List of hackathons in United Kingdom in 2017

Teenage techies in the UK! Acorn Aspirations invites you to participate in #ACORNACCELERATOR2017 -- a 2-week accelerator, where you'll be challenged to create an innovative technical solution to a social problem that you find in your local community and communities around the world. You'll get to use tools and techniques like artificial intelligence, and virtual reality to help address problems such as depression, anxiety, stress, phobias and more. At the end of the accelerator, Acorn Aspirations invites your friends and the general public to the #AcornAccelerator2017 DEMO DAY, as you and your fellow participants demo your projects before a panel of judges.

  This one day seminar is designed for anyone who wants to understand what blockchains are, what they are capable of and how they work. Technical content is not removed but explained in a way that non-technical people can understand. Specifically, the course will cover the following:    1 What is a Blockchain?  2 A framework for judging Blockchain use-cases  3 Bitcoin and Ethereum  - how do they work?  4 Mining, Exchanges and how to invest in Crypto-currencies  5 What are smart contracts?  6 Public & Private chains, Hyperledger and R3  7 Use-cases of Blockchains studied in detail:     - Energy     - Digital Assets and Asset Management     - Manufacturing and Healthcare     - Insurance     - International Supply Chain  8 Initial Coin Offerings     - What is a token?     - The history of ICO's     - Regulation and problems  9 The Bitcoin fork and scalability  10 Building a PoC  11 When Blockchains go bad.    This is an interactive course designed to answer your questions about Blockchains and discussions are encouraged throughout the seminar.   Our Course Instructors:    Laurence Kirk    Laurence is a senior Blockchain Developer and Founder of Extropy.io. 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 in a way that business and non-technical users can understand.   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.   Stephen Jackson    Stephen has been a professional Software Developer for 10 years. During that time, Stephen has worked at some of the world’s largest companies and gained a breadth of experience; from developing websites that are clicked on millions of times per day through to working on applications that help Portfolio Managers manage portfolios containing $100's million of assets.    Stephen first became aware of Bitcoin and Blockchain Technology at the end of 2013 when it was thrust into mainstream news as it reached, then, unprecedented highs. From that point in history, he has been researching more into the underlying technology and attending Blockchain Hackathons and workshops. At the beginning of 2017, Stephen joined a leading Blockchain Consultancy called Extropy.io working with international clients, where he has been helping to produced research papers about ICO regulation and digital currencies, write, build and deploy Smart Contracts and create web-based Decentralized Applications.     Our organiser    Antonio Sabado    Antonio is a founder of The Blockchain Connector, a company focusing on recruiting and training Blockchain professionals. Antonio has 10 plus years experience working closely with global Investment Banks placing highly skilled eTrading Technology professionals. He brings with him an extensive network, ranging from mid to senior level technology and business professionals across the financial sector. Hands-on in winning new business, developing and managing on-going client relationships. Very successful in building repeat business based upon building strong relationship with clients and understanding their requirements. Antonio is an organiser of several Blockchain focused events in London aimed at business users and software developers.    If you have any questions regarding this seminar, please contact the organiser on antonio@theblockchainconnector.com    The Blockchain Connector "Our goal is to simply build a Blockchain Developer community whereby we help regular Application Developers become Blockchain Developers and simplify the recruitment process by connecting developers with start-ups and global firms working on Blockchain projects. Join us and be part of our growing developer community. In addition to building a developer community, we offer Blockchain focused seminars aimed at business leaders and non-technical users. Visit our main Eventbrite page to view our future events and workshops by clicking HERE". Follow us on Twitter @bc_workshop   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 website to find out more. Follow Rise London on Twitter.

As part of the 3rd UK Bioinformatics Student Symposium and courtesy of Oxford Nanopore, we'd like to invite you to join us for drinks, food and some hacking. Both computer scientists and biologists are welcome, and strong computing experience is not a neccessity. Come and join other attendees before the conference itself! Educate and Entertain Hackathon Brief: The Hackathon theme this year is Public Engagement. In teams of up to four people, come up with an innovative and exciting way to educate and entertain the general public on the crossover between biology and computer science. This could be anything from sequencing to medical applications. Please bring along anything you think you will need for your hackathon project, including laptops etc.    There will be a prize for the best team and pizza and drinks available on the night. Location: Theatre Bar, Aberystwyth Arts Centre. Times: 6pm onwards.

NHS Finance: Confused?   Join us at Stirchley Baths for a focused session of our Citizens Group. You can find out more about how local NHS services are funded and what challenges there are in your neighbourhood. Quiz our finance team colleagues through a creative, problem solving session. You must book to attend, but we will have the kettle on.   Got a question? Let us know in advance and we’ll try and answer it on the day. Contact details found below.    BSC CCG’s Citizens Group is a volunteer led platform that helps us shape our engagement and commissioning through open dialogue. To find out more go to our involvement page on our CCG website.    For more information about the event please contact us on bscccg.partnerships@nhs.net or 0121 255 0789

Interested in the digitisation, cataloguing and digital archiving of old photographs and negatives? The Courtauld Institute Of Art - Digitisation Team invites you to participate in the sixth and final event in a six Hackathon series -- Crowdsourced Cataloguing Hackathon #6: Engaging Communities. You'll be challenged to come up with innovative new ideas about crowdsourced cataloguing. The goal is to make the next phase of the Courtauld's digitisation as inviting, inclusive and creative as possible.

Interested in the digitisation, cataloguing and digital archiving of old photographs and negatives? The Courtauld Institute Of Art - Digitisation Team invites you to participate in the fifth of six hackathons -- Crowdsourced Cataloguing Hackathon #5: Transcribing. You'll be challenged to come up with innovative new ideas about crowdsourced cataloguing. The goal is to make the next phase of the Courtauld's digitisation as inviting, inclusive and creative as possible.

Are you a Christian passionate about technology? Perhaps you work in tech as a designer, developer, data analyst, product managers, digital marketer or entrepreneur! If you are planning to participate in the upcoming Kingdom Code: BUILD Hackathon in October, then you should plan to attend this pre-hackathon meetup. Meet with like-minded individuals and prospective Hackathon participants -- share ideas and learn more about the BUILD event.

Are you interested in Artificial Intelligence? Want to find ways of using AI to promote social justice? You're invited to sign up to participate in the Hackathon - Prototyping Artificial Intelligence for Social Justice. You don't need experience of hackathons or of AI to be part of this event. You'll be challenged to come up with innovative ways of addressing bias, in order to embed social justice values in AI-based products and services.

Interested in the digitisation, cataloguing and digital archiving of old photographs and negatives? The Courtauld Institute Of Art - Digitisation Team invites you to participate in the fourth of six hackathons -- Crowdsourced Cataloguing Hackathon #4: Collecting Stories. You'll be challenged to come up with innovative new ideas about crowdsourced cataloguing. The goal is to make the next phase of the Courtauld's digitisation as inviting, inclusive and creative as possible.

Interested in the digitisation, cataloguing and digital archiving of old photographs and negatives? The Courtauld Institute Of Art - Digitisation Team invites you to participate in the third of six hackathons -- Crowdsourced Cataloguing Hackathon #3: Libraries. You'll be challenged to come up with innovative new ideas about crowdsourced cataloguing. The goal is to make the next phase of the Courtauld's digitisation as inviting, inclusive and creative as possible.