List of hackathons in United Kingdom in 2018

We launched in June and then met again in August - with #TechTea beginning in September.  November will be the start of events every two months where we'll begin to put into action what we've learnt from Sheffield women in technology so far. Each event will have time to chat and and, if networking isn't your thing and sends a shiver down your spine, don't be put off! There'll be friendly faces looking forward to saying hello and introducing you to people.  What will the event involve? 17.30  Doors open for drinks, snacks and chat. 18.00  Talks start (see below for more details). 19:30  Over to you. Please bring along any Sheffield women in tech news you have to pass on, events to advertise, questions to ask or ideas to share.      There'll be time for more drinks, snacks and chat until we close at 20.00 No, I fly them - Shehla Ali Shehla Ali is a freelance digital marketeer, drone photographer and a Google Digital Garage trainer. Shehla also runs Cameratic, a blog she created to showcase her photography, filming and copy writing, as well as Drone 360, where she creates aerial photography.  Shehla will talk about her rollercoast ride since quitting her job two years ago to work remotely and travel.  Since then she has set up multiple companies, further developed her knowledge of technology and experienced working in male dominated environments.  If you're a budding creative who doesn't know where to start or more experienced but stuck in your comfort zone, this talk may give you a quiet and gentle push to start moving.   A series of fortunate blags - Tanya FIsh Tanya Fish has been enthusing about science and making in some form or other for most of her life. She's written tutorials, magazine articles, and educational materials. She's talked about making to all sorts of audiences, including the Guild of Makers Launch, Hackaday Unconferences, and at Maker Faires. She runs workshops at festivals, conferences, and universities; and has just ventured into YouTube. In this talk, Tanya explains how being out of your depth is an advantage, how you are worth more than you think and how there is no such thing as modesty when you're bigging yourself up. Coding and hackathon(ing) - Kat Walker and Darren Vong Kat Walker is a Computer Science student and demonstrator at Sheffield University and a Code First Girls Instructor.  Darren Vong is a Full Stack Developer at the Advanced Manufacturing Research Centre and a lead instructor at Code First Girls. In this talk, Kat and Darren will talk about their experiences supporting Code First Girls and attending hackathons.  If you've ever wanted to learn to code or develop your coding knowledge, attend a hackathon (or aren't sure what a hackathon is) but have never had chance to ask questions in advance, tonight may be your night. The small but important print Everyone is welcome. You don’t have to work in digital right now, you don’t have to identify as a woman, you don’t have to know how to code or how to explain bitcoin. You do have come in, be open and ready to participate in bringing about positive change. Babies and children are welcome to attend with a (vaguely) responsible adult.  If you can’t make the event and would like to be kept updated, sign up to our mailing list or follow and join in on Twitter @ShfWIT.   Kindly sponsored by Egress.

Our website is now LIVE! Visit innovationcommunity.co.uk for the full agenda and information on all of our fantastic speakers and hosts. TALKS - SHOWCASES - NETWORKING - DEBATES - MINI-HACKATHON Join us on Tuesday 20th November as Lloyds Banking Group host the first in a series of Innovation Community events. Connect, collaborate, share stories, and be inspired by like-minded people who are passionate about building a culture of innovation in their organisations, and supporting each other's transformation journeys. The Main Stage will feature TED-style talks and interactive sessions to bring to life the power of connection, collaboration and knowledge sharing. Talks will include: Designing for Prosperity with Dan Makoski. Design is all about moments of joy. Finance and prosperity can bring people together so we need to change the conversation and our languge to become more human centered. Dan will share how the team is exploring this at LBG. Storytelling for Change with Abhay Adhik. Abhay will explore how you can use the principles of storytelling to encourage incremental behaviour change. The conection between Empathy and Creativity with Moyra Mackie. Moyra focuses on helping people do things differently, think differently and to have much richer conversations. She will run an interactive session on empathy and how this is essential to innovate. Worshiping at the Church of Fail with Ross Breadmore. An interactive session on the absolute necessity of failing at work, why it is a key part of the transformation process and the systems conditions that make failure so tough, but also so essential. Round-table debates are an opportunity to connect on a more personal level to share experiences and different perspectives: Purposeful innovation - exploring how purpose is reshaping how we view the roleof business in society Smart Cities - how do I know if my city is smart, how can we make them smarter and what is our role in this? Mini Hack: Watch our Mini-Hackathon, where teams will be exploring and building on ideas raising through our crowdsourcing tool. They will be focused on how we can create a connected organisation to unleash innovation. Look out for the pitches later in the day! Showcases and Workshops: Stop by our showcase area to get involved with an array of technology demonstrations presented by teams such as Applied Innovation, Risk Innovation and Cyber Security. Visit the Insurance & Wealth area for a chance to win a great prize! Interactive workshops will take place during the day on storytelling, Working Out Loud and Behavioural Experiments. Sign up will be on the day.   Next Big Thing: Join us for this months event on the Internet of Things (IoT) for a live panel discussion over pizza and drinks. We will be joined by panelists from Accenture, LBG and Founders Forum. Most importantly - meet, engage, and build your network with like minded innovators over snacks and drinks!

