List of hackathons in United Kingdom in 2017

Start-ups, developers, designers, and others in the residential health and safety sector! You're invited to participate in the RESI Hackathon 2017. This eight-hour hack will be held in conjunction with the UK's premier residential property market conference. Collaborate with a team and compete for cash prizes. You'll be challenged to design and prototype an innovative solution that can save lives.

The right time, the right place, the right message Consumers as well as governments around the world are demanding more sustainable business practices. In the coming months and years there will be more legislation, public pressure and media attention on these issues. An increasing number of the world’s biggest companies are also insisting that their suppliers follow strict sustainability standards – this directly affects the core of Scotland’s economy – small and medium businesses. Communications professionals and agencies are increasingly tasked with communicating about sustainability-related issues. From workers rights in clothing factories to sustainable fishing, from water scarcity to renewable energy, these issues are mainstream concerns. They are complex and communicating them inaccurately or without real understanding is risky. We can communicate sustainability better Communications and marketing can be the strategic lead for the way a business or organisation uses sustainability to grow its brand, increase profits, engage consumers and demand loyalty. Do you want to be at the forefront of the transition to Scotland's circular, sustainable and low carbon economy? Take the lead and join us for a hands-on workshop and mini-hackathon where we’ll ask how we can deliver better comms for a real business and unlock the potential of selling sustainability. In partnership with PRCA Scotland, Mackie's of Scotland and Big Sky Communications Well-known Scottish dairy business Mackie’s will set the scene and present a sustainability-related scenario that’s live for them. Attendees from the PR, marketing, business and public sectors will then roll up their sleeves and gain practical experience through an ensuing ‘hackathon,’ where we'll work in teams to develop a campaign idea to be judged by a dragons’ den panel of leading business, communications and sustainability players. Potential 'dragons' include Martin Valenti (SEPA), John Glen (Buccleuch Estates), Beth Nicol (Citypress Scotland), Martin Grey (Viridor/Pennon Group), Andy Griffiths (Nestle), Laura Sutherland (Aura PR). Who should attend This event is aimed primarily at those who work in communications, PR and marketing either at agencies or in-house in local and national government, business and the third sector. Others who would benefit from attending, and whose contributions would be valuable, include technical sustainability specialists, creatives, those working in organisations with a sustainability focus and sustainability/communications PhDs and post-docs. A full agenda with panel speakers and dragons will be available shortly. If you have any questions or are not sure if you should attend please get in touch with us at communications@2020climategroup.org.uk Banner image: ©iStock.com/choness

Christian technologists in the UK! Are you planning to participate in the Kingdom Code: BUILD Hackathon? If so, Kingdom Code invites you to attend the pre-hackathon event "Kingdom Code: Turning your challenge into a product plan". Hackathon sponsors will share their challenges and you'll get the chance to work through problem-solving techniques for use at the hackathon.

Hey, girls and young women -- aged 5 to 22 -- if you're interested in science and technology, then Stemettes invites you to participate in the Cornerstone App Hack. If you're under 16, you'll need to bring a parent or guardian. Boys are also invited, provided they bring along their sister! You'll get to learn how to create apps and then build your own and present it and compete for prizes at the demo day on Sunday.

