List of hackathons in Luton, United Kingdom in 2018

Calling all budding sewers, designers and refashionists! Get recreating, sewcialise and show us what you're made of at our 'Fashion Hackathon' event to coincide with Fashion Revolution Week. Fashion Revolution is a global movement calling for greater transparency, sustainability and ethics in the fashion industry. We want to unite the fashion industry and ignite a revolution to radically change the way our clothes are sourced, produced and purchased, so that what the world wears has been made in a safe, clean and fair way. What is a Fashion Hackathon? The Fabrications studio aka 'The Imaginerium' will be transformed into a sustainable sewing factory, where old unloved clothes enter, undergo some reconstructive surgery and receive a new lease of life or a creative make over! This is an opportunity to chanel your inspirations, think high fashion as we will be offering PRIZES for the best Refashions on the day! Competition categories : ( * SPONSORED BY BROTHER  SEWING MACHINES* ) * New Generation Refashioner * Fiesty Fashion Hacker Award * I'd Wear That! PRIZES: Win a brand new Brother NV15 Sewing Machine, Fabrications Workshop Vouchers., Sewing books & supplies Do I need to bring anything? YES! Your Ideas! Your Designs! Your Creativity! Your old clothes or vintage, charity shop finds to work with. Fabrications will privide a trove of inspirational reclaimed trims, haberdashery, fabric / lace offcuts and patches you can incorporate into your designs. As well as sewing & embroidery machines, dress makers dummies, scissors, threads, pins etc.There will also be lots of examples of clothes that have already undergone transformations in some way to inspire you! How much experience do I need? All levels of makers are welcome with basic sewing skills, from ages 12+ If you want to use a sewing machine to realise your design -  basic understanding of using a sewing machine is advised. Fabrications' in house designer maker Barley Massey will be on hand to advise and guide you. The finish of your creations doesn't need to be prefect, the focus of this event is to have fun, explore ideas and think about #Haulternatives Format of the day 11am - 1.30pm: Session 1 2.30 - 5pm: Session 2 5.30 onwards: Judging, Prize giving & Sewcial For more information about Fabrications and our classes & events, please visit our Website For Booking Terms & Conditions PHOTO CREDIT: David Mumford (D - A - M)

We've partnered with industry leaders in blockchain health, medicine and artifical intelligence AI and data to host an event in West London's buzzing startup community. You've heard of Bitcoin, Ethereum and other crypto coins that sit on blockchain right? Now we’re inviting teams and individuals to join our Health + Wellness Hackathon to learn about using blockchain to develop solutions to improve the health and wellbeing for billions of people worldwide.

Hackathon – Blockchain, health and wellness! How can we use blockchain to improve the health and wellness of people around the globe? We've partnered with industry leaders in blockchain health, medicine and artifical intelligence AI and data to host an event in West London's buzzing startup community. You've heard of Bitcoin, Ethereum and other crypto coins that sit on blockchain right?  Now we’re inviting teams and individuals to join the party of our Health + Wellness Hackathon to learn about using blockchain to develop solutions to improve the health and wellbeing for billions of people worldwide. Are you up for the challenge? How can blockchain change the efficiency and interoperability of our wellbeing services?.... How about new business models and revenue streams?....How about new behavioural changes and user adoption? We’re looking for individuals with a range of skills, so whether you’re a student, engineer, developer, data scientist, Crypto geek, UI/UX designer or health/wellness/fitness/AI enthusiast? We want you – technical or non technical it doesn't matter what your background is - everyone is welcome. The only requirement is that you bring your imagination.  Vamshi Lingampally Tech Entrepreneur, Women in Blockchain Dr Gareth Thompson Entrepreneur, author, NHS Katie Booth The Wellness Collective Jun Ming Yong President KCL Blockchain Neha Visavadia            MSc Health Health Psychology, One Health Tech UK What's on offer? Education from amazing industry guest speakers Work with us on a cool new mission Goodies you could win Healthy refreshments and Tenzing energy drinks Networking Looking for a new a new career, exciting opportunities in tech, blockchain startups? Get your ticket now! Snack sponsors. Ollybars - Natural energy bars Motion Nutrition - Lifestyle nutitionTenzing - Natural energy drinks 

