List of hackathons in Luton, United Kingdom in 2018

The Generation Code Showcase Hackathon will bring together young people, youth workers and tech experts from across the UK to share and celebrate programme achievements to date, but also inspire and shape continued engagement in computer science. At the Hackathon we will: - Celebrate the achievements of Generation Code - Showcase programme excellence through Generation Code Awards - Inspire young people to discover the possibilities of technology

Future Cities Catapult specialises in advancing urban innovation and growing UK business and Space Syntax provides strategic consulting services in the planning and design of cities are hosting Tombolo’s first hackathon: Citidata Hack at the Urban Innovation Centre in London from 16th – 18th March 2018. Data specialists, software developers, user experience (UX) designers and service designers are invited to explore how they can use their skills during a fast-paced weekend at the Urban Innovation Centre to explore how city authorities could improve how they use data to address urban challenges. The amount of data being produced within our cities is rapidly increasing. With this, our decision-makers need to understand how this data can be utilised to create solutions to the challenges our cities face. City authorities from around the UK will present a major challenge that they currently face, and participants will explore this through the insight gained from connecting real data-sets. Multi-disciplinary teams will then have 48 hours to hack a new piece of open source software – the Digital Connector – analyse data to uncover new insights and propose an innovative solution for how each city authority could redesign their services to tackle their local challenge. Weekend Hackathon guests will not only have the chance to win carefully selected prizes but will also benefit from a series of engaging talks from data scientists, digital designers, service designers and open source experts who are currently applying their skills in this space. The Hackathon will be followed by an optional month-long competition, where teams can develop their proposals further for the chance to win an additional prize. Deadline for proposals: 13th April 2018.  At this link you will register your interest. This does guarantee your place, but you will receive confirmation on March 2nd. Check out the Digital Connector in GitHub! Learn more about the Tombolo project and the Digital Connector at www.tombolo.org.uk.

Developers and future FinTech entrepreneurs in the UK! Santander UK invites you to participate in the Santander Hackathon 2018 - Building Banking Your Way. You'll get to take on one of the following challenges: 1. Santander Care, 2. Santander Everywhere, 3. Santander Secure, or 4. MyScore and MyHome. Come and collaborate and compete for a £10,000 prize for the winning team.

Life science developers, health & Safety team members, data scientists and lab scientists in the UK! You can come from pharma, agriculture, biotech, healthcare, academia, or tech and related industries that work with laboratories. The Pistoia Alliance invites you to participate in their President's Series Hackathon - "Hack the Lab". In this 2-day event, you'll be challenged to help create the future, smarter, more efficient and safer lab! Collaborate and compete to develop innovative prototypes for the themes of AI, New Technologies, or Health & Safety.

Future Cities Catapult specialises in advancing urban innovation and growing UK business. We’ve decided to host the City Data Hack 2018 at the Urban Innovation Centre in London from 16th – 18th March 2018. The event is powered by Tombolo, a Future Cities Catapult and Space Syntax R&D project funded by Innovate UK. We’re inviting data specialists, software developers, user experience (UX) designers and service designers to use their skills during a fast-paced weekend at the Urban Innovation Centre and explore how city authorities could improve how they use data to address urban challenges. Three great challenges have been provided by our challenge partners: Skills and Education – Greater London Authority Social Isolation – London Borough of Barking and Dagenham Active Travel Plans – Transport for London Multi-disciplinary teams will have 48 hours to hack data, try our tools, including the Digital Connector and a data visualisation platform, analyse data to uncover new insights and propose an innovative solution for how each city authority could redesign their services to tackle their local challenge. Weekend Hackathon guests will not only have the chance to win carefully selected prizes but will also benefit from engaging mentorship from data scientists, digital designers, service designers and open source experts who are currently applying their skills in this space. The Hackathon will be followed by an optional month-long competition, where teams can develop their proposals further for the chance to win an additional prize. Deadline for proposals: 13th April 2018. At this link, you will register your interest. This does guarantee your place, but you will receive confirmation on March 2nd. Check out the Digital Connector in GitHub! Learn more about the Tombolo project and the Digital Connector at www.tombolo.org.uk.

