List of hackathons in Winchester, United Kingdom in 2017

Life scientists and data scientists in the UK! If you're interested in how technology can help deliver quality predictive/preventative health for the people, then you're invited to participate in Treating the healthy. This day-long event is focused on how life scientists can work with data scientists to predict and prevent ill health. You'll get to hear from experts in the field before you form into teams to each come up with an innovative solution that has the potential to deliver significant public health improvement.

Technical deep dive talk with Brave Software, BAT (Basic Attention Token). Strictly for developers only! Please note that this event is for software engineers and computer science/software engineering students only. We will review all registrations and will send you an email to confirm your seat. This event is brought to you by The Blockchain Connector, a training and recruitment company focusing entirely on Blockchain technology.   Schedule: 18:30 – 19:00 Registration & Networking 19:00 - 19:15 Brief intro from Antonio Sabado, event organiser and founder of The Blockchain Connector and Yoti our venue sponsor.  19:15 – 20:15 Main presentation from Ben Livshits 20:15 - 20:45 Q&A with Ben Livshits led by Mustafa Al-Bassam 20:45 – Networking drinks at a nearby pub sponsored by DECENT   Speaker: Ben Livshits   Ben Livshits is the Chief Scientist for Brave Software International, the company behind Brave, a browser that blocks ads and makes web browsing faster. He is also a Reader (similar to Associate Professor in the American academic system) at Imperial College London and an affiliate professor at the University of Washington. Previously, he was a research scientist at Microsoft Research. Originally from St. Petersburg, Russia, he received a bachelor's degree in Computer Science and Math from Cornell University in 1999, and his M.S. and Ph.D. in Computer Science from Stanford University in 2002 and 2006, respectively. Dr. Livshits' research interests include application of sophisticated static and dynamic analysis techniques to finding errors in programs.   Presentation: Starting to Value User Attention This talk will focus on Brave, a novel browser that focuses on changing the advertising model. At the core of Brave is the idea that user’s attention should be properly valued and rewarded. The web is fundamentally broken -- the cost of "ad-supported, free" content has ultimately been at the expense of privacy and security, on promises of better relevance that ultimately have led to rapid adoption of ad blocking. We will talk about BAT, the basic attention token and present some of the usage scenarios around it. BAT allows for a realization opportunity for users to become aware of their attention value, which through the existing ad and marketing model, has been extracted and converted into an apparatus designed for further extraction and profiling of their behaviour with associated perf, privacy and data costs. https://basicattentiontoken.org/   https://brave.com/ https://twitter.com/AttentionToken https://twitter.com/brave    The Blockchain Connector "Our goal is to build a blockchain developer community by helping regular developers become blockchain developers. We host regular hands-on developer workshops, technical deep dive sessions and hackathons. We train and recruit developers on behalf of start-ups and global firms working on Blockchain related projects. Join us and be part of our growing developer community" To view all our future events, please click HERE. For further details on our developer workshop, please email us on antonio@theblockchainconnector.com or contact us on 0044 (07)923 521 833. Follow us on Twitter @bc_workshop & @thebc_connector Join our developer focused meetup group https://www.meetup.com/Blockchain-Workshop-for-Developers/ (Photo image from Jan 2017 Blockchain Workshop, courtesy of ©matteogiachettiphotography)  

This event is brought to you by The Blockchain Connector, a training and recruitment company focusing entirely on Blockchain technology. Schedule: 19:00 – 20:00 Registration & Networking with food and drinks sponsored by SatoshiPay 20:00 Brief intro from Antonio Sabado (event organiser and founder of The Blockchain Connector) plus lightning intro from the audience 20:15 – 21:30 Main presentation plus Q&A by Meinhard Benn 21:30 – 21:35 Final lightning intro from the audience 21:35 – 22:00 Networking with food and drinks   Abstract of Presentation: SatoshiPay allows publishers to monetise web content using frictionless nanopayments – powered by blockchain technology. SatoshiPay are launching cool new features and partnerships, and would like to introduce them to content creators, publishers, journalists, investors and friends. SatoshiPay CEO Meinhard Benn will guide you through the platform, explain what's new, speak about the partnership with the Stellar.org foundation and share details on SatoshiPay's technology, as well as plans for the coming year. The presentation will be followed by an extended Q&A session. There will be food and drinks, and SatoshiPay will give out free Stellar lumens to participants, so you can try their system straight away.   Speaker bio: Meinhard founded SatoshiPay, a blockchain-based nanopayments provider aiming to fundamentally change the way web content is monetised. As a open source developer, social entrepreneur and avid shoestring traveller with 50 countries under his belt, Meinhard experienced the need for an open, global and decentralised payment technology first-hand. He already experimented with different alternative payment systems for years when Bitcoin and its ground-breaking blockchain technology crossed his path in 2011. As developer, entrepreneur and speaker, Meinhard has pushed the blockchain ecosystem forward ever since. Company twitter id and company website: Tweet @SatoshiPay https://satoshipay.io/   The Blockchain Connector "Our goal is to build a blockchain developer community by helping regular developers become blockchain developers. We host regular hands-on developer workshops, technical deep dive sessions and hackathons. We train and recruit developers on behalf of start-ups and global firms working on Blockchain related projects. Join us and be part of our growing developer community" To view all our future events, please click HERE. For further details on our developer workshop, please email us on antonio@theblockchainconnector.com or contact us on 0044 (07)923 521 833. Follow us on Twitter @bc_workshop & @thebc_connector Join our developer focused meetup group strictly for developers on https://www.meetup.com/Blockchain-Workshop-for-Developers/