CALLING ALL CURIOUS MINDS... Interested in tech for good? Have ideas on how digital solutions could support those impacted by autism?  Autistic yourself or just want to give something back? Love problem solving and finding creative solutions to interesting problems? Come and join us at Microsoft’s brand new Reactor and spend the weekend finding amazing solutions to four core challenges. Never been to a hackathon? Not a developer? Don’t really know anything about autism? It really doesn’t matter! We believe that the best solutions come from bringing diverse groups of people together, so if you’re interested please come along and be part of exploring this exciting area. On the diversity point, if please let us know if there's anything you need.  There's lots of information below on the agenda for the weekend and on the venue (all very accessible), but if there's anything else, from equipment, to dietary requirements, please just drop us a note.   THE CHALLENGES CHALLENGE 1: Concentration - how can we help autistic children to focus their attention? Autistic children can find it particularly hard to concentrate on activities that don’t interest them – for example, tasks that involve shared attention (like reading a book with a parent or teacher), turn-taking games, or even walking safely across the road. They may also find it hard to switch attention between different stimuli or demands. Conversely, they often have the ability to focus intently and for prolonged periods on activities that do interest them - for example, a child who enjoys Minecraft might become totally absorbed in extending their world for hours at a time.  Therefore, how can we ensure that the tasks we are expecting autistic children to work on are meaningful, relevant and important for their quality of life? How can we make acquiring necessary life skills as engaging for autistic minds as possible? And how can we harness autistic superfocus, for the benefit of the child and others? CHALLENGE 2: Emotional cues - how can we help autistic children and adults to recognise emotional cues in near-real time? Autistic people often have trouble identifying and responding to other people’s emotions in a ‘neurotypical’ way.  Their approach may be unconventional and appear one-sided. This reflects their difficulty with ‘cognitive empathy’ – the ability to read facial expressions, tone of voice and other non-verbal cues in the subtle, fast-moving and sophisticated way that is expected. They may appear insensitive or unusual as a result, despite often having a strong instinctive sense of how others are feeling (‘affective empathy’). Their neurotypical communication partners also find it hard to empathise with the autistic person’s experience and style of communication. This can lead to confusion and misunderstanding on both sides. This is known as the ‘double empathy’ problem.  Therefore, how can we help autistic and non-autistic people to bridge their communication gaps? CHALLENGE 3: Anxiety - how can we help autistic children and adults to manage their anxiety? Anxiety is a real issue for many autistic individuals. It can occur for a range of reasons - unexpected changes, new social situations, sensory processing issues, among others. Autistic people vary in their ability to cope with anxiety. Sometimes it is possible to remove triggers and therefore reduce anxiety; at other times anxiety can lead to a variety of psychological and physical symptoms (e.g. difficulty concentrating, thinking persistently about the worst outcome, difficulty sleeping, meltdowns, shutdowns or regressions, physical pain and exhaustion). Therefore, how can we help autistic people to manage situations in a way that gives them control over their anxiety and that ultimately improves their well-being?   CHALLENGE 4: Sleep - how can we help autistic children to sleep better? Many people have sleep issues but for autistic children, sleeping is often particularly problematic. Irregular and insufficient sleep can result in daytime sleepiness, learning problems and behavioural issues such as hyperactivity, inattentiveness and behaviour that concerns their parents and carers - not to mention the indirect impact on the sleep of other family members. Therefore, how can we help autistic children to establish healthy sleep patterns, including going to sleep, staying asleep, waking at an appropriate time, and remaining alert during the day? AGENDA Saturday 0930: registration 0945: welcome 1000: the challenges 1030: find your team 1100: start exploring, ideating and hacking 1230: buffet lunch 1330: exploring, ideating and hacking 1500: tea and cakes 1530: exploring, ideating and hacking 1730: drinks & socialising 1830: doors close for the evening Sunday 0930: doors open 1000: exploring, ideating and hacking 1300: lunch & presentation preparation 1400: regroup for team presentations   1600: wrap up & beers 1630: doors close for the weekend FAQs Do I need to come for both days? Ideally, yes. Do I need to be a coder? No! All you need is a curious mind and bags of energy.   Are tickets free? Do you give travel expenses? This is a free event… but places are limited so you need to register. Unfortunately we can’t cover travel expenses this time around. What if I’ve never been to this kind of thing before? Perfect.  Come and see what all the fuss is about. Do I have to come with a team? No! We will help you find a great team. What is the minimum age of the participant? 18 Should I bring a laptop? Yes.  Even if you’re not coding it's a good idea to bring some sort of internet-enabled device. Can we sleep over? No.  Sleep is important.  We will close the doors at 1830 on Saturday and ask you to come back refreshed and raring to go on Sunday at 0930. Who owns the IP associated with the event? All intellectual property rights in the ideas and applications of a participant shall remain owned by, and shall vest in, the participant who creates them.   See our website and our terms and conditions for more details. For more information and even a 360 degree tour of the venue, see here. 

