List of hackathons in United Kingdom in 2017

Find out how apprenticeships are changing – including the new Degree Apprenticeships – and share ideas and discuss challenges with other business professionals in a mini hackathon. You will also have the opportunity to meet leading STEM organisations who have successful apprenticeships programmes and local training providers. Speakers will cover: How to design an apprenticeship that meets your business needs What are the costs and how much is funded How to find and recruit apprentices Why consider apprenticeships? Finding and keeping good people is a huge challenge – particularly in Cambridgeshire with new companies moving in and many expanding fast. One solution that many science and technology organisations are turning to is apprenticeships. They allow you to recruit and train young people with the necessary skills to succeed in your business. Book now to reserve your place.

Life scientists and data scientists in the UK! If you're interested in how technology can help deliver quality predictive/preventative health for the people, then you're invited to participate in Treating the healthy. This day-long event is focused on how life scientists can work with data scientists to predict and prevent ill health. You'll get to hear from experts in the field before you form into teams to each come up with an innovative solution that has the potential to deliver significant public health improvement.

Technical deep dive talk with Brave Software, BAT (Basic Attention Token). Strictly for developers only! Please note that this event is for software engineers and computer science/software engineering students only. We will review all registrations and will send you an email to confirm your seat. This event is brought to you by The Blockchain Connector, a training and recruitment company focusing entirely on Blockchain technology.   Schedule: 18:30 – 19:00 Registration & Networking 19:00 - 19:15 Brief intro from Antonio Sabado, event organiser and founder of The Blockchain Connector and Yoti our venue sponsor.  19:15 – 20:15 Main presentation from Ben Livshits 20:15 - 20:45 Q&A with Ben Livshits led by Mustafa Al-Bassam 20:45 – Networking drinks at a nearby pub sponsored by DECENT   Speaker: Ben Livshits   Ben Livshits is the Chief Scientist for Brave Software International, the company behind Brave, a browser that blocks ads and makes web browsing faster. He is also a Reader (similar to Associate Professor in the American academic system) at Imperial College London and an affiliate professor at the University of Washington. Previously, he was a research scientist at Microsoft Research. Originally from St. Petersburg, Russia, he received a bachelor's degree in Computer Science and Math from Cornell University in 1999, and his M.S. and Ph.D. in Computer Science from Stanford University in 2002 and 2006, respectively. Dr. Livshits' research interests include application of sophisticated static and dynamic analysis techniques to finding errors in programs.   Presentation: Starting to Value User Attention This talk will focus on Brave, a novel browser that focuses on changing the advertising model. At the core of Brave is the idea that user’s attention should be properly valued and rewarded. The web is fundamentally broken -- the cost of "ad-supported, free" content has ultimately been at the expense of privacy and security, on promises of better relevance that ultimately have led to rapid adoption of ad blocking. We will talk about BAT, the basic attention token and present some of the usage scenarios around it. BAT allows for a realization opportunity for users to become aware of their attention value, which through the existing ad and marketing model, has been extracted and converted into an apparatus designed for further extraction and profiling of their behaviour with associated perf, privacy and data costs. https://basicattentiontoken.org/   https://brave.com/ https://twitter.com/AttentionToken https://twitter.com/brave    The Blockchain Connector "Our goal is to build a blockchain developer community by helping regular developers become blockchain developers. We host regular hands-on developer workshops, technical deep dive sessions and hackathons. We train and recruit developers on behalf of start-ups and global firms working on Blockchain related projects. Join us and be part of our growing developer community" To view all our future events, please click HERE. For further details on our developer workshop, please email us on antonio@theblockchainconnector.com or contact us on 0044 (07)923 521 833. Follow us on Twitter @bc_workshop & @thebc_connector Join our developer focused meetup group https://www.meetup.com/Blockchain-Workshop-for-Developers/ (Photo image from Jan 2017 Blockchain Workshop, courtesy of ©matteogiachettiphotography)  

