List of hackathons in Leicester, United Kingdom in 2018

This CATCH workshop on Technology for Independence will include a full programme including an inspiring invited speaker and presentations on a range of topics including: innovative switch developments; Specialist NHS England Environmental Control services update; outcome measures for Environmental Control; innovative communication aid developments; and assistive technology hackathons. CATCH have also secured support from Pitch-In (see below for more details) to run an afternoon session focusing on the Internet of Things and internet connected assistive technologies. There will be opportunity to discuss how you see the IoT working with the 'kit' you use in the future and also how your devices currently use the internet/network connectivity. We will also be looking to involve AT developers/suppliers. Simon Wheatcroft has confirmed he will present as the invited speaker. Simon lost his sight in his teenage years but Simon not only navigates his everyday life, but also runs outdoors with only a Smartphone app called Runtracker and his remaining senses as a guide. Indeed Simon has competed in ultra-marathons around the UK, and continues to test himself in other parts of the world, including New York and a North African desert! In addition Simon has taken advantage of his unique skill-base and assisted leading technology companies with their products; by improving accessibility through inclusive user-centric design. PROGRAMME Morning Session 9.30: Opening of event - Simon Judge, Barnsley AT Team /CATCH 9.35: Pitch-in - Luc de Witte, CATCH 9.40: Technology enabling the impossible! - Simon Wheatcroft 10.20: Hackcessible: A case study on stimulating user led innovation in Assistive Technology - Aejaz Zahid, Assistronix / Barnsley AT Team /CATCH 10.40: BREAK 11.00: An innovative switch based on the Raspberry Pi and computer vision - Christos Christoforidis, Royal Bournemouth and Christchurch Hospital NHS Foundation Trust 11.20: VocaTempo: evaluation of a voice-input voice-output communication aid - Kate Fryer, Aejaz Zahid, Stuart Cunningham, Sid Seghal, Mark Hawley, Simon Judge - Barnsley Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust & CATCH 11.40: The development of an outcome measure for provision of environmental control equipment - Kathryn Thom, Kent and Medway NHS and Social Care Partnership Trust 12.00: NHS England Specialist Environmental Control Services – where are we now? - Zoë Clarke, Carolyn Young, Alan Woodcock; Barnsley Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust 12.25 : What is the role of conferences in the Assistive Tech field? Simon Judge, T4I 12.45: LUNCH and Industry showcase After lunch session 14.00: Pitch-In Internet of Things workshop: introduction and aims - Stephen Potter, CATCH 14.05: IoT applications showcase 14.30: Small group exercise (1): ideas, challenges 15.15: BREAK 15.30: Small group exercise (2): obstacles, funding 16.15: Summary and conclusions 16.30: CLOSE The Pitch-In programme (http://pitch-in.ac.uk/) aims to promote the uptake of Internet of Things technology across a variety of sectors of the economy, one of which is “health and wellbeing”. As part of this initiative, we are running a series of workshops in order to: (i) promote awareness of IoT to the health/care sector; (ii) provoke a discussion about the concerns raised by and the barriers to its application; and (iii) identify possible applications of IoT and collaborations that will take forward those ideas. As part of the workshop on Monday 17th December, we would like to include some short demonstrations of ‘real’ applications of IoT technologies to make the concept more concrete for attendees. We have in mind any system comprised of connected devices which share data about the people, things and places around them, along with mechanisms to aggregate and analyse that data, and then to take appropriate actions in order to improve the state of people or their environments. Here we’re specifically interested in systems that are intended to improve the health, wellbeing or independence of users. Note that these systems need not be ‘user facing’, e.g. be for resource usage monitoring or more efficient automatic environmental controls. If you have such a system and would like the opportunity to demonstrate it during the workshop, please get in touch with Stephen Potter - Stephen.Potter@sheffield.ac.uk.

Summary of event: This talk will cover:- An introduction to the topic of Blockchain – what it is, what it does- Why all the hype about Blockchain?- Why it is interesting?- What can we do with blockchain?Speaker Biography:Herb Daly is an academic who specialises Enterprise Systems. He is based at the Wolverhampton Cyber Research Institute. In 2018 he was made an IBM Champion for System Z, one of the first to be awarded in Europe. His industry background is in systems modelling and development. He has been involved with Blockchain projects since 2015 and hosted the first UK Hackathon based on Hyperledger Fabric. Overview of Agenda:18:30 - The event starts21:00 - The event endsWill catering be provided?Refreshments will be provided About the organiser: The Wolverhampton Branch organises this event; find out more about the group at www.bcs.org/category/12462. For overseas delegates who wish to attend the event please note that BCS does not issue invitation letters.

