List of hackathons in United Kingdom in 2018

Real-World Incident Response Hackathon Improving the way we investigate incidents through the application of Multimedia Analysis and Artificial Intelligence. For this event, we are looking to bring together the best from academia, industry and government in the defence and security arena. Participants will be asked to process large amounts of real-world incident multimedia data and rapidly identify key information for on-site experts - people, places, events, in fact anything that may assist an investigations team. We’re interested in how entities relate to each other, the event timeline and narrative, and near-term predictions. Data will mostly take the form of video which will be varied in quality, source, and format. Some will be live-streamed during the event. This is a unique opportunity for participants to demonstrate their ability to extract useful information and insights from large multimedia data sources which would help teams respond to incidents more quickly and effectively.  We expect the successful hackathon attendees to leverage Artificial Intelligence techniques including Machine Vision, Facial Recognition, and Object Recognition, as well as being able to process multimedia sources in a variety of formats from a variety of sources. Benefits of Attending Attendees of the event will network and collaborate with likeminded experts in their field creating teams to tackle a challenge that has potential commercial applications across a range of business sectors. It is your chance to: develop and test your digital product to boost its potential showcase your prototype to international defence and science professionals and technology experts seize the opportunity to take your solution to Minimum Viable Product (MVP) The team outputs will be assessed, and prizes awarded to the winners. The first prize is a guided tour through the underground Burlington Bunker in Corsham, Wiltshire. This is a unique opportunity to visit a complete underground city, built in the 1950s to house the UK’s entire cabinet in the event of a nuclear attack. This prize is subject to confirmation and suitability of the winners. More information about this Hackathon is available on GOV.UK.  Please note: If you are registering as part of a group, please ensure all members of the group register individually Once you have registered for this event your details will be shared with a third party company BeMyApp and you will be invited to join the Slack channel The venue information will be detailed on your ticket confirmation The start and end times for each day are as follows:            Day 1- 9am to midnight            Day 2- 8am to 7pm Registration closes on 18 November 2018 at 6pm Places for this event are limited and if the event is oversubscribed, we reserve the right to limit attendance if needed This event is free to attend. Please make sure you can definitely attend before signing up. If you need to cancel please contact accelerator@dstl.gov.uk so we can offer your place to someone else as early as possible

The DASA hackathon focus on improving the way how the UK Government investigate incidents through the application of Multimedia Analysis and Artificial Intelligence. Participants should be able to process large amounts of real-world incident multimedia data and rapidly identify key information and how entities relate to each other, putting togethert narrative, and near-term predictions for the key stakeholders in minutes.

Hatch is organized by Shecancode and the Women in Tech division from UCL Entrepreneurs society. The mission of both organizations is to encourage more girls and women to enter the technology space. Additionally, the hackathon encourages non-coders to apply to the business role; every team comprises of an equal number of coders and non-coders.

