List of hackathons in Oxford, United Kingdom in 2018

This event is brought to you by The Blockchain Connector and King’s College London Blockchain Society. Due to popular demand and positive feedback from our students we are running a series of Blockchain developer workshops in London. This will be our 13th developer workshops so far in London plus one in Zug, Switzerland. We have trained over 250+ developers to date since Jan 2017, our students have gone on to work as a Blockchain Developer and others have set up their own Blockchain start-up. Join our two-day Blockchain Developer hands-on 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 development sessions. To help our students further, we provide one month on-line support through our dedicated private on-line channel. Our goal is to help regular Software Developers become Blockchain Developers. This workshop is also available on-site for start-ups and corporates at your desired location during the weekday and weekends. Day 1 Intro to Blockchains, Bitcoin and Byzantine Fault Tolerant Networks Intro to Ethereum and Smart Contracts Hands-on development on Ethereum Solidity 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 Hands-on development on Ethereum Solidity and Smart Contracts This workshop comes with one month of continued on-line support via our own dedicated Gitter channel. After the workshop, we hope our students will continue coding, learning and exploring 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, we are providing a dedicated Gitter channel after the workshop where our students have up to a month to ask further questions in relation to Ethereum, smart contracts etc. Recommended development experience Minimum of 6 months development experience is required. If you are a student and would like to attend, you must come from a Computer Science and Software Engineering background. 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. Jerome Rousselot Jerome is a co founder, advisor, public speaker and Blockchain developer in the blockchain industry. Jerome left his job as Android TV technical lead at Marvell Technology and relocated to London to create Mycelium UK in 2014. He now helps the Mycelium wallet to break even and deliver its roadmap. Jerome has also been involved in exchanges, micro finance, insurance, fair betting, supply chain, gaming, secure hardware, smart contracts and teaching software developers. Jerome's startup Jita is coached by the Singularity University. He is a fellow of the Startup Leadership Program and obtained his PhD in Computer Science at EPFL, Switzerland. Jerome has a passion for teaching others who are genuinely interested in learning about Blockchain technology. Jack Tanner Jack Tanner is a passionate advocate for blockchain technology and loves teaching technical concepts in an understandable way. He completed a Masters in Computer Science at Imperial College London. He currently works as a senior blockchain developer on the Indorse platform and has been involved in numerous blockchain projects and education events around the world since 2015. There will be plenty of Q&A throughout the whole two day workshop. Date: Saturday 24th & Sunday 25th of March, 2018 Time: 10:00 to 18:00 Workshop Location: King's College London, Room K 1.14, Strand Campus, Strand, London, WC2R 2LS Lunch provided during the workshop on both days. EVENT ORGANIZER This event is brought to you by The Blockchain Connector & King's College London Blockchain Society. The Blockchain Connector Antonio Sabado is the founder of The Blockchain Connector, a training and recruitment company focusing entirely on Blockchain technology. If you are hiring or looking for your next job opportunity in the blockchain space, please get in touch. Antonio is an organiser of several Blockchain focused events in London aimed at software developers and business users. The Blockchain Connector’s goal is to build a blockchain developer community by helping regular developers become blockchain developers. We host regular hands-on developer workshops, technical deep dive sessions and hackathons. We train and recruit developers on behalf of start-ups and global firms working on Blockchain related projects. We are also planning a series of Blockchain focused seminars for business users/non-technical users to take place in London. Hackathons: We have the resources to organise and mentor blockchain based hackathons. Contact us if you are a blockchain based company who would like to sponsor one of our hackathons or you would like us to lend you a helping hand with organising a hackathon.  Developer Training: We have the resources and expertise to offer companies a blockchain developer focused training on site. Alternatively, developers can join our monthly hands-on developer workshop in London.  Hiring: We have the network to help you build your development team. Contact us if you are a company looking to hire or a developer looking for your next job opportunity. Volunteer Developers: We have access to developers who are looking to contribute to open source projects on a volunteer basis. Contact us if you have an Ethereum based project that require volunteer developers. Alternatively, contact us if you are a developer looking to gain commercial blockchain development experience. Future events: Click HERE and bookmark our Eventbrite Homepage to view all our up and coming blockchain related events. Blockchain Developer Monthly Technical Deep Dive meetup: Join our developer focused meetup group held monthly in London where we have over 150+ developers attend on a regular basis. This meetup group is strictly for developers only. Technical talk for a technical audience.  https://www.meetup.com/Blockchain-Workshop-for-Developers/ Contact: If you have any question, please do not hesitate to contact us on antonio@theblockchainconnector.com  or +44 7923 521 833. Web: https://www.theblockchainconnector.com/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/thebc_connector  &  https://twitter.com/bc_workshop LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/15221081/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TheBlockchainWorkshop/ King's College London Blockchain Society The King’s College London Blockchain Society (also known as KCL Blockchain) aims to provide students a means to engage with the London Blockchain community. We do this by organising events, producing research and curating London blockchain events. We are always looking to collaborate with interested parties to bring students and industry members together to advance our knowledge in Blockchain. Contact: For inquiries related to KCL Blockchain Society, please email junyong@kclblockchain.com Further info available on the following sites: Web: https://www.kclblockchain.com/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/11347353/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/kclblockchain/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/kclblockchain

