List of hackathons in Swindon, United Kingdom in 2017

Hackers interested in solutions to problems faced by people with disabilities! The Lab at O2 invites you to participate in the Access All Areas Hackathon. You'll be challenged to design and prototype innovative technology solutions that help make overcome the hurdles caused by problems such as visual impairment, communication difficulties, physical disabilities, and cognitive impairment. Come as a team or join one at the event and come up with an idea that will help people with disabilities to overcome everyday challenges at home, when out and about, or when using technology.

Fintech data techies and coders in the Milton Keynes area! Xbean Consultants invites you to participate in their Fintech event UNDERSTAND YOUR CUSTOMER BETTER, A HACKATHON. You'll be challenged to come up with innovative ideas on how to understand customers better. You'll collaborate with like-minded individuals to conceive and prototype approaches that can leverage data to increase customer understanding.

Start-ups, developers, designers, and others in the residential health and safety sector! You're invited to participate in the RESI Hackathon 2017. This eight-hour hack will be held in conjunction with the UK's premier residential property market conference. Collaborate with a team and compete for cash prizes. You'll be challenged to design and prototype an innovative solution that can save lives.

NHS Finance: Confused?   Join us at Stirchley Baths for a focused session of our Citizens Group. You can find out more about how local NHS services are funded and what challenges there are in your neighbourhood. Quiz our finance team colleagues through a creative, problem solving session. You must book to attend, but we will have the kettle on.   Got a question? Let us know in advance and we’ll try and answer it on the day. Contact details found below.    BSC CCG’s Citizens Group is a volunteer led platform that helps us shape our engagement and commissioning through open dialogue. To find out more go to our involvement page on our CCG website.    For more information about the event please contact us on bscccg.partnerships@nhs.net or 0121 255 0789

Data scientists, coders, business thinkers, designers, creative types! Are you interested in connected and autonomous vehicles? Transport Systems Catapult invites you to sign up for the IMCreate 2017 – Connected & Autonomous Vehicle Hackathon. You'll be faced with five connected and autonomous vehicle challenges and have the chance to win great prizes including £2,000 in cash! The top three teams will further develop their prototype solution and pitch it at the Showcase Final.

PhD students and freshwater scientists in the Oxford area! If you're interested in citizen science, then Earthwatch Institute invites you to participate in a research hackathon to be held at Oxford Brookes University. You'll collaborate with other participants to hack FreshWater Watch's citizen science-generated dataset on water quality in rivers, streams, ponds, lakes and wetlands. You'll work in a small team to explore a given research issue and use the FreshWater Watch dataset in conjunction with other accessible datasets in order to identify opportunities for freshwater ecology.

**NOTE: this event is no longer on the 4th of February**Welcome to the CodeSoc-Microsoft Hackathon! Whether you are a hackathon addict or a novice coder, please join us for the first CodeSoc hackathon. ** Date to be confirmed ** Sign up and we will keep you up to date!

AI enthusiasts! If you're planning to attend AISB 2017 -- or even if you're not -- you're invited to participate in the AI Systems for Society Tutorial & Hackathon. This event will run alongside the conference. You'll get the opportunity to sit in on tutorials and them to test drive software and write AI code. The theme of the tutorials is ‘building Artificially Intelligent (AI) systems to work within society’.

Students in and around Oxford! Want to showcase your hacking skills? You're invited to sign up to participate in the Hack@Brookes 2017 24-hour hackathon at Oxford Brookes University. This year's event is all about cyber security. You'll be challenged to work with Kali Linux -- the advanced penetration testing distribution of Linux to explore how you can tighten security on your network.

Developers, experts, students, data wranglers, data journalists, data enthusiasts, makers, artists! ECMWF invites you to participate in the #OpenDataHack to explore creative uses of open data. You'll be challenged to design and prototype innovative apps that leverage weather data. You can select one to the following challenges: »The "GET OUT" challenge -- using data to improve the day-to-day lives of everyone. »The "GET CREATIVE" challenge -- combining data to produce art or storytelling. »The "GET GEEKY" challenge -- using the data for something geeky »The "GET FUN" challenge -- hacking weather related objects in any way possible.