List of hackathons in United Kingdom in 2017

Designers, data scientists, neuroscientists, idea generators, and coders in the London area! Are you passionate about artificial intelligence? Hackathon.com invites you to participate in the Global AI Hackathon - London. As part of a global hackathon event, you'll work on your own, or collaborate with a team of like-minded individuals from your community. So sign up now and you'll get to work on an AI challenge to be announced...and compete for terrific prizes.

What is gamification? Gamification involves the use of game techniques and elements to influence the behaviors of individuals. The use cases are many and diverse, but most involve prizes and points, competition and/or teamwork and scorekeeping to motivate people to meet specific goals.  Why is gamification important to insurance?  Gamification is a useful practice to engage customers, establish or strengthen brands, educate and train customers and staff, and motivate people to act. Gamification has many customer facing applications, including encouraging customer engagement and improving insurers' relationships with their customers. In addition, it can facilitate customized risk assessment and pricing, and, internally, help insurers encourage boosting sales and service performance. Benefits & Success Story Very often, our corporate insurance partners continue to work with individuals and teams that solve their problem statements. Read about one of our hackathon success stories. Who Are We? Startupbootcamp InsurTech is the leading accelerator focused on disruptive and collaborative insurance innovation and connecting with startups who have unique propositions that meet the needs of the insurance market. We are located in the heart of London, and we have the support of a global community as well as some incredible corporate partners.  Tasks You will form a team at the start of the event. You will then work on one of the challenges provided by our corporate partners for 48 hours, and, finally, you will present in front of the judges.  Challenges Challenge 1 (Product Development)Create a solution that would be able to improve customer behaviour/loyalty through gamification (i.e. driving score), and deduce an individual assessment in real time with this “connected” behavior. Challenge 2 (Sales & Marketing)Ideate new ways to engage customers through AR/ geo-location. Challenge 3 (Sales & Marketing)Gamify (using robo-advice) the quote process that allows the insurers to get the same amount of data, supports the clients whilst fully complying with consumer protection regulations in order to strengthen client management efforts and makes it interesting for the customers. Challenge 4 (Underwriting & Risk Management)Use gamification in the underwriting process to build a risk assessment user interface that is user friendly/structured and could identify potential fraud. Challenge 5 (Claims)Develop a robo-claim adjuster powered by AI (or smart device) to empathically advise the customer in the event of a car accident, simplifying the claims process, sharing information with other people in real time and increasing customer loyalty. Challenge 6 (Servicing)In a world where technology solutions are exploding, South Africa is relatively “new” to technology with many users not having access to affordable data or wifi. Create a way to guide financial advisers to the most useful and efficient digital solutions to address their specific needs - removing confusion due to the options available to them and the lack of confidence when using technology. A guided digital approach can potentially help build trust and confidence with users.   What are the winning categories? - Best Overall Concept - Runner Up - Best Technical solution Prizes - Best Overall Concept: £3,000 sponsored by SSP - Runner Up: £2,000 sponsored by SSP - Best Technical solution: £1,000 in Amazon vouchers General Agenda Details to be announced at a later date Friday, 23rd June 5:30pm Arrival & Registration 6:30pm Welcome and Agenda 8:30pm Dinner 9:00pm Gamification Workshop with expert Andrzej Marczewski Saturday, 24th June  9:00am Breakfast served 1:00pm Lunch 7:00pm Dinner  Sunday, 25th June  9:00am Breakfast served 11:00am Test your pitch!  12:00pm Lunch 2:00pm Coders self-assessment session 3:00pm Final Presentations 6:00pm END Excited? We are too! Sign up before it's too late! Want to tweet about it? Use #sbchack  FAQs Who can attend? Anyone with an interest in our theme! This includes coders, designers, developers, mentors, and observers. Can I attend if I haven't attended a Hackathon before? Yes, you most certainly can.  How big can a team be? Teams can range from one team member to a maximum of 5 people.  What will be provided? Wifi  Sockets NOTE: We do NOT provide laptops or computers, so please bring your own and any associated chargers (Don't forget phone chargers too). Who owns my project and IP? The individual/group who develops the project is the owner of the project and IP. Can I stay overnight? Yes! Showers are also available. Please bring anything you need to make yourself comfortable.  Do I need to bring breakfast/lunch/dinner?  No! There will be plenty of food and drinks throughout the whole weekend. We've got this covered.  But I have a specific dietary requirement... Not to worry. We will try and accommodate everyone. However do contact: penny@startupbootcamp.org to let her know of your dietary requirements so we can organize accordingly.  Can I start my project on the challenges beforehand? No. To keep everything fair, all work must be performed during the Hackathon. Where can I contact the organizer with any questions? If you have any questions, please e-mail penny@startupbootcamp.org Event Sponsors £3,000 for first place and £2,000 for second place provided by SSP. SSP is a global provider of technology systems and solutions across the entire insurance industry, using our expertise to enable our customers to transform their business and increase their profitability. SSP provides core technology solutions, distribution and trading capability, advanced analytics and solution delivery. Our unique position in the market, including the largest market share of UK e-trading, enables us to provide leading data insight and market access through our Keychoice distribution group. With over 30 years’ experience, our knowledge, talent and technology capabilities deliver innovative results that make us the partner of choice for our customers. Startupbootcamp InsurTech's Partners Global Partners * Sources: Insurance Journal EY

