List of hackathons in United Kingdom in 2017

Researchers, developers, academics, refugees, and investors! If you're interested in how mobile and other technologies can help forced migrants throughout the world, then come and participate in the Techfugees 'Help is at hand' Conference 2017. You'll hear from the people with practical experience of the problems and then you will collaborate with other participants to come up with innovative new mobile technology solutions to real challenges faced by migrants.

RPA analysts, architects or developers! Do you want to match your skills and creativity against other robotics process automation professionals? You're invited to participate in the RPA Hackathon -- a 24-hour digital marathon, where you'll design and prototype a new RPA project and compete for prizes against the best of the best!

Local Hack Day is a 12 hour mini-hackathon that brings together the local hacker community to celebrate building awesome technology. Omnipresently, other students around the world will be hosting their own Local Hack Days, resulting in the largest single day of student hacking ever. Whether you're a seasoned hackathon veteran or have never been to a hackathon before, Local Hack Day is the best way to meet other techies and even get started on a cool project.If you want to learn to code or just want to find out what it's all about, drop by and say hello. We can't wait to see you all there!

Entrepreneurial spirits! Do you want to start your own business? King's Entrepreneurs Society invites you to participate in the KCL Business Hackathon 2017. In this 12-hour non-tech hackathon, you'll be challenged to build your business in a day -- from generating your idea to building your first prototype! Pitch your project to the audience and get the chance to win validation, recognition and great prizes.

The scientific endeavor has brought remarkable technological progress and plays a pivotal role in 21st-century life. However, media breaches, incompatibilities and locked-away-data all present problems and there are still a number of changes needed to improve the scientific process. Many claim that the blockchain offers great potential for Science and Knowledge creation - immutable data trails, novel means for research money distribution, privacy-assured data handling and even crowdfunding methods present possibilities. We envision a system that will contain the whole research cycle in one closed-looped system - from data acquisition, post-processing, storage, calculation, scientific reasoning as well as incentivisation and research funding. As a starting point, we'll take abstractions from bitcoin, and, while its miners assure the integrity of the blockchain, the guardians of the living knowledge network will assure that science is kept honest and meaningful, all with a knowledge token that will incentivise participants. However, we understand that verifying transactions on the bitcoin blockchain is much easier than verifying science - but various implementations and abstractions could lead us there and we need to start somewhere. With this hackathon, we want to engage and inspire the science-interested tech community. There will be a series of talks and sessions run using standard developer tools and on PC, MAC and Linux operating systems. We're looking for tech talent from all levels of capability - what's important is your passion for creating future blockchain technologies! Program: Fri. 1st of December 19:00 Potential meetup with talks @ 3 crowns pub Saturday Sat 2nd of December  09:00 Start, Registration 09.25 Breakfast 10:00 Opening remarks Intro to challenges by: 10:10 Collaboration Future Of (Roman) 10:20 Future of Peer review (Sönke) 10:30 Network Data Science (James) 10.30 Knowledge Token (t.b.d.) 11:00 Team Formation 11:25 Team Registration – Start hacking! 13:30 Lunch 16:00 Talk: Cryptoeconomy for Science - Bazil Azmil 18:30 Dinner 21:00 Exit Sun 3rd of December 10:00 Arrive and start hacking 14:00 Talk (t.b.d.) 16:00 Pitching session begins Community voting through Knowledge tokens 17:00 Winners announced 17:10 Closing remarks 17:30 …  Networking, drinks and nibbles Rules The core part of the solution to the challenge must be written over the weekend Please check your code into a repository (Github, Bitbucket etc) with an open source software license of your choice When you’ve assembled your team, please let us know your team name, participants, which challenge you’re entering, and your code repository URL Please sign the terms and conditions form (on the day) You retain your IP Teams & Pitching We have a two-hour slot for pitching with 10 minutes for the judges to convene We’d like you to give a five-minute pitch and/or demo, and allow two minutes for Q&A If you don't have time for a demo – screenshots are OK Pitches need to be tight and punchy! Make sure you practice in advance We can really only handle 15 teams if we want to keep to the timeline We don't want to set a minimum team size, but we would strongly encourage you to form teams of four people or more Community engagement: BlockchainForScience

