List of hackathons in Didcot, United Kingdom in 2018

Developers, designers, data enthusiasts, and entrepreneurs! If you're an open climate data enthusiast, then you're invited to the #OpenDataHack2018 @ECMWF weekend hackathon. You'll collaborate with like-minded individuals to come up with innovative ways to unleash the power of freely-available climate data. So come along and delve into the Copernicus Climate Data Store and get first-hand access to its applications cloud environment!

Designers, developers and business people in London! If you're interested in the real world problem of food waste, then you're invited to participate in HACK 4 PIZZA - FOOD WASTE. You don't have to be an expert -- everyone's welcome. Come collaborate with a team of like-minded individuals -- develop your idea and pitch it to a panel of judges for the chance to win a week's free desk space at the Launch22 Start-Up Incubator.

Young people ages 11 to 18! If you're passionate about artificial intelligence or just eager to learn more, then Acorn Aspirations invites you to participate in a 5-day AI Bootcamp & Hackathon. You'll get to learn about AI, Neural Networks, and Reinforcement Learning and then be challenged to use what you've learned to solve a real-world problem.

This event is brought to you by The Blockchain Connector, workonblockchain.com and King’s College London Blockchain Society. Due to popular demand and positive feedback from our students we are running a series of Blockchain developer workshops in London. This will be our 16th developer workshops so far in London plus one in Zug, Switzerland. We have trained over 300+ developers to date since Jan 2017, our students have gone on to work as a Blockchain Developer and others have set up their own Blockchain start-up. Join our two-day Blockchain Developer hands-on workshop and be at the very forefront of this new technology. Our workshop consists of topics that all future Blockchain Developers must know and we incorporate plenty of hands-on development sessions. To help our students further, we provide one month on-line support through our dedicated private on-line channel. Our goal is to help regular Software Developers become Blockchain Developers. This workshop is also available on-site for start-ups and corporates at your desired location during the weekday and weekends. Day 1 Intro to Blockchains, Bitcoin and Byzantine Fault Tolerant Networks plus more... Intro to Ethereum and Smart Contracts plus more... Hands-on development on Ethereum Solidity and Smart Contracts Day 2 Smart Contracts Security and Ethereum Internals - Cryptography, Consensus, EVM, Privacy plus more... Smart Contracts Design and Best Practices What to know as a Blockchain Developer plus more Hands-on development on Ethereum Solidity and Smart Contracts This workshop comes with one month of continued on-line support via our own dedicated Gitter channel. After the workshop, we hope our students will continue coding, learning and exploring the Ethereum platform, and in good time, we hope our students will have the opportunity to work professionally in the Blockchain space. With this in mind, to help our students succeed, we are providing a dedicated Gitter channel after the workshop where our students have up to a month to ask further questions in relation to Ethereum, smart contracts etc. Recommended development experience Minimum of 6 months development experience is required. If you are a student and would like to attend, you must come from a Computer Science and Software Engineering background. Right to cancel our workshop. If we don't reach the minimum number of students for our workshop, we have the right to cancel and reschedule the date, alternatively we will refund the total cost of your ticket.  We have a great line up of trainers that will help you break into the Blockchain space. Matthew Di Ferrante Matthew is a Software Engineer with a passion for Information Security, Cryptography, and Distributed Networks. He has worked in many different areas, from hardware, embedded and kernel programming, to data mining, analytics, and network / systems programming. He first started learning programming at 12 years old, and is completely self taught, both on the practical side of programming, and on the theoretical side of computer science, mathematics, and cryptography. Matthew was first exposed to Bitcoin in late 2010 due to his interest in information security, as Bitcoin was first mainly used on darknets/Silk Road, and got fully involved in the Blockchain space around the time Ethereum started to exist - beginning his foray while living with Vitalik Buterin and long time friend Vlad Zamfir (Creator of Ethereum's Casper Protocol) in London for a few months. Matthew currently works as a Technical Lead at Clearmatics developing Blockchain Technology for financial use cases, a member of the Ethereum Foundation Security Team and FounderlLead auditor at Zero Knowledge Labs focusing on smart contracts security auditing. In his free time, Matthew works on personal hardware projects, gives Information Security and Blockchain related talks at various events, and organise one of the largest monthly Information Security events in the North-West. Matthew’s design for a Secure Oracles Reputation System on Ethereum recently won first place for Smart Contract Security at the Thomson Reuters HackETHon. Matthew will be introducing developers to the way the Blockchain works technically, and what its potential applications could be. He will cover the workings and history of the Bitcoin Blockchain, as well as Ethereum and its concept of smart contracts that allow Turing complete code to execute on a virtual machine on the Blockchain. Matthew will also talk about Smart Contracts Security and Ethereum Internals. He will discuss the most important areas to know as a Blockchain Developer. Matthew will hold a Q&A session after each topic. Nick Johnson Nick Johnson is a Senior Software