On behalf of Computing At School and the Network of Excellence Micro:bit challenge Thursday Jun 22, 2017 from 9:30AM to 4:00PM Hosted by CAS South West (Plymouth University) There is a limit of 25 places. To start with we will limit it to 5 per school. Year 7s must bring their micro:bit for the hackathon challenge. CAS South West (Plymouth University) Plymouth HOST sophie.shaw@plymouth.ac.uk CAS South West (Plymouth University) For further information: SOPHIE SHAW (sophie.shaw@plymouth.ac.uk) Electronic Privacy Computing At School (CAS) communicates with its interested parties by email. I understand that CAS will not pass on my email address to other organisations. Data Protection Act 1998 CAS as part of the BCS Group will hold your personal data on its computer database and process it in accordance with the Act. This information may be accessed, viewed and used by CAS for administrative purposes and conducting market research. All of these purposes have been notified to the Commissioner. If you are based outside the European Economic Area (the 'EEA'), information about you may be transferred outside the EEA in accordance with the requirements of the Act. Full legal and privacy notices: http://www.bcs.org/category/5655

Welcome to the AECOM WaterAid Charity Hackathon hosted by South West College. A fun and collaborative way to help solve a real world problem, learn new skills, meet people from industry and raise funds for a worthwhile cause. AECOM are working with WaterAid to help increase Hygiene awareness in Nicaragua and need your help to develop a method of tracking progress and identifying areas of concern using digital technology. Sign up as an individual challenger or as a team of 3-4 to participate in this Charity Hackathon. More details provided after registration.

FREE for children on FREE SCHOOL MEALS (please see relevant ticket for more info) #AcornHackAI will be the best yet and as always we will bring the most incredible A.I. experts and entrepreneurs to inspire you into A.I., share with you what they are developing and challenge you to solve a problem or two. Watch our trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=byZQPGtvLhI Follow us on Twitter: @acornaspiration Be the first to learn about our events and discounts, sign up on our website: www.acornaspirations.com Become part of our Facebook community: https://www.facebook.com/groups/acornentrepreneurs Join us on Meetup and learn great skills they don't teach in school: https://www.meetup.com/acorn-aspirations/ Mentors, we guarantee you will learn new skills too: http://acornaspirations.com/leaders-of-tomorrow/ PLACES FOR THIS HACK ARE LIMITED! (You MUST bring your own laptop!) You will come out of the hackathon with the following: 1. You will meet the experts and entrepreneurs from London's tech scene, who are innovating in Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning 2. You will meet other teens who are passionate about A.I. 3. You will work with tech mentors and entrepreneurs and learn how to turn your ideas into a basic working version. Things you will learn: * How to decide which of your ideas are worth working on * How to decide what features the user needs to get them from A to B * How to sketch your ideas * How to build your idea using rapid prototyping tools * How to pitch your idea - you will pitch in front of some of London's most innovative start-ups * How will your idea make money - business models * Programming courses: 1. Learning Python, 2. How to create a chatbot (Beginner & Intermediate) & 3.How to Programme Amazon Alexa For further info please email Elena elena.sinel@acornaspirations.co.uk NOTE to SPONSORS: If you wish to sponsor the event or sponsor X amout of children, please email Elena elena.sinel@acornaspirations.co.uk to discuss details.

Coders, designers and entrepreneurs in Greater London! AngelHack invites you to sign up to participate in the AngelHack Global Hackathon Series: London. Compete on your own, or collaborate as a member of a team to come up with an idea and turn it into a functioning prototype. You're not limited! You could build an app that delivers positive value to your community, a web site satisfying an unmet financial need, a virtual reality game, or whatever your imagination can conceive.

