List of hackathons in United Kingdom in 2016

Startupbootcamp FinTech is back organising a FinTech hackathon for the Sharing Economy. The likes of Uber, Zipcar and AirBnB are turning how we pay, interact and engage with goods and services around. In the traditional finance industry, only lending through peer-to-peer and crowdfunding, have seen real disruption enabled by accessing the strengths of the community. Let's rething traditional finance services to let the practices, ethos and philosophy of the sharing economy really shine. There will also be awesome hardware for you to fidgit with and APIs from. Open Bank Project and global partner Amazon Web Services are offering credits for the hackathon so teams can use their platform during the event.

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.

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!

Good news, everyone! The highly popular Open Sauce Hackathon will be hosted again this year, this time at Cardiff University's new National Software Academy, based in Newport.  The Open Sauce Hackathon is a 2 day event, where like-minded people get together and work on a tech project. At the end of the event, each project is demonstrated to a panel of judges. The judges evaluate each project, and award prizes to the teams behind their favourite ideas. There are no restrictions as to what type of project you can work on — our only requirement is that you release the source code to your project at the end of the event, so that others can learn from your project, and perhaps continue development. We provide the venue, catering, our sponsors provide the judges and prizes — all you need to do is provide the ideas and code! The Hackathon is open to all, so whether you're a student, retired or anything inbetween, head down to the National Software Academy on the weekend of the 12th March for what's sure to be another great event. We recommend a maximum team size of 5 people — you can come pre-assembled, or you could find a project that interests you on the day and join a team then. Presentations will take place at 16:00 on the Sunday Afternoon, prizes will be handed out at 17:00, and we anticipate the event wrapping up at around 17:30. You will need to provide your own laptops/desktops, but we will provide internet access and power. A Wireless Network card will be required to connect to our guest Wi-Fi connection — we're unable to provide internet access over Ethernet. FAQ: I have no team, can I still come?  Of course! Just turn up on the day and we will be able to fit you into a team! Or get social before the event at @cfhack on Twitter, or via IRC by joining #cscf on Freenode.  Shall I bring food and drink?  Lunch and refreshments are provided on the day, so you are responsible for breakfast and dinner, you are more than welcome to bring any extra food or drink with you! Are you providing equipment?  You will have to provide all laptops/equipment you require to complete your project. Is there a max team size?  We ask the you have no more than 5 team members, otherwise you might not all get prizes! Do I have to be a Student? No, this event is open to everyone! Sponsors: It would be impossible to host the Open Sauce Hackathon without the generosity of our sponsors - a big thanks to the following companies (in no particular order) for their support:     

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!                 

What is Hacking Health? Hacking Health is Norwich's first ever health hackathon, a collaborative event designed to bring the region’s leading health and technology professionals together, in order to generate novel solutions to some of the most pressing problems faced by the sector. Don't worry. It isn't as scary as it sounds. In reality, it will be a fun way to quickly come up with innovative solutions. It's not about 'coding' (unless you really want to), but about having a great time, learning something new and meeting some brilliant people. You DO NOT need any computer skills to participate. We welcome anyone with an interest digital health: healthcare professionals, patients and their relatives, representatives from charities, developers, designers, marketers, and entrepreneurs – in fact, ANYONE who cares about health and social care, or just wants to help out,op or even see what we’re doing. How will it work? Running from 8am to 8pm, the day starts with local health practitioners presenting some of their key challenges. Anyone with an idea for a project pitches it to the other attendees, after which everyone splits up into groups to get working. Groups form quite organically, and some people join several groups rather than committing to just one project. You may choose to join a particular group because you were inspired by the pitch, or because you have skills you think might be useful, or for any reason at all. Sometimes groups end up merging depending on how things go. It's all very freeform as you might have gathered. Towards the end of the day, each group gives a short presentation about what they have achieved, and we invite a panel of judges to watch these and decide how to award various prizes. Who should attend? - If you work in any kind of health environment, come along – we want to make a difference. – If you're a patient or relative of a patient, come along – we need your voice to be heard. - If you’re a coder, developer, designer, technologist, or entrepreneur, come along – we want your help to make a difference. - If you’re worried about not being technical enough, come along. How can I support Hacking Health? The event is free to attend in order to encourage a wide range of attendees. However, we need to pay for venue hire, food to keep everyone energised, as well as tea and coffee. We also hope to offer prizes for the best projects as decided by a panel of invited judges. If you or your organisation can help us at all then we’d love to hear from you. You may be able to offer to judge; perhaps your company would be willing to become a sponsor; or perhaps you could offer us cash, books or anything else to give away as prizes. Whatever you can do for us, please get in touch with us on Twitter or Facebook. Who is behind Hacking Health? The event is being organised by postgraduate entrepreneurship students at the University of East Anglia, as part of an Entrepreneurship in Global Health and Social Care module.

The Realex FinAppsParty brings together talented developers, designers and entrepreneurs to compete over 18 hours by building amazing technology using API/SDKs provided. Build an innovative mobile app that best demonstrates the chosen partner’s product while integrating the most user-friendly payment process!

Do you like beer and want to measure your coding skills with fellow Node.js lovers? Join Coding Hour, an after-work get-together happening simultaneously in Paris, Amsterdam and London on March 8. Don’t miss this occasion to relax and chat with devs who share the same interests (not to mention a little competition). What better way to spend a Tuesday night?

Rise Hack is inviting girls aged 5-22, parents, women (and men) with a STEM background and are interested in inspiring the next generation, to come and build a mobile app with as theme 'Personal finance and banking for girls and women'. The tools that will be provided to you include: AppShed, an online drag and drop tool for mobile app prototyping, MIT App Inventor, an online tool with visual programming element for creating Android apps, and Ratchet, a ready made HTML, CSS, JS framework for responsive site prototyping. Come join the fun, make friends, and win amazing prizes!

Madanyu is inviting you to join a hackers day at King's College to take on computer challenges to solve problems that we face when working with schools and learning centres across the world! You will be forming form small teams to solve challenges with who you will be completing each challenge and earn points. At the end of the day, the winning team with most points will be invited to join the Summer expeditions to India, Kenya, and Mozambique!