List of hackathons in Cranfield, United Kingdom in 2015

   Welcome to the first ever Product Hunt Hackathon in London www.producthunthackathon.com #PHLDNHACK On November 6-8th we are hosting a 48hr event with 200 of London’s best designers, developers, marketers, hackers and business folk to create explosive solutions to world problems at a superb venue, WeWork.    The Hackathon Brief How can we make use of our (local, national, global) comunities to effect change?     The Weekend Agenda Friday 6th November:  18:00: Networking 19:30: Briefing 20:00: Inspiration Hour 20:30: Pitches (1m each) 21:30: Voting & Establishing Teams 23:00: Get rest for the weekend   Saturday 7th:  08:30: Yoga  09:00: Breakfast 09:30: Business Principles 101  10:15: Get Making  13:00: Lunch 14:30: Mentors walk in 18.00: Dinner 20:45: Inspirational Talk   Sunday 8th:  08:30: Yoga 09:00: Breakfast  09:30: Mentors walk in  13:00: Lunch 14:00: Round 1 Pitches 17:00: Round 2 Pitches 18:00: Results  18:30: Drinks & networking    Our Judges:  Diane Perlman - CMO at MassChallenge  George Berkowski - Co-Founder of IceCream & Head of Product at Hailo Craig Crawford - Creative Director at CrawfordIT Hercules Fisherman - Founder, Dr Voxx  Daniel Harvey - Experience Design Director at Sapient Nitro Mark Jenkins - UX/UI Designer Ari Helgason - VC at Dawn Capital   The Rules 1. You cannot work on your project before the event begins. 2. Don't use code you have previously worked on. 3. You cannot use another team's source code. You may only use what is available publicly to everyone. 4. The decision of the judges is final for determining prizes and awards 5. Please comply with all instructions from Product Hunt hackathon organizers 6. Make sure to read the T&C’s before confirming your ticket Judging criteria:  Scores are out of 35/40 points for the following criteria:  Impact        (5 points) Design        (5 points) Creativity    (5 points) Simplicity    (5 points) Scalability   (5 points) Optional/Bonus Points: Use of Braintree API (5 points)    Tweet your excitement here   Sponsorship:    Interested in Sponsoring?   We'd love to hear from you, download our sponsorship pack for more information [www.producthunthackathon.com] or email hello@adpreneurs.com and we'll send you more info!  FAQs Q: What is the Product Hunt Hackathon? A: This is a three day event bringing together the best designers, developers, marketers, hackers & business folk to create explosive solutions to world problems. Q: Do I have to be a programmer or designer to attend? A: Preferably, while it’s important you have an interest in technology and building things, we’re looking for passionate hustlers to participate in as part of our community, so if you are a kick ass ideator, you’re more than welcome to join in on the fun. Q: How do I find a team / how are teams formed? A: Teams are created on Friday night during the briefing. If you have an idea, you will have 60 seconds to pitch it to the whole group, if you don’t, not to worry, you’ll get to mix and mingle so you can find an idea you believe in and help lead your team to victory! Q: How do I/we get involved? A: Sign up on here obviously! Otherwise see more information at: www.producthunthackathon.com Q: What are we being judged on? A: Scores are out of 35/40 points for the following criteria:   Impact (5 points) Customer Validation (5 points) Design (5 points) Creativity (5 points) Simplicity (5 points) Business Model & Scalability (5 points) Technology (5 points) Optional/Bonus Points: Use of Braintree API (5 points)   Optional Usage of Braintree_Paypal API (5 Points) Q: Who owns the IP I create during the hackathon? A: You and/or the team. Please make sure to read the Terms & Conditions before hitting ‘I agree’ on Eventbrite.   