List of hackathons in United Kingdom in 2018

You're invited to... Educators Workshop: #RobotZoo We’ve teamed up with BirdBrain Technologies from Pittsburgh, USA for a day of experimentation with robotics. What can you expect at this event? If you have in interest in robotics, this day-long workshop is for you. Aimed at beginners this ‘hackathon’ for educators fuses science, arts and technology with the Hummingbird Robotics Kit and Micro:bit. Using sensors, lights and servos, learn about engineering, electronics, coding and physical prototyping whilst imagining a whacky world of robotic animals. You’ll also learn how to engage students in the classroom and other maker spaces with this interactive technology, using the Hummingbird Robotics Kit to take your Micro:bit projects to the next level. Working in groups, you’ll use Birdbrain Technologies’ Hummingbird Kit to design and create your moving robot animal and take part in a showcase event with the rest of the group. The goal of these robotic animals is to delight others with unexpected animation, combining creativity, technology and humor. The creations from the workshop will be on display at BETT 2018 in the BirdBrain Technologies and Micro:bit  booths. When and where is this event? Saturday 20 January, 10am – 5pm, at the Imagination Lab. Attendees should arrive at 9.30am for a 10am start. Who is this event for and how much does it cost? This is a workshop for adults, 18+ years. It will be of particular benefit to anyone with an interest in robotics, educators looking to up-skill to use this technology in the classroom or those in the cultural sector wanting to experiment with robotics to understand its benefit for learning. It costs £25 per ticket. Are refreshments available? Lunch and refreshments are provided. Please let us know by 16 January if you have dietary requirements on hello@ioi.london What do I need to bring? Please plan to bring a laptop with you. If you don’t have a laptop, no problem. Just let us know ahead of time. Be sure to include an accurate email address when you purchase your ticket for the event. We’ll send you a link to download free software which you will need to take part. Have more questions? Email Kelsey@birdbraintechnologies.com Event partner:

Data analysts, developers and other techies! Do you want to put your data analysis skills to the test? You're invited to participate in the Alibaba Cloud & Met Office Data Analysis Challenge. At this hackathon, you'll be challenged to use real-life UK Met Office weather data to create an algorithm which allows futuristic unmanned balloons to follow their route safely and effectively. Compete for prizes on the day, plus the opportunity to advance to the $16,000 prize pool Future Challenge.

Fintech and blockchain enthusiasts in the UK! Fintech Worldwide invites you to participate in the Blockchain Week 2018 Hackathon. You'll be challenged to design and prototype an innovative blockchain use case for the chance to win cash prizes and the opportunity to present your project on the main stage at London Blockchain Week.

Traffic jams getting you down? Want to cycle more safely? The TIMON hackathon is the ideal place to think outside the box to come up with new and innovative ways to reduce urban pollution, improve traffic/pedestrian safety and achieve more flexible travel planning. With a €6,000 Prize Pool, the event is aimed at people with an interest in open data or transport from students to transit authorities, from train spotters to cycling vultures, no matter who you are, your skills or your level of expertise, you are invited to join us. The event will be hosted by Queen's University Belfast at their newly opened Computer Science Building, showcasing the TIMON application and open ecosystem giving attendees full access to transport and environmental data from Belfast, and transport, environmental and traffic data from Helmond (Netherlands) and Ljubljana (Slovenia). What is TIMON? The TIMON project has as its main objectives to increase the safety, sustainability, flexibility and efficiency of road transport systems using cooperative communication by processing open data related to mobility through an open web-based platform and mobile app, developed with the purpose of delivering information and services to drivers, businesses and vulnerable road users in real time. What will happen at the Hackathon? You’ll be given complete access to the TIMON Rest API, our proprietary route-planning algorithms and our Android/iOS mobile app SDK, and you’ll be thinking outside the box to come up with new and innovative ways to reduce urban pollution, improve traffic/pedestrian safety and achieve more flexible travel planning. Open data will be made available as part of a collaboration with transport authorities and local government in Belfast, Helmond (Netherlands) and Ljubljana (Slovenia). What will be included during the Hackathon? There will be an opening reception on the evening of Friday 19th January.  Lunch and refreshments will also be provided on both the Saturday and Sunday of the event.  Attendees will however be expected to bring their own laptops. The TIMON project has received funding from the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under Grant Agreement No. 636220

Python developers in the Greater London Area! You're invited to participate in a 2-Day London Python Hackathon at Sky HQ in Osterley. Come as a team or join one at the event and collaborate to design and build an awesome Python automation project. Present your team's project to a panel of judges for a chance to win great prizes. If you're looking for a Python coding job, then don't forget to bring your CV.

