List of hackathons in Harwell, United Kingdom in 2019

A data science Hackathon, brought to you by the Food Standards Agency and Pivigo (proud organisers of S2DS)

The largest social enterprise hackathon ever held at Imperial College London. This year in partnership with the Hult Prize Foundation.

Welcome to the Ukrainian Open Data Hackathon What's involved? Ukrainian Open Data Hackathon is a team idea/prototyping competition, organized by Tech London Advocates Ukraine, for students and professionals worldwide. You can sit in Kyiv, Mariupol or Zhmerynka and still participate in our event. Are you in New York or Tokio? Not a problem at all to hack for Ukrainian good with us. Even sunny Honolulu or Phuket can join us since our Hackathon is truly borderless. You pick your idea, team and work on a solution for the Challenge, explained below. Top teams will then be gifted with nice prizes. Hackathon Theme The curiosity for (1) Open Data, (2) Ukraine and all things related to open innovation, collaboration, and sharing of ideas without borders to promote the tech ecosystem.   What is the Hackathon anyway? If you've never heard of a hackathon - don't let the name put you off, it's not that type of hacking! A hackathon (in our case, we can even call it “ideathon”) is a platform for innovative ideas that aim to solve a particular problem. It's a competition where people from all walks of life come together in teams to collaborate, build applications or design assets. Attendees come with an existing idea to pitch or can join other ideas being pitched to work. As an outcome of our event, we will have a bunch of ideas or even working models to take on a Challenge. Any code or software stuff with permission of the teams will be available as open-source in our GitHub. What is the Challenge? Participants can choose a combination of any of the following work-streams: Business Climate How Might We elevate Ukrainian small businesses and investment into Ukraine? Set the Record Straight How Might We promote the correct usage of linguistics and raise awareness on cultural knowledge of Ukraine? (#KyivnotKiev, ‘Ukraine’ not ‘the Ukraine’) Clean Data Indicators How Might We boost and keep open data indicators up to date, correct, and automate the detection of any errors? What datasets do we have? Our Partner, Refinitiv Labs, provides free access to data, metadata and, perhaps most importantly, sample Jupyter notebooks for many of the most popular sets including Tick History, Historical Pricing, Reuters News Archive, Aggregated News & Social Media Sentiment, ESG and Knowledge Graph. It also provides access to the Intelligent Tagging Natural Language Processing and Symbology services. Also, every participant will get access to Open Datasets Catalogue within the Ukrainian Ecosystem (mostly - in Ukrainian). What will I do there if I am not a techie? We welcome anyone whether you have a background or interest in business, design, social development, education, charity, economics, user experience, coding, culture, ecology - or if you want to experience something new, your ideas will be a great contribution to the team! We'll try to make sure every team has at least one Ukrainian speaker, in case you come across data that doesn't have an English translation to it. Do I need to be from Ukraine to participate? Absolutely not. The event is open to anyone with an interest in using data, tech, and ideas to solve challenges for social good. Do I need a team beforehand? Not necessarily. You can come individually or as a team. You will be able to join the team whose idea you'd like to help work on. The goal is to come up with a proposal or prototype at the end of the hackathon and present it in front of a panel of judges. We'll be asking attendees to form teams with a minimum of 3 and a suggested maximum of 6 (but no more than 8) members. Anyone will have a chance to pitch their idea(s) at the start of the event on Friday evening, after which the teams will be formed. You will be working with your team over Saturday, and present at the end of the day.  How can I participate in the event? Via your laptop. Since our Hackathon is virtual, this format opens endless possibilities to participate and collaborate.  How about Ukrainian Social Event on Friday? It will be on-site, in the heart of Canary Wharf, at Thomson Reuters office - 30 S Collonade, London, E14 5EP. What are my transport/parking options for getting to and from Friday's event? Canary Wharf Underground station is a two-minute walk from the venue. You can plan your journey using this TfL planner.   How can I contact the organiser with any questions? Please, feel free to message us via Twitter or Facebook.  Do I have to bring my printed ticket to Friday's event? We are a tree-friendly community - if you can, please, have the ticket ready on your smartphone.  Social Networks? Use the Twitter name @TLA_Ukraine and tag #LondonTechUkraine and for tweets related to the Hackathon.   Agenda We will be finalising the agenda in the coming weeks, but look out for technical drop-in sessions - and much more! Friday, November 22 6.00 PM - Doors open, Registration & Welcome refreshments 6.30 PM - Introduction & Keynote Speeches 7.00 PM - Ukrainian Social Event 8.00 PM - Networking & Prep for the next day Saturday, November 23 9.00 AM - Registration & Pitches of Ideas 12.00 PM - R Teaching Workshop 3.00 PM - Project Pitches 4.00 PM - Jury Decision and Awards 5.00 PM - Follow Up & Event Close