This Design hackathon is on communications design in an enhanced messaging environment. This Hackathon is open to all across Product, Design, Dev etc. You will have the opportunity to prototype your ideas using the Oracle Platform with Oracle Intelligent Bots. You won’t need be technical to use the platform as you will be designing & creating prototypes but familiarly with mark-up languages and hooking-up APIs etc will also be useful in this Hackathon

#HACKUX is on!  Learn More here: https://mobileuxlondon.com/events/hackux_orange_oracle_enhanced_messaging/ Dates / Time:  Friday 27th April  18.00 – 20.30 & Saturday 28th April 09.30 – 18.30 Designing the Future of Messaging & Bots A revolution in messaging is on the horizon that’s set to challenge giants like WhatsApp and Facebook Messenger. Rich Communication Service (RCS) brings all the features of these apps to any supported handset. The service will provide richer content with enhanced graphics, better interactions and the opportunity to include conversational bots within the native environment. RCS is set to pass over 1 billion users by the end of 2019 meaning now is the opportunity to capitalise on this revolutionary new platform.  Workshop description This UX Hackathon will explore the opportunities afforded to organisations, whether businesses or non-profit, through the use of intelligent agents in messaging environments, or ‘chatbots’. This includes designing conversational interactions for a relevant and fulfilling user experience. You will have the opportunity to prototype your ideas using the Oracle Platform with Oracle Intelligent Bots. You won’t need any technical skills (coding) to get the most from this UX hackathon, but developers are also welcome to participate We’re looking for teams with a range of skills, so whether you’re a designer, developer, a business or product manager, we want you!

MongoDB, Confluent and Nearform present you a one day Hackathon, Full Stack Hack. Full Stack Hack is a Hackathon where you get a chance to build a full stack application in one day using the top technology stack for today’s modern web applications specifically MongoDB, Kafka and Node.js. On the 27th of April 80 people will form up into teams of 3-5 people to compete for the prize of Top Full Stack Hack team. The event starts on the 26th with team pitches. Don’t have a team? This is where you can join one. Already have a team? This is where you declare your intentions. Free pizza, beer and soft drinks on the night will ensure that nobody goes hungry or thirsty. On the 27th doors open at 8.00am. Breakfast will be laid on and then it’s Hack time.  Snacks, soft drinks and coffee will be available throughout the day and we will provide lunch and something to eat after the event. Formal event will complete at 6.00pm followed by drinks at a local watering hole. This is your chance to have a fun day, learn from your peers and build something great. We can’t wait to see you on the day. Joe Drumgoole, MongoDB Tim Berglund, Confluent Cliona McGrath, Nearform

Register by 24 April to bring your skills, ideas and passion to the forefront and use technology and tools to build a solution that could make a real difference to people in the UK and all over the world. Up to £10,000 is up for grabs for the right idea. Full event details and the registration link can be found on our Splashthat webpage crisishack2018.splashthat.com/.

