List of hackathons in Twickenham, United Kingdom in 2017

Transgender techies and allies! WeAreTechWomen invites you to sign up to participate in the Trans*Code International Transgender Day of Visibility Social and Hackathon. This is an all-day hackathon to mark International Transgender Day of Visibility. You'll collaborate to discuss and create ideas that will help raise awareness of -- and help counter -- the discrimination faced by the transgender community worldwide. Sign up here for the pre-hackathon social.

Blockchain Technology will have a major impact across many industries and bring radical change to existing business models. We believe that Blockchain Technology has a bright future. Join our two-day developer focused hands-on workshop and be at the very forefront of this new technology. Day 1 Intro to Blockchains, Bitcoin, Proof of Work and Mining Intro to Ethereum and Smart Contracts Hands-on development on Ethereum Day 2 Smart Contracts Security and Ethereum Internals - Cryptography, Consensus, EVM, Privacy What to know as a Blockchain Developer Hands-on development on Ethereum Recommended development experience Minimum of 6 months object-oriented 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 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. Andy Baloiu Andy has been working on Ethereum since Jan 2015, the pre-release version of the platform. Andy loves to teach others in a practical manner on the potential of Blockchain Technology. In addition to running the Ethereum London group, Andy has won several hackathons and acted as a mentor at Blockchain related hackathons. He is currently a senior Full Stack Developer at RS Components. He holds a Engineering Degree with a focus on mathematical analysis and solid physics from Politehnica University of Bucharest. Andy will be focusing on teaching students the Solidity language and how to develop smart contracts during the hands-on sessions, and will give students the opportunity to ask questions in relation to the Ethereum platform. There will be a Q&A on each day of the hands-on session. Date: Thursday 30th & Friday 31st of March, 2017 Time: 08:30 to 17:00 Workshop Location: Rainmaking Loft, International House, 1 St Katharine’s Way London, E1W 1UN 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 meetup group https://www.meetup.com/Blockchain-Workshop-for-Developers/ (Photo image from last Blockchain Workshop, Jan 2017, courtesy of ©matteogiachettiphotography)

Deep learning has the ability to transform many parts of modern life as recent innovations show. The Pistoia Alliance want to bring the deep / machine learning community together with the life-science and healthcare industry to demonstrate the potential of deep learning to aid drug discovery and bring new life saving treatments to the world. We’d like you to help our industry accelerate the pace with which deep learning can transform scientific R&D and healthcare. Come and join Pistoia Alliance’s first ever hackathon! Format: You will have 2 days to build new teams and partnerships, plan, prototype and test your deep / machine learning idea. The only limits are time and your inspiration. Plenty of food and drinks will be available over the 2 days. Lunch is included on both days. At the end of the 2 days, you will present your ideas and judges will score and then announce the winning team of the hackathon and present the prizes. ScheduleDay 1 - Saturday 25th March 10am- Doors open 6pm Drinks (or continue hacking if you prefer!) 7pm Go home for the night! Day 2 - SUNDAY 26th March 8am Venue open for business! 3:00pm - Stop working, prepare your pitches 3:15 - Presentiations and judging 5:00 - Judges collate scores and decide winner Winners presentation 6pm Close Why join in? By the end of the weekend you will be part of a team that's designed and/or created a potential solution that could help accelerate new life saving solutions or could help reduce the time and cost of bringing new medicines safely to patients. If you are a current student or recent graduate, we will help you find out more about the major organisations in the industry that you could potentially work for. Your team mate at this event may be your future colleague! We hope you will make new connections from new areas and disciplines, perhaps even see new career directions you never thought possible. Most importantly we hope you have fun and will make a difference! FAQ’s Do I need to know science and deep learning to attend? No, hackathons work best with diverse skillsets. We want to bring together both expertise and creativity at the event. The aim is to forge new relationships between science and deep learning experts to look at established healthcare data in a different way. So if you are a scientist or a deep / machine learning specialist we want you to be there. Other disciplines are welcome, if you have a creative mind and this topic interests you please consider joining. Mentors will be available to support your creative process, provide scientific or technical input and support. I don’t have a team, can I join by myself?Teams will be formed on site so just bring yourself and meet the rest of the attendees on Saturday morning. Do I need to bring my own laptop/PC?Yes, please bring your own computer and devices. Who owns the IP of our ideas? Pistoia Alliance waives all rights to any ideas from the event. More details on the prizes and challenge will appear closer to the event, so please keep an eye on this site, the Pistoia Alliance home page or follow @PistoiaAlliance on twitter, tag #Pistoia2017 Come and join us to help lower the barriers to R&D.

HackCity is a first of it's kind for City, University of London and we aim to make it the best that it can be! We are welcoming students from all over London and the UK, for a all student fun and free Hackathon.  Everything is included and provided by our amazing sponsors, so all you have to do is grab your free ticket!  Format of the Weekend... We will give everyone 36 hours to build anything they like, challenges will also be provided but we encourage thinking outside the box as well. We will have workshops hosted by students and partners of HackCity to introduce various technologies for example: iOS and web development (may vary). You can hack in teams of any size or alone if you prefer, however if you have more than 4 team members you will be exempt from winning prizes. Leading on to prizes... Hackers will be given a period at the end of the hack to present and talk a little about their project, what they made and how they made it, what tech they used and if they had any problems. In terms of hardware, we hope to provide some cool gadgets for you to get hands on with!  After the presentations, our team of special judges will have the tough decision of deciding who wins the challenges and prizes.  HackCity is free of charge, food and refreshments will be provided a paid for by our sponsors as well as prizes and challenges.  We hope to see you soon!  By purchasing a ticket for HackCity, you will automatically agree to aboiding by the code of conduct listed on our website, as well as any rules we provide on the day. 

