List of hackathons in Twickenham, United Kingdom in 2017

Interested in the digitisation, cataloguing and digital archiving of old photographs and negatives? The Courtauld Institute Of Art - Digitisation Team invites you to participate in the fourth of six hackathons -- Crowdsourced Cataloguing Hackathon #4: Collecting Stories. You'll be challenged to come up with innovative new ideas about crowdsourced cataloguing. The goal is to make the next phase of the Courtauld's digitisation as inviting, inclusive and creative as possible.

Interested in the digitisation, cataloguing and digital archiving of old photographs and negatives? The Courtauld Institute Of Art - Digitisation Team invites you to participate in the third of six hackathons -- Crowdsourced Cataloguing Hackathon #3: Libraries. You'll be challenged to come up with innovative new ideas about crowdsourced cataloguing. The goal is to make the next phase of the Courtauld's digitisation as inviting, inclusive and creative as possible.

The July meet-up will feature talks about lean experience mapping and how to build successful teams in UX. MUXL holds an annual programme of events in London, join our meet-up group and keep updated with our events Here. Our website https://mobileuxlondon.com Speakers Jiri Jerabek, Intuit – Lean Experience Mapping Jiri is the Principal Interaction Designer at Intuit where he leads product design for the UK market. Jiri’s goal at Intuit is to create delightful products that allow small businesses and entrepreneurs to overcome the burdens of accountancy. Jiri’s design philosophy lies at the intersection of two cornerstones: the first is Lean Startup-inspired hypothesis-driven design and the second is application of cognitive science to technology. Experience Maps provide zoomed out view of user journeys, service touchpoints and contextual factors that influence user experience on holistic level. These maps are frequently based on good quality data, user research and business knowledge. In his talk, Jiri will show how he turned experience map from polished deliverable into a living tool that grew with the project, communicated challenges upon a glance, helped the team to share the knowledge and provokes discussions outside of the team. Spencer Turner, Cultivate – UX Team Building Spencer is a consultant, coach and mentor in lean UX and agile UX, speaker, ex-designer, sometimes Ruby programmer and ardent proponent of visual communication. At Cultivate, he operates at the intersection of product management, design and development to help teams make great digital products. The Bones Brigade movie is about the 1980s Skateboard team formed of unknown amateur skaters, from radically different backgrounds, each specialists in a their own discipline, led and mentored by an expert not much older than them. It transfixed me and got me thinking about teams in the software world. Spencer will share what he thinks we can learn about cross functional teams, mentoring, healthy competition in teams and who really “runs” a team. #MUXL Check out our MUXL Conference 2017 here Check out our VR Hackathon here

Hackers in the UK! Are you interested in artificial intelligence and its application to politics? If you have experience in any of the following -- politics, data analytics, machine-learning, software development, or UX/UI/graphic design, then The Fourth Group invites you to participate in the Politician AI Hackathon. You'll be challenged to conceive and develop innovative ways to automate tasks that politicians are expected to do, such as understanding voters’ preferences; writing speeches; making strategic decisions in regards to policy proposals, and; addressing problems faced by constituents.

Interested in the digitisation, cataloguing and digital archiving of old photographs and negatives? The Courtauld Institute Of Art - Digitisation Team invites you to participate in the second of six hackathons -- Crowdsourced Cataloguing Hackathon #2: Tagging and Keywords. You'll be challenged to come up with innovative new ideas about crowdsourced cataloguing. The goal is to make the next phase of the Courtauld's digitisation as inviting, inclusive and creative as possible.

Interested in the digitisation, cataloguing and digital archiving of old photographs and negatives? The Courtauld Institute Of Art - Digitisation Team invites you to participate in the first of six hackathons -- Crowdsourced Cataloguing Hackathon #1: Correlations and Links. You'll be challenged to come up with innovative new ideas about crowdsourced cataloguing. The goal is to make the next phase of the Courtauld's digitisation as inviting, inclusive and creative as possible.