Brings you..... Hackcess Reality - VR 4 Good!! HackcessReality aims to bring together interdisciplinary minds to explore how Virtual Reality technology can be used for social good. Barclays and experts from our partners are coming together for two days in Manchester to address accessibility and inclusion. A very interesting perspective The World health organisation definition of Disability is “a mismatch in interaction between the features of a person’s body and the features of the environment in which they live”.  Overcoming the difficulties faced by people with disabilities requires interventions to remove environmental and social barriers. So in essence the word disabled as most people understand it is incorrect. In reality a more accurate description would be, ‘an individual who hasn’t been properly considered in a design process’. By considering potential barriers encountered by people that require more bespoke personalisation and designing products, services, or buildings that are truly flexible it could almost be possible to remove the word disabled from our vocabulary. How cool is that!!  The Problem So what does a VR hackathon have to do with any of this? One of the biggest challenges encountered in the Accessibility world is getting people to understand the barriers faced by those with disabilities. Most people through no fault of their own are simply not aware of the impact their decisions and actions can have on others. This can cover small things such as petting a guide dog without asking, standing over someone in a wheel chair, right through to building an app or a website that doesn’t consider how someone with an impairment would use it. The Challenge What we aim to create, is an immersive experience that will help give users a brief insight of what it is like to have a disability and how this can impact everyday interactions. The hope is that by triggering an emotional response, users will be more likely to champion an inclusive way of thinking in the future. We believe that with the right VR experience, we can deepen empathy and understanding of designers and architects creating products and premises. There’s a ton of benefits that VR can bring to people with disabilities too which we’re only starting to scratch the surface of. We aim to take a collaborative approach with this Hackathon rather than a competitive one. The aim of the project will be to harness your skills and expertise to enable and encourage innovation and shared ideas to achieve an outcome for ‘Social Good’! By bringing together a fully resourced and diverse team in once place, we hope to create an environment that will enable the delivery of an end to end solution. The output of which will made available in an open source manner for the benefit of all. Technology & Support We want our event to be as inclusive as possible. Don’t worry if you have never encountered VR in your career before: chances are that your personal experience in another field, be it game design, photography or something business related will give you all the tools you will need to cooperate with other enthusiastic participants to create a unique experience. If you are familiar with VR you will be happy to know that we will be working with some really interesting pieces of technology: HTC Vive for the full room-scale tracking experience and Samsung Gear VR for mobile – all powered by the graphics engine of your choice. Harvey ‘theStoneFox’ Ball will be with us to support with his VRTK (Virtual Reality Tool Kit) so that even if you never created anything in VR before, with a little help you will be able to put together blocks in a drag-n-drop way and build a fantastic prototype from scratch! Barclays Creative team will be providing a series of digital assets to use, and several other artists taking part to the hackathon will be covering any gap with their mad skills. The Event: Launch: 7th September – 18:00 – 21:00 Challenges launch, teams assemble, VR demos, partner presentations and networking Hackathon: 8th September – 08:00 – 20:00 The hack, a day of creativity and building, concluding with pitches, judging and a drink or two Next Steps: We will be in touch to request some additional information and to let you know shortly if your application has been successful.

Invitation: You are cordially invited to attend a casual gathering of Discrete Element Method (DEM) enthusiasts to discuss current and future trends in particle-based numerical modelling. This $free Open Forum welcomes anyone who currently undertakes scientific or engineering research using DEM software; either Open Source or proprietary. The purpose is to stimulate discussion about DEM software, techniques and methods in a relaxed and collegial manner. Generous breaks and discussion periods will facilitate collaboration and comradery. The forum will also serve to launch ESyS-Particle v3.0; including the recent additions of Darcy flow and self-gravity. The agenda for the Forum is outlined below. Participants are encouraged to prepare a brief (5 minute) introductory presentation and to bring their own laptop computers. The Centrepiece of the forum will be a “GenGeo” hackathon in which teams will compete to produce the most creative (and hopefully impractical!) initial DEM particle geometries using the Open Source GenGeo Software. GenGeo is a package for generating complex particle geometries for DEM simulations; which is also maintained by the ESyS-Particle developers. The convenors will supply bootable USB drives preloaded with ESyS-Particle-3.0 and GenGeo-1.4. For those who are interested to learn more about the software and its usage, the final day will comprise a hands-on ESyS-Particle Scripting Workshop. This will be tailored to those who are interested to make use of ESyS-Particle as part of their research. Other forum participants (including “spies” from other DEM software teams!) are also most welcome to attend the Workshop.  Please note that places are limited to 30 persons. Please do not register until your attendance is confirmed. As this is a free event, no catering will be provided. However, there are numerous campus cafes within a short distance of the venue. Venue:Room 526James Watt South BuildingUniversity of GlasgowGlasgow, Scotland, UK.https://goo.gl/maps/x3rCMV9pGAH2  Agenda: Day One: [Morning]Welcome from ConvenorsIntroductions - 5min introductory presentation by each participant[Afternoon]Introductions (cont.)ESyS-Particle-3.0: overview & new features Day Two: [Morning]Frontiers in DEM modelling - Group discussion on DEM methods & directions[Afternoon]GenGeo Hackathon - Team-based competition to produce the most creative DEM particle geometry Day Three: ESyS-Particle Scripting Workshop (all day)

