List of hackathons in United Kingdom in 2018

Socially minded people in and around Barking and Dagenham! If you're interested in issues of gender equality, then you're invited to participate in the Gender Equality Hackathon. You'll be faced with developing approaches and solutions to two challenges – inequalities in employment and pay, and safety. Your goal will be to develop a prototype solution to address one of these challenges.

About the hackathon CityVerve is the UK’s Internet of Things (IoT) smart cities demonstrator, taking place in Manchester. It brings together the brightest minds and pioneering uses of IoT technologies to redefine ‘smart’ in the context of a living, working city. This event, the first in a series of Open Innovation hackathons, will focus on the creation of new solutions using IoT technologies and data that address Travel & Transport challenges—specifically, ways we can use technology to encourage citizens to adopt cycling and buses as modes of transportation and improve the experience for existing users. We’re making resources and expertise available to help you shape your IoT and smart cities solutions in a collaborative approach that will help enable better outcomes for citizens, businesses and communities, as part of our aim to foster open innovation. Schedule for the Weekend Friday 2nd February: 18:00 - 22:00 – Challenge kick-off and networking Agenda (updated) Saturday 3rd February 09:00 - 09:30 Breakfast and coffee / tea 09:30 - 10:00 Day overview (over breakfast) 10:00 - 10:30 Technical Workshops / Lean Canvas workshop 10:30 - 12:00 Worktime 12:00 - 13:00 MVP 1: What's the big idea? 13:00 - 14:00 Lunch 19:00 - 20:00 Dinner 20:00 - 21:00 MVP 2: Market Viability 22:00 - Bright Building closed Sunday 4th February 08:00 - 11:00 Breakfast and coffee tea - wake & work 11:00 - 12:00 Workshop: Presentation Skills & Funding Templates 12:00 - 13:00 Lunch 14:00 - 15:00 MVP 3: Does the code work 15:00 - 15:00 Hard stop 15:30 - 16:15 Project & Business Demonstrations 16:15 - 16:45 Judges review / Secondary awards 16:45 - 17:00 Grand Prize Presentation 17:00 - 18:00 Networking and drinks Please note: This is not an overnight hackathon. CityVerve is delivered by a consortium of 20 partners from the public and private sectors, and is funded by Innovate UK. This is event is delivered with support from Manchester Science Partnerships, Transport for Greater Manchester, and BT. FAQs What is a hackathon? A hackathon is an intensive event bringing together diverse skills, technologies, expertise and experience to identify problems, create solutions, and run with opportunities within a defined timeframe. It’s intense, immersive, productive, fast and thorough, and for this event we don’t stop there. We will be creating working prototypes and viable business propositions over the weekend, ready to take into incubation for real-world application in Cityverve’s functional national Smart City demonstrator, and global pitch. What skills are you looking for? Developers, designers, thinkers, business, legal, creatives, policymakers - whatever your skills, if you can apply them to a weekend with like-minded people solving problems, creating solutions and running with real-world opportunities to change the world, you are Hackathon gold. This event is also an ideal opportunity to expand your skillset, with workshops and industry mentors provided throughout. What does it cost to enter and participate? Entry and participation is free.  What about food and drink? Complimentary (and tasty!) food and drink is provided throughout the event - please let us know when you sign up if you have any dietary requirements. What should I bring? Bring your own laptop. Also bring any tech of your own that you would like to hack with - e.g. Raspberry Pi, Arduino, VR, voice, mobile devices, wearables, components, tools, modelling kit. We will be providing challenge-specific tech for hacking, but having kit  to hand that you are already familiar with or are keen to explore further will help you get your project to prototype at speed.    Are there prizes? Yes. The event is both collaborative and competitive. Winning projects will be selected for prizes provided by our partners, including take-home tech, funded business incubation, and places to pitch your project for global development. Viable projects will be taken forward as part of the Cityverve Smart City demonstrator, and brought into real-world use. Where is the hackathon, and how do I get there? Manchester Science Partnerships Bright Building, 5 Pencroft Way, Manchester M15 UK Travel Options to Manchester Science Park: By tram: St Peters Square is the nearest tram stop, it is about a 25 minute walk from the venue, or a 10 minute taxi ride. By bus: the 85, 85A, 101, 102, 103 and 108 services all stop nearby the venue. By bike: bike racks are available. The Oxford Road Corridor provides dutch style cycle lanes. From Oxford Road, visitors should take Denmark Road, and then