For Hackers: http://phhackertermsandconditions.strikingly.com/  For Industry Delegates: phdelegatestermsandconditions.strikingly.com  For Founders (To use at your discretion): http://phfoundersagreement.strikingly.com   Q: What are the prizes? A: Apart from the admiration of everyone in the building, you’ll receive an awesome prize which we’ll be announcing closer to the event. (Ssshhh! you might be receiving grant money to take your idea on further) Q: Will there be food? A: You’ll be eating top end filling food options for breakfast, lunch and dinner, so don’t worry, you won’t be going hungry. If you have special dietary requirements please don’t forget to email us at hello@adpreneurs.com so we can prepare you a special meal. Q: Who is organising the Product Hunt Hackathon? A: Nicole Bosky & Jamahl McMurran from Adpreneurs ltd. (www.adpreneurs.com)  in affiliation with Product Hunt (www.producthunt.com).   Q: Do I have to bring my printed ticket to the event?  A: If you have the Eventbrite app on your smartphone make sure you have the ticket saved, but might be a good idea to bring a print out just incase!  Q: What is the refund policy? A: Don't do that to us! If you have to, pop us an email at hello@adpreneurs.com and we'll sort you out. We will not be refunding any tickets within 7 days of the start of the event.      Q: How can I get in touch with the organisers? A: Email hello@adpreneurs.com or send us a friendly tweet @adpreneurs Brought to you by:                                   By registering for this event you acknowledge that you have read and agreed to our terms and conditions.     Entrant T&Cs                 Industry T&Cs   Join the conversation using #PHldnhack View #PHldnhack posts    

For full detail please visit http://yoyowallet.com/playground    Friday talks (November 6) 12:00 Doors open 12:00 14:00 Discover Mark Munson Innovation partner Visa Collab Payments in the evolving world of commerce Philipp Bieberstein Head of Google play  Google Mobile commerce and retail James Allgrove Head of Growth  Stripe Infrastructure powering new business models Break 14:00 15:00 Watch Michael Langguth Co-founder Poq Cloud platform for next gen of app commerce Tom Hutchinson Mobile Engineer  Yoyo Mobile wallet platform Richard Muirhead Partner Firestartr TBC Break 15:00 16:00 Think Michael Rolph    Co-founder Yoyo Powering complexity so you can focus on beauty J F Grossen Exec Creative Director Frog Designes that build businesses  16:00 17:00 Make Hafez Rafirasme Head of partnerships   Yoyo Next Gen commerce hackathon Drinks      Weekend Hackathon (November 7-8) It's time to play and we're bringing out the toys! This is a commerce hackathon so think payments, loyalty, analytics, vouchers, ticketing, identity, marketing, you name it and it's possible with the sweet APIs we have hand picked. The Yoyo API delivers everything you need for a smart mobile wallet in a single API & SDK. Twilio is all about communication and Estimote is the mother of all beacons and Pusher's real time API. The perfect blend to unlock your awesome ideas. Get ready to trans-hackt! What's the drill? Come as a pre-formed team or team up at the event Bake your hack over the weekend Present in 3 minutes Recourses provided Yoyo API &SDK Estimote API & Beacons Pusher API Twilio API $100 in AWS credit for all teams Lots of beer and food  Prizes First place: Sphero R2D2s 2nd place: Quadcopter drones 3rd place: Raspberry Pis Firestartr favourite: 90 minutes business plan workshop with Firestartr 

You are invited to: The Kingdom Code November Meetup Monday, 02 November, 7pm The Ace Hotel, 100 Shoreditch High St in the back bar at the rear of the lobby Whether you are an entrepreneur & ideas person, designer, engineer or simply passionate about technology and faith - please join us. This will be a great time to meet new friends, people to collaborate with, catch up with friends from the hackathon - and to find out more about what Kingdom Code is about. Who knows - maybe you will leave with a new idea and new team to work on an exciting venture with. It could be a business, or nonprofit, or ministry idea... or you may just enjoy hanging out.  This is a social meetup. Looking forward to seeing you there. The Kingdom Code Team :) PS. If you have a hackathon T shirt, do wear it so that others who might want to know more about it can spot you and ask you about it.

