List of hackathons in Martlesham, United Kingdom in 2018

What are the aims? The three-day hackathon will bring together people to work on life science-related computational projects. The hackathon is an excellent opportunity to improve your coding skills, network with people in your field, or to try out that project you've always wanted to work on but never found the time. Alternatively, you may want to work as part of a team in a field that is completely new to you.What should I do?It 's really up to you. All that we ask is that you work on a computational project with a life sciences focus. Ideally, the project should be self-contained i.e. started in the hackathon and hopefully you will have had time in the three days to have made some progress. Many of the participants last year came up their own ideas for a project and worked on that for the three days.  Alternatively, you may want to work on one of our proposed projects. Our sponsors and project mentors have come up with a number of projects in which you are completely free to participate.  Or maybe, one of the hackathon participants is already working on a project that interest you.  What skills will I need? The hackathon is aimed at people of all skill sets, from people new to coding through to experts in their respective fields. This is a chance to work in a friendly collaborative atmosphere and have some fun. What do I need to bring?Just you and a laptop. (We do have a small number of spare laptops available if you are unable to bring a laptop for yourself). How much is it?Taking part costs £30 for three days. (That´s just £10 per day.  Although hackathon T-Shirts  are not available to new sign-ups at this late stage, food and drink is included as is the opportunity to spend your time in the wonderful Centre for Computing History). For more details, visit the Cambridge Bioinformatics Hackathon Homepage.

Click, smash, and swipe your way to an amazing experience after the end of term! The annual game-building hackathon is back, and better than ever. We're partnering with Studio Gobo and Electric Square to bring you Game Gig 2018 - One Button Edition.IMPORTANT INFORMATION This event is only open to university students living in the Cambridge area. Bring your student card.Game Gig You must have a valid EventBrite ticket in order to attend. You must bring your own laptop for developing on. We will provide 2 meals (lunch and dinner), snacks, drink and swag. There will be workshops for beginners leading up to and on the day itself. We have a limited number of Desktop PCs and Virtual Reality headsets that we can loan, but we require advance notice. WHO ARE STUDIO GOBO AND ELECTRIC SQUARE?Studio Gobo and Electric Square are two game studios who have worked with Disney, Marvel, LucasFilm, Microsoft, Ubisoft and more.Studio Gobo: http://www.studiogobo.com/ FAQs Do I have to bring my printed ticket to the event? Nope! Just bring the email confirmation and your ID and we'll get you sorted. Will there be food provided? We'll be providing lunch, dinner, as well as snacks to last the duration of the hackathon. There will also be awesome swag, so remember to take your share!

Social Storm (24hr Hackathon) at ARU! Test your skills as well as your stamina! Social Storm is an out of theclassroom learning activity, where you’re challenged to solve areal-life social problem as identified by the United Nations (UN). This unique opportunity operates in a virtual space, with studentsfrom across the world working together to solve a problem in 24 hours.Social Storm projects could change the lives of vulnerable people byapplying entrepreneurial skills and mindsets to social issues.What a way to conclude Global Entrepreneurship Week! This event will take place in QUE210 which is one of the computer rooms on the 2nd floor of the library in the Queens building Social Storm Are you passionate about building a better society? Can you use your skills and ideas to find solutions to our society's problems?   We’re looking for people who believe they can make a difference to society, from any background or degree discipline, to join our unique 24-hour event. You will be working in teams comprised of students from other universities, to find a sustainable solution to a real life problem, and submitting a video pitch to a team of judges. This event is for Anglia Ruskin University students only. Transport will be provided to Cambridge based students to get to the Chelmsford campus. If you require transport from Cambidge to Chelmsford please purchase a minibus ticket.

The leakage reduction team at South East Water is looking for ways to improve targeting of leaks on their distribution mains using their existing data. This will enable the company to develop new ways to identify and prioritise leaks before bursts occur and better target their leak intervention teams. Using historical data, the hackathon provides an opportunity for interested parties to access a wealth of real-world data and demonstrate the value of their approach in two main areas: Development of new analysis models and tools for identifying and prioritising leakage events. Demonstrating new approaches to distribution main leakage management, with focus on identifying and prioritising 7-day and 60-day targets before mains failure. 

