Hackers at Cambridge invite you to sign up to participate in ChariTech. You don't have to be an expert coder -- there will be plenty of experts on hand -- just come if you want to make a real difference. You'll collaborate with tech experts and novies alike and be challenged to help different charitable organizations and to help create innovative new products and solutions that will help them pursue their mission!

Artificial intelligence and virtual reality enthusiasts! Realities Centre invites you to sign up to participate in the AI+VR Rise Conference and following AI+VR Rise Hackathon. At the conference, prior to the hackathon, you'll get to explore how AI and machine learning can be used in virtual or mixed reality environments. You'll also be exposed to state-of-the art developments in both AI and VR that you will be able to apply in the hackathon.

Are you interested in the use of technology to help create solutions for the issues of temporary accommodation, housing and homelessness in London? You're invited to participate in the London Ventures Hackathon. You'll be provided with an overview of the issues, challenges, facts and figures such that you understand the problem scale and what needs to be tackled. You'll then be challenged with specific problem statements -- and be expected to develop and pitch your project solution to the panel of judges.

Hackers in the Greater London Area! resin.io invites you to sign up for the resin.io spring hackathon. You'll be challenged to design and build a multi-device Internet of Things (IoT) project on resin.io! The only requirement is that your project should have at least two devices.

Tech Night LDN is a mini-conference embracing diversity by raising the visibility of accomplished women and underrepresented groups in tech and focussing on their achievements and knowledge.The evening will feature workshops, talks, panels and networking for people of all genders who are curious about technology. Expect an evening of inspiration and motivation!The event is open to all university students and graduates less than two years out of university of any technical skill level (including complete beginners) and best of all... it's absolutely free! Opening talk by Emily Brooke, CEO and Founder of Blaze (https://blaze.cc/) Then the event will split into three streams: -Workshop by Morgan Stanley: You will get to work in teams on AI for an automated player in a game of Ultimate Tic Tac Toe. Everyone will get to learn about Game theory and basic AI algorithms, and at the end each team’s player will play automatically against all others to see which algorithm is strongest. For this workshop we’ll provide an initial implementation of a player to each team, with very basic decision logic – so that everyone starts from the same point. The players will be coded in JavaScript and run with Nodejs. The game server and more info are available here: https://github.com/aurbano/ultimate-ttt-server -Panel on Perspectives in Tech Gain insight on multiple aspects of the tech industry from our panel members, who have a wide range of backgrounds, including: -Zahra is a full-stack iOS developer at Bloomberg. She recently graduated from UCL with a Computing BSc, where she was the former Director of Events at UCLU TechSoc and led organisation of events such as the last Tech Night LDN. She's also a student hackathon veteran, having worked her way up from attendee to organiser to judge, and was a member of the first cohort of Clarifai Champions. -Umesh is the Co-Founder of Pace Ventures, an innovation consultancy that works with governments, corporates and charities on their innovation capability. Through workshops, hackathons, accelerators and consulting projects, Pace Ventures helps broker relationships with startups and SME's. Alongside Pace Ventures, he runs UniHack, a nationwide hackathon programme. UniHack brings together students, corporates, the third sector, and the local community to create innovative solutions to real-world challenges. -Jennifer has studied Electronic and Telecoms Engineering (MEng) at the University of Sheffield. Having graduated in 2015 she joined Vodafone Group’s Technology programme and is now on her 3rd placement working in the Systems Architecture team. Jennifer has worked on a range of interesting projects from collaborating with suppliers for a catalyst project in order to deliver more personalised customer experience to learning about open API’s and how we can use this to deliver a better service to our customers.   -Tech Talk with Zehan Wang and Suranga Chandratillake: Zehan Wang was previously the co-founder and CTO of Magic Pony Technology, which was acquired in 2016 by Twitter for up to $150M (https://techcrunch.com/…/twitter-is-buying-magic-pony-tech…/). Currently, Zehan is an engineering manager at Twitter where he leads a team of researchers and engineers developing features and technologies which provide new and better visual experiences for Twitter users. Prior to that, Zehan did a PhD at Imperial College London on medical image analysis using computer vision and machine learning. Suranga joined Balderton as a General Partner in 2014. He was previously an entrepreneur and engineer. Suranga founded blinkx, the intelligent search engine for video and audio content in Cambridge in 2004. He then led the company for eight years as CEO through its journey of moving to San Francisco, building a profitable business and going public in London where it achieved a peak market capitalisation in excess of $1Bn. Before founding blinkx, Suranga was an early employee at Autonomy Corporation - joining as an engineer in the Cambridge R&D team and ultimately serving as the company's US CTO in San Francisco. Suranga has a MA in Computer Science from the University of Cambridge. He holds patents in the area of video discovery and online video advertising, was elected a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering in 2012 and was chosen as one of the World Economic Forum's Young Global Leaders in 2009. Closing Speaker - TBA!

Aspiring lady techies -- aged 5 to 22! You're invited to sign up for the Stemettes BeepBoopforChange Robotics Hack - IWD 2017. If you're under 16, you'll need to have an adult attend with you. Collaborate with like-minded females and help move the needle on increasing th enumber of women working in the UK's Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths (STEM) fields. You'll be using exciting tools such as Dobot Magicians robotic arms and the Python general purpose programming language.