List of hackathons in United Kingdom in 2018

This hackathon has been moved to WANdisco to hold more attendees Purpose:  The ambition is to bring the open source culture in to the act of building a Smart City in Sheffield. This is about being open and inclusive and no matter what your skill level to help you play a valuable role in building technology that benefits Sheffielders. How the Hackathon works:  The Sheffield Hackspace (Sheffield Hardware, Hackers & Makers – SHH&M) will run a monthly hackathon around Smart City technology for a trial period of 6 months and with a view to extending and expanding if demand is proven. The first hackathon will be on Sunday April 15th (11.00am to 4.00pm).  There won’t be a hackathon in August (holiday season), making the final hackathon due in September 2018. There will be some projects that groups work on and some projects individuals work on. Participants will have access to people with know-how, various equipment and a lab-like environment to work in. We don’t want to impose our agenda so in Hackathon #1 (i.e. 15th April) we will explore how do you want this to work? We expect the 6 hackathons to focus on The Things Network (https://www.thethingsnetwork.org/ ) Gateways and Nodes, as well as Sensors, Apps, IoT Services etc, all to be agreed on the 15th April. Cost:  Hackathon attendance is free to existing members of Sheffield Hardware Hackers & Makers. Hackathon attendance for non-SHH members costs £6 and enables you to visit one of the weekly Special Interest Group (SIG) of your choice and access a drop-in session that runs on alternating Saturdays in the month you attended. This is payable at the door. Existing SIGs are: Monday Evening: (1) Hackspace Meeting, (2) Electronics SIG (6.00pm to 9.00pm) Thursday Evening: Robotics SIG (6.30pm to 9.00pm) Friday Evening: (1) Radio & Mesh Networking SIG, (2) CNC & Machine Building SIG, (3) Open Session (6.00pm to 9.00pm) Alternate Saturdays: (1) Drop in session (11.00am to 6.00pm), (2) Gaming SIG (6.00pm to 9.00pm) If people choose to become members then we could run a Smart City SIG on either a Tuesday or Wednesday evening. SHH membership costs £6/month (See here for more information: http://www.sheffieldhardwarehackers.org.uk/wordpress/become-a-member/ )

This competition is a way for the community to get together and try to tackle the development side of NEO's complex ecosystem. We created several challenges, with difficulty ranging from novice, all the way to challenging. Hopefully, we wish for as many people to try their hand at this event from all areas in the NEO community. If you're a seasoned developer, UI/UX designer, or even an avid NEO investor, please join us in this friendly competition for a chance to win some GAS. The total prize adds up to more than 1000 GAS!   Challenge Guidelines Design and develop a web system that can monitor the NEO network, most importantly the node statuses. Great UI design will be considered as a huge bonus to the resulting service. You can run your system on localhost during exhibition. This Challenge is unique in the sense that we encourage preparation and team-building prior to the challenge date while allowing for the challenges to be known beforehand. Theme NEO Network State Monitoring Challenge Spirit Learn, Think and Create Location To be confirmed Winner Awards First prize - 400 GAS (1 team) Second prize - 250 GAS (1 team) Third prize - 100 GAS (3 teams) Mystery prize (It depends on the submitted work)   Challenge Deadline 7:00 PM, June 17th (London Time) Rough Timeline Initial Announcement of the Challenge ~ June 17th 10:00 AM: This is the perfect time to join the discord and try to build a team to map out the next few weeks. We hope this time can be used to sketch out the delegation of work and start coming up with ideas and solutions for the Challenge. Do your best to accomplish everything in this period and it should be the main bulk of the hackathon. June 17th: 10:00 AM ~ 10:30 AM: We'll give more hints and explanations of the Challenge in detail. 10:30AM will be the deadline to setup teams. Once it has passed, new team and change of the team will not be allowed. 10:30 AM ~ 7:00 PM: This section is the final sprint of the marathon. We hope to see as many people as possible getting together to work in person with their respective groups. The judges will be there to make sure that everyone in the group is present and participating. 7:00 PM ~ End: Each team has 10 minutes presentation to show off to the judges and fellow teams about their work. We'll provide you with a projector. Winners will be chosen by the judges and announced when consensus is achieved. Challenge specifications For more information, you can also join our discord channel: https://discord.gg/knTrtW5   Challenge Judges Peter Lin Director of R&D of NEO Global Development (NGD) One of the early NEO developers.  Anthony De Meulemeester Distributed systems engineer / Creator of NEO-GO (VM, complier, Node)  Master degree in computer science engineering. Have an impact on the world through technology.  Charlie Revett Founder of NeoAuth Blockchain developer based in London. Creator of NeoAuth and maintainer of the Go NEO SDK. Professional experience at IBM and BBC News.

