List of hackathons in Harrogate, United Kingdom in 2017

Hackers in and around Durham. You're invited to participate in DurHack 2017 -- a data-fueled hackathon focused on satellite data. You'll be faced with a selection of challenge themes that focus on improving the City of Durham. Collaborate with like-minded individuals and compete for a pool of awesome prizes.

Hi folks, get ready, pack your bags and book your ticket to.... Manchester! The next Hackathon will take place at the amazing BBC Media City but this will not be an ordinary Hackathon. No, this time we will stream the whole event, giving everybody the chance to participate online. Therefore you can be part of the Hackathon from all over the world. Well, of course you will miss some of the amazing spirits but we will give our best to capture every single moment during the event! +++Attention+++ The event might look like it's sold out but actually, you just need to get an access code. You can apply now for an access code via the Open Ecosystem Network and in case you live around Manchester make sure to get one of the strictly limited on-site event tickets. During the next weeks we will update you with all the information you need so stay tuned and hurry up to get your ticket! See you soon! Your OPEN-Team

On this prestigious day, will dedicate a full day on the 25th of November for new ideas and solutions to help the communities facing social decline in Greater Manchester. We intend to end the day with an esteemed judging panel who will evaluate the best ideas presented and these will in turn make our new projects to be implemented for the year. Several mentors and trained facilitators will be posted to each group of participants to ensure a day of enriching learning to complement the healthy competition. Food and refreshment will be provided throughout the day. As observers of our presentation rounds, you will have the chance to witness potentially revolutionary ideas that will transform the lives of the underprivileged and the faces of the next generation of aspiring entrepreneurs. We cordially invite you as a respected guest in your respective fields to play a part in inspiring and networking with the diverse parties we will have present on the day.

Girls -- aged 13-18 -- in the Greater Manchester area! You're invited to participate in the Female Youth Hack -- Inspiring Stories #1. At this 2-day coding competition, you'll learn how to code in a friendly environment and get inspired by real women techies who share their journeys. You'll collaborate with a team of 4 girls and work on a challenge that is set before the event starts.

On this prestigious day, will dedicate a full day on the 25th of November for new ideas and solutions to help the communities facing social decline in Greater Manchester. We intend to end the day with an esteemed judging panel who will evaluate the best ideas presented and these will in turn make our new projects to be implemented for the year. Several mentors and trained facilitators will be posted to each group of participants to ensure a day of enriching learning to complement the healthy competition. Food and refreshment will be provided throughout the day.

#HacktheNorth - Helping the region work and grow Use your digital skills and creativity to help solve Manchester’s unemployment challenges, and further cement the city’s position as an international cultural and economic hub. What to expect: The event will be held across two days, from 4pm to 8pm on Thursday 23 November. We'll then start again from 9:30am to 6pm on Friday 24 November. The challenge: DWP Digital will be joined by some of the brightest and most creative people in the north to work on solutions which address one of the most pressing issues in the area. Despite Manchester’s growing popularity among top employers and its reputation as one of the UK's tech hubs, there are still more than 158,000 unemployed people in the North West. The challenge for our hack is to identify and address the barriers to people applying for these jobs, and develop an innovative solution to encourage people to retrain and travel to where the work is. We believe it’s a great opportunity to generate ideas to help further cement Manchester’s place as an international cultural and economic hub, and we'd like to invite you to co-create solutions which could make a difference to this important cause. Event format: We are working in partnership with our sponsors MongoDB. We'll kick things off on Thursday 23 November from 4pm, when we'll set the scene through some quick-fire presentations from a range of speakers.  Ideas will be then be pitched and teams will be formed who’ll then spend the whole day on Friday 24 November putting their ideas into practice before presenting these to our expert panel towards the end of the day. You’ll have access to searchable open-source labour market data to help bring your ideas to life. Our developers, engineers and data science specialists will be on hand with advice and tips. Food and refreshments will be provided by our sponsors. And like all good hack events, there’ll be a prize for the best solution! Please note that the event will be filmed for promotional use. What to bring: Apart from yourself, you'll also need to bring your own laptops and chargers. Please don't bring your own or your organisation's proprietary solutions to this event - we're looking for imaginative ideas on the day!_____FAQs Are there ID or minimum age requirements to enter the event? Yes, this event is designed for attendees aged 18 and above. Is my attendance confirmed? We will email you with an invitation which will serve as a confirmation of your attendance. How can I contact the organiser with any questions? If you wish to get in touch with regards to the event, please email us at digital.eventmanagement@dwp.gsi.gov.uk. Is it an overnight event? No, we will hold the event across two days, starting on Thursday 23 November from 4pm – 8pm and continuing on Friday 24 November from 9:30am – 6pm. Does the venue have a step-free/disabled access? Yes. What will happen with my solution/code developed? The digital solutionsand code written during the DWP Digital Hack event, will be published open source. We hope that these outputs will be used to inspire ideas and we will find a way to drive forward any feasible ideas

