Saturday 19 October 2019 09:00
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Sunday 20 October 2019 17:00
BlackRock London HQ
Social & Recreational
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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)