Smart City and IoT enthusiasts in and around London! The Tech Nation Visa Alumni Network invites you to participate in the Smart City Hack Day. You'll be challenged to come up with an innovative solution that improves the efficiency and livability of your city through the use of technology! Come and showcase your creativity and compete to win a one-hour one-to-one mentorship session with the co-founder of Entrepreneur First.

Hackers in the Greater London area! If you're interested in healthtech and blockchain, then the Government Blockchain Association invites you to participate in the GBA Hackathon! Healthcare. Come with your team, or join one at the event. You'll be challenged to design and prototype an innovative healthcare solution that utilises blockchain. You'll be featured in the hackathon videos, plus you'll have the chance to be one of the three teams presenting their project to the Council of Nodes.

Join us for Western Europe’s first quantum computing hackathon! Quantum computers have the potential to solve certain problems dramatically faster than conventional computers, with applications in areas such as machine learning, finance, drug discovery and cryptography. Try out your quantum programming skills at our hackathon, where you'll have the chance to run your quantum algorithms on both quantum simulators and a real 8-qubit quantum computer, as provided by Rigetti (via the cloud). Experience helps but is not required - our experts will teach you the basics!Winners will be announced at 2pm, followed by pizza!Technical details:Your task will be to develop the best quantum algorithm to solve a quantum chemistry problem that is in general intractable for conventional computers. This amounts to solving an interesting optimisation problem, where the cost function (provided by us) is calculated on a real quantum computer and is exponentially difficult to simulate classically.You will be expected to bring your own laptop, and some experience coding in Python in desirable, but knowledge of quantum computing and quantum chemistry is not needed. To guarantee access to Rigetti's quantum computer, we ask that you sign up to Rigetti's (free) Forest API (www.rigetti.com/forest), and inform us of the email you used to sign up by midnight on Wednesday 13th June.We will provide example code and help on the day, so no prior quantum programming experience is required!Hosted by River Lane Research and dividiti Sponsors:

Data analysts, data hackers, and data scientists in the UK! You're invited to attend Data Festival London to learn the ins and outs of data transformation, and also to participate in the data hackathon that will be held in at the event. You'll be challenged to find solutions in a given dataset using technologies provided by Keboola.

Quantitative techies and hackers in the Cambridge area! The Cambridge University Algorithmic Trading Society invites you to participate in the HSBC Mayweek Hackathon. Come with your team, or join one at the event. You'll be challenged to develop the best prediction tool capable of predicting price variation of a real currency pair. Collaborate and compete for prizes up to £400 in Amazon vouchers.

Mapping volunteers in and around London! It doesn't matter if you're a beginner or an experienced mapper, you're invited to participate in the Missing Maps Hackathon at Imperial College. Imperial's Friends of Médecins Sans Frontières challenges you to help map the most crisis-prone parts of the developing world. Help MSF map villages in order to estimate populations and help understand the spread of disease and identify areas of highest need.

Tech experts, mental health practitioners...anyone in London who is interested in mental health issues! The Hackney Business Network invites you to participate in the London Tech Week Hackathon - Dementia Friendly Hackney. You'll be assigned to a team and be challenged to come up with an innovative solution to the day-to-day barriers faced by dementia sufferers. Each team will be supported by an app developer and a dementia expert. Compete to win a small prize, as well as the satisfaction that your solution might help thousands.

Hackers, designers, start-ups! TechXRL8 invites you to participate in HACKXRL8 -- a hack in the City during London Tech Week. Come and showcase your skills and creativity! You'll be challenged to design and build an app, a prototype or a smart, connected solution around one of the HackXLR8 themes: IoT, Smart Mobility, and GreenTech. Come collaborate, network, and compete for awesome prizes--as well as the chance to showcase your project on TechXLR8’s main stage!