High quality boot camp brought to you by workonblockchain.com This two-day Blockchain Developer Bootcamp is made possible thanks to our amazing sponsors - Totle and Kings College London. About TotleAllowing users to easily manage their crypto assets, Totle is the world’s simplest portfolio management platform for crypto investing. Keep possession of your assets and easily exchange tokens via peer-to-peer markets. Aggregating several decentralized exchanges enables Totle to provide users maximum security and liquidity. Totle continues to develop new tools and solutions to make crypto trading faster, easier, and frankly, more fun. For the first time in history we have the technical tools at our disposal to build decentralized systems that endow people with more control over their own assets and investment decisions. Check out their website on www.totle.com About Work on Blockchain Work on Blockchain is a global hirirng platform for technical professionals aimed at the blockchain and DLT space. The platform launched on September 2018 and now have over 100+ vetted candidates looking for work and the number of active candidates are increasing daily, most with strong commercial blockchain experience. The platform is a valuable hiring tool to companies in search for technical experts in a “short supply and high demand market” having attracted the attention of smart blockchain developers, software engineers, researchers, architects, data scientists and CTO’s from across the world. Check out their website on www.workonblockchain.com Intro: “Blockchain engineers are in high demand. 14 job openings per one blockchain developer”. Source: Techcrunch, Feb 14th, 2018. Will you be the next blockchain developer? Now is your chance to become one for FREE. Our overall aim is to train as many software developers as possible, provide our students the intuition on distributed systems, cryptography, the blockchain, smart contract security, real-world applications, hands-on coding experience and more... Due to popular demand and positive feedback from our students, we aim to run this boot camp monthly. We have trained over 430+ developers to date since Jan 2017. Our students have gone on to work as a blockchain developer, moved into the research field,  set up their own start-up in the blockchain space and some are now a core part of our workshop team. Our workshop consists of topics that all future blockchain developers must know with plenty of Q&A and we incorporate multiple coding sessions. To help our students further, we provide three month on-line support, students work on a group project and invite them back at the end of the 3 months to present their project to the whole class. Our goal is to help regular software developers enter the blockchain space. This workshop is also available on-site for start-ups and corporates at your desired location (chargeable). Some of the areas we cover but not limited to are: Day OneIntro to Blockchains, Bitcoin and Byzantine Fault Tolerant Networks plus more...Intro to Ethereum and Smart Contracts plus more...Series of hands-on coding on Ethereum and Smart Contracts DAY TWOSmart Contracts Security and Ethereum Internals - Cryptography, Consensus, EVM, Privacy plus more...Smart Contracts Design and Best PracticesDeep dive on a bonus topic chosen by our students What to know as a Blockchain Developer plus more...Series of hands-on coding on Ethereum and Smart ContractsReview the feedback from previous workshops by clicking HERE. Pre-requisite: To qualify, 6 months of current coding experience is a must or either currently studying in their final year, about to graduate or recently graduated from a computer science/software engineering subject. This workshop consists of a series of hands-on coding exercise, hence as a minimum requirement, all our students must be proficient in writing code. We are looking for software developers/computer science students who are GENUINELY PASSIONATE about working in the blockchain space. You must be committed to attend the two day workshop followed by a commitment to work on a group project for 3 months which is conducted remotely together with your chosen group (4-5 hours per week commitment on the project). What's next after the workshop? We hope our students will continue to code and conduct their own research on Ethereum and other blockchain platforms. To help our students succeed, we allow up to three months for further Q&A in relation to Ethereum, Solidity, Smart Contracts, Security, Privacy, Scalability etc. We also have further coding sessions for our students to work on with our guidance. Our students are required to work on a group project and once completed, we will offer our services free of charge to audit the project code (if built on Ethereum) and provide guidance where necessary. Finally, we invite our students back to present their project to the whole class. Securing a job in the blockchain space:Don't worry, we've got you covered. Our goal is to equip our students with the knowledge required to become a blockchain developer and help our students enter this exciting new space. We have built an on-line hiring platform to help our students secure a job when they are ready via www.workonblockchain.com Our team: Antonio Sabado (Core organiser) Founder of workonblockchain.com and organiser of several blockchain tech focused groups. Building a vibrant blockchain tech community since Jan 2017 through a series of technical workshops, hackathons and deep dive sessions. Over 10 years experience building software engineering teams across a number of global investment banks specifically in the front office trading space. Patrick McCorry (Co-instructor and hands-on support), Assistant Professor at King’s College London. His focus is cryptocurrencies, smart contracts, cryptography and decentralised systems. Patrick is the UK’s first PhD graduate in Cryptocurrencies and his work has recently appeared at Devcon 3 & 4, Scaling Bitcoin 2017, Breaking Bitcoin 2017 and BPASE 2018 alongside numerous academic venues. Laurence Kirk (Co-instructor and hands-on support), after a successful 15 year career writing low latency financial applications Laurence moved to Oxford and set up Extropy.io, a consultancy working with start-ups in the UK and overseas, developing blockchain solutions. 