List of hackathons in Royal Tunbridge Wells, United Kingdom in 2017

The Future of Politics Summit is The Fourth Group's first global gathering to discuss the future of politics worldwide, in the context of the fourth industrial revolution. We'll specifically cover the intersection between politics and technology, and hear from thought-leaders and practitioners. Our aim is to understand the major political challenges and opportunities caused by the fourth industrial revolution, and how we must respond as global citizens. Confirmed speakers Natalie Campbell, Chair of Trustees, Nominet Trust Geoff Mulgan, Chief Executive, Nesta Matt Clifford MBE, CEO, Entrepreneur First Paul Hilder, CIO, CrowdPac Hilary Sutcliffe, CEO, SocietyInside Jon Barnes, author, Democracy Squared Ed Dowding, CEO, Represent.me Mete Coban, CEO, MyLifeMySay Symeon Brown, Reporter, Channel 4 Dan Firth, Director, We Can Win David Wood, Chair, London Futurists Nat Whalley, Founder and Executive Director, Organise Platform Tom Kibasi, Director, IPPR Dr Jason Blackstock, Head of Science, Technology, Engineering, and Public Policy Department, UCL Toni Cowan-Brown, Vice President, NationBuilder Co-hosts Eshaan Akbar, Piccadilly Comedian of the Year 2016 Kirsty Styles, Talent and Skills Lead, Tech North Panels moderator Symeon Brown, Reporter, Channel 4 Break-out moderators Anthony McGuire, Global Partnerships, Facebook Abi Ramanan, Co Founder, ImpactVision Tat-Seng Chiam, ‎Investment Director, Global Innovation Fund Agenda *Click here to access the agenda* Throughout the summit, we will focus on four major pillars which are crucial in building a new politics for the future: POLITICAL IDEAS In previous industrial revolutions, new political philosophies (libertarianism, marxism, utilitarianism, and other -isms) and ideas sprung out which influenced the way people thought and therefore how people acted. What are the new models of governance, organising, and political thinking that will guide and direct the future of politics? POLITICAL ENTREPRENEURS Out of the first three industrial revolutions, we saw the rise of new movements, communities, and groups of people who collectively came together to respond to the major challenges of their day (Chartists, Luddites, Fabians, Capitalists). Each was started by what we call, political entrepreneurs. What are the new movements and communities that are arising in response to the challenges of the fourth industrial revolution, and how to do develop political entrepreneurs to help tackle the major challenges we face? POLITICAL TECHNOLOGY The fourth industrial revolution brings many challenges such as the automation of the labour force, the ethical implications of AI, and the impact of social media on political debate. It also gives humanity the tools to innovate and address old political problems such as low-voter turnout and a lack of diversity in the political class. How can we use technology to improve the future of politics? CHANGE What can we do together as global citizens, governments, businesses, the media, and civic groups to proactively respond to the fourth industrial revolution? Join the conversation Twitter: Follow us @thefourthgroup and use the hashtag #T4G17 to start the conversation Facebook: Join our online group where you can discuss and meet our community, and like our page to get the latest announcements. Newsletter: Sign up here! Tickets There are only 100 tickets, and we operate on a first-come, first-served basis. Who should come? People in politics (policy-makers, activists, campaigners, politicians, civil servants), technology (entrepreneurs, professionals in AI, developers, people who work in tech companies), journalists interested in the intersection between politics and technology, and every citizen interested in the future of politics. What will you get from the conference? Knowledge, ideas, and solutions in regards to politics in the context of the fourth industrial revolution Meet the technology innovators who are developing digital products and services to improve and disrupt politics Meet the political innovators who are actively responding to the challenges and opportunities brought about by technology Understand the challenges and opportunities brought about by the new industrial revolution About The Fourth Group The Fourth Group was established to understand the social, economic, and political impact of the fourth industrial revolution, and to develop solutions. Our mission is to build a global community of people actively responding to the new challenges and opportunities in the digital age. Politically, we aren’t left or right – we are forward; toward a better future for mankind. Since we were established in the summer of 2016, we have created an online community of over 2,000 people and have run hub activities around the world in Berlin, Bogota, Bratislava, Bucharest, London, Paris, Prague, Regensburg, and Vancouver. We are a diverse group of people including political scientists, AI experts, campaigners, developers, civil servants, C-level executives, academics, designers, students, artists, entrepreneurs, and politicians. Our people are passionate and solution driven and they meet to develop new technologies, philosophies, and visions for a new politics in the digital age. We are powered entirely by volunteers. What do we do? We convene, collaborate, and create. We have organised keynote speeches, roundtables, and dinners to bring the community together.  We’re currently developing the School of Politics, an online education platform to teach citizens the fundamentals of political participation. We’re working together to define a new framework for global cooperation to address global problems. We’ve also started developing the world’s first Politician AI to automate tasks politicians are expected to do through our hackathons where teams have created video-truth-feeds, apps to inform the electorate, and chatbots. On top of all that, we plan to expand our offline communities to North America, Africa, Asia, the Middle East, and Oceania. Who have we worked with? As an independent voluntary organisation, we have worked with and partnered with governments, businesses (start-ups, major technology companies, and others), the media, and civic organisations who have helped in a variety of ways. This includes sponsorship, and pro bono support with speakers, community growth, strategic thinking, programme advice, and venues. We are grateful to everyone who has helped our community thus far. If you would like to partner with us, email join@fourth.group. Contact us For more information, go to www.fourth.group or contact join@fourth.group.

