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How to get a meter level accuracy on Android
12 Nov - 06:00 PM
London, United Kingdom
Nowadays our smartphones can locate us with 5-15m accuracy in an open environment. What if we could change it, make it better?
    Block-Sprint Kick Off Event
    11 Nov - 06:00 PM
    London, United Kingdom
    The launch of Block-Sprint, the two week blockchain hackathon organised by UCL CBT and Ripple.
      General Election Emergency Hack Day
      09 Nov - 11:00 AM
      London, United Kingdom
      A General Election is upon us. We need powerful election tech to get the Tories out for good.
        BML Presents - Open Data Machine Learning Hackathon #1
        09 Nov - 11:00 AM
        London, United Kingdom
        Join us for our first-ever Open Data Machine Learning Hackathon at Frequency Cafe & Co-working space at Kings Cross in London! During this hackathon, you will use open data from UK central government, London Datastore, the office of rail and road (ORR), Network Rail (NR), Transport for London (TfL), UK data service, NASA or even Kaggle.com to develop and deploy machine learning models that can be used to predict, classify and forecast insightful trends or automate repetitive tasks.  Attendees can pitch ideas and form teams around them. Teams can then work on developing, training and deploying ML models on the cloud that can be used for inference. Spaces for this hackathon are limited. OPEN DATA SOURCES (Feel free to use other sources)===================UK Government Open Datahttps://data.gov.uk/ Office of Rail and Road Open Datahttps://dataportal.orr.gov.uk/ Network Rail Operational Data Feeds:https://datafeeds.networkrail.co.uk/ntrod/login;jsessionid=5079EF12028EE157FD563C87A8331AE5 Transport for London Open Data:https://tfl.gov.uk/info-for/open-data-users/our-open-data UK Data Service:https://www.ukdataservice.ac.uk/ London Datasourcehttps://data.london.gov.uk/ Kaggle Datasetshttps://www.kaggle.com/datasets UC Irvine Machine Learning Datasetshttps://archive.ics.uci.edu/ml/datasets.php NASA Open Data https://open.nasa.gov/open-data/ ABOUT - VENUE SPONSOR - FREQUENCY CAFE==================Frequency Cafe has kindly agreed to sponsor us for this event. A word from Frequency Cafe:"Frequency is a specialty coffee shop, tucked in the heart of Kings Cross, just a short walk from the station. Frequency aims to bring the finest coffee, food and drinks to the city in a stylish and creative environment. Every evening our cafe turns into a cosy dimly bar serving quality beer, wine and cocktails. We look forward to welcoming youWebsite: https://frequencycoffee.com/ Please support the cafe and co-working space by purchasing drinks and food while participating in this hackathon. Food Menu:https://www.dropbox.com/s/kmnl1ylkvcbsndc/Frequency%20-%20Food%20Menu.pdf?dl=0 Table Menu:https://www.dropbox.com/s/c86j0b3mnpbzyup/Table%20Menu.pdf?dl=0
          Idea & Prototype Hackathon
          09 Nov - 10:30 AM
          London, United Kingdom
          Come and join us to help turn some of the week’s ideas in action. This is an opportunity to work together and start connecting people, resources and ideas shared at the shop as a way of enabling new projects and activities to happen.
            Hack the Journey
            09 Nov - 09:00 AM
            London, United Kingdom
            Build the bold new solutions that will transform the travel industry using Amadeus Self-Service Travel APIs, and win over £7,000!
              Skoll Invest Fest – Saturday 9th November
              09 Nov - 09:00 AM
              Oxford, United Kingdom
              Please join us for the Skoll Invest Fest! A fast paced, collaborative, hackathon event on Sunday 3rd November and Saturday 9th November. These are two separate events; you can attend a single event or both. Please sign up to each Eventbrite separately. The Skoll Centre for Social Entrepreneurship has partnered with Chivas Venture for the last 5 years to make the Chivas Venture one of the most prominent social entrepreneurship competitions globally, with finalists impacting over 2 million lives in over 50 countries. This year we have expanded this programme to include Oxford MBA students who are looking to develop skills and experience in impact investing and due diligence. Form part of a select team of MBA students and alumni that will participate in a hackathon event, analysing current social businesses from 25 countries. During each day you will work in pairs and groups to analyse between 10 – 15 social businesses each. You will gain valuable first-hand experience and delve into the nuances of social business due diligence. Finalists from each country will present at the Chivas global final event in June 2020. Come along if you want to: -       have a hands-on experience and analyse current social businesses. -       learn more about the early stage due diligence process and how social business competitions feed into the impact investment ecosystem. -       understand impact investment due diligence from the ‘investors perspective’. -       help choose who gets the opportunity to pitch for up to $1m of funding. Who is this for? This event is an experiential learning opportunity for Saïd Business School, MBA 19 – 20 candidates, attendees of the Impact Investment Bootcamp and MBA alumni only. We have up to 75 places available. Which 26 countries are participating? Chile, Belgium, Netherlands, Argentina, Mexico, Nigeria, Australia, England, Scotland, Spain, Kenya, Thailand, Italy, Colombia, South Africa, Israel, Greece, Japan, Brazil, Poland, Portugal, USA, Vietnam, China, Bulgaria and Canada. The current agenda:  9:00:                      Coffee and welcome 9:15 – 10:00:          Introduction (outlining due diligence process and case studies) 10:00 – 13:00:         Invest Fest Hackathon 13:00 – 13:45:        Lunch provided (probably Pizza) 13:45 – 16:45:        Invest Fest Hackathon 16:45 – 17:15         Reflections and wrap up Food and refreshments will be provided. Please sign up to attend the Skoll Invest Fest. You will need to bring a laptop and charger to participate in this event. Privacy Policy Eventbrite processes data (including any personal data you may submit by responding to this invitation) outside of the European Economic Area. Please submit only any personal data which you are happy to have processed in this way, and in accordance with Eventbrite's privacy policy applicable to attendees. If you prefer not to use Eventbrite for responding to this invitation, you may respond directly to skollcentre@sbs.ox.ac.uk.
                Data and Community: Homelessness, housing and the digital divide.
                08 Nov - 07:00 PM
                Bristol, United Kingdom
                A Bristol and Bath Hackathon, sponsored by Innovate UK
                  Block-Sprint Application Evening
                  08 Nov - 06:00 PM
                  London, United Kingdom
                  Find a team and apply for Block-Sprint, the two week blockchain hackathon organised by UCL CBT, Ripple and Capital Enterprise.
                    Jolt Members Hackathon
                    08 Nov - 09:00 AM
                    London, United Kingdom
                    The Jolt version of a co-working space. Bring your work, grab a seat at the table, connect to the wifi and get your head down!