  Register for Fintech Storm - 29 October at http://fintechstorm29october2015.eventbrite.com   In continued tradition of our stupendously successful Fintech Storm Series Genius Incubator Presents   Fintech Storm - IOT, Telematics & Payments 29 October 2015   Come meet the disruptive thought　leaders that are imagining the future of banking.   We invited the most innovative firms applying technology to solve industry problems This is a Meetup not to be missed with talks and a round table where the movers and shakers of the hottest new industry - Fintech - will debate opportunities, and challenges of the new age bank! Register here: http://fintechstorm29october2015.eventbrite.com   What: Fintech Storm featuring disrupters Meet the CEOs See Product Demos Join the Fintech Revolution! When: 6:00pm-9:00pm 29 October 2015 Where: Rainmaking Loft, International House 1 Saint Katherine's Way, London, E1W 1 UN 2 min walk from MOORGATE and 4 min walk from Liverpool street stations   "besotted with blockchain.." On @Linkedin by our Founder Arifa Khan. https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/besotted-blockchain-arifa-khan    Joe Nash, Developer Advocate, Braintree Payments Joe is a Developer Advocate at Braintree Payments, a PayPal Company. Having learnt the dark arts of FP at the University of Nottingham, Joe is passionate about functional techniques and their benefits to developers. He believes in the educational benefits of hackathons and hack culture, and helped kickstart student hackathons in the UK as part of the European team at Major League Hacking. Insert Token: Tokenization and Immersion Tokenization is a vital technique for insuring security of critical user information, from usernames and passwords, to credit card numbers. But it's capable of more than just keeping us safe; it can improve the experience of our apps beyond measure. In this lightning talk, we'll do a quick, deep dive into what immersion means, and how you can ensure it in your apps using tokenization. Andy Goldby, Chief Product Officer, The Floow    Andy is a highly respected General Insurance industry executive and Qualified Actuary, with significant experience of industry issues built up over years of participation on the ABI Motor Committee and MIB Levy Committee.   He is responsible for ensuring that the telematics product delivered to insurers and fleet managers is tailored to the client’s needs and that the scoring derived from The Floow's low-cost telematic system can be provided to motor insurers, car makers and fleet operators with actionable insights to improve pricing and increase customer loyalty and ROI.    The Floow   “Independent UK based telematics company The Floow supports leading insurers across the globe. It was founded in 2012 by sector leaders specialising in computer science, business and insurance. It produces comprehensive analytics and digital end-user services; delivering the world’s most advanced, low cost telematics - making vehicles safer and cheaper.”   Thibaut Rouffineau, IOT Expert, Canonical   Thibaut will show how to simply build an appstore for your IOT Gateway (or for that matter your fridge, your drone or your router).    It will explain how applications can be delivered in a simple and secure manner and let end user reconfigure or add new functionalities to their IOT Gateways in a click!     Lui Smith, UK Lead, Coinjar      As UK lead and general manager for Australia's largest Bitcoin wallet and exchange service,  - Setting up the legal, financial, and regulatory infrastructure for CoinJar's UK/Europe operation. - Building and leading a marketing strategy for UK service. - Assisting with recruitment of London engineering staff. - Establishing support services team for European timezones. - Generally leading and taking responsibility for CoinJar's UK/Europe operations as they grow.Postgraduate Researcher University College London September 2012 – September 2014 (2 years 1 month)Department of Anthropology conducted ethnographic research examining the politics and motivations of the Bitcoin community as part of UCL's digital anthropology program. My research included the largest qualitative survey of Bitcoin users to date (1000+ responses). I also examined the unique role of the block chain as a shared community canon, the demographics of early adopters, and the social processes that allow digital tokens to hold financial value. maintained a blog throughout my research at http://simulacrum.cc/category/bitcoin/     Dagmara Lacka, CEO & Co-founder, Boldmind     Boldmind, an Internet of Things company, we create innovative applications for real world devices. We tailor strategies for organizations looking to unlock the wealth of intelligent data generated by connected devices.  We believe a competitive advantage will be achieved     by connecting the dots of various data points generated between humans and machines.   Boldmind was founded in 2012 by leading professionals in the digital, marketing, technology and media spaces. The aim was to use our multi- disciplinary knowledge to bring dedicated software and product solutions to clients who were beginning to realise the marketing potential of web, mobile and connected devices to drive business growth.   Boldmind delivers a viable, cost effective and rapid route to market for organisations looking to leverage the growing opportunities driven by the Internet of things.   