List of hackathons in United Kingdom in 2017

Hi folks, get ready, pack your bags and book your ticket to.... Manchester! The next Hackathon will take place at the amazing BBC Media City but this will not be an ordinary Hackathon. No, this time we will stream the whole event, giving everybody the chance to participate online. Therefore you can be part of the Hackathon from all over the world. Well, of course you will miss some of the amazing spirits but we will give our best to capture every single moment during the event! +++Attention+++ The event might look like it's sold out but actually, you just need to get an access code. You can apply now for an access code via the Open Ecosystem Network and in case you live around Manchester make sure to get one of the strictly limited on-site event tickets. During the next weeks we will update you with all the information you need so stay tuned and hurry up to get your ticket! See you soon! Your OPEN-Team

Digital campaigners, tech gurus ... anyone who loves digital campaigning! You're invited to participate in the Lost Voices Hackathon. Research shows that there's a deep divide between the charity sector, politicians and the tech sector which has unfairly impacted on those with a lived experience. In this half-day event, you'll be challenged to design and develop solutions that can help bridge that divide.

Game designers, philanthropists, anyone interested or involved in activities that help enable global social progress, economic growth and environmental protection. You're invited to participate in Qismat Collaboration: Gamifying the United Nation's SDGs. You'll be challenged to design and prototype an video game that is amazing to play and delivers the best global impact, by reinforcing and helping realize the United Nation’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDG).

Computational chemists, cheminformaticians, and molecular modelers! The organizers of Comp Chem Kitchen invite you to participate in the CCK-10 Hackathon. You'll get to learn about the CSD (Cambridge Structural Database) Python API and then take part in the hackathon.

Lightning talks is back Our community Lightning talks is back at an amazing new underground venue. We've got some dope talks lined up and are proud to be sponsored by Ping for this event. Here's our lineup: Navida - "Hoopoe House" Maaria - "Searching: A Photo Journey of Hajj" Maaria Lohiya is a freelance photographer and videographer with a particular passion for living and capturing journeys. Yosuf Ali - "Personal websites for creatives" Yosuf is a final year computer science student working as a part time software engineer. He helped start he's university's technology society where he organises hackathons and technical workshops for students. Aminul Hoque - "World's First Islamic Sign Language Book" Aminul Hoque has extensive experience in the education, charity and disability sector. He is Founder of aminyasmin.com and author of the World's First Islamic Sign Language Book Sofia - "How to start a community printing press" Sofia Niazi is an artist and illustrator working and living in London. As part of OOMK, she currently runs a community risograph print studio in Newham, Rabbits Road Press, with studio mates Rose Nordin and Heiba Lamara. So here's the plan for Tuesday 5th December: - 18:30pm - Arrival - 19:00pm - Lightning talks- 20:00pm - Networking + Pizza- 21:00pm - Everyone out! Get tickets quick :-) Hoopoe House We're going to be at a new very cool venue called Hoopoe House. Hoopoe house is an underground space currently being developed into a space for good initiatives and projects that make positive contributions to communities and people. Navida who is the driving force behind the venue is going to be around on Tuesday to talk about the space so be sure to say salam.  Unfortuantely due to the nature and location of the venue (converted Victorian public toilets) there aren't any lifts so access is only via the stairs.   Leave your business cards at home and download Ping We're proud to be sponsored by Ping for this event. Ping is your new networking buddy! It helps you exchange information (even if your new contact doesn't have the app!), remember the location of where you met, and also get reminders to follow up in the weeks and months after. Carl who started the company is going to be joining us on Tuesday too. What they're building and the way they're building it is amazing. Everyone download the app and use it on the night.  Who are we? Murtaza - UX designer working on digital products and startups. I helped co-found casseroleclub.com alongside FutureGov.  Arfah - Head up the Marketing at Makers Academy, a 12 week coding bootcamp. I co-founded Discoverables and went through a social tech accelerator where I had a crazy #startupkid journey.  Faheem - Freelance product designer a product designer with equal amounts design and code, currently @amaliah_tweets Sign up to our mailing list to hear about events and what we're upto. Note: This event is open to people of all faiths and none! We just want to create a space to showcase what people in the muslim community are up too! Here's why we started #muslamicmakers