This event is brought to you by The Blockchain Connector and King’s College London Blockchain Society. Due to popular demand and positive feedback from our students we are running a series of Blockchain developer workshops in London. This will be our 14th developer workshops so far in London plus one in Zug, Switzerland. We have trained over 250+ developers to date since Jan 2017, our students have gone on to work as a Blockchain Developer and others have set up their own Blockchain start-up. Join our two-day Blockchain Developer hands-on workshop and be at the very forefront of this new technology. Our workshop consists of topics that all future Blockchain Developers must know and we incorporate plenty of hands-on development sessions. To help our students further, we provide one month on-line support through our dedicated private on-line channel. Our goal is to help regular Software Developers become Blockchain Developers. This workshop is also available on-site for start-ups and corporates at your desired location during the weekday and weekends. Day 1 Intro to Blockchains, Bitcoin and Byzantine Fault Tolerant Networks Intro to Ethereum and Smart Contracts Hands-on development on Ethereum Solidity and Smart Contracts Day 2 Smart Contracts Security and Ethereum Internals - Cryptography, Consensus, EVM, Privacy plus more Smart Contracts Design and Best Practices What to know as a Blockchain Developer plus more Hands-on development on Ethereum Solidity and Smart Contracts This workshop comes with one month of continued on-line support via our own dedicated Gitter channel. After the workshop, we hope our students will continue coding, learning and exploring the Ethereum platform, and in good time, we hope our students will have the opportunity to work professionally in the Blockchain space. With this in mind, to help our students succeed, we are providing a dedicated Gitter channel after the workshop where our students have up to a month to ask further questions in relation to Ethereum, smart contracts etc. Recommended development experience Minimum of 6 months development experience is required. If you are a student and would like to attend, you must come from a Computer Science and Software Engineering background. We have a great line up of trainers that will help you break into the Blockchain space. Matthew Di Ferrante Matthew is a Software Engineer with a passion for Information Security, Cryptography, and Distributed Networks. He has worked in many different areas, from hardware, embedded and kernel programming, to data mining, analytics, and network / systems programming. He first started learning programming at 12 years old, and is completely self taught, both on the practical side of programming, and on the theoretical side of computer science, mathematics, and cryptography. Matthew was first exposed to Bitcoin in late 2010 due to his interest in information security, as Bitcoin was first mainly used on darknets/Silk Road, and got fully involved in the Blockchain space around the time Ethereum started to exist - beginning his foray while living with Vitalik Buterin and long time friend Vlad Zamfir (Creator of Ethereum's Casper Protocol) in London for a few months. Matthew currently works as a Technical Lead at Clearmatics developing Blockchain Technology for financial use cases, a member of the Ethereum Foundation Security Team and FounderlLead auditor at Zero Knowledge Labs focusing on smart contracts security auditing. In his free time, Matthew works on personal hardware projects, gives Information Security and Blockchain related talks at various events, and organise one of the largest monthly Information Security events in the North-West. Matthew’s design for a Secure Oracles Reputation System on Ethereum recently won first place for Smart Contract Security at the Thomson Reuters HackETHon. Matthew will be introducing developers to the way the Blockchain works technically, and what its potential applications could be. He will cover the workings and history of the Bitcoin Blockchain, as well as Ethereum and its concept of smart contracts that allow Turing complete code to execute on a virtual machine on the Blockchain. Matthew will also talk about Smart Contracts Security and Ethereum Internals. He will discuss the most important areas to know as a Blockchain Developer. Matthew will hold a Q&A session after each topic. Nick Johnson Nick Johnson is a Senior Software Engineer and has been working in the software engineering space for the past 16 years. Nick is currently working as a Software Engineer for the Ethereum Foundation and prior to this, he worked at Google for a number of years. He brings with him a wealth of knowledge and expertise in Solidity that he loves to share and will be teaching how to write and develop smart contracts during the hands-on development session, and will give students the opportunity to ask questions in relation to the Ethereum platform. Laurence Kirk After a successful career writing low latency financial applications in the City of London, Laurence was captivated by the potential of Blockchain Technology, and in particular smart contracts. Two years ago, Laurence moved to Oxford and set up Extropy.io, a consultancy working with start-ups in the UK and overseas, developing applications on the Ethereum platform. He brings with him a wealth of real world experience that he loves to share with those new to this area. Laurence hold a Physics degree from Durham University, and currently taking his MSc in Software Engineering at Oxford University. In addition to giving talks, mentoring at hackathons, and running groups about Blockchain Technology, Laurence also organise Artificial Intelligence and Data Science groups in Oxford. During the workshop, Laurence will be teaching Solidity (an object-oriented programming language for writing smart contracts) from the simplest smart contract up to interacting with a web application. The focus is very much the practical techniques that are needed when developing on Ethereum. The sessions will be very hands on, encouraging students