List of hackathons in Royal Tunbridge Wells, United Kingdom in 2018

Connecting The World Through IOT We're exploring a more connected world this month, discussing how smart devices are transforming our homes, healthcare and the cities around us in the ever changing world of smart devices. How do we design products and services for the Internet of Things which deliver a more human experience. It's not a 'Back to the Future' marathon, it's happening right now. We're designing a more connected world and inviting you to join the discussion! We'll be joined by: Avril O'Neil - Co-founder & Creative Director @ Ding Products Tim Daines - UX & Service Designer (Previously) Cambrige Consultants Priya Prakash - Founder @ D4SC (Design for Social Change) Panellist - Alberta Soranzo - E2E Service Design Directo @ Lloyds Banking Group --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- TICKET ONLY EVENT To attend our events, we require you to buy an advanced ticket – Please make sure you purchased a ticket to secure your place! Price includes entry to the event, plus drinks (Beers, Wines, Soft Drinks) and food!! 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Join them and put your customers at the heart of your digital strategy. Find out more on their website. We Work: WeWork are a global network of workspaces where companies and people grow together. They transform buildings into dynamic environments for creativity, focus, and connection. If you like the space we're hosted in, be sure to reach out to the We Work team to explore their co-working options --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- THE EVENT Tuesday 17th April 2018 @ The Pentagon, 48 Chiswell St, London EC1Y 4XX The internet of things is driven by the idea that our dependance on screens is not the concluding form in human's connection with the world around us. It suggests that by using sensors and building an infrastructure around us, practically any object can be networked. As experience designers it is our duty to ensure that the human needs are at the core of the design process. If a product doesn't solve a real human need, what's the point of fancy connected technology? In this event we are asking what realistically need to be connected. We will be speaking with designers working on the cutting edge of IOT, leveraging the technology to offer more connected homes, intelligent reactive medical devices and smarter cities. Join us to explore how by utilising this technology, we are able to bring humans and computers closer than ever before, to design seamless experiences which will transform how we interact with the world around us forever.  Check out the speakers below. With space for 150, we would like to invite you straight from work. With doors opening at the earlier time of 6pm, introductions starting at 6.20 and talks starting at 6.30pm, please aim to arrive on time! We've got some great talks lined up, offering excellent case studies too, so please book now to avoid disappointment. Hiring managers are welcome, and if you are interested in hosting or sponsoring an event with us (and would like to get a taste of what we do), please get in touch with Myles McMorrow and we can hold you a ticket! Tweet the event @TheUXCrunch and let’s get the ball rolling! We look forward to seeing you soon!!! ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------AGENDA 6.00pm - 6.20pm: Registration, Drinks and Networking 6.20pm - 6.30pm - Introductions 6.30pm – 7.30pm: Intro and Talks 1 & 2 7.30pm - 7.40pm - Short Break 7.40pm - 8.40pm: Talk 3 and Panel Discussion/Q&A 8.40pm: Pizza & Networking before leaving. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- TALKS & DISCUSSIONS Avril O'Neil - Co-founder & Creative Director @ Ding Products The Smart (Enough) Home As a company creating smart products, we are part of the current smart-home boom. Ding’s aim is to make objects that respond to a real user need or desire, and not gadgets driven by the capabilities of technology.  When is a smart product smart enough for the user? Avril has worked in the creative industry since 2008, and focuses on the combination of design and technology and how this can be applied to products, installations and education. Avril specialises in concept generation, design, development and agricultural research. Avril has previously worked with clients including Arup, Folk, Samsung, ITV and The National Maritime Museum. Since graduating from Goldsmiths University, Avril has worked as a designer with Kin (kin-design.com) for several years, before starting her own design consultancy ONN Studio (onnstudio.com) with her partner John Nussey. Most recently Avril and John have launched their smart homes company Ding (dingproducts.com) which concentrates on making subtle objects that are smart enough to make your life easy but always blend with the home. Their first product to market is the Ding Smart Doorbell.  Tim Daines - UX and Service Designer (previously) @ Cambrige Consultants Smart Health: User Experience for ubiquitous digital health design Healthcare innovation is messy. It is not what people are natural at doing in well structured disciplines, and requires working with people who already live in a healthcare system. Whilst the heralding of being able to make healthcare more intelligent through the use of Internet of Things, how is user experience design affected when you are no longer just designing for rectanglar screens? Tim will present on the challenges faced with designing connected drug delivery systems in healthcare, where frictionless experiences to improve the management of diseases for patients and stakeholders are the benchmark for success. Tim’s career into connected things (before it became the Internet of Things) began in 1999, where he worked with connected industrial printers to automate cosmetic package printing for Procter and Gamble. Over the next 10 years Tim developed and deployed various network services to support the operations of housing associations, banks and global brands, as well as take time out to teach students and share his experiences of the real-world. As of 2015, Tim has come full circle back to his connected device roots, delivering IoT UX and Service Design work for global, blue chip and startup organisations in the following areas - education, ecommerce, government, medtech, telecomms and energy organisations. Tim has also contributed to a number of publications, presented talks and workshops to aspiring designers at City University, UX Cambridge 2017, Mobile UX London 2017, and won a British Media (2016) and two iF Design (2018) awards. In Tim’s own time, he mentors others at hackathons about how human behaviour informs the design of connected systems. He is an avid traveller and makes the time to travel to various continents, where he forfils his passion for photography and storytelling. Priya Prakash - Founder @ D4SC (Design for Social Change) People + iOT = Smarter Cities that work and “do no evil” The smart city iOT landscape is littered with ambitious technology pilots/services, which have either failed to take off, not had sustainable business models, lack data ethics and are coupled with low user adoption as the experience sucks. Many are iOT based data driven solutions which lack real engagement with the people who will be using these services and do not successfully address the trust and privacy concerns which lead to a vicious low adoption cycle. This leads to low awareness and results in loss of impact, funding, revenue and political backing. But most importantly, fulfilling a real human need. The business case for doing it right leads to better adoption and a rollout of new iOT services which are actually scalable and result in recurring revenue. This talk explores the what, how and why of co-creating ethical, data driven IOT services, with people at their core for a more human future and not just 'traditional' smart cities. Priya Prakash is a designer at and founder of London based award-winning D4SC - Design for Social Change Ltd -The applied urban innovation studio, which develops collaborative products and services combining human and machine intelligence to co-create smarter cities with people.  Changify #SmarterStreets D4SC’s intelligent people-powered decision making platform to improve public infrastructure got awarded by Innovate UK to pilot in Plymouth with Amey Ferrovial. It resulted in reducing average road inspection costs by 22%, increasing citizen satisfaction and contractor responsiveness by 19.8% and is being scaled across UK and Asia. Prakash is on ‘Tech City Insider 100’, IBM’s People for Smarter Cities and featured in FT, Sunday Times, BBC, Wired, Guardian and the Queen’s 2017 Honours list for award winning work in Chinese smart cities using data to improve public safety.  Prior to D4SC, Priya was Head of Mobile Phone User Experience at Nokia where she led the global design team to launch affordable smart phones - Nokia Asha in 144 countries. At BBC, she was lead-designer and co-inventor of iPlayer with joint patents.