Techies in Hertfordshire! The Hertfordshire Branch of BCS, The Chartered Institute for IT invites you to participate in their Helloworld Hackathon. You'll get to network with like-minded individuals and to collaborate on designing and developing a solution to a real-world challenge. Showcase your programming skills and compete for a range of prizes.

To mark the launch of the new MSc in Energy Systems and Data Analytics, the UCL Energy Institute has teamed up with Voltaware and the UCL Data Science Society for an energy data hackathon.  The challenge will be to utilise data from Voltaware’s proprietary home energy monitoring system and to come up with a machine learning algorithm that performs best at identifying the sources of energy consumption in a home using high frequency electricity metered data. This is known as energy disaggregation using non-intrusive load monitoring. A training data set will be provided and the algorithm that demonstrates the highest accuracy on a test data set will be the metric. Teams are allowed to whichever tools they deem best and any other sources of data they can think of.  Enjoy a weekend of hacking and problem solving investigating how data science can be used in the energy industry.  Prizes: Voltaware are sponsoring a £500 prize for the winning team as well as offering the opportunity to do summer internships. Who can attend:  We’re looking for creative people interested in energy and using data science to tackle challenging problems. The competition is open only to undergraduates. Maximum team size is 3 people. Where and when:  The competition will take place at the UCL Energy Institute, Central House in room 225, starting at 2pm on the 9th March, ending at 6pm on the 10th March.

