List of hackathons in United Kingdom in 2018

Future Cities Catapult specialises in advancing urban innovation and growing UK business. We’ve decided to host the City Data Hack 2018 at the Urban Innovation Centre in London from 16th – 18th March 2018. The event is powered by Tombolo, a Future Cities Catapult and Space Syntax R&D project funded by Innovate UK. We’re inviting data specialists, software developers, user experience (UX) designers and service designers to use their skills during a fast-paced weekend at the Urban Innovation Centre and explore how city authorities could improve how they use data to address urban challenges. Three great challenges have been provided by our challenge partners: Skills and Education – Greater London Authority Social Isolation – London Borough of Barking and Dagenham Active Travel Plans – Transport for London Multi-disciplinary teams will have 48 hours to hack data, try our tools, including the Digital Connector and a data visualisation platform, analyse data to uncover new insights and propose an innovative solution for how each city authority could redesign their services to tackle their local challenge. Weekend Hackathon guests will not only have the chance to win carefully selected prizes but will also benefit from engaging mentorship from data scientists, digital designers, service designers and open source experts who are currently applying their skills in this space. The Hackathon will be followed by an optional month-long competition, where teams can develop their proposals further for the chance to win an additional prize. Deadline for proposals: 13th April 2018. At this link, you will register your interest. This does guarantee your place, but you will receive confirmation on March 2nd. Check out the Digital Connector in GitHub! Learn more about the Tombolo project and the Digital Connector at www.tombolo.org.uk.

Techie university students and recent graduates in the Midlands! You're invited to participate in the Hack Keele 24 hour hackathon. You'll participate as part of a team of between 2 to 4 hackers. During this coding marathon, you'll be expected to collaborate with your team mates to conceive and build something innovative and exciting! You'll be limited only by your own imaginations!

Techies in Hertfordshire! The Hertfordshire Branch of BCS, The Chartered Institute for IT invites you to participate in their Helloworld Hackathon. You'll get to network with like-minded individuals and to collaborate on designing and developing a solution to a real-world challenge. Showcase your programming skills and compete for a range of prizes.

Calling all coders, designers, hardware engineers and entrepreneurs! Join us for a 24 hour hackathon where you'll form teams to solve problems with practical, scalable solutions. Focusing on the problems faced by multi occupancy business centres and business incubators, the potential market so the right solution and worldwide. Starting at 4pm on Friday 9th March, the Hack will start with attendees being briefed on what the current problems. This will be followed by an ideas pitching session where people with potential solutions will outline their ideas and the initial teams will be formed. During the 24 hour period, the idea is to get to a working prototype to fix the problem. Startup Europe Week is a movement whose goal is to help entrepreneurs grow and thrive all over the world, through a series of locally focused events that show entrepreneurs what support is available at their particular city and regional level.

To mark the launch of the new MSc in Energy Systems and Data Analytics, the UCL Energy Institute has teamed up with Voltaware and the UCL Data Science Society for an energy data hackathon.  The challenge will be to utilise data from Voltaware’s proprietary home energy monitoring system and to come up with a machine learning algorithm that performs best at identifying the sources of energy consumption in a home using high frequency electricity metered data. This is known as energy disaggregation using non-intrusive load monitoring. A training data set will be provided and the algorithm that demonstrates the highest accuracy on a test data set will be the metric. Teams are allowed to whichever tools they deem best and any other sources of data they can think of.  Enjoy a weekend of hacking and problem solving investigating how data science can be used in the energy industry.  Prizes: Voltaware are sponsoring a £500 prize for the winning team as well as offering the opportunity to do summer internships. Who can attend:  We’re looking for creative people interested in energy and using data science to tackle challenging problems. The competition is open only to undergraduates. Maximum team size is 3 people. Where and when:  The competition will take place at the UCL Energy Institute, Central House in room 225, starting at 2pm on the 9th March, ending at 6pm on the 10th March.