Join us on Friday 13th of April for an impactful day full of learning and fun activities! For the first time in London, over 50 girls, aged 11 to 18 years from the most disadvantaged communities of London are invited to the Embassy of Argentine in the UK to learn about the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals, practice Design Thinking, explore the Kano Computer Kit, the iamtheCODE iDEA Curriculum and create with technology and code. Our aim is to address the STEAMD (Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics, Arts, and Design) skills shortage in the UK, to inspire the next generation of young women, as well as push for economic empowerment and inclusion through technology. Girls must be accompanied by a teacher or an adult if under 16. All food and transportation will be provided. Agenda:   9:00 - 9:15      LET’S GO! Welcome & Intros 9:15 - 9:30      Welcome Mariéme Jamme (Founder of iamtheCODE) 9:30 - 9:45      Welcome Facundo A. Santiago (Cultural Affairs) 9:45 - 12:15    Decoding the Global Goals: Sustainable Development Goals Deep Dive and Design Thinking Overview  12:15 - 13:15 Lunch / Mentor mingling, learning and connection 13:15 - 15:15 Bringing it together - Design Thinking, Technology, and the SDGs Girls get into groups and pick their SDG challenges They apply their learnings on Design Thinking to start with empathy, defining their specific problem, and ideating around their solutions with technology Groups start to create their presentations Techstars: Create, don’t just consume Assemble Kano Computer Kits - Why Creating and Not Just Consuming is Important Enter Make Art - Start Basic Challenges 15:15 - 17:00 Finish prototype & Presentation prep Pitching & Judging Girls share their solutions to the panel of judges.  ******* By the end of the day, participants will have had the opportunity to: Decode the 17 UN Sustainable Development Goals (also known as the Global Goals) and understand key indicators that could drive change Get hands-on with the Design Thinking framework to build technology solutions related to the SDGs: Empathy, Define, Ideate, Prototype, Test Make technology and create with code using Kano Kits Work in groups in order to use technology to design a solution to raise awareness around or address specific SDGs - including Goal 4, Goal 5 and Goal 13 (Quality Education, Gender Equality, and Climate Action). Win a prize to take to their respective schools The Cost Free Get in touch  Please email Mariéme Jamme at marieme@iamthecode.org or Ikram Alasow ikram_a@iamthecode.org for more information about the event.

