List of hackathons in United Kingdom in 2018

Developers, designers, data enthusiasts, and entrepreneurs! If you're an open climate data enthusiast, then you're invited to the #OpenDataHack2018 @ECMWF weekend hackathon. You'll collaborate with like-minded individuals to come up with innovative ways to unleash the power of freely-available climate data. So come along and delve into the Copernicus Climate Data Store and get first-hand access to its applications cloud environment!

Saturday 9 June10:00 - 17:30ODI Leeds, Munro House 'Digital skills' does not mean 'computer wizard.' In a fast and technologically-driven world, most jobs require at least basic IT skills - using email, spreadsheets, word processing, navigating websites, uploading pictures, etc. Jobs in the 'digital' or 'tech' sector require more advanced skills, from knowing programming languages and coding to data analysis and machine learning. There is also the matter of jobs in these sectors that aren't 'techie' but still need appropriate skill and knowledge of digital systems. For example, popular jobs like content marketing and social media management require you to be savvy with computers, mobiles, and more PLUS you also need to be creative with copy and photos. This is a jobs landscape currently without any kind of map or guide. Not for long! We are very pleased to be hosting a hackathon with Tech Nation to explore the data they have collected about skills jobs, and demand for these, accross the North of England. Earlier this year, Henri Egle Sorotos of Tech Nation published this article about the 'North-North' divide when it came to jobs. He found that a greater proportion of digital tech jobs were posted in Greater Manchester compared to our parts of the North. The data he used for this article, plus other datasets collected in the last 12 months, will be used for the hackathon and available to anyone who joins us on Saturday 9th June. Further details about the data can be found on this Google Doc. We also welcome other organisations to bring their own datasets about the digital jobs market. ODI Leeds will host the hackathon at their beautiful, naturally-lit innovation space in a well-connected part of Leeds. Easy to get to by foot, bus and train. As always, it will be a great atmosphere with great food, good company, and plenty of energy.

Join us on Saturday 9th and Sunday 10th of June for two interactive days full of learning and inspiration   For the first time in Merseyside over 60 girls, aged 11 to 18 years are invited to the Unilever Offices in Port Sunlight to take part in a two day experience to learn about: the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals practice Design Thinking explore the Kano Computer Kit the iamtheCODE iDEA Curriculum create with technology and code  Our aim is to address the STEAMED (Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts, Mathematics, Entrepreneurship and Design) skills shortage in the UK and to inspire the next generation of young women. Most of us have a vague idea that knowledge of computer science will help you get a job, but the actual numbers are pretty shocking. Software powers our economy, but less than 2.4 percent of college students and women graduate with a CS degree. That means there aren’t going to be enough graduates to fill the jobs. To make matters worse, 95 percent of our schools don’t teach programming.    That’s what we’re looking to change at iamtheCODE. Together we can work to create economic empowerment and inclusion through technology.  We have been working globally with technology hubs across Africa, Asia, Latin America and Europe and for over two years with the Guildford Library in the Surrey. We have been running Global Digital Fridays, Hackathons, Makerdays, Geek Week, and BootCamps, offering a variety of workshops for participants from age 6 to 85. These hackathons are truly inspiring and are facilitated by Senegalese-born British Businesswoman Marieme Jamme (World Economic Forum Young Global Leader, Global Teacher Prize Academy member and an award-winning technologist).  By the end of the weekend, participants will have had the opportunity to: Decode the 17 UN Sustainable Development Goals (also known as the Global Goals) and understand key indicators that could drive social change Get hands-on with the iamtheCODE Design Thinking framework to build technology solutions related to the SDGs: Empathy, Define, Ideate, Prototype, Test Make technology and create with code using Kano Kits  Use technology to design a solution to raise awareness around or address specific SDGs including Goals: Quality Education, Gender Equality, Life Below Water and Global Partnerships Win a prize! Girls must be accompanied by a teacher or an adult if under 16. All food and transportation will be provided. The Cost: FREE Prizes: Computer Kits, mentoring, and tee-shirts Get in touch with us:  Mariéme Jamme at marieme@iamthecode.org or David Connor at david.connor@the2030hub.com for more information about the event.