The UKRI Cloud Working Group (https://cloud.ac.uk/) is organising a technical workshop “unconference”. Following feedback from our annual cloud workshop in January, some members of the community expressed the desire to have a technical deep dive into some of the topics.  We have created this event to provide just this  opportunity and enable researchers, devops and developer to work together and share collective experience. We’re adopting an "unconference" format, which means other than 2 talks (Stig Tefler from StackHPC and Martin O'Reilly from the Turing Institute), we won’t have a fixed agenda ahead of time: everyone will be invited to give a short pitch at the start of the day on a technical topic of their choice.  We will then vote on those they want to devote time to explore in depth. We’ll have several breakout type rooms available so we can discuss several topics if necessary. Different approaches could be applied for each topic, for example a hackathon where groups can focus on solving a specific problem or creating a piece of software or infrastructure configuration, or information sharing and pooling expertise with a technical deep-dive walk through a particular technology. Topics could cover anything from use and deployment of OpenStack, container technologies, integration of storage, application of services and API from public clouds, tools for monitoring and logging or your other suggestions. Who should attend? Those people who have a technical interest in deploying cloud and cloud related services to support research workloads. You will also have some experience of coding and/or using cloud computing infrastructure. You should also be prepared to get involved in the sessions and discussion including leading topics. What do you need to bring? Make sure to bring a laptop!   Tea and coffee will be provided in the breaks but you will need to buy or bring your own lunch.

Good Tech Conference is a not-for-profit event to explore​ the use of technology for social good. We’ll celebrate - and contribute to - projects supporting​ diversity, inclusion​, ​and the ethical application of current and near future technology. This year, Good Tech Conf is supporting causes contributing to reducing food and packaging waste, and homelessness. After a day of tech talks ​from project teams using their skills for social good​, you’ll have the chance to take part in workshops and hackathons to use your own talents for a worthy cause. The sessions will give you the opportunity to build and deliver working software to one of this year’s named causes.

Worldwide Helpers’ next big initiative is to build a mobile phone application in order to serve its users in a more efficient way. As WWH begins to work towards launching a new mobile phone application for its users, this event hopes to bring together tech graduates, tech experts and key WWH stakeholders under the theme of ‘tech for good’! Event Format: Attendees will have the option to register as an individual or as part of a team of no more than three to compete in the WWH Hackathon competition. Everyone will be presented with a brief of the WWH phone app. Each team will have 5 hours to prepare their implementation plan. Once teams are satisfied with their final implementation plan, they will submit it for the final consideration of WWH founder- Roya Elghanian. Implementation plans must include : 1.            Timeline of building app 2.            Estimation of all costings involved 3.            Estimation of how many people it would take to build the app 4.            Commercial viability of app   Prizes: Winner/s will have the opportunity to work a developer to bring implementation plan to life 2nd place : £100 3rd place: £50

The event will bring together 150 students to Durham to participate in a 24hr hackathon with multiple themes. It takes place over the weekend of the 17th and 18th of November 2018.