The word ageing can mean different things... living for many years, growing wise and mature - and also senescence, the mysterious process of deterioration in later life that leads to a gradual decline in our health, late-life diseases and eventually the ending of our lives. Thanks to advances in the treatment of infectious disease, people are living longer now, such that senescence is now the main cause of disease worldwide. But unlike infectious disease, the causes of ageing (senescence) remain poorly understood by scientists. Recent advances in the science of ageing are starting to reveal the causes of ageing, and to suggest treatments that could begin to stave off the ravages of senescence, which would allow us (or at least, future generations) to maintain better health in later life. Speaker: David Gems, Professor of Biogerontology, Institute of Healthy Ageing, University College London David Gems is a British geneticist and biogerontologist. He is Professor of Biology of Ageing at University College London where he is also Deputy Director of the Institute of Healthy Ageing. Panel discussion: Mary Matthews Founder of Memrica Memrica is a tech for good company helping active people remember what matters most, to boost confidence, maintain social connections and prolong independence. Thomas Tredinnick CEO of Ally Smart Care Ally, the smart home device for caregivers, keeps families connected and monitors changes in seniors' routines to detect danger or decline in health. Academy London, a Google Space is one of the more recent customisable additions to Google's spaces in London.  Academy London is a unique events venue that supports Google’s education, innovation, and collaboration activities. It is a very adaptable space that hosts and showcases workshops, trainings, upskilling sessions, hackathons and the Google Digital Academy's very own masterclasses for our largest customers. Our primary aim is to strengthen partnerships with key clients and influencers by sharing our knowledge and passion for digital skills through world-class trainers. In doing so, inspiring our clients’ perceptions of digital transformation have been transformed , influencing their approach to their individual business strategies and positively impacting their own customers.

Dear guests and friends of UPF As you may know we have a Young Achievers Group who are chosen from amongst the young people recommended to us by the network of UPF Ambassadors for Peace. This group have already deservedly been awarded Young achiever award because of their public mindedness, efforts and activities over the past few years. In the past this group has worked to support refugees in feeling welcome in the UK and to encourage young adults to engage with parliamentarians among other things. Currently their efforts are focused on mental health, particularly the stigma surrounding it which prevents people, but especially young adults, from discussing it and seeking the support they need. It is our view that although professional advice should always be sought, just being able to talk freely about your mental state will have a positive impact. The young achievers’ passion for challenging the stigma around mental health issues is driven by the loss of Matteo’s girlfriend’s sister whom committed suicide during the Christmas Holidays 2017. Matteo is the founder of ShoutOutUK and a Young Achiever. The issues surrounding mental health are broad and varied but after a brainstorming session we came to the conclusion that it is because of the stigma around mental health that prevents people, especially young people, from seeking help. The stigma itself is a complex issue and it is also through the brainstorming session that we decided to tackle by doing a hackathon. A hackathon is interactive and combines group work with individual contributions; where any and every idea is explored. Individuals silently write each of their ideas on how to overcome the stigma onto post-it notes in two minutes and these are discussed in small groups to decide the two best ones, and these are then presented to everyone. Each team will be supported by at least one planning committee member (young achiever) as well as one speaker/professional. The beauty of this arrangement is that after the hackathon there will be support (including the availability of our head quarter’s premises to be arranged by UPF) to meet and continue formulating solutions and plan spin-off events. Our hackathon is also interspersed with speeches from:  Elham Fardad, EY Senior Manager will share her challenges in her teenage years Mary Keightley, Resilience coach will speak on “why resilience matters? How to rewire our brain from pessimism to optimism?” and “Managing anxiety, sadness and anger in myself and others”. Joanna Squire, Psychiatric Nurse will share her journey from having undiagnosed bipolar mental condition and facing multiple challenges to understanding her problem and changing her career to helping others as a psychiatric nurse. We will also have a representative from the mental health charity SANE And a Representative from 1 in 4 Mental Health charity counsellors to say a few words from their perspective. We hope that you will join us in finding a way to stem the mental health epidemic that is affecting today’s youth on the 7th April at 43 Lancaster Gate, London. The event starts from 1030am and refreshments will be available. Please contact us to let us know if you will be attending. We would like to hear from you regardless of your decision. Our contact details can be found below.  Also note that while all those interested in the topic are welcome, priority is given to young adults (18-30) and their families and friends.  Yours sincerely, Robin Marsh / Margaret Ali                         Matteo Bergamini                                  Dominic Hoyte                      UPF Directors                                             Founder and CEO, ShoutOutUK           YA Co-ordinator, UPF               07956210768 / 077 2302 4750 Universal Peace Federation – UK    www.uk.upf.org pa@uk.upf.org  Office Tel: 44 (0) 207 262 0985 Twitter: @ukUPF   UPF is an NGO in Special Consultative Status with the Economic and Social Council of the United Nations

