Algothon 2019

Saturday 19 October 2019 09:00 - Sunday 20 October 2019 17:00
BlackRock London HQ
Social & Recreational | Algorithmic Trading
Algothon 2019, the largest student-led Financial machine learning Hackathon in Europe, is returning this year in partnership with BlackRock on the 19-20th October! We look forward to welcoming undergraduates, post-graduates and recent graduates from UCL. Apply: https://forms.gle/igWyBr2PfcLHnERq8 What to expect: - Quandl's premium core financial and alternative data. - Cloud compute provided by Amazon Web Services. - Financial Machine Learning and Deep Reinforcement Learning workshops. - Talks from leading academics and BlackRock Researchers. - Comfort throughout the event: - Hosted inside BlackRock's London office - Fully catered - Airbeds to sleep at night - Travel reimbursed for UK attendees - Lots of Swag - A few "small" prizes up for grabs: - iPad Pros & Apple Pencil - 4k monitors - Bose wireless noise-cancelling headphones - Extreme Dodgems - Coral TPUs Dev Boards - Google Nests - $7.5k AWS credits Applications are now open and are being selected on a rolling basis. Welcoming applications from any degree or university. Apply here: https://forms.gle/igWyBr2PfcLHnERq8 (Deadline October 14th 18:00)