Pencroft Way. By train: Oxford Road train station is the closest train station, it is about a 25 minute walk from the venue or a 10 minute taxi ride. Is it an overnight hack? No. Access to the venue for hacking is 08:00 - 22:00. Holiday Inn Express (2-4 Oxford Road, Manchester, M1 5QA) - https://www.ihg.com/holidayinnexpress/hotels/gb/en/manchester/mchor/hoteldetail EasyHotel (33 Dale Street, Manchester, M1 2HF) - https://www.easyhotel.com/hotels/united-kingdom/manchester/101866 Principal Manchester (Oxford Street, Manchester, M60 7HA) - https://www.phcompany.com/principal/manchester-hotel/ Ibis, Princess Street (Princess Street, Manchester, M1 7DG) - http://www.ibis.com/gb/hotel-3143-ibis-manchester-centre-princess-street-new-ibis-rooms/index.shtml Ibis, Portland Street (96 Portland St, Manchester M1 4GX) - http://www.ibis.com/gb/hotel-3142-ibis-manchester-centre-96-portland-street-new-ibis-rooms/index.shtml How are teams formed? Teams will be formed to develop selected ideas as part of the Hackathon process. Pre-formed teams are welcome as long as you are open to taking on new members, or joining another team to work on selected ideas. Can I attend as a visitor rather than as a participant? Yes - this is an open innovation event. If you would like to visit and see what goes on, please register for a visitor ticket when you sign up: https://goo.gl/2FkPoq   Is there an age restriction? Anyone over 18 can sign up. Who owns the IP? Ownership of original IP belongs to the team. Is there a hackathon code of conduct? All attendees, sponsors, partners, volunteers and staff at our hackathon are required to agree with the hack code of conduct: https://hackcodeofconduct.org/ . Organisers will enforce this code throughout the event. We expect cooperation from all participants to ensure a safe environment for everybody.

Relaunch of #BrumTUG!  Last year got really busy and BrumTUG had to take a back seat. However, this year we are back bigger and better with an expanded team! Join us for our kick off TUG on February 1st and meet fellow Tableau users in the community. We have a packed agenda and lots of opportunities to learn and meet new people.  1800 - 1810       Registration 1810 – 1825       Opening Words 1825 – 1845       Host Customer Story 1845 – 1905       Book Club 1905 – 1950       Hackathon - read below for futher information 1950 – 2010       Present back Vizzes         2010 – 2045       Looking forward and Networking session / Social drinks at local pub HACAKTHON - COMMONWEALTH GAMES 2022 As Birmingham has recently been chosen as the host city for the 2022 Commonwealth Games, we thought it would be a good opportunity to host a Hackathon looking back at the last 10 Commonwealth Games and see how each country has faired.  We've put together a data set with the Medal Tables from each of the Commonwealth Games since 1978, showing each countries rank as well as Gold Silver and Bronze medals won.  Data was sourced from Wikipedia and cleaned to reconcile countries. The dataset can be found at the following link https://data.world/ali-motion/brumtug The idea would be that you download the dataset prior to our event and create a visualisation. These visualisations will then be presented and discussed at the TUG. Join the community group here to also discuss and meet others https://community.tableau.com/groups/birmingham-user-group Address The University of Law 133 Great Hampton Street BirminghamB18 6AQ https://www.google.co.uk/maps/place/The+University+of+Law+-+Birmingham/@52.4887167,-1.9073984,17z/data=!3m1!4b1!4m2!3m1!1s0x4870bcecbaf88bd3:0x9352974d6ba8094b?hl=en Webpagehttp://www.law.ac.uk/locations/birmingham/ Public TransportTram from Birmingham New Street stationTrams to St Pauls stop (the 4th stop on the route) run every 10 minutes and take about 5 minutes travel timeWalking from Birmingham New Street stationTakes about 20 minutes ParkingWe have a car park available at that time of night (for about 15 cars), but we would need to know names of anyone requiring a space so that we know who to let in at the gate. Please send names on to Rebecca Roland (nee Abrahams)There is on-street parking which is free after 6pm. Car park locations here https://en.parkopedia.co.uk/parking/b18_6aq/ Room locationThere will be someone in reception to direct you to rooms 329/330 - lifts in reception to the third floor Thanks, Becca, Ali, & Tim Follow us on @BrumTUG, @Alimotion, @rebeccajroland, @Tim_Andrews

Are you interested in innovations that will help deliver the High Speed 2 infrastructure project? The Transport Systems Catapult (TSC) invites you to come and see the finalists from the 2017 HS2 Hackathon, as they present their solutions to a panel of expert judges. See some awesome ideas and prototypes that use technologies such as wearable technology, machine learning, and virtual reality to address key problems faced by the HS2 project, including staff safety, customer experience, maintenance operations and community impact.

