List of hackathons in York, United Kingdom in 2016

The BBC is giving a micro:bit computer to every Year 7 student. This is a unique event for all Y7 Computing teachers interested in using these devices in their lessons. it is an opportunity to work together, to share resources and to investigate the micro:bit's potential. The aim of the day is to boost teacher's confidence in using the micro:bit in their lessons and promoting it's use in other STEM subjects.

Patient Flow Hack: Bradford & Airedale  What is a hack?  A ‘hack’ is based on the traditional concept of a ‘Hackathon’, whereby we bring people together and use their combined knowledge, wisdom and expertise to find new solutions to old problems over an intensive period of time. What is the problem?  The Patient Flow Hack is designed to provide a tangible solution to assist the challenge of patient flow. Patient flow is a complex and difficult challenge for all organisations. Colleagues from different departments across Bradford and Airedale health and social care system will explore together the patient journeys. Real data and patient journeys will be used to develop a shared understanding of patient flow throughout the hospital, which means that we can collaboratively identify where we should focus our efforts to make improvements. Question we will address - How can we optimise the patient journey through the health care system to improve patient flow? After the event, projects will be developed with the following aims; • Identity solutions to improve acute care • Address methods to help us work towards more timely and effective discharge What to expect?  Local data from the last year will be used to model real patient journeys through the hospital from admission to discharge. The event will start with a physical simulation using this data to develop a shared understanding of the challenges and bottlenecks relating to patient flow. Real patient journeys will be used and will model a typical good day and a typical bad day within the Bradford and Airedale health system. The event brings together colleagues, academics, senior managers and front line staff to understand challenges across the system in relation to patient flow. This event will create a sense of energy and excitement to tackle a really difficult challenge. Please come along, share your experience and expertise and help us to hack the problem. The Yorkshire & Humber Academic Health Science Network (AHSN) and the Improvement Academy (IA) will support the projects that are identified as a result of hack. Please click here to see an overview of our Patient Flow Hack with Hull and East Yorkshire health and social care systems. Should I attend? It is important that we have a good representation from across the Bradford and Airedale care system to ensure we have a full systems perspective.Please see examples of the range of attendees we would like to see at the Patient FLow Hack. Please note, this is not an exhaustive list and all staff are welcome. SRG Leads Urgent Care Leads Clinical staff (e.g. Consultants/Matrons/Sisters/Nurses) from A&E, Medical Assessment Units, Medical Wards and Discharge Lounges Patient Flow Co-ordinators, Hospital Bed Managers, Operational Delivery Managers, Service Managers, Ward Managers, Discharge Facilitators and Hospital Re-Ablement Social workers Community Matrons and Case Managers Service Improvement Team Leads and Performance/Analysis Leads  Please e-mail cathy.hulin@yhahsn.com for more information. 

This is the second Sheffield Refugee Hackathon taking place at Yoomee's offices at the Electric Works. Come along to get to know the people who came last time, if you did't already and catch up on the projects created then. If there are more people, participants will be forming teams to look at some new ideas. So Bring your laptop and join this event to hack for refugees!

This is a fab meetup event with as guest speaker Filipe Barroso from Portugal and to challenge you on how fast you can create an app from start to publish. You will learn methods and libraries to reduce the development time and ways to prepare yourself for a hackathon or close deadline. Filipe started out by creating a mobile business application for Portugal Telecom, and now accepts new challenge working for clients such as Bayer, Brisa, and TAP.

Join us for the IP Magnet Challenge. You're invited to the Google Digital Garage in Manchester Central Library for an ideas development and IP data hackathon day. You'll be creating a prototype idea for a contract to develop your concept into a working application! Come and share your ideas or maybe start a new collaboration. Work as individuals or form a team. Bring a laptop; beginners are always welcome. Plus, you'll be competing for a contract to develop your concept into a working prototype! On the day you’ll be able to analyse newly released IP data, including trademark and patent data. If you are a developer, a designer, an ideas generator, a startup, an IP expert, an individual, complete beginner or simply have an interest patents and trademarks, you are welcome to join us at the IP Magnet Challenge. Why are we doing this? It’s part of an effort to make intellectual property data more useful and accessible for small businesses, entrepreneurs and interested individuals.  The library will provide data sets, including newly released trademark and patent data from the UK Intellectual Property Office. Participants can choose the data they are most interested in to create their project. For more information on the data go to the IP Magnet Challenge page Free tea, coffee, cakes, lunch & networking At the end of the day, each team will give a three-minute presentation on their project and the winner will be chosen by the judging panel during the next week. The Best Idea Winner, will win a contract to develop their ideas further. Join the challenge now as places are limited!                 

The Slackathon MCR invites you to a aimed at making integrations with the Slack API. The Slack's API's can be used to send data into Slack with incoming webhooks, invoke actions outside of Slack with commands , and/or build a Slack bot. The favourite projects will be chosen by the end of the two day event based on these categories usefulness and best use of Slack bot.

Hull UK City of Culture Hackathon is inviting marketing agents and digital companies to come together and work on a hack involving data around an aspect of the City of Culture and exploring its key digital themes. Attending will be David Watson, Head of the City of Culture’s digital team, along with Microsoft officials who will be providing guidance, experience and training to those who get involved.

The Yorkshire and Humber digital healthcare event is open to all creative design and digital technology specialists and healthcare professionals. Explore topics such as virtual reality, telehealth, animation and robotics, and new market opportunities for creative and digital technology in the NHS and healthcare sector. Learn how apps, software and digital solutions are improving the patient experience in existing care and how to get involved in a programme of healthcare hackathon and access to finance events to support your product development.