List of hackathons in Liverpool, United Kingdom in 2016

With over 20million refugees worldwide fighting for their lives it’s clear that the current crisis is one of the most urgent issues of our time. Therefor, What Design Can Do (WDCD), the UN Refugee Agency and the IKEA Foundation have grouped together to create ‘The What Design Can Do Refugee Challenge’, A global design competition that calls on the creative community to come up with game-changing ideas for accommodating, connecting and integrating refugees. The Liverpool Collective invite designers, creative thinkers and imaginative trouble-shooters to join this day of collaboration to show the world what can be created with a bit of ‘Scouse Nous’. Come and meet Some ‘Proper Boss Lads’, grab a coffee and Spend the day networking with some of the city’s best. The winning idea from the hackathon will be entered into the official competition, the five best entries of which will receive up to 10,000 euros and more importantly help to turn their idea into a reality.

Patient Flow Hack: Bradford & Airedale  What is a hack?  A ‘hack’ is based on the traditional concept of a ‘Hackathon’, whereby we bring people together and use their combined knowledge, wisdom and expertise to find new solutions to old problems over an intensive period of time. What is the problem?  The Patient Flow Hack is designed to provide a tangible solution to assist the challenge of patient flow. Patient flow is a complex and difficult challenge for all organisations. Colleagues from different departments across Bradford and Airedale health and social care system will explore together the patient journeys. Real data and patient journeys will be used to develop a shared understanding of patient flow throughout the hospital, which means that we can collaboratively identify where we should focus our efforts to make improvements. Question we will address - How can we optimise the patient journey through the health care system to improve patient flow? After the event, projects will be developed with the following aims; • Identity solutions to improve acute care • Address methods to help us work towards more timely and effective discharge What to expect?  Local data from the last year will be used to model real patient journeys through the hospital from admission to discharge. The event will start with a physical simulation using this data to develop a shared understanding of the challenges and bottlenecks relating to patient flow. Real patient journeys will be used and will model a typical good day and a typical bad day within the Bradford and Airedale health system. The event brings together colleagues, academics, senior managers and front line staff to understand challenges across the system in relation to patient flow. This event will create a sense of energy and excitement to tackle a really difficult challenge. Please come along, share your experience and expertise and help us to hack the problem. The Yorkshire & Humber Academic Health Science Network (AHSN) and the Improvement Academy (IA) will support the projects that are identified as a result of hack. Please click here to see an overview of our Patient Flow Hack with Hull and East Yorkshire health and social care systems. Should I attend? It is important that we have a good representation from across the Bradford and Airedale care system to ensure we have a full systems perspective.Please see examples of the range of attendees we would like to see at the Patient FLow Hack. Please note, this is not an exhaustive list and all staff are welcome. SRG Leads Urgent Care Leads Clinical staff (e.g. Consultants/Matrons/Sisters/Nurses) from A&E, Medical Assessment Units, Medical Wards and Discharge Lounges Patient Flow Co-ordinators, Hospital Bed Managers, Operational Delivery Managers, Service Managers, Ward Managers, Discharge Facilitators and Hospital Re-Ablement Social workers Community Matrons and Case Managers Service Improvement Team Leads and Performance/Analysis Leads  Please e-mail cathy.hulin@yhahsn.com for more information. 

This is a fab meetup event with as guest speaker Filipe Barroso from Portugal and to challenge you on how fast you can create an app from start to publish. You will learn methods and libraries to reduce the development time and ways to prepare yourself for a hackathon or close deadline. Filipe started out by creating a mobile business application for Portugal Telecom, and now accepts new challenge working for clients such as Bayer, Brisa, and TAP.

Join us for the IP Magnet Challenge. You're invited to the Google Digital Garage in Manchester Central Library for an ideas development and IP data hackathon day. You'll be creating a prototype idea for a contract to develop your concept into a working application! Come and share your ideas or maybe start a new collaboration. Work as individuals or form a team. Bring a laptop; beginners are always welcome. Plus, you'll be competing for a contract to develop your concept into a working prototype! On the day you’ll be able to analyse newly released IP data, including trademark and patent data. If you are a developer, a designer, an ideas generator, a startup, an IP expert, an individual, complete beginner or simply have an interest patents and trademarks, you are welcome to join us at the IP Magnet Challenge. Why are we doing this? It’s part of an effort to make intellectual property data more useful and accessible for small businesses, entrepreneurs and interested individuals.  The library will provide data sets, including newly released trademark and patent data from the UK Intellectual Property Office. Participants can choose the data they are most interested in to create their project. For more information on the data go to the IP Magnet Challenge page Free tea, coffee, cakes, lunch & networking At the end of the day, each team will give a three-minute presentation on their project and the winner will be chosen by the judging panel during the next week. The Best Idea Winner, will win a contract to develop their ideas further. Join the challenge now as places are limited!                 

Wigan Council, in association with Leigh Hackspace, are running the first ever Wigan Borough 'The Deal In Action' Civic Hackathon to help the Council better understand the needs of the local population, and develop new and innovative digital solutions to local problems.

The Slackathon MCR invites you to a aimed at making integrations with the Slack API. The Slack's API's can be used to send data into Slack with incoming webhooks, invoke actions outside of Slack with commands , and/or build a Slack bot. The favourite projects will be chosen by the end of the two day event based on these categories usefulness and best use of Slack bot.

The Global Game Jam (GGJ) is one of the world's largest hackathons on game development. Come and explore the global creative gaming atmosphere, while taking part in the process of development, including programming, iterative design, narrative exploration and artistic expression. Don't worry if you don't know how to program, creative idea makers are also very crucial on the process of game development. Also if you are an experienced game player you can take a stab at testing the design.