List of hackathons in United Kingdom in 2018

A lively event to launch and grow new collaborations between Alder Hey and University of Liverpool staff, featuring: Collaborative working theme launch & identification of opportunities Mini Hackathon / 60-second Soap Box pitches: your opportunity to build collaborations Funding: The launch of a new £800,000 Hugh Greenwood Legacy Fund for joint Alder Hey – UoL research projects A networking lunch with NHS & academic colleagues Registration and tea/coffee will be from 8:30 am, for a 9:00 am start.

Language teachers, techies in the UK! If you're interested in English for speakers of other languages (ESOL), then you're invited to participate in the Cambridge ESOLTHON. At this one-and-a-half day hackathon event, you'll collaborate with like-minded individuals to create a new portal that improves digital resources for teachers of entry-level English as a foreign language. You must be at least 16 years old to participate.

Girls and young women aged from 5 to 22! If you're interested in technology, then the Stemettes invite you to participate in Summer Fun with Oracle Academy & Stemettes. If you've ever played a video game or watched an animation, then come and learn how to make one yourself! Come explore and play in the creative, exciting world of technology. Those under 16 will need an adult with you!

Coders, designers, and entrepreneurs in the UK! You are invited to sign up to take part in the AngelHack London Hackathon 2018. 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. There are no limits -- except to follow the Seamless Technology theme! So you can build an app that solves a social or environmental problem and positively impacts your local community -- you might win the Code For A Cause Impact Award. Or accept IBM's Call for Code challenge to improve logistics based on traffic and weather activity, or one of the challenges from AWS, FitBit, Consensys, and Agora! At the end of the Global Hackathon Series, the AngelHack Grand Prize will be awarded to the project that is innovative without limits and brings positive change to the world. Check out the tips page for advice on taking part in the AngelHack London Hackathon!

Join QA’s 7 hour hackathon and delve deeper into the world of AI. Whether you are an expert or a newbie in AI, we welcome you to join this event to prototype and find solutions to real-world problems. The challenges will be announced during the kick off of the event, you will be able to pick one of the challenges to work on with a team. After 7 hours of hacking, you will be able to showcase your projects to the judges where they will then pick the winning team! The day will give you the chance to bring your ideas to life. Not all attendees have to code or have much knowledge of coding, just bring your knowledge, an open mind and enthusiasm. Everybody in a team must purchase a ticket! Sign up and find out more here!

EMIS Health build software solutions to support patients, like you and me, live longer healthier lives.   Tech in healthcare is huge at the moment, there are so many new and interesting apps and tools that can support the vision of providing better patient experience when travelling their healthcare journey.   On the 23rd of June at 08:00AM we're kick starting “CodeLife” - our very own Hackathon, inviting people from across the North to join us for 14 hours of pure tech talk and on the spot innovation!  You will be in teams of 4 or 5 (bring your own team or we can team you up) and the day will run from 08:00 - 22:00 and will include Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner for those taking part. It’s a points means prizes day with the topic of choice being "social media vs healthcare" - focusing on current and upcoming technologies. Use your knowledge of social media to prototype an app or tool that could benefit patients in healthcare.  As it’s a long day we will be providing free transport back to the centre of Manchester and then onto Leeds City Centre.  What’s expected of you on the day?  Eat our food  Enjoy yourself  Design/prototype us some software that will support healthcare using any technology and showcase it at the end of the day in front of our panel.  Bring your own laptop and any other supporting technologies. We will provide Internet access and power, as well as the odd Azure server if needed.  You will be in a team. Points means prizes…    The bulk of the day will allow you to focus on the prototype as this will be awarded the most points. There will be other challenges on the day including SQL, Infrastructure, UI/UX and many more. These small challenges will help top up your teams points total!   1st Place Team - £2,000, Raspberry Pi’s  2nd Place Team – Raspberry Pi’s   3rd Place Team – Raspberry Pi’s  Plus other prizes on the day.  The team with the most points at the end of the day wins!  Schedule  08:00 – 08:30 – Arrival and Breakfast 08:30 – 09:00 – Briefing 09:00 – 19:30 – Innovate (Lunch is somewhere in the middle) 19:30 -  Close (~22:00) – Dinner, Showcase to panel, awards. 22:30 – Coach back to Leeds and Manchester. Travel We have ample free parking, we are a 15 minute walk from Horwich Park Way Train station which has a regular service from Manchester and Preston. We will be providing free transport back to the centre of Manchester and Leeds, please let us know in advance. Food We will be providing food on the day of the event  but if ou don't like our offerings we are a 5 minute walk from Middlebrooke Retail park which has all of the usual food outlets. So.... We're inviting you to prescribe us a ground-breaking system, app or whatever to harness the power of social media and use it to positively impact healthcare.....  So sign up and we will see you on the 23rd of June :)   **PLEASE NOTE - NO RECRUITERS** 

Hackers in the UK! HackerEarth invites you to participate in the Innovation for Sustainable Development hackathon. You'll be asked to create an innovative solution that addresses one of three challenge areas: Accessible, affordable and sustainable power for everyone, Efficient water systems or practices that drive sustainable water usage, or Critical environmental problems.

Experienced security techies and hackers in and around London! Radware & Cisco invite you to participate in Hackers Challenge UK. This event is part of a global competition where you'll compete with the best-of-the-best to crack a series of security challenges. In multiple rounds, you'll be challenged to infiltrate a system, deny services, collect or change information, escalate privileges, and perform tasks that only administrators are granted. Beat your peers, accumulate the most points, and win your choice of a pass to Black Hat 2018 or £1,500.

Young people in East Anglia! Are you concerned with the problem of a lack of young people in local politics? If you're interested in the democratic process, then Shout Out UK invites you to participate in the Young People in Local Politics Hackathon. You'll collaborate with like-minded people to come up with and develop innovative ideas to overcome barriers to participation and encourage more young people to engage.

The City of London Corporation are hosting a Central London Freight Conference on 18th June. Central London faces a unique challenge. We must deliver Healthy Streets to improve air quality, reduce road danger and make our city a pleasant place to walk and cycle whilst allowing the servicing of offices, retail and restaurants to allow the city to flourish. This is an exciting opportunity freight industry and businesses to identify opportunities, review best practice and work together to deliver these goals. Agenda 1.30 - 2.00     Registration and Refreshments 2.00 - 2.05     Welcome and Introduction - Christopher Hayward, Chairman of Planning and Transportation 2.05 - 3.05     Strategic planning for the future of urban freight deliveries City of London – Carolyn Dwyer – Director of the Built Environment - City of London Corporation London – Lilli Matson – Director of Transport Strategy - Transport for London   Paris - Michele-Angelique Nicol, Urban Freight Project Manager - Apur 3.05 - 3.25     Panel discussion and audience questions 3.25 - 3.45     Break and Networking 3.45 - 4.25     Delivering change – best practice from the industry Staples – Mark Wedgbury – Head of Sales UPS/Fernhay – Peter Harris – Director of Innovation. Robin Haycock - Ideas to Results Director The Logistics Business  – David Bingham - Director CitySprint  - Ali Kagalwalla – Insight and Innovation Manager 4.25 - 4.45     Panel discussion and audience questions 4.45 - 5.15     Hackathon Project Presentations – Introduced by Peter Flint, Chief Executive of Cities - AECOM 5.15 - 6.30     Drinks and Networking  If you have any questions about this event please email strategic.transportation@cityoflondon.gov.uk