List of hackathons in Keele, United Kingdom in 2017

Hackathon Challenge - Sentiment Coding Challenge Sentiment analysis (also referred to as opinion or review mining) is a long-standing problem of artificial intelligence where the goal is to automatically categorise opinions expressed in text. Sentiment analysis is currently one of the hottest area of computer science considering that sentiment analysis algorithms have found a number of applications in recommendation systems, market analysis, customer satisfaction analysis, forecasting market movement and many more.  In this challenge, you will be working to develop an ‘intelligent’ software that automatically classifies the sentiment of a given product review (i.e., positive or negative). Your software should read the textual content of a product review and it should then decide whether the review is positive or negative. You will be working with a real-world, large-scale dataset which has been made publicly available by Amazon and it consists of approximately 20,000 reviews relevant to Video games. You will be further provided with an additional ‘development’ dataset that will help you to implement rules (e.g., if review contains the word ‘hate’ the classify it as positive) or to train machine learning algorithms (e.g., using scikit-learn or ternsorflow in python or the weka library in Java) in order to improve the performance of your sentiment analysis software. 

Hackathon Challenge - Alder Hey Challenge - Gaming/Computing Challenge   10am – 5pm Tech Hub You are invited to participate with this amazing opportunity to work with Alder Hey and a chance to contribute to their up and coming project. Alder Hey Children’s NHS Foundation Trust and Alder Hey Children’s Charity are working together to create a world first, hospital-wide patient experience app that has the potential to revolutionise patient care across the NHS. The ‘Alder Play’ app is set to totally transform the experience of children in hospital by bringing comfort, fun, reward and distraction to young patients, whilst also providing vital information to both them and their parents and carers. Alder Play will feature gaming and augmented reality, providing entertainment but also much needed distraction for patients having procedures. A rewards scheme will also be used to encourage interacting with the app and rewarding patients for co-operating with their treatment. It will also have a digital map and detailed 360 images of the hospital enabling patients to explore and familiarise themselves with before their visit. The app has been built by a London based developer ustwo, who have created an amazing interface that is now being tested within Alder Hey. We have been fortunate to have content for the app donated by a number of sponsors, including Hasbro, FACT, Jungle Interactive and StudioWide, a Liverpool based digital company. The Challenge Alder Hey would like to extend the invitation to Edge Hill  Computer Science students.  During the challenge you will work in teams of 5 to produce a range of games for children of primary school age.  Your team will be given the overall theme and categories on the morning of the challenge. A fantastic chance to get involved with an extracurricular project and if successfully picked Alder Hey will embed your game into their APP.   What a fantastic thing to have on your CV! Open to all from Computer Science.  Places are limited be sure to secure your place via Eventbrite.

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

Open to Edge Hill Computer Science Department students Computer Science - ROQ Defectives Tester Challenge comes to Edge Hill University - Halloween Special! Monday 30th October/1pm – 4pm Location: Tech Hub The Computer Science Department are pleased to invite you to engage with this exciting Web based Hackathon in partnership with ROQ.  Defectives Challenge has been designed to challenge you and provide you with an opportunity to learn and experience a little about the testing phase of the software development lifecycle as well as an opportunity for networking with the technical staff from ROQ. There is no prior experience required all you will need is a laptop, tablet or mobile with a browser.  After a brief introduction and some helpful pointers, teams will work together to find defects on specific websites against the clock with a chance to win ‘Edge Hill Defectives University Challenge’ with some spooky prizes up for grabs. No previous knowledge of software testing is required to take part, as training will be given; participants simply need a general interest and appreciation of IT and a sense of fun.

HackNotts is a 24 hour Hackathon hosted at the University of Nottingham. In October this year we will be returning for our fourth year! Join us for a weekend of hacking and fun in the stunning Jubilee Campus. But what is going to happen at the event? Over the 24 hours, people aged 16+ of all skill levels (you don't have to be a professional or a student! Just be lovely, passionate and interested in tech!) will come together to share ideas, and create new and awesome projects! (Not sure what a hackathon is? MLH have a great explanation here). There'll also be fun minigames, challenges and free food/drink to make sure you have an absolutely wonderful time. What should I bring? Apart from yourself, you will also need to bring laptops, chargers and some spare clothes if you want to sleep. Please note that all attendees will be subject to the MLH Code of Conduct. For more information about the event - see our website

Our third Major League Hacking Hackathon based in the University of Sheffield - for students and recent graduates across the world! For more information, visit hack.sheffield.ac.uk! Facebook Event

University of Chester students! You're invited to sign up to participate in the 24-hour HackThornton hackathon. Come as a team, or join one at the event. You can pick one of the designated hackathon tracks -- voice UI, virtual reality, gaming, or innovation -- or work on your own idea.

