About

BCL Hack is on 15 and 16 June 2024, in Stratford, East London

The BarcampLondon Hackathon is a weekend event, with an authentic grass roots feel, run entirely by volunteers.

The ethos is go out and do some good in the world, and have some fun doing it! A handful of sponsors provide us with challenges, and during the weekend all-comers take part building hacks (building projects). Typically, the attendees are software developers, though we have designers, systems engineers, teachers, and all manner of IT professionals.

a conference room with a presnter on stage talking to about 100 people sat at round tables of 10

The organiser team is informal and comprises experienced members of the London tech community. Over the weekend, we have a number of extra volunteers who help out, and everybody on site tends to offer advice and support to teams and individuals that are trying something new for the first time.

Liz Eden

Liz and Terence Eden are cofounders of Open Ideas, a technology consultancy focussed on help with open source resources. Whether as attendees, speakers or volunteer helpers, they have been involved in BarCamps and unconferences for years and years.

Louie Christie

Louie Christie is an adventurous tech geek, user friendly IT consultant, app & web developer and coding coach. In his own head, he’s also an underground comedian. He’s smart, talented, and writes his own bios! There’s more about him and his interesting technology projects here.

Paul Brannigan

You might know him as Proactive Paul, a qualified teacher of ICT, a qualified accountant, and a committed geek. An award winning professional speaker, Paul has spoken at dozens of events in the UK and across Europe, in English, in French, and in Japanese. In his spare time he runs 10km races and the occasional marathon.

Sean M. Tracey

Sean calls himself a Technologist because he hasn’t decided what he wants to do with computers yet – except for everything. Right now, he’s the Developer Relations Manager at Moneyhub, and CTO of his own company, KadVR. Sean is based in London, and when not glued to an IDE, you can usually find him at the cinema, or enjoying a walk around a nice park somewhere.

Terence Eden

Terence and Liz Eden also run the popular website Open Benches which is a crowd-sourced collection of memorial benches from around the world. When not working, volunteering, or maintaining Open Benches, they constantly look forward to the next series of Doctor Who!