Due to popular demand and positive feedback from our students we are running a series of workshop, we are pleased to offer further training in London during August 30th & 31st. Join our two-day Blockchain Developer hands-on workshop and be at the very forefront of this new technology. Our workshop consists of topics that all future Blockchain Developers must know and we incorporate plenty of hands-on development sessions. Our goal is to help regular Application Developers become Blockchain Developers. Day 1 Intro to Blockchains, Bitcoin, Proof of Work and Mining Intro to Ethereum and Smart Contracts Hands-on development on Ethereum Solidity and Smart Contracts Day 2 Smart Contracts Security and Ethereum Internals - Cryptography, Consensus, EVM, Privacy Intro to Formal Verification What to know as a Blockchain Developer Hands-on development on Ethereum Solidity and Smart Contracts One month of continued on-line support via a dedicated Gitter channel After the workshop, we hope our students will continue coding, learning and exploring the Ethereum platform, and in good time, we hope our students will have the opportunity to work professionally in the Blockchain space.  With this in mind, to help our students succeed, we are providing a dedicated Gitter channel after the workshop where our students have up to a month to ask further questions in relation to Ethereum, smart contracts etc. Recommended development experience Minimum of 6 months development experience is recommended We have a great line up of trainers that will help you break into the Blockchain space. Nick Zeeb Nick is a passionate advocate for Blockchain Technology and loves teaching technical concepts in an understandable way. He was previously the Lead Engineer at Clearmatics, a London Blockchain financial start-up and has expertise in high performance trading systems. Nick holds a Master’s degree in Engineering and Computer Science from the University of Oxford. He has given a number of talks on the subject of Blockchain Technology. Nick will be introducing developers to the way the Blockchain works technically, and what its potential applications could be.  He will cover the workings and history of the Bitcoin Blockchain, as well as Ethereum and its concept of smart contracts that allow Turing complete code to execute on a virtual machine on the Blockchain. Nick will hold a Q&A session after each topic. Matthew Di Ferrante Matthew is a Software Engineer with a passion for Information Security, Cryptography, and Distributed Networks. He has worked in many different areas, from hardware, embedded and kernel programming, to data mining, analytics, and network / systems programming. He first started learning programming at 12 years old, and is completely self taught, both on the practical side of programming, and on the theoretical side of computer science, mathematics, and cryptography. Matthew was first exposed to Bitcoin in late 2010 due to his interest in information security, as Bitcoin was first mainly used on darknets/Silk Road, and got fully involved in the Blockchain space around the time Ethereum started to exist - beginning his foray while living with Vitalik Buterin and long time friend Vlad Zamfir (Creator of Ethereum's Casper Protocol) in London for a few months. Matthew currently works as a Technical Lead at Clearmatics, developing Blockchain Technology for financial use cases. In his free time, Matthew works on personal hardware projects, gives Information Security and Blockchain related talks at various events, and organise one of the largest monthly Information Security events in the North-West. Matthew’s design for a Secure Oracles Reputation System on Ethereum recently won first place for Smart Contract Security at the Thomson Reuters HackETHon. Matthew will be introducing developers to the way the Blockchain works technically, and what its potential applications could be.  He will cover the workings and history of the Bitcoin Blockchain, as well as Ethereum and its concept of smart contracts that allow Turing complete code to execute on a virtual machine on the Blockchain.  Matthew will also talk about Smart Contracts Security and Ethereum Internals. He will discuss the most important areas to know as a Blockchain Developer. Matthew will hold a Q&A session after each topic. Laurence Kirk After a successful career writing low latency financial applications in the City of London, Laurence was captivated by the potential of Blockchain Technology, and in particular smart contracts. Two years ago, Laurence moved to Oxford and set up Extropy.io, a consultancy working with start-ups in the UK and overseas, developing applications on the Ethereum platform. He brings with him a wealth of real world experience that he loves to share with those new to this area. Laurence hold a Physics degree from Durham University, and currently taking his MSc in Software Engineering at Oxford University. In addition to giving talks, mentoring at hackathons, and running groups about Blockchain Technology, Laurence also organise Artificial Intelligence and Data Science groups in Oxford. During the workshop, Laurence will be teaching Solidity (an object-oriented programming language for writing smart contracts) from the simplest smart contract up to interacting with a web application. The focus is very much the practical techniques that are needed when developing on Ethereum. The sessions will be very hands on, encouraging students to practice and explore Ethereum and raise any questions students might have regarding the Ethereum platform. Nick Johnson Nick Johnson is a Senior Software Engineer and has been working in the software engineering space for the past 16 years. Nick is currently working as a Software Engineer for the Ethereum Foundation and prior to this, he worked at Google for a number of years. He brings with him a wealth of knowledge and expertise in Solidity that he loves to share and will be teaching how to write and develop smart contracts during the hands-on development session, and will give students the opportunity to ask questions in relation to the Ethereum platform. Nick comes from a Computer Science academic background having gained his BSc degree from the University of Canterbury. There will be plenty of Q&A throughout the whole two day workshop. Date:  Wednesday 30th & Thursday 31st of August, 2017  Time: 08:30 to 17:00 Workshop Location: Rise London, 41 Luke Street, EC2A 4PD, London Secure your ticket early as spaces are limited. Please present your ticket confirmation receipt upon arrival. *Breakfast and lunch are provided during the workshop on both days. For further details on our workshop, please email us on info@theblockchainconnector.com or contact us on 0044 (07)923 521 833. Follow us on Twitter @bc_workshop Tweet us on hashtag #theblockchainworkshop Join our developer focused meetup group https://www.meetup.com/Blockchain-Workshop-for-Developers/ Venue Sponsor: A special thank you go out to Rise London for sponsoring our venue. Rise London, in partnership with Barclays, is an exclusive place for start-ups to develop, collaborate, scale and innovate together. Rise London, the home of fintech and Barclays Accelerator powered by Techstars, is the place where great minds co-create the future of financial services. Visit Rise London website to find out more. Follow Rise London on Twitter. (Photo image from Jan 2017 Blockchain Workshop, courtesy of ©matteogiachettiphotography)