Held at the prestigious King’s College London, this two-day Zero Knowledge Proof developer workshop & hackathon is hosted and delivered by extropy.io and workonblockchain.com, with support from Zcash Company & PegaSys. Big thank you to Zcash Foundation and Kings College London for kindly sponsoring this event. Extropy is a blockchain development company based in the UK (Oxford) focusing on Distributed Application Development, Smart Contract Auditing, Education and Research. Check out their website on www.extropy.io Work on Blockchain is a global recruitment 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 is 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 With the commercial blockchain knowledge and expertise from Extropy, game theory and cryptography (e.g., zk proofs) knowledge from Oana Ciobotaru, Applied Researcher from Pegasys (Consensys), the expertise from Daira Hopwood who is a core Engineer and Protocol Designer from Zcash Company and the extensive blockchain developer network from workonblockchain.com, this two-day event promises to be informative, educational, practical and fun. Join us and learn how to put zero knowledge proofs into practical use. This is our first Zero Knowledge Proof developer workshop in London with plans to host many more in the future. To keep the level of teaching to a high standard, we will limit the class size to 40 delegates. We require all our students to attend both days, and there will be plenty of opportunity to attend in future if this class become oversubscribed. Pre-requisite: We require all our students to attend both days. In order for our students to get the most out of this workshop, it’s vitally important for our delegates to have a strong background in software egnineering and a strong interest in blockchain technology. Although a major plus, no prior knowledge or experience with zero knowledge proof is required. What's inportant fo us is your passion to learn about ZKP and blockchain technology.  Schedule November 17th - Day One (Theory and Hands on session) 09:00 - 09:30 Breakfast09:30 - 10:00 Intro to teams and attendees10:00 - 11:30 Introduction to ZK, background and theory with Q&A11:30 - 12:30 Team pitches12:30 - 13:30 Lunch13:30 - 17:30 Hands on session, using Zokrates and Ethereum17:30 - 18:00 Further Team formation18:00. Team can start hacking from home November 18th - Day Two (Further Theory and Hack Day)09:00 - 10:00 - Breakfast10:00 - 12:00 - Writing R1CS circuits with Zcash with Q&A12:00 - 13:00 - Hackathon13:00 - 14:00 - Lunch14:00 - 17:00 - Hackathon17:00 - 18:00 - Team presentations18:00 - 18:30 - Judging and prizes. Location: King’s College London. The exact room will only be provided to delegates who are selected for the workshop. This is to help us control the number of delegates per class due to limited space. Sponsorship opportunities: We are actively looking for sponsors at our future workshops. If your company is looking for developer exposure, looking to hire awesome developers or want to help us drive the blockchain developer ecosystem, please reach out to Antonio Sabado on contact@workonblockchain.com Follow us on LinkedIn & Twitter:https://www.linkedin.com/company/extropy_214484/https://twitter.com/extropy_io 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 workshops, hackathons and events.

After the amazing social cohesion hackathon that took place last year, Digilab and lbbd, in partnership with London Sport, are running an event to solve the challenge of unused and empty spaces in Barking and Dagenham. We’ve seen the countless signs for ‘No Ball Games’ on grass and streets that prevent people from interacting outside in areas around their homes, schools and businesses. What if there was a solution to open up these green and grey spaces for social sport, play and interactivity in the community? This is the theme of the YES BALL GAMES hackathon 2018. It’s time to take back the streets of Barking & Dagenham – can you help us solve this challenge? If you are a local resident or business, digital innovator or coder, then please sign up to our event and make change happen! And win £250 towards your idea / prototype and support from mentors and the SportTech ecosystem. Venue: Digilab, Barking Learning Centre, 2 Town Square, Barking, IG11 7NB

UCL Techsoc x MLH Porticode is a 24-hour beginner-friendly event run by the UCL Technology Society, where you'll be given all the workshops, tools, mentors and snacks you need to create new and interesting ideas.These kind of events are also known as hackathons, but don't worry! This isn't about hacking into banks or shops, but rather about creating something you think is interesting, life changing, or just plain ridiculous.What can you make? As long as you can build it with the tech that we have available (as well as any you want to bring), and you can do it in one day, then it's fair game. Your project could be useful for the real world or it can have no use at all!Once the 24 hours are over, you'll be given the opportunity to show off what you've done in a 'science fair' style setting, and also the chance to demonstrate your creation in front of other attendees.During the weekend, we'll also be holding mini-events and games, to give you a break from your projects. Website : www.porticode.org

