List of hackathons in Sale, United Kingdom in 2017

Hi folks, get ready, pack your bags and book your ticket to.... Manchester! The next Hackathon will take place at the amazing BBC Media City but this will not be an ordinary Hackathon. No, this time we will stream the whole event, giving everybody the chance to participate online. Therefore you can be part of the Hackathon from all over the world. Well, of course you will miss some of the amazing spirits but we will give our best to capture every single moment during the event! +++Attention+++ The event might look like it's sold out but actually, you just need to get an access code. You can apply now for an access code via the Open Ecosystem Network and in case you live around Manchester make sure to get one of the strictly limited on-site event tickets. During the next weeks we will update you with all the information you need so stay tuned and hurry up to get your ticket! See you soon! Your OPEN-Team

On this prestigious day, will dedicate a full day on the 25th of November for new ideas and solutions to help the communities facing social decline in Greater Manchester. We intend to end the day with an esteemed judging panel who will evaluate the best ideas presented and these will in turn make our new projects to be implemented for the year. Several mentors and trained facilitators will be posted to each group of participants to ensure a day of enriching learning to complement the healthy competition. Food and refreshment will be provided throughout the day. As observers of our presentation rounds, you will have the chance to witness potentially revolutionary ideas that will transform the lives of the underprivileged and the faces of the next generation of aspiring entrepreneurs. We cordially invite you as a respected guest in your respective fields to play a part in inspiring and networking with the diverse parties we will have present on the day.

Girls -- aged 13-18 -- in the Greater Manchester area! You're invited to participate in the Female Youth Hack -- Inspiring Stories #1. At this 2-day coding competition, you'll learn how to code in a friendly environment and get inspired by real women techies who share their journeys. You'll collaborate with a team of 4 girls and work on a challenge that is set before the event starts.

On this prestigious day, will dedicate a full day on the 25th of November for new ideas and solutions to help the communities facing social decline in Greater Manchester. We intend to end the day with an esteemed judging panel who will evaluate the best ideas presented and these will in turn make our new projects to be implemented for the year. Several mentors and trained facilitators will be posted to each group of participants to ensure a day of enriching learning to complement the healthy competition. Food and refreshment will be provided throughout the day.

The challenge for our hack is to identify and address the barriers to people applying for these jobs, and develop an innovative solution to encourage people to retrain and travel to where the work is. We'll kick things off on Thurs 23/11 from 4pm, when we'll set the scene through some quick-fire presentations from a range of speakers. The teams will then spend the whole day on Fri 24/11 putting their ideas into practice before presenting these to our expert panel towards the end of the day.

#HacktheNorth - Helping the region work and grow Use your digital skills and creativity to help solve Manchester’s unemployment challenges, and further cement the city’s position as an international cultural and economic hub. What to expect: The event will be held across two days, from 4pm to 8pm on Thursday 23 November. We'll then start again from 9:30am to 6pm on Friday 24 November. The challenge: DWP Digital will be joined by some of the brightest and most creative people in the north to work on solutions which address one of the most pressing issues in the area. Despite Manchester’s growing popularity among top employers and its reputation as one of the UK's tech hubs, there are still more than 158,000 unemployed people in the North West. The challenge for our hack is to identify and address the barriers to people applying for these jobs, and develop an innovative solution to encourage people to retrain and travel to where the work is. We believe it’s a great opportunity to generate ideas to help further cement Manchester’s place as an international cultural and economic hub, and we'd like to invite you to co-create solutions which could make a difference to this important cause. Event format: We are working in partnership with our sponsors MongoDB. We'll kick things off on Thursday 23 November from 4pm, when we'll set the scene through some quick-fire presentations from a range of speakers.  Ideas will be then be pitched and teams will be formed who’ll then spend the whole day on Friday 24 November putting their ideas into practice before presenting these to our expert panel towards the end of the day. You’ll have access to searchable open-source labour market data to help bring your ideas to life. Our developers, engineers and data science specialists will be on hand with advice and tips. Food and refreshments will be provided by our sponsors. And like all good hack events, there’ll be a prize for the best solution! Please note that the event will be filmed for promotional use. What to bring: Apart from yourself, you'll also need to bring your own laptops and chargers. Please don't bring your own or your organisation's proprietary solutions to this event - we're looking for imaginative ideas on the day!_____FAQs Are there ID or minimum age requirements to enter the event? Yes, this event is designed for attendees aged 18 and above. Is my attendance confirmed? We will email you with an invitation which will serve as a confirmation of your attendance. How can I contact the organiser with any questions? If you wish to get in touch with regards to the event, please email us at digital.eventmanagement@dwp.gsi.gov.uk. Is it an overnight event? No, we will hold the event across two days, starting on Thursday 23 November from 4pm – 8pm and continuing on Friday 24 November from 9:30am – 6pm. Does the venue have a step-free/disabled access? Yes. What will happen with my solution/code developed? The digital solutionsand code written during the DWP Digital Hack event, will be published open source. We hope that these outputs will be used to inspire ideas and we will find a way to drive forward any feasible ideas

