List of hackathons in Wimbledon, United Kingdom in 2017

Solidus developers and architects! Are you planning to attend SolidusConf 2017? If so, why don't you also plan to participate in an informal hackathon with the core Solidus product development team? This is your chance to collaborate with the experts and contribute your skills and creativity in order to make the Solidus platform even better than it is now!

Due to popular demand and positive feedback from our students during our March 2017 workshop, we are pleased to offer further training in London during May 24th and 25th. 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 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. 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:  Wednesday 24th & Thursday 25th of May, 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 meetup group https://www.meetup.com/Blockchain-Workshop-for-Developers/ (Photo image from Jan 2017 Blockchain Workshop, courtesy of ©matteogiachettiphotography) 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.

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**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!

Engineers, developers, and designers from across the Asia Pacific region! Think you're good enough to make the grade and be one of the best techies in the TravelTech field? Be on of the 32 chosen TravelTech specialists and participate in the TravelTech Hackathon on a Plane as you travel from Hong Kong to London. Showcase your creativity and technical skills to design and prototype innovative new travel apps.

Hackers in the London area! Are you interested in helping improve the property rental market? FUTURE: PropTech invites you to participate in the PAD Rent Revolution Hackathon. You'll collaborate with like-minded individuals to help solve some of the biggest and most frustrating problems faced by renters.

Join us for the SCI-FI-LONDON Pub Quiz on Tues 2 May at 7pm. Tickets cost £5 per head (in a team of 6, that's £30 a table!) and all proceeds go to two amazing charities: STEMETTES.ORG.who inspire the next generation of females into Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths (STEM) fields by showing them the amazing women already in STEM via a series of panel events, hackathons, exhibitions, and mentoring schemes. http://www.stemettes.org and Rebuilding Sri Lanka.The Asian tsunami on the 26th December 2004 killed over 40,000 people in Sri Lanka. Thousands of those missing were never recovered. Many of the small, coastal villages in southern and eastern Sri Lanka were completely destroyed. Over a million people were left homeless. Thousands were destitute. "Rebuilding Sri Lanka" has been active since the day of the disaster and we continue to provide support, rehabilitation, nutrition, education and shelter to those affected by the disaster.   http://www.rebuildingsrilanka.org.uk/     You can donate now via Just Giving: https://www.justgiving.com/rebuildingsrilanka/donate We have some great prizes for the winners, will have a few goodies on your table and will certainly test your sci-fi knowledge in film, TV, comics, games and literature.    Think you know your Tribble from your Taun We or your Soma from your Soylent?  Then get your team together and book now. After the quiz, hang around for some drinking and maybe, some dancing. Places are limited. LLAP. PLEASE NOTE: The seating plan is just a guideline, the bar has room for the tickets available and we will put you in your teams of six people around the venue.   Pens and paper provided.  

HR Techies in the London area! You're invited to sign up to participate in the HR Tech Fix HACKATHON. You'll be part of an amazing collaborative event, where you'll help create new apps, platforms, and tools that empower HR professionals and provide better ways for them to do their work.

Come and join us this Saturday to collaborate in the creation of online and offline tools to suppport voters to access the information they need to decide who to vote for in GE2017. We can think of 4 themes to work around that might provide a useful focus for the day but are happy to hear other proposals at the start of the event when we'll use an 'OpenSpace' approach to chose what topics to work on. This builds on much of the work that's been happening in the past days and weeks.  We invite people with skills in UI, digital, data, political science, activism, media and communications to join us for a co-design session to build on and contribute to a range of initiatives which aim to build a progressive alliance and enable data-informed tactical voting on 8 June.  The organisers are a group of progressives from several parties. This event will use agile principles to enable all participants to collaborate and develop prototypes of ideas. The outputs will be made available for all participants - and others - to build on. We have decided on four themes for the day.  1. Improving existing tactical voting platforms: For example http://www.open-britain.co.uk/ which we think could do with some help from a UI perspective See also our sketch for a data-driven tactical voting platform aimed at voters and activists, which combines election and Brexit data and links to other sites such as vote swap sites http://bit.ly/2pcs6MQ See also many other initiatives listed here  bit.ly/GE2017TechHandbook 2. Linking to the local: How can voters find out more about stories/data/evidence around what is happening locally - correlated with parties and policies - to inform their vote on June 8? 3. Interpreting marginality: What are the indicators that describe marginality beyond "what happened last time"?  4. Engaging offline for online engagement: How do we communicate with voters across the UK, and help them connect to online resources they may find valuable but might not be aware of? Who should come? We need a mixture of people with different skills: Technology Data linking Web/App development Data analysis Data visualisation Design User interface design Graphic and communication design System/service design Communications and media Communications strategy Social media strategy and planning Community engagement  Political science, social science and activism Defining 'marginal' constituencies in GE2017 Social and political analysis Data visualisation   Sources of data To help us all understand what skills will be available on the day, please add your interest/skill/specilaism in the 'Job Title' field of the sign up form here on Eventbrite. We'll be in touch with more information soon, in the meantime we look forward to seeing you this Saturday - be there at 10 am so you can help set the agenda for the day.

Powered by later lifestyle specialists, Auriens, this 48-hour hackathon will enable the brightest minds to bring about the best new thinking for baby boomers and beyond. From technology and travel to health and hospitality, this first-of-a-kind event is designed to hack innovation across all aspects of the aging spectrum. One aim: to deliver an immersive, innovative and imaginative prototype that challenges the conventions around old age and hacks new ideas to improve the quality (and quantity!) of all aspects of later life for this generation and the next. Considering everything from hospitality and healthcare to travel, fashion and retail, this event is expected to excel in creating age-defying ideas. The hackathon will take place at OXO 2 in London.