List of hackathons in Oxford, United Kingdom in 2018

All engineers, developers, cybersecurity experts, and individuals with awesome techie skills! If you're appalled by the reality that the internet is used to distribute child sexual abuse material, then the Internet Watch Foundation (IWF) and sponsors Banco Santander invite you to participate in the first IWF Online Child Safety Hackathon. You'll be challenged to use your skills and creativity to collaborate on projects including data harvesting, catalogue/hashing, and OSINT (OpenSource Intelligence)/SOCMINT (Social Media Intelligence). The end goal is to limit and ultimately stop offenders distributing their materials on the internet.

Oxford Inspires @ Oxford University, join the largest entrepreneurial conference of the year. This is where successful Founders and Entrepreneurs come to Saïd Business School, Oxford University, to give lectures and masterclasses, letting you meet and learn from them in person, attracting hundreds of professionals interested in the art of entrepreneurship every year. The conference is a great way to gain commercial awareness and immerse yourself in thought leadership about entrepreneurial innovations. You will have the opportunity to get inspired, get informed and get ahead. On Saturday, join in the Facebook Community Dev Challenge Hackathon, either bring your own hacking or team up with our 1 Million Women To Tech hackathon, with the chance to win special prizes for the best software project. On Sunday, attend our conference specifically designed for start-ups and social enterprises to receive specialist advice and support for your business idea. Is your idea/project/prototype/company investment-worthy?  This year we are proud to have Simon Gosling, Futurist of Unruly among other amazing speakers who will gradually be announced on our Facebook page! Come, meet, learn and network.  Join the Facebook event  to keep up-to-date with all of our events and speaker announcements!  Who should attend? - Women interested in technology- Entrepeneurs- Start-up owners- HR and workplace managers- Anybody with an interest in business, technology, diversity, and social impact. What topics are on offer? - Saturday: How to Empower and Uplift 1 Million Women through Remote Learning and Technology  Discover how to harness technology for the power of social improvement. Join a community of hackers and coders who are interested in combatting the gender disparity in STEM fields. - Sunday: How to Raise your First Million as a Start-Up from Angel and Venture Capital Investment Receive specialist advice from business professionals with years of experience in the field of start-ups. Accelerate your social impact and streamline your vision!  In collaboration with: Oxford University Press 1 Million Women to Tech Facebook Developer Circles FAQs Are there ID or minimum age requirements to enter the event? There are no minimum age requirements, but if you have bought a student ticket then please bring your student ID to avoid being refused entry.   How can I contact the organiser with any questions? You can message our Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/OxEntrepreneurs/ Do I have to bring my printed ticket to the event? Yes, or to reduce waste, you can simply show your ticket on your phone.    

Young people (aged 18-26) living in and around the Borough of Hackney! If you've got a start-up idea that could help solve community challenges in Hackney, then you're invited to participate in Lead4Hope - HACKney For Social Change. You'll be challenged to design and prototype a solution to a social problem faced by young people in the Borough.

Want some communal motivation to try to get those lingering projects cracked? I’m organising a one or two day “hackathon” (doesn’t have to be digital work) where a few people get together with their own projects / workload and try to get one of those lingering jobs cracked. This isn't really a networking event, and there won't be any classes on motivation, time management or anything like that. You'll also have to solve your own problems. It’s a day for dedicated individual work to get your own projects cracked. Other people working on their own projects will help to create an atmosphere of motivation, and can offer moral support.  I’m going to be working on finalising a digital project, but it can be anything: sorting out your marketing, setting up an accounts system, writing a chapter of your book, knitting a jumper for someone’s Christmas present - I don’t care. 