STUDENTS Are you currently a student looking to get ahead and boost your chances of employment in the tech sector?Then come along to our Employability Workshop on 4 June 2018, at Codebase Edinburgh. During this workshop, we'll have sessions on: CV tailoring service, interview guidance and cover letter tips Guest employers sharing their top tips to stand out from the crowd How to start your own business Hackathon Employer networking with pizza and drinks (4pm - 5pm) Get ahead. Sign up today - spaces are limited! EMPLOYERS Interested in meeting potential candidates for your business? Come along to the free networking session at 4pm to 5pm, we'll even give you pizza and drinks!

We invite you to join us at our not-for-profit  East Anglia MedTech Hackathon, June 1st – 3rd 2018. Engage your coding skills together with Medics to brainstorm a product targeted at dealing with major global health problems!  Network with MedTech companies looking for talented and motivated individuals in this exciting and expanding sector. Any income generated will be donated to Kitrinos Healthcare Charity for Refugees. Photographic stills and short movie clips will be taken during the event for our social media platforms. Please bring along your laptops and chargers! Programme Friday: 18.30 Registration 19.30 The Business of Charity 20.00 Team Selection 20.30 Buffet & Networking Saturday: 09.30 All day tutorials Topics: Learn How to Pitch Like an Entrepreneur, Becoming an Entrepreneur, Engagement on Social Media Platforms 10.00 - 22.00 Challenges Paediatrics - Childhood immunisation schedules, Women's Health - Barrier contraception education, Infectious Diseases - Dengue fever prevention. Sunday: 11.00 Medicine as a Business 13.00 Judging Panel 14.00 Prize Ceremony 15.00 Close

Designers, developers and business people in London! If you're interested in the real world problem of food waste, then you're invited to participate in HACK 4 PIZZA - FOOD WASTE. You don't have to be an expert -- everyone's welcome. Come collaborate with a team of like-minded individuals -- develop your idea and pitch it to a panel of judges for the chance to win a week's free desk space at the Launch22 Start-Up Incubator.

Young people ages 11 to 18! If you're passionate about artificial intelligence or just eager to learn more, then Acorn Aspirations invites you to participate in a 5-day AI Bootcamp & Hackathon. You'll get to learn about AI, Neural Networks, and Reinforcement Learning and then be challenged to use what you've learned to solve a real-world problem.