This event is brought to you by The Blockchain Connector, a training and recruitment company focusing entirely on Blockchain technology. Schedule: 18:00 – 19:00 Registration & Networking with food and drinks sponsored by MindArk 19:00 Brief intro from Antonio Sabado, event organiser and founder of The Blockchain Connector 19:10 – 21:00 Main presentation plus Q&A by David Simmonds & Henrik Nel 21:00 – Networking drinks at a nearby pub Presentation title:  A Token Mechanism for Growing the Games Development & Enterprise Ecosystem of Decentralized Applications in a Virtual World Quick intro: MindArk, a Swedish virtual reality company founded in the 1990’s will provide an overview on how they are applying Blockchain technology on their platform and how they are applying open standards in this space. The first video game was thought to be engendered virtually 60 years ago in October 1958 by, Physicist William Higinbotham, it was a simple tennis game. Since then, gaming has become an immersive experience through a host of deep technologies such as AI, ML, AU & VR. Mindark AB through its Entropia Macrocosm a platform is about to open source much of its deep tech through a Token offering denominated Deeptoken. For the long-term prosperity of the Entropia open platform accommodations, there is a desideratum for (a) governance structures and (b) incentive mechanisms for developers and users to participate in an incipient two-sided market for applications. In this paper, MindArk will present Deeptoken—a blockchain token protocol that ameliorates upon the earlier design of the Entropia Macrocosm. Deeptoken introduces decentralized governance and incentive mechanisms for ecosystem magnification, and enables incipient features like support for games and enterprise business developers to access deep technology and license their engenderments for more expeditious use. Deeptoken is a major upgrade to the Entropia Macrocosm and, like earlier major technology upgrades, will be proposed as the next immensely colossal milestone in the history of the macrocosm.   Speakers: David Simmonds David was the former CEO of MindArk between 2011-2014. With 15 years of experience in Virtual Reality and Crypto/Virtual currencies he will be an integral part of the DeepToken foundation. David also brings 35 years of experience of sales and business development in IT, telecom & security of which more than 30 years as owner/managing director. Henrik Nel Henrik is one of the co-founders of DeepToken and as CSO responsible for the strategic initiatives of MindArk and the DeepToken foundation. He studied Management and Economics of Innovation at Chalmers University of Technology in Gothenburg, Sweden. Early adopter of crypto and passionate gamer.  Twitter @EntropiaNews More info on mindark.com  &   entropiauniverse.com   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/

Wikidata is a free and open knowledge base that can be read and edited by both humans and machines. It’s the structured-sister to Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia, and it provides a common place to gather and re-distribute data that can be reused by anyone. In this short event, we’ll be examining what it is possible to do with Wikidata - using Welsh political data as a springboard. Whether you are interested in building an application, doing some analysis or just experimenting this is for you. We are very grateful to Llyr Gruffydd Aelod Cynulliad / Assembly Member for sponsoring this workshop. The workshop will be divided into two parts: A brief introduction to Wikidata: cool tools and tricks for using it A hackathon to use, visualise and improve the data Join us if you’re interested in learning some new tricks or to find ways to understand how Wikidata can be useful to your work or your organisation. If you’re interested in political data, or have experience in visualising or building tools to work with data, come along! Instructions for attendees If you haven’t registered for Wikipedia or another Wikimedia project, please do so in advance – it takes only a few minutes and it’s completely free! Please, remember to bring your own laptop! Tablets and smartphones are not recommended – they make editing hard!  Lunch will be provided for all attendees, as well as refreshments throughout the day.  -------- Wicieiddio'r Cynulliad Cenedlaethol Cronfa ddata agored ac am ddim i bawb ydy Wicidata, cronfa y gall peiriannau a phobl ei darllen. Chwaer-brosiect Wicidata ydy Wicipedia, y gwyddoniadur agored a rhydd y gall unrhyw un ei olygu, ac mae'r ddau brosiect yn gweithio ochr-yn-ochr, law-yn-llaw gyda'i gilydd. Yn y digwyddiad undydd hwn byddwn yn edrych ar botensial Wicidata a'r defnydd o ddata ar wleidyddiaeth Cymru. Efallai y gwyddoch am gronfa y carwch edrych arni drwy lygad Wicidata, neu efallai nad ydych yn gyfarwydd a Wicidata o gwbwl. Beth bynnag yw dyfnder eich gwybodaeth ohoni mae croeso i chi ymuno a ni. Bydd dwy ran: 1. cyflwyniad byr i Wicidata gan edrych ar rai o'r teclynau defnyddiol i archwilio a thrin y data. 2. hacathon ymarferol i wella'r data a'i chymhwyso ar gyfer Wicipedia a'r cyd-destun Cymreig. Ymunwch a ni! Efallai y gwelwch ei photensial ar gyfer eich sefydliad neu eich cwmni chi, fel y gwaneth y Llyfrgell Genedlaethol. Cyfarwyddiadau i aelodau Os nad oes gennych gyfrif Wicimedia yna byddai gwneud hynny cyn y cwrs yn beth da, ac yn arbed amser ar y diwrnod. Mewngofnodwch i'r Wicipedia Cymraeg, a dyna ni! Mae hynny yn gyfystyr a mewngofnodi i bob un o brosiectau Wicimedia! Dewch a gliniadur a rhyw fath o ID. Bydd cinio'n cael ei ddarparu i bawb, a lluniaeth drwy gydol y dydd - a phopeth am ddim!