Thrilled to announce our next debate on capital markets 6-9pm in London featuring the most awaited  innovations : Otonomos, Heckyl, Blockchain Tech corp and Streamdata.io to embrace the technology for banking. Our debates are high in Intellectual quotient, scholastic ability and debate to transform the world banking and financial order.      Fintech is at one of the most exciting points in its evolution, with disruption occurring everywhere you look. Alternative financing models, mobile payments and  bitcoin are gaining increasing traction with consumers and businesses alike. Some challenges remain for certain fintech businesses targeting the mainstream, but there’s no denying 2015 is proving a huge year for the global fintech industry.      “The top 12 VCs that are reputed for spotting billion dollar valuation unicorns early such as Benchmark, Andreeson Horrowitz, Union Square Ventures and Sequoia are investing in Fintech in 4 main verticals of Online Lending, Personal Finance Management, Bitcoin & Cryptocurrencies, Marketplaces and Peer to Peer platforms.     We are helping emerging talent in Fintech get that early exposure to the banking & financial services ecosystem  as well as investors, facilitating a deeper understanding and dialogue. We are also evangelising Fintech and bringing sophisticated knowledge of research labs of disrupters like Coinsciences, Cubits, Blockchain.info, Symbiont.io and their futuristic thinking to the common man.     Talk to our audience. And we have fiercely loyal repeat audience. And they can now debate confidently with technologists on topics as esoteric as blockchain to as mundane as mobile payments.      The most sought after Fintech companies share a number of characteristics:     They operate in large growing global markets  They are world class in their niche  They have attractive underlying business models with strong recurring revenues  Demonstrable opportunity to drive top line growth  World class talent and teams      Come along for a rich education on this hot new industry thats growing fast and reimagining our economy. Come join a lively evening of insightful presentations from disruptive fintech players and engaging discussions, rounded off by networking drinks with more senior executives from major banking and financial services companies, hot startups and investors.    More profiles to come..                              Arifa Khan Founder Fintech Storm Series     Arifa Khan Founder Fintech Storm   Read what the Londoners have to say about http://FintechStorm.com the spectacularly successful brand monthly series Arifa Khan has built, here.   Arifa Khan is a former investment banker in Private Equity led Leveraged Buyouts Mandate M&A transactions, a seasoned finance, strategy and operations executive based in the city of the London, with over 15 years experience in finance, specialising in Leveraged Finance/ Financial Sponsors Coverage/ Debt Products & Credit. She has worked with two suisse banks Credit Suisse & UBS. She has deep sector expertise in finance, operational insights, and the business acumen to forge big strategic partnerships.   Arifa has independently advised companies of all sizes from pre revenue to deal sizes of GBP300m on venture capital funding, scaling, international expansion, strategy etc. As an investment banker she has executed LBOs of sizes upto several billion USD across Europe across verticals such as Healthcare, Media Telecom & IT, Financial Institutions. She is a thought leader on innovation and disruption in financial services and a sought after speaker on payments and fintech at international conferences such as ICBI’s Payments International in London Mar 17-20, and will be speaking at Women’s Economic Forum Goa May 7-11. She currently architects Wharton Distinguished Dinner Series for Wharton UK Alumni Club as a Wharton Club Committee Member, and is currently the Chairperson London Chapter for All Ladies League.   Arifa has an MBA from The Wharton School of Business, a B.Tech degree from IIT Madras in Chemical Engineering. She is passionate about fintech and Blockchain. See her vision of Blockchain here. Read "besotted with blockchain.." An overview of Blockchain's potential by Arifa Khan on Linkedin. https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/besotted-blockchain-arifa-khan Read a review of Fintech Storm's recent event Open Bank / Marketplace Banking held on 22nd July here : "A tale of APIs.." By Arifa Khan   Read an article "war for your wallet.." on Payments and mobile wallets by Arifa Khan on Linkedin  https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/war-your-wallet-arifa-khan?trk=prof-post     Who should Attend?   Senior  directors or advisors   Professionals working in banking and financial services industry   Compliance or Regulatory professionals   Managers and strategists of finance or investment companies   Advisers and Financial services consultants   Digital transformation specialists   Blockchain researchers   Fintech startups   MBA & other students specialising in finance   Public policy makers     See Fintech Storm in action here   Dont miss Fintech Storm Capital Markets  October 15 http://fintechstorm15october2015.eventbrite.com Dont miss Fintech Storm Cloud computing & Cloud Storage November 12 http://fintechstormnovember2015.eventbrite.com Look up our upcoming events at one place http://finetchstorm.eventbrite.com                               Join the delegation of European Technology firms to India December 17th 2015, to New Delhi at Hotel Taj Mahal  Europe-India Conclave Future of Banking, Payments & Technology 2015 https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/europe-india-conclave-banking-payments-technology-december-arifa-khan  http://fintechstorm.com/europe-india Read "Technology for Transportation" on Linkedin by Arifa Khan https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/road-indias-riches-technology-transportation-from-europe-arifa-khan See Fintech Storm in action here