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 organises an Artificial Intelligence group in Oxford. Nick Johnson (On-line support) 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 core Software Engineer for the Ethereum Foundation, and founder and lead developer for ENS, and prior to this, he worked at Google for a number of years. Jack Tanner (On-line support) 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. Previously at Indorse.io as a senior blockchain engineer and researcher. Founder and CTO of workonblockchain.com and has been involved in numerous blockchain projects and educational events around the world since 2015. Julien Bouteloup (Senior hands-on mentor and on-line support) holds a Master’s degree in Electrical Engineering from USA and a Master’s degree in Electrical Engineering from France where he specialised in Artificial Intelligence, decentralised systems and security back in 2009. He has built multiple tech businesses from energy trading, high frequency trading, decentralised identity, autonomous transportation systems and won multiple competitions worldwide. He was first introduced to Bitcoin in 2009 and then Ethereum in 2015. He is now involved full-time in decentralised applications, Blockchain, Ethereum, Game and Computability Theory, AI, Cryptographic and Machine learning algorithms. Ali Azam (Senior hands-on mentor and on-line support) is a senior Blockchain Developer at Vaultplatform, previously worked at King’s College London for over two years and have given various workshops and keynotes at King’s College London, Devcon4, Blockercon and many other places. Ali loves to teach and works hard to make the dream of decentralisation become a reality. Harry Wright (Senior hands-on mentor and on-line support) Harry is a software engineer based London. His passion for blockchain began in 2016 after reading Mastering Bitcoin by Andreas Antonopoulos, which quickly led to an interest in Ethereum and all things crypto. Previously worked as a senior Ethereum Engineer at Totle, a decentralised exchange aggregator, where he spent most of his time developing smart contracts and backend systems. Prior to joining Totle, he worked on the innovation team at Calastone, a fintech company, where he developed a blockchain-based distributed platform for mutual fund transactions. With a background in embedded systems, Harry is currently finishing a part time Masters in Computer Science at the University of London. Testimonials: “This has been an amazing workshop. I learned so so much, got energized and motivated to become a blockchain developer. Don't think twice. Come to the workshop, take a place in first row, learn, code and enjoy”. Source: https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:6457560412182450176/ “Amazing workshop. The content is exactly what developers need to kickstart their involvement with the blockchain. Sound theoretical foundation and good hands-on coding” Source: https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:6457560412182450176/ “A pleasure to spend this weekend learning at Work on Blockchain's blockchain developer training course. Covering smart contracts, lightning networks, and cryptocurrencies, it was a fabulous way to continue my work in blockchain. Would absolutely recommend all their content for any software engineers keen to enter the blockchain space. An excellent introduction, continuing support, and a fabulous network to hook participants into industry.” Source: https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:6445008810993020928/ We are happy to provide as many testimonials as possible. Date: 24th & 25th of November 2018 Time: 10:00 to 18:00 Workshop Location: King's College London, Strand, London, WC2R 2LS (we will notify only our selected students the exact room number) Networking session: Time to ounwind! We invite our students to join our networking drinks from 18:00 onwards on Saturday and Sunday. This is a great opportunity to get to know our students. We want our students to become a core part of our developer community and foster collaboration.  ***SPONSORSHIP OPPORTUNITIES*** As from January 2019, we are looking for a minimum of five companies to sponsor our monthly bootcamp. If your company is looking for developer exposure, looking to hire awesome developers from our class, want to help us drive the blockchain developer ecosystem plus more, please reach out to Antonio Sabado on contact@workonblockchain.com Please view the following sponsorship proposal:  https://drive.google.com/open?id=1A_iQR3KAuePaFqMJtmpTCmkgrwF3s2BRRoo-7Bz1_ks Donations: If anyone want to anonymously donate for the awesome work we are doing for the blockchain community, you can make your donations here. ETH address: 0xBe40d7ac254C30158957da11B8f600e5e918E2E8 BTC address: 13NPTsscpowKRjNy9bkG2usgozg5rFa1po Follow us on LinkedIn & Twitter: Totle:  https://www.linkedin.com/company/totlecrypto/ https://twitter.com/TotleCrypto  Work on Blockchain: https://www.linkedin.com/company/work-on-blockchain/https://twitter.com/work_blockchain Sign up to our newsletter on www.workonblockchain.com to stay up to date on all our future FREE workshops, hackathons and events. Looking for work or looking to hire technical talent? Let us become your hiring partner and sign up to our hiring platform today. 