The challenge for our hack is to identify and address the barriers to people applying for these jobs, and develop an innovative solution to encourage people to retrain and travel to where the work is. We'll kick things off on Thurs 23/11 from 4pm, when we'll set the scene through some quick-fire presentations from a range of speakers. The teams will then spend the whole day on Fri 24/11 putting their ideas into practice before presenting these to our expert panel towards the end of the day.

Hack Challenge - Cyber & Networking Challenge - in collaboration with UKFAST. Manchester - UKFAST Offices.  Return transport provided from Edge Hill. Overview of challenge A fabulous opportunity to get involved with the Cyber/Networking challenge being ran for Edge Hill students by UKFAST https://goo.gl/pQ8wss  Overview You are part of a team working for UKFast charged with migrating new clients on to UKFast systems’ and infrastructure. Big Happy Shop Inc. have decided to use UKFast as a hosting provider due to poor levels of service from their previous supplier. They have particular concerns and requirements and are interested in the extra level of service that UKFast and its sister security company Secarma can provide. Big Happy Shop Inc. are a leading UK eCommerce concern. Their main system consists of a shopping website that includes multiple functions such as account creation, shopping, comment and message functionality. The company recently received financial investment to take their product to a US market. However, the deployment has not gone well. The US version of their site has potential security concerns due to inexperienced developers. In addition, they fear the site may have already been compromised in some way that may have compromised the security of their server. Your job is to find any security flaws in the web application, any vulnerabilities which may have been introduced to the server, and provide any relevant patches / fixes. Unfortunately, they require that the system remains online and may be under constant attack. You have five hours to identify as many security issues as you can and provide solutions! Points will be awarded for each problem identified and each team will get double points for each solution offered with implemented fixes and patches. Each team will submit their findings using a Google Form. These will then be totalled and checked to pick a winning team. Location:  This challenge will be taking place at the UKFAST Offices in Manchester.  Return transport will be provided from Edge Hill.  Coach will depart from Edge Hill at 7:30am and pick up at the UK FAST offices at 4pm. Open to Edge Hill Computer Science Department students