**Currently sold out - please add yourself to the waitlist more tickets may become available! ** Howdy Fellow Umbraconistas! It's that time of year again when the crème de la crème of the Umbraco community descend on London for the UK's premier Umbraco event! This year we have another fantastic venue with some great talks being prepared that will inspire and amaze you. We are also running some interesting workshops during the day on a first come first served basis. Thursday 29th - Umbraco UK Hackathon On Thursday we will be holding the hackathon and bug fixathon which you are all welcome to come along to. Lunch will be provided for all attendees and it's a great way to get hands on with the Umbraco core. There will be a few guys from the Umbraco HQ there too to help out and we usually bash quite a few bugs on the day. Its a great way to get rid of some of those niggly little things that you wouldn't necessarily have time to do on your normal working day and it really helps drive Umbraco forwards! Friday 30th - Umbraco UK Festival Sessions The full schedule will be released nearer the time, but you can see all confirmed speakers on the festival website  NOTE: We will be starting at 0915 prompt so please make sure you are at the venue for 0845 latest to get your seats. We have a massive amount to get through so the keynote will be starting bang on time! Speakers If anybody has something amazing they'd like to show, we are still accepting entries, so get your thinking caps on. We look forward to seeing you there! The Cogworks team umbracoukfestival.co.uk NOTE: The deadline for refunds is 14 days prior to the start of the event.   FAQs Are there ID requirements or an age limit to enter the event? There is no age limit for this event. Feel free to bring any older relatives or work colleagues should they be interested and of course they can stay awake long enough! What are my transport/parking options getting to the event? TUBE Nearest stations are: Barbican (Circle, Metropolitan, Hammersmith & City) Farringdon (Circle, Metropolitan, Hammersmith & City) Angel (Northern) TRAIN Nearest stations are: Farringdon (Thameslink, Southeastern) Kings Cross (East Coast, FCC, First Hull, Grand Central) St Pancras (East Midlands, Thameslink, Southeastern, Eurostar) Euston (Virgin, London Midland) BUS Buses passing nearby can be seen on the TFL website and include: 55 (Walthamstow Oxford Circus) 63 (Forest Hill Kings Cross Station) 153 (Finsbury Park Finsbury Square) 243 (Wood Green Waterloo) BIKE The Crypt on the Green is easily reachable from all areas. There are two Santander Cycle Hire docking stations close by which can be used Where can I contact the organiser with any questions? Please contact info@thecogworks.co.uk Is my registration/ticket transferrable? Tickets are not really transferrable becuase it causes a nightmare with name badges, but if you can't come then please let us know and we'll re-issue the ticket to someone who can be bothered to make the effort.

Welcome to the first ever Product Hunt MeetUp in London On October 26th we are hosting a talk where 5 awesome start ups will be demo-ing their platforms, sharing their learnings/struggles and have the famous growth hacker Vincent Dignan share his secret sauce on how to explode online.  Start Up's Demo-ing EventBox - Listen to listings to discover, gigs concerts and club nights happening nearby https://eventbox.fm/  Jobbio - Gives brands and talent the opportunity to find each other at a click of a button https://jobbio.com/ Loaf - Interactive recipes for better cooking http://loafapp.co.uk/ Helping B - Crowdfunding platform for launching sustainable products addressing humanity's greatest challenges https://helpingb.co/    Thrivo - Message a dedicated psychologist and receive support on life goals and issues http://www.thrivo.uk/  If you missed out this time, apply for December's meet up at hello@adpreneurs.com    Vincent's World Famous Growth Hacking Talk  Yes it's happening, find out the growth hacks used by the best startups in the world! London-based entrepreneur Vincent Dignan is to give an expanded version of his world-famous growth hacking talk, which was voted best session at SXSW V2V 2015 at IDEALondon October 26th. There's a lot of terrible information in the social media/online marketing/growth marketing space. This workshop intends to deliver, in real-time, real value to startups/entrepreneurs attending; including how to quickly grow a community online, how to ensure your emails and tweets get seen/answered, creating easy workflows, content marketing and user acquisition. Startups/entrepreneurs