List of hackathons in Stirling, United Kingdom in 2016

Dundee University students! You're invited to participate in the first ever Dundee University Computing Society (DUCS) Quackathon! This 24-hour student hackathon is open to all students of all abilities — you don't need to know how to code! You'll participate in a team — either come with your own team or join one on the day! So come, collaborate, code and network with the best and the rest!

Have you always wanted to participate in a hackathon but didn't know where to start? Have you felt intimidated by the idea of jumping in to a full 48 or 72 hour event? Then join Hack the Bubble, a hackathon for those new to the hacking scene, in an easy going 12 hour hackathon of beginner-friendly fun.

Come and participate in Global Goals Jam. Help design an intervention that can help achieve short-term targets that support the Global Goals. Edinburgh Living Lab is hosting a branch event of the Global Goals Jam that will focus on Goals 7, 11 and 12: »Goal 7: Ensure access to affordable, reliable, sustainable and modern energy for all »Goal 11: Make cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable »Goal 12: Ensure sustainable consumption and production patterns

Collaborate to develop a common set of teaching and training resources for students and researchers wishing to use and learn about Information Retrieval (IR) Evaluation using Lucene. The tools and resources built during the event will be uploaded to GitHub and shared with the community and will form the basis for tutorials and teaching materials.

Coders, designers, and housing professionals! Step up to help Shelter Scotland solve Scotland’s housing crisis. Participate in the Shelter Scotland Product Forge Hackathon for a weekend of brainstorming and collaboration to devise digital solutions that help address the real world problems for people facing homelessness and bad housing. During this weekend-long hackathon, teams will be asked to come up with creative solutions to make it easier for first-time buyers, low income renters, senior citizens or anyone needing help meeting their housing needs. Teams will present their solutions to a judging panel of local tech leaders, entrepreneurs and housing professionals.

This conference aims to explore the evolution of research communication and requirement for data visualisation. Data visualisation is a field that spans all disciplines, yet it is not always done well and visual representations are not used as often as they could be. This may be due to time constraints, publishing limitations or lack of training in the correct graphics or statistics software. You will be looking at how to combat these issues and how to help researchers use visualisations to communicate their work and complement their publications. In addition to the main conference there will be a Hackday, an additional research communication & data visualisation hackathon which is free to attend.

Coders, designers, entrepreneurs and business people! Interested in Fintech? Come and create innovative solutions to help banks transform from the world of closed IT structures to one that is more ‘open’ and connected and that fosters inter-bank communication. Your brief is to create and prototype innovative solutions around themes of Disruption, Sustainability, and Technology to enable ‘open banking’. This is a great opportunity for you to showcase your skills to senior leaders in banking and FinTech. You will have access to the ‘Blue Bank’ API sandbox to integrate and test your app with real world banking data.

This is a 24-hour Hackathon organised by CREATe, the Centre for Copyright and New Business Models in the Creative Economy inviting you to come and explore cutting edge research, develop tools and challenge assumptions about the role of copyright in society. The purpose of this hackathon is to explore ways to innovatively mine, analyse and visualise data about the effects of copyright.