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. This is a private event and we have the right to refuse entry. This event is made possible thanks to WeWork for sponsoring our venue.  This event is brought to you by The Blockchain Connector and King’s College London Blockchain Society Headline: Lessons on Building a Blockchain for Finance. A technical talk for Developers. Requirement: Please bring your laptop with you. We will have some hands-on coding sessions. Abstract: What is so different about public and private blockchains and why is this so important to enterprise finance and businesses? Learn about the technical and cryptographic nuances of building a blockchain and implementing it in real life use cases. We will also be talking about Adjoint’s new distributed ledger and smart contract language and how easy it is to start and build real and robust applications leveraging blockchain technology. We will also discuss the following: 1) real life use cases 2) programming language theory 3) distributed systems/ consensus in uplink 4) cryptography in uplink About Adjoint: Adjoint offers a smart contract platform and distributed ledger solutions designed to improve efficiency, security, and compliance in modern finance. Its revolutionary technology was built using the latest research in cryptography, type systems and formal verification. Enterprises can quickly deploy, maintain, verify and execute smart contracts globally. Such technology helps enterprises reduce costs, mitigate risks and improve margins. Founded in 2016, the company has offices in Boston, MA and London, UK. For more information, please visit www.adjoint.io Location: WeWork, Waterhouse Square, 138 Holborn, London, EC1N 2SW Schedule: 18:30 – 19:00 Registration & Networking drinks sponsored by WeWork. 19:00 - 19:10 Intro from The Blockchain Connector & King’s College London Blockchain Society 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 Adjoint main presentation 20:15 - 21:00 Q&A with Adjoint 21:00 onwards - Networking drinks at a nearby pub  EVENT ORGANIZER This event is brought to you by The Blockchain Connector and King’s College London Blockchain Society. The King’s College London Blockchain Society (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. For enquiries, please email us at junyong@kclblockchain.com Further info available on the following sites: Website: https://www.kclblockchain.com/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/11347353/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/kclblockchain/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/kclblockchain   Antonio Sabado is the founder of The Blockchain Connector, 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. Alternatively, developers can join our monthly hands-on developer workshop in London. Click HERE to join our next workshop.  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. 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 to view all our up and coming 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/thebc_connector & https://twitter.com/bc_workshop LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/15221081/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TheBlockchainWorkshop/ We are the go to place for all technical deep dive sessions on Blockchain Technology. 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. All developers are welcome. Join us on https://www.meetup.com/Blockchain-Workshop-for-Developers/

Millennium Point and Stemettes invite you to a celebration of women in STEM. The event will be hosted by Head of Events & Partnerships, Charlotte Pascual, with a special message from Head Stemette, Dr Anne-Marie Imafidon MBE.  Meet the Stemettes on IWD @ Millennium Point, Birmingham; is a panel discussion, Stemettes style! Come and celebrate International Women's Day 2018 with us in Birmingham. This event is aimed at young women aged 5-21 with a main focus on secondary school students.We’ll discuss different ways people begin their Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths related careers. We’re hoping to explore apprenticeships, A-level choices, university degrees, work experience. You’ll be able to ask the panel questions, network between each other and enjoy free food! When? 11am-3pm, Thursday 8th March 2018 Where? Millennium Point, Curzon Street, Birmingham, B4 7XG Our Impressive panel will include 7 fantastic women in STEM and a Mystery Man. Hosted and supported by: Millennium Point Millennium Point, Birmingham Eastside’s anchor building which fronts Eastside City Park and is opposite the site of the new HS2 Birmingham Curzon Street Station, is owned by Millennium Point Trust.   The 500,000-sq. ft. building provides workspace, offices and studios to tenants, most with interests in STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) as well as offering creative working and learning environments and hosting events, training, conferences and exhibitions.   During the past four years, commercial activities in the building have enabled Millennium Point Trust to donate more than £4m to organisations, projects and initiatives that support access to STEM related education in the Midlands. _____________________________________________________ About the Stemettes - We're running a series of panel events, hackathons and exhibitions this year for girls from 5 years old right up to female university students. We'd like to show them amazing women in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics careers.    Twitter - http://twitter.com/stemettes Facebook - http://facebook.com/stemettes Website - http://stemettes.org  