Engineer and has been working in the software engineering space for the past 16 years. Nick is currently working as a Software Engineer for the Ethereum Foundation and prior to this, he worked at Google for a number of years. He brings with him a wealth of knowledge and expertise in Solidity that he loves to share and will be teaching how to write and develop smart contracts during the hands-on development session, and will give students the opportunity to ask questions in relation to the Ethereum platform. Laurence Kirk After a successful career writing low latency financial applications in the City of London, Laurence was captivated by the potential of Blockchain Technology, and in particular smart contracts. Two years ago, Laurence moved to Oxford and set up Extropy.io, a consultancy working with start-ups in the UK and overseas, developing applications on the Ethereum platform. He brings with him a wealth of real world experience that he loves to share with those new to this area. Laurence hold a Physics degree from Durham University, and currently taking his MSc in Software Engineering at Oxford University. In addition to giving talks, mentoring at hackathons, and running groups about Blockchain Technology, Laurence also organise Artificial Intelligence and Data Science groups in Oxford. During the workshop, Laurence will be teaching Solidity (an object-oriented programming language for writing smart contracts) from the simplest smart contract up to interacting with a web application. The focus is very much the practical techniques that are needed when developing on Ethereum. The sessions will be very hands on, encouraging students to practice and explore Ethereum and raise any questions students might have regarding the Ethereum platform. Jerome Rousselot Jerome is a co founder, advisor, public speaker and Blockchain developer in the blockchain industry. Jerome left his job as Android TV technical lead at Marvell Technology and relocated to London to create Mycelium UK in 2014. He now helps the Mycelium wallet to break even and deliver its roadmap. Jerome has also been involved in exchanges, micro finance, insurance, fair betting, supply chain, gaming, secure hardware, smart contracts and teaching software developers. Jerome's startup Jita is coached by the Singularity University. He is a fellow of the Startup Leadership Program and obtained his PhD in Computer Science at EPFL, Switzerland. Jerome has a passion for teaching others who are genuinely interested in learning about Blockchain technology. Jack Tanner Jack Tanner is a passionate advocate for blockchain technology and loves teaching technical concepts in an understandable way. He completed a Masters in Computer Science at Imperial College London. He currently works as a senior blockchain developer on the Indorse platform and has been involved in numerous blockchain projects and education events around the world since 2015. There will be plenty of Q&A throughout the whole two day workshop. Date: Saturday 26th & 27th of May, 2018 Time: 10:00 to 18:00 Workshop Location: Exact room to be confirmed. King's College London, Strand Campus, Strand, London, WC2R 2LS Lunch provided during the workshop on both days. EVENT ORGANIZER This event is brought to you by The Blockchain Connector, workonblockchain.com & King's College London Blockchain Society. The Blockchain Connector Antonio Sabado is the founder of The Blockchain Connector and Work on Blockchain, 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 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 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.  On-site 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.  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. We are building a hiring platform for developers who want to work in the blockchain space. If you are a blockchain engineer or a software developer without blockchain experience but passionate about working in this space or a company looking to hire software developers, please sign up here for further updates: https://www.workonblockchain.com/ 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 and bookmark our Eventbrite Homepage to view all our up and coming blockchain related events. Blockchain Developer Monthly Technical Deep Dive meetup: Join our developer focused meetup group held monthly in London where we have over 150-200+ developers attend on a monthly basis. This meetup group is strictly for developers only. Technical talk for a technical audience.  https://www.meetup.com/Blockchain-Workshop-for-Developers/ Contact: If you have any question, please do not hesitate to contact the core organiser 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/ King's College London Blockchain Society The King’s College London Blockchain Society (also known as KCL Blockchain) aims to provide students a means to engage with the London Blockchain community. We do this by organising events, producing research and curating London blockchain events. We are always looking to collaborate with interested parties to bring students and industry members together to advance our knowledge in Blockchain. Contact: Further info available on the following sites: Web: https://www.kclblockchain.com/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/11347353/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/kclblockchain/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/kclblockchain

Developers, engineers, computer scientists and designers in the UK! If you're passionate about machine learning, then LocalGlobe and Peltarion invite you to apply to participate in their Hackathon: Augmenting the human experience! Participation is by invitation only -- you'll be picked based on your passion and coding experience and ML experience is a bonus! If you're invited, you'll get to collaborate with like-minded individuals to develop tech to augment and improve the human experience, enhancing the body and mind.