Women and non-binary designers, engineers, and other techies! Think you'd like to help the Royal National Lifeboat Institution achieve a 50% reduction in drowning in the UK and Republic of Ireland? GeekGirl Meetup & Facebook invite you to participate in a Hackathon: Be A Lifesaver. You'll be challenged to create solutions that empower local communities to reduce drowning while supporting their economies and helping people enjoy their waterside locations.

UX designers, visual designers, engineers, content strategists and other techies in and around London! Think you'd like to help the Royal National Lifeboat Institution achieve a 50% reduction in drowning in the UK and Republic of Ireland? Ladies That UX, GeekGirl Meetup & Facebook invite you to participate in a Hackathon: Be A Lifesaver. You'll be challenged to create solutions that empower local communities to reduce drowning while supporting their economies and helping people enjoy their waterside locations.

Fintech developers, ideators, coders, and designers! Startupbootcamp InsurTech London invites you to participate in the InsurTech Hackathon. The theme of this 48-hour event is Customer Driven Claim Processing using AI and Robotics. You'll be challenged to collaborate to design and prototype an innovative solution for the insurance industry.

Interested in how corporations abuse the public's data? How could our online footprint be used against us? Do you want people to understand what data corporations collect and how to champion privacy? Jonathan Yeo and Near Future Society invite you to participate in a 36-hour event at Jonathan Yeo's studio, where teams will create an interactive experience of the most dystopian and utopian use of social media, facial recognition, facial tracking and data mining.

Clinical trial professionals, techies and researchers in the Imperial College London community and partners! EIT Health UK-Ireland invites you to participate in their Hackathon focused on the use of Blockchain Distributed Ledger Technology in Clinical Trials Design. As part of this event, you'll get to participate in a hackathon where you'll prototype new ways to enable data sharing to support adaptive clinical trials.

Have you ever been to a graduate fair and found that you are just another face in the crowd? Are you an undergraduate or graduate who has studied science, technology, engineering or maths? Ever came back with lots of leaflets about companies but not felt you've actually connected with anyone who can push your career forward. newtongrads.com presents "The Ultimate Graduate Fair" We will help you be articulate and showcase your unique personality.  If you were ever put off going after your dream job, senior position or starting your own then newtongrads will help to you stand out and work directly with the employer. We will help you be articulate and showcase your unique personality. If you were ever put off going after your dream job, senior position or starting your own business, please think again. Why attend?  This is an opportunity to connect with STEM recruiters and discover ways to get noticed in the STEM industry. Employers want to know that you not only have the leadership skills to inspire people in a company to follow a vision but they also want to make sure you can deliver results because that is the true sign of a leader. This event is about getting you noticed as a future leader for the right reasons & providing you guidance to make sure you're positioned as one.                       ******Exclusive Hackathon - Mystery Hackathon sponsored by our sponsor*****                   Winners of Hackathon will get a mystery prize and a chance at an internship What you will gain: Be inspired by the accomplishments of today's leading STEM business leaders  Build connections with future employers Gain guidance to excel in your employability endeavors  Our guarantee: 1)     Direct access to STEM companies 2)     Top and secret tips about career progression. 3)     Diverse employers within the STEM sector 4)     Speakers who are inspiring and want to inspire other people (paying it forward) 5)     Professional & welcoming atmosphere   6)     Opportunity to sign up to our newtongrads website    FAQs  Do I have to bring my printed ticket to the event? No we will have your name, so just bring yourself Where can I contact the organiser?  Follow us on Twitter here, get some insights before, during and after the event

Umbraco techies in the UK! If you're planning to attend the annual Umbraco UK Festival 2017, then don't miss participating in the Umbraco Hackathon and Bug Fixathon. This is your chance to show off your skills by finding and fixing bugs in your favourite open source content management system. Hack alongside the best-of-the-best including Cogworks and Umbraco engineers.

