Hackathon in collaboration with Facebook - Be a lifesaver

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All day hackathon has arrived! We've partnered with Facebook to help bring UX designers, visual designers, engineers, content strategists and other tech roles in the same room to tackle solutions that can really make a difference.

The hackathon is a collaboration between Facebook, Ladies That UX and GeekGirl Meetup. We strongly encourage attendees to bring their own suggestions to the hack, but we'll also have some existing ideas if you just want to show up.

Facebook has partnered with the RNLI - Royal National Lifeboat Institution to help them with their efforts to create digital products to help them save more lives. 


THE CHALLENGE

Water is part of life. Drowning shouldn’t be. Let’s empower communities to be safer all round.


WHY ARE YOU TRYING TO SOLVE THAT PROBLEM?

The RNLI are committed to a 50% reduction in drowning deaths in UK and RoI by 2024. The RNLI is also committed to making an impact on the global drowning epidemic (currently 360,000 lives are lost each year - WHO 2015 figures), this is more than from maternal mortality or protein-energy malnutrition.

Rescue alone isn’t going to do it. That’s the last resort. We need to invest effort in drowning prevention – improving water safety awareness and understanding through education, skills development and understanding of the scale of the issue (at home and abroad) through influence, supervision, education and working in partnership with others.


WHAT IS THE PROBLEM YOU ARE TRYING TO HACK?

How might we empower local communities to reduce drowning while…

- Supporting local economies? (social resilience, incomes, livelihoods )

-  Helping people enjoy waterside locations?

-  Participating in day-to-day life activities involving water, such as collecting drinking water, caring for children in & around the home or even walking by the canal to the shop?


WHO ARE YOU TRYING TO SOLVE IT FOR?

400 people every year die from drowning in the UK and Republic of Ireland. That’s more people than die in cycling incidents.. This increases to 600 if you include non-accidental and inland deaths. Around half of these people die even before the emergency services have been notified.


WHAT YOU NEED TO BRING
· Laptop to hack on
· Open attitude to meet new people and share ideas

 

WHAT IS PROVIDED
· Food, fun diversions, prizes, and some expert guidance in the form of our Engineers & Design team


Schedule

  • 8.30am: Registration for guests & breakfast on arrival

  • 9.00am: Introduction to Facebook London office & RNLI - Royal National Lifeboat Institution to provide an overview of the charity, impact of their work & challenges they face

  • 9:30am: Hackathon to begin 

  • 12.30pm: Lunch break for attendees

  • 13.30pm: All afternoon… HACK! Drinks & snacks will be provided throughout the event

  • 16.00pm: Hack scheduled to finish, Preliminary judging to begin for each group

  • 16.30pm: Hack Presentations & Giveaways!

  • 17.00pm: Event finish

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We allow only strictly one ticket per person. We reserve rights to cancel duplicates without warning.
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Please note that this particular event is for women and non-binary participants only. 

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IMPORTANT: As a hackathon partner and host, Facebook will require us to share your details with them. By signing up, you allow Ladies that UX London to share your name, email, job title and company with Facebook for this event only.

Location

Facebook
London, United Kingdom

Dates

From 4th November 2017 - 08:30 AM
to 4th November 2017 - 05:00 PM