Welcome to the Virtual Ukrainian Open Data Hackathon What's involved? To scale up this event we decide to organise a Virtual Ukrainian Open Data Hackathon. It is a virtual team idea/prototyping competition, organized by Tech London Advocates Ukraine, for students and professionals worldwide. You can sit in Kyiv, Mariupol or Zhmerynka and still participate in our event. Are you in New York or Tokio? Not a problem at all to hack for Ukrainian social good with us. Even sunny Honolulu or Phuket can join us since our Virtual Hackathon is truly borderless.You pick your dorection, team and work on a solution for the Challenge, explained below. Virtual Hackathon Theme The curiosity for (1) Open Data, (2) Ukraine and all things related to open innovation, collaboration, and sharing of ideas without borders to promote the tech ecosystem. What is a Virtual Hackathon anyway? If you've never heard of a hackathon - don't let the name put you off, it's not that type of hacking! A hackathon (in our case, we can even call it “ideathon”) is a platform for innovative ideas that aim to solve a particular problem. It's a competition where people from all walks of life come together in teams to collaborate, build applications or design assets. Attendees come with an existing idea to pitch or can join other ideas being pitched to work. As an outcome of our event, we will have a bunch of ideas or even working models to take on a Challenge. Any code or software stuff with permission of the teams will be available as open-source in our GitHub. What do you need to do at the Virtual Hackathon? 1) Build any app you want. Create any design you want. Develop any idea you want. 2) Shoot your demo video, take screenshots of your creations or document your idea. 3) Wait for our judges to find the best one. And in the meantime talk to us, send us quesitons, get a cup of hot tea. What is the Challenge? Participants can choose to work on a combination of any of the following work-streams: Business Climate How Might We elevate Ukrainian small businesses and investment into Ukraine? Set the Record Straight How Might We promote the correct usage of linguistics and raise awareness on cultural knowledge of Ukraine? (#KyivnotKiev, ‘Ukraine’ not ‘the Ukraine’) Clean Data Indicators How Might We boost and keep open data indicators up to date, correct, and automate the detection of any errors? What datasets do we have? Our Partner, Refinitiv Labs, provides free access to data, metadata and sample Jupyter notebooks for many of the most popular sets including Tick History, Historical Pricing, Reuters News Archive, Aggregated News & Social Media Sentiment, ESG and Knowledge Graph. It also provides access to the Intelligent Tagging Natural Language Processing and Symbology services. Also, every participant will get access to Open Datasets Catalogue within the Ukrainian Ecosystem (mostly - in Ukrainian). What will I do there if I am not a techie? We welcome anyone whether you have a background or interest in business, design, social development, education, charity, economics, user experience, coding, culture, ecology - or if you want to experience something new, your ideas will be a great contribution to the team! We'll try to make sure every team has at least one Ukrainian speaker, in case you come across data that doesn't have an English translation to it. Do I need to be from Ukraine to participate? Absolutely not. The event is open to anyone with an interest in using data, tech, and ideas to solve challenges for social good. Do I need a team beforehand? Not necessarily. You can come individually or as a team. You will be able to join the team whose idea you'd like to help work on. The goal is to come up with a proposal or prototype at the end of the hackathon and present it in front of a panel of judges. We'll be asking attendees to form teams with a minimum of 3 and a suggested maximum of 6 (but no more than 8) members. Anyone will have a chance to pitch their idea(s) at the start of the event on Friday evening, after which the teams will be formed. You will be working with your team over Saturday, and present at the end of the day. How can I participate in the event? Via your laptop. Since our Hackathon is virtual, this format opens endless possibilities to participate and collaborate. How can I contact the organiser with any questions? Please, feel free to message us via Twitter or Facebook. Social Networks? Use the Twitter name @TLA_Ukraine and tag #LondonTechUkraine and for tweets related to the Hackathon. Agenda Saturday, November 23 9.00 AM - Registration & Pitches of Ideas 12.00 PM - R Teaching Webinar 6.00 PM - Project Pitches Submission Sunday, November 24 12.00 PM - Jury Decision and Awards 1.00 PM - Launch of Follow Up Social Media Campaign

Come celebrate the closing of the Block-Sprint Hackathon.

