List of hackathons in West End, United Kingdom in 2017

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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.

LabVIEW professionals! National Instruments and the University of Southampton invite you to sign up to participate in the LabVIEW Hackathon @Soton. Come and help solve great engineering challenges and network with engineers from industry. You'll get the chance to showcase and further develop your LabVIEW skills and compete with the best-of-the-best to win awesome prizes.

Purpose The purpose of these regional roadshows should be as follows: -       Raise the profile of EDS2 as a vehicle for change -       Identify the connections and links between EDS2 and various other diversity / equality initiatives including (but not limited to) the workforce race equality standard (WRES), the accessible information standard, the DH learning disabilities programme, the workforce disability equality standard and the sexual orientation standards work -       Share good and best practice in the use of EDS2 – including the EDS2 voluntary and community sector engagement guide -       Explore how EDS2 can be employed and utilise by organisations more effectively in order to influence organisational / cultural change Audience The target audience for the roadshows should be: -       Diversity and inclusion managers within provider trusts and CCGs -       Human Resource Directors and managers within provider trusts and CCGs -       Organisational development managers within provider trusts and CCGs -       Service managers and leads within provider trusts and CCGs Format The roadshows will consist of a three hour session. The sessions will be divided into two parts and will take the form of a mini-hackathon. The first part will focus on what the challenges are with EDS2. It will look at the format and structure of EDS2 and critically de-construct it to see what its weaknesses are; what doesn’t work at all; what works a little; and (critically) what needs to change. The second part will focus on the positive aspects of EDS2. It will look at the format and structure of EDS2 and assess its strengths: what works well; why things work well; and what we need to more of. Our proposal is that for the first session we will break the delegates up into four separate groups – one looking at / thinking about the structure of EDS2 as a model / framework; one looking at / thinking about the language of EDS2; one looking at / thinking about how well (or not) EDS2 links across or “talks to” other diversity initiatives in the NHS; and one looking at / thinking about EDS2 as a vehicle of change. Each of the four groups will be led / facilitated by a nominated person that we have invited. We will be inviting guests from the workforce race equality standard, learning disability and equalities and health inequalities teams. The second session will break the delegates into three groups – but set them the following tasks: firstly, how can EDS2 be better promoted / publicised in order to make it more accessible?; secondly, how can EDS2 be better structured / formatted / presented in order to make it more user friendly?; and thirdly, how can EDS2 be used more effectively within organisations as a vehicle of change? Each group will be asked to propose 3 or 4 recommendations to the group that they can vote on using our in-house voting system. A plenary session will capture the thoughts / feedback.

Students, staff and researchers at the University of Sussex! Researchers from gender research projects! Sexual health care professionals and manufacturers! The School of Global Studies at the University of Sussex invites you to participate in the Sex, Rights and Pleasure Lab. You'll be challenged to create new interventions to digitally mediated gender-based and sexual violence. Your pitch of your intervention to an international panel of gender research specialists will be recorded for subsequent judging by an expert jury and online voting by the general internet audience.