Interested in Finance?  Interested in Tech?  Then come to our finance-hackathon! The finance industry cannot resist the rapid, technology-driven changes that have turned other industries upside-down and inside out. New digital players are springing up and promising to change the way we as customers live our lives and do business. Every area of financial services is being disrupted. Following the success of our last event, we're organising another finance-themed hackathon where you’ll be fed, watered, (hugged, if absolutely necessary), and sheltered from the elements, while you pitch your ideas, attract skilled team-mates, design your product, build a working prototype and present to a select panel of judges. Our event is aimed at those who enjoy designing or building software products, making sense of and manipulating data, or have ideas that they'd like to pitch that are aimed at improving a financial service. It will be intense (there might be tears) but it will be fun.  There will be friends to be made and hopefully more cool prizes to be won.    Intellectual Property: Any designs created, code written, products built, presentations, marketing material etc created during the hackathon will belong to creators of the codes/designs/content .   Any tools or data sets supplied by sponsor/partner companies, will belong to those companies. Teams that wish to continue working with specific data sets/tools supplied will be responsible for negotiating with the relevant organisation after the hackathon.   Sponsors/partners interested in code/designs/content created during the hackathon will be responsible for negotiating with the creators.   This paragraph is not exhaustive but it serves to highlight our position on the subject as organisers of this event.  What sort of ideas should be pitched / fit within the theme? There are two main areas that we will encourage participants to consider during the weekend:  products to improve financial inclusion; and designing financial products for millenials. However, you may work on any idea so long as it is finance-related and you are part of a team with at least 3 people. Additionally there may be challenges supplied by companies that you are welcome to tackle if you prefer.   Financial inclusion Last year, a World Bank report had the number of ‘unbanked’ adults in the world at 2 billion! That’s two billion who are underserved or excluded by the existing financial services infrastructure.  These people may not have access to bank accounts, be able to apply for loans, or have the financial literacy or tools required to adequately manage personal finances. With so many left marginalised from access to financial services, tech companies have seen an opportunity to take the lead and disrupt the finance sector by designing and delivering services in a smarter and more inclusive way. For example, companies like Aire are looking at new ways to establish credit histories - necessary for those who are new to a country and don’t have appropriate credit scores and struggle to access basic services. Companies like Prodigy Finance and CommonBond are making it easier for international students to access loans to pay for further studies like MBAs by considering future earning potential in the decision making process.  Sending money back home to family in other countries has typically been a time-consuming, inconvenient and expensive process.  Some of the lowest earners are losing chunks of their income just by moving it around. New companies are making it easier for people to send money abroad to families and friends without having to go to a branch, and at a fraction of the cost.   These are just some examples of areas where companies are using technology to make financial services more inclusive.  Can you identify a trend at the grassroots level and then use technology to amplify and accelerate it?   ------ Designing finance products for millennials Apparently most millennials would rather see their dentist than deal with their banks!  All four of the big banks are in the top 10 least loved brands by millennials.  Furthermore,  73% of millenials would be more excited about a new offering in financial services from a tech company like Apple or Google than from their own banks. So what exactly is it that millennials want in a financial partner?  What should finance products aimed at millennials look like?  Facebook mined conversations from its millennial users and came up with some insights about how millennials relate to financial services, what they want from banking providers and where the industry could have the most impact. Millennials’ financial priorities are reducing debt and saving for the future. They want financial partners to understand them.  They want to be recognised and rewarded for their loyalty (who doesn’t?!).  And they want transparency/honesty. Products for millennials should be easy to use and convenient.  Banks should take a mobile centric approach. The size of the opportunity here is huge.  There is yet to be a Google or Facebook in the financial sector.  App-only, challenger bank Mondo is an example of a fin-tech startup that is aspiring to be just that.  Take a look at the full Facebook report to help get some ideas on the sorts of product ideas you could pitch or help build during the next Edinburgh finance-themed hackathon. The web page for the Apr 2016 event is: http://infinitekind.com/finance-hackathon-edinburgh-april-2016 SCHEDULE: Fri 1st April at 6.15pm – midnight 6.15pm: Drinks, food, chat with fellow participants, organisers, mentors and sponsors; ask questions, think about pitches 7.00pm: Key speaker and sponsors address audience; APIs are presented and challenges are proposed 8.00pm: Short break 8.15pm: Attendees pitch ideas 8.45pm: Teams form 9.00pm: Teams submit their Group names, and roles for each team member 9.15pm: Teams brainstorm and do prep for the next day Sat 2nd April at 9am – midnight 9am: Breakfast; and teams present their plans to the event organisers and mentors 10am: Teams work on their designs/prototypes/marketing 10am-12noon: Mentors available for any advice 1pm: Light lunch served 2pm: Teams get back to work; mentors are available for any questions/advice 4pm: Teams provide status update to organisers and mentors 6pm: Dinner served and then teams continue working Venue closing time TBC Sun 3rd April at 9am – 7pm 9.00am: Breakfast; and teams provide status update to organisers 12noon: Lunch, and dress rehearsal for presentations 4.00pm: Teams present to judges: consisting of 5min presentations and 5mins of Q&A 5.00pm: Judges deliberate; refreshments are served 5.30pm: Judges’ verdict; any prizes are awarded; 6.00pm: Closing speeches 6.15pm: Networking drinks Email bela@infinitekind.com if you have any questions.

Join Hack the Burgh, a hackathon where students will come together, team up and collaborate to build cool stuff with data and special challenges provided. Also home to the top Uni Werewolf team in the UK! It will be a 24 hour long programming event where hundreds of passionate students will work on innovative applications. It's a fantastic opportunity to meet new people, learn from mentors, and make cool stuff. This hackathon is very beginner friendly. Everybody is there to help each other and have fun!