who attend will leave with many practical methods that will be useful in executing a growth strategy (free) applicable to many industries, actionable immediately. This session will uncover the tips and tricks the big startups have used, as well as secret hacks Vincent has used with clients he has worked with at his agency, Magnific. What you'll learn: 1. How to rapidly grow your social media communities and get free traffic/users/feedback from Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram 2. How to guarantee you'll be writing about the right areas in content marketing, and a step-by-step guide to writing interesting content 3. Best practice for distributing content so it gets seen by your potential users/customers 4. A brief outline of how to hack PR coverage, and some tactics to quickly boost your SEO 5. An overview of the most up-to-date tactics and software to enable efficient email marketing, sales, and productivity 6. How to build your marketing stack for just $9 a month 7. Everything you need to know about user experience in 90 seconds (yes, really) Read what other people, who have seen this talk recently, have been saying about it at: Http://bitly.com/2015talks   Don't know Vincent? You should, and here's why: London-based Vincent Dignan helps grow early-stage companies through a combination of rapid social media growth, guerrilla community management tactics, and growth hacks which have seen companies go from zero to thousands of signups/followers/users virtually overnight. He founded planetivy.com & screenrobot.com. They have received nearly 20 million pageviews, while content he has overseen for other clients has received over 150 million page views so far. Last year his company, Magnific, beat 1500+ other startups to be accepted into prestigious accelerator Techstars London.  His company has driven thousands of followers, conversations, and signups for other startups, and his team of 750+ writers has written content for the likes of Mercedes, Burberry, Levi's, and Smirnoff. He has given talks at conferences and events around the world on content marketing, social media, growth hacking, and user acquisition. He currently teaches, mentors, or gives talks at conferences like SXSW & SXSW V2V, accelerators like Oxygen Accelerator, Techstars, Mass Challenge, and Barclays Accelerator, and teaches Digital Marketing at General Assembly. He has completed his first speaking tour of the United States, following universal acclaim in the U.K. How the night will unfold 6.00pm: General networking; 7.00 pm: Start-Up's Demo and speak about their mistakes and learnings  7.30pm: Vincent Dignan's Growth Hacking Talks 8.30 - 9.00pm: Questions, more networking; and drinks On November 6-8th we will be hosting the first ever Product Hunt Hackathon, read more here: www.producthunthackathon.com a 48hr event with 200 of London’s best designers, developers, marketers, hackers and business folk to create explosive solutions and figure out how can we make use of our (local, national, global) comunities to effect change? at a superb venue, Mass Challenge with millions of pounds worth of prizes, you can thank our awesome sponsors later! Sound good? Then get your tickets here: http://bit.ly/1GeARd9   Tweet your excitement here     *NOTE: By signing up you agree that we can use  emails for invites to future events and correspondence. 

BrumHack is a 24 hour student hackathon in Birmingham, running as a hack in the Major League Hacking UK Fall season. This will be BrumHack 3.0! Attendees will have 24 hours (from 12:00 Saturday) to build something awesome, either in hardware or software. Hacks can optionally use sponsor APIs and platforms, and at the end of the 24 hour window people will have time to show either their hack, if it’s ready and working, or otherwise to talk a little about their ideas or what technology they used, what worked and what they had trouble with. Hacks can be made alone or in teams of any size, but teams bigger than 4 people won't qualify for prizes. Teams can be decided at any point before submission and we’ll be having a session for matching up teams before we start, so if you’re unsure of who to work with, don’t be deterred. The event is free for attendees & we’ll have food and refreshments paid for by sponsors (first round announced shortly), as well as prizes for various categories of hacks.   FAQs   Are there ID requirements or an age limit to enter the event? You must bring a valid university student ID card to the event. You must also be a full-time university student. We can't permit under 18s due to child safeguarding restrictions. What should I bring? You should bring a laptop to hack on, power extensions, and any other gadget you might need.  Is there a Code of Conduct? Yes. See http://static.mlh.io/docs/mlh-code-of-conduct.pdf

