List of hackathons in Wimbledon, United Kingdom in 2017

Creators, developers, and entrepreneurs - students or professionals! Interested in inclusive smart cities and innovative solutions for public transport? Wayfindr invites you to sign up and participate in a Public Transport Hackathon. You'll get the opportunity to collaborate to come up with ways in which Bluetooth Beacons and APIs can improve the travel experience for citizens of London on the London Underground. You will be challenged to create innovative uses of the Beacon API to provide new digital navigation services for commuters who need additional assistance, such as vision impaired people.

Developers, designers and AR enthusiasts in and around London! Come sign-up and participate in the EdTech Augmented Reality Hackathon. You'll network and collaborate in a small team with like-minded AR-enthusiasts to build an Augmented Reality (AR) experience. You'll be given a challenge theme and in just over 24 hours, you must create a unique AR application connected to your own personal interpretation of the theme. Your only limitations are time and your imagination.

Developers , designers, techies interested in the use of technology for the public good! Fintech Worldwide invites you to participate in the Blockchain Hackathon! Your challenge is to collaborate with like-minded innovators to improve citizen and municipal services. Sign up, come and generate awesome concepts that help government at all levels better assist their citizens — perhaps by exploring ways to help the unbanked, track the movement of goods, voting, e-citizenship, licensing, etc. Winning teams will be judged on concept originality, feasibility, level of development and appropriate use of Blockchain.

Gaming enthusiasts in and around London! Come and participate in the Global Game Jam 2017 at the SAE Institute London. This is the world's largest game jam event, where you can collaborate with like-minded gamers to create awesome new games! You're invited to explore new technology tools and testing your skills by designing, creating, and testing your own new game—all in less than 48 hours. Visit our hackathon tips pageto prepare for your Global Game Jam 2017 experience!

Our January conference is dedicated to Augmented Reality for Training & Education. Come to hear about the experience of the companies and academia in AR for Training & Education, see exciting demos of the latest tech and network with our guests and other participants. AGENDA 6pm - 9pm Registration and Welcome note Talks, panel & demos from: Nicole Pellicena Tredway, Deloitte Colum Eliott-Kelly, Blippar Elena Sinel, Acorn Aspirations Sally Eaves, Business education consultant Ed Barton, Curiscope Panel: Augmented Reality for Education - trends & opportunities led by Joshua Redmond, Deloitte with Colum Eliott-Kelly, Blippar, Edward Miller, Interactive imagery specialist, Ed Barton, CEO of Curiscope, Sally Eaves, Consultant  Hackathon announcement Live demonstrations and networking opportunities! --- Hashtag: #EdTechAR Thank you to our sponsors and partners: Blippar, Deloitte, Acorn Aspirations, Curiscope The event will also be live-streamed on Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/realitiescentre Interested in creating your own AR application for Education? Check out our Hackathon: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/edtech-augmented-reality-hackathon-tickets-29753263813  Note: Speakers subject to change.

Do you have a project that you're trying to get off the ground? Not sure of the next steps to take? Well here's your chance to move forward. Come and participate in the NoTosh @ The BETT Leadership Hackathon. You'll go through three fast-paced sessions and get the time and tools to leave with your challenges defined, ideas created and concrete prototypes ready for feedback. So sign up today and bring your project challenge or serious hurdle that's getting in the way of your awesome new idea.

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.

Are you interested in happiness? Digital Catapult invites technical professionals from disciplines such as machine learning, data science, design and software engineering to participate in the Hacking Happiness hackathon. You'll be challenged to collaborate with like-minded individuals to conceive and prototype innovative solutions that address happiness. You have a choice of challenges on measuring, understanding, predicting and increasing happiness: 1.Quantified happiness: Using personal, geographic, social and environmental data sets. 2.Augmented happiness: Using wearables or sensors. 3.Interactive happiness: Using novel human-AI collaborations and interactions.

As a civic-minded individual, were you scandalised by the Newham Council LOBO loan scandal? Worried about the type and level of risky and expensive loans that have been sold to local authorities? Debt Resistance UK invites you to sign up to participate in the on-line LOCAL FINANCE HACKATHON. You'll be challenged to review and analyse a dataset of LOBO loan contracts and to make create new analyses or visualisations to help others to clearly understand the scale of the problem facing local authorities.