List of hackathons in Wrexham, United Kingdom in 2018

JOIN MONTEROSA FOR LIVERPOOL’S FIRST-EVER FAN ENGAGEMENT HACKATHON If you fancy applying your digital talents to the world of entertainment and sports, in collaboration with sports industry leaders, then this is for you. Who is staging it? Monterosa, world leading fan engagement tech company, is hosting FanHack with support from both ITV and The Jockey Club. Who is it for? Developers, designers, product managers or anything in-between; whether you’re coming in with years of experience or nothing more than buckets of energy and some new ideas, we want to hear from you. Do I need to bring a whole team? No! Just bring yourself and your imagination and we’ll help establish small teams on the day. What’s the Challenge? You will be tasked on the day with using data, video, AR and mobile apps / webapps to find ways of entertaining and engaging both hard-core racing fans and the casual racegoer. What technologies can I use? The hack’s challenge will be sports data and AR intensive; therefore some experience with ARKit/ARCore will be highly beneficial. You will also have the exclusive opportunity to road test Monterosa’s market-leading interactivity platform, LViS. Why are we doing it? Monterosa are currently building the nucleus of a new team in Liverpool, and are keen to get to know the community. 1.0.0.18

Monterosa, world leading fan engagement company, is hosting FanHack with support from both ITV and The Jockey Club. You will be teamed up and tasked with using data, video, and maybe even Augmented Reality to find ways of entertaining and engaging fans. You will be able to let your imagination run wild, with a day and the advice of some of our key players at your disposal.

Techie university students and recent graduates in the Midlands! You're invited to participate in the Hack Keele 24 hour hackathon. You'll participate as part of a team of between 2 to 4 hackers. During this coding marathon, you'll be expected to collaborate with your team mates to conceive and build something innovative and exciting! You'll be limited only by your own imaginations!

Millennium Point and Stemettes invite you to a celebration of women in STEM. The event will be hosted by Head of Events & Partnerships, Charlotte Pascual, with a special message from Head Stemette, Dr Anne-Marie Imafidon MBE.  Meet the Stemettes on IWD @ Millennium Point, Birmingham; is a panel discussion, Stemettes style! Come and celebrate International Women's Day 2018 with us in Birmingham. This event is aimed at young women aged 5-21 with a main focus on secondary school students.We’ll discuss different ways people begin their Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths related careers. We’re hoping to explore apprenticeships, A-level choices, university degrees, work experience. You’ll be able to ask the panel questions, network between each other and enjoy free food! When? 11am-3pm, Thursday 8th March 2018 Where? Millennium Point, Curzon Street, Birmingham, B4 7XG Our Impressive panel will include 7 fantastic women in STEM and a Mystery Man. Hosted and supported by: Millennium Point Millennium Point, Birmingham Eastside’s anchor building which fronts Eastside City Park and is opposite the site of the new HS2 Birmingham Curzon Street Station, is owned by Millennium Point Trust.   The 500,000-sq. ft. building provides workspace, offices and studios to tenants, most with interests in STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) as well as offering creative working and learning environments and hosting events, training, conferences and exhibitions.   During the past four years, commercial activities in the building have enabled Millennium Point Trust to donate more than £4m to organisations, projects and initiatives that support access to STEM related education in the Midlands. _____________________________________________________ About the Stemettes - We're running a series of panel events, hackathons and exhibitions this year for girls from 5 years old right up to female university students. We'd like to show them amazing women in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics careers.    Twitter - http://twitter.com/stemettes Facebook - http://facebook.com/stemettes Website - http://stemettes.org  

Computer student hackers in the UK! You're invited to participate in the Chess Digital Hackathon 2018, where the theme will be The Real-time Data Stream Challenge. You'll be challenged to build an innovative app using real-time datastreams from the Satori open data platform. Participate on your own, or as a member of a team of two or three people. Collaborate and compete for recognition and great prizes.

GREENER FUTURES - HACKATHON Are you interested in helping to create a brighter future for Liverpool? The aim of the event is to come up with lots of new, exciting & creative social enterprise ideas to tackle a range of challenges linked to climate change, sustainable development & eco social enterprise. Run by School for Social Entrepreneurs North West funded by Our Bright Future.       A  free mini-one day hackathon challenge for 16 - 24 yr old young people from across Liverpool & the North West. Drinks, snacks and lunch is provided for free. Pitch your idea at the end of the day for a chance to win a place on Environmental Social Enterprise Fellowship programme starting May 2018. Hackathons are tools used by designers, social entrepreneurs, engineers, creatives & industry leaders to co-design new products and services solving some of the world's most difficult challenges. You'll be Passionate about changing the world Practical Full of brilliant ideas A problem solver Interested in developing your leadership & employability skills Interested in meeting new people Ideal if you've Already been part of our BEE You project You are on a degree linked to enterprise, the environment, waste management You already study land management, Lantra bee keeping You are a budding social entrepreneur Date: 6th March 2018 Time: Starts from 9.30am for prompt 10am start. Ends by 4pm Venue: Blackburne House, 3 Blackburne Place, Liverpool L8 7EP Access: Blackburne House is an accessible venue. If you have any specific needs please contact us in advance so we can make your visit as smooth as possible. This event is part of a 5 year BEE You Programme funded by Our Bright Future run in partnership with Blackburne House and School for Social Entrepreneurs North West. For more information email Anna B. Sexton, Learning Facilitator, BEE You Project annabsexton@blackburnehouse.co.uk

To celebrate the end of our Preventative, Rehab & Recovery Health Hackathon, we've got tickets for anyone interested in hearing about the great work the teams have been doing over the weekend. At the 2 day hackathon event we bring together healthcare professionals, patients, designers, developers, engineers and entrepreneurs in order to solve real world healthcare challenges. Teams are formed and prototypes are made, ready for the panel of judges to critique and hear about the teams' ideas.  You can be a part of the event too, even if you can't make the full 2 day hackathon. Come and join us to hear the teams presentations to the panel of judges and have your say on which teams' ideas you think is the most innovative!