Polish Professionals in London zaprasza na seminarium na temat wirtualnej rzeczywistości (VR), technologii i możliwości zastosowania. Wirtualna rzeczywistość określana jest jako obraz sztucznej rzeczywistości, stworzony przy wykorzystaniu informatycznych techniologii. Wirtualna i wzbogacona rzeczywistość likwiduje mur między odbiorcą o osobą opowiadającą historię o swojej firmie, produkcie, usłudze. VR zapewnia użytkownikowi poczucie "obecności" czyli złudzenie bycia fizycznie obecnym w innym miejscu. Technologia VR daje nam możliwość, abyśmy byli aktywnymi uczestnikami zamiast pasywnymi widzami. Korzystając z urządzeń VR możemy patrzeć gdziekolwiek chcemy i współdziałać z wirtualnym światem w sposób, który wcześniej nie był możliwy. Podczas spotkania będzie okazja zobaczyć sprzęt wykorzystywany w VR. Spotkanie poprowadzi Artur Fiedorowicz. Kilka słów o prowadzącym Artur Fiedorowicz, absolwent elektroniki na Politechnice Wrocławskiej, pracował w londyńskich korporacjach jako software engineer i IT developement. Artur zaczął swoją przygodę z VR wygrywając międzynarodowy hackathon organizowany przez Ticketmaster / Live Nation ze swoim pomysłem na podgląd widoku z wybranego siedzenia w teatrze lub stadionie. Kilka miesięcy temu zrezygnował z pracy w korporacji i założył firmę ArtsyVR tworzącą aplikacje VR dla firm marketingowych i technologicznych. Przemawiał na konferencjach w Londynie, Moskwie, Madrycie i Polsce, ale najczęściej możecie znaleźć go na Twitterze (artsyvr) gdzie dostarcza nowinek na temat świata Virtual, Augmented oraz Mixed reality. Spotkanie organizujemy przy współpracy z firmą Capital Business Links, która na potrzeby spotkania udostepnia sali seminaryjnej w swojej siedzibie na Ealing. http://polskie-biuro-ksiegowe.co.uk/ http://cblfinance.com/

The Venue: Hampden Park, Glasgow The Dates: Day 1: Saturday 26th August @ 12 - 6pm Day 2: Sunday  27th August @ 12 - 6pm (including a fizz fuelled finale from 4 - 6pm!) The Details: A hack-what? Are you keen to get involved but have no idea of what a Hackathon is and if it's right for you?  Don't worry it's basically just a group of like minded people who get together to share their skills and come up with a range of creative and digital solutions for a specific issue or problem.  So for our Hackathon we're focussing on Access to Exercise and how we can achieve the maximum impact with the #MimiAndMeFor53 campaign and get as many women and girls across Scotland moving with Mimi this September. Join us to help: Identify and confront the key barriers to exercise currently facing women and girls across Scotland which, combined have made us some of the "unhappiest and unhealthiest" in the world Develop a captivating marketing and social media campaign to help get everyone moving with Mimi this September Create the most engaging and inspiring content for the 53 day campaign Achieve the maximum awareness and fundraising initiatives for our chosen charity, Free to Run YOU DO NOT HAVE TO BE AN EXPERT TO HELP US OUT AND DO NOT HAVE TO ATTEND THE WHOLE WEEKEND TO TAKE PART!  If you can load an image on Facebook and type an email you will be fabulous at helping us and return we will share hints and tips on digital marketing / social media. So sign up to help and learn about any or all of the following: Twitter, Facebook, Instagram images and content Writing blogs  Making infographics Inviting new members to the community Making short films and editing them easily with free tools Taking new pictures for us to use on the site. We are running the weekend using the Impact48 model. Read about other Impact48 projects here.  As most of our work will be focussed online it would be ideal if you're able to bring along a laptop with you however this is not essential.  Your ideas and enthusiasm are just as valuable to us and will be much appreciated! 

UK hackers! If you're interested in political data or have experience in visualising or building tools to work with data, then mySociety & Wikimedia UK invite you to participate in the Wikifying Westminster Workshop. You'll get to learn what you can do with Wikidata -- using UK political data as a starting point -- and then collaborate with other attendees to build an application, or do some analysis, or just experiment! To conclude the workshop, you'll get to participate in a hackathon, and showcase your skills in visualising and improving the data from Wikidata.