Science-oriented techies in the Greater London Area! You're invited to participate in the Living Knowledge Network – London Hackathon. You'll get to tackle your choice of four Blockchain challenges: The Future of Collaboration, Network Data Science, The Future Of Peer Review, or Knowledge Tokens. Tech talent from all levels of capability is welcome to join in! You just need a passion for the future of science and knowledge creation!

Please note: This event is strictly for regular software engineers and computer science/software engineering students only. This event is brought to you by The Blockchain Connector, a training and recruitment company focusing entirely on Blockchain technology & UCL Centre for Blockchain Technologies, a leading European research hub focusing on the impact of blockchain technologies on socio-economic systems, and promotion of a safe and organic development and adoption of blockchain-based platforms. Speaker Bio: Conor Svensson Conor is the author of web3j, the Java library for working integrating with Ethereum. He's the founder of blk.io (https://blk.io/) who provide the foundations for enterprises to integrate with Ethereum and Quorum. Conor also co-chairs the Quorum and Integration and Tools Working Groups in the Enterprise Ethereum Alliance and is the organiser of the Enterprise Ethereum Alliance London Meetup. Title of talk: web3j 3.0 – Integration with Ethereum and smart contracts for Developers Abstract: web3j is the Java library for integrating with Ethereum. In this talk, Conor will provide an overview of web3j, including its client API, smart contract wrappers, command line tools, event subscription capabilities and Block and transaction replay support. Conor will also be talking about the milestone web3j 3.0 release and the additional functionality it provides for further simplifying integration with smart contracts. Finally, there will be an ERC20 token demo using web3j, and discussion of building micro-services on top of web3j. Event Organiser: Antonio Sabado Antonio is a founder of The Blockchain Connector, a training and recruitment company focusing entirely on Blockchain technology. Antonio has 10 plus years experience working closely with global Investment Banks placing and managing highly skilled eTrading Technology professionals. Antonio has an extensive network, ranging from mid to senior level technology and business professionals across various sectors. He is an organiser of several Blockchain focused events in London aimed at software developers and business users. Future Events: Visit our Eventbrite homepage to view all our future events by clicking HERE. For further details on our developer workshop, please email antonio@theblockchainconnector.com or contact Antonio on 0044 (07)923 521 833. 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" Follow us on Twitter @bc_workshop & @thebc_connector Join our growing Blockchain Developer meetup held in London by clicking HERE.

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A funded hack with sponsored places, prizes and a commercial opportunity to design and deliver predictive analytics based solutions for reducing leakage.

Finding a good problem to focus your research on or build a startup around is a challenge and can greatly influence your success and growth potential. What is a good problem and how to find one? How to make sure that it is a problem that you can tackle? This talk is for researchers and entrepreneurs looking to solve real-world problems through their work.  Free lunch and refreshments will be provided.  If you are not based at Guy’s Campus and would find it difficult to attend at lunchtime, we will also live stream the seminar on our Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/KCLInnovationForum/ Speaker Profile: Ana Florescu Ana is Head of Good Problems at Science Practice, a research and design studio based in London.  The Good Problems Team works with funding organisations, investors and philanthropists that want to take a problem-led approach to their funding. They help them identify and prioritise real problems in need of solutions and design appropriate ways to incentivise innovation. The Team has designed over 30 challenge prizes and funding calls, including the £10M Longitude Prize for a diagnostic test to help reduce the misuse of antibiotics. Prior to joining Science Practice, Ana worked at Nesta where she researched emerging technologies and trends in social venture incubation. She also helped organise a number of Start-up Weekend hackathons and ran an 8-week pre-accelerator programme for entrepreneurs in London. Kindly Sponsored by: Entrepreneurship Institute