This month's edition of Blockchain Beginners will feature an all-female panel, comprised of some of the most influential women in this space. 50% of all ticket proceeds will be donated to Project Girl Code*, a non-profit organisation teaching digital literacy skills and providing IT training to girls and young women who are vulnerable to trafficking, slavery or forced marriage. Once again we are being hosted by SapientRazorfish in their stunning London office with support from eToro. We will have a panel of 3 speakers followed by a Q&A session and then networking before moving on to the pub. Our first speaker to be confirmed is Aga Gajownik, a professional speaker specialising in covering topics around tech for good. She recently started working with Wrisx, a startup that uses blockchain to minimise risk around investing in emerging markets (https://wrisx.com/). In the past, Aga helped to launch www.sotec.io who won 2 hackathons around using tech for good.  Further speakers and the MC are to be announced shortly. *We do not have a formal partnership with Project Girl Code at present. The money will be donated once funds are released from Eventbrite. This is within 8 days of the event being completed.

EQUIwikiPEDIA is an initiative to create an online filtering device, together with the Wikimedia Foundation, for equality and active change making within academia and beyond. Gender and race bias is a well-known problem within humanities as well as other fields of higher education. This is a call to join forces within Royal College of Art and across London to challenge current standards within our field and create an online filtering device for accessing web-based free-content, featuring women, people of colour, differently abled/ people with disability, non-western origin, and LGBTQIA+ exclusively. The aim is to have a positive effect on equality in representation by making it easier to find a wider representation of perspectives besides well established and overrepresented cannons, on any topic or search word. About the event As part of our AcrossRCA research and building week we invite you for a 1-day hackathon, hosted at Royal College of Art. Our task will be to build a functional prototype for a filtering device, enabling the user of getting a more relevant Wikipedia search results when looking for notable people, on any search word, who are marginalised due to systemic bias – women, people of colour, differently abled/ people with disability, non-western origin, and LGBTQIA+.  Skills and experience required As EQUIwikiPEDIA should be developed by people with experience and knowledge from effected intersections of underrepresentation, the initiative is extra open for people of underrepresented groups, with experience of academia, activism, programming, web development, web-design and PR. Catering There will be some food and drinks provided during the day for attendees. Please let us know if you have special dietary requirements and we will endeavour to provide suitable alternatives where required. Code of conduct All attendees, sponsors, partners, volunteers and staff at our hackathon are required to agree with the following code of conduct. Organisers will enforce this code throughout the event. We expect cooperation from all participants to ensure a safe environment for everybody. https://hackcodeofconduct.org/  Terms and conditions By attending the event, you agree to license all ideas under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License. We feel that this is the best way to encourage innovation but aspire to make the outcome more widely accessible, avoiding commodification.  Ticket policy Tickets are released on a "first-come, first-served" basis. Tickets are limited to one per person. If you would like someone to attend with you, please ask them to register themselves for the event. Please ensure your details are correct, as these will be checked by security on arrival. If you can no longer attend, please cancel your ticket to allow others to attend, as spaces are limited. We reserve the right to cancel tickets ahead of the event. If you have any questions or comments please get in touch at cicilia.ostholm@network.rca.ac.uk . Schedule 10.00 – Registration, information and coffee 10.45 – Team up!    11.00 – Hack! 12.00 – Lunch will be offered 15.00 – Presentations 16.00 – Event (official) Close 17.30 – Art Bar Opens (https://www.rca.ac.uk/studying-at-the-rca/facilities/locations/eating-and-drinking/) Equipment Please bring your own laptop and any other equipment you are planning to use. Getting to the event The event is being held at Royal College of Art, at the Kensington campus, Kensington Gore, London. The whole day will take place on the ground floor our building, which is fully wheelchair-friendly. The Art Bar is accessible with lift and has an accessible WC. Please let us know in advance if you have any access requirements or if you have any questions about the event’s accessibility. We want to make sure you feel confident about participating.  For further instructions please see RCA Maps & Visiting https://www.rca.ac.uk/contact-us/maps-visiting/ We are not responsible for any costs or expenses even if the event is moved or canceled.