List of hackathons in Nottingham, United Kingdom in 2017

HackNotts is a 24 hour Hackathon hosted at the University of Nottingham. In October this year we will be returning for our fourth year! Join us for a weekend of hacking and fun in the stunning Jubilee Campus. But what is going to happen at the event? Over the 24 hours, people aged 16+ of all skill levels (you don't have to be a professional or a student! Just be lovely, passionate and interested in tech!) will come together to share ideas, and create new and awesome projects! (Not sure what a hackathon is? MLH have a great explanation here). There'll also be fun minigames, challenges and free food/drink to make sure you have an absolutely wonderful time. What should I bring? Apart from yourself, you will also need to bring laptops, chargers and some spare clothes if you want to sleep. Please note that all attendees will be subject to the MLH Code of Conduct. For more information about the event - see our website

Everyone is invited to our 24 hour non-stop hackathon looking at the challenging and exciting area of FinTech in partnership with major technology leaders (HSBC, IMC, AQL and others). Join us for this event, work in a team and propose a concept, or build a prototype, or design a start-up – whatever you do you will have the chance to win a portion of over £2,000 in prizes, continued mentorship, and gain access to job opportunities. In 1957, the University of Leeds was one of the first universities in the UK to buy a computer. This was a revolutionary development in university science and engineering, and the springboard for academic computer science in the university. 60 years on, computer science underpins nearly everything we do. The sponsors have provided a set of topics in the areas of financial tech, digital identity, security, and personal digital assistants. Your team will have 24 hours to propose a great idea for a particular topic and produce an initial prototype. You will then present your idea to a judging panel on Sunday afternoon. A winning team will be chosen for each topic area. Throughout the event you will be given mentoring and support by research staff and engineers in designing and building your concept. Mentors will also be on hand to look at your CV and give you tips on employability etc. PRIZES Over £2,000 of prizes to be won across sponsor led challenges as well as opportunities for sponsor mentorship and recruitment. TEAMS Teams will consist of 4 people, you can either register as a team or we can help you form a team at the reception event. We encourage multi-disciplinary teams to give you the best the chance of success. AGENDA Friday 20th October (18:30) - Welcome reception for delegates and sponsors with an introductory talk by Dr Chris Sier Fintech Envoy for the North Saturday 21st October (10:30) - Hackathon Start Sunday 22nd October (12:00) - Judging/prizes by Sponsors (scheduled close 15:00) FAQs  Are there restrictions on who can take part? There are no restrictions on who can take part (other than age requirement of 18+). We would particularly like to see as many students (undergraduate, masters, and PhD) involved as well as staff from the universities in Leeds. We'd also love to see a great mix of disciplines, although having someone with a computing background on your team will help.  Are meals provided? Yes, at the reception on Friday we'll provide a buffet. On Saturday we'll provide lunch and dinner. On Sunday we'll provide breakfast and lunch. There will be coffee and soft drinks available throughout as well. There is not cost for the food or drink.  Do we need to register as a team? No, teams will consist of 4 people. You can register as a team online before the event or else you can let us know on Friday that you've got team sorted. If you haven't we'll help you either form or join a team during the reception on Friday and Saturday morning.    Are there ID or minimum age requirements to enter the event? Yes, hackathon participants must be over 18 as the event runs throughout Saturday night.   What are my transport/parking options for getting to and from the event? After 5PM the University Edge and Multi-Storey car parks are open to the public. Payment is made before exiting. Further details can be found here: http://carparking.leeds.ac.uk/visitors/   What can I bring into the event? Please bring a laptop.   How can I contact the organiser with any questions? Either use the contact details on your registration form or contact the School of Computing on 0113 343 5430.  