Everyone is invited to our 24 hour non-stop hackathon looking at the challenging and exciting area of FinTech in partnership with major technology leaders (HSBC, IMC, AQL and others). Join us for this event, work in a team and propose a concept, or build a prototype, or design a start-up – whatever you do you will have the chance to win a portion of over £2,000 in prizes, continued mentorship, and gain access to job opportunities. In 1957, the University of Leeds was one of the first universities in the UK to buy a computer. This was a revolutionary development in university science and engineering, and the springboard for academic computer science in the university. 60 years on, computer science underpins nearly everything we do. The sponsors have provided a set of topics in the areas of financial tech, digital identity, security, and personal digital assistants. Your team will have 24 hours to propose a great idea for a particular topic and produce an initial prototype. You will then present your idea to a judging panel on Sunday afternoon. A winning team will be chosen for each topic area. Throughout the event you will be given mentoring and support by research staff and engineers in designing and building your concept. Mentors will also be on hand to look at your CV and give you tips on employability etc. PRIZES Over £2,000 of prizes to be won across sponsor led challenges as well as opportunities for sponsor mentorship and recruitment. TEAMS Teams will consist of 4 people, you can either register as a team or we can help you form a team at the reception event. We encourage multi-disciplinary teams to give you the best the chance of success. AGENDA Friday 20th October (18:30) - Welcome reception for delegates and sponsors with an introductory talk by Dr Chris Sier Fintech Envoy for the North Saturday 21st October (10:30) - Hackathon Start Sunday 22nd October (12:00) - Judging/prizes by Sponsors (scheduled close 15:00) FAQs  Are there restrictions on who can take part? There are no restrictions on who can take part (other than age requirement of 18+). We would particularly like to see as many students (undergraduate, masters, and PhD) involved as well as staff from the universities in Leeds. We'd also love to see a great mix of disciplines, although having someone with a computing background on your team will help.  Are meals provided? Yes, at the reception on Friday we'll provide a buffet. On Saturday we'll provide lunch and dinner. On Sunday we'll provide breakfast and lunch. There will be coffee and soft drinks available throughout as well. There is not cost for the food or drink.  Do we need to register as a team? No, teams will consist of 4 people. You can register as a team online before the event or else you can let us know on Friday that you've got team sorted. If you haven't we'll help you either form or join a team during the reception on Friday and Saturday morning.    Are there ID or minimum age requirements to enter the event? Yes, hackathon participants must be over 18 as the event runs throughout Saturday night.   What are my transport/parking options for getting to and from the event? After 5PM the University Edge and Multi-Storey car parks are open to the public. Payment is made before exiting. Further details can be found here: http://carparking.leeds.ac.uk/visitors/   What can I bring into the event? Please bring a laptop.   How can I contact the organiser with any questions? Either use the contact details on your registration form or contact the School of Computing on 0113 343 5430.  

Description This Propensity to Cycle Tool Hackathon is designed for advanced users and developers of the tool to share ideas, use-cases and skills. The aim is to build know-how of the tool and how it can be used, modified and extended to improve its ability to help provide an accessible evidence-based for transport planning. Attendees will likely split into teams at the outset to work on issues such as: How to best make use of data generated by the PCT New scenarios (e.g. 'Go York') Modifications to the PCT (this could have multiple teams) It is hoped that the knowledge learned will be shared beyond the event via write-ups, workshops and extensions to the PCT by attendees. Prerequisites R must be installed, in addition to the development version of the stplanr package: https://github.com/ropensci/stplanr It will help if you have Git installed on your computer. With it installed the following commands will download all files you need to reproduce the tool: # clone the pct data creation scripts git clone git@github.com:npct/pct-demo If you want to work on the 'full' PCT you'll need these on your laptop before the hackathon. To download the input data, install git lfs from GitHub and run the following lines of code from an appropriate shell (e.g. bash on Linux or Windows Powershell): git lfs install # check lfs is working # clone the data (warning - large) git clone git@github.com:npct/pct-inputs.git # raw input files git clone git@github.com:npct/pct-outputs-national.git # national outputs git clone git@github.com:npct/pct-outputs-regional-R.git # regional outputs used by pct-shiny The contents of the regional outputs are used by the code in pct-shiny, which can be downloaded with: git clone git@github.com:npct/pct-shiny.git Agenda See full draft agenda here: https://github.com/npct/pct/blob/master/minidocs/pct-hackathon.Rmd The rough running order of the event will be as follows: Getting up to speed 9:00-10AM (optional) The aim of this section is familiarise attendees with the PCT. Optional for experienced users. Policy relevance and the type of questions we want to answer (15 minutes) Open question and answer and a chance for people to ask technical questions (15 minutes) Meet and greet and team formation - talk to person next to you and decide what you want to get out of it (15 minutes over coffee) Coffee break, discussion and set-up (15 minutes) Learning to use and hack the PCT (10 - 12) Live demo and where we're at with the Propensity to Cycle Project and quick demo (Robin - 15 minutes) The aim of this section is to learn skills needed for the hackathon. By the end of it everyone should be in a team with a plan. Split session. Getting up to speed with the tool - Robin, Nikolai and Ali to do tech explanation for people with PCT installed, others to demonstrate use cases for people without (45 minutes) Free time to play with the tool, test hacks and network to finalise teams (1 hr) Lunch: 12 - 1PM The hackathon (1 - 4pm) This is where the bulk of the work will take place Reconvene to hear and discuss team ideas (30 minutes, ~5 min per team) Free time for hackathon (2 hrs) Feedback (4 - 4:30PM) Presentation of hacks and discussion