List of hackathons in Luton, United Kingdom in 2018

Customers are at the heart of everything we do at NewDay. The Manifesto is a positive force within our organisation. It is a platform on which we can make positive changes to people’s lives by helping them be better with credit. It also serves as a springboard for innovation, encouraging us to create new tools that help people manage their credit more easily and access the benefits it provides. For our first ever Manifesto Hackathon, we’ll be using our Manifesto to unlock the power of digital, developing new ideas with the potential to transform our products, services, and business processes. We’re excited to see the positive impact digital can have on making our Manifesto real for more customers.

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!

Professionals, designers, builders, students…anyone with a passion for sustainability! The UK Green Building Council invites you to participate in the UKGBC Sustainable Innovation Sprint. In this hackathon-like event, you'll join a team and design an innovative solution to one of the following challenges identified by the Council's members: » Making the most of existing buildings, » Reusing materials from existing buildings, » Retrofitting outdated services, » Reducing construction waste.

Coder, designers, and AI enthusiasts from academia, industry, and government in the defence and security arena! The Defence and Security Accelerator (DASA) invites you to participate in the DASA Defence Logistics Hackathon. You'll be expected to showcase your logistics skills and creativity by solving a given Defence Logistic Challenge that requires the analysis and sharing of structured and unstructured multi-source data. Compete for the opportunity to bid for funding through DASA Open Call.

Coder, designers, and AI enthusiasts from academia, industry, and government in the defence and security arena! The Defence and Security Accelerator (DASA) invites you to participate in the DASA Defence Logistics Hackathon. You'll be expected to showcase your logistics skills and creativity by solving a given Defence Logistic Challenge that requires the analysis and sharing of structured and unstructured multi-source data. Compete for the opportunity to bid for funding through DASA Open Call.

London's best and most popular experience inside the world of entrepreneurs, tech startups and innovation. In a revolutionary, mind-shifting new way - with Airbnb. Why join. With Airbnb, the world's largest community driven travel company, The Airbnb Startup Experience, London programme revolutionises how people from around the world experience learning about building and accelerating startups, and explore London's startup ecosystem - in one day. Attended by 300+ startup founders, teams from Apple and Google, governments, Youtube stars and innovators from more than 140 cities around the world. What you'll do. We begin in Tech City and Silicon Roundabout, with insights about the rise of London's tech startup ecosystem - from its hackathon days to its growing trends, new players and what is happening now - as we visit the coolest new concepts in coworking space you'll see anywhere in the world.* Then, we visit one of London's best startup communities, to learn the startup process, and how entrepreneurs are solving big problems, creating new business models and building innovative companies - in artificial intelligence, fintech, blockchain and more - all within startup communities. Also discover what investors look for when funding startups and why, how to pitch your startup for venture capital and to apply to accelerators. Finally, we'll explore one of the best locations in Europe for innovation and the design thinking behind products that have changed the world. From brands like Apple, Google and Facebook to the future of revolutionary technologies like augmented reality, smart cities apps, fashion tech, and 3D printing. Get answers to questions, discover your next steps and foster genuine connections along the way - in this truly eye-opening, mind-shifting, learning experience - for individuals, partners, teams and groups. Where we go. We begin at 11am in East London's Tech City, Shoreditch and Silicon Roundabout area: the world's 3rd largest technology startup scene, after San Francisco and New York. Then jump on the tube to central London. And finally, finishing the day in Kensington at 3pm.* The format. The day is designed as a tour, visiting a number of startup locations through the city, as a very small group of just 2 to 4 people for better discussion, engagement and learning. Larger group? You can also arrange your own group experience, for between 5 to 50 people, with an adjusted format to learn about growing trends in London's startup ecosystem, the startups disrupting your insustry, and innovation and design thinking - simply select your group size when registering.  Previous attendees.  Teams from Google, Ebay, Apple and IDEO, startup founders, government teams and leaders, company heads of innovation, property entrepreneurs, Youtube stars, digital marketing managers, women in tech, venture capital analysts and more. Organised by. Anthony David King Anthony David King develops and supports new kinds of startup programmes for innovators, partners and tech communities around the world, including Airbnb, O2, Techstars, Silicon Valley Comes to the UK and Bank of Korea to build new ventures and address future trends -- with a mission to revolutionise the world’s human and startup experience. With... Airbnb The global travel community that uniquely leverages technology to economically empower millions of people around the world to unlock and monetize their spaces, passions and talents. Confirm your spot now. If you see the date you want available, book it immediately. Don't wait. One of the most frequent messages received is: "Hi, I saw the date I wanted earlier, but now its gone!" This is because it was booked full by others, and there's no way to squeeze anyone else on once a date is full. Watch the preview video. More than 160+ reviews ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ "Game changer experience" - Rui ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ "The best thing I've done this year" - Goeun ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ "A masterclass in building a start up company." - Ayob ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ "The Startup Experience topped my imaginations by far!!" - Frank ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ "Like someone was showing me electricity for the first time." - Barligea ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ "Beyond worth what we paid for - this was awesome!" - Adrianne ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ "If there were six stars, I would give six stars!" - Sasha Read all 160+ reviews Photos: ----------------------------------------- Also running during London Fashion Week, Open House London 2018, London Tech Week, Job Fair, London Design Festival, Black History Month, Halloween and Global Entrepreneurship Week. Not running during Christmas season up to New Years Eve. *When you arrange your own team or group day of 10 people or more, the day begins in central London at a startup community.

