Data Hack with Northumbrian Water

Newcastle University’s Cloud Innovation Centre invite you to participate in another Hackathon weekend as part of our ‘Connecting the City’ series of events, delivered with key partner and event sponsor, ENGIE. The event will take the form of a contest with a briefing on Friday 5th February, followed by a 2 day hosted hack (in person and online). Participants will build teams, and compete to see who can create the best and most impactful data expression, mashup or visualization relating to our challenge.

• When: Friday, 5 February 2016 at 17:00 - Sunday, 7 February 2016 at 20:00 (GMT) - Add to Calendar

• Where: Online and in-person at ‘The Core’, Science Central - Bath Lane Newcastle upon Tyne NE4 5TF GB - View Map

Help a major utility continue to enhance their services

Northumbrian Water operate over £11bn in assets across the United Kingdom. They are currently seeking to evidence the potential of investing in a new asset management systems and processes.

Engage with one of the largest organisations in the North

Collaborate with other disciplines and organisations - Hackathons are a great way to meet and work with a wider range of stakeholders.

Help to solve a scale real world challenges - We are working to ensure our future services are safe, secure and offer best value to the public.

Prizes are on offer for the best ideas and solutions!

Who should attend?

People who have user experience, programming, data management and design skills are all welcome, as is anyone who is concerned with the problems being addressed at the event. If you’ve got useful skills or tools you can bring to the table then please do join us.

Once registered via Eventbrite, you will be sent a link to join the Devpost community

Please join Devpost and connect to the hackathon – this is where you will be kept up to date with news and where ideas and solutions are to be submitted.

For further details on the Hack please CLICK HERE