List of hackathons in Harwell, United Kingdom in 2016

This Qredo Hackathon, wil help ios or Android app developers discover how easy Qredo SDK makes it to get app security right. Bring your own equipment and development tools and be among the first app developers to work with the Qredo open sourced privacy SDK. Win prizes for the best apps developed during the weekend.  The Qredo SDK, documentation, sample code and support of the Qredo dev team will be provided You can compete as an individual or in teams of up to 5 people

The Kopfadeyemi Challenge is an event to brainstorm the problems of real-life African businesses, and developing an innovative solution for an African healthcare organisation. The team that presents the best solution will win the challenge prize and potential seed-funding money.

You want to shake up the insurance industry or just have a challenging, joy-dropping and promoting weekend? Join this hackathon in London around IoT with API access from elite insurance partners. FREE beers & pizza etc provided. Secure tickets asap!

The #UX4Change Hackathon invites you to come and create personas to design sustainable technology for a humanitarian cause. You will take on the challenge of creating personas that reflect women like pregnant young Syrian refugees from Aleppo who have no access to vital pre-natal information. UX for Change is partnering with the HaBaby app team which supports pregnant refugees during their journey through different countries by providing a list of symptoms, actions to take and multilingual support in order to ease the communication with health care providers, who may or may not speak their language.  You will learn how to create personas for HaBaby and work with Subject Matter Experts (SEMs) available during the event to shape the HaBaby project design decisions. There will be prizes for the best team as well as digital badges for participating in the event.

The WarwickHACK Hackathon is gathering makers and innovators to come and create unique and exciting projects in just 24 hours. Students can come together to make, create and innovate! You can build all sort of things ranging from hardware projects to web applications. There are no limits!

Join this Hackathon to help innovative local teachers connect with the tech community. Hackney Learning Trust (HLT) has joined forces with BY Creative and Digital Doughnut to launch the 'Teacherpreneur Hackathon' event and are inviting all teachers, developers, and designers to join them at this one day special event.

Water quality is essential for good river health, the water resource in Thames catchment is of major environmental, social and economic value to South East region in England. It contributes to farming, fishing and mining as well as recreation and tourism. Knowing conditions of certain water quality indicators in advance will give water quality managers and other end users information to make better decision for their activities. The challenge is to use your coding skills to help deliver the best information to water quality experts, or make a forecast on water quality near the river you live. Building an app using big data technology to forecasts and visualize water quality.

Hack@Brookes is a 24 hour problem solving hackathon. Come to collaborate, hack and learn something new. It doesn’t matter what your background is, inspirational speakers will give you something to think about and there will be workshops for both beginners and those who are a little more in the know. Come and play!

The Accessible Music Hackathon is featuring Bela, a new embedded platform for low-latency interactive audio. The goal of the hackathon will be to create new musical instruments accessible to disabled musicians. Hacks could produce complete working instruments, or a demonstration of a concept or sensor which could be used in a variety of instruments. There will be prizes for the best hacks addressing these challenges, and best overall instrument.

ONLINE REGISTRATION FOR THIS EVENT IS NOW CLOSED. Due to last-minute cancellationsa number of places are now available, on a first come first served basis.  To secure a ticket, please arrive at the venue between 1630 and 1645 on Friday 5/2 and register at the desk. Thanks!   Friday 5 February 5-9pm; Saturday 6 February 9-6pm. Cycling in this city could be a  better experience for all.  We want to be part of a process of improving it - but to make it better, we first need to understand the current experience and challenges more fully.  And for that we need information, 'data'. Join us and help to answer these questions: How do we capture data about cycling in Oxfordshire? What do we want/need to know about cycling in Oxford? And how could we capture the information we need?   See https://pedallinginnovation.wordpress.com for full details and schedule.