List of hackathons in Oxford, United Kingdom in 2015

Techfugees is a tech community in response to the European refugee crisis. This conference aims to gather the key players involved, re-cap what has been achieved so far, and work further on the best technology and solutions for helping refugees today. We aim to address major issues; the best, most effective apps and sites; how tech can be used to integrate refugees into society; and the Legal aspects that surround the issues. This is a non-profit organisation. The ticket cost of £36 will serve for the venue, lunch and coffee/tea etc. Speakers include: Syrian Asylum Colin Yeo - Barrister and Blogger behind Free Movement Sabir Zazai - Director of Coventry Refugee & Migrant Center Nando Sigona - Researcher on the refugee crisis at University of Oxford Tim Finch - Coordinator of the National Refugees Welcome Board As well as representatives from UNHCR,  and Refugee Council.

Hello everyone! Fresher's Challenge is here!  Fresher's Challenge is a hackathon specially for first years (: Come try your hand at a hackathon in a friendly one day event exclusively for first year KCL Computer Science students. See what it's like at a hackathon and get a free lunch for your trouble while you create awesome stuff! We'll also have pretty awesome prizes! Room: K4U13/14 Theme: To be announced!  Grab your tickets and See you there!  -KCL Tech Society :D

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About  Do you want to have a big impact on edtech?  If you are a teacher, developer or designer with a great idea for an app or just looking to help turn a great idea into reality, this is the weekend event of the year for you!  A weekend hackathon at Google Campus, London, UK to create the next generation of mobile apps for use in the classroom, apps that can have a real impact on learning, plus the opportunity to meet and network with some of the key people in the London EdTech community. The Hackathon is organised by Zzish.  Our mission is to enable almost anyone to create education apps that can have a real impact on learning.   We're levelling the playing field for app creators across the world, allowing them to create apps better, faster and cheaper than ever before. Programme Friday 27 Nov • 5:30pm Arrival • 6:00pm Presentation from Charles Wiles, CEO at Zzish • 6:30pm 1 minute pitches from attendees  • 7:00pm Networking and team forming  • 10:00pm Finish Sat 28 Nov • 10:00am Breakfast  • 1:00pm Lunch  • 6:30pm Dinner  • 8:00 pm Finish Sun 29 Nov • 10:30am Breakfast • 1:30pm Lunch • 4:30pm 5 minute presentations • 5:30pm Judging and awards  • 6pm Finish  Our mission at Zzish is to enable almost anyone to create education apps that can have a real impact on learning.   We're levelling the playing field for app creators across the world, allowing them to create apps better, faster and cheaper than ever before. Prizes - First prize is £5,000 of development effort from Zzish to turn the best application that plugs into the Zzish Learning Hub into a product ready app.  Zzish will also promote the app to their network of 2,000 schools in 60 countries.   - Emerge Educaton  -  2 hour mentoring session. - Educational App Store - Mentoring and advice + free review on the Educational App Store (worth £300) - EltJam - 2 hour training session on digital pedagogy and introduction to instructional design - Neon Adventures - A meeting with Chris Huey, leading investor in UK EdTech ventures (such as Code Kingdoms and Zzish) to advise you on your business model and investor pitch. - ARBOR Education - Mentoring and advice from Ravi Patel, product manager. - Oxford University Press - Mentoring and advice - Teach First - Judging and mentorship. - Edfuse - Mentoring and advice. Plus many more prizes to come! Judges  Kirsten Campbell-Howes Head of Education at Bussu @campbellhowes Henry Warren Innovation and product development expert at Pearson plc @henrywarren Richard Taylor  Edtech expert and advisor at Zzish Ltd @dick_taylor Charles Wiles Co-founder and CEO of Zzish @charleswiles Lucy Ashman Head of Ideas, Teach First Innovation Unit @lucyashman2  Justin Smith Founder and CEO at Educational App Store  @eduappstore Sponsors  There are many ways for companies to partner with the Hackathon. To learn how you can provide support for the developer community, please contact charles AT zzish.com For more information, please check out our website  http://mobileappsfortheclassroom.com/#hackathon P. S. Price to participate is to cover the cost of six meals and drinks over the weekend. REFUND POLICY PLEASE NOTE WE WON'T REFUND PEOPLE WHO REQUEST REFUNDS IN THE LAST WEEK PREVIOUS TO THE EVENT.

The London Business School hosts its 2nd annual Hackathon focused on financial technologies. Sunday, November 29, 2015 from 3:00 PM to 6:30 PM (GMT) is the finale of this 3 day event where financial masterminds of LBS will be combined with the city’s top technical talent to create next-gen fintech solutions.