What are the aims? The three-day hackathon will bring together people to work on life science-related computational projects. The hackathon is an excellent opportunity to improve your coding skills, network with people in your field, or to try out that project you've always wanted to work on but never found the time. Alternatively, you may want to work as part of a team in a field that is completely new to you.What should I do?It 's really up to you. All that we ask is that you work on a computational project with a life sciences focus. Ideally, the project should be self-contained i.e. started in the hackathon and hopefully you will have had time in the three days to have made some progress. Many of the participants last year came up their own ideas for a project and worked on that for the three days.  Alternatively, you may want to work on one of our proposed projects. Our sponsors and project mentors have come up with a number of projects in which you are completely free to participate.  Or maybe, one of the hackathon participants is already working on a project that interest you.  What skills will I need? The hackathon is aimed at people of all skill sets, from people new to coding through to experts in their respective fields. This is a chance to work in a friendly collaborative atmosphere and have some fun. What do I need to bring?Just you and a laptop. (We do have a small number of spare laptops available if you are unable to bring a laptop for yourself). How much is it?Taking part costs £30 for three days. (That´s just £10 per day.  Although hackathon T-Shirts  are not available to new sign-ups at this late stage, food and drink is included as is the opportunity to spend your time in the wonderful Centre for Computing History). For more details, visit the Cambridge Bioinformatics Hackathon Homepage.

Click, smash, and swipe your way to an amazing experience after the end of term! The annual game-building hackathon is back, and better than ever. We're partnering with Studio Gobo and Electric Square to bring you Game Gig 2018 - One Button Edition.IMPORTANT INFORMATION This event is only open to university students living in the Cambridge area. Bring your student card.Game Gig You must have a valid EventBrite ticket in order to attend. You must bring your own laptop for developing on. We will provide 2 meals (lunch and dinner), snacks, drink and swag. There will be workshops for beginners leading up to and on the day itself. We have a limited number of Desktop PCs and Virtual Reality headsets that we can loan, but we require advance notice. WHO ARE STUDIO GOBO AND ELECTRIC SQUARE?Studio Gobo and Electric Square are two game studios who have worked with Disney, Marvel, LucasFilm, Microsoft, Ubisoft and more.Studio Gobo: http://www.studiogobo.com/ FAQs Do I have to bring my printed ticket to the event? Nope! Just bring the email confirmation and your ID and we'll get you sorted. Will there be food provided? We'll be providing lunch, dinner, as well as snacks to last the duration of the hackathon. There will also be awesome swag, so remember to take your share!

