List of hackathons in Winchester, United Kingdom in 2017

RPA analysts, architects or developers! Do you want to match your skills and creativity against other robotics process automation professionals? You're invited to participate in the RPA Hackathon -- a 24-hour digital marathon, where you'll design and prototype a new RPA project and compete for prizes against the best of the best!

Entrepreneurial spirits! Do you want to start your own business? King's Entrepreneurs Society invites you to participate in the KCL Business Hackathon 2017. In this 12-hour non-tech hackathon, you'll be challenged to build your business in a day -- from generating your idea to building your first prototype! Pitch your project to the audience and get the chance to win validation, recognition and great prizes.

The scientific endeavor has brought remarkable technological progress and plays a pivotal role in 21st-century life. However, media breaches, incompatibilities and locked-away-data all present problems and there are still a number of changes needed to improve the scientific process. Many claim that the blockchain offers great potential for Science and Knowledge creation - immutable data trails, novel means for research money distribution, privacy-assured data handling and even crowdfunding methods present possibilities. We envision a system that will contain the whole research cycle in one closed-looped system - from data acquisition, post-processing, storage, calculation, scientific reasoning as well as incentivisation and research funding. As a starting point, we'll take abstractions from bitcoin, and, while its miners assure the integrity of the blockchain, the guardians of the living knowledge network will assure that science is kept honest and meaningful, all with a knowledge token that will incentivise participants. However, we understand that verifying transactions on the bitcoin blockchain is much easier than verifying science - but various implementations and abstractions could lead us there and we need to start somewhere. With this hackathon, we want to engage and inspire the science-interested tech community. There will be a series of talks and sessions run using standard developer tools and on PC, MAC and Linux operating systems. We're looking for tech talent from all levels of capability - what's important is your passion for creating future blockchain technologies! Program: Fri. 1st of December 19:00 Potential meetup with talks @ 3 crowns pub Saturday Sat 2nd of December  09:00 Start, Registration 09.25 Breakfast 10:00 Opening remarks Intro to challenges by: 10:10 Collaboration Future Of (Roman) 10:20 Future of Peer review (Sönke) 10:30 Network Data Science (James) 10.30 Knowledge Token (t.b.d.) 11:00 Team Formation 11:25 Team Registration – Start hacking! 13:30 Lunch 16:00 Talk: Cryptoeconomy for Science - Bazil Azmil 18:30 Dinner 21:00 Exit Sun 3rd of December 10:00 Arrive and start hacking 14:00 Talk (t.b.d.) 16:00 Pitching session begins Community voting through Knowledge tokens 17:00 Winners announced 17:10 Closing remarks 17:30 …  Networking, drinks and nibbles Rules The core part of the solution to the challenge must be written over the weekend Please check your code into a repository (Github, Bitbucket etc) with an open source software license of your choice When you’ve assembled your team, please let us know your team name, participants, which challenge you’re entering, and your code repository URL Please sign the terms and conditions form (on the day) You retain your IP Teams & Pitching We have a two-hour slot for pitching with 10 minutes for the judges to convene We’d like you to give a five-minute pitch and/or demo, and allow two minutes for Q&A If you don't have time for a demo – screenshots are OK Pitches need to be tight and punchy! Make sure you practice in advance We can really only handle 15 teams if we want to keep to the timeline We don't want to set a minimum team size, but we would strongly encourage you to form teams of four people or more Community engagement: BlockchainForScience

Science-oriented techies in the Greater London Area! You're invited to participate in the Living Knowledge Network – London Hackathon. You'll get to tackle your choice of four Blockchain challenges: The Future of Collaboration, Network Data Science, The Future Of Peer Review, or Knowledge Tokens. Tech talent from all levels of capability is welcome to join in! You just need a passion for the future of science and knowledge creation!

Please note: This event is strictly for regular software engineers and computer science/software engineering students only. This event is brought to you by The Blockchain Connector, a training and recruitment company focusing entirely on Blockchain technology & UCL Centre for Blockchain Technologies, a leading European research hub focusing on the impact of blockchain technologies on socio-economic systems, and promotion of a safe and organic development and adoption of blockchain-based platforms. Speaker Bio: Conor Svensson Conor is the author of web3j, the Java library for working integrating with Ethereum. He's the founder of blk.io (https://blk.io/) who provide the foundations for enterprises to integrate with Ethereum and Quorum. Conor also co-chairs the Quorum and Integration and Tools Working Groups in the Enterprise Ethereum Alliance and is the organiser of the Enterprise Ethereum Alliance London Meetup. Title of talk: web3j 3.0 – Integration with Ethereum and smart contracts for Developers Abstract: web3j is the Java library for integrating with Ethereum. In this talk, Conor will provide an overview of web3j, including its client API, smart contract wrappers, command line tools, event subscription capabilities and Block and transaction replay support. Conor will also be talking about the milestone web3j 3.0 release and the additional functionality it provides for further simplifying integration with smart contracts. Finally, there will be an ERC20 token demo using web3j, and discussion of building micro-services on top of web3j. Event Organiser: Antonio Sabado Antonio is a founder of The Blockchain Connector, a training and recruitment company focusing entirely on Blockchain technology. Antonio has 10 plus years experience working closely with global Investment Banks placing and managing highly skilled eTrading Technology professionals. Antonio has an extensive network, ranging from mid to senior level technology and business professionals across various sectors. He is an organiser of several Blockchain focused events in London aimed at software developers and business users. Future Events: Visit our Eventbrite homepage to view all our future events by clicking HERE. For further details on our developer workshop, please email antonio@theblockchainconnector.com or contact Antonio on 0044 (07)923 521 833. 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" Follow us on Twitter @bc_workshop & @thebc_connector Join our growing Blockchain Developer meetup held in London by clicking HERE.