What's a hackathon? A hackathon is a collaborative programming festival. The main goal is to try to create a project in a relatively short amount of time, such as 24 hours. It's a fantastic opportunity to meet new people, learn from mentors, and make cool stuff. What's HackNotts? HackNotts is our annual hackathon, hosted in the School of Computer Science on Jubilee Campus. This year, the event will be running over the weekend of the 24th and 25th of November, with the opening presentations starting some time around 11am on the Saturday, and the closing presentation will be early in the evening on the Sunday. Who can attend? You're allowed to attend HackNotts if you are: - At least 18 years old A highschool, undergraduate or postgraduate student, or A graduate who is less than a year out of university Do I need to have a team? Not at all! You can of course come to the event with a team already planned, but there are loads of people who don't have teams when they arrive. At the start of the event, we'll help to make sure that everybody has a team, if they want one. Where can I find out more? You can check out the HackNotts website to find the links for tickets, a more extensive FAQ, and the event's sponsors.

NHS England, NHS Digital, and the Department of Health and Social Care have teamed up with Stemettes to bring you a really unique and exciting event where you can create your very own app! Have you ever used an app? Would you like to make one? Are you interested in technology? Come to the Stemettes Hack Leeds @ NHS! No previous coding experience necessary. Done some coding before? Our experts will teach you how to create apps using HTML and other app building tools. Win prizes! Food and Laptops provided – just bring yourself. Stemettes Hack Leeds @ NHS is hosted by Stemettes. Stemettes are working hard to inspire and help the next generation of females get into Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths.  Completely FREE, thanks to our wonderful sponsors NHS Digital and NHS England. Here's what happened at our last hackathon >> Sign up below.  What is a hackathon? Hackathons aren't about breaking into things! They're about bringing people together to create amazing things using computers. We think it's really sad that some people have never been to a hackathon or had proper fun with computer science, so we want to give you the opportunity to explore and play about in the creative, exciting world of technology. Who Girls aged 5 all the way up to 22. Parents/Guardians. If you're under 16, you'll need to have an adult with you. On the plus side, we'd love it if they helped out with making your game or app! Women (and Men) with a STEM background and are interested in inspiring the next generation. (see below for more details) When Saturday 24th November 10am-5:00pm Where We'll be on site at NHS Digital, 1, Trevelyan Square. Upon arrival, report to reception to be registered and directed to the Hack. What you need to bring Yourself and any great ideas you have. If you have access to headphones, please bring them with you. We will provide everything else.  Running order 10:00 - Guests arrive. Preback forms handed out.10:30 - Welcome and ice breaker. Event introduction from Stemettes and NHS11:00 - Brief given, ‘teaches’, begin mini-projects1:30 - Lunch2:15 - Return to projects3:15 - Presentations begin4:15 - Prizes5:00 - Feedback forms handed out. End of the day. Industry people Are you interested in helping young people learn to code and discover making?  We are looking for adults who have a STEM background to help the girls learn to code in HTML, Appshed and Appinventor tools and show them the range of possible careers you can do after studying STEM subjects.  All you need to do is provide inspiration and help the girls with their projects when they get stuck.  We will provide food and reasonable transport costs to helpers.  Register as a Volunteer. Tools we will be using Appshed - online app-creation tool where anyone can design and publish mobile apps for iOS, Android and web Appinventor - visual, blocks language for building Android Apps Marvel - Pop helps you transform your pen and paper ideas into an interactive iPhone or Android prototype. Brought to you by: NHS England NHS England leads the National Health Service (NHS) in England. We set the priorities and direction of the NHS and encourage and inform the national debate to improve health and care. We want everyone to have greater control of their health and their wellbeing, and to be supported to live longer, healthier lives by high quality health and care services that are compassionate, inclusive and constantly-improving. NHS England shares out more than £100 billion in funds and holds organisations to account for spending this money effectively for patients and efficiently for the tax payer. NHS Digital NHS Digital are the national information and technology partner to the health and social care system. We're using digital technology to transform the NHS and social care. Our vision is to harness the power of information and technology to improve health and care. FAQs Are my boys able to attend too? Brothers and cousins can attend, but only if they bring a sister, female cousin or female identifying friend with them.