Build awesome Musical experiences, with all the support you need. At the hackathon over the weekend, you will use your technical and creative skills to make something wonderful, engaging and musical - anything you build will be awesome. We'll provide you with food, drink, electricity and internet, so that you can get on with the real work - making cool and engaging projects! As well as access to our carefully curated Hacksmiths Hardware Lab, expect support from mentors and even more useful workshops for the duration of the event.

#HACKUX is on!  Learn More here: https://mobileuxlondon.com/events/hackux-amazon-voice-designing/ Hackathon – Designing Voice Interactions with Alexa How can we use Alexa to improve the lives of people across the UK and to have a positive impact? At our latest Hackathon ‘Amazon Voice Designing’, Mobile UX London (MUXL) has partnered with Amazon to host an event at their new Shoreditch HQ. We’re inviting teams to join our Amazon Hackathon to practically learn about using Alexa Skill to develop products that have benefits for society as a whole. Are you up for the challenge? The Amazon Alexa team focuses on bringing user-delighting, voice-activated experiences to its customers. Voice can be used anywhere where humans and machines need to communicate, from smart homes to toys and wearables. Systems like Alexa are an early sign of a massive shift in how we interact with machines, but what’s next? How about interoperability? How can we use Alexa to design products that interact with each other? We’re looking for teams with a range of skills, so whether you’re a designer, developer, security expert, a business developer or product manager, we want you! -------------- Interested in Voice / Alexa, In conjunction with Amazon, we are running a 'Voice Designing Interactions' training course starting in May Click here for more details What previous attendees have said: Karen, Freelance Designer “I have learnt that UX is a lot to do with psychology, communication, deep listening, understanding and empathising with your clients/stakeholders/customers. I hope to be able to apply this to everything I do” Neil Mather, Product Manager "The biggest takeaway is that UX exercises your creativity and puts you in an excellent state of mind. It helped that the teacher was very passionate about her subject."

The Amazon Alexa team focuses on bringing user-delighting, voice-activated experiences to its customers. Voice can be used anywhere where humans and machines need to communicate, from smart homes to toys and wearables. Systems like Alexa are an early sign of a massive shift in how we interact with machines, but what’s next? How about interoperability? How can we use Alexa to design products that interact with each other?

