List of hackathons in United Kingdom in 2016

UKGovHack is a hackathon and conference running simultaneously, creating an fun environment that is accessible to everyone with an interest in the public sector/civic technology - whether you are a developer, service designer, researcher, UX-er, or are just currious. The event will be offering you a chance to prototype solutions to key public sector issues. The challenges will not be tied to a single agency or department, but instead aim to explore broader and recurring issues in the public sector. The conference stream will be curating a series of lightning talks and workshops present a variety of interesting and insightful content, from entry level access to the public sector and technology, to more complex and developed themes. Running these two together means that you are free to come just for the hackathon, just for the conference or to move between streams to create a personal UKGovHack agenda that is suited to your own skills and interests.

Join the EdTech Challenge in Support of War Child for a weekend of coding for good! Work together to come up with technical solutions for the War Child’s challenge. Teaching young people in the UK about the brutal effects of war and encourage advocacy amongst young people. You will be presented with 2 to 3 War Child problem statements from which you can chose and tackled in a team. At the end of the weekend, groups will be judged by representative of War Child, tech leaders from government and sponsors.

Interested in Finance?  Interested in Tech?  Then come to our finance-hackathon! The finance industry cannot resist the rapid, technology-driven changes that have turned other industries upside-down and inside out. New digital players are springing up and promising to change the way we as customers live our lives and do business. Every area of financial services is being disrupted. Following the success of our last event, we're organising another finance-themed hackathon where you’ll be fed, watered, (hugged, if absolutely necessary), and sheltered from the elements, while you pitch your ideas, attract skilled team-mates, design your product, build a working prototype and present to a select panel of judges. Our event is aimed at those who enjoy designing or building software products, making sense of and manipulating data, or have ideas that they'd like to pitch that are aimed at improving a financial service. It will be intense (there might be tears) but it will be fun.  There will be friends to be made and hopefully more cool prizes to be won.    Intellectual Property: Any designs created, code written, products built, presentations, marketing material etc created during the hackathon will belong to creators of the codes/designs/content .   Any tools or data sets supplied by sponsor/partner companies, will belong to those companies. Teams that wish to continue working with specific data sets/tools supplied will be responsible for negotiating with the relevant organisation after the hackathon.   Sponsors/partners interested in code/designs/content created during the hackathon will be responsible for negotiating with the creators.   This paragraph is not exhaustive but it serves to highlight our position on the subject as organisers of this event.  What sort of ideas should be pitched / fit within the theme? There are two main areas that we will encourage participants to consider during the weekend:  products to improve financial inclusion; and designing financial products for millenials. However, you may work on any idea so long as it is finance-related and you are part of a team with at least 3 people. Additionally there may be challenges supplied by companies that you are welcome to tackle if you prefer.   Financial inclusion Last year, a World Bank report had the number of ‘unbanked’ adults in the world at 2 billion! That’s two billion who are underserved or excluded by the existing financial services infrastructure.  These people may not have access to bank accounts, be able to apply for loans, or have the financial literacy or tools required to adequately manage personal finances. With so many left marginalised from access to financial services, tech companies have seen an opportunity to take the lead and disrupt the finance sector by designing and delivering services in a smarter and more inclusive way. For example, companies like Aire are looking at new ways to establish credit histories - necessary for those who are new to a country and don’t have appropriate credit scores and struggle to access basic services. Companies like Prodigy Finance and CommonBond are making it easier for international students to access loans to pay for further studies like MBAs by considering future earning potential in the decision making process.  Sending money back home to family in other countries has typically been a time-consuming, inconvenient and expensive process.  Some of the lowest earners are losing chunks of their income just by moving it around. New companies are making it easier for people to send money abroad to families and friends without having to go to a branch, and at a fraction of the cost.   These are just some examples of areas where companies are using technology to make financial services more inclusive.  Can you identify a trend at the grassroots level and then use technology to amplify and accelerate it?   ------ Designing finance products for millennials Apparently most millennials would rather see their dentist than deal with their banks!  All four of the big banks are in the top 10 least loved brands by millennials.  Furthermore,  73% of millenials would be more excited about a new offering in financial services from a tech company like Apple or Google than from their own banks. So what exactly is it that millennials want in a financial partner?  What should finance products aimed at millennials look like?  Facebook mined conversations from its millennial users and came up with some insights about how millennials relate to financial services, what they want from banking providers and where the industry could have the most impact. Millennials’ financial priorities are reducing debt and saving for the future. They want financial partners to understand them.  They want to be recognised and rewarded for their loyalty (who doesn’t?!).  And they want transparency/honesty. Products for millennials should be easy to use and convenient.  Banks should take a mobile centric approach. The size of the opportunity here is huge.  There is yet to be a Google or Facebook in the financial sector.  App-only, challenger bank Mondo is an example of a fin-tech startup that is aspiring to be just that.  Take a look at the full Facebook report to help get some ideas on the sorts of product ideas you could pitch or help build during the next Edinburgh finance-themed hackathon. The web page for the Apr 2016 event is: http://infinitekind.com/finance-hackathon-edinburgh-april-2016 SCHEDULE: Fri 1st April at 6.15pm – midnight 6.15pm: Drinks, food, chat with fellow participants, organisers, mentors and sponsors; ask questions, think about pitches 7.00pm: Key speaker and sponsors address audience; APIs are presented and challenges are proposed 8.00pm: Short break 8.15pm: Attendees pitch ideas 8.45pm: Teams form 9.00pm: Teams submit their Group names, and roles for each team member 9.15pm: Teams brainstorm and do prep for the next day Sat 2nd April at 9am – midnight 9am: Breakfast; and teams present their plans to the event organisers and mentors 10am: Teams work on their designs/prototypes/marketing 10am-12noon: Mentors available for any advice 1pm: Light lunch served 2pm: Teams get back to work; mentors are available for any questions/advice 4pm: Teams provide status update to organisers and mentors 6pm: Dinner served and then teams continue working Venue closing time TBC Sun 3rd April at 9am – 7pm 9.00am: Breakfast; and teams provide status update to organisers 12noon: Lunch, and dress rehearsal for presentations 4.00pm: Teams present to judges: consisting of 5min presentations and 5mins of Q&A 5.00pm: Judges deliberate; refreshments are served 5.30pm: Judges’ verdict; any prizes are awarded; 6.00pm: Closing speeches 6.15pm: Networking drinks Email bela@infinitekind.com if you have any questions.