This event is brought to you by The Blockchain Connector, workonblockchain.com and King’s College London Blockchain Society. Due to popular demand and positive feedback from our students we are running a series of Blockchain developer workshops in London. This will be our 16th developer workshops so far in London plus one in Zug, Switzerland. We have trained over 300+ developers to date since Jan 2017, our students have gone on to work as a Blockchain Developer and others have set up their own Blockchain start-up. Join our two-day Blockchain Developer hands-on workshop and be at the very forefront of this new technology. Our workshop consists of topics that all future Blockchain Developers must know and we incorporate plenty of hands-on development sessions. To help our students further, we provide one month on-line support through our dedicated private on-line channel. Our goal is to help regular Software Developers become Blockchain Developers. This workshop is also available on-site for start-ups and corporates at your desired location during the weekday and weekends. Day 1 Intro to Blockchains, Bitcoin and Byzantine Fault Tolerant Networks plus more... Intro to Ethereum and Smart Contracts plus more... Hands-on development on Ethereum Solidity and Smart Contracts Day 2 Smart Contracts Security and Ethereum Internals - Cryptography, Consensus, EVM, Privacy plus more... Smart Contracts Design and Best Practices What to know as a Blockchain Developer plus more Hands-on development on Ethereum Solidity and Smart Contracts This workshop comes with one month of continued on-line support via our own dedicated Gitter channel. After the workshop, we hope our students will continue coding, learning and exploring the Ethereum platform, and in good time, we hope our students will have the opportunity to work professionally in the Blockchain space. With this in mind, to help our students succeed, we are providing a dedicated Gitter channel after the workshop where our students have up to a month to ask further questions in relation to Ethereum, smart contracts etc. Recommended development experience Minimum of 6 months development experience is required. If you are a student and would like to attend, you must come from a Computer Science and Software Engineering background. Right to cancel our workshop. If we don't reach the minimum number of students for our workshop, we have the right to cancel and reschedule the date, alternatively we will refund the total cost of your ticket.  We have a great line up of trainers that will help you break into the Blockchain space. Matthew Di Ferrante Matthew is a Software Engineer with a passion for Information Security, Cryptography, and Distributed Networks. He has worked in many different areas, from hardware, embedded and kernel programming, to data mining, analytics, and network / systems programming. He first started learning programming at 12 years old, and is completely self taught, both on the practical side of programming, and on the theoretical side of computer science, mathematics, and cryptography. Matthew was first exposed to Bitcoin in late 2010 due to his interest in information security, as Bitcoin was first mainly used on darknets/Silk Road, and got fully involved in the Blockchain space around the time Ethereum started to exist - beginning his foray while living with Vitalik Buterin and long time friend Vlad Zamfir (Creator of Ethereum's Casper Protocol) in London for a few months. Matthew currently works as a Technical Lead at Clearmatics developing Blockchain Technology for financial use cases, a member of the Ethereum Foundation Security Team and FounderlLead auditor at Zero Knowledge Labs focusing on smart contracts security auditing. In his free time, Matthew works on personal hardware projects, gives Information Security and Blockchain related talks at various events, and organise one of the largest monthly Information Security events in the North-West. Matthew’s design for a Secure Oracles Reputation System on Ethereum recently won first place for Smart Contract Security at the Thomson Reuters HackETHon. Matthew will be introducing developers to the way the Blockchain works technically, and what its potential applications could be. He will cover the workings and history of the Bitcoin Blockchain, as well as Ethereum and its concept of smart contracts that allow Turing complete code to execute on a virtual machine on the Blockchain. Matthew will also talk about Smart Contracts Security and Ethereum Internals. He will discuss the most important areas to know as a Blockchain Developer. Matthew will hold a Q&A session after each topic. Nick Johnson Nick Johnson is a Senior Software Engineer and has been working in the software engineering space for the past 16 years. Nick is currently working as a Software Engineer for the Ethereum Foundation and prior to this, he worked at Google for a number of years. He brings with him a wealth of knowledge and expertise in Solidity that he loves to share and will be teaching how to write and develop smart contracts during the hands-on development session, and will give students the opportunity to ask questions in relation to the Ethereum platform. Laurence Kirk After a successful career writing low latency financial applications in the City of London, Laurence was captivated by the potential of Blockchain Technology, and in particular smart contracts. Two years ago, Laurence moved to Oxford and set up Extropy.io, a consultancy working with start-ups in the UK and overseas, developing applications on the Ethereum platform. He brings with him a wealth of real world experience that he loves to share with those new to this area. Laurence hold a Physics degree from Durham University, and currently