This event is brought to you by The Blockchain Connector, a training and recruitment company focusing entirely on Blockchain technology. Schedule: 19:00 – 20:00 Registration & Networking with food and drinks sponsored by SatoshiPay 20:00 Brief intro from Antonio Sabado (event organiser and founder of The Blockchain Connector) plus lightning intro from the audience 20:15 – 21:30 Main presentation plus Q&A by Meinhard Benn 21:30 – 21:35 Final lightning intro from the audience 21:35 – 22:00 Networking with food and drinks   Abstract of Presentation: SatoshiPay allows publishers to monetise web content using frictionless nanopayments – powered by blockchain technology. SatoshiPay are launching cool new features and partnerships, and would like to introduce them to content creators, publishers, journalists, investors and friends. SatoshiPay CEO Meinhard Benn will guide you through the platform, explain what's new, speak about the partnership with the Stellar.org foundation and share details on SatoshiPay's technology, as well as plans for the coming year. The presentation will be followed by an extended Q&A session. There will be food and drinks, and SatoshiPay will give out free Stellar lumens to participants, so you can try their system straight away.   Speaker bio: Meinhard founded SatoshiPay, a blockchain-based nanopayments provider aiming to fundamentally change the way web content is monetised. As a open source developer, social entrepreneur and avid shoestring traveller with 50 countries under his belt, Meinhard experienced the need for an open, global and decentralised payment technology first-hand. He already experimented with different alternative payment systems for years when Bitcoin and its ground-breaking blockchain technology crossed his path in 2011. As developer, entrepreneur and speaker, Meinhard has pushed the blockchain ecosystem forward ever since. Company twitter id and company website: Tweet @SatoshiPay https://satoshipay.io/   The Blockchain Connector "Our goal is to build a blockchain developer community by helping regular developers become blockchain developers. We host regular hands-on developer workshops, technical deep dive sessions and hackathons. We train and recruit developers on behalf of start-ups and global firms working on Blockchain related projects. Join us and be part of our growing developer community" To view all our future events, please click HERE. For further details on our developer workshop, please email us on antonio@theblockchainconnector.com or contact us on 0044 (07)923 521 833. Follow us on Twitter @bc_workshop & @thebc_connector Join our developer focused meetup group strictly for developers on https://www.meetup.com/Blockchain-Workshop-for-Developers/

Hackers in and around Durham. You're invited to participate in DurHack 2017 -- a data-fueled hackathon focused on satellite data. You'll be faced with a selection of challenge themes that focus on improving the City of Durham. Collaborate with like-minded individuals and compete for a pool of awesome prizes.

Developers, designers, researchers, and police officers in the London Metropolitan Area! You're invited to participate in a Policing hackathon: Hack the Police 2. You'll be challenged to design and prototype solutions to issues such as Capturing better first-hand evidence, Improving the comfort of citizens and building rapport in the interview room, and Tools for better officer well-being and mental health.

Students and Lawyers Against Poverty members in and around Oxford! Oxfam Lawyers Against Poverty invites you to save the date to participate in their Hackathon in Oxford. You'll be challenged to collaborate with like-minded individuals to come up with innovative ways in which you can improve access to justice for communities across the world.

Coders, designers, social and environmental activists in the west of England! You're invited to participate in Beyond Blockchain. Bristol Holochain Hackathon. You'll be challenged to design ad prototype an innovative distributed app solution that uses the next-gen Holochain platform for decentralised power structures.

The event is designed to prioritise operational factors and explore creating predictive tools to minimise events where taste and odour of drinking water are effected. There are sponsored places available - get paid to hack! Prizes The desired output is a Proof of concept project to develop an applicable solution.

High tech businesses, innovators, designers, data scientists, coders and business strategists! If you're interested in rail transportation, then you're invited to participate in the HS2 Hackathon. You'll be challenged to come up with an innovative new idea that will help deliver the High Speed 2 infrastructure project. Working on a team of up to five people, you'll collaborate to explore how technologies such as wearable technology, machine learning, and virtual reality might help key aspects of the HS2 project, including staff safety, customer experience, maintenance operations and community impact.