HR professionals, researchers, and interested citizens in the Greater Manchester Area! If you are interested in issues related to parents and families in the workplace, then the Manchester Branch of The Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD) invites you to participate in their Big Conversation Hackathon. At this event, you will get to share experiences and identify challenges such as maternity discrimination, childcare, carers, making shared parental leave work, adoption leave and flexible working. You'll collaborate with like-minded individuals to come up with practical ideas that HR people can implement in their organisations, as well as public policy issues that need to be addressed.

Event Overview: Join us for our exciting ‘Hackathon’ event exploring improvements to Children and Adolescent Mental Health Services (CAMHS) across the North West! This event forms part of our ongoing scoping exercise exploring a North West CAMHS improvement programme. Hackathons aren’t your usual type of event. This is a fantastic opportunity to share some of the challenges facing CAMHS services with colleagues from across the region, and intensively collaborate to form innovate solutions. Whether you’re new to Hackathons or you’ve tried one before, we highly recommend you give it a go. How will the hackathon event work? The Pitch - Teams will share their specific CAMHS related problem or issue with the wider CAMHS community via an initial one minute 'pitch'. This should focus on crisis avoidance and crisis support, although other specific pitches will be considered. Sprints – Teams then move through a series of fast-paced structured exercise, or ‘sprints’ to develop outlines for potential quality improvement projects. Judging Panel - The day will conclude with a presentation of each of the QI proposals, with a brief Q&A session with a judging panel. The best projects / teams will then form the final part of our CAMHS improvement scoping exercise. Who is this event aimed at? The Hackathon is for CAMHS teams from across membership, who have a distinct idea for a one year quality improvement project.  Each team will be different but may include: Commissioners Providers Young people Social care Non statutory services  Teams are also welcome to invite partners involved in their services. What will attendees learn at this event / workshop? Attendees will share thoughts, ideas and insights into service needs across the region, and work together to help to shape a possible improvement programme to support members. Further information: Please note this is an expression of interest and due to the size of the venue places at the event will be limited and we will confirm your place prior to the event.  Event Conditions: Events are free to all Advancing Quality Alliance (AQuA) member organisations. In some cases, places can be paid for by non-members. If you’re interested in attending an AQuA event and are not a member then contact us at AQuA@srft.nhs.uk. If you are unsure whether your organisation is an AQuA member, please click here. Paid places on AQuA events are non-refundable however can be transferred. If you are no longer able to attend and wish to transfer your place, please contact the team on the details above. Final event arrangements are confirmed with the venue up to two weeks before the event. In order to ensure that places are not wasted please let us know at your earliest convenience if you are no longer able to attend. Many of our events operate waiting lists so this will enable us to reallocate your place to someone else on the list. We take photographs and occasionally video/live stream at our events. We use these pictures and video on our website and in other media such as Twitter and news publications. If you do not want to be photographed or filmed please let a member of the AQuA team know at the event. By signing up for an AQuA event, we will add your contact details to our CRM system and let you know about future events, as well as send you our fortnightly e-bulletin. If you do not want to receive information from us, please let us know by sending us an email to AQuA@srft.nhs.uk and we will remove your name from our mailing list. Supporting resources, presentations and other materials from the event will be made available on our website after the event for 30 days. By registering for an AQuA event you consent for us to share your attendance information with your organisation for reporting purposes. If the event is held jointly with one of our partners we will share attendee names, organisations and email addresses. When you register for this event you’ll automatically be agreeing to our terms and conditions and privacy statements. If you would like further detail on any of the above, please contact AQuA@srft.nhs.uk

Join us for a 24 hour code fest!  Choose your challenge and test your skills, in a cool space with food and drinks flowing, good company and some great prizes to be won. Enter as full or part teams...or as an individual. All experience levels welcome! Are you up for the challenge? Book your ticket and join us for 24 hours of problem solving, inspiration, fun and networking. EVENT DETAILS: DATE: Saturday 23rd September 2017 VENUE: Ziferblat, St Pauls Square, Liverpool, L3 9SJ. START TIME: registration @ 10.30am - speaker @ 11.30AM  EVENT ENDS: 1pm - Sunday 24th September ​MORE INFORMATION CONTACT US TWITTER