Data techies! Are you interested in data-driven decision making? If so, then UK fashion retailer ASOS invites you to participate in their Data Division Hackathon. You'll be challenged to find innovative ways to use data-driven decision making to improve end-to-end experience for ASOS customers, or establish the best time to target customers with marketing campaigns, or find a data-driven way to find the next ASOS Advocate? It's up to you -- with access to data, what opportunities will you discover?

Data scientists in the UK! If you're interested in helping the charity "Missing People", Royal Mail invites you to participate in their Royal Mail Data Science Hackathon. Not only is this a charitable event, but Royal Mail is looking for junior and mid-level data scientists to join their team! So as long as you are eligible to work in the UK as Royal Mail, here's a chance for you to showcase your data skills and win yourself a new job! At the event, you'll be challenged to build data science models for "Missing People" that help identify vulnerable children who are at risk of running away.

Hello folks2017 has been a smashing year for the blockchain industry. 2018 is going to be even bigger! Get ready for 2018!21 May 20185:30 pm to 8:00pmVenueSkills Matter | CodeNode, 10 South Place, London, EC2M 7EB   About Himalaya Capital Exchange: Global Tour to unleash blockchain led paradigm shift in Capital Markets   Speakers:     Arifa Khan, CEO will present Himalaya - Capital Exchange Arifa Khan, a former investment banker with Credit Suisse and UBS has embarked on her global Himalaya Capital Exchange 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 various Blockchain conferences around teh world, 2017 & 2018.Blockchain World Showcase - Dates - January 201812-21 April India  12-14 April IIT Madras, Chennai 17 April, Banaglore 18 April, Mumbai  19 April , Delhi  30 April, London 21 May, London   25-26 May 2018 - Himalaya Crypto Summit , Mumbai, India  Nick Szabo will be the Cheif Guest of the Himalaya Crypto Summit India CEO Arifa Khan, and advisers of Himalaya Capital Exchange, Leanne Kemp , and all our other advisers will attend the summit and speak on various topics of their expertise related to Himalaya Capital Exchange.  Tickets at http://capitalexchange.tech 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. Team@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) or Himalaya Capital Exchange 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) is named Himalaya - Capital Exchange. 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 telegram channel for daily updates. http://t.me/capitalcoinsummit http://t.me/capitalcoinico  Join our wechat group "Capital Coin" . ************************************ Press Release  ************************************* India's First Ever Cryptocurrency Fair “Himalaya Crypto Summit” arrives at Mumbai for ‘Blockchain India Week’ 2018 ft. Nick Szabo LONDON, UNITED KINGDOM, May 13, 2018 /EINPresswire.com/ -- Himalaya Labs Ltd. is hosting India’s first-ever Blockchain & Cryptocurrencies event – the Himalaya Crypto Summit – in Mumbai on May 25th- 26th, 2018 during the Blockchain India Week, featuring global crypto pioneer Nick Szabo. Himalaya Labs is a Blockchain venture owned by Ms. Arifa Khan, a crypto pioneer and the India Partner of Ethereum Foundation. She is an IIT Madras graduate, a Wharton MBA, and an ex investment banker, who has been evangelising Blockchain in India actively since 2015. After facilitating numerous successful Blockchain Summits across the world including Ethereum India Summit 2017, Ms Khan is now bringing the mega event to Mumbai.The first-ever Crypto Summit in India will provide an inside peek on the raging worldwide phenomenon of Cryptocurrencies, views of luminaries on technological progress, challenges, dispensations from governments the world over, regulation and what it means for the future of crypto and the common man in India. The main summit on 25 May will focus on Blockchain applications, and their mass appeal in India. It will benefit industry leaders, CEOs, CTOs and CIOs, the financial services sector, regulatory bodies, policy makers, start-ups, and researchers and will host several keynotes and panels with over 30 speakers including from NSE, SBI, and Global Financial Access. Many Indian players have tested the usage of Blockchain in areas of Trade Finance, Cross-border Payments, Bill Discounting, Supply chain financing, Loyalty and Digital Identity areas. A networking platform with global pioneers will accelerate India’s learning curve.The Cryptocurrencies summit on 26 May throws open a unique and exclusive learning opportunity for corporates to educate their teams on the technology behind bitcoin, ether and other Cryptocurrencies, for wealth management firms to educate their clients on this new asset class, for crypto enthusiasts to trade in crypto, for the software developers, students, researchers to learn the fundamentals, and for Indian ICO aspirants to learn the practicalities of launching an ICO to raise funds. Global crypto investors, CTOs and inventors of crypto protocols will educate the audiences on nuances of creating and running self-sustaining cryptocurrency platforms, token business models and how these can be beneficially applied and integrated in various industry domains.The participants will have a chance to get educated on real Blockchain projects and meet the pioneers behind these revolutionary businesses over two days. Himalaya Labs would be presenting their revolutionary next generation stock exchange platform - Himalaya Capital Exchange, a crypto NASDAQ that runs entirely on smart contracts- for entrepreneurs around the world to raise capital from global investors in seconds, for legally compliant shares and bonds.