List of hackathons in Chelmsford, United Kingdom in 2017

Hyperledger MeetUp: Successful pilot projects, lessons learned and what lies ahead Join us at this exciting Blockchain networking event where you will have the chance to hear about the progress of the Hyperledger Project, successful pilot projects, challenges and what lies ahead. Hear our guest speakers sharing their own experiences on Blockchain projects, share your own thoughts and get your questions answered by the experts. 17:30   Welcome 17:45   IBM Hursley Blockchain Labs: Hyperledger V1.0 Fabric Update & solution development with Fabric Composer 18:15  D-Pactum: Applied Smart Contract Architecture in Financial Markets. 18:45 TES Solutions: Global Platform for Social and Environmental Sustainability through IBM Blockchain and Hyperledger Exchange Platform 19:15 University of Bedfordshire: H^4 (How to Hold an Hyperledger Hackathon: A beginner's Guide) 19:45 Networking, food and drinks Looking forward to seeing you there.

Medical professionals, community workers, developers, entrepreneurs, artists, educators, business professionals, students, everyday people and more! The World Economic Forum’s Global Shapers Community and the Commonwealth Youth Health Network invite you to participate in the 2017 African Healthcare Challenge. The Challenge is a high energy weekend event where participants team to brainstorm solutions to the real world problems of healthcare organizations and institutions in Africa. You don't have to be in London to participate! You can take part virtually.

Coders, designers, fabricators, science fans, video gamers, and hackers! You're invited to sign up and participate in the Science Museum London Digital Lab Hackathon. You'll get to use the museum's new Collection Online API, and come up with weird, magical, useful and innovative ways of presenting the Museum's collections.

Developers, designers and Hololens AR enthusiasts! Do you have Hololens development experience? Then Realities Centre & TLA PropTech invite you to sign up to participate in the Property Tech Hololens Hackathon. You'll showcase your creativity and skills against like minded enthusiasts and create a unique Hololens Augmented Reality (AR) experience for a given PropTech industry theme.

AR/VR techies! Come and participate in the hackathon to be held at the Property Technology (PropTech) AR/VR Conference. You'll be challenged to create innovative AR/VR solutions foir the property market. Details of the hackathon are to be provided.

Social innovators, students, NGO's, designers, UX/UI, anyone interested in using technology to improve parking! Impact Hub Westminster invites you to sign up and participate in the Smart Cities - Connected Parking Hackathon. You'll be challenged to design and prototype an innovative solution to ease the problems of parking in the City of Westminster — congested roads, underutilized parking, limited community interaction, and air pollution. You'll showcase your solution at the hackathon demo day and compete for the £300 cash prize and the right for your project to be presented to the Department for Transport.

Exponential View's dinner series begins it 2017 programme with a discussion between Dr Kate Devlin and Azeem Azhar on what will happen when we get up close and personal with robots.  The evening is led by Dr Kate Devlin from the Department of Computing at Goldsmiths, University of London. She will explore the implications of human-robot relationships as we develop closer connections with AI. What does getting personal and intimate with robots mean for our physical and emotional wellbeing? Why and how does robot intimacy offer new opportunities for self-expression and freedom, or not? In our convivial dinner setting, we will also discuss some of the philosophical, legal and bioethical areas of debate about living with robots in intimate, personal dimensions of everyday human life. Kate Devlin is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Computing at Goldsmiths, University of London. In December 2016 she ran the UK's first sex tech hackathon and chaired the Second International Congress on Love and Sex with Robots. Her current research in Human Computer Interaction and Artificial Intelligence focuses on how sex and sexuality shape technology. Food & drinks will be served. This event is in collaboration with BGF Ventures who are kindly hosting us and providing libations. The event is strictly limited to 50 people so that we can maximise mingling, conversation and participation.  Please note: Tickets are non-refundable.

The largest student-led financial technology conference in Europe is returning to bring you the brightest ideas and thoughts of industry pioneers on the financial world. Join us on the 8th of February 2017, in Imperial College London, to learn about the newest trends, connect with likeminded students and gather inspiration from top founders in order to continue innovation in the financial sector. The conference will reflect on topics such as the development of roboadvisors, usage of big data and blockchain technology, the transition of consumer banking and wealth management, as well as starting out your own venture and the implications for student entrepreneurs. Participants confirmed so far include TransferWise, Anthemis Group and Scalable Capital amongst many others. The full schedule will be released on the 16th of January! Following the lessons and successes of the 2016 edition, we are aiming to make the conference more interactive, by organising a hackathon the weekend before (link), the winners of which will be awarded monetary prizes and a chance to pitch to leading venture capitalists on stage of LFC 2017! Tickets are released on the 1st of January, so be sure to grab one quickly as the event is expected to sell out! After the conference, a small number of students are given the opportunity to participate in a formal dinner at Elena's L'Etoile to network more closely with industry leaders and spend an exciting evening discussing the latest socioeconomic and technological developments. Early Bird Tickets - 7£ Regular Tickets - 12£ Student Dinner Tickets - 39£ (includes access to the conference) Professional Dinner Tickets - 59£ (includes access to the conference) Event Dresscode: Business Casual See you on the 8th of February 2017! www.fintechconference.london

AI hackers in the Greater London area! Come and participate in the AI HACKATHON. You'll get to team with like-minded AI techies — collaborating to to design and prototype an AI data portal to support the data mining of the Silent Secret app. You'll get to work with real data to propose cool ways to uncover insights into Silent Secret app users, and to prototype a concept an AI agent that continuously monitors patterns and trends.

Students, professionals from all backgrounds! Interested in Big Data and/or FinTech? Come and participate in the LFC 24 24-hour hackathon. Come and bring your crazy ideas and progress them as far as you can in 24 hours. Bring your team's existing project, or join a team and spark your concept at the event! Winning teams will win cash prizes and also get the chance to pitch to a jury of venture capitalists at The London Fintech Conference 2017.