Calling all parties interested in solutions to healthcare problems faced by UK hospitals! Techies, developers, designers, data analysts, health innovators, UX architects, data security experts, business analysts, service designers and others -- all are welcome to participate in the Guy’s and St Thomas’ Hackathon. You'll be challenged to design and prototype an innovative solution to critical issues around the use of patients’ data to improve care, as well as the capture of images onto patients’ secure care records and more. Come and collaborate and compete for recognition and £200 prize vouchers.

The Generation Code Showcase Hackathon will bring together young people, youth workers and tech experts from across the UK to share and celebrate programme achievements to date, but also inspire and shape continued engagement in computer science. At the Hackathon we will: - Celebrate the achievements of Generation Code - Showcase programme excellence through Generation Code Awards - Inspire young people to discover the possibilities of technology

Future Cities Catapult specialises in advancing urban innovation and growing UK business and Space Syntax provides strategic consulting services in the planning and design of cities are hosting Tombolo’s first hackathon: Citidata Hack at the Urban Innovation Centre in London from 16th – 18th March 2018. Data specialists, software developers, user experience (UX) designers and service designers are invited to explore how they can use their skills during a fast-paced weekend at the Urban Innovation Centre to explore how city authorities could improve how they use data to address urban challenges. The amount of data being produced within our cities is rapidly increasing. With this, our decision-makers need to understand how this data can be utilised to create solutions to the challenges our cities face. City authorities from around the UK will present a major challenge that they currently face, and participants will explore this through the insight gained from connecting real data-sets. Multi-disciplinary teams will then have 48 hours to hack a new piece of open source software – the Digital Connector – analyse data to uncover new insights and propose an innovative solution for how each city authority could redesign their services to tackle their local challenge. Weekend Hackathon guests will not only have the chance to win carefully selected prizes but will also benefit from a series of engaging talks from data scientists, digital designers, service designers and open source experts who are currently applying their skills in this space. The Hackathon will be followed by an optional month-long competition, where teams can develop their proposals further for the chance to win an additional prize. Deadline for proposals: 13th April 2018.  At this link you will register your interest. This does guarantee your place, but you will receive confirmation on March 2nd. Check out the Digital Connector in GitHub! Learn more about the Tombolo project and the Digital Connector at www.tombolo.org.uk.

Developers and future FinTech entrepreneurs in the UK! Santander UK invites you to participate in the Santander Hackathon 2018 - Building Banking Your Way. You'll get to take on one of the following challenges: 1. Santander Care, 2. Santander Everywhere, 3. Santander Secure, or 4. MyScore and MyHome. Come and collaborate and compete for a £10,000 prize for the winning team.