Description This Propensity to Cycle Tool Hackathon is designed for advanced users and developers of the tool to share ideas, use-cases and skills. The aim is to build know-how of the tool and how it can be used, modified and extended to improve its ability to help provide an accessible evidence-based for transport planning. Attendees will likely split into teams at the outset to work on issues such as: How to best make use of data generated by the PCT New scenarios (e.g. 'Go York') Modifications to the PCT (this could have multiple teams) It is hoped that the knowledge learned will be shared beyond the event via write-ups, workshops and extensions to the PCT by attendees. Prerequisites R must be installed, in addition to the development version of the stplanr package: https://github.com/ropensci/stplanr It will help if you have Git installed on your computer. With it installed the following commands will download all files you need to reproduce the tool: # clone the pct data creation scripts git clone git@github.com:npct/pct-demo If you want to work on the 'full' PCT you'll need these on your laptop before the hackathon. To download the input data, install git lfs from GitHub and run the following lines of code from an appropriate shell (e.g. bash on Linux or Windows Powershell): git lfs install # check lfs is working # clone the data (warning - large) git clone git@github.com:npct/pct-inputs.git # raw input files git clone git@github.com:npct/pct-outputs-national.git # national outputs git clone git@github.com:npct/pct-outputs-regional-R.git # regional outputs used by pct-shiny The contents of the regional outputs are used by the code in pct-shiny, which can be downloaded with: git clone git@github.com:npct/pct-shiny.git Agenda See full draft agenda here: https://github.com/npct/pct/blob/master/minidocs/pct-hackathon.Rmd The rough running order of the event will be as follows: Getting up to speed 9:00-10AM (optional) The aim of this section is familiarise attendees with the PCT. Optional for experienced users. Policy relevance and the type of questions we want to answer (15 minutes) Open question and answer and a chance for people to ask technical questions (15 minutes) Meet and greet and team formation - talk to person next to you and decide what you want to get out of it (15 minutes over coffee) Coffee break, discussion and set-up (15 minutes) Learning to use and hack the PCT (10 - 12) Live demo and where we're at with the Propensity to Cycle Project and quick demo (Robin - 15 minutes) The aim of this section is to learn skills needed for the hackathon. By the end of it everyone should be in a team with a plan. Split session. Getting up to speed with the tool - Robin, Nikolai and Ali to do tech explanation for people with PCT installed, others to demonstrate use cases for people without (45 minutes) Free time to play with the tool, test hacks and network to finalise teams (1 hr) Lunch: 12 - 1PM The hackathon (1 - 4pm) This is where the bulk of the work will take place Reconvene to hear and discuss team ideas (30 minutes, ~5 min per team) Free time for hackathon (2 hrs) Feedback (4 - 4:30PM) Presentation of hacks and discussion

Our third Major League Hacking Hackathon based in the University of Sheffield - for students and recent graduates across the world! For more information, visit hack.sheffield.ac.uk! Facebook Event

HR professionals, researchers, and interested citizens in the Greater Manchester Area! If you are interested in issues related to parents and families in the workplace, then the Manchester Branch of The Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD) invites you to participate in their Big Conversation Hackathon. At this event, you will get to share experiences and identify challenges such as maternity discrimination, childcare, carers, making shared parental leave work, adoption leave and flexible working. You'll collaborate with like-minded individuals to come up with practical ideas that HR people can implement in their organisations, as well as public policy issues that need to be addressed.

  HackTheMidlands 2.0 is a 24-hour, inclusive hackathon being hosted in Birmingham on the 23rd/24th September 2017 at Millennium Point. We're super excited to be back for our 2nd iteration, and we'd love to have y'all join us!  But what is going to happen at the event?   Over the 24 hours, people aged 14+ of all skill levels (you don't have to be a professional or a student! Just be lovely, passionate and interested in tech!) will come together to share ideas, and create new and awesome projects! (Not sure what a hackathon is? MLH have a great explanation here). There'll also be fun minigames, challenges and free food/drink to make sure you have an absolutely wonderful time. But I don't have any experience - I won't be any good!    Nonsense - Everyone has to start somewhere, and we will have mentors at the event to help you along. One of the most awesome qualities of hackathons is the sheer number of lovely people that you'll meet at them, so no matter your skill level or expertise, you'll always be able to have an awesome time, pick up loads of new skills, and make new friends!  

Next Thursday 21st September, the University of Sheffield is the first partner in Siemens investment in a new multi-million pound network. The MindSphere Innovation Network (MINe) will link businesses with UK and global universities to exploit opportunities in the Industrial Internet of Things. As part of the launch there will be demonstrations of how the IIoT can make a difference and how data from the campus can be made available in teaching. Come to the MindSphere Lounge in the Diamond and sign up for free MindSphere training and the chance to register for a hackathon with Siemens later in the year.  And if you have new ideas for how the Industrial Internet of Things can be disruptive then Siemens will be offering a prize for the best ideas and have staff on hand to answer your questions. Time: Informal drop-in session between 2 & 4 pm.

