List of hackathons in Loughborough, United Kingdom in 2017

MLH Hackcon is the official hackathon organizers' conference. It's an opportunity to meet the community, learn from one another, and to tackle the issues that we are facing together. With two full days of workshops, talks, and discussion sessions, new organizers can learn best practices for running a hackathon, and veteran organizers will share their experiences and help guide the next generation.

NHS Finance: Confused?   Join us at Stirchley Baths for a focused session of our Citizens Group. You can find out more about how local NHS services are funded and what challenges there are in your neighbourhood. Quiz our finance team colleagues through a creative, problem solving session. You must book to attend, but we will have the kettle on.   Got a question? Let us know in advance and we’ll try and answer it on the day. Contact details found below.    BSC CCG’s Citizens Group is a volunteer led platform that helps us shape our engagement and commissioning through open dialogue. To find out more go to our involvement page on our CCG website.    For more information about the event please contact us on bscccg.partnerships@nhs.net or 0121 255 0789

Data scientists, coders, business thinkers, designers, creative types! Are you interested in connected and autonomous vehicles? Transport Systems Catapult invites you to sign up for the IMCreate 2017 – Connected & Autonomous Vehicle Hackathon. You'll be faced with five connected and autonomous vehicle challenges and have the chance to win great prizes including £2,000 in cash! The top three teams will further develop their prototype solution and pitch it at the Showcase Final.

iSE, as part of their work leading the West Midlands Third Sector Innovation Network, is holding a taster half day 'hack' with West Midlands Academic Science Health Network and in partnership with RnR Organisation, for anyone interested in innovative solutions for mental health prevention. We invite third sector organisations, service users, entrepreneurs, developers, designers, healthcare professionals and the public to come along and work together on addressing these health and social care issues by designing and building digital or service solutions. Why come to #HackMentalHealth? #HackMentalHealth will bring together professionals, students, industry experts, and others in healthTech who are passionate about healthTech and building the future of mental health services, so come along to find new ideas, meet someone new, have fun, or simply learn a new skill that stretches you beyond your usual day-to-day life. Hacks are very fluid sessions where everyone has a voice and can collaborate to build and demonstrate inspirational, creative and innovative ideas to address a 'challenge of the day'. For this social hackathon we are looking at innovating to improve mental health across a range of topics such as... Mental support application for unemployed workers Supporting the mental health of long-term care workers Fostering well-being, stress reduction and sense of belonging during transition to full-time work Taking control of digital stress E-health interventions for indigenous mental health in the workplace Addressing the burden of addictions on the workforce with e-tool solutions Building accessible mental health literacy training and supports for under-resourced health-care workplace Developing a mental health support programme for prevention of major depression in workplaces Whether you are an expert or a newbie, we welcome you to join this event and work with your local health community to present your ideas for solutions to real-world problems. Challenges will be pitched at the kick off of the event, and attendees can pick one of the challenges to work on with a team. At the end of the hack, teams have the option to showcase their projects on stage.  Event information will be updated here over the next week but please register to attend and secure your place. Also, if you have a passion for a mental health topic, or a future hackathon topic, please email us with your thoughts info@i-se.co.uk. #HackMentalHealth  FAQs > Do I need to know how to code to join? Diversity is key in a team! Hackathons are focused on the creation that includes a variety of competencies. If you have any doubts, don’t hesitate to get in touch.  > I don’t have a team, can I join by myself? Teams will be formed on site so just bring yourself and meet the rest of the attendees at the pre-hack get together (details TBC) or at #HackMentalHealth itself.  > Do I need to bring my own laptop/PC? If you want to use them please bring your own computer, devices etc - only wifi will be provided. This event is kindly supported by the WMAHSN. This project is co-financed by the European Regional and Development Fund through the Urban Innovative Actions Initiative.

University or college students, 'would be' entrepreneurs! If you're interested in making a difference by taking on social challenges within the Birmingham area, then iSE C.I.C. invites you to participate in a hackathon. Participants in HACK A SOCIAL CHALLENGE will be presented with a number of challenges and priorities and will then be tasked with investigating and creating solutions to the key challenges.

Techies and just regular folks in the Stockport area! Are you interested in the use of technology to sift through a mass of data, comments, complaints. and enquiries about Stockport, in order to distill a cohesive view of what matters to its citizens? Do you have ideas on how to make it easier for residents of Stockport to connect with the things they care about? Stockport Council invites you to sign up to participate -- on your own or in a team -- in the Stockport Hackathon 2017. Collaborate and compete to use open data to improve Stockport's municipal government services, create new ones, and empower its residents.

Music hackers in the UK! You're invited to sign up to participate in mobilise! You'll get the opportunity to work with the electronic music technology team from IRCAM in Paris. You'll be challenged to make your own personalised mobile phone music app with a few lines of code.

Hackers in the East Midlands! DS-Cubed Ltd. invites you to sign up to participate in the Hackathon for Health, Assisted Living, Social Care and Community (HALE 2017). You'll be challenged to create innovative proof of concept prototype to help address one of the following problems: »Homelessness of young people in UK »Awareness, interest and participation in Musculosketal (MSK) conditions. »Bluetooth wearable/iPhone app to measure patient position with greater accuracy.

Students from all over the EU! WarwickTECH invites you to sign up to participate in WarwickHACK. You'll be challenged to collaborate to use technology to design and create innovative projects in a short 24-hour event. You don't have to be an expert coder to take part. All levels of skill are welcome and there will be special workshops available to help beginners get started.

LabVIEW professionals! National Instruments, the Fraser Nash Consultancy, and Tribosonics invite you to sign up to participate in the LabVIEW Hackathon at the University of Sheffield. Come and help solve great engineering challenges and network with engineers from industry. You'll get the chance to showcase and further develop your LabVIEW skills and compete with the best-of-the-best to win awesome prizes.