List of hackathons in United Kingdom in 2016

Attention volunteers who love building crazy technology! If you're a developer, designer or data scientist, come help charities with their digital challenges at the Brighton Digital Festival! You'll be assigned a business case for a problem that a participating charity needs to solve: →re-designing their website or smartphone application, →building a proof of concept on using chat bots, augmented reality, and virtual reality or →helping them with data needs. The day will be focused on designing, developing, breaking the digital rulebook and helping move towards a more sustainable world through helping charities accelerate into the world of digital.

Join the members and guests of digital catapult as they introduce themselves and give a seminar about what digital catapult does with block chain and how it can help programmers, entrepreneurs, and enthusiasts further their blockchain and IoT based applications. Attendance at this event will also enable companies to participate in a blockchain-focused Boost event exploring blockchain and its uses with health data later in the month.

Are you in retail or work for a B2C or B2B brand? Interested in the opportunities and threats of the internet? Come attend e-Innovation: The New Era of H2H. You'll get the chance to discuss how innovation can impact your business, how to assess what works for you and your customers, and to understand how to make innovation work for you. This event will stimulate ideas, instigate discussion, build an understanding of what it means to embed innovation throughout the business— all while showcasing some of the latest technologies to help you evolve your business.

Participate in the IG Hack the Markets—Fintech hackathon. Millennials as a group are about to move into their prime earning and spending years. However, 80% of millennials according to a recent Harris Poll are not invested in the Stock Market. Design a compelling and innovative proposition to get millennials trading, investing and setting money aside for their future. Think about how you can make this ultra low-cost and transparent and how you can integrate social features. Also, how would you acquire and retain your users and promote your solution?

Come and participate in Global Goals Jam. Help design an intervention that can help achieve short-term targets that support the Global Goals. Edinburgh Living Lab is hosting a branch event of the Global Goals Jam that will focus on Goals 7, 11 and 12: »Goal 7: Ensure access to affordable, reliable, sustainable and modern energy for all »Goal 11: Make cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable »Goal 12: Ensure sustainable consumption and production patterns

For those that have ventured farther into block chain than most, this full day workshop will take a look beyond the theory of many concepts related to block chain, and give in-depth instruction on how to apply concepts to create a functioning decentralized application. Going beyond fintech's previous block chain workshop, this second installation will focus on building DApps on blockchain.

Come along to PubHack -- a 10-hour digital hackathon that takes place in a pub. Collaborate in teams of up to 4 strong and you'll have 10 hours to make something based on a theme -- that will be announced at 9am on the day!

Virtual Reality developers! Want to get your hands on the latest motion-tracked input controllers from Oculus? Participate in Oculus Touch 24hr VR Hackathon and get early access to the devices to understand their capabilities and learn how to develop with them! Collaborate in teams to create fun mini-games that make use of the capacitive, haptic motion-tracked controllers. You can be a coder, an artist, a designer or a bit of all three, you make sure your team has enough relevant skills to create a working build in Unity for evaluation.

Hijabi/Muslim fashionistas! Buyers, coders, designers, marketers, social media experts, advertising professionals! Come participate in the Mipster (Muslim Hipster) Hackathon. Collaborate to develop key insights to inform marketing strategy for fashion brands and retailers in the UK. The Mipster Hack will involve 3 – 4 competing Hack teams that will build a social media / marketing campaign for a real retail client who is interested in speaking to millennial muslims.

Come participate in ThingMonk — the developer conference for people building the internet of things. Collaborate with like-minded technologists on building IoT projects. Code by Candlelight and get your hands on some of the hottest IoT devices, including LoPy from PyCom, Arduino boards from The Things Network, a Vertu phone, and lots more!