MLH Hackcon is the official hackathon organizers' conference. It's an opportunity to meet the community, learn from one another, and to tackle the issues that we are facing together. With two full days of workshops, talks, and discussion sessions, new organizers can learn best practices for running a hackathon, and veteran organizers will share their experiences and help guide the next generation.

Brings you..... Hackcess Reality - VR 4 Good!! HackcessReality aims to bring together interdisciplinary minds to explore how Virtual Reality technology can be used for social good. Barclays and experts from our partners are coming together for two days in Manchester to address accessibility and inclusion. A very interesting perspective The World health organisation definition of Disability is “a mismatch in interaction between the features of a person’s body and the features of the environment in which they live”.  Overcoming the difficulties faced by people with disabilities requires interventions to remove environmental and social barriers. So in essence the word disabled as most people understand it is incorrect. In reality a more accurate description would be, ‘an individual who hasn’t been properly considered in a design process’. By considering potential barriers encountered by people that require more bespoke personalisation and designing products, services, or buildings that are truly flexible it could almost be possible to remove the word disabled from our vocabulary. How cool is that!!  The Problem So what does a VR hackathon have to do with any of this? One of the biggest challenges encountered in the Accessibility world is getting people to understand the barriers faced by those with disabilities. Most people through no fault of their own are simply not aware of the impact their decisions and actions can have on others. This can cover small things such as petting a guide dog without asking, standing over someone in a wheel chair, right through to building an app or a website that doesn’t consider how someone with an impairment would use it. The Challenge What we aim to create, is an immersive experience that will help give users a brief insight of what it is like to have a disability and how this can impact everyday interactions. The hope is that by triggering an emotional response, users will be more likely to champion an inclusive way of thinking in the future. We believe that with the right VR experience, we can deepen empathy and understanding of designers and architects creating products and premises. There’s a ton of benefits that VR can bring to people with disabilities too which we’re only starting to scratch the surface of. We aim to take a collaborative approach with this Hackathon rather than a competitive one. The aim of the project will be to harness your skills and expertise to enable and encourage innovation and shared ideas to achieve an outcome for ‘Social Good’! By bringing together a fully resourced and diverse team in once place, we hope to create an environment that will enable the delivery of an end to end solution. The output of which will made available in an open source manner for the benefit of all. Technology & Support We want our event to be as inclusive as possible. Don’t worry if you have never encountered VR in your career before: chances are that your personal experience in another field, be it game design, photography or something business related will give you all the tools you will need to cooperate with other enthusiastic participants to create a unique experience. If you are familiar with VR you will be happy to know that we will be working with some really interesting pieces of technology: HTC Vive for the full room-scale tracking experience and Samsung Gear VR for mobile – all powered by the graphics engine of your choice. Harvey ‘theStoneFox’ Ball will be with us to support with his VRTK (Virtual Reality Tool Kit) so that even if you never created anything in VR before, with a little help you will be able to put together blocks in a drag-n-drop way and build a fantastic prototype from scratch! Barclays Creative team will be providing a series of digital assets to use, and several other artists taking part to the hackathon will be covering any gap with their mad skills. The Event: Launch: 7th September – 18:00 – 21:00 Challenges launch, teams assemble, VR demos, partner presentations and networking Hackathon: 8th September – 08:00 – 20:00 The hack, a day of creativity and building, concluding with pitches, judging and a drink or two Next Steps: We will be in touch to request some additional information and to let you know shortly if your application has been successful.

NHS Finance: Confused?   Join us at Stirchley Baths for a focused session of our Citizens Group. You can find out more about how local NHS services are funded and what challenges there are in your neighbourhood. Quiz our finance team colleagues through a creative, problem solving session. You must book to attend, but we will have the kettle on.   Got a question? Let us know in advance and we’ll try and answer it on the day. Contact details found below.    BSC CCG’s Citizens Group is a volunteer led platform that helps us shape our engagement and commissioning through open dialogue. To find out more go to our involvement page on our CCG website.    For more information about the event please contact us on bscccg.partnerships@nhs.net or 0121 255 0789