Schroders have teamed up with Stemettes to bring you a really unique and exciting event where you can create your very own app! Have you ever used an app? Would you like to make one? Are you interested in technology? Come to the Schroders App Hack in London! No previous coding experience necessary. Done some coding before? Our experts will teach you how to create apps using HTML and other app building tools. Win prizes! Food and Laptops provided – just bring yourself! Schroders App Hack is hosted by Stemettes. Stemettes are working hard to inspire and help the next generation of females get into Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths.  Completely FREE, thanks to our wonderful sponsors Schroders. Here's what happened at our last hackathon >> Sign up below.  What is a hackathon? Hackathons aren't about breaking into things! They're about bringing people together to create amazing things using computers. We think it's really sad that some people have never been to a hackathon or had proper fun with computer science, so we want to give you the opportunity to explore and play about in the creative, exciting world of technology. At this hackathon we'll be building to a theme: “How can Schroders encourage more people to invest more money?”- Think about ways of saving money and how you could then invest it Who Girls aged 5 all the way up to 22. Parents/Guardians. If you're under 16, you'll need to have an adult with you. On the plus side, we'd love it if they helped out with making your game or app! Women (and Men) with a STEM background and are interested in inspiring the next generation. (see below for more details) When Thursday 5th April 10am-5:00pmFriday 6th April 10am- 5:00pm Where We'll be at Schroders HQ in London.  Address: 31 Gresham St, London EC2V 7QA What you need to bring Yourself and any great ideas you have. If you have access to headphones, please bring them with you. We will provide everything else.  Running order Thursday10:00 - Guests arrive. Preback forms handed out.10:30 - Welcome and ice breaker. Event introduction from Head Stemette, Anne-Marie and Schroders11:00 - Brief given, ‘teaches’, begin mini-projects1:30 - Lunch2:15 - Return to projects3:30 - Afternoon tours4:15 - Continue projects5:00 - Wrap up and power down. End of the day. Friday10:00 - Ice breaker and daily brief session. Event introduction from Head Stemette Anne-Marie and Schroders10:30 - Back to projects1:00 - Break for lunch1:45 - Resume projects2:45 - Break3:00 - Finish projects3:15 - Presentations, demo day begins4:15 - Prizes5:00 - Feedback forms handed out. End of day Industry people Are you interested in helping young people learn to code and discover making?  We are looking for adults who have a STEM background to help the girls learn to code in HTML, Appshed and Appinventor tools and show them the range of possible careers you can do after studying STEM subjects.  All you need to do is provide inspiration and help the girls with their projects when they get stuck.  We will provide food and reasonable transport costs to helpers.  Register as a Volunteer. Tools we will be using Appshed - online app-creation tool where anyone can design and publish mobile apps for iOS, Android and web Appinventor - visual, blocks language for building Android Apps Marvel - Pop helps you transform your pen and paper ideas into an interactive iPhone or Android prototype. Brought to you by:  Schroders With a history of more than 200 years and with US$487.4 billion asset under management (all date as at 30 June 2015), Schroders is one of the world's leading international specialist asset management institutions. We debuted on the London Stock Exchange in 1959 and are one of the largest asset managers listed there today. You can have confidence in Schroders. Our stability of ownership and the security of the products and services we offer is underpinned by the fact that the Schroder family continues to hold almost 45% equity in our firm. With offices spanning 27 countries, we now operate one of the largest global networks of any dedicated asset management company. As a result, our 3,600 employees and over 420 portfolio managers and analysts are perfectly placed to apply our expertise in serving the needs of discerning investors in all major investment markets. We view Greater China as a key growth area. In early 2008 we standardised our Chinese name to raise our brand awareness and present our capabilities consistently across China, Hong Kong and Taiwan. FAQs Can I attend on only one day? It is advisable to attend on both days, but we understand that not everyone is able to do that. The projects are deisgned to take two days: if you attend on the Saturday, unless you work with someone who is doing both days, you cannot win a prize. If you attend on Sunday, you are eligible to win a prize at 'demo day'. Are my boys able to attend too? Brothers and cousins can attend, but only if they bring a sister, female cousin or female identifying friend with them.

Eco-Hackathon Full Day Event Due to popular demand for the first sold-out hackathon, we are back for a longer, bigger, better event! Every member of the winning team in this full day event will each WIN a COMPLIMENTARY eco-entrepreneur course in Bali to develop an eco-business solution for a developing world sustainability problem. The environment is being damaged at an unprecedented rate. Charities, governments, activists and corporations have not created truly effective answers to this enormous challenge. Have you got what it takes to become an eco-entrepreneur and build radical new solutions? This is a world-first taster event to learn entrepreneurial skills and a brand new approach to solving the toughest environmental problems facing humanity. The skills you learn can be used to build your own green business. It is estimated that green businesses can generate up to US$12trillion in value by 2030*. You can be a part of that future. You might be an environmental activist, a student, an employee, a coder, a tech geek or a scientist – it doesn't matter what your background is - everyone is welcome. The only requirement is that you bring your imagination. This unique event requires a diverse group of people with different levels of skills and experience. All that we ask is that you bring an open mind and a willingness to consider the impossible. Warning: this event could change your entire life and take your career to the next level..  Attendees will be offered exclusive discounts on upcoming Solve.Earth  courses and a host of other surprise goodies. *Better Business, Better World (Sustainable Development Commission, 2017) http://bit.ly/2mfsIjM FAQs Are there ID or minimum age requirements to enter the event? 17+ What can I bring into the event? Laptop/mobile device with internet connectivity, pen and paper recommended. This is an interactive session. How can I contact the organiser with any questions? email: Solve.Earth@icloud.com Do I have to bring my printed ticket to the event? Nope! Simply show your digital ticket. Is my registration fee or ticket transferrable? Yes, you can pass your ticket to a friend, colleague, lover or acquaintance. Where is the venue? The central London venue will be confirmed closer to the date. 

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. 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