List of hackathons in United Kingdom in 2017

Artificial intelligence and virtual reality enthusiasts! Realities Centre invites you to sign up to participate in the AI+VR Rise Conference and following AI+VR Rise Hackathon. At the conference, prior to the hackathon, you'll get to explore how AI and machine learning can be used in virtual or mixed reality environments. You'll also be exposed to state-of-the art developments in both AI and VR that you will be able to apply in the hackathon.

Do you work with young people across Scotland who are facing barriers to participation? Creative Scotland invites you to sign up for "Exploring Practice: Arts-led projects for targeted young people". This event is part of Creative Scotland's CashBack for Creativity Programme Phase 3 (2014-17). You'll collaborate with your peers to explore the challenges of delivering art led projects to your constituents. You'll then take part in a mini hackathon to share your learning and develop effective tangible resources that will facilitate your projects.

Are you interested in the use of technology to help create solutions for the issues of temporary accommodation, housing and homelessness in London? You're invited to participate in the London Ventures Hackathon. You'll be provided with an overview of the issues, challenges, facts and figures such that you understand the problem scale and what needs to be tackled. You'll then be challenged with specific problem statements -- and be expected to develop and pitch your project solution to the panel of judges.

Students in and around Oxford! Want to showcase your hacking skills? You're invited to sign up to participate in the Hack@Brookes 2017 24-hour hackathon at Oxford Brookes University. This year's event is all about cyber security. You'll be challenged to work with Kali Linux -- the advanced penetration testing distribution of Linux to explore how you can tighten security on your network.

Hackers in and around Glasgow! Want the chance to work at a high growth startup? Your Book List invites you to sign up to participate in the Your Book List hackathon! You'll participate as an individual or as part of a team andn compete for the winning prize, a paid 8-week internship at the Your Book List start-up.

Hackers in the Greater London Area! resin.io invites you to sign up for the resin.io spring hackathon. You'll be challenged to design and build a multi-device Internet of Things (IoT) project on resin.io! The only requirement is that your project should have at least two devices.

Designers, engineers, developers, innovators, mental health and social care professionals! You're invited by Hacking Health Liverpool to participate in the Mental Health and Learning Disabilities Hackathon. Join forces with like-minded individuals to conceive and create innovative new technology solutions to address the pressing healthcare problems faced by people throughout the United Kingdom.

Tech Night LDN is a mini-conference embracing diversity by raising the visibility of accomplished women and underrepresented groups in tech and focussing on their achievements and knowledge.The evening will feature workshops, talks, panels and networking for people of all genders who are curious about technology. Expect an evening of inspiration and motivation!The event is open to all university students and graduates less than two years out of university of any technical skill level (including complete beginners) and best of all... it's absolutely free! Opening talk by Emily Brooke, CEO and Founder of Blaze (https://blaze.cc/) Then the event will split into three streams: -Workshop by Morgan Stanley: You will get to work in teams on AI for an automated player in a game of Ultimate Tic Tac Toe. Everyone will get to learn about Game theory and basic AI algorithms, and at the end each team’s player will play automatically against all others to see which algorithm is strongest. For this workshop we’ll provide an initial implementation of a player to each team, with very basic decision logic – so that everyone starts from the same point. The players will be coded in JavaScript and run with Nodejs. The game server and more info are available here: https://github.com/aurbano/ultimate-ttt-server -Panel on Perspectives in Tech Gain insight on multiple aspects of the tech industry from our panel members, who have a wide range of backgrounds, including: -Zahra is a full-stack iOS developer at Bloomberg. She recently graduated from UCL with a Computing BSc, where she was the former Director of Events at UCLU TechSoc and led organisation of events such as the last Tech Night LDN. She's also a student hackathon veteran, having worked her way up from attendee to organiser to judge, and was a member of the first cohort of Clarifai Champions. -Umesh is the Co-Founder of Pace Ventures, an innovation consultancy that works with governments, corporates and charities on their innovation capability. Through workshops, hackathons, accelerators and consulting projects, Pace Ventures helps broker relationships with startups and SME's. Alongside Pace Ventures, he runs UniHack, a nationwide hackathon programme. UniHack brings together students, corporates, the third sector, and the local community to create innovative solutions to real-world challenges. -Jennifer has studied Electronic and Telecoms Engineering (MEng) at the University of Sheffield. Having graduated in 2015 she joined Vodafone Group’s Technology programme and is now on her 3rd placement working in the Systems Architecture team. Jennifer has worked on a range of interesting projects from collaborating with suppliers for a catalyst project in order to deliver more personalised customer experience to learning about open API’s and how we can use this to deliver a better service to our customers.   -Tech Talk with Zehan Wang and Suranga Chandratillake: Zehan Wang was previously the co-founder and CTO of Magic Pony Technology, which was acquired in 2016 by Twitter for up to $150M (https://techcrunch.com/…/twitter-is-buying-magic-pony-tech…/). Currently, Zehan is an engineering manager at Twitter where he leads a team of researchers and engineers developing features and technologies which provide new and better visual experiences for Twitter users. Prior to that, Zehan did a PhD at Imperial College London on medical image analysis using computer vision and machine learning. Suranga joined Balderton as a General Partner in 2014. He was previously an entrepreneur and engineer. Suranga founded blinkx, the intelligent search engine for video and audio content in Cambridge in 2004. He then led the company for eight years as CEO through its journey of moving to San Francisco, building a profitable business and going public in London where it achieved a peak market capitalisation in excess of $1Bn. Before founding blinkx, Suranga was an early employee at Autonomy Corporation - joining as an engineer in the Cambridge R&D team and ultimately serving as the company's US CTO in San Francisco. Suranga has a MA in Computer Science from the University of Cambridge. He holds patents in the area of video discovery and online video advertising, was elected a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering in 2012 and was chosen as one of the World Economic Forum's Young Global Leaders in 2009. Closing Speaker - TBA!

Designers, makers, hackers -- anyone interested in renewable energy solutions! Want to help make a difference to rural communities that do not have access to reliable lighting other than dangerous kerosene lamps? You're invited to sign up to participate in a Solar Hackathon. Your challenge will be to collaborate on the design of robust flat pack solar lantern that can be manufactured and assembled in African countries.

Aspiring lady techies -- aged 5 to 22! You're invited to sign up for the Stemettes BeepBoopforChange Robotics Hack - IWD 2017. If you're under 16, you'll need to have an adult attend with you. Collaborate with like-minded females and help move the needle on increasing th enumber of women working in the UK's Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths (STEM) fields. You'll be using exciting tools such as Dobot Magicians robotic arms and the Python general purpose programming language.