The Realities Centre, London's place for Virtual, Augmented & Mixed Reality is thrilled to welcome you at Cocoon Networks this June to review the past 6 months of events and unveil more details on its upcoming accelerator programme as well as discuss its areas of focus. After organising conferences & hackathons on specific verticals where AR and VR those last six months, we will share our views on where we believe they are making a difference in the product & service lifecycle.  Part of the London Tech Week and China-UK Hi! Festival, this event is an opportunity to discuss the impact of VR and AR technologies in what we call the Augmented Product Lifecycle and introduce the theme of our future programmes.  For more information about the entire agenda of the China-UK Hi Festival do not hesitate to visit its dedicated Eventbrite page.  AGENDA 10:30 - Registrations & demos 10:40 - Opening by Thomas Gere, CEO of Realities Centre 10:45 - Review of the last 6 months of events by Amandine Flachs, Events & Coms Manager 11:10 - The Augmented Product Lifecyle and where AR/VR are making a difference, by Thomas Gere 11:20 - How Mixed Reality & AI are helping industrial training, by Tushar Sharma @ Blippar 11:40 - VR medical training by one of the Realities Centre winning team: Anna & Morgan @ Dual Good Health  11:50 - The Augmented Customer Journey by Jasper Squier @ Aisle411  12:00 - Review of AR/VR investments & growth landscape and how the Realities Centre will operate its acceleration programme by Ziv Reichert, Strategy & Operations 12:20 - Demonstrations, networking and exchange ANY QUESTIONS? Feel free to get in touch with us for any question and queries at events@realitiescentre.com! * Please note pictures & videos might be taken during the event for marketing purposes, if you have any issue with that please notify us in advance. *

A pioneering international event advancing sustainable and high impact innovation for social enterprises Thursday 15th June @ 9am – 5.00pm Cost: FREE with RSVP Venue: University of Brighton, Sallis Benney Theatre, Grand Parade, Brighton The Spark Social Enterprise Innovation Conference will bring together change makers from the UK, Holland, Belgium and France for a day of collaborative activity. The event will explore the optimum environment for social enterprises to develop and deliver more sustainable and high impact innovations, leading to increased growth. The day will include inspirational stories of innovation in action, delving deep through listening and discussing, full delegate ideation/hackathon activity, case studies, specialist practical and creative workshops, exploring potential collaborations with universities and research professionals, 1-2-1 innovation clinics, pitching challenges from featured social enterprises, film making, the opportunity to join our new innovation network and a host of other experiences. Delegates will include social enterprises, universities, research and development institutes, support organisations, funding bodies, public sector policy makers and procurement professionals … and you. You will leave full of inspiration and armed with fresh ideas, knowledge, a sense of direction and new connections. Innovation explored thorough a truly innovative event. For more info on The Spark Project and to sign up for news www.sparksocialenterprise.eu or email info@sparksocialenterprise.eu The project is a cross border collaboration between partners in England, Belgium, Holland and France as part of the Interreg 2 Seas programme 2014-2020 co-funded by the European Regional Development Fund.

Using Revolutionary Technology to Impact Healthcare Today   Do you have a problem that needs solving? Want to make the difference now? Does your problem directly affect patient care or something behind the scenes? You don’t need to have the answer, you just need to be passionate about what you do. Come to our Alder Hey Hackathon to discover potential technologies with creatives, innovators, academics from a variety of backgrounds, clinical or non clinical. Want to see your idea being developed like our previous winner?   Not for the faint hearted, you and your team will be brought from problem to pitch-ready all in a single day.  Held at the Institute in the Park at Alder Hey, we will provide food and drinks throughout the day to keep you energised. Sign up for free now to get the date in your diary.   Agenda   08:30 – 09:00                         Coffee and Registration 09:00 – 09:15                         Welcome and Introduction 09:15 – 09:30                         "The Living Hospital"                                                Iain Hennessey (Clinical Director of Innovation), Alder Hey 09:30 – 09:40                         Overview of the Day 09:40 – 10:40                         Pitch your Problem – 60 seconds 10:40 – 11:10                         Team Formation 11:10 – 15:30                         Hacking (to include working buffet Lunch and Coffee break) 15:30 – 16:30                         Pitches (Solution) 16:30 – 17:00                         Judging 17:00 – 17:30                         Awards 17:30                                     Close       To give you a flavour of what we're planning, have a look at the short film of our first hackathon in 2015 below:       FAQsWhat are my transport/parking options for getting to and from the event?You can find your way to the Hospital by looking at the guidance here: http://www.alderhey.nhs.uk/contact-us/Once you've arrived just ask one of the volunteers to direct you to the Institute in the Park.  

Startups in the London area! If you're planning to attend London Tech Week, then why not showcase your project at the HackXLR8 2017 hackathon that will be held during the TechXLR8 Expo? HackXLR8 2017 is the ideal opportunity for you to showcase your project and your business model!