Life science developers, health & Safety team members, data scientists and lab scientists in the UK! You can come from pharma, agriculture, biotech, healthcare, academia, or tech and related industries that work with laboratories. The Pistoia Alliance invites you to participate in their President's Series Hackathon - "Hack the Lab". In this 2-day event, you'll be challenged to help create the future, smarter, more efficient and safer lab! Collaborate and compete to develop innovative prototypes for the themes of AI, New Technologies, or Health & Safety.

Future Cities Catapult specialises in advancing urban innovation and growing UK business. We’ve decided to host the City Data Hack 2018 at the Urban Innovation Centre in London from 16th – 18th March 2018. The event is powered by Tombolo, a Future Cities Catapult and Space Syntax R&D project funded by Innovate UK. We’re inviting data specialists, software developers, user experience (UX) designers and service designers to use their skills during a fast-paced weekend at the Urban Innovation Centre and explore how city authorities could improve how they use data to address urban challenges. Three great challenges have been provided by our challenge partners: Skills and Education – Greater London Authority Social Isolation – London Borough of Barking and Dagenham Active Travel Plans – Transport for London Multi-disciplinary teams will have 48 hours to hack data, try our tools, including the Digital Connector and a data visualisation platform, analyse data to uncover new insights and propose an innovative solution for how each city authority could redesign their services to tackle their local challenge. Weekend Hackathon guests will not only have the chance to win carefully selected prizes but will also benefit from engaging mentorship from data scientists, digital designers, service designers and open source experts who are currently applying their skills in this space. The Hackathon will be followed by an optional month-long competition, where teams can develop their proposals further for the chance to win an additional prize. Deadline for proposals: 13th April 2018. At this link, you will register your interest. This does guarantee your place, but you will receive confirmation on March 2nd. Check out the Digital Connector in GitHub! Learn more about the Tombolo project and the Digital Connector at www.tombolo.org.uk.

Techies in Hertfordshire! The Hertfordshire Branch of BCS, The Chartered Institute for IT invites you to participate in their Helloworld Hackathon. You'll get to network with like-minded individuals and to collaborate on designing and developing a solution to a real-world challenge. Showcase your programming skills and compete for a range of prizes.

To mark the launch of the new MSc in Energy Systems and Data Analytics, the UCL Energy Institute has teamed up with Voltaware and the UCL Data Science Society for an energy data hackathon.  The challenge will be to utilise data from Voltaware’s proprietary home energy monitoring system and to come up with a machine learning algorithm that performs best at identifying the sources of energy consumption in a home using high frequency electricity metered data. This is known as energy disaggregation using non-intrusive load monitoring. A training data set will be provided and the algorithm that demonstrates the highest accuracy on a test data set will be the metric. Teams are allowed to whichever tools they deem best and any other sources of data they can think of.  Enjoy a weekend of hacking and problem solving investigating how data science can be used in the energy industry.  Prizes: Voltaware are sponsoring a £500 prize for the winning team as well as offering the opportunity to do summer internships. Who can attend:  We’re looking for creative people interested in energy and using data science to tackle challenging problems. The competition is open only to undergraduates. Maximum team size is 3 people. Where and when:  The competition will take place at the UCL Energy Institute, Central House in room 225, starting at 2pm on the 9th March, ending at 6pm on the 10th March.

