Silicon Valley Comes to the UK
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Silicon Valley comes to Sheffield brings students, entrepreneurs and local practitioners together to use open government data to develop innovative and disruptive apps and win a chance to go to Silicon Valley and SXSW.
Delivered as a partnership between Sheffield Hallam University and The University of Sheffield, the Appathon is supported by the GIST Foundation and the Sheffield City Region Local Economic Partnership’s Creative and Digital Industries group. Silicon Valley comes to Sheffield is proud to be part of Silicon Valley comes to the UK.
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Clare MacKenzie posted an update in the group
Silicon Valley Comes to the UK: 7 months, 2 weeks agoHi Everyone, nice to meet you all and hopefully I will meet many of you face to face on Sunday. I am coming in as a mentor and hopefully will be able to add some value. Whilst I may not be a whizzkid programmer or software developer, I am an entrepreneur who specialises in helping people take to market products and services. Once an app has been…[Read more]
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Mayank Sharma posted on the forum topic Hello Appathonista! Introduce yourself here … in the group
Silicon Valley Comes to the UK: 7 months, 2 weeks agoHi, I design hardware platforms for next generation smartphones, tablets and high-end computers as a Design Engineer for ARM. I bring hardware design expertise with an appreciation of software complexities associated with these platforms. I am signed up to be a mentor at SVC2UK and would be interested in working with teams developing exciting apps [...]
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Mehrak posted on the forum topic Hello Appathonista! Introduce yourself here … in the group
Silicon Valley Comes to the UK: 7 months, 2 weeks agoMy background is in software development. I have worked with Visual studio .net 2008 (C#) and SQL Server 2008, I’ve developed some windows based applications and I know object oriented programming and tier programming
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Jag Goraya posted on the forum topic Hello Appathonista! Introduce yourself here … in the group
Silicon Valley Comes to the UK: 7 months, 2 weeks agoGreetings appathon folk … I’m part of the team that has brought Silicon Valley to Sheffield. While I won’t be at the event over the weekend, I’m looking forward to hearing about your plans and ideas on here and in the pub on Friday if you can make it ( Rutland Arms 6pm-8pm). My background is in [...]
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The GIST Hub started the forum topic Hello Appathonista! Introduce yourself here … in the group
Silicon Valley Comes to the UK: 7 months, 3 weeks agoIf you’re taking part in the Appathon challenge – either as a competitor or mentor – be sure to introduce yourself here, with a little bit about your skills and experience, and what you bring to the table. You can also suggest what sort of projects you may want to work on as part of [...]
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The GIST Hub started the forum topic Call out for … Ideas, Challenges and Collaborations in the group
Silicon Valley Comes to the UK: 7 months, 3 weeks agoThe Appathon competition is geared around creating apps to address ‘challenges’ that will be set by the organisers and judging team. The challenges will be based around the available open datasets, which include health, education and environment. You can see the full data sets at http://data.gov.uk/appathon-2011. Use this forum to throw out ideas…[Read more]
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