Over the course of the weekend we'll be uniting Designers, Engineers, Developers, Innovators, Health and Social Care Professionals, Patient/ Service User groups, Entrepreneurs and anyone interested in taking part in creating and designing solutions to healthcare challenges.  By the end of the weekend you will be part of a team that's designed and/or created a prototype that could help solve health and social care challenges; plus you'll have made new connections with amazing people from across disciplines in the tech, health and entreprenuerial world.  The hackathon is a collectve activity, it transcends individual agendas and gives a voice to all participants, as such your contribution is invaluable. If you're already part of an amazing team, you can all come along (although you'll all need to get your own ticket). Plus, did we mention there are lots of prizes up for grabs for the winning teams! Sign up to the HH Liverpool Spark Board to pitch your healthcare challenge for this years’ hackathon. No challenges springing to mind? No problem. Check out what challenges are already up on the Spark Board and join a team, your skills are invaluable. The hackathon starts at 8:30am Saturday 3rd of March and once we’ve finished hearing about all the challenges, we’ll form teams and get hacking. Sunday 4th March, it’s tools down by 12:30pm ready for presentations to the judging panel. If you can't make the full 2 day hackathon, come and join us to hear the teams presentations to the panel of judges Sunday 4th March (at the Stanley Theatre, Liverpool University) and have your say on which teams' ideas you think are the most innovative! Lunch, dinner and refreshments will be provided, so bring your laptop, your energy and your commitment to innovating healthcare through tech!

Pre-university young hackers -- ages 13 to 18 -- in Manchester! HAC100 invites you to participate in the 2-day Manchester Youth Hack #7. Come and code -- or learn to code -- on challenges set by sponsoring digital companies. Test your digital skills and creativity and compete for prizes.

Would you be interested in an exciting opportunity to learn how to make the most from Hackathon participation? Microsoft’s Financial Services CTO talks about his experience, as a participant, as a mentor, and as a judge. We are delighted to invite you to our free workshop on “Making the Most of Hackathons”. Jointly delivered by Lloyds Bank and Microsoft, we cover how best to use hackathons to help grow your product, and ultimately your business. We will cover:   What is a hackathon? How do you get the most value out of a Hackathon? Quit while you are ahead When are they useful and when are they not? How to get involved? This is a fantastic opportunity for you to develop take away valuable skills from Microsoft’s Chief Technology Officer, Aman Kohli. Come along to get some practical hands on experience and discover how you could run your own Hackathon in the future. Panel: Anish Kapoor - has founded, operated and expanded several high growth companies in the technology sectors.  He co-founded and led the growth and IPO of TeleCity PLC, Europe’s largest provider of internet infrastructure. He then co-founded and led the growth and trade sale of Yuuguu, a global SAAS collaboration service which now powers the worlds largest conference calling company. He was a member of the advisory board to the UK Governments’ Technology Strategy Board (KTN), and is an advisor to a number of venture capital backed technology companies Dave McKerral  of evestor Gemma Cameron -  https://rubygem.me/speaker-bio/ Melissa Kabluczenko - @MelissaKab https://www.linkedin.com/in/melissakab/ Melissa has worked in social media for the last seven years and is    currently Social Media Manager for Rullion. She's participated, documented    and provided media coverage for hackathons, helping to gain valuable    insight into how to make the most of them. She’s also studied and practiced    British Sign Language for the last six years, developing a passion for    making technology more inclusive and accessible, which led to her    participating in a recent Think Tank Group on AI and Machine Learning.    Matthew Elliott - Co-founder of www.nivohub.com.  Nivo combines leading identity verification with secure instant messaging. The platform is free for all businesses to join and lets them cut fraud, reduce costs and service customers over mobile more easily than ever before.   Mat developed Nivo while working for Barclays and built its first working prototype to win the world's largest FinTech hackathon. He has since Nivo to become the first Barclays spin out and is currently bringing it to market as an independent company.  Refreshments will be provided. Please ensure you bring some form of photo I.D with you and visit the check in desk upon arrival to the first floor of the branch. The views and opinions expressed in this event are those of the presenter(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views and opinions of Lloyds Banking Group. While all reasonable care has been taken to ensure that the information provided is correct, no liability is accepted by Lloyds Bank for any loss or damage caused to any person relying on any statement or omission. This is for information only and should not be relied upon as offering advice for any set of circumstances. Specific advice should always be sought in each instance. If you have any questions regarding this event, please contact our Local Event Manager at holly.gaffney@lloydsbanking.com Event Host: Lloyds Bank and Microsoft