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.

The DASA hackathon focus on improving the way how the UK Government investigate incidents through the application of Multimedia Analysis and Artificial Intelligence. Participants should be able to process large amounts of real-world incident multimedia data and rapidly identify key information and how entities relate to each other, putting togethert narrative, and near-term predictions for the key stakeholders in minutes.

Real-World Incident Response Hackathon Improving the way we investigate incidents through the application of Multimedia Analysis and Artificial Intelligence. For this event, we are looking to bring together the best from academia, industry and government in the defence and security arena. Participants will be asked to process large amounts of real-world incident multimedia data and rapidly identify key information for on-site experts - people, places, events, in fact anything that may assist an investigations team. We’re interested in how entities relate to each other, the event timeline and narrative, and near-term predictions. Data will mostly take the form of video which will be varied in quality, source, and format. Some will be live-streamed during the event. This is a unique opportunity for participants to demonstrate their ability to extract useful information and insights from large multimedia data sources which would help teams respond to incidents more quickly and effectively.  We expect the successful hackathon attendees to leverage Artificial Intelligence techniques including Machine Vision, Facial Recognition, and Object Recognition, as well as being able to process multimedia sources in a variety of formats from a variety of sources. Benefits of Attending Attendees of the event will network and collaborate with likeminded experts in their field creating teams to tackle a challenge that has potential commercial applications across a range of business sectors. It is your chance to: develop and test your digital product to boost its potential showcase your prototype to international defence and science professionals and technology experts seize the opportunity to take your solution to Minimum Viable Product (MVP) The team outputs will be assessed, and prizes awarded to the winners. The first prize is a guided tour through the underground Burlington Bunker in Corsham, Wiltshire. This is a unique opportunity to visit a complete underground city, built in the 1950s to house the UK’s entire cabinet in the event of a nuclear attack. This prize is subject to confirmation and suitability of the winners. More information about this Hackathon is available on GOV.UK.  Please note: If you are registering as part of a group, please ensure all members of the group register individually Once you have registered for this event your details will be shared with a third party company BeMyApp and you will be invited to join the Slack channel The venue information will be detailed on your ticket confirmation The start and end times for each day are as follows:            Day 1- 9am to midnight            Day 2- 8am to 7pm Registration closes on 18 November 2018 at 6pm Places for this event are limited and if the event is oversubscribed, we reserve the right to limit attendance if needed This event is free to attend. Please make sure you can definitely attend before signing up. If you need to cancel please contact accelerator@dstl.gov.uk so we can offer your place to someone else as early as possible

Hatch is organized by Shecancode and the Women in Tech division from UCL Entrepreneurs society. The mission of both organizations is to encourage more girls and women to enter the technology space. Additionally, the hackathon encourages non-coders to apply to the business role; every team comprises of an equal number of coders and non-coders.