The first Leeds Blockchain Hackathon is here, and you’re invited. #LBH2018 is the ultimate event for learning, hacking and networking for teams of budding coders, developers, tech enthusiasts and people from all areas of the vibrant tech community in Leeds. The grand prize will be awarded for the most ambitious, impressive or fully realized prototype and we’ll have experienced judges from business and academia and mentors to encourage and support all participants. If you're a newbie, don't panic! There will be technical experts on hand to help you build your project. Oh and, we're bringing for the beer and pizza. For 48 hours! So, what is a hackathon, and why blockchain? Hackathons are premier start-up incubators where disruptive, breakthrough ideas come to life in a myriad of ways. These are engaging events where teams of developers collaborate, sharpen their skills and bring their ideas to life. We've all seen cryptocurrency mania in the news, but what else can we use this technology enable? What is beyond currency? Are there new networks and relationships could we create in a world where blockchain means untrusted devices can co-operate in predictable ways? PRIZES ??? SCHEDULE (more details soon!) Friday 16th November 18:00 pm - Welcome Meetup Saturday, 17th November 08:00 am to 8 pm - Day 1 Sunday, 18th November 08:00 am to 15:00 pm - Day 2 DETAILS We are looking to form teams from 3-5 people. You can either register as a team or we will help form teams for youeither at the meetup event on Friday or before the kickoff on Saturday. Meals and refreshments will be provided to all participants throughout the event, and there will be plenty of swag too. Judges and mentors will be present from from FinTech, Local Authority, Law and Academia. FAQs What can I bring into the event? Please bring your laptop, smart phones, and any other gadgets you think you'll need. We'll provide the power, internet, caffeine and pizza! How can I contact the organiser with any questions? You can contact us via our technology sponsor DCDC through tumblr https://dcdcio.tumblr.com/ and facebook (including messenger) https://www.facebook.com/dcdcio If you would prefer to email, you can contact benjamin.babik@lexisnexis.co.uk for general (including technical) questions and for questions about schedule, dietary requirements, and access and directions to LexisNexis office you can contact lynn.seddon@lexisnexis.co.uk I don't have a technical background, is this event suitable for me? Definitely, this is a great opportunity to learn alongisde mentors and coders who have the same passion for blockchain, tech and building ethical projects. What kind of technical experts will be available to help me? We will have developers attending who are familiar with Ethereum (Solidity), IOTA, DCDC and Neo. PROJECTS We are interested in projects that do good things. Does your idea mean greater access to technology? Does your idea tackle a real world problem facing ordinary people? Is your idea accessible? To give you a headstart, our conversations with Leeds City Council have given us these "starters for ten": 1) Improvements to Housing Standards and Growth - e.g: - Capture, trade and pay for energy consumption across the councils housing stock - Manage occupancy and rental of council properties with greater efficiency  2) Greener and More Effective Travel and Transport - e.g: - More effective collection and payment of parking fees, tolls and/or Congestion Zone tariffs  - Provide secure, unhackable and auditable open data that can be used to plan and manage traffic movement 3) Increased Health and Wellbeing - e.g: - Provide secure, unhackable and auditable patient data wherever it is needed  - Record stocks, transfers and usage of controlled medicines 4) Environmental and Climate Improvement - e.g: - Trading of carbon or other credits to offset environmental impact - Provide secure, unhackable and auditable climate data wherever it is needed  5) Enable and Support Smart City Initiatives - e.g: - Trading city centre sensor data for value in a smart city economy  - Providing solutions for a city of the future with autonomous transportation and other IOT based services 6) Reduce City Council Costs - e.g: - Removing the need for intermediaries in data collection and payment systems - Provide secure, open council data without the need for complex systems and solutions Remember you are welcome to work on your own project outside these ideas. These are just nudges.