Hello folks2017 has been a smashing year for the blockchain industry. 2018 is going to be even bigger! Get ready for 2018!Three preeminent Blockchain projects from around the world will speak to the audience about how they are disrupting entire industries with blockchain applications.31 Jan 20186:00 pm to 9:00pmVenue: London Business School Campus LBS Samy Ofer Centre (New Campus), Marylebone Road Lecture Theatre LT18  About Capital Coin: Global Tour to unleash blockchain led paradigm shift in Capital Markets   Speakers: Luke Shipley will present R_Block "R_Block is a decentralized, anonymous hiring network., powered by a blockchain based referencing dApp. They believe in the world of Web3.0 everybody will be rewarded for sharing their time and data. They're tackling worthwhile problems of data abuse, prejudice and centralisation in hiring. They have a Beta dApp running on the Ethereum testnet that has received some promising feedback from early customers; GOCardless, Qualcomm, Booking.com and Aventus. Talent Manager - GoCardless: "R_Block is a simple easy to use intuitive piece of software that I foresee completely rejuvenating employee & employer referencing using intuitive Blockchain technology." They've recently published a new Whitepaper and they have a shorter synopsis in a paper they call, the Blackpaper"     Arifa Khan will present Capital Coin Arifa Khan, a former investment banker with Credit Suisse and UBS has embarked on her global DGCAMP tour to disrupt traditional Investment Banking industry with Blockchain and Smart Contract led Fintech Innovation. She is Ethereum India Partner.Through the DGCAMP platform, she intends to bring transparency to the global capital market ecosystem which would empower both asset issuers and investors to discover and conduct transactions in a transparent manner. This would shake up the $66 trillion-dollar global securities market backed by cozy investment bankers.The innovation would usher a beginning of a new era with no role for intermediaries. The platform would knit a core blockchain led infrastructure that would open immense possibilities - Digital IPO, Start-ups raising Venture and Private Equity capital, Corporate Bond Issuance, M&A’s and Cross-Border Transactions, Governments issuing Treasuries and other infrastructure bonds – that without paying a hefty fee to Investment Banks!The technology driven platform would open a channel for the best minds in Asset Management and Investment Banking industry to design innovative applications adding value to both investors and capital seekers. This would be a Google, Apple moment for the Financial Services Industry! And an Uber moment for Investment Banking! Arifa had a successful tour Sep-Dec 2017 : Dubai, Singapore, Hong Kong, Beijing, Shanghai, Kiev, Brussels, Paris , Seoul, Mexico, Davos, Zug, Chennai, Macau, Kualalumpur. She has been meeting Bitcoin and Blockchain community, potential investors, market participants, strategic partners and potential team members in order to build a user community for Capital Coin.Investment Banks and Trading Exchanges across the world are demonstrating their interest in these technologies with super disruptive potential.Arifa Khan speaking at a Blockchain Technology Panel at Bengaluru Tech Summit 17-18 Nov 2017 hosted by Govt of Karnataka, India.Blockchain World Showcase - Dates - January 20184-6 January - Ethereum Dev Hackathon on Decentralised Exchanges - Singapore 8 Jan Seoul , World ICO Showcase, South Korea 8 Jan Hong Kong 9 Jan Shenzhen, Blockchain Showcase, China10 Jan Shanghai, Blockchain Showcase, China12 Jan Tokyo, World ICO Showcase, Japan16 Jan Mumbai, World ICO Showcase, India22 Jan Davos, Switzerland - World Economic Forum Special !!This series is a gathering of “thoughtful, iconoclastic blockchain enthusiasts” from around the world who share a common interest in how can we solve problems with decentralized solutions for sustainable development through global innovation. Our vision is ambitious, which is nothing less than to reshape the entire way we think about decentralized development and growth.   