“Blockchain is the next new wave in technology and everyone, from governments to the common man, stands a chance to benefit by riding this wave. India can become a global resource provider on Blockchain, as we are the biggest producers and exporters of engineering talent and computer scientists which is a prerequisite to technical prowess for making India a global Blockchain hub. We are reimagining capital markets and paying a tribute to Smart Contracts Pioneer Nick Szabo with our blue print for a next generation smart-contract run marketplace that deals in millions of dollars in securities ” says Founder & CEO of Himalaya Capital Exchange Ms. Arifa Khan.Crypto economy, which was valued at around $20 billion at the end of 2016, ballooned close to $800 billion by the end of 2017. Though Blockchain and Bitcoin adoption has seen a lot of traction in India since 2016 when Ms Khan hosted crypto pioneers like Ethereum’s Vitalik Buterin in India, and conducted hackathons in efforts to catalyse the ecosystem, the industry and investors are yet to grasp the fundamentals of this technology and the interconnectedness between blockchain and crypto in a useful way. There is a legitimate need and a gap in educating the common man as well as the influencers on these new technologies. The summit aims to bridge the gap.Mr. Nick Szabo, a renowned cryptographer, computer scientist, legal scholar and the pioneer of ‘Smart Contracts’, who is among the most celebrated speakers in the summit, says: “The imposition of capital controls is a disaster for a modern trade-driven economy, a catastrophe which, however, digital technology and in particular the digital currency bitcoin, has the potential to mitigate.” He adds that “Decentralised marketplaces are the ultimate promise of Blockchain, which will have the most dramatic impact on society and economy.”The summit will bring together the world's foremost experts, innovators and investors in the fields of Cryptography and Artificial Intelligence (AI) such as Nick Szabo, Eddy Travia, John Puttick, Arun Sharma, Sudin Baraokar, S V R Srinivas, Marc Pilkington, Sandris Murins, Rahul Bhasin, CTOs of NSE, SBI, L&T Infotech, IT secretary of Govt of Maharashtra, and legal experts from Amarchand Mangaldas, Khaitan & Co, Nishit Desai. Government of Maharashtra is collaborating with Himalaya Labs to host Ethereum Hackathon in India, and has provided real administrative challenges for Ethereum developers to solve such as - tracking education subsidies to payment of college fees through smart contracts. To book tickets, visit the website: http://capitalexchange.techAbout Himalaya Labs LtdHimalaya Labs is a Blockchain venture creating the world's first decentralised capital markets platform for investors and issuers, where smart contracts do the job of investment banks and intermediaries. A traditional stock exchange is replaced by an algorithm-driven marketplace where algorithms guide the listing price, and the token economy participants regulate, curate and monitor the risks and rewards of companies accessing public capital through ISTOs “Initial Security Token Offerings”. The token marketplace plays the role of investment banks, cutting out the 10% IPO fees. Founder & CEO Arifa Khan is an IIT Madras graduate and a Wharton MBA with a background in investment banking and Cryptocurrencies.  Speakers, Sponsors, ExhibitorsFor further details, email team@himalayalabs.com  Nick Szabo the polymath crypto pioneer to grace Himalaya Capital Exchange White Paper Launch at Himalaya Crypto Summit in Mumbai 24-25 May 2018 Watch Nick Szabo Video here See video herehttps://youtu.be/UCcVb-DRZ3I If you'd like to talk to the organisers, or join their project - drop an email to team@himalayalabs.com  

Healthtech enthusiasts and techies! IMT Innovation & Roche Products Limited invite you to participate in the ‘Infusion Day’ Hackathon. You'll work in one of six teams to develop an innovative solution to address the challenges faced by patients receiving infusion medicines; from preparing for the infusion day to networking with other patients. The winning team will share the overall prize fund of £5,000. Note: Due to the prize fund, Healthcare Professionals (HCP) or Other Relevant Decision Maker (ORDM) may not participate in the hackathon.

Hackers and AI enthusiasts in the UK! You're invited to participate in the third installment of the Microsoft Cognitive Challenge Hackathon! In this mini-hack series, Microsoft and AI Gaming challenge you to use your Python skills to code the best performing game playing bot! Compete against the other participants and the AI Gaming Housebot to win awesome prizes.