Allianz is launching a 48 hour hackathon to develop an innovative solution that helps provide smarter and efficient customer service for their corporate clients.  Let's work together! Industrial Insurance overall is complex and involves a lot of long manual processes. The goal of this hackathon is to come up with innovative solutions that will simplify and reinvent industrial Insurance so that the corporate clients   will receive more positive customer service experience and have better knowledge of their contracts.  Challenges to tackle You will have the choice to choose from the follwing 6 challenges: 1. "Instant information in industrial insurance"  How would you design an outstanding customer experience that gives customers instant access to relevant data and provides instant answers to questions? 2. "Predictive pricing" How can you insure risks where we have no historical claims data? 3. Paying for not having claims? How could you use technology to make money out of loss prevention rather than loss protection (insurance) 4. "The Ebay in Insurance" How would you set up a platform for transferring risks that is easy to use for the customers? 5."Simplify Industrial Insurance" How can you build a user interface that is easy to handle and makes industrial insurance easy to understand? 6. "Industrial Insurance Reloaded" How would you use technology to re-invent and improve industrial insurance? ** More info about the event on it's way** Register now to reserve your spot!  (Once signed up, more info and knowledge on Industrial Insurance will be sent to you.) Event Partners/ Sponsors

Join us and Celebrate the Launch of DfT Hacks on the 24th of March! This March, we have been commissioned by the Department for Transport to host their very own hackathon - DfT Hacks! This means different challenges, datasets, venues, routes, but the same crazy organisers! We're pleased to be able to invite you all to the launch of DfT Hacks on Friday 24th of March, an event in London for everyone interested in technology in the transport industry. This will be a wonderful opportunity to network with all DfT Hacks participants, sponsors, industry leaders, government, and media, to hear more about the Hackathon and to wish the participants well on their 48 hour DfT Hacks adventure. For more information, check out the DfT Hacks website. HackTrain is an initiative that is driving forward innovation within transport, offering an unforgettable experience where a group of the best developers, entrepreneurs and designers from all around Europe will be challenged to solve the trasnport sector's biggest challenges! Visit us at hacktrain.com!

Do you have what it takes to turn Camden's open data into an innovative website or app? Are you passionate about making a difference to our local communities? If the answer is yes, then join Camden's Open Data Challenge . We are looking for coders, developers, designers, programmers, data enthusiasts and anyone else who feels they can make a difference in Camden, to dig deep into our open data and uncover new innovations that could improve the everyday lives of our residents. We have nearly 300 different sets of data available on our open data portal, Open Data Camden – featuring information on everything from parking bays and planning applications to housing stock and road accidents. This data has the potential to change lives and we are asking you to help us unlock it's potential. We’re kicking off the Camden Open Data Challenge with a meet-up on 23 March, hosted by Councillor Theo Blackwell, the Council’s Cabinet Member for Finance, Technology and Growth and leading advocate of open data in local government. We’ll introduce our open data programme, agree the challenge(s) and discuss how we can work together to tackle them. We want to build a network of civic coders collaborating with us to get the most out of the wealth of open data we’re releasing. In true hackathon style, there’ll be pizza and (modest) prizes for the best apps. To get you started, here are some ideas that we think have potential: • Schools waiting list – help parents keep track of where their child is on the waiting list for Camden schools • Council housing data – help prospective council tenants understand how the bidding process for council housing works through data • My local area – help residents keep up to date with activity such as planning, parking, licencing and streetworks in their neighbourhood. We are very open to other ideas – and we’ll do our very best to source the data for you if it’s not already on the site. Check out our open data at https://opendata.camden.gov.uk/browse. To register go to https://www.eventbrite.com/e/camden-open-data-challenge-tickets-32055204981

Artificial intelligence and virtual reality enthusiasts! Realities Centre invites you to sign up to participate in the AI+VR Rise Hackathon. You'll be faced with some of the trickiest problems in AI/VR -- building a smart avatar for VR games, enhancing VR/MR simulations using deep learning, SpatialOS, and computer vision, or deigning and building the best AI/VR app in a short 24 hours. You'll have access to leading experts to mentor you in both AI and VR, and there'll be pre-trained smartbots, data sets and VR headsets, courtesy of event partners.

Hackers in and around Cambridge! Think you'd like to do something to help charities? Hackers at Cambridge invite you to sign up to participate in ChariTech. You don't have to be an expert coder -- there will be plenty of experts on hand -- just come if you want to make a real difference. You'll collaborate with tech experts and novies alike and be challenged to help different charitable organizations and to help create innovative new products and solutions that will help them pursue their mission!

Artificial intelligence and virtual reality enthusiasts! Realities Centre invites you to sign up to participate in the AI+VR Rise Conference and following AI+VR Rise Hackathon. At the conference, prior to the hackathon, you'll get to explore how AI and machine learning can be used in virtual or mixed reality environments. You'll also be exposed to state-of-the art developments in both AI and VR that you will be able to apply in the hackathon.