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Property Technology (PropTech) AR/VR Conference
16 Feb - 06:00 PM
London, United Kingdom
AR/VR techies! Come and participate in the hackathon to be held at the Property Technology (PropTech) AR/VR Conference. You'll be challenged to create innovative AR/VR solutions foir the property market. Details of the hackathon are to be provided.
Connected Parking Hackathon
15 Feb - 09:00 AM
London, United Kingdom
Social innovators, students, NGO's, designers, UX/UI, anyone interested in using technology to improve parking! Impact Hub Westminster invites you to sign up and participate in the Smart Cities - Connected Parking Hackathon. You'll be challenged to design and prototype an innovative solution to ease the problems of parking in the City of Westminster — congested roads, underutilized parking, limited community interaction, and air pollution. You'll showcase your solution at the hackathon demo day and compete for the £300 cash prize and the right for your project to be presented to the Department for Transport.
Up Close and Personal: living with and loving robots
09 Feb - 06:30 PM
London, United Kingdom
Exponential View's dinner series begins it 2017 programme with a discussion between Dr Kate Devlin and Azeem Azhar on what will happen when we get up close and personal with robots.
The evening is led by Dr Kate Devlin from the Department of Computing at Goldsmiths, University of London. She will explore the implications of human-robot relationships as we develop closer connections with AI. What does getting personal and intimate with robots mean for our physical and emotional wellbeing? Why and how does robot intimacy offer new opportunities for self-expression and freedom, or not?
In our convivial dinner setting, we will also discuss some of the philosophical, legal and bioethical areas of debate about living with robots in intimate, personal dimensions of everyday human life.
Kate Devlin is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Computing at Goldsmiths, University of London. In December 2016 she ran the UK's first sex tech hackathon and chaired the Second International Congress on Love and Sex with Robots. Her current research in Human Computer Interaction and Artificial Intelligence focuses on how sex and sexuality shape technology.
Food & drinks will be served.
This event is in collaboration with BGF Ventures who are kindly hosting us and providing libations.
The event is strictly limited to 50 people so that we can maximise mingling, conversation and participation.
Please note: Tickets are non-refundable.
London Fintech Conference 2017
08 Feb - 12:30 PM
London, United Kingdom
The largest student-led financial technology conference in Europe is returning to bring you the brightest ideas and thoughts of industry pioneers on the financial world.
Join us on the 8th of February 2017, in Imperial College London, to learn about the newest trends, connect with likeminded students and gather inspiration from top founders in order to continue innovation in the financial sector. The conference will reflect on topics such as the development of roboadvisors, usage of big data and blockchain technology, the transition of consumer banking and wealth management, as well as starting out your own venture and the implications for student entrepreneurs. Participants confirmed so far include TransferWise, Anthemis Group and Scalable Capital amongst many others. The full schedule will be released on the 16th of January!
Following the lessons and successes of the 2016 edition, we are aiming to make the conference more interactive, by organising a hackathon the weekend before (link), the winners of which will be awarded monetary prizes and a chance to pitch to leading venture capitalists on stage of LFC 2017!
Tickets are released on the 1st of January, so be sure to grab one quickly as the event is expected to sell out! After the conference, a small number of students are given the opportunity to participate in a formal dinner at Elena's L'Etoile to network more closely with industry leaders and spend an exciting evening discussing the latest socioeconomic and technological developments.
Early Bird Tickets - 7£
Regular Tickets - 12£
Student Dinner Tickets - 39£ (includes access to the conference)
Professional Dinner Tickets - 59£ (includes access to the conference)
Event Dresscode: Business Casual
See you on the 8th of February 2017!
www.fintechconference.london
AI HACKATHON
04 Feb - 01:30 PM
Barking, United Kingdom
AI hackers in the Greater London area! Come and participate in the AI HACKATHON. You'll get to team with like-minded AI techies — collaborating to to design and prototype an AI data portal to support the data mining of the Silent Secret app. You'll get to work with real data to propose cool ways to uncover insights into Silent Secret app users, and to prototype a concept an AI agent that continuously monitors patterns and trends.
LFC 24 Hackathon
03 Feb - 06:00 PM
London, United Kingdom
Students, professionals from all backgrounds! Interested in Big Data and/or FinTech? Come and participate in the LFC 24 24-hour hackathon. Come and bring your crazy ideas and progress them as far as you can in 24 hours. Bring your team's existing project, or join a team and spark your concept at the event! Winning teams will win cash prizes and also get the chance to pitch to a jury of venture capitalists at The London Fintech Conference 2017.
TravelTech Tuesdays London #3: January Drinks
31 Jan - 06:00 PM
London, United Kingdom
TravelTech Tuesdays London #3
It's January, and as much as there is excitement in the air for our goals and visions for 2017 it is also the middle of British winter, a time where many of us reminis of warm summer days.
To help get through the winter blues we are hosting a slightly more low key meet-up this month on 31st January to bring the community together over a few drinks and enjoy some good TravelTech talk.
TravelTech Tuesdays is a monthly meet-up to connect the rapidly growing TravelTech ecosystems across Hong Kong and London, and encourage new connections, opportunities and collaborations in the space.
Pictures From Past TravelTech Tuesdays
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A hackathon on an airplane taking 32 of best entrepreneurs, engineers and designers from Hong Kong to London, on a mission to redefine TravelTech.
Innovating with Defra data - open meeting (London)
25 Jan - 05:30 PM
London, United Kingdom
Data scientists, technologists, story-tellers, activists, analysts! Are you interested in mining the value of the data sets available from the UK's Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs (DEFRA)? The ODI invites you to participate in an open meeting to shape an upcoming 2-day hackathon event in Leeds that will address air quality. You don't need to be an expert on data or digital technology — you just need to be interested in how DEFRA datasets might be used for the civic good.
Public Transport Hackathon - brought to you by Wayfindr
21 Jan - 11:00 AM
London, United Kingdom
Creators, developers, and entrepreneurs - students or professionals! Interested in inclusive smart cities and innovative solutions for public transport? Wayfindr invites you to sign up and participate in a Public Transport Hackathon. You'll get the opportunity to collaborate to come up with ways in which Bluetooth Beacons and APIs can improve the travel experience for citizens of London on the London Underground. You will be challenged to create innovative uses of the Beacon API to provide new digital navigation services for commuters who need additional assistance, such as vision impaired people.
EdTech Augmented Reality Hackathon
21 Jan - 10:00 AM
London, United Kingdom
Developers, designers and AR enthusiasts in and around London! Come sign-up and participate in the EdTech Augmented Reality Hackathon. You'll network and collaborate in a small team with like-minded AR-enthusiasts to build an Augmented Reality (AR) experience. You'll be given a challenge theme and in just over 24 hours, you must create a unique AR application connected to your own personal interpretation of the theme. Your only limitations are time and your imagination.