What is barcampnfp? Barcamp Non-Profits is an unconference for individuals who want to do social good with technology. It's designed for anyone interested or involved in non-profit or technology work to come together to learn from each other, and to network. An unconference is an open, workshop-style event where the content is provided by the participants. There have been 6 years worth of previous events covering topics such as; social impact measurement, using open source tech in charity and non-profit organisations, using of the power of open data,mobilising via social media, digital tools swapshop, running a hackathon for a cause, and more.  A key part of the event is the diversity of people - that's why we've got more than one type of ticket. Who should attend? Anyone working in a non-profit who is interested in technology: charities, arts & culture, education, government etc Anyone working in digital and technology who is interested in social good: entrepreneurs, developers, designers, strategists etc. (Agency and supplier folk welcome but with the caveat 'not to sell')  What's in it for you? An amazing learning and networking opportunity that reaches places many traditional conferences don't. Past attendees have said they learnt something new that they didn't know they didn't know, and they were able to develop existing ideas to take back into work. The benefits continue post-event through the networks you build on the day. Plus its fun and it's free. Our drop-out policy Because our event is free and in high demand we'll ask you to confirm your attendence closer to the date so we can re-issue any cancelled spaces to our waiting list. If you don't cancel and don't turn up you'll be added to our strike-out list which means tickets won't be available to you for the next event.

Clinical and surgical stakeholders, developers, researchers, regulatory experts, business/marketing specialists in the UK! If you're passionate about innovation in the NHS, then you're invited to participate in the Medtech Accelerator Health Hack -Surgery. In this 2-day hackathon, you'll be challenged to come up with innovative solutions responding to the theme of Frugal Innovation in Surgery. Design and prototype a medical technology that can dramatically lower services within the theatres, anaesthesia and critical care settings, without comprising quality.

Coworkers, Makers & Hackers: True Opportunities to Renew Work Practices and Entrepreneurship? Topics of the second symposium This second RGCS symposium will focus on the relationship between the corporate world, collaborative movements (i.e. co-workers, makers, hackers and the fab lab network) and new work practices. On the one hand, it seems that management and consultants bring high expectations to their work with collaborative techniques and exponents of collaborative movements. Hackathons, corporate hacking, open knowledge, communities, ‘labs’, have all recently entered the contemporary managerial vocabulary and practices. They are expected to be at the heart of new innovative and strategic practices such as disruptive or open innovation. Industry is also increasingly investing in collaborative environments. Coworking spaces are thus increasingly designed and owned by real estate companies, and corporate sponsors support maker and hacker spaces in apparent need of these resources and the legitimacy they bring. On the other hand, some actors of collaborative movements criticize the superficial and opportunistic use of collaborative values. For example, hackers defend an ethic which is interesting from a governance point of view (beyond the punctual ‘use’ of hackathons). Makers defend ‘repair’ logics which are seen as a profound alternative to capitalist notions of fast innovation and hyper-consumption. What are the relationships between collaborative movements and the corporate world? How do coworkers, makers and hackers contribute to new work practices in corporations and new forms of entrepreneurship? Are makers and hackers the muse or the nemesis of managers? Are the two in a dialogical relationship, in conflict, or even mutually interdependent in today’s urban professional life? This second symposium will also be an opportunity for critical perspectives on collaborative movements, collaborative techniques and their translation in the world of management. New work and management practices associated to collaborative workplaces (e.g. digital nomads, telework, co-working, distributed work) raise novel tensions and paradoxes in control and surveillance issues that need to be explored at greater depth. Therefore new domination, control and surveillance practices will also be at the heart of our discussions. Here are the issues we would like to cover (this list is non-exhaustive): Collaborative movements and their relationships with the corporate world: as mutual sources of innovation, legitimation, transformation; Collaborative practices in the context of corporate coworking or maker spaces and independent coworking and maker spaces; Repair, DIY, DIT, maker movements and their relationship with society, organizations, organizing, politics and their joint transformations; Fab labs as networks, contributors to open knowledge and their translation in a corporate environment; Spatial, temporal, visual and material dimensions of the relationships between the collaborative and corporate worlds; The legitimation and co-legitimation of collaborative techniques, collaborative communities and corporate projects in organization and society; How spaces, time, bodies are involved in the legitimation processes and practices of corporate techniques in the collaborative environment, or collaborative techniques in the corporate environment; Historical views on firms, corporate environments and collaborative movements. Comparative historical perspectives on the two phenomena; Critical perspectives on the ‘use’ of collaborative techniques and collaborative values in a corporate world; Joint emergence of new work practices in corporate and collaborative worlds; Institutional, practice, process, phenomenological, Marxist, post-Marxist, discursive, aesthetic, critical views on both phenomena and their joint evolution; Ideologies, myths of the collaborative and sharing economies and how they feed the corporate world. Conversely, how the corporate world is renewed or maintained by the sharing economy and the collaborative economy; Affordance and proximity in and of collaborative spaces in the city, and how they relate to traditional business districts; Boundary-spanner issues between corporate world, third places and the city; Open innovation and how it is grounded, justified, fed by transformations introduced by collaborative communities. Programme Thursday, 18th of January 2018: Academic (Un)Conference. @Loughborough University, Olympic Park 08:00 - 09:00 : Registration at Loughborough University and Welcome coffee 09:00 - 09:50 : Welcome address and keynote 1 by Alison Powell (LSE) 10:00 - 11:30 : Parallel sessions 1: Pecha Kucha presentations 11:45 - 12:15 : Mini workshops on site 12:15 - 14:00 : Break and Keynote 2 with Mikko Koria (LU) in the context of a micro-brewery 14:00 - 15:30 : Parallel sessions 2: Pecha Kucha presentations 16:00 - 17:45 : Seated or walked group discussions "what's new" around 10 topics: Hubs and entrepreneurs ship in London The politics of open innovation Bodies/embodiment of new work practices Coworking spaces DIY/DIT, FabLabs and makers as social movements Mobility & working at home Hackers & crisis management OWEE Freelancers, slashers & new work practices Autonomy & control at work 17:45-18:30 : Keynote 3 with Yrjö Engeström (Helsinki University) 18:30 - 20:00 : Socializing and enjoying the area (campus / Olympic parkà 21:00 : Two meeting points in London for dinner. Friday, 19th of January 2018: Learning expedition #OWEE. Starting @Cass Business School. 08:00 – 09:00 Meeting point at Cass Business SchoolCass Postgraduate Campus, 106 Bunhill Row, London EC1Y 8TZ. Exhibition of #visualizinghacking2017 in Tokyo, organized by David Vallat (Université Lyon I)  09:00 – 10:00 : Let's walk, share and explore together !Presentation of the day by Stefan Haefliger (Cass BS), Pierre Laniray (Université de Poitiers) & Adèle Gruen (Goldsmiths University) #art #artisticplaces #streetart #makerspaces  An ephemeral online exhibition will be organized from your tweets and pictures of your tweets. 10:00 – 17:00 : Learning ExpeditionVisits of art oriented makerspaces & coworking spaces in London: Collaborative communities as a new aesthetics Visit of street arts area and artistic wasteland 18:00 : Meeting point in an art gallery Organizing committee Hélène Bussy-Socrate (Warwick Business School), Sabine Carton (Université Grenoble-Alpes), Aurore Dandoy (Université Paris-Dauphine, PSL), François-Xavier de Vaujany (Université Paris-Dauphine, PSL), Julie Fabbri (emlyon business school), Stéphanie Fargeot (Université Paris-Dauphine, PSL), Anna Glaser (ESCP Europe), Albane Grandazzi (Université Paris-Dauphine, PSL) Stefan Haefliger (Cass Business School), Magda Hercheui (UCL), Janet Merkel (City University), Nathalie Mitev (King’s College London), Anouk Mukherjee (Université Paris-Dauphine, PSL), Tuukka Toivonen (UCL), David Vallat (Université Lyon I). Registration will be free of charge, but the number of seats at the symposium will be limited and registration will be accepted on a first-come first-served basis. For questions or submissions: collaborativespaces@gmail.com For all information : Call for papers 2nd RGCS symposium