>sudo : sequence is the next hackathon in the >sudo series, taking place in Cambridge! Run by Cambridge Applied Research, the hackathon will focus on some of the most challenging areas currently facing the genomics industry. The overnight event will be a weekend of inspirational thinking, problem solving and prototype development to create some impactful new solutions to real-world problems and a chance to win some great prizes! If you have a background in engineering, software development, biology, or just want to come and support the teams with your industry insights, sign up now! Attendance is free and all refreshments will be provided over the weekend. Find out more at www.sudochallenge.com ! Please note places are limited so sign up now to avoid disappointment.

This year's RDKit User Group Meeting will take place from 19-21 September in Cambridge, UK and is being hosted by Andreas Bender at the University of Cambridge. The meeting will take place in the Department of Chemistry on Lensfield Rd. Days 1 and 2: Talks, lightning talks, roundtable(s), discussion, poster sessions, and talktorials.  Day 3: Hackathon There will also be, of course, social activities. This year we have the special opportunity to have the dinner on the 19th in the Old Library of Pembroke College. I can't wait for that. :-) We are looking for people who are willing to do presentations, talktorials or posters on the first two days. If you're interested in contributing, please contact Greg and Andreas. Please register only once. If you plan to attend the dinner on Wednesday select the "Registration + Dinner and Reception" ticket type (note that, as usual at the UGM, you will have to pay for yourself), if you'd just like to attend the UGM select the "Registration" ticket. Please treat a registration for the dinner as a commitment to attend.

Language teachers, techies in the UK! If you're interested in English for speakers of other languages (ESOL), then you're invited to participate in the Cambridge ESOLTHON. At this one-and-a-half day hackathon event, you'll collaborate with like-minded individuals to create a new portal that improves digital resources for teachers of entry-level English as a foreign language. You must be at least 16 years old to participate.

Young people in East Anglia! Are you concerned with the problem of a lack of young people in local politics? If you're interested in the democratic process, then Shout Out UK invites you to participate in the Young People in Local Politics Hackathon. You'll collaborate with like-minded people to come up with and develop innovative ideas to overcome barriers to participation and encourage more young people to engage.

Join us for Western Europe’s first quantum computing hackathon! Quantum computers have the potential to solve certain problems dramatically faster than conventional computers, with applications in areas such as machine learning, finance, drug discovery and cryptography. Try out your quantum programming skills at our hackathon, where you'll have the chance to run your quantum algorithms on both quantum simulators and a real 8-qubit quantum computer, as provided by Rigetti (via the cloud). Experience helps but is not required - our experts will teach you the basics!Winners will be announced at 2pm, followed by pizza!Technical details:Your task will be to develop the best quantum algorithm to solve a quantum chemistry problem that is in general intractable for conventional computers. This amounts to solving an interesting optimisation problem, where the cost function (provided by us) is calculated on a real quantum computer and is exponentially difficult to simulate classically.You will be expected to bring your own laptop, and some experience coding in Python in desirable, but knowledge of quantum computing and quantum chemistry is not needed. To guarantee access to Rigetti's quantum computer, we ask that you sign up to Rigetti's (free) Forest API (www.rigetti.com/forest), and inform us of the email you used to sign up by midnight on Wednesday 13th June.We will provide example code and help on the day, so no prior quantum programming experience is required!Hosted by River Lane Research and dividiti Sponsors:

Quantitative techies and hackers in the Cambridge area! The Cambridge University Algorithmic Trading Society invites you to participate in the HSBC Mayweek Hackathon. Come with your team, or join one at the event. You'll be challenged to develop the best prediction tool capable of predicting price variation of a real currency pair. Collaborate and compete for prizes up to £400 in Amazon vouchers.