List of hackathons in Folkestone, United Kingdom in 2016

Participate in the IG Hack the Markets—Fintech hackathon. Millennials as a group are about to move into their prime earning and spending years. However, 80% of millennials according to a recent Harris Poll are not invested in the Stock Market. Design a compelling and innovative proposition to get millennials trading, investing and setting money aside for their future. Think about how you can make this ultra low-cost and transparent and how you can integrate social features. Also, how would you acquire and retain your users and promote your solution?

For those that have ventured farther into block chain than most, this full day workshop will take a look beyond the theory of many concepts related to block chain, and give in-depth instruction on how to apply concepts to create a functioning decentralized application. Going beyond fintech's previous block chain workshop, this second installation will focus on building DApps on blockchain.

Virtual Reality developers! Want to get your hands on the latest motion-tracked input controllers from Oculus? Participate in Oculus Touch 24hr VR Hackathon and get early access to the devices to understand their capabilities and learn how to develop with them! Collaborate in teams to create fun mini-games that make use of the capacitive, haptic motion-tracked controllers. You can be a coder, an artist, a designer or a bit of all three, you make sure your team has enough relevant skills to create a working build in Unity for evaluation.

For those that have ventured farther into blockchain than most, this full day workshop will take a look beyond the theory of many concepts related to block chain, and give in-depth instruction on how to apply concepts to create a functioning decentralized application.

Greenshaw/Edenham High School is hosting a student hackathon. Participants will collaborate on an assigned project and spend the day coding to create the best idea they can and then presenting their solution.

Are you a university student, or recent graduate? As the leaders of tomorrow, how can you help ensure sustainable economic growth, and decent work for all? Want to make a difference? Join the hack for two days of innovation, ideation, and getting down and dirty building new apps, services, campaigns, and projects to tackle some of the economy’s most pressing issues. Hackathons are for all types of forward thinking, proactive students. Whether you’re a master coder, design hero, or a sales and biz dev guru, this is the place you need to be!

Attend the Interledger Workshop. You'll receive an introduction to the Interledger project, followed by in-depth sessions on Addressing, ILP Packet Header and Routing; Enabling ILP: The ILP Ledger Plug-In and ILP Ledger Virtual; Application layer protocols and the W3C Web Payments activity; Weaving the ILP fabric into BigchainDB; Demonstrating Real-Money Payments using ILP. To round off the workshop, there'll be an Interledger Hackathon.

Are you a cybersecurity fanatic? Want to shake up the Insurance industry? Coders, developers, designers, observers...you'e invited to join Startupbootcamp InsurTech's Hackathon. This event is focused on disruptive insurance innovation and connecting with startups focused on the insurance market. You will work on one of the challenges: Cyber Risk Scoring, Safety and Security Beyond Traditional Passwords, Cyber Bullying Prevention and Support, Unified Reconciliation, Personal Data Sharing as a Service, Fighting Fraud with Social Proof, Crime in Motor Car Insurance, and Detecting Fraud in Cyber Insurance.

The TECHFACTOR brings together students who aspire to work in the digital industry and employers looking for tomorrow's technology leaders. Leading industry mentors will take attendees through fast-paced Creative-Mindset workshops on the skills and knowledge they'll for the digital industry. Teams will then complete and get their Digital business prototypes ready to pitch to a jury of young leaders and top employers, who have the power to bring their ideas to life!!

Participate in a day of creating open guidance and resources for shared community spaces wanting to go more circular or encourage its users to in their work. This year's challenge activity focuses on Circular Maker Spaces and Open Energy Life Cycles. Participants will be developing circular guidance, inspiration, signage and more and exploring what platform is the best for this. Open Energy Monitor will also be on hand to share and develop further resources around embodied energy and LCA to aid hardware design considerations.