This event is brought to you by The Blockchain Connector, workonblockchain.com and VOLT Project. Due to popular demand and positive feedback from our students, we are running a series of blockchain developer workshop in London. This will be our #18th workshop so far in London plus one in Zug, Switzerland. We have trained over 350+ developers to date since Jan 2017. A number of our students have gone on to work as a developer in the blockchain space and others have set up their own blockchain start-up. Join our two-day workshop and be at the very forefront of this new technology. Our workshop consists of topics that all future blockchain developers must know and we incorporate plenty of hands-on coding sessions. To help our students further, we provide one month on-line support free of charge via our own dedicated private on-line channel. Our goal is to help regular software developers enter the blockchain space. This workshop is also available on-site for start-ups and corporates at your desired location. Some of the areas we cover but not limited to are: Day 1 Intro to Blockchains, Bitcoin and Byzantine Fault Tolerant Networks plus more... Intro to Ethereum and Smart Contracts plus more... Series of hands-on coding on Ethereum and Smart Contracts Day 2 Smart Contracts Security and Ethereum Internals - Cryptography, Consensus, EVM, Privacy plus more... Smart Contracts Design and Best Practices What to know as a Blockchain Developer plus more... Series of hands-on coding on Ethereum and Smart Contracts To promote diversity and encourage more women to enter the blockchain space, workonblockchain.com are offering FREE tickets to female software engineers. Please complete the form provided by selecting the FREE ticket option and we will review your application.  Minimum requirement to enter the course To qualify, 6 months of coding experience is required or currently studying/recently graduated from a computer science/software engineering subject. This workshop consists of a series of hands-on coding exercise. With this in mind, as a minum requirement, our students must be proficient in writing code. Post two-day worksop After the workshop, we hope our students will continue to code and explore the Ethereum platform, and in good time, we hope our students will have the opportunity to work professionally in the blockchain space. With this in mind, to help our students succeed, everyone have up to a month to ask further questions in relation to Ethereum, Solidity, Smart Contracts, Security, Privacy, Scalability etc. Right to cancel our workshop If we don't reach the minimum number of students for our workshop, we have the right to cancel and reschedule the date, alternatively we will refund the total cost of your ticket.  We have a great line up of trainers that will help you break into the Blockchain space. Matthew Di Ferrante Matthew is a Software Engineer with a passion for Information Security, Cryptography, and Distributed Networks. He has worked in many different areas, from hardware, embedded and kernel programming, to data mining, analytics, and network / systems programming. He first started learning programming at 12 years old, and is completely self taught, both on the practical side of programming, and on the theoretical side of computer science, mathematics, and cryptography. Matthew was first exposed to Bitcoin in late 2010 due to his interest in information security, as Bitcoin was first mainly used on darknets/Silk Road, and got fully involved in the Blockchain space around the time Ethereum started to exist - beginning his foray while living with Vitalik Buterin and long time friend Vlad Zamfir (Creator of Ethereum's Casper Protocol) in London for a few months. Matthew currently works as a Technical Lead at Clearmatics developing Blockchain Technology for financial use cases, a member of the Ethereum Foundation Security Team and FounderlLead auditor at Zero Knowledge Labs focusing on smart contracts security auditing. In his free time, Matthew works on personal hardware projects, gives Information Security and Blockchain related talks at various events, and organise one of the largest monthly Information Security events in the North-West. Matthew’s design for a Secure Oracles Reputation System on Ethereum recently won first place for Smart Contract Security at the Thomson Reuters HackETHon. Matthew will be introducing developers to the way the Blockchain works technically, and what its potential applications could be. He will cover the workings and history of the Bitcoin Blockchain, as well as Ethereum and its concept of smart contracts that allow Turing complete code to execute on a virtual machine on the Blockchain. Matthew will also talk about Smart Contracts Security and Ethereum Internals. He will discuss the most important areas to know as a Blockchain Developer. Matthew will hold a Q&A session after each topic. Nick Johnson Nick Johnson is a Senior Software Engineer and has been working in the software engineering space for the past 16 years. Nick is currently working as a Software Engineer for the Ethereum Foundation and prior to this, he worked at Google for a number of years. He brings with him a wealth of knowledge and expertise in Solidity that he loves to share and will be teaching how to write and develop smart contracts during the hands-on development session, and will give students the opportunity to ask questions in relation to the Ethereum platform. Laurence Kirk After a successful career writing low latency financial applications in the City of London, Laurence was captivated by the potential of Blockchain Technology, and in particular smart contracts. Two years ago, Laurence moved to Oxford and set up Extropy.io, a consultancy working with start-ups in the UK and overseas, developing applications on the Ethereum platform. He brings with him a wealth of real world experience that he loves to share with those new to this area. Laurence hold a Physics degree from Durham University, and currently taking his MSc in Software Engineering at Oxford University. In addition to giving talks, mentoring at hackathons, and running groups about Blockchain Technology, Laurence also organise Artificial Intelligence and Data Science groups in Oxford. During the workshop, Laurence will be teaching Solidity (an object-oriented programming language for writing smart contracts) from the simplest smart contract up to interacting with a web application. The focus is very much the practical techniques that are needed when developing on Ethereum. The sessions will be very hands on, encouraging students to practice and explore Ethereum and raise any questions students might have regarding the Ethereum platform. Patrick McCorry Patrick McCorry is a Research Associate at University College London and he will soon join Kings College London as an Assistant Professor. His focus is cryptocurrencies, smart contracts, cryptography and decentralised systems. Patrick is the UK’s first PhD graduate in Cryptocurrencies and his work has recently appeared at Devcon3, Scaling Bitcoin 2017, Breaking Bitcoin 2017 and BPASE 2018 alongside numerous academic venues. Date: Saturday 7th & Sunday 8th of July, 2018 Time: 10:00 to 18:00 Workshop Location: Room K4U.12, King's College London, Strand, London, WC2R 2LS Lunch provided during the workshop on both days. Networking session from 18:00 onwards. EVENT ORGANIZER Work on Blockchain & The Blockchain Connector workonblockchain.com is a hiring platform for technical professionals. It’s the simplest way for blockchain engineers, CTO's, software engineers, UI/UX designers, devops, technical product managers, software engineer interns and researchers to be hired by companies in the blockchain space. You simply create your own profile and wait for companies to apply to you. The platform is aimed at technical professionals currently working in the blockchain space or looking to enter this space for the first time. Platform coming soon. Subscribe here for further updates: https://workonblockchain.com/ Follow us on: LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/work-on-blockchain/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/work_blockchain   The Blockchain Connector is a training company focusing entirely on blockchain technology. We have been running a monthly blockchain developer hands-on workshop since Jan 2017 in London. Please inquire if you would like us to bring our workshop near you by emailing antonio@theblockchainconnector.com  Click HERE to join our next workshop.  Follow us on:  LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/the-blockchain-connector/ Twitter: @thebc_connector and @bc_workshop   Voting over Ledger Technology (The VOLT Project) This project aims to explore applications of distributed ledger technologies (DLT) in domains involving voting and collective decision making. There are many domains in which some form of balloting is required, such as voting on proposals or electing in charities, professional organisations, clubs, trades unions, political parties, and private companies. It is important to run such ballots in a way that the result is accepted by all parties even where they do not trust each other. Follow us on:  Web: http://www.volt-project.org/ Twitter: @VOLT_Project Stay up to date on all our future events: Click HERE to view all our up and coming blockchain related events via our Eventbrite homepage. We are the go to place for all technical deep dive sessions in London. We have on average 150+ blockchain developers, software engineers, UI/UX designers, devops, CTO's, technical product managers, computer science/software engineering students and researchers attend on a regular basis. Technical talk for a technical audience and all levels are welcome, please join us on https://www.meetup.com/Blockchain-Workshop-for-Developers/