Pitch, Build & Launch a Startup in a Single Weekend Ever had a great idea for a web, app or tech startup business but not had the time, experience or connections to bring it to life? This weekend-long event is dedicated to team building, expert mentoring, networking and pitching to help you turn your business idea into a ready-to-launch startup. With a mix of technical and non-technical attendees, it doesn't matter what experience or skill set you have, as long as you have enthusiasm to try new things and work together on new ideas. Over the 3 days you will: • Share your business ideas with a receptive audience• Learn how to validate and develop a business idea• Meet like-minded individuals and potential co-founders• Get help from experienced business mentors• Connect with Leicester’s thriving startup community WHEN: Friday 30th Nov (evening), 1st & 2nd Dec (weekend) WHERE: LCB Depot (Fri), University of Leicester (Sat), DMU Innovation Centre (Sun) COST: Standard: £20+VAT / Student & Unwaged: £10+VAT  Students & Unwaged email Pete Hitchings for discounts and free passes.     We’re looking for innovative, creative and passionate aspiring entrepreneurs. Whether you’re actively working on a startup already, you want to learn more about what it takes to create a startup or you want to test a spark of an idea, this is the place for you!  Previous participants had this to say: "It was brilliant, I have never enjoyed a business experience as much as this...a very practical/real life experience" "the chance to build something that can really take off and attain investment is better than any other uni project" "DO THIS ONCE A MONTH PLEASE!"    DETAILS ON THE WEEKEND The Startup Weekend is a 'hackathon' style event where teams form around the most popular and feasible ideas and work together to develop and refine them; including speaking with mentors, attending short workshops and pitching their idea to a panel of entrepreneurs.  It doesn’t matter what experience or skills you have, or whether you’re actively working on an idea or not, as long as you have the enthusiasm to try new things and work together on new ideas.   Timings  Friday 30th November, 5.30pm - 7pm - you'll get pizza and refreshments at LCB Deport's Last Friday event, hear from the organisers, meet potential team memberscand mentors. Saturday 1st December, 9am to 6pm - those with ideas will pitch to the group and teams will form based on which are most feasible/popular, teams will work on their ideas with guidance from expert mentors, the day will be broken up by expert-led workshops designed to help you develop your idea and regular tea/coffee/lunch/dinner breaks.Sunday 2nd December, 9am to 5pm - After continuing to work on your idea during the morning your team will pitch to a panel of experts who will identify a winning team. Support The Leicester Startup Weekend is supported by University of Leicester, De Montfort University, LCB Depot, Leicester Startups network and funded by the UK Space Agency. Our mission is to support the creation and development of innovative new businesses in Leicester, including but not limited to those that want to work in the exciting field of space entrepreneurship.  Take the next step towards startup success and book your place now!

Wednesday 28th November 2018 Data, Modelling and Uncertainty RPA launch sandpit event The leads of the new Data, Modelling and Uncertainty RPA would like to invite you to participate in its launch sandpit/hackthon event, intended as a catalyst for kicking off exciting new projects and collaborations.  “Challenge leads” from across the University’s faculties will give short presentations describing open research challenges, following which there will be a 2-hour sandpit/hackathon session for participants to get hands on with the problems and the data.  There is £34k funding available for to support development of projects that emerge from the sandpit. Confirmed Challenge Leads Morgan Alexander (Engineering) - Using shape in 3D to influence biofilm formationColin Crooks (Medicine) - Learning prognostically important morbidity patterns from complex dataTayyib Hayat (Medicine) - The Effects of Anti-Epileptic Drugs on Fetal Brain Morphology and Motor PatternsGeertje van der Heijden (Geography) -  (Not) seeing the lianas for the treesJames Goulding (NUBS/N-lab) - Predicting Vulnerability in East Africa Sara Goodacre (Life Sciences) - What makes a spider fly? Understanding the factors driving dispersal and population persistence of spiders across a patchy landscape.Andrew MacColl (Life Sciences) - The shape of adaptive radiation: constraints on the evolution of morphological diversity Schedule 11.00 - 13.00: Intro, Challenge Leads Presentations and Coffee 13:00 - 13:45: Lunch 13.45 - 15.45: Sandpit/Hackathon15:45 - 16:00: Summary and Next Steps  Location 11:00 - 13:00 Sustainable Research Building (Room C10)  13:00 - 16:00 Teaching and Learning (Room D.02)

No experience in coding? Interested in queer identities and social media? To encourage new ways of thinking about and engaging with queerness and queer identities, the Hackathon will encourage creative engagement with the textual data gathered from the hashtag #Queer on Twitter. The event aims to give an introductory knowledge to python programming as well as bringing together people with different disciplinary backgrounds to analyse, process and display the data in imaginative ways, and discuss the meanings behind it. The day will begin at 9:30am with an introduction to the project by the coordinators of the event, and an outline of the dataset. There will be a short speed-networking session to build teams around shared ideas. From 11:00am Siân Brooke (Oxford Internet Institute) will run an introductory workshop into python Programming for absolute beginners using Anaconda/Jupyter Notebooks (*please bring your own laptops*). Instructions on setting up the necessary software for this workshop will be sent out in advance, and if you have any difficulties, please come to the event early so that we can assist you. Over lunch, teams will assemble to look over the data, think of ways to analyse the tweets and perhaps request additional input or resources. At the end of the day (4:00pm), teams will pitch their projects to the group and a prize will be awarded to the best project. At the end of the day, we'll head to the pub to chat and discuss ideas.