Zero Field Labs, Fintech Storm and Himalaya Labs are joining forces with some leading lights in Asia to bring disruptive blockchain platforms to capital markets and financial securities industry (stocks and bonds) which is estimated at USD85 trillion, with over USD3 trillion of trading daily.All blockchain disrupters, inventors, ICOs, Cryptocurrencies, Tokens who want to present can get in touch with us. Team@Himalayalabs.comThis event is brought to you by DGCAMP - HimalayaWe are mighty thrilled to be presenting Himalaya ICO - DGCAMP for the blockchain cryptocurrency community.Read more on our ground-breaking innovation DGCAMP that will break the bank!https://medium.com/@misskhan/what-is-dgcamp-2a6fae4cf699 Two years since invention, Ethereum has already disrupted one industry big time. Venture Capital and traditional equity funding. Now for those naysayers who say tokens are Ethereum's killer app, we will prove them wrong!Here's yet another disruptive solutionLadies and Gentlemen - presenting DGCAMP to you!DGCAMP is potentially one of the biggest real world applications for Blockchain. DGCAMP takes direct aim at investment banks and intermediaries. DGCAMP can raise capital for anyone without the need for investment banks and intermediaries. DGCAMP envisages a smart contract architecture replacing the manual processes involved in investment banking, in the issuance of corporate equity and debt securities — processes characterised by opacity and high fees. (Read our preliminary paper on http://himalayalabs.com/Himalaya-Executive-Summary2.pdf ) "Intermediaries in complex markets thrive on “the theory of opacity” and deliberately propagate the theory to further their own interests. The theory simply states that opacity of a process attracts intermediaries, and the more the opacity of a system or process, the more the intermediary can take away from the buyer or seller surplus. DGCAMP aims to do away with opacity in capital markets." - Arifa Khan, Founder Himalaya Labs — July 2017 Decentralised Global Capital Markets Platform ( DGCAMP ) is a new-age architecture where investors of capital and seekers of capital can interact freely, trustlessly and with minimum friction. The platform can operate with and without intermediaries. DGCAMP — A definition:DGCAMP is a blockchain and smart-contract driven platform where issuers (public and private firms, governments, non-profit foundations) can access a broad class of primary market investors (both institutional and retail), complete a variety of automated transactions and processes (such as book building, auctions, syndications, dividend distributions) and can issue a broad array of digital assets to investors. Investors of every type, jurisdiction and financial status can use the platform to learn about investment opportunities across the globe, their regulatory aspects, risks and expected returns, to access due diligence reports, and to invest directly without having to go through intermediaries. A secondary market layer with buyers, sellers, arbitrageurs can easily complement this system. The system can first be envisaged as a single-country system and then extended to a multi-country global marketplace.Capital allocation will be made in a cryptographically secure, quick, efficient, trustless way. If you are a cutting edge blockchain developer, technical architect, UX UI designer, Dapps developer , strategist, financial services expert, Intellectual Property, Patent and Legal expert, this is your chance to join this game changing revolution now! Blockchain applications and ICOs so far have targeted well known industries and applications that were elaborated in Satoshi Nakamoto and Vitalik Buterin white papers.The real Wall Street is still a blue ocean opportunity for blockchain. We are the first to take aim at it. Come create history with us! Join the task force which is aiming to create a disruptive blockchain platform to take on wall street!We have hosted hackathons in India with Vitalik Buterin, Founder of Ethereum where we partnered with Ethereum Foundation and Consensys for Blockchain India Week May 2017! To kickstart the new year with a bang, we are doing the World ICO Showcase in January 2018. Join us and start your community building and outreach mission right away if you have a world changing, disruptive ICO.9 Jan Shenzhen10 Jan Shanghai12 Jan Tokyo16 Jan Mumbai22 Jan Davos, Switzerland just before the World Economic Forum.31 Jan LondonTeam@himalayalabs.comSponsors and Partners, ICOs that want to join us on roadhsows, get in touch with us!About DGCAMP & Capital CoinRead our preliminary paper on Decentralised Global Capital Markets Platform (DGCAMP) here (https://medium.com/@misskhan/what-is-dgcamp-2a6fae4cf699). http://himalayalabs.com/Himalaya-Executive-Summary2.pdfWhat is DGCAMP ?https://medium.com/@misskhan/what-is-dgcamp-2a6fae4cf699DGCAMP is potentially one of the biggest real world applications for Blockchain. DGCAMP envisages a smart contract architecture replacing the manual processes involved in investment banking, in the issuance of corporate equity and debt securities — processes characterised by opacity and high fees.