People in the UK! If you're interested in using technology to create innovative ways to help the disabled, then you're invited to participate in Disrupt Disability: Powering up the modular system. You'll be challenged to help test and prototype motorised wheelchair design concepts -- developing user cases and leveraging mobility and smart technology.

The January meeting will take place on Tuesday January 16th, at Occombe Farm in Paignton. GUEST ORGANISATION: Our guest organisation this month is Jay Tompt talking about 'The Local Spark' a Torbay Community Supported Enterprise Project  The Local Spark - Torbay Community Supported Enterprise is a new initiative in its earliest stages of formation. It seeks be a catalyst for rallying community support for new and existing local enteprises that benefit the community in some way - think green, ethical, social, resilience-building. It draws its inspiration from citizen-led models underway in other places, such as the experience in Totnes. The Totnes REconomy Project has followed an approach that seeks to nurture a for-benefit entrepreneurial culture, mobilise local capital, and build an 'enterprising ecosystem' that supports new actors, models, and relationships. Our initial ideas for the Local Spark include pop-up incubators, hackathons, and local entrepreneur forums. We're developing partnerships with the Torbay Community Development Trust and the Torbay Social Enterprise Network. HOSTING: Peter Redstone and Sue Thomas CREATIVE THINKING TOOL TO BE USED: tbc VENUE: The Training Kitchen at Occombe Farm, Preston Down Road, Paignton, TQ3 1RN PARKING ARRANGEMENTS: Please park in the Short Stay car park (next to the farm shop). No need to Pay & Display. TIME: 6pm to 9pm PRICE: Don't forget £5 to contribute to the cost of the meeting. OTHER: Refreshments included - provided by Occombe Farm - thank you! RSVP: Please register your attendance here on Eventbrite.  **NEXT DATE FOR YOUR DIARY**: The dates of the next C.T.T meetings are Tuesday 20th February and Tuesday 20th March. More info and Eventbrite invitations will follow nearer the time.