Bring your energy and creativity to our 3-day Hackathon and help solve one of the biggest food related issues in society. #OxFoodHack

Data ethics and Solid London Workshop  - This is for everyone.  Join the movement.  New Academic Building, on Lincoln's InnFields, the entrancefor visitors is at thecorner of SardiniaStreet and Lincoln'sInn Fields. NAB.1.096:30 -8:30pm November 20th @ 18:30-21:00 Due to popular demand - we are organizing our 2nd Solid - Social Linked Data and Data ethics workshop. Solid can be the open source standard and movement that can resolve the challenges of private data control, data walls and data harvesting. Solid was created by the inventor of the World Wide Web, Sir Tim Berners-Lee at MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology). The mission of Solid, is to reshape the web as we know it today and bring back the power of data ownership to the people This workshop is intended for everyone who is interested in discussing private data control, data privacy and how data can be decoupled from apps and innovation on an app level. We will deep dive into Solid - Social Linked Data, discuss current pain-points of people and society and how to build apps on top of Solid that solve these.  Everyone is welcome, regardless of background and skill level developers, product managers, business managers and UX designers. Within the Solid platform, the individuals can decide where their data are stored and can give access and permissions to apps to reuse those data. Learn more about Solid: https://solid.inrupt.com/The Agenda: Introduction Data ethics "Me, myself and my data" What do people think about their data? Where does my data sit in an app or website? How to decouple data and apps? ODI Data ethics Canvas This is for everyone - Solid Basics  How to create a Pod  How to use a Solid app  How to get started with Solid  Q&A  Join us shape Solid London  Prerequisites: - Please bring a laptop Future events Our next event will be in December. We are preparing squads of Product managers, Designers and Developers and Testers to take part in the Hackathon in February. Let us know if you like to sign up.

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From franchise models to Monsanto seeds — diversity within our marketplaces and communities is feeling increasingly limited, with monopoly like brands spreading their lullaby of sameness across borders. We are seeing an emerging opportunity to harness business design tools and approaches built for corporates to enable smaller, more diverse and creative players gain a place at the table of the global marketplace. Untapped channels of innovation, beauty and diversity are waiting to be unleashed. It is the mosaic — we are all thirsting for. With business design x innovation orphans, we envisioned a space to connect business minds with scientists and researchers explaining their magical ideas that most often lack market viability. We aim to make way for these players to infilitrate our systems and markets and reimagine the very fabric of business altogether, from the inside out. Who's it for? Business students and professionals who'd like to learn about what makes business design different to common business strategies & tools and adapt it in a context to real world innovation  Everyone interested to learn what business design is and to get hands on experimenting tools - in this session connecting the bridge between business modeling and biodesign innovation Everyone who is tired of building another FinTech startup concept and looking to bring sustainable and social impact research and concepts to the next level Agenda  6.00 Open doors 6.30 Welcoming & overview "Who are we?" "What is business design?"  6.40 The Case Study: Introduction of innovation speaker, Paula Nerlich, Biodesigner & Researcher, Berlin 6.50 The Toolbox: Core business design tools > in this session we will explore  business model generation, and the key tool will be the business model canvas based on Paula's orphaned innovation in biodesign materials 7.00 Team time: develop ideas: quick fire ideation of business models + filtering down to the top idea via desirability x viability x feasibility > putting the top idea into a business model canvas 8.00 Present back: first idea drafts 8.15 Feedback 8.30 Networking  9.00 Doors closing - move to pub Who are we? Two passionedted minds, who are Co Hosts of Speculative Futures London a worldwide non-profit chapter, bringing people together to help the world imagine a better place to live using Speculative & Critical Design, Design Fiction, Futurism, and Strategy & Foresight. Giuliana Mazzetta, Business Designer and Creative Strategist who has worked in one of the leading innovation studios, and has now taken her toolbox as a freelance consultant to support startups and indepedent brands looking to make positive change. Currently, she is coaching Design Thinking at Imperial College Business School, in addition to preparing for a project with a social accelerator in the Congo, followed by research project in Mexico. She loves imagining how our world will look in the future and then building roadmaps to get us to the best possible outcomes. Vanessa Rosenthal is a Business Designer and Product Manager by background, optimist by nature and entrepreneur by heart driven by curiosity, empathy and a deep interest in philosophy and the future. Vanessa has been working in consulting, start-up and agency environments running strategic, research and innovation projects, working on the future of education for Google EMEA, facilitated (Social Impact) Hackathon in Boston (US) building sustainable business models for NGO and launched start-ups, an experience platform before Airbnb Experiences in 2014 in Germany and a digital divorce and break-up space #poweredbypositivity, advice and opportunities to help US-millenials break the taboo that sourounds divorce.

Come and join us to help turn some of the week’s ideas in action. This is an opportunity to work together and start connecting people, resources and ideas shared at the shop as a way of enabling new projects and activities to happen.