GREENER FUTURES - HACKATHON Are you interested in helping to create a brighter future for Liverpool? The aim of the event is to come up with lots of new, exciting & creative social enterprise ideas to tackle a range of challenges linked to climate change, sustainable development & eco social enterprise. Run by School for Social Entrepreneurs North West funded by Our Bright Future.       A  free mini-one day hackathon challenge for 16 - 24 yr old young people from across Liverpool & the North West. Drinks, snacks and lunch is provided for free. Pitch your idea at the end of the day for a chance to win a place on Environmental Social Enterprise Fellowship programme starting May 2018. Hackathons are tools used by designers, social entrepreneurs, engineers, creatives & industry leaders to co-design new products and services solving some of the world's most difficult challenges. You'll be Passionate about changing the world Practical Full of brilliant ideas A problem solver Interested in developing your leadership & employability skills Interested in meeting new people Ideal if you've Already been part of our BEE You project You are on a degree linked to enterprise, the environment, waste management You already study land management, Lantra bee keeping You are a budding social entrepreneur Date: 6th March 2018 Time: Starts from 9.30am for prompt 10am start. Ends by 4pm Venue: Blackburne House, 3 Blackburne Place, Liverpool L8 7EP Access: Blackburne House is an accessible venue. If you have any specific needs please contact us in advance so we can make your visit as smooth as possible. This event is part of a 5 year BEE You Programme funded by Our Bright Future run in partnership with Blackburne House and School for Social Entrepreneurs North West. For more information email Anna B. Sexton, Learning Facilitator, BEE You Project annabsexton@blackburnehouse.co.uk

To celebrate the end of our Preventative, Rehab & Recovery Health Hackathon, we've got tickets for anyone interested in hearing about the great work the teams have been doing over the weekend. At the 2 day hackathon event we bring together healthcare professionals, patients, designers, developers, engineers and entrepreneurs in order to solve real world healthcare challenges. Teams are formed and prototypes are made, ready for the panel of judges to critique and hear about the teams' ideas.  You can be a part of the event too, even if you can't make the full 2 day hackathon. Come and join us to hear the teams presentations to the panel of judges and have your say on which teams' ideas you think is the most innovative!

Legal and General Investment Management and Stemettes invite you to a celebration of women in STEM and International Womens Day 2018. The event will be hosted by Head Stemette, Dr Anne-Marie Imafidon MBE.  Meet the Stemettes: LGIM IWD edition is a panel discussion, Stemettes style! This event is aimed at young women aged 9-14. We’ll discuss different ways people begin their Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths related careers. We’re hoping to explore apprenticeships, A-level choices, university degrees, work experience. You’ll be able to ask the panel questions, network between each other and enjoy free food! When? 11am-2pm, Saturday 3rd March 2018 Where? 1 Coleman St, London EC2R 5AA Our Impressive panel will include 7 fantastic women in STEM and a Mystery Man: Dr Nazia Mehrban, Medical Scientist, UCL Shally Sheffer, Delivery Manager, NTT Faduma Mohammed, Software Engineer, Conde Nast  Honor Solomon, Head of Retail, EMEA, Distribution, LGIM  Madeline King, Co-Head of Pan European Investment Grade Research, Active Fixed Income, LGIM Siobhan Boylan, Chief Financial Officer, LGIM Veolia Mystery Man - LGIM Hosted and supported by: Legal & General - Investment Management LGIM is the investment management arm of Legal & General Group, a FTSE 100 company. We are one of Europe’s largest asset managers and a major global investor. Our success has been built by focusing on clients and providing them with services and solutions that meet their needs. We offer strategies across the full spectrum of asset classes, including equities, bonds, property, alternatives and cash, as well as multi-asset strategies tailored to the needs of institutional and retail investors. LGIM is one of the world’s leading providers of index fund management. We are at the forefront of developments in liability-driven risk management solutions for defined benefit pension schemes, a leading provider of defined contribution solutions and also offer wide range of strategies to help our clients manage their investment objectives. LGIM continues to innovate as markets evolve, building strong relationships with clients including pension scheme, sovereign wealth funds, wealth managers and other professional investors. _____________________________________________________ About the Stemettes - We're running a series of panel events, hackathons and exhibitions this year for girls from 5 years old right up to female university students. We'd like to show them amazing women in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics careers.    Twitter - http://twitter.com/stemettes Facebook - http://facebook.com/stemettes Website - http://stemettes.org