Join this Microsoft Dev Camps, a free, hands-on, technical training events for developers, led by Microsoft experts. At this full-day event, you’ll get the chance to build apps using the Universal Windows Platform, learn how to build an adaptive UI, plus learn how to spruce up your app with new features, including Live Tile, interactive notifications and more. If you already have a project in the works, there’s still plenty to learn about what’s new in developing for Windows 10 devices.

This is a hackathon organized to push the limits of human perception by stretching and expanding them through the use of technology and great ideas. This is the first of a series of inspirational events that will explore state-of-the-art thinking about perception and sensory experience. Come along to learn more about the project and to hear some seriously mind-expanding ideas.

Probabilistic programming is a relatively new field on the intersection of machine learning, computer science and artificial intelligence. Probabilistic programming allows you to write any generative probabilistic model in a straightforward way, simply by describing the generative forward process. Anglican is one of the start-of-the-art probabilistic programming languages. This hackathon on Probabilistic Programming based on Anglican, consisting of 3 parts. Part 1 will be an introduction session to probabilistic programing, part 2 will be for programming skills to write probabilistic programs in Anglican, and part 3 will give you the opportunity to bring along and/or discuss data and model, and discuss probabilistic programming implementations and predictions with the help of the facilitator and other participants.

This is a hackathon on big data where you will be asked to build projects that remix big amounts of data. Either obtaining the data through APIs or by scraping. The tools that you will be using include the Python programming language and Google App Engine. Creating an application for a few users or millions of users is fundamentally the same in GAE. All participants will be placed in pairs. One member of the team can gather the data while the other can prepare the application itself or one member can prepare the web app while the other prepares the mobile app. Towards the end of the event, each team will present their project and each team votes for another team for best hackathon project. All projects completed at the hackathon will be fully production ready!

Join Hack the Burgh, a hackathon where students will come together, team up and collaborate to build cool stuff with data and special challenges provided. Also home to the top Uni Werewolf team in the UK! It will be a 24 hour long programming event where hundreds of passionate students will work on innovative applications. It's a fantastic opportunity to meet new people, learn from mentors, and make cool stuff. This hackathon is very beginner friendly. Everybody is there to help each other and have fun!

This is Europe's first ever Law Tech Hackathon ‘coding for good’. Hackney Community Law Centre (HCLC) is providing free and independent legal advice and representation to people living, working or studying in the London Borough of Hackney and neighbouring boroughs. The core challenge for this Hackathon will be to address that 50% of clients drop out after one meeting, for a variety of cultural, social and language reasons. HCLC will start the Hackathon pitching three problem statements around these issues. Prizes will include £1000 worth of startup legal advice and £300 worth of Amazon Prizes. Come and create robust digital solutions that will enable Hackney Law Centre to deliver legal services in a more efficient way and be used by many other law centres across the UK!

Join this great hackathon on data science for a whole weekend of creative thinking around the use of data in the justice system and show what is possible when innovative minds come together. All people from a broad range of technology, digital, mathematical and data science backgrounds as well as justice system experts are invited to come and build things that could go on to become real, usable tools and improve people’s lives.