(Read our preliminary paper (http://himalayalabs.com/Himalaya-Executive-Summary2.pdf)) DGCAMP aims to do away with opacity in capital markets. Decentralised Global Capital Markets Platform ( DGCAMP ) is a new-age architecture where investors of capital and seekers of capital can interact freely, trustlessly and with minimum friction. The platform can operate with and without intermediaries. DGCAMP — A definition: DGCAMP is a blockchain and smart-contract driven platform where issuers (public and private firms, governments, non-profit foundations) can access a broad class of primary market investors (both institutional and retail), complete a variety of automated transactions and processes (such as book building, auctions, syndications, dividend distributions) and can issue a broad array of digital assets to investors. Investors of every type, jurisdiction and financial status can use the platform to learn about investment opportunities across the globe, their regulatory aspects, risks and expected returns, to access due diligence reports, and to invest directly without having to go through intermediaries. A secondary market layer with buyers, sellers, arbitrageurs can easily complement this system. The system can first be envisaged as a single-country system and then extended to a multi-country global marketplace. Capital allocation will be made in a cryptographically secure, quick, efficient, trustless way.Decentralised Capital Markets Platform for Digitally Represented Assets (DGCAMP)Benefits of DGCAMP:Disintermediation of Investment Banking by a Digital Asset Issuance Platform:A Smart Contract Architecture can replace everything an investment bank does in securities issuance — book building, IPO pricing, algorithm-based allotment of digitised assets to various subscribers, accepting payments and issuing digital securities, custody of digitised assets Cost saving, for example:Taking Away IPO fees of 7–10%De-risking of issuance process :Eliminating counter-party and settlement risksPost-issue management of investor base and performance reportingDigital coupon and dividend distributionGlobal Open Access Trust-less Platform for direct interaction between Investors and Capital-seekersGlobal efficient capital flows between countriesPotential App Market Place for Asset Management Industry and intermediaries to build on our Core PlatformReputation scoring of investors and issuers enabled over timePotential platform for independent service providers to sell Research, Due Diligence, Legal and Regulatory ProductsDecentralisation of Access to Capital!Decentralisation of Innovation!“As a professional provider of investment advisory services, including, for example, management of liquidity funds on stock exchanges, we are very interested in lowering the transaction fees as those direct expenses paid to different counterparties like DMA brokers, custody etc lowers the returns for our customers. So we are very interested in such an exchange that would give us the reasonable safety within the regulated scope and good fees to more bigger returns.” - Alexander Zitsev, Founder, Raison AI"As if online book building/ trading was not enough, the Crypto Economy, with a much more vast array of possibilities is likely to overhaul the way in which primary and secondary capital markets operate. To pick just a couple of aspects that are 'ripe targets’ - the current, less than optimum allocation and settlement protocols are suddenly looking almost archaic, highly inefficient and often described as bordering on being unfair."- Maneesh Malhotra, Capital Coin ICO Adviser, Senior Debt Capital Market Specialist, having worked with HSBC for almost 2 decades in India and South East Asia, opened new currency and geographical markets for a vast array of capital raising entities, while maintaining a deep interaction with regulatory bodies in different jurisdictions. He now works at a boutique Corporate Finance Advisory outfit in Singapore, covering Asia Pacific region.DGCAMP serves as a substitute to the current manually-intensive, time-bound and costly processes involved in the issuance of real world securities for corporates, governments, and non-profits.About Ms Arifa Khan, Founder Himalaya Labs, Capital CoinArifa Khan is Ethereum India Partner.Arifa's latest project is setting up a Decentralised Capital Markets Platform for Initial Public Offerings through a tokenised platform for securities. She will be