Please note: this is a technical deep dive talk strictly for software engineers, software architects and computer science/software engineering students only. We will therefore review all registrations and we will send you an email to confirm your seat. We require each attendee to register on Eventbrite to attend this event. Please complete the registration form provided. Security at the venue will not allow entry to anyone without a valid ticket. This is a private event and we have the right to refuse entry. This event is made possible thanks to WeWork for sponsoring our venue.  This event is brought to you by The Blockchain Connector and King’s College London Blockchain Society Headline: Lessons on Building a Blockchain for Finance. A technical talk for Developers. Requirement: Please bring your laptop with you. We will have some hands-on coding sessions. Abstract: What is so different about public and private blockchains and why is this so important to enterprise finance and businesses? Learn about the technical and cryptographic nuances of building a blockchain and implementing it in real life use cases. We will also be talking about Adjoint’s new distributed ledger and smart contract language and how easy it is to start and build real and robust applications leveraging blockchain technology. We will also discuss the following: 1) real life use cases 2) programming language theory 3) distributed systems/ consensus in uplink 4) cryptography in uplink About Adjoint: Adjoint offers a smart contract platform and distributed ledger solutions designed to improve efficiency, security, and compliance in modern finance. Its revolutionary technology was built using the latest research in cryptography, type systems and formal verification. Enterprises can quickly deploy, maintain, verify and execute smart contracts globally. Such technology helps enterprises reduce costs, mitigate risks and improve margins. Founded in 2016, the company has offices in Boston, MA and London, UK. For more information, please visit www.adjoint.io Location: WeWork, Waterhouse Square, 138 Holborn, London, EC1N 2SW Schedule: 18:30 – 19:00 Registration & Networking drinks sponsored by WeWork. 19:00 - 19:10 Intro from The Blockchain Connector & King’s College London Blockchain Society 19:10 - 19:15 Lightning intro from the audience. We are providing an opportunity to our audience to present for two minutes. The topic must focus around a blockchain based product/platform you are building. Please inquire by sending an email to antonio@theblockchainconnector.com 19:15 - 20:15 Adjoint main presentation 20:15 - 21:00 Q&A with Adjoint 21:00 onwards - Networking drinks at a nearby pub  EVENT ORGANIZER This event is brought to you by The Blockchain Connector and King’s College London Blockchain Society. The King’s College London Blockchain Society (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. For enquiries, please email us at junyong@kclblockchain.com Further info available on the following sites: Website: https://www.kclblockchain.com/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/11347353/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/kclblockchain/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/kclblockchain   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 has 10+ years experience working closely with global Investment Banks placing and managing highly skilled eTrading Technology professionals. Antonio has an extensive network, ranging from mid to senior level technology and business professionals across various sectors. He 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. Click HERE to join our next workshop.  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 to view all our up and coming blockchain related events. 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Legal and General Investment Management and Stemettes invite you to a celebration of women in STEM and International Womens Day 2018. The event will be hosted by Head Stemette, Dr Anne-Marie Imafidon MBE.  Meet the Stemettes: LGIM IWD edition is a panel discussion, Stemettes style! This event is aimed at young women aged 9-14. We’ll discuss different ways people begin their Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths related careers. We’re hoping to explore apprenticeships, A-level choices, university degrees, work experience. You’ll be able to ask the panel questions, network between each other and enjoy free food! When? 11am-2pm, Saturday 3rd March 2018 Where? 1 Coleman St, London EC2R 5AA Our Impressive panel will include 7 fantastic women in STEM and a Mystery Man: Dr Nazia Mehrban, Medical Scientist, UCL Shally Sheffer, Delivery Manager, NTT Faduma Mohammed, Software Engineer, Conde Nast  Honor Solomon, Head of Retail, EMEA, Distribution, LGIM  Madeline King, Co-Head of Pan European Investment Grade Research, Active Fixed Income, LGIM Siobhan Boylan, Chief Financial Officer, LGIM Veolia Mystery Man - LGIM Hosted and supported by: Legal & General - Investment Management LGIM is the investment management arm of Legal & General Group, a FTSE 100 company. We are one of Europe’s largest asset managers and a major global investor. Our success has been built by focusing on clients and providing them with services and solutions that meet their needs. We offer strategies across the full spectrum of asset classes, including equities, bonds, property, alternatives and cash, as well as multi-asset strategies tailored to the needs of institutional and retail investors. LGIM is one of the world’s leading providers of index fund management. We are at the forefront of developments in liability-driven risk management solutions for defined benefit pension schemes, a leading provider of defined contribution solutions and also offer wide range of strategies to help our clients manage their investment objectives. LGIM continues to innovate as markets evolve, building strong relationships with clients including pension scheme, sovereign wealth funds, wealth managers and other professional investors. _____________________________________________________ About the Stemettes - We're running a series of panel events, hackathons and exhibitions this year for girls from 5 years old right up to female university students. We'd like to show them amazing women in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics careers.    Twitter - http://twitter.com/stemettes Facebook - http://facebook.com/stemettes Website - http://stemettes.org  

GROWTH HACK CHALLENGE Growth hacking is a big buzzword. It’s all about using experimental techniques to grow your user base and converting this into $$$, fast. Pretty useful, right?  The Growth Hack Challenge is a week-long challenge based around using Facebook ads to drive user acquisition for the 20 startups in this year’s cohort, starting with a weekend marketing hackathon supported by MAPS. Over the course of this week, teams from King's20 Accelerator will be supported by students from the fantastic MAPS (King’s College London’s Marketing, Advertising and PR Society) and other universities to develop and run marketing experiments. Each team will be given £500 free Facebook credits to run their activities. Timetable 3rd March, 10 - 4pm. Growth Hackathon with MAPS @ Entrepreneurship Institute Teams from King's20 Accelerator will work with university students and Theo Ohene, a digital marketing and growth hacking expert, to build creative marketing content. 3 - 9th March. Growth Experiments King's20 Accelerator teams will run their marketing tests to measure their impact 9th March 4pm. Final Presentation and Prizes @ Entrepreneurship Institute Teams will present their ideas to a panel of judges to compete for prizes (e.g. a package of Facebook credits and mentorship/ support from Facebook's accelerator).   See you there!