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Finding a good problem to focus your research on or build a startup around is a challenge and can greatly influence your success and growth potential. What is a good problem and how to find one? How to make sure that it is a problem that you can tackle? This talk is for researchers and entrepreneurs looking to solve real-world problems through their work.  Free lunch and refreshments will be provided.  If you are not based at Guy’s Campus and would find it difficult to attend at lunchtime, we will also live stream the seminar on our Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/KCLInnovationForum/ Speaker Profile: Ana Florescu Ana is Head of Good Problems at Science Practice, a research and design studio based in London.  The Good Problems Team works with funding organisations, investors and philanthropists that want to take a problem-led approach to their funding. They help them identify and prioritise real problems in need of solutions and design appropriate ways to incentivise innovation. The Team has designed over 30 challenge prizes and funding calls, including the £10M Longitude Prize for a diagnostic test to help reduce the misuse of antibiotics. Prior to joining Science Practice, Ana worked at Nesta where she researched emerging technologies and trends in social venture incubation. She also helped organise a number of Start-up Weekend hackathons and ran an 8-week pre-accelerator programme for entrepreneurs in London. Kindly Sponsored by: Entrepreneurship Institute

We're closing the year with a Breakfast Briefing that packs a punch, showing you the top tech trends that really matter for 2018, in partnership with Propeller. Get a jumpstart and discover where and how you can harness 2018's predictions to create innovative and impactful work for your clients. Join us and a panel of industry experts, as they take us on a whistle-stop tour of some of the key tech trends that they predict will be hot (and what will not!) in 2018, so you can narrow your focus in on the tech that's worth its salt.  Speakers:  Moderator: Ben Titchmarsh, Head of Media and Marketing at Propeller Group Ben is Propeller Group’s head of media and marketing. A familiar face at industry events, ranging from Cannes Lions and DMEXCO to Mobile World Congress and Advertising Week in London and New York, Ben works across Propeller’s client roster with some of the world’s most exciting companies in media, advertising and digital. A former journalist with a fascination for how technology is transforming our lives, Ben will be quizzing the panel on the essential tech trends to watch out for in the next 12 months and cutting through industry hyperbole and cynicism in equal measure.  Guy Armitage, CEO, Zealous Guy (said Ghee) is an AI grad gone rogue. After a stint at the London Stock Exchange he left for Egypt, founding a start-up in Cairo. He then returned to London and founded creative network Zealous, with the purpose of simplifying finding the right creative talent. Guy was listed as Guardian Creative Entrepreneur of the Year in 2013, has discussed the world-changing potential of creativity at TEDx and in Forbes; won the Tate’s Digital Art Hackathon and is a proud trustee of Firstsite in Colchester. Karen Boswell, Head of Innovation, AdamandEveDDB Karen helps brands and organisations evolve their marketing from both a strategic and implementation perspective, weaving together people and ideas to create and maintain cultures of innovation and agility. With 15 years experience specialising in digital working as part of the wider marketing mix she uses technology as an enabler to keep up with customer demand, shaping transformational strategies that disrupt in the right way but click together seamlessly. Having instigated a culture of positive disruption and rapid innovation at adamandeveDDB, she currently leads the teams and clients alike to look at things differently; constantly challenging the norm, lifting the bar and breaking the rules.  She’s there to insure 'innovation' isn't a buzzword, or the jazz hands of technology, but that clever, future proof thinking leads to excellence in both creativity and effectiveness, for today and tomorrow. Luciana Carvalho Se, Business Development & Partnerships, REWIND Learner, maker, systems thinker, innovator and tech evangelist, Luciana heads new business & partnerships for REWIND - an award-winning immersive content production studio - and is co-founder of Unfold Inclusion, a social enterprise empowering women/diversity in XR in the UK. With over five years experience in award-winning startups such as Racefully, UniPlaces, Import.io - on both the technical and creative side - Luciana is driven by big ideas, a global mindset and empowering tech entrepreneurs. She is an advocate and thought-leader for the UK’s immersive tech industry, having been integral to the founding of Realities Centre London and the VRAR Tech London Advocates sub-group. An ambassador and mentor for Code First Girls, Founders of the Future, Series Q, among others, she also co-runs Unfold Inclusion, a social enterprise that supports underrepresented voices in XR. Luciana is a former Cambridge Law, Harvard and International Business grad turned tech super-geek!  She was elected one of Code First Girls ‘25 Ones to Watch’, 'Top 5 Female Role Models in the Tech Industry', and Virtual Perceptions' 'Heroes of VR' in 2016, and regularly speaks about her journey and current work at conferences and companies. She has also hosted and continues to host webinars on neuro VR and women in tech with BrightTALK and BeMyApp. Matt Bush, Director of Agencies, Google UK Matt is the Director of Agencies at Google UK where he works with leading advertisers and agencies to help them get the most from the web. He joined in 2010 and previously he has worked in press and digital publishing.  He is a regular public speaker on many topics around digital, technology and media and how businesses might want to react to benefit from innovation and new developments.  Tickets: Tickets are free for BIMA members or £50 + VAT for non-members. To get your BIMA Member discount code email events@bima.co.uk Agenda: 8.30am - Arrive, coffee and networking 8.45am - Talks kick off10am - Talks end Join us and our awesome line-up of speakers, and start your morning as you mean to go on! Sponsored By Propeller 