BeaconValley Global Hackathon is a free-of-charge event themed around smart cities and beacons. It started as a local project to beaconize Kontakt.io's hometown - Krakow, Poland. Today BeaconValley Hackathon is coming back, and this time it goes global! Kontakt.io, together with Proxama, is hosting a “Hack Around the World”, and it will be the first hackathon like this in the beacon industry. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ewIZMyrcisY&feature=youtu.be London - number one startup city in Europe with almost 200,000 people in tech sector. Step out of line and make London the smartest city in the world! Learn more: BeaconValley.org Sign up for the whole event as Hacker, or for a conference as Conference Attendee!

As part of Global Entrepreneurship Week  #MakeItHappen we are organising a 2-day Hackathon-style event where 100 school children aged 16-19  will collaborate with 40 university tech students and 20 mentors from the TechCity community to develop apps that could transform the world around them. AcornHack will unlock young people's entrepreneurial potential by inspiring them to get creative with coding, programming and digital technology. The purpose of this event is to equip  young people with tools that will enable them to become change-makers and entrepreneurs of their own lives. Young people are required to come in teams of 3-5 and should have thought of an idea that they would like to work on prior to arriving. They will pitch their idea to developers and mentors on Saturday and will be developing their apps/web apps throughout the weekend.                                                                            Agenda: SATURDAY - 21 November 10:00 Keynote/Briefing 10:15 Teenagers present ideas (1 minute each) 10:30 Teams are assigned 2 developers and 1 mentor 10:40 Get Making 13:00 - 14:00 Lunch/Inspirational Talk 14:30 Feedback session - speed dating 15:00 Get Making 17:00 Inspirational Talk SUNDAY - 22 November 10:00 Welcome back/Inspirational Talk 10:15 Get Making 13:00 - 14:00 Lunch/Inspirational Talk 14:00 Get Making 15:00 Pitching Workshop 15:20  Pitches  4.30 Judges decide 5:00 Results                                                                        PRIZES 1. Every social idea will be considered for up to 5K grant from UnLtd (team members must be 16+ and have a social enterprise idea) 2. Winners will be invited to a DEMO Day at TechHub to showcase the product they built in front of angels and investors 3. Tours of Campus and Ropemakers sites offerded by TechHub 4. Winners invited to an exclusive invite-only networking event with renowned entrepreneurs at New Entrepreneurs Foundation 5. Kits from KANO computing 6. Codeacademy will organise 3 free workshops in UX/HTML/CSS for all young participants 7. Google VR glasses from BrizTech Ltd. 8. Mentoring support by numerous TechCity companies following the hackathon 9. "A Day in an office" experience at Firefly 10. Every team to receive a copy of Rob Fitzpatrick's The Mom Test: How to talk to customers & learn if your business is a good idea when everyone is lying to you 11.Winners awarded 1/2 day Entrepreneurial One on One Masterclass with Will King, CEO of King of Shaves Other prizes will be added as they get confirmed. For further details on the event, please go to acornhack.acornaspirations.co.uk or send an email to elena.sinel@acornaspirations.co.uk

Interested in how Parliament works; how public sector expenditure is audited; or the key statistics generated by the public sector? Then come to #AccHack15. So are you an armchair auditor? Keen on Parliamentary processes? Use lots of public sector data? Then this is the event for you. With the added bonus of staying in NAO building overnight, if you want. There event will form part of Parliament Week. As last year we will aim to run a follow up event during office hours to show people who could not make the weekend Show and Tell what happened. Who is organising the event? National Audit Office (NAO) - Nick Halliday Office of National Statistics (ONS) - Terry Makewell Parliament - Tracy Green   More details: It will be possible to stay overnight and use showers on Sunday morning. There is space to store bikes. The wifi is robust and was used for this year's National Hack the Government in London.

