List of hackathons in Farnborough, United Kingdom in 2017

At Kingdom Code BUILD, our annual hackathon, we hosted over 90 Christians who work in the technology world. We spent the weekend working on projects that bring together our faith and our skillsets in technology. At our December meetup we're inviting the groups back to show some of the work that they did, and show how it's been developed over the last two months. During the evening we'll be seeing a VR project built for Christians Against Poverty, an iOS app showing the fostering and adoption journey built for Home for Good, a web app which could transform how musicians can lead worship during church service and more… We'll also have some time to discuss and pray about what happens next for Kingdom Code as we head into 2018.

#AcornHackJI will be the best yet and as always we will bring the most incredible tech experts and entrepreneurs to inspire you into tech, share with you what they are developing and challenge you to solve a problem or two. DATE: 2-3 December TIME: 5.30pm - 8.30pm on 2 December          8.30am - 7.30pm on 3 December VENUE: WeHub, Wohl Building, 2B Redbourne Avenue, London N3 2B Watch our trailer on YouTube Follow us on Twitter: @acornaspiration Be the first to learn about our events and discounts, sign up on our website: www.acornaspirations.com Become part of our Facebook community Join us on Meetup and learn great skills they don't teach in school Mentors, we guarantee you will learn new skills too!  PLACES FOR THIS HACK ARE LIMITED! (You MUST bring your own laptop!) You will come out of the hackathon with the following: 1. You will meet the experts and entrepreneurs from London's tech scene 2. You will meet other teens who are passionate about tech 3. You will work with tech mentors and entrepreneurs and learn how to turn your ideas into a basic working version. Things you will learn: * How to decide which of your ideas are worth working on * How to decide what features the user needs to get them from A to B * How to sketch your ideas * How to build your idea using rapid prototyping tools * How to pitch your idea - you will pitch in front of some of London's most innovative start-ups * How will your idea make money - business models * Programming courses: 1. Learning Python 2. Intro to Android Studio 3. HTML, CSS For further info please email Elena elena.sinel@acornaspirations.co.uk NOTE to SPONSORS: If you wish to sponsor the event or sponsor X amout of children, please email Elena elena.sinel@acornaspirations.co.uk to discuss details. Jewish Interactive is a registered charity. For donation, please contact Chana Kanzen on chana@jewishinteractive.net to discuss charitable donations.

DESCRIPTION Join us for this intensive 1 day hackathon to learn how to take control of your career & find ways of doing work that you will love. More importantly it will push you to launch your first career prototype to test out a new path. You know you want to do something different... ...but you're not sure what that something is. Maybe it's a different company. Maybe it's a new career. Maybe you want to go on a big adventure or start your business. But you're not sure where to start. You’re not sure where to turn and you don’t know what your options are. And... there's another problem. Leaving a safe job is scary. Every time you think about making a big change in your work, career & life, the little voices in your head chime in: You're too young (or too old.) You don't have the time (or the money, or the knowledge, or the skills). What if you fail? What if it all ends up being a massive mistake? You're ready to give up on your search to do work you love before you even get started. You're not alone. We have spent the past five years gathering knowledge from over 250,000 unfulfilled professionals on why current career change methods aren’t working. We’ve discovered that the biggest problems come when people expect a magic-bullet solution or when they expect a career coach to give them an answer to a problem that they can’t even really define. We work with only the best teachers, career coaches & thought-leaders. We apply tried & tested lessons from the career coaches, career change psychologists, and successful career changers to save you from wasting time and money on those who don't deliver the most effective & practical advice. We teach the same practical frameworks and methods used by hundreds of Escape the City members to escape unfulfilling jobs and do work they love. Here's what you can expect: This hackathon will help you understand how to take control of your career and steer it in directions that will bring you more autonomy, meaning, and purpose. It’s about personal fulfillment, it’s about making active choices for yourself, and it’s about owning your definition of success. You'll be able to play and build something without any pressure of it being the 'one'. We'll explore  the new world of work and freelance careers. This one-day Escape School Hackathon is a chance to co-create, and 'build' a first version of a career prototype with new friends. It will help you sharpen your escape tools, increase your confidence in finding a new direction, and build new connections. What does the hackathon consist of? We will provide you with tools, ideas and case studies to help you overcome your fears and start moving forwards with purpose. The hackathon covers the following: What isn't working for me in my career? What type of life do I want to lead? How do I work out what I really want to do? How do I overcome my fears? How do I come up with a plan that excites me? What are my more entrepreneurial options? What strategies will help me to build my dream job? How do I create opportunities on my own terms? You will leave this hackathon inspired to make change happen, with the beginnings of a plan, a commitment to action, a long list of new ideas, and have launched your first career prototype to get started. This workshop is taught by: SKYE ROBERTSON Head of the Escape School - Skye has helped thousands of people escape their jobs and start new careers and businesses through Escape the City, Startup Britain, and Young Enterprise. Her superpowers include: helping people turn ideas into actual businesses, standing out from the crowd in the job market, and hacking online projects together in a very short amount of time. This workshop is limited to 40 places. Secure your ticket now to get closer to changing your career.