THIS EVENT HAS BEEN POSTPONED TO OCTOBER 2015! THE NEW DATE WILL BE DEFINED SOON! The aim of this event is to get members of the student and alumni community working together on specific, immediate problems, and to come up with working prototype(s); supporting the on-going efforts in the field. The hackathon, on fuel poverty, will gather students from across the University of Oxford and Oxford Brookes to develop innovative solutions. The theme of ‘fuel poverty’ encompasses a broad range of technical, economic and societal challenges. This will be The Oxford Launchpad’s third hackathon, following the successful Ebola hackathon in November 2014. The hackathon, a fusion of the words “hack” and “marathon”, is an intensive, problem-solving event lasting typically 24 to 48 hours. Originally hackathons had coding and tech at their core (hence the name); however these days the term is used more widely, to denote the event’s nature and format, and the focus on innovation at speed. Tech continues to form an important component of many hackathons, but hackathons are no longer the realm of coders alone. They also seek to address interlinked social, economic and technical challenges. While British billionaires have doubled their wealth in recent years, 10% of the population suffer from fuel poverty. Fuel poverty is when people are unable to afford to heat their homes properly . They may have to choose between keeping warm and feeding their families. They may also suffer poor health and winter death due to cold homes. Fuel poverty is caused by a mix of low incomes (not having enough money to heat your home or afford energy efficient improvements), poor housing conditions (houses that leak heat, guzzle energy and cost more to keep warm), and high energy prices. We already identified some possible solutions, but the problems persist. We need breakthrough ideas and action to eradicate it in a way which also meets our carbon reduction targets. Crucially, the output of the hackathon is not to just generate ideas, but to create demonstrable solutions within the hackathon timeframe, so register your interest whatever your background and be part of an innovating team!

Euromoney Institutional Investor PLC is further expanding its Technology Graduate Scheme by hosting our second hackathon: Our search for the next generation of top tech talent; To develop innovative web applications and help you secure your future career; Develop your skills and experience and secure a job at Euromoney Institutional Investor PLC.   Come and drive your ideas with a team of energised students and experienced in-house business advisors working with you to help you win. Our TechSprint will help you get creative and kick start your career!   The hackathon is open to all tech-minded graduates and final year undergrads. The Pre-Meet event (Oct 20th) will give you a chance to form a team to work with during the TechSprint (Oct 23, 24) - find out more here: http://graduates.euromoneyplc.com/techsprint   We will provide on-hand dedicated support, technical assistance and business advisors to help you get the most out of your vision, maximise your learning and gain as much as possible from the event.   Working with a small number of London businesses, we are building a three day event to bring together a curated group of forwarding thinking, creative minds. Recent and soon-to-be graduates come from across London, all looking to try new ideas and innovate on existing technology.   Sponsoring TechSprint by Euromoney gives sponsors the opportunity to directly market a concentration of early adopters and potential future customers. Our participants have gone on to win numerous hackathons, begin startups and join us right here in Central London.   Get Involved To… Advance your career – we’re hiring! Win a Cash Money Prize! Extra £1000 performance-based prizes! Visit a Hi Tech Central London venue! Increase your CV and portfolio value! Build real technical solutions to current business challenges! Get exposure to Agile Development! Be part of an awesome team with real industry developers! Learn industry Best Practices! Discover the bleeding edge of today’s Enterprise Technology Stack! Free food and drink!

With a focus on doing not talking, hackathons are a collaborative way to solve problems – starting with an issue and collectively developing solutions. It’s all about practical creativity. This Saturday hack takes a new look at volunteering and asks how can volunteering attract people who wouldn’t usually volunteer? We know that ‘volunteering’ can be a loaded term – with its connotations of charity shop shifts and regular commitment, it can turn off as many people as it attracts. Yet the evidence shows that volunteering benefits the volunteer just as much as it benefits those who the volunteer helps. We want to understand what can be done to overcome obstacles to volunteering and what would make volunteering a more attractive proposition for more people. Hack participants will set their own agenda and create their own solutions – it’s your hack and your ideas. Remember, a hack is to be enjoyed, not endured – come along, eat pizza, try something different and see what you can achieve in a day. Theme Collaborative Citizens Who should attend People who work with charities; people who work in charities. People who volunteer; people who don’t volunteer. Citizens; technologists; designers; communicators; service design experts – anyone who is interested in trying a different way to create practical solutions. About the hosts @hackessex Civic Camps are an approach that creates, in double-quick time, collective responses to societal challenges. We bring together people from all walks of life with an interest in getting stuff done. Our hacks are entrepreneurial in spirit, and are opportunities to problem-solve for all participants.