Come along to our two-day data jam and help make a bit of magic for Bristol. Join us for a weekend of constructive fun. Together we will develop projects that unite great ideas, awesome digital and creative skills with open data (powered by the Bristol API and Bristol Open Data Platform). You’ll be helping Bristol create ways of supporting transport, homes and communities. In exchange, we will provide technical support, interesting speakers, free food and drinks as well as the opportunity to win one of two prizes to help grow your career. Saturday 24th, 9.30-5 Light breakfast on arrival leading to quick-fire presentations providing information on local projects followed by facilitated ideation session and group work. Lunch provided Late morning through afternoon collaborative work session to develop project ideas.   Skills coaching and training session Sunday 25th, 10-4.30 Morning of continued collaborative work on project ideas. Lunch provided Presentations on Sunday afternoon Prizes and awards will be given for the presentations and project ideas 

It's time for Hatch 2018!  In 2017 SheCanCode in partnership with UCLe launched Hatch - the first UK 50:50 diversity hackathon. 100 hackers from 28 universities spent a weekend locked in at the Ministry of Justice, creating amazing responses to some of the UN Sustainable Development Goals. And now, we want to do it all over again! Hatch is a 2-day innovation hackathon, leveraging diversity and technology to solve real-world problems and create social impact. You will experience the entire lifecycle of a startup, from ideation to execution and pitch!  A fast and fun weekend where you will be challenged, inspired and motivated by speakers, mentors and fellow hackers. We have some great companies represented, including Shell, Deutsche Bank , moo.com and te Ministry of Justice UK, and we will be announcing more next week! So don't miss your chance, APPLY before the 10th of November! #hatchintotech #Hatch2018 #Diversityintech #Diversity #DiversityHack Don't forget to follow-us across our socials to keep updated! Good Luck!

We want to identify where hand-offs between organisations cause difficulty or hardship to individuals, and to explore how support services offered by organisation in an around Manchester could be brought together most effectively for the benefit of people in the region.

Tech For UK Hackathon Tech For UK aims to produce tech products to lobby for a ‘People’s Vote’ on Brexit, with the option for the UK to remain and lead in the EU. We are working closely with Best for Britain, which is a non-aligned movement with no other aim other than to stop Brexit and allow Britain to retain and enhance its incredible position as a leader in the EU. We invite you to this Hackathon beginning on Friday night. With snack / drinks provided. Wednesday 21 November: 6.30-9.00pm Friday 23 November: 11am - 5.00pmFriday 23 November: 6.30pm - 9.00pm Saturday 24 November: 10.30am to 8pm, SohoSunday 25 November: 11.30am to 5-ish  Tech For UK is backed by many of the most innovative business leaders in the UK including Martha Lane Fox of Lastminute.com andDoteveryone, Dr Sue Black (Professor of Computer Science and Technology Evangelist at Durham University), Ben Whitaker, Founder of Masabi, the UK rail ticketing startup, Bernhard Niesner, founder of the language learning giant Busuu, lending giant Zopa, and George Bevis, founder of small business banking provider Tide, and Simon Murdoch, founder of Episode 1 Partners, among many othersIt has also created a letter signed by over 800 senior tech leaders, rejecting the government's Withdrawal Agreement and calling on the Prime Minister to put the issue of Brexit back to the UK in a fresh referendum. Our aim is to assist Best For Britain by producing tools and data to run better campaigns, to move public opinion with scalable tech products, and to fund-raise from the tech community to fund both our tech products and Best For Britain’s campaigns. We have several projects which came out of our recent Hackathons, with several almost ready to launch. You'll hear about these at the event.  You can also apply to join us as a member and join our regular weekly meetups via join.techforuk.com Email: info@techforuk.com Connect with Tech For UK  Send us your ideas for tech products to Stop Brexit Website  Twitter Instagram Facebook  Co-organisers:Madhuban Kumar, MetafusedMike Butcher, JournalistJosh Russell, ResolvePranay Manocha, CTO/Engineer