Entrepreneurial spirits! Do you want to start your own business? King's Entrepreneurs Society invites you to participate in the KCL Business Hackathon 2017. In this 12-hour non-tech hackathon, you'll be challenged to build your business in a day -- from generating your idea to building your first prototype! Pitch your project to the audience and get the chance to win validation, recognition and great prizes.

RPA analysts, architects or developers! Do you want to match your skills and creativity against other robotics process automation professionals? You're invited to participate in the RPA Hackathon -- a 24-hour digital marathon, where you'll design and prototype a new RPA project and compete for prizes against the best of the best!

Science-oriented techies in the Greater London Area! You're invited to participate in the Living Knowledge Network – London Hackathon. You'll get to tackle your choice of four Blockchain challenges: The Future of Collaboration, Network Data Science, The Future Of Peer Review, or Knowledge Tokens. Tech talent from all levels of capability is welcome to join in! You just need a passion for the future of science and knowledge creation!

The scientific endeavor has brought remarkable technological progress and plays a pivotal role in 21st-century life. However, media breaches, incompatibilities and locked-away-data all present problems and there are still a number of changes needed to improve the scientific process. Many claim that the blockchain offers great potential for Science and Knowledge creation - immutable data trails, novel means for research money distribution, privacy-assured data handling and even crowdfunding methods present possibilities. We envision a system that will contain the whole research cycle in one closed-looped system - from data acquisition, post-processing, storage, calculation, scientific reasoning as well as incentivisation and research funding. As a starting point, we'll take abstractions from bitcoin, and, while its miners assure the integrity of the blockchain, the guardians of the living knowledge network will assure that science is kept honest and meaningful, all with a knowledge token that will incentivise participants. However, we understand that verifying transactions on the bitcoin blockchain is much easier than verifying science - but various implementations and abstractions could lead us there and we need to start somewhere. With this hackathon, we want to engage and inspire the science-interested tech community. There will be a series of talks and sessions run using standard developer tools and on PC, MAC and Linux operating systems. We're looking for tech talent from all levels of capability - what's important is your passion for creating future blockchain technologies! Program: Fri. 1st of December 19:00 Potential meetup with talks @ 3 crowns pub Saturday Sat 2nd of December  09:00 Start, Registration 09.25 Breakfast 10:00 Opening remarks Intro to challenges by: 10:10 Collaboration Future Of (Roman) 10:20 Future of Peer review (Sönke) 10:30 Network Data Science (James) 10.30 Knowledge Token (t.b.d.) 11:00 Team Formation 11:25 Team Registration – Start hacking! 13:30 Lunch 16:00 Talk: Cryptoeconomy for Science - Bazil Azmil 18:30 Dinner 21:00 Exit Sun 3rd of December 10:00 Arrive and start hacking 14:00 Talk (t.b.d.) 16:00 Pitching session begins Community voting through Knowledge tokens 17:00 Winners announced 17:10 Closing remarks 17:30 …  Networking, drinks and nibbles Rules The core part of the solution to the challenge must be written over the weekend Please check your code into a repository (Github, Bitbucket etc) with an open source software license of your choice When you’ve assembled your team, please let us know your team name, participants, which challenge you’re entering, and your code repository URL Please sign the terms and conditions form (on the day) You retain your IP Teams & Pitching We have a two-hour slot for pitching with 10 minutes for the judges to convene We’d like you to give a five-minute pitch and/or demo, and allow two minutes for Q&A If you don't have time for a demo – screenshots are OK Pitches need to be tight and punchy! Make sure you practice in advance We can really only handle 15 teams if we want to keep to the timeline We don't want to set a minimum team size, but we would strongly encourage you to form teams of four people or more Community engagement: BlockchainForScience