Fintech techies in the UK! You're invited to participate in the Fintech Week 2018 Blockchain Hackathon. The event is focused on two of the United Nations' Sustainable Development Goals (SDG). You'll be challenged to come up with an innovative solution that uses Qi Women Currency to support SDG #5 “Gender Equity” in achieving solutions to SDG #2 No Hunger: Women and Ending World Hunger. Collaborate and compete for prizes, based on measures including originality, innovation, and scalability. A special “Quantum Leap SDG Prize" will be awarded solutions that deliver a minimum of 100X change result in the SDG aligned challenge being addressed, and that will affect the lives of at least one billion people by 2030.

Women and girls in the UK! If you're interested in representation in politics, you're invited to participate in the Women In Politics Hackathon. You will hear from some of the most inspirational women in UK politics. Then you'll be challenged to work in groups to come up with creative ideas -- from apps to campaigns, to curriculum change -- for how the representation of women in politics can be improved.

Are you concerned about the spread of fake news and hate speech? Interested in finding ways to change the way that news is shared online? Factmata invites you to attend A Sneak Peek Into Briefr: Tackling Fake News and Misinformation Online. You'll get a sneak peek into the Briefr news sharing platform and get to try out the platform and participate in a hackathon.

IT designers, programmers, developers, entrepreneurs, health care professionals, and VR techie enthusiasts in the UK! If you're interested in the application of VR to healthcare, then you should apply to participate in the VR4REHAB UK Hackathon. You'll get to network work and collaborate with like-minded individuals to come up with innovative new VR-applications that promote better function and outcomes for patients and children with disabilities. Come as a team, or join one at the event and pitch your project to compete for an award for the best ideas!

Connected and autonomous vehicle enthusiasts in the UK! You're invited to participate in the Meridian Hackathon to explore new possibilities to create, share and fuse Connected and Autonomous vehicles data. Come as a team, or join one at the event. You'll have the opportunity to network with experts from leading companies in the field. Prizes will be awarded for the best demonstration insights from CAV data sharing, the best demo of a digital twin, and the best design for CAV cybersecurity.