Hackathon Thank You’s
Our amazing Hackathons have been the product of some brilliant organisations and people donating their time. We are grateful to them all.
In November 2020 we hosted our first hackathon online. Partnering with Just Eat Takeaway, in November 2020 we brought together 20 people for a two day Hackathon. Our second Hackathon kicked off on the 20th of April and we followed up with another one in October 2021. They have included brilliant mentors technologists, phycologists and UX experts to make our product vision a reality. Thank you each and every one of you.
November 2021 Hackathon
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Sarah Angel-Johnson
Believing that every child deserves a future, Sarah joined Save the Children as CIO where she is inspiring breakthroughs in the way the world treats children that achieve immediate and lasting change.
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Jack Lawton
As Data Science Principal at Aiimi, Jack Lawton facilitates cross-project collaboration and knowledge sharing to drive the data science roadmap for the Aiimi Insight Engine.
2021 Hackathon Panellist and Mentors
Mentor - Karen Chan
Karen is a freelance developer with over 10 years of Python backend development experience. She has worked with Django, Zope, Plone, Flask, and other frameworks, PostgreSQL, as well as Ansible automation and cloud native applications.
Mentor - Stefan Hajnoczi
Stefan works on open source virtualization at Red Hat and is the founder of jammr, which lets musicians jam together online. Stefan has contributed to Linux and QEMU since 2010 and organizes QEMU’s Google Summer of Code and Outreachy open source internships.
Panellist - Janet Chapman
Janet Chapman is the chair of Tanzania Development Trust, a volunteer-run charity that has been supporting grassroots organisations in rural Tanzania for 45 years. She is also the founder of Crowd2Map Tanzania a crowdsourced project in which over 16,000 online volunteers from around the world have added over 5 million Tanzanian buildings into OpenStreetMap. Crowd2Map has also set up Youthmapper chapters in 7 Tanzanian Universities and trained over 800 community mappers in rural Tanzania, including activists like Rhobi Samwelly who use the maps when rescuing girls from Female Genital Mutilation.
Panellist - Grace Coffey
Grace lives in the borough of Camden and in her day job (also in Camden) works on coordinating volunteers from corporate businesses to support small charities in Camden, as well as fundraising to support Camden Giving’s sustainability. Her work focusses on ensuring Camden Giving can continue its mission of overcoming poverty & inequality in the borough and that Camden’s businesses and employees can be involved as a key element to making this happen.
2020 Hackathon Panellist and Mentors
Mentor - Meera Pankhania
Meera is an experienced user researcher, service and inclusive design; and product management across private, not-for-profit and public sectors. She has particular focus on policy and social design, service strategy and organisational design and regularly speak at meetups, events and conferences on the value of design, research and contemporary ways of working. She coaches practitioners to help build design and digital capability.
Mentor - Rehana Soltane
Rehana is an educational and creative technologist, where she often teaches robotics, physical computing, wearable and creative technology. With a degree in Psychology, she is completely self-taught and often works with Python and Arduino. She is always up for a challenge and available for new opportunities!
Mentor - Karen Chan
Karen is a freelance developer with over 10 years of Python backend development experience. She has worked with Django, Zope, Plone, Flask, and other frameworks, PostgreSQL, as well as Ansible automation and cloud native applications.
Panellist - William Fox
William is the Director of Volunteering at Pride in London. Managing a team of 20 people covering the recruitment, training, engagement and wellbeing of 200 year-round and over 1,000 volunteers on the day of Pride.
Panellist - Rasheeda Graham
Rasheeda co founded Urban Community Projects in 2013 with trustees from One Housing Group and over as Charity Director in 2018. Developing their ‘one mic, one life’ project, tackling the rise in knife and gang crime; which has become one of our benchmark projects, recognised by the Mayor of London and funded by MOPAC. Rasheeda is passionate about creating positive change and real impact the every day!
Mentor - Tjelvar Olsson
Tjelvar is a Swede enjoying life in Norwich. His personal mission is to help organisations and researchers use computers to do better science. He is a Senior Scientific Data and Infrastructure Manager at the John Innes Centre. Tjelvar also works as a consultant providing coaching and software development services.
Panellist - Grace Coffey
Grace lives in the borough of Camden and in her day job (also in Camden) works on coordinating volunteers from corporate businesses to support small charities in Camden, as well as fundraising to support Camden Giving’s sustainability. Her work focusses on ensuring Camden Giving can continue its mission of overcoming poverty & inequality in the borough and that Camden’s businesses and employees can be involved as a key element to making this happen.
Mentor - Stefan Hajnoczi
Stefan works on open source virtualization at Red Hat and is the founder of jammr, which lets musicians jam together online. Stefan has contributed to Linux and QEMU since 2010 and organizes QEMU’s Google Summer of Code and Outreachy open source internships.