taking his MSc in Software Engineering at Oxford University. In addition to giving talks, mentoring at hackathons, and running groups about Blockchain Technology, Laurence also organise Artificial Intelligence and Data Science groups in Oxford. During the workshop, Laurence will be teaching Solidity (an object-oriented programming language for writing smart contracts) from the simplest smart contract up to interacting with a web application. The focus is very much the practical techniques that are needed when developing on Ethereum. The sessions will be very hands on, encouraging students to practice and explore Ethereum and raise any questions students might have regarding the Ethereum platform. Jerome Rousselot Jerome is a co founder, advisor, public speaker and Blockchain developer in the blockchain industry. Jerome left his job as Android TV technical lead at Marvell Technology and relocated to London to create Mycelium UK in 2014. He now helps the Mycelium wallet to break even and deliver its roadmap. Jerome has also been involved in exchanges, micro finance, insurance, fair betting, supply chain, gaming, secure hardware, smart contracts and teaching software developers. Jerome's startup Jita is coached by the Singularity University. He is a fellow of the Startup Leadership Program and obtained his PhD in Computer Science at EPFL, Switzerland. Jerome has a passion for teaching others who are genuinely interested in learning about Blockchain technology. Jack Tanner Jack Tanner is a passionate advocate for blockchain technology and loves teaching technical concepts in an understandable way. He completed a Masters in Computer Science at Imperial College London. He currently works as a senior blockchain developer on the Indorse platform and has been involved in numerous blockchain projects and education events around the world since 2015. There will be plenty of Q&A throughout the whole two day workshop. Date: Saturday 26th & 27th of May, 2018 Time: 10:00 to 18:00 Workshop Location: Exact room to be confirmed. King's College London, Strand Campus, Strand, London, WC2R 2LS Lunch provided during the workshop on both days. EVENT ORGANIZER This event is brought to you by The Blockchain Connector, workonblockchain.com & King's College London Blockchain Society. The Blockchain Connector Antonio Sabado is the founder of The Blockchain Connector and Work on Blockchain, a training and recruitment company focusing entirely on Blockchain technology. If you are hiring or looking for your next job opportunity in the blockchain space, please get in touch. Antonio is an organiser of several Blockchain focused events in London aimed at software developers and business users. The Blockchain Connector’s 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. We are also planning a series of Blockchain focused seminars for business users/non-technical users to take place in London. Hackathons: We have the resources to organise and mentor blockchain based hackathons. Contact us if you are a blockchain based company who would like to sponsor one of our hackathons or you would like us to lend you a helping hand with organising a hackathon.  On-site Developer Training: We have the resources and expertise to offer companies a blockchain developer focused training on site. Alternatively, developers can join our monthly hands-on developer workshop in London.  Hiring: We have the network to help you build your development team. Contact us if you are a company looking to hire or a developer looking for your next job opportunity. We are building a hiring platform for developers who want to work in the blockchain space. If you are a blockchain engineer or a software developer without blockchain experience but passionate about working in this space or a company looking to hire software developers, please sign up here for further updates: https://www.workonblockchain.com/ Volunteer Developers: We have access to developers who are looking to contribute to open source projects on a volunteer basis. Contact us if you have an Ethereum based project that require volunteer developers. Alternatively, contact us if you are a developer looking to gain commercial blockchain development experience. Future events: Click HERE and bookmark our Eventbrite Homepage to view all our up and coming blockchain related events. Blockchain Developer Monthly Technical Deep Dive meetup: Join our developer focused meetup group held monthly in London where we have over 150-200+ developers attend on a monthly basis. This meetup group is strictly for developers only. Technical talk for a technical audience.  https://www.meetup.com/Blockchain-Workshop-for-Developers/ Contact: If you have any question, please do not hesitate to contact the core organiser on antonio@theblockchainconnector.com  or +44 7923 521 833. Web: https://www.theblockchainconnector.com/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/thebc_connector  &  https://twitter.com/bc_workshop LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/15221081/ King's College London Blockchain Society The King’s College London Blockchain Society (also known as KCL Blockchain) aims to provide students a means to engage with the London Blockchain community. We do this by organising events, producing research and curating London blockchain events. We are always looking to collaborate with interested parties to bring students and industry members together to advance our knowledge in Blockchain. Contact: Further info available on the following sites: Web: https://www.kclblockchain.com/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/11347353/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/kclblockchain/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/kclblockchain

