List of hackathons in Folkestone, United Kingdom in 2016

The growth of both the Internet of things and PropTech as a whole has opened up huge opportunities for innovation in the Smart home field that are just waiting to be taken advantage of. Whether you have been running a cyborg home from day 1 are are just now gaining interest in the smart home niche, everyone is invited to come compete for a prize pool of over 5000 Euros! Compete with a team in one of 3 categories, ecofriendliness, lifestyle, or value.

Interested in healthcare in Sussex? You're a patient, a carer, a member of staff, a healthcare professional, charity worker or volunteer. The Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust invites you to come and make a difference by contributing your creativity and skills at the "What Matters to You Hackathon". You'll be presented with up to 10 challenge areas and you'll collaborate to develop solutions that can be trialled and evaluated.

University students in London! Kick off the 2017 hackathon year by participating in the Local Hack Day - Hacksmiths. Sponsor GitHub invites you to join like-minded student hackers for a 12-hour hack day on the Goldsmiths University campus. You'll work with some awesome technology and network with talented technologists!

Morgan Stanley and Stemettes invite you to a celebration of women in STEM. Routes to STEM is a panel discussion with a difference! It’s exclusively for 14-18 year-old young women, where you’ll hear all the different ways people begin their scientific careers. Topics that will also be discussed include apprenticeships, A-level choices, university degrees, work experience. You’ll be able to ask the panel questions, and network with each other and the experts!

Open research is much more than open access. It is about making all aspects of the research process open to all possible interested parties. Attendees have 4 hours to take concrete steps to make their own research more open. Ideas include sharing a dataset, setting up a research blog or project website, planning an engagement project, pitching a news article, or creating a video biography or a podcast.

Are you interested in open research? Do you revel in exploring innovative approaches to communicating results and sharing outputs? Come and participate in the Open Research for Academics hackathon sponsored by the British Academy! Collaborate, or work on your own, to take concrete steps to make your own research more open. Maybe you can share a dataset, set up a research blog or project website, plan an engagement project, pitch a news article, or create a video biography or podcast.

Interested in how the Sharing Economy applies to Insurance? Come and participate in the InsurTech Hackathon. Apply your skills and creativity to show how an insurance business model can be based on trust, authenticity, and transparency. Collaborate with like-minded hackers to use technologies like chatbots, drones, VR/AR, or AI/machine learning to create solutions to challenges posed by Insurtech's corporate insurance sponsors.

A Hackathon for young women! Come and begin to bridge the gender technology divide. Participate in a 2-day hackathon/start-up style event and get creative with coding, programming and digital technology. You'll also get the chance to attend masterclass workshops in digital marketing, branding, APIs, lean UX and Business Model Canvas . The purpose of this event is to equip young women with the tools that will enable them to become change-makers and entrepreneurs of their own lives.

Payments are heading into a brave new world of commerce, retail and transactions. If you think you have the vision to truly transform payments in the 21st Century join Startupbootcamp FinTech at the PayTastic Payments Hackathon. You'll have access to Intel Grove Starter Kits and Intel Edison Kits—plus access to other cool APIs—to aid you with your payments inspiration.

Attention volunteers who love building crazy technology! If you're a developer, designer or data scientist, come help charities with their digital challenges at the Brighton Digital Festival! You'll be assigned a business case for a problem that a participating charity needs to solve: →re-designing their website or smartphone application, →building a proof of concept on using chat bots, augmented reality, and virtual reality or →helping them with data needs. The day will be focused on designing, developing, breaking the digital rulebook and helping move towards a more sustainable world through helping charities accelerate into the world of digital.