Please note: This event is strictly for regular software engineers and computer science/software engineering students only. This event is brought to you by The Blockchain Connector, a training and recruitment company focusing entirely on Blockchain technology & UCL Centre for Blockchain Technologies, a leading European research hub focusing on the impact of blockchain technologies on socio-economic systems, and promotion of a safe and organic development and adoption of blockchain-based platforms. Speaker Bio: Conor Svensson Conor is the author of web3j, the Java library for working integrating with Ethereum. He's the founder of blk.io (https://blk.io/) who provide the foundations for enterprises to integrate with Ethereum and Quorum. Conor also co-chairs the Quorum and Integration and Tools Working Groups in the Enterprise Ethereum Alliance and is the organiser of the Enterprise Ethereum Alliance London Meetup. Title of talk: web3j 3.0 – Integration with Ethereum and smart contracts for Developers Abstract: web3j is the Java library for integrating with Ethereum. In this talk, Conor will provide an overview of web3j, including its client API, smart contract wrappers, command line tools, event subscription capabilities and Block and transaction replay support. Conor will also be talking about the milestone web3j 3.0 release and the additional functionality it provides for further simplifying integration with smart contracts. Finally, there will be an ERC20 token demo using web3j, and discussion of building micro-services on top of web3j. Event Organiser: Antonio Sabado Antonio is a founder of The Blockchain Connector, a training and recruitment company focusing entirely on Blockchain technology. Antonio has 10 plus 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. Future Events: Visit our Eventbrite homepage to view all our future events by clicking HERE. For further details on our developer workshop, please email antonio@theblockchainconnector.com or contact Antonio on 0044 (07)923 521 833. The Blockchain Connector "Our 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. Join us and be part of our growing developer community" Follow us on Twitter @bc_workshop & @thebc_connector Join our growing Blockchain Developer meetup held in London by clicking HERE.

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Finding a good problem to focus your research on or build a startup around is a challenge and can greatly influence your success and growth potential. What is a good problem and how to find one? How to make sure that it is a problem that you can tackle? This talk is for researchers and entrepreneurs looking to solve real-world problems through their work.  Free lunch and refreshments will be provided.  If you are not based at Guy’s Campus and would find it difficult to attend at lunchtime, we will also live stream the seminar on our Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/KCLInnovationForum/ Speaker Profile: Ana Florescu Ana is Head of Good Problems at Science Practice, a research and design studio based in London.  The Good Problems Team works with funding organisations, investors and philanthropists that want to take a problem-led approach to their funding. They help them identify and prioritise real problems in need of solutions and design appropriate ways to incentivise innovation. The Team has designed over 30 challenge prizes and funding calls, including the £10M Longitude Prize for a diagnostic test to help reduce the misuse of antibiotics. Prior to joining Science Practice, Ana worked at Nesta where she researched emerging technologies and trends in social venture incubation. She also helped organise a number of Start-up Weekend hackathons and ran an 8-week pre-accelerator programme for entrepreneurs in London. Kindly Sponsored by: Entrepreneurship Institute