List of hackathons in Oldham, United Kingdom in 2016

This is a fab meetup event with as guest speaker Filipe Barroso from Portugal and to challenge you on how fast you can create an app from start to publish. You will learn methods and libraries to reduce the development time and ways to prepare yourself for a hackathon or close deadline. Filipe started out by creating a mobile business application for Portugal Telecom, and now accepts new challenge working for clients such as Bayer, Brisa, and TAP.

Join us for the IP Magnet Challenge. You're invited to the Google Digital Garage in Manchester Central Library for an ideas development and IP data hackathon day. You'll be creating a prototype idea for a contract to develop your concept into a working application! Come and share your ideas or maybe start a new collaboration. Work as individuals or form a team. Bring a laptop; beginners are always welcome. Plus, you'll be competing for a contract to develop your concept into a working prototype! On the day you’ll be able to analyse newly released IP data, including trademark and patent data. If you are a developer, a designer, an ideas generator, a startup, an IP expert, an individual, complete beginner or simply have an interest patents and trademarks, you are welcome to join us at the IP Magnet Challenge. Why are we doing this? It’s part of an effort to make intellectual property data more useful and accessible for small businesses, entrepreneurs and interested individuals.  The library will provide data sets, including newly released trademark and patent data from the UK Intellectual Property Office. Participants can choose the data they are most interested in to create their project. For more information on the data go to the IP Magnet Challenge page Free tea, coffee, cakes, lunch & networking At the end of the day, each team will give a three-minute presentation on their project and the winner will be chosen by the judging panel during the next week. The Best Idea Winner, will win a contract to develop their ideas further. Join the challenge now as places are limited!                 

Wigan Council, in association with Leigh Hackspace, are running the first ever Wigan Borough 'The Deal In Action' Civic Hackathon to help the Council better understand the needs of the local population, and develop new and innovative digital solutions to local problems.

The Slackathon MCR invites you to a aimed at making integrations with the Slack API. The Slack's API's can be used to send data into Slack with incoming webhooks, invoke actions outside of Slack with commands , and/or build a Slack bot. The favourite projects will be chosen by the end of the two day event based on these categories usefulness and best use of Slack bot.

The Global Game Jam (GGJ) is one of the world's largest hackathons on game development. Come and explore the global creative gaming atmosphere, while taking part in the process of development, including programming, iterative design, narrative exploration and artistic expression. Don't worry if you don't know how to program, creative idea makers are also very crucial on the process of game development. Also if you are an experienced game player you can take a stab at testing the design.

The Yorkshire and Humber digital healthcare event is open to all creative design and digital technology specialists and healthcare professionals. Explore topics such as virtual reality, telehealth, animation and robotics, and new market opportunities for creative and digital technology in the NHS and healthcare sector. Learn how apps, software and digital solutions are improving the patient experience in existing care and how to get involved in a programme of healthcare hackathon and access to finance events to support your product development.