List of hackathons in Luton, United Kingdom in 2020

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Join the world’s leading global network for fintech, blockchain and digital impact for the 2020 London Blockchain Week.

Students interested in making and prototyping! If you're interested in participating in the Design Engineering Society Makeathon 2020, then DesSoc invites you to register your interest in this Autodesk-sponsored event at the Imperial College Advanced Hackspace (ICAH). Come and collaborate and compete for prizes.

Get together and create games in one weekend at Goldsmiths, University of London. Open to all, internal and external to Goldsmiths.

Gaming enthusiasts in the UK! Come and participate in the Global Game Jam 2020 at the SAE Institute in London. This is the world's largest game jam event, where you can collaborate with like-minded gamers to create awesome new games! You're invited to explore new tools and test your skills by designing, creating and testing your own new game — all in less than 48 hours.

Develop new partnerships and innovative ideas over cake and coffee Join us at our Innovation Friday networking event at the Leicester Innovation Hub. This month the overarching theme is Sustainable Future. We will be discussing and showcasing how Academia-Business collaboration in environmental management is leading to economic growth. A special focus will be given to Space Park Leicester and the opportunities this transformative facility will create for local enterprises in non-space sectors. During a special session run in association with MSDUK, a number of companies will deliver their business pitch to a panel of judges to win a company focused free activity with the experts of the University of Leicester: a choice among Design Thinking Sprint, Data Analytics Review or Sustainability Audit will be delivered within the business with company’s senior management and their key stakeholders. A special stage will be given to MSDUK Innovation Challenge to discuss opportunities for BAME businesses, and to the winners of the first Copernicus Hackathon in UK to demonstrate business opportunities enabled by open data policies. We very much hope that you will be able to join us as our guest for this and future events designed to highlight innovations from across the region. You are welcome to drop in anytime between 10am and 4pm and Network with: Innovation Hub Team Regional businesses & industries Innovation support organisations Enterprising academics Student & graduate start-ups University Business Support Team Agenda 10:00 am – Event opens 10:45 am – Keynote: Developing solutions to tackle environmental pollution through Business-Academia collaborations (Mick Whelan) 11:30 am – Pitch competition (in association with MSDUK) 12:30 pm – Samosas are served along cake. Networking while waiting for judging panel to award pitch competition winner. 1:00 pm – Judging panel awards pitch competition prize 1:30 pm – MSDUK Innovation Challenge and opportunities for BAME start-ups (Ervin Picari) 2:15 pm – Innovations for a sustainable and productive agriculture. Pitches from the Copernicus Hackathon winners. 3:00 pm – Keynote: Growth opportunities for local businesses enabled by Space Park Leicester (Carmine Maffei and Kavitha Muthu). 4.00 pm – Event closes (Agenda is subject to change. Please contact us or come back to this page closer to the event if you need to confirm a specific schedule.) To take part to the Pitch Competition, please send an email to LeicInnovation@le.ac.uk Free Cake Fridays provide an excellent opportunity to network with the Innovation Hub Team, innovative regional businesses, enterprising academics and innovation support organisations in a friendly and informal environment. Within the warmth of this special networking event, you will have a chance to build strategic partnerships, meet your peers, and discover funded innovation support opportunities.

Climate emergency believers in the UK! Creatives, UX/UI/UR, developers, data engineers, data scientists, students, and industry professionals! Valtech UK invites you to participate in The Climate Emergency Hackathon. At this two-day event, you'll get to work within a team of like-minded individuals to develop a data-driven solution to a climate emergency challenge. Pitch your team's project for a chance to win recognition and prizes.

This workshop will introduce you to PyTorch and show you how to use pre-trained models to implement AI as quickly as possible.

In our 5th hackathon, we will try to add motion correction functionality to our software for synergistic PET/MR reconstruction.

Data scientists and hackers in the Greater London Area! The Archives at the Royal Botanic Gardens Kew invites you to explore and experiment with the historical datasets and images relating to trailblazing botanist and explorer Sir Joseph Hooker. You'll be challenged to design and prototype imaginative ways in which digital tools can be used to access these sources and provide new ways of understanding this historical data.