Please note: this is a technical deep dive talk strictly for software engineers, software architects and computer science/software engineering students only. We will therefore review all registrations and we will send you an email to confirm your seat. We require each attendee to register on Eventbrite to attend this event. Please complete the registration form provided. Security at the venue will not allow entry to anyone without a valid ticket. This is a private event and we have the right to refuse entry. This event is made possible thanks to WeWork for sponsoring our venue.  This event is brought to you by The Blockchain Connector and King’s College London Blockchain Society Headline: Lessons on Building a Blockchain for Finance. A technical talk for Developers. Requirement: Please bring your laptop with you. We will have some hands-on coding sessions. Abstract: What is so different about public and private blockchains and why is this so important to enterprise finance and businesses? Learn about the technical and cryptographic nuances of building a blockchain and implementing it in real life use cases. We will also be talking about Adjoint’s new distributed ledger and smart contract language and how easy it is to start and build real and robust applications leveraging blockchain technology. We will also discuss the following: 1) real life use cases 2) programming language theory 3) distributed systems/ consensus in uplink 4) cryptography in uplink About Adjoint: Adjoint offers a smart contract platform and distributed ledger solutions designed to improve efficiency, security, and compliance in modern finance. Its revolutionary technology was built using the latest research in cryptography, type systems and formal verification. Enterprises can quickly deploy, maintain, verify and execute smart contracts globally. Such technology helps enterprises reduce costs, mitigate risks and improve margins. Founded in 2016, the company has offices in Boston, MA and London, UK. For more information, please visit www.adjoint.io Location: WeWork, Waterhouse Square, 138 Holborn, London, EC1N 2SW Schedule: 18:30 – 19:00 Registration & Networking drinks sponsored by WeWork. 19:00 - 19:10 Intro from The Blockchain Connector & King’s College London Blockchain Society 19:10 - 19:15 Lightning intro from the audience. We are providing an opportunity to our audience to present for two minutes. The topic must focus around a blockchain based product/platform you are building. Please inquire by sending an email to antonio@theblockchainconnector.com 19:15 - 20:15 Adjoint main presentation 20:15 - 21:00 Q&A with Adjoint 21:00 onwards - Networking drinks at a nearby pub  EVENT ORGANIZER This event is brought to you by The Blockchain Connector and King’s College London Blockchain Society. The King’s College London Blockchain Society (KCL Blockchain) aims to provide students a means to engage with the London Blockchain community. We do this by organising events, producing research and curating London blockchain events. We are always looking to collaborate with interested parties to bring students and industry members together to advance our knowledge in Blockchain. For enquiries, please email us at junyong@kclblockchain.com Further info available on the following sites: Website: https://www.kclblockchain.com/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/11347353/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/kclblockchain/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/kclblockchain   Antonio Sabado is the founder of The Blockchain Connector, a training and recruitment company focusing entirely on Blockchain technology. If you are hiring or looking for your next job opportunity in the blockchain space, please get in touch. Antonio has 10+ years experience working closely with global Investment Banks placing and managing highly skilled eTrading Technology professionals. Antonio has an extensive network, ranging from mid to senior level technology and business professionals across various sectors. He is an organiser of several Blockchain focused events in London aimed at software developers and business users. The Blockchain Connector’s goal is to build a blockchain developer community by helping regular developers become blockchain developers. We host regular hands-on developer workshops, technical deep dive sessions and hackathons. We train and recruit developers on behalf of start-ups and global firms working on Blockchain related projects. We are also planning a series of Blockchain focused seminars for business users/non-technical users to take place in London. Hackathons: We have the resources to organise and mentor blockchain based hackathons. Contact us if you are a blockchain based company who would like to sponsor one of our hackathons or you would like us to lend you a helping hand with organising a hackathon. Developer Training: We have the resources and expertise to offer companies a blockchain developer focused training on site. Alternatively, developers can join our monthly hands-on developer workshop in London. Click HERE to join our next workshop.  Hiring: We have the network to help you build your development team. Contact us if you are a company looking to hire or a developer looking for your next job opportunity. Volunteer Developers: We have access to developers who are looking to contribute to open source projects on a volunteer basis. Contact us if you have an Ethereum based project that require volunteer developers. Alternatively, contact us if you are a developer looking to gain commercial blockchain development experience. Future events: Click HERE to view all our up and coming blockchain related events. Contact: If you have any question, please contact us on antonio@theblockchainconnector.com or +44 7923 521 833. Web: https://www.theblockchainconnector.com/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/thebc_connector & https://twitter.com/bc_workshop LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/15221081/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TheBlockchainWorkshop/ We are the go to place for all technical deep dive sessions on Blockchain Technology. Join our developer focused meetup group held monthly in London. This meetup group is strictly for software engineers, software architects and computer science/software engineering students only. Technical talk made for a technical audience. All developers are welcome. Join us on https://www.meetup.com/Blockchain-Workshop-for-Developers/