THIS EVENT HAS BEEN POSTPONED: DUE TO UNFORESEEN CIRCUMSTANCES. NEW DATE TBC. In memory of Andrew Otero, a Sparta Global technology consultant who sadly passed away this year, we are holding a Hackathon event 'Speak Out' to support charity Calm, which provides a free helpline and online chat for men with mental health issues.  Please sign-up to be a part of this hackathon contest - where a challenge will be set and teams will compete by creating some technology throughout the day to donate to the charity partner. The event will take place at the offices of IG - who have kindly donated their space for this event.  The schedule will be as follows: 10:00 - Arrive 10:15 - Introduction from mother of Andrew Otero 10:30 - Challenge is set and hackathon begins 13:00 - Lunch (Provided by Sparta Global)  17:00 - Hackathon ends and pizza + beer provided by Sparta Global, technology is presented by the teams  18:00 - Awards provided to 1st, 2nd, 3rd teams by judging panel consisting of senior technology representative from IG and Jet2, Tech Director - Sparta Global, representative from Calm.  Thank you to all the partners involved in this event who have helped us to make it happen, to Andrew's mum for being a part of it, and the developers coming along on the day.  This is a cause that is close to us and we would like to make this an annual event.  THANK YOU.  #SpeakOut @SpartaGlobal @TheCALMzone @LifeatIG

Love ideas? Want to play and build something without any pressure of it being the 'one'? Curious about the new world of startups and freelance careers?  This one day Escape School Hackathon is a chance to co-create, and 'build' a first version of an idea with new friends. It will help you sharpen your escape tools, increase your confidence in 'starting up' and build new connections.  Part One: THE IDEA Demystifying & De-risking Ideas Generate exciting Ideas. Idea generation games.  Choose the an idea for you / your team for the day.  Part Two: SURE UP YOUR IDEA Map the assummptions around your idea  Build a simple business model for your idea Choose your first customer niche and what you want to understand LUNCH (healthy lunch included) Part Three: PLAN  & BUILD YOUR FIRST VERSION Brand basics: How to build a value proposition and brand Toolkit: Online Tools 101 > landing pages, logos, explainer videos, surveys etc... Get to it: start building your idea Part Four: PRESENT YOUR SIDE HUSTLE & NEXT STEPS 1 minute each person/group to present your work from the day and to make a clear plan for what comes next. Who is this for? The entrepreneurially frustrated: learn what small steps can enable you to explore that entrepreneurial itch alongside your current day to day. Community lovers: build your network Advice hunters: practical tips to help you start your sidebusiness Doers: action focused exercises to launch your business in a day Why should you attend? You’ll get started on an idea, right in the room, surrounded and encouraged by your fellow escapees.  You DON'T need an idea to attend.  The hackathon begins at 9:30am promptly, and will finish at 5:30pm.  More about the leader… BEN KEENE Head of the Escape School - Ben has helped over 1000 people start their businesses through Escape the City & Virgin Startup. Outside of Escape, Ben is the founder of Tribewanted (crowd-funded eco-communities) and Rebel Book Club (Get a game-changing book read every month). His startup superpowers include: helping people turn pub ideas into actual startups, building purposeful communities and hacking online projects together in a very short amount of time. This hackathon is limited to 30 places. Secure your ticket now to get closer to launching your business on the side.