to practice and explore Ethereum and raise any questions students might have regarding the Ethereum platform. Jerome Rousselot Jerome is a co founder, advisor, public speaker and Blockchain developer in the blockchain industry. Jerome left his job as Android TV technical lead at Marvell Technology and relocated to London to create Mycelium UK in 2014. He now helps the Mycelium wallet to break even and deliver its roadmap. Jerome has also been involved in exchanges, micro finance, insurance, fair betting, supply chain, gaming, secure hardware, smart contracts and teaching software developers. Jerome's startup Jita is coached by the Singularity University. He is a fellow of the Startup Leadership Program and obtained his PhD in Computer Science at EPFL, Switzerland. Jerome has a passion for teaching others who are genuinely interested in learning about Blockchain technology. Jack Tanner Jack Tanner is a passionate advocate for blockchain technology and loves teaching technical concepts in an understandable way. He completed a Masters in Computer Science at Imperial College London. He currently works as a senior blockchain developer on the Indorse platform and has been involved in numerous blockchain projects and education events around the world since 2015. There will be plenty of Q&A throughout the whole two day workshop. Date: Saturday 21st & Sunday 22nd of April, 2018 Time: 10:00 to 18:00 Workshop Location: Exact room to be confirmed. King's College London, Strand Campus, Strand, London, WC2R 2LS Lunch provided during the workshop on both days. EVENT ORGANIZER This event is brought to you by The Blockchain Connector & King's College London Blockchain Society. The Blockchain Connector Antonio Sabado is the founder of The Blockchain Connector, a training and recruitment company focusing entirely on Blockchain technology. If you are hiring or looking for your next job opportunity in the blockchain space, please get in touch. Antonio is an organiser of several Blockchain focused events in London aimed at software developers and business users. The Blockchain Connector’s goal is to build a blockchain developer community by helping regular developers become blockchain developers. We host regular hands-on developer workshops, technical deep dive sessions and hackathons. We train and recruit developers on behalf of start-ups and global firms working on Blockchain related projects. We are also planning a series of Blockchain focused seminars for business users/non-technical users to take place in London. Hackathons: We have the resources to organise and mentor blockchain based hackathons. Contact us if you are a blockchain based company who would like to sponsor one of our hackathons or you would like us to lend you a helping hand with organising a hackathon.  Developer Training: We have the resources and expertise to offer companies a blockchain developer focused training on site. Alternatively, developers can join our monthly hands-on developer workshop in London.  Hiring: We have the network to help you build your development team. Contact us if you are a company looking to hire or a developer looking for your next job opportunity. Volunteer Developers: We have access to developers who are looking to contribute to open source projects on a volunteer basis. Contact us if you have an Ethereum based project that require volunteer developers. Alternatively, contact us if you are a developer looking to gain commercial blockchain development experience. Future events: Click HERE and bookmark our Eventbrite Homepage to view all our up and coming blockchain related events. Blockchain Developer Monthly Technical Deep Dive meetup: Join our developer focused meetup group held monthly in London where we have over 150+ developers attend on a regular basis. This meetup group is strictly for developers only. Technical talk for a technical audience.  https://www.meetup.com/Blockchain-Workshop-for-Developers/ Contact: If you have any question, please do not hesitate to contact the core organiser on antonio@theblockchainconnector.com  or +44 7923 521 833. Web: https://www.theblockchainconnector.com/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/thebc_connector  &  https://twitter.com/bc_workshop LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/15221081/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TheBlockchainWorkshop/ King's College London Blockchain Society The King’s College London Blockchain Society (also known as KCL Blockchain) aims to provide students a means to engage with the London Blockchain community. We do this by organising events, producing research and curating London blockchain events. We are always looking to collaborate with interested parties to bring students and industry members together to advance our knowledge in Blockchain. Contact: For inquiries related to KCL Blockchain Society, please email junyong@kclblockchain.com Further info available on the following sites: Web: https://www.kclblockchain.com/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/11347353/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/kclblockchain/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/kclblockchain

This event is only for calendar reference. Please register on www.veridenkey.com 10:00AM - 10:20AM / Doors Open, socialising with morning coffee provided  10:20AM - 10:30AM / Welcome presentation and briefing of the Hackathon 10:30AM - 10:40AM / (TBC) Explanation of GDPR by our Legal Partners 10:40AM - 10:50AM / (TBC) Why Identity is important by our Blockchain Partners 10:50AM - 11:00AM / (TBC) Balance between surveillance state and counter-terrorism by our Security Advisor 11:00AM - 11:50AM / Express deep dive into how VeridenKey works 11:50AM - 12:00PM / Divided into groups by specialisation and knowledge 12:00PM                  / Start Hacking 1:00PM                    / Lunch is brought in and served 9:00PM                    / Stop Hacking 9:00PM - 9:45PM    / Presentations on results from the day  9:45PM - 10:00PM  / Thank you presentation 10:00PM +                / Time to hit the pub