Due to popular demand and positive feedback from our students we are running a series of workshop, we are pleased to offer further training in London during July 17th & 18th. 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. Our goal is to help regular Application Developers become Blockchain Developers. Day 1 Intro to Blockchains, Bitcoin, Proof of Work and Mining 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 Intro to Formal Verification What to know as a Blockchain Developer Hands-on development on Ethereum Solidity and Smart Contracts One month of continued on-line support via a 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 recommended We have a great line up of trainers that will help you break into the Blockchain space. Nick Zeeb Nick is a passionate advocate for Blockchain Technology and loves teaching technical concepts in an understandable way. He was previously the Lead Engineer at Clearmatics, a London Blockchain financial start-up and has expertise in high performance trading systems. Nick holds a Master’s degree in Engineering and Computer Science from the University of Oxford. He has given a number of talks on the subject of Blockchain Technology. Nick 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. Nick will hold a Q&A session after each topic. 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. 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. 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. 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. Nick comes from a Computer Science academic background having gained his BSc degree from the University of Canterbury. There will be plenty of Q&A throughout the whole two day workshop. Date: Monday 17th & Tuesday 18th of July, 2017 Time: 08:30 to 17:00 Workshop Location: Rise London, 41 Luke Street, EC2A 4PD, London Secure your ticket early as spaces are limited. Please present your ticket confirmation receipt upon arrival. *Breakfast and lunch are provided during the workshop on both days. For further details on our workshop, please email us on info@theblockchainconnector.com or contact us on 0044 (07)923 521 833. Follow us on Twitter @bc_workshop Tweet us on hashtag #theblockchainworkshop Join our developer focused meetup group https://www.meetup.com/Blockchain-Workshop-for-Developers/ Venue Sponsor: A special thank you go out to Rise London for sponsoring our venue. Rise London, in partnership with Barclays, is an exclusive place for start-ups to develop, collaborate, scale and innovate together. Rise London, the home of fintech and Barclays Accelerator powered by Techstars, is the place where great minds co-create the future of financial services. Visit Rise London website to find out more. Follow Rise London on Twitter. (Photo image from Jan 2017 Blockchain Workshop, courtesy of ©matteogiachettiphotography)

Socially aware techies and public sector enthusiasts in the UK! Rebel Labs & Hacksmiths invite you to participate in UKGovHack 2017. You'll be tasked to explore the concerns of manufacturers, SMEs, importers, exporters, farmers, government agencies, and citizens for The Future of Food in the face of Brexit. You'll be challenged to use open data to explore Brexit issues, such as food sustainability, traceability, and crisis management; the post-Brexit trade and movement of goods; and how farming will change without the common agricultural policy.

#HACKUX is on!  What will the next wave of immersive technology bring to the communications experience?  Practically anyone can now access VR environments using a standard smartphone and an affordable headset. Creating & sharing your own 360 degree environments is gaining popularity with a just a smartphone or a dedicated VR/360 camera.  How will these environments alter our daily communications? How can we shape the scenes and settings to support those exchanges? And what practical applications can we imagine for everyday life? These are some of the directions to explore in this Design Hackathon on Virtual Reality environments, allowing designers to craft these imagined scenes using some of the most cutting edge tools for VR design. Learn more here: https://mobileuxlondon.com/HackUX

Rise BBQ It's the end of Fintech Week. We've all been meeting new people, learning and sharing, but now it's time to let our hair down and relax. There's no better place to do that than here at Rise London's rather fabulous pad in Shoreditch. Come and celebrate the end of Fintech Week 2017 at the Rise BBQ. Bring your appetite. Date: 14th July Time: 16:30 – 18:00 Where: Rise London – 41 Luke Street, Shoreditch, EC2A 4DP  Celebrate the end of Fintech Week with us at Rise London Conversation, food and fun Just what you need to decompress after a week of workshps, seminars and talks    About Rise London: Rise London: The home of FinTech.  Rise, created by Barclays, brings together from across the world a carefully curated community of FinTech startups, along with our corporate clients and other experts, to work on Barclays’ customer and business opportunities and together help to create the future of financial services. At Rise, Barclays co-creates new products, services and platforms along with our startup partners.  We partner with leading corporates, investors and industry experts across seven sites internationally in: New York, Manchester, Mumbai, Cape Town, Vilnius, London and Tel Aviv.  In each location, we operate multiple programmes for open innovation, including the award-winning Barclays Accelerator, powered by Techstars.  These programmes facilitate rapid engagement between Barclays and the Rise FinTech community, leading to the development of new models, long-term financial solutions, and the creation of valuable relationships that make the communities and markets we serve flourish. Rise London will house more than forty FinTech companies, along with banking and technology teams from Barclays, and will serve as a gathering place for leaders in the FinTech and venture capital communities. Rise London will play host to more than 200 hours of learning, workshops, hackathons and networking on a monthly basis. @ThinkRiseLDN      #HomeOfFinTech      www.thinkrise.com