TrackHack™: the Proximity ID Hackathon is the first-ever hackathon focused solely on the proximity ID technologies that power the Internet of Things. Whether radio frequency identification (RFID), Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) and beacons, or near field communication (NFC), these proximity ID technologies, merged with cloud-based applications enable complete interaction between the physical and digital worlds. We are looking for developers, designers, idea folks, and pitch masters to conjure up the best proximity id applications possible.  Schedule Friday 6pm-9pm - FORMING AND STORMING - Registration, idea pitches, team forming.  Friday 9pm - Participants can stay, start hacking, hangout all night.  Saturday 8am - Doors open, breakfast.  Saturday 9am - Project entries due on TrackHack portal. HACKING BEGINS  Saturday 12pm - Lunch. Sponsor presentations.  Saturday 4pm - Stretch break. Saturday 8pm - Dinner. Organizer presentations. Saturday 12am - Caffeine break. Sunday 4am - Towel Hour. Sunday 8am - Doors open, breakfast.  Sunday 9am - Project demo videos due on TrackHack portal. HACKING ENDS Sunday 9am-12pm - Theater doors open. A/V testing. Pitch practice.  Sunday 12pm - Lunch in Theater. Welcome judges. Sunday 2pm - TEAM PRESENTATIONS. 5min setup. 2min pitch/demo. 5min Q/A.  Sunday 4pm - Judges deliberations. Winners announced.  Sunday 5pm - Closing remarks. Rules Build something using proximity ID technologies. Don’t build something you’ve made before. At least two people per team, but no more than four. You’ll need to show a live demo on stage. Show us how you did it, leave no doubt the work is yours. Your project will be made public on our site. Grant our sponsors Right of First Refusal to acquire your idea. Prizes 1st place - £3282 or $5000 2nd place - £2298 or $3500 3rd place - £985 or $1500 Scoring Working Solution - Hack uses proximity ID tech and live demo works. (25%) Technical Merit - Challenges overcome during build are clear and noteworthy. (25%) Originality - Hack brings something novel to life. (20%) Business Case - Hack built with a business model in mind. (15%) Look and Feel - Apealing UI and an easy user experience. (15%) FAQs Why does hacking end so early on Sunday? This isn't typical of hackathons.  We scheduled the hacking to end at 9am on Sunday purely as a suggestion for hackers to consider. This is because HW hackathons depend heavily on the demo working on stage. This takes a lot of setup and planning to get right. That's why we wanted to provide ample time for teams to access the stage where demos will take place and prepare their demos. You're more than welcome to keep working all the way up to your presentation time but it's the team's responsibility to make sure A/V failures don't happen. If they do, no extra time will be given.   Can I stay overnight throughout the event? Yes, Campus London is a 24hr facility and someone from the TrackHack staff will be present onsite at all times. There are 5 bean bags, 5 fluffy mats, some really comfy chairs, and a bunch of beach balls. Feel bring to bring whatever you need to get some shut eye when you need it.   What are my transport/parking options getting to the event? Campus London is close to public transportation. If you choose to drive in, Finsbry square has car parking. It's on street parking so first come, first serve. If your taking the Train/Tube, get off at the Old Street station which is a couple blocks away from Campus London. Do you provide any travel reimbursement?  We're still working with sponsors to get the event fully funded so can't promise any reimbursement at this time. If things change as we approach the event (as they sometimes do), then we will be able to offer things like reimbursing travel. TBD. What can/can't I bring to the event? The space is limited. Hardware should be kept to a minimum to avoid clutter. Things like laptops, screens, handheld power tools, soldering stations, power strips, and HDMI cables are good things to bring. Review our master list of everything we'll have on site. Meanwhile, you can review pictures and other details of the space here.  I missed the developer call, is there a recording? We got your back. View the session here (compressed and split into 3 parts): Part 1 - NXP and Impinj Part 2 - UGrokIt, PunchThrough, and Omni-ID Part 3 - HID Global, SerialIO, and ACS   Why is the video playback in fast speed? Can you repost at normal speed? The developer call was originally 1 hour and 20 minutes long. Since YouTube limits uploads to 15 minute long videos, it would have been 6 parts and we thought this was excessive to navigate through during the hackathon. So we opted to compress them while maintaining intelligibility. The normal speed version is no longer available, sorry :(.  

Dates and Times THIS IS NOT AN OVERNIGHT HACKATHON 21/11/15 : 0900 - 2100 22/11/15 : 1000 - 1700   Event Hackcess is a Hackathon focused on using digital fabrication and maker technologies help disabled people live more independent lives, improving accessibility through technology. It's a two day event hosted in partnership with Fab Lab London, Autodesk, Ultimaker, Goldsmith University and Whizz-Kidz. We'll have a heap of technology for all you designers, makers, coders and product people to use to design new and exciting assistive technologies during the hackathon. There will be food, drink, electricity, WiFi, 3D printers, digital fabrication equipment and traditional tools (that's drills, hammers, wood and stuff like that) so that you can get on with the real work - changing lives. The event is open to makers and inventors of all ages including children. Young makers should be at least 18 years to attend unless accompanied with a parent/carer. It will be a real opportunity to make change for good. Venue Hackcess is taking place in Goldsmiths University 19th Century converted church - St James, Hatcham. At the end of St James Rd, New Cross.   Find out more at www.hackcess.org