Students and Lawyers Against Poverty members in and around Oxford! Oxfam Lawyers Against Poverty invites you to save the date to participate in their Hackathon in Oxford. You'll be challenged to collaborate with like-minded individuals to come up with innovative ways in which you can improve access to justice for communities across the world.

Digital campaigners, tech gurus ... anyone who loves digital campaigning! You're invited to participate in the Lost Voices Hackathon. Research shows that there's a deep divide between the charity sector, politicians and the tech sector which has unfairly impacted on those with a lived experience. In this half-day event, you'll be challenged to design and develop solutions that can help bridge that divide.

Game designers, philanthropists, anyone interested or involved in activities that help enable global social progress, economic growth and environmental protection. You're invited to participate in Qismat Collaboration: Gamifying the United Nation's SDGs. You'll be challenged to design and prototype an video game that is amazing to play and delivers the best global impact, by reinforcing and helping realize the United Nation’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDG).

This event is brought to you by The Blockchain Connector, a training and recruitment company focusing entirely on Blockchain technology. Schedule: 18:00 – 19:00 Registration & Networking with food and drinks sponsored by MindArk 19:00 Brief intro from Antonio Sabado, event organiser and founder of The Blockchain Connector 19:10 – 21:00 Main presentation plus Q&A by David Simmonds & Henrik Nel 21:00 – Networking drinks at a nearby pub Presentation title:  A Token Mechanism for Growing the Games Development & Enterprise Ecosystem of Decentralized Applications in a Virtual World Quick intro: MindArk, a Swedish virtual reality company founded in the 1990’s will provide an overview on how they are applying Blockchain technology on their platform and how they are applying open standards in this space. The first video game was thought to be engendered virtually 60 years ago in October 1958 by, Physicist William Higinbotham, it was a simple tennis game. Since then, gaming has become an immersive experience through a host of deep technologies such as AI, ML, AU & VR. Mindark AB through its Entropia Macrocosm a platform is about to open source much of its deep tech through a Token offering denominated Deeptoken. For the long-term prosperity of the Entropia open platform accommodations, there is a desideratum for (a) governance structures and (b) incentive mechanisms for developers and users to participate in an incipient two-sided market for applications. In this paper, MindArk will present Deeptoken—a blockchain token protocol that ameliorates upon the earlier design of the Entropia Macrocosm. Deeptoken introduces decentralized governance and incentive mechanisms for ecosystem magnification, and enables incipient features like support for games and enterprise business developers to access deep technology and license their engenderments for more expeditious use. Deeptoken is a major upgrade to the Entropia Macrocosm and, like earlier major technology upgrades, will be proposed as the next immensely colossal milestone in the history of the macrocosm.   Speakers: David Simmonds David was the former CEO of MindArk between 2011-2014. With 15 years of experience in Virtual Reality and Crypto/Virtual currencies he will be an integral part of the DeepToken foundation. David also brings 35 years of experience of sales and business development in IT, telecom & security of which more than 30 years as owner/managing director. Henrik Nel Henrik is one of the co-founders of DeepToken and as CSO responsible for the strategic initiatives of MindArk and the DeepToken foundation. He studied Management and Economics of Innovation at Chalmers University of Technology in Gothenburg, Sweden. Early adopter of crypto and passionate gamer.  Twitter @EntropiaNews More info on mindark.com  &   entropiauniverse.com   The Blockchain Connector "Our goal is to build a blockchain developer community by helping regular developers become blockchain developers. We host regular hands-on developer workshops, technical deep dive sessions and hackathons. We train and recruit developers on behalf of start-ups and global firms working on Blockchain related projects. Join us and be part of our growing developer community" To view all our future events, please click HERE. For further details on our developer workshop, please email us on antonio@theblockchainconnector.com or contact us on 0044 (07)923 521 833. Follow us on Twitter @bc_workshop & @thebc_connector Join our developer focused meetup group strictly for developers on https://www.meetup.com/Blockchain-Workshop-for-Developers/

At Kingdom Code BUILD, our annual hackathon, we hosted over 90 Christians who work in the technology world. We spent the weekend working on projects that bring together our faith and our skillsets in technology. At our December meetup we're inviting the groups back to show some of the work that they did, and show how it's been developed over the last two months. During the evening we'll be seeing a VR project built for Christians Against Poverty, an iOS app showing the fostering and adoption journey built for Home for Good, a web app which could transform how musicians can lead worship during church service and more… We'll also have some time to discuss and pray about what happens next for Kingdom Code as we head into 2018.