leading the Capital Coin ICO in early 2018 as CEO and Founder. Arifa is Member WhartonUK Club Committee, Founder Europe-India Conclave Series, speaker at ICBI's "Payments International 2015" and an acclaimed painter. Arifa has spoken at several international blockchain conferences alongside Vitalik Buterin. She was a speaker at several international blockchain conferences in 2017 in Macau, China, Ethereum India Summit featuring Vitalik Buterin, Davos (D10e), Istanbul (ICO Summit), Bengaluru Tech Summit, Kiev (Blockchain UA) etc.She is a London based Blockchain & Fintech expert, a seasoned Banking & finance, strategy and operations executive, with over 15 years experience in Investment banking, Leveraged Finance/ Financial Sponsors Coverage/ Debt Products & Credit. She has worked with two suisse banks Credit Suisse & UBS, which honed her ability in deal origination, analysing strategic growth maps of companies, leading teams for impeccable execution. She has deep sector expertise in Banking & Financial services & Fintech, operational insights, the business acumen to forge big strategic partnerships. She currently advises Government of India on infrastructure financing. Arifa has an MBA from The Wharton School of Business, USA. She is also mathematically gifted, and has a B.Tech from IIT Madras. She is a Blockchain evangelist. Her profile features in Femtech Leaders.Arifa is also the architect of Europe India Conclave and Token Storm Global Tour.She writes a popular series chronicling her Blockchain World Tour on medium.com "Tales of a crypto nomad".https://www.asiasentinel.com/econ-business/attack-global-securities-industry/https://medium.com/@misskhan/tales-of-a-crypto-nomad-fbb30066c2dahttps://medium.com/@misskhan/daring-diaries-of-a-crypto-nomad-part-1-a628390089c7( http://www.femtechleaders.com/europe/arifa-khan/ )Here is what Londoners say: ( http://www.haggerston-times.com/fintech-start-up-storm-discusses-online-payments-asks-if-banks-are-losing-ground-in-the-battle-for-financial-services/ )Join us on our upcoming Token Storm World ICO Showcase!     Drop us an email team@himalayalabs.com   Join our wechat group "Capital Coin" . If you'd like to talk to the organisers, or join their project - drop an email to team@himalayalabs.com

UK lawyers and business leaders! Are you concerned about how the legal function operates in your organization? Board effectiveness consultant, Ciarán Fenton, invites you to sign up to participate in The GC-CXO Forum - The First Legal Function Relaunch Workshop. You'll be part of a two-person team of a lawyer and a business leader and be challenged to create a draft plan for the relaunch of the function -- designing an in-house legal function from scratch.

THIS IS AN ONS ONLY EVENT PRESENTERS: Sebnem Oguz, Devolution team; Freyja Bibby, PPA Strategy and Engagement; Joseph Walton, Digital Service and Technology SUMMARY: At the start of November we attended a collaborative event between the Data Science Campus and Barclaycard with the aim of 'using payments data for public good'. Thirty-six hours, one multi-disciplinary team, lots of snacks, some unknown data, and a presentation later, we had the winning pitch. Our idea is now being taken forward as a joint project between the ONS and Barclaycard. The talk will explore what the hackathon was, how it worked, how we felt about it, and what the winning idea was. THIS IS AN ONS ONLY EVENT

Are you interested in technology innovations for complex rehab? The Innovation Agency invites you to participate in Hackathon: Neuroscience. You'll be challenged to help make the most out of exciting new technologies -- such as exoskeletal robotics, brain-to-computer interfaces, and virtual rehab using artificial intelligence -- to help move complex rehab forward.

Student techies around the UK! From beginners to advanced coders, if you're interested in artificial intelligence, then you're invited to participate in the Oxford University Coding Society & AI Society Mini-Hackathon! You'll be faced with a Mystery Challenge to be unveiled at the event. The challenge at the last mini-hack was Coding Bots in BattleShips. Come and collaborate and compete for the main prize of an HD Camera Drone.

Students from Six 21! You're invited to sign up to participate in the Six 21: Project Sleeper Hackathon. You will be a member of a team that brainstorms and develops an innovative solution and prototype for one of the issues of teenage sleep. Present your solution to a public audience and they will vote for the winning solution that best meets their needs.