At Kingdom Code BUILD, our annual hackathon, we hosted over 90 Christians who work in the technology world. We spent the weekend working on projects that bring together our faith and our skillsets in technology. At our December meetup we're inviting the groups back to show some of the work that they did, and show how it's been developed over the last two months. During the evening we'll be seeing a VR project built for Christians Against Poverty, an iOS app showing the fostering and adoption journey built for Home for Good, a web app which could transform how musicians can lead worship during church service and more… We'll also have some time to discuss and pray about what happens next for Kingdom Code as we head into 2018.

#AcornHackJI will be the best yet and as always we will bring the most incredible tech experts and entrepreneurs to inspire you into tech, share with you what they are developing and challenge you to solve a problem or two. DATE: 2-3 December TIME: 5.30pm - 8.30pm on 2 December          8.30am - 7.30pm on 3 December VENUE: WeHub, Wohl Building, 2B Redbourne Avenue, London N3 2B Watch our trailer on YouTube 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 Join us on Meetup and learn great skills they don't teach in school Mentors, we guarantee you will learn new skills too!  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 2. You will meet other teens who are passionate about tech 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. Intro to Android Studio 3. HTML, CSS 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. Jewish Interactive is a registered charity. For donation, please contact Chana Kanzen on chana@jewishinteractive.net to discuss charitable donations.

DESCRIPTION Join us for this intensive 1 day hackathon to learn how to take control of your career & find ways of doing work that you will love. More importantly it will push you to launch your first career prototype to test out a new path. You know you want to do something different... ...but you're not sure what that something is. Maybe it's a different company. Maybe it's a new career. Maybe you want to go on a big adventure or start your business. But you're not sure where to start. You’re not sure where to turn and you don’t know what your options are. And... there's another problem. Leaving a safe job is scary. Every time you think about making a big change in your work, career & life, the little voices in your head chime in: You're too young (or too old.) You don't have the time (or the money, or the knowledge, or the skills). What if you fail? What if it all ends up being a massive mistake? You're ready to give up on your search to do work you love before you even get started. You're not alone. We have spent the past five years gathering knowledge from over 250,000 unfulfilled professionals on why current career change methods aren’t working. We’ve discovered that the biggest problems come when people expect a magic-bullet solution or when they expect a career coach to give them an answer to a problem that they can’t even really define. We work with only the best teachers, career coaches & thought-leaders. We apply tried & tested lessons from the career coaches, career change psychologists, and successful career changers to save you from wasting time and money on those who don't deliver the most effective & practical advice. We teach the same practical frameworks and methods used by hundreds of Escape the City members to escape unfulfilling jobs and do work they love. Here's what you can expect: This hackathon will help you understand how to take control of your career and steer it in directions that will bring you more autonomy, meaning, and purpose. It’s about personal fulfillment, it’s about making active choices for yourself, and it’s about owning your definition of success. You'll be able to play and build something without any pressure of it being the 'one'. We'll explore  the new world of work and freelance careers. This one-day Escape School Hackathon is a chance to co-create, and 'build' a first version of a career prototype with new friends. It will help you sharpen your escape tools, increase your confidence in finding a new direction, and build new connections. What does the hackathon consist of? We will provide you with tools, ideas and case studies to help you overcome your fears and start moving forwards with purpose. The hackathon covers the following: What isn't working for me in my career? What type of life do I want to lead? How do I work out what I really want to do? How do I overcome my fears? How do I come up with a plan that excites me? What are my more entrepreneurial options? What strategies will help me to build my dream job? How do I create opportunities on my own terms? You will leave this hackathon inspired to make change happen, with the beginnings of a plan, a commitment to action, a long list of new ideas, and have launched your first career prototype to get started. This workshop is taught by: SKYE ROBERTSON Head of the Escape School - Skye has helped thousands of people escape their jobs and start new careers and businesses through Escape the City, Startup Britain, and Young Enterprise. Her superpowers include: helping people turn ideas into actual businesses, standing out from the crowd in the job market, and hacking online projects together in a very short amount of time. This workshop is limited to 40 places. Secure your ticket now to get closer to changing your career.