The Health Innovation Exchange want you to join us to provide answers for self care solutions for health challenges. We are collaborating with DigiCreDis, Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust and Liverpool John Moores University to give the opportunity for healthcare professionals and healthcare patients to set challenge they have always wanted to be solved. To kick start team's projects, there will be free vouchers available for the use of Amazon Web Services. The event is sponsored by the European Regional Development Fund, with prizes provided by Knowledge Transfer Network.  General themes for the day will include: - Smart fire / heat sensing for use in homes - Monitoring nutrition - Suicide prevention - Improvement of physical health for those living with mental health conditions Hackathon delegates will have the opportunity to set further challenges for teams. Health Innovation Exchange Self Care Hackathon Programme Thursday 23rd November 9.00 am - Registration and coffee 9.30 am - Welcome  9.45 am - Roy Foden – ignite presentation- personal perspective on self care 10.00 am - Challenges 10.45 am - Break 11.00 am - Team formation and networking 11.30 am - Initial team session 12.45 pm - Lunch (provided) 1.15 pm - Hacking 3 pm - Break 3.15 pm – Get active 3.30 pm - Hacking 5.00 pm - Close Friday 24th November 9.00 am – Coffee, hacking, preparation for practice pitches 10.30 am - Practice pitches 12.45 pm - Lunch (provided) 1.15 pm - Final preparation 2.30 pm - Presentations to judges and prizes 4.00pm Close  The Health Innovation Exchange helps businesses develop and deploy products and services into the health and care sector by providing: ·Access to healthcare professionals, universities, other companies and members of the public to develop and evaluate products and services·Support navigating health system deployment, including information governance·Access to Health Economics expertise·Support with the repurposing of products/services from non-health fields·Links to other programmes including those to support advanced product manufacturing (LCR4.0) and fund business advice (New Markets)

Hackathon Challenge - Sentiment Coding Challenge Sentiment analysis (also referred to as opinion or review mining) is a long-standing problem of artificial intelligence where the goal is to automatically categorise opinions expressed in text. Sentiment analysis is currently one of the hottest area of computer science considering that sentiment analysis algorithms have found a number of applications in recommendation systems, market analysis, customer satisfaction analysis, forecasting market movement and many more.  In this challenge, you will be working to develop an ‘intelligent’ software that automatically classifies the sentiment of a given product review (i.e., positive or negative). Your software should read the textual content of a product review and it should then decide whether the review is positive or negative. You will be working with a real-world, large-scale dataset which has been made publicly available by Amazon and it consists of approximately 20,000 reviews relevant to Video games. You will be further provided with an additional ‘development’ dataset that will help you to implement rules (e.g., if review contains the word ‘hate’ the classify it as positive) or to train machine learning algorithms (e.g., using scikit-learn or ternsorflow in python or the weka library in Java) in order to improve the performance of your sentiment analysis software. 

Hackathon Challenge - Alder Hey Challenge - Gaming/Computing Challenge   10am – 5pm Tech Hub You are invited to participate with this amazing opportunity to work with Alder Hey and a chance to contribute to their up and coming project. Alder Hey Children’s NHS Foundation Trust and Alder Hey Children’s Charity are working together to create a world first, hospital-wide patient experience app that has the potential to revolutionise patient care across the NHS. The ‘Alder Play’ app is set to totally transform the experience of children in hospital by bringing comfort, fun, reward and distraction to young patients, whilst also providing vital information to both them and their parents and carers. Alder Play will feature gaming and augmented reality, providing entertainment but also much needed distraction for patients having procedures. A rewards scheme will also be used to encourage interacting with the app and rewarding patients for co-operating with their treatment. It will also have a digital map and detailed 360 images of the hospital enabling patients to explore and familiarise themselves with before their visit. The app has been built by a London based developer ustwo, who have created an amazing interface that is now being tested within Alder Hey. We have been fortunate to have content for the app donated by a number of sponsors, including Hasbro, FACT, Jungle Interactive and StudioWide, a Liverpool based digital company. The Challenge Alder Hey would like to extend the invitation to Edge Hill  Computer Science students.  During the challenge you will work in teams of 5 to produce a range of games for children of primary school age.  Your team will be given the overall theme and categories on the morning of the challenge. A fantastic chance to get involved with an extracurricular project and if successfully picked Alder Hey will embed your game into their APP.   What a fantastic thing to have on your CV! Open to all from Computer Science.  Places are limited be sure to secure your place via Eventbrite.

Hack Challenge - Cyber & Networking Challenge - in collaboration with UKFAST. Manchester - UKFAST Offices.  Return transport provided from Edge Hill. Overview of challenge A fabulous opportunity to get involved with the Cyber/Networking challenge being ran for Edge Hill students by UKFAST https://goo.gl/pQ8wss  Overview You are part of a team working for UKFast charged with migrating new clients on to UKFast systems’ and infrastructure. Big Happy Shop Inc. have decided to use UKFast as a hosting provider due to poor levels of service from their previous supplier. They have particular concerns and requirements and are interested in the extra level of service that UKFast and its sister security company Secarma can provide. Big Happy Shop Inc. are a leading UK eCommerce concern. Their main system consists of a shopping website that includes multiple functions such as account creation, shopping, comment and message functionality. The company recently received financial investment to take their product to a US market. However, the deployment has not gone well. The US version of their site has potential security concerns due to inexperienced developers. In addition, they fear the site may have already been compromised in some way that may have compromised the security of their server. Your job is to find any security flaws in the web application, any vulnerabilities which may have been introduced to the server, and provide any relevant patches / fixes. Unfortunately, they require that the system remains online and may be under constant attack. You have five hours to identify as many security issues as you can and provide solutions! Points will be awarded for each problem identified and each team will get double points for each solution offered with implemented fixes and patches. Each team will submit their findings using a Google Form. These will then be totalled and checked to pick a winning team. Location:  This challenge will be taking place at the UKFAST Offices in Manchester.  Return transport will be provided from Edge Hill.  Coach will depart from Edge Hill at 7:30am and pick up at the UK FAST offices at 4pm. Open to Edge Hill Computer Science Department students