What's a hackathon? A hackathon is a collaborative programming festival. The main goal is to try to create a project in a relatively short amount of time, such as 24 hours. It's a fantastic opportunity to meet new people, learn from mentors, and make cool stuff. What's HackNotts? HackNotts is our annual hackathon, hosted in the School of Computer Science on Jubilee Campus. This year, the event will be running over the weekend of the 24th and 25th of November, with the opening presentations starting some time around 11am on the Saturday, and the closing presentation will be early in the evening on the Sunday. Who can attend? You're allowed to attend HackNotts if you are: - At least 18 years old A highschool, undergraduate or postgraduate student, or A graduate who is less than a year out of university Do I need to have a team? Not at all! You can of course come to the event with a team already planned, but there are loads of people who don't have teams when they arrive. At the start of the event, we'll help to make sure that everybody has a team, if they want one. Where can I find out more? You can check out the HackNotts website to find the links for tickets, a more extensive FAQ, and the event's sponsors.

We are looking for enthusiastic students who want to be involved in innovating new and exciting solutions in the Automotive industry SAIC Motor UK is looking for driven and passionate students from the UK to participate in a Three-day team Hackathon event we’ve named ‘SAICOLOGY’.  Successful candidates will be put into teams of three with the aim to produce great business models, prototypes and an innovative marketing pitch.  At SAICOLOGY you can collaborate with fellow students to understand how digital trends such as blockchain, connectivity, internet of things, augmented reality and artificial intelligence can be exploited within the automotive domain. To apply visit saicology.co.uk !

We launched in June and then met again in August - with #TechTea beginning in September.  November will be the start of events every two months where we'll begin to put into action what we've learnt from Sheffield women in technology so far. Each event will have time to chat and and, if networking isn't your thing and sends a shiver down your spine, don't be put off! There'll be friendly faces looking forward to saying hello and introducing you to people.  What will the event involve? 17.30  Doors open for drinks, snacks and chat. 18.00  Talks start (see below for more details). 19:30  Over to you. Please bring along any Sheffield women in tech news you have to pass on, events to advertise, questions to ask or ideas to share.      There'll be time for more drinks, snacks and chat until we close at 20.00 No, I fly them - Shehla Ali Shehla Ali is a freelance digital marketeer, drone photographer and a Google Digital Garage trainer. Shehla also runs Cameratic, a blog she created to showcase her photography, filming and copy writing, as well as Drone 360, where she creates aerial photography.  Shehla will talk about her rollercoast ride since quitting her job two years ago to work remotely and travel.  Since then she has set up multiple companies, further developed her knowledge of technology and experienced working in male dominated environments.  If you're a budding creative who doesn't know where to start or more experienced but stuck in your comfort zone, this talk may give you a quiet and gentle push to start moving.   A series of fortunate blags - Tanya FIsh Tanya Fish has been enthusing about science and making in some form or other for most of her life. She's written tutorials, magazine articles, and educational materials. She's talked about making to all sorts of audiences, including the Guild of Makers Launch, Hackaday Unconferences, and at Maker Faires. She runs workshops at festivals, conferences, and universities; and has just ventured into YouTube. In this talk, Tanya explains how being out of your depth is an advantage, how you are worth more than you think and how there is no such thing as modesty when you're bigging yourself up. Coding and hackathon(ing) - Kat Walker and Darren Vong Kat Walker is a Computer Science student and demonstrator at Sheffield University and a Code First Girls Instructor.  Darren Vong is a Full Stack Developer at the Advanced Manufacturing Research Centre and a lead instructor at Code First Girls. In this talk, Kat and Darren will talk about their experiences supporting Code First Girls and attending hackathons.  If you've ever wanted to learn to code or develop your coding knowledge, attend a hackathon (or aren't sure what a hackathon is) but have never had chance to ask questions in advance, tonight may be your night. The small but important print Everyone is welcome. You don’t have to work in digital right now, you don’t have to identify as a woman, you don’t have to know how to code or how to explain bitcoin. You do have come in, be open and ready to participate in bringing about positive change. Babies and children are welcome to attend with a (vaguely) responsible adult.  If you can’t make the event and would like to be kept updated, sign up to our mailing list or follow and join in on Twitter @ShfWIT.   Kindly sponsored by Egress.