Developers, engineers, computer scientists and designers in the UK! If you're passionate about machine learning, then LocalGlobe and Peltarion invite you to apply to participate in their Hackathon: Augmenting the human experience! Participation is by invitation only -- you'll be picked based on your passion and coding experience and ML experience is a bonus! If you're invited, you'll get to collaborate with like-minded individuals to develop tech to augment and improve the human experience, enhancing the body and mind.

Please note: this is a technical deep dive talk strictly for software engineers, software architects and computer science/software engineering students only. We will therefore review all registrations and we will send you an email to confirm your seat. We require each attendee to register on Eventbrite to attend this event. Please complete the registration form provided. Security at the venue will not allow entry to anyone without a valid ticket. Registration will be required upon arrival. This is a private event and we have the right to refuse entry. As always, our developer deep dive event is popular and advised you to secure your ticket early.  This event is brought to you by The Blockchain Connector and workonblockchain.com. TALK TITLE: Reasoning about Trace Vulnerabilities in Ethereum Smart Contracts KEYWORDS: Ethereum, Smart Contracts, Program Analysis, Symbolic Execution ABSTRACT: Smart contracts — stateful executable objects hosted on blockchains like Ethereum — carry billions of dollars worth of coins and cannot be updated once deployed. Im my talk, I will present a systematic characterisation of a new class of trace vulnerabilities, which result from analysing multiple invocations of a contract over its lifetime. We will discuss three example properties of such trace vulnerabilities: finding contracts that either lock funds indefinitely, leak them carelessly to arbitraryusers, or can be killed by anyone. I will then describe the design and implementation of Maian, the first tool for precisely specifying and reasoning about trace properties, which employs inter-procedural symbolic analysis and concrete validator for exhibiting real exploits. From nearly one million contracts in Ethereum blockchain, Maian flagged 34,200 (2,365 distinct) contracts as vulnerable, in 10 seconds per contract. On a subset of 3,759 contracts sampled for concrete validation and manual analysis, we reproduced real exploits at a true positive rate of 89%, yielding exploits for 3,686 contracts. Amongst others, Maian also found exploits for the infamous Parity bug that indirectly locked 200 million dollars worth in Ether. This project is a joint work with Ivica Nikolić, Aashish Kolluri, Prateek Saxena, and Aquinas Hobor. SPEAKER: Ilya Sergey SHORT BIO: Dr Ilya Sergey does research in the area of programming languages, program analysis, and formal verification. In recent years, Ilya has mainly been concerned with developing scalable methods for building trustworthy concurrent and distributed software, but his earlier work was advancing the state of the art in static analysis for higher-order languages and programming language design. Prior to joining academia, Ilya has spent a part of his career in industry, working in JetBrains Inc., a world-leading company in creating integrated developement  environments for software developers. He obtained his PhD in formal methods at KU Leuven (Belgium), and held a postdoctoral position at IMDEA Software Institute (Spain), before taking his current position as a Lecturer at University College London. Location: London. Exact location to be confirmed. Please make sure you sign up with your correct email ID for updates on exact location of the venue.  Date: 24th of May, 2018 Schedule: 18:30 – 19:00 Registration & Networking 19:00 - 19:10 Intro from The Blockchain Connector & workonblockchain.com  19:10 - 19:15 Lightning intro from the audience. We are providing an opportunity to our audience to present for two minutes. The topic must focus around a blockchain based product/platform you are building. Please inquire by sending an email to antonio@theblockchainconnector.com 19:15 - 20:15 Main presentation by Ilya Sergey 20:15 - 21:00 Q&A session led by Mustafa Al-Bassam 21:00 Networking at a nearby pub. Bio: Mustafa Al-Bassam is a PhD researcher at the Information Security Research Group of the Department of Computer Science at University College London, where his research interests include the intersections of peer-to-peer systems, distributed ledgers and information security. He is also an advisor to Cognosec, an information security services company. EVENT ORGANIZER Antonio Sabado is the founder of The Blockchain Connector and workonblockchain.com, a training and recruitment company focusing entirely on Blockchain technology. If you are hiring or looking for your next job opportunity in the blockchain space, please get in touch. Antonio has 10+ 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. The Blockchain Connector’s 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. We are also planning a series of Blockchain focused seminars for business users/non-technical users to take place in London. Hackathons: We have the resources to organise and mentor blockchain based hackathons. Contact us if you are a blockchain based company who would like to sponsor one of our hackathons or you would like us to lend you a helping hand with organising a hackathon. Developer Training: We have the resources and expertise to offer companies a blockchain developer focused training on site anywhere in the world. Alternatively, developers can join our monthly hands-on developer workshop in London. Please reach out to antonio@theblockchainconnector.com for further details.  Hiring: We have the network to help you build your development team. Contact us if you are a company looking to hire or a developer looking for your next job opportunity. Our developer centric on-line hiring platform coming soon on www.workonblockchain.com  Volunteer Developers: We have access to developers who are looking to contribute to open source projects on a volunteer basis. Contact us if you have an Ethereum based project that require volunteer developers. Alternatively, contact us if you are a developer looking to gain commercial blockchain development experience. Sponsorship and speaking opportunities: We are always open to hear from potential speakers, researchers and academics to present at our developer focused events and we are open to hear from companies looking for sponsorship opportunities. Future events: The central place we advertised our events our on Eventbrite. Advisable to bookmark our Eventbrite Homepage to access our future blockchain related events. Contact: If you have any question, please contact us on antonio@theblockchainconnector.com or +44 7923 521 833. Web: https://www.theblockchainconnector.com/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/bc_workshop LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/15221081/  Join our developer focused meetup group held monthly in London. This meetup group is strictly for software engineers, software architects and computer science/software engineering students only. Technical talk made for a technical audience. Join us on https://www.meetup.com/Blockchain-Workshop-for-Developers/