#AcornHackJI will be the best yet and as always we will bring the most incredible tech experts and entrepreneurs to inspire you into tech, share with you what they are developing and challenge you to solve a problem or two. DATE: 2-3 December TIME: 5.30pm - 8.30pm on 2 December          8.30am - 7.30pm on 3 December VENUE: WeHub, Wohl Building, 2B Redbourne Avenue, London N3 2B Watch our trailer on YouTube Follow us on Twitter: @acornaspiration Be the first to learn about our events and discounts, sign up on our website: www.acornaspirations.com Become part of our Facebook community Join us on Meetup and learn great skills they don't teach in school Mentors, we guarantee you will learn new skills too!  PLACES FOR THIS HACK ARE LIMITED! (You MUST bring your own laptop!) You will come out of the hackathon with the following: 1. You will meet the experts and entrepreneurs from London's tech scene 2. You will meet other teens who are passionate about tech 3. You will work with tech mentors and entrepreneurs and learn how to turn your ideas into a basic working version. Things you will learn: * How to decide which of your ideas are worth working on * How to decide what features the user needs to get them from A to B * How to sketch your ideas * How to build your idea using rapid prototyping tools * How to pitch your idea - you will pitch in front of some of London's most innovative start-ups * How will your idea make money - business models * Programming courses: 1. Learning Python 2. Intro to Android Studio 3. HTML, CSS For further info please email Elena elena.sinel@acornaspirations.co.uk NOTE to SPONSORS: If you wish to sponsor the event or sponsor X amout of children, please email Elena elena.sinel@acornaspirations.co.uk to discuss details. Jewish Interactive is a registered charity. For donation, please contact Chana Kanzen on chana@jewishinteractive.net to discuss charitable donations.

DESCRIPTION Join us for this intensive 1 day hackathon to learn how to take control of your career & find ways of doing work that you will love. More importantly it will push you to launch your first career prototype to test out a new path. You know you want to do something different... ...but you're not sure what that something is. Maybe it's a different company. Maybe it's a new career. Maybe you want to go on a big adventure or start your business. But you're not sure where to start. You’re not sure where to turn and you don’t know what your options are. And... there's another problem. Leaving a safe job is scary. Every time you think about making a big change in your work, career & life, the little voices in your head chime in: You're too young (or too old.) You don't have the time (or the money, or the knowledge, or the skills). What if you fail? What if it all ends up being a massive mistake? You're ready to give up on your search to do work you love before you even get started. You're not alone. We have spent the past five years gathering knowledge from over 250,000 unfulfilled professionals on why current career change methods aren’t working. We’ve discovered that the biggest problems come when people expect a magic-bullet solution or when they expect a career coach to give them an answer to a problem that they can’t even really define. We work with only the best teachers, career coaches & thought-leaders. We apply tried & tested lessons from the career coaches, career change psychologists, and successful career changers to save you from wasting time and money on those who don't deliver the most effective & practical advice. We teach the same practical frameworks and methods used by hundreds of Escape the City members to escape unfulfilling jobs and do work they love. Here's what you can expect: This hackathon will help you understand how to take control of your career and steer it in directions that will bring you more autonomy, meaning, and purpose. It’s about personal fulfillment, it’s about making active choices for yourself, and it’s about owning your definition of success. You'll be able to play and build something without any pressure of it being the 'one'. We'll explore  the new world of work and freelance careers. This one-day Escape School Hackathon is a chance to co-create, and 'build' a first version of a career prototype with new friends. It will help you sharpen your escape tools, increase your confidence in finding a new direction, and build new connections. What does the hackathon consist of? We will provide you with tools, ideas and case studies to help you overcome your fears and start moving forwards with purpose. The hackathon covers the following: What isn't working for me in my career? What type of life do I want to lead? How do I work out what I really want to do? How do I overcome my fears? How do I come up with a plan that excites me? What are my more entrepreneurial options? What strategies will help me to build my dream job? How do I create opportunities on my own terms? You will leave this hackathon inspired to make change happen, with the beginnings of a plan, a commitment to action, a long list of new ideas, and have launched your first career prototype to get started. This workshop is taught by: SKYE ROBERTSON Head of the Escape School - Skye has helped thousands of people escape their jobs and start new careers and businesses through Escape the City, Startup Britain, and Young Enterprise. Her superpowers include: helping people turn ideas into actual businesses, standing out from the crowd in the job market, and hacking online projects together in a very short amount of time. This workshop is limited to 40 places. Secure your ticket now to get closer to changing your career.