List of hackathons in Wimbledon, United Kingdom in 2017

Are you interested in the use of technology to help create solutions for the issues of temporary accommodation, housing and homelessness in London? You're invited to participate in the London Ventures Hackathon. You'll be provided with an overview of the issues, challenges, facts and figures such that you understand the problem scale and what needs to be tackled. You'll then be challenged with specific problem statements -- and be expected to develop and pitch your project solution to the panel of judges.

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.

Hackers in the Greater London Area! resin.io invites you to sign up for the resin.io spring hackathon. You'll be challenged to design and build a multi-device Internet of Things (IoT) project on resin.io! The only requirement is that your project should have at least two devices.

Tech Night LDN is a mini-conference embracing diversity by raising the visibility of accomplished women and underrepresented groups in tech and focussing on their achievements and knowledge.The evening will feature workshops, talks, panels and networking for people of all genders who are curious about technology. Expect an evening of inspiration and motivation!The event is open to all university students and graduates less than two years out of university of any technical skill level (including complete beginners) and best of all... it's absolutely free! Opening talk by Emily Brooke, CEO and Founder of Blaze (https://blaze.cc/) Then the event will split into three streams: -Workshop by Morgan Stanley: You will get to work in teams on AI for an automated player in a game of Ultimate Tic Tac Toe. Everyone will get to learn about Game theory and basic AI algorithms, and at the end each team’s player will play automatically against all others to see which algorithm is strongest. For this workshop we’ll provide an initial implementation of a player to each team, with very basic decision logic – so that everyone starts from the same point. The players will be coded in JavaScript and run with Nodejs. The game server and more info are available here: https://github.com/aurbano/ultimate-ttt-server -Panel on Perspectives in Tech Gain insight on multiple aspects of the tech industry from our panel members, who have a wide range of backgrounds, including: -Zahra is a full-stack iOS developer at Bloomberg. She recently graduated from UCL with a Computing BSc, where she was the former Director of Events at UCLU TechSoc and led organisation of events such as the last Tech Night LDN. She's also a student hackathon veteran, having worked her way up from attendee to organiser to judge, and was a member of the first cohort of Clarifai Champions. -Umesh is the Co-Founder of Pace Ventures, an innovation consultancy that works with governments, corporates and charities on their innovation capability. Through workshops, hackathons, accelerators and consulting projects, Pace Ventures helps broker relationships with startups and SME's. Alongside Pace Ventures, he runs UniHack, a nationwide hackathon programme. UniHack brings together students, corporates, the third sector, and the local community to create innovative solutions to real-world challenges. -Jennifer has studied Electronic and Telecoms Engineering (MEng) at the University of Sheffield. Having graduated in 2015 she joined Vodafone Group’s Technology programme and is now on her 3rd placement working in the Systems Architecture team. Jennifer has worked on a range of interesting projects from collaborating with suppliers for a catalyst project in order to deliver more personalised customer experience to learning about open API’s and how we can use this to deliver a better service to our customers.   -Tech Talk with Zehan Wang and Suranga Chandratillake: Zehan Wang was previously the co-founder and CTO of Magic Pony Technology, which was acquired in 2016 by Twitter for up to $150M (https://techcrunch.com/…/twitter-is-buying-magic-pony-tech…/). Currently, Zehan is an engineering manager at Twitter where he leads a team of researchers and engineers developing features and technologies which provide new and better visual experiences for Twitter users. Prior to that, Zehan did a PhD at Imperial College London on medical image analysis using computer vision and machine learning. Suranga joined Balderton as a General Partner in 2014. He was previously an entrepreneur and engineer. Suranga founded blinkx, the intelligent search engine for video and audio content in Cambridge in 2004. He then led the company for eight years as CEO through its journey of moving to San Francisco, building a profitable business and going public in London where it achieved a peak market capitalisation in excess of $1Bn. Before founding blinkx, Suranga was an early employee at Autonomy Corporation - joining as an engineer in the Cambridge R&D team and ultimately serving as the company's US CTO in San Francisco. Suranga has a MA in Computer Science from the University of Cambridge. He holds patents in the area of video discovery and online video advertising, was elected a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering in 2012 and was chosen as one of the World Economic Forum's Young Global Leaders in 2009. Closing Speaker - TBA!

Aspiring lady techies -- aged 5 to 22! You're invited to sign up for the Stemettes BeepBoopforChange Robotics Hack - IWD 2017. If you're under 16, you'll need to have an adult attend with you. Collaborate with like-minded females and help move the needle on increasing th enumber of women working in the UK's Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths (STEM) fields. You'll be using exciting tools such as Dobot Magicians robotic arms and the Python general purpose programming language.

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.

Hyperledger MeetUp: Successful pilot projects, lessons learned and what lies ahead Join us at this exciting Blockchain networking event where you will have the chance to hear about the progress of the Hyperledger Project, successful pilot projects, challenges and what lies ahead. Hear our guest speakers sharing their own experiences on Blockchain projects, share your own thoughts and get your questions answered by the experts. 17:30   Welcome 17:45   IBM Hursley Blockchain Labs: Hyperledger V1.0 Fabric Update & solution development with Fabric Composer 18:15  D-Pactum: Applied Smart Contract Architecture in Financial Markets. 18:45 TES Solutions: Global Platform for Social and Environmental Sustainability through IBM Blockchain and Hyperledger Exchange Platform 19:15 University of Bedfordshire: H^4 (How to Hold an Hyperledger Hackathon: A beginner's Guide) 19:45 Networking, food and drinks Looking forward to seeing you there.

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.

Medical professionals, community workers, developers, entrepreneurs, artists, educators, business professionals, students, everyday people and more! The World Economic Forum’s Global Shapers Community and the Commonwealth Youth Health Network invite you to participate in the 2017 African Healthcare Challenge. The Challenge is a high energy weekend event where participants team to brainstorm solutions to the real world problems of healthcare organizations and institutions in Africa. You don't have to be in London to participate! You can take part virtually.

Coders, designers, fabricators, science fans, video gamers, and hackers! You're invited to sign up and participate in the Science Museum London Digital Lab Hackathon. You'll get to use the museum's new Collection Online API, and come up with weird, magical, useful and innovative ways of presenting the Museum's collections.