Kingdom Code BUILD

11–12 October 2024

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A team working on a project
    at BUILD

Kingdom Code BUILD is our annual hackathon in partnership with Indigitous #Hack, bringing together Christians who work in the world of tech from across Europe.

Join Christian technologists from across the UK and beyond to share ideas and kick start projects that integrate our Christian faith and technical skill sets.

Whether you’re a developer, designer, project manager, branding/marketing expert, ideator or something else entirely, enjoy taking a weekend to meet and work with others in the Kingdom Code community who share your desire to see God glorified through technology.

Location

St. John's, Hoxton
Pitfield St,
London N1 6NP

Get directions

Nearest station: Old Street / Hoxton
Build at St. John's,
    Hoxton

Build is a great place to come and use your knowledge, skill or passion in tech to help some great causes and meet new people

Nath @ BUILD 2023

A really encouraging time with some great technologists who love Jesus, geeking out on some projects for the Kingdom

Rachel @ BUILD 2023

BUILD is a great place to meet new people, learn, use skills you have with a range of other people!

Sara @ BUILD 2023

Excellent way to meet and collaborate with Christians in tech, working (worshiping) together.

James @ BUILD 2023

It's utter chaos and the most fun I have each year.

Nim @ BUILD 2023

It's an awesome weekend for discussing tech with like-minded faith filled individuals. A wonderful chance to chat and work with wonderful people on impactful technology.

Mike @ BUILD 2023

Build is a place to work on real world problems that need creative and innovative solutions in tech or design for churches and charities

Build at St. John's, Hoxton

Projects

Each year individuals come together around projects to form teams. These might be a missionally minded passion project, a R&D project from a ministry, or an investigation into the potential of a new tech or tool…

In 2017 we explored how Christians Against Poverty might use VR… In 2022 we trialed virtual sponsored marathons for Compassion. We've optimised AWS setups for ministries, designed supporter websites, analysed data…

All BUILD 2024 projects…

4training.net

4training.net provides discipleship training resources in over 40 languages for free. It's run as a side project, and there are plenty of areas to work on over the weekend.

  • web
  • design / ux
  • backend dev - python

Behold Bible

Help make scripture engagement less overwhelming, and more engaging.

  • web
  • design / ux

Stewardship: Beyond Giving

Help Stewardship rethink how stronger bonds between donors and the partners can be created, not just showing the impact of a gift, but faciliating two way dialogue.

  • design / ux
  • prototype

Bible Society: Bible Bolt

Bolt the Bible into commonly used tools like Microsoft 365 to allow Bible communicators to quickly copy-and-paste Bible passages.

  • backend dev
  • integration

Breeze Translate

Take a translation project that was prototyped last year at BUILD, and work out how to scale it from 10 churches, to 10,000…

  • backend

Cross Connecting

In the UK only 4% of young people have a meaningful relationship with a local church. If parents, Christian teachers, and local churches were able to start working together how might that change?

  • product
  • prototyping
  • design / ux
  • web

Croydon Vineyard Church: New Testament Journey

Help a local church in Croydon share their daily devotional guide through the New Testament through a mobile app…

  • mobile app
  • prototyping
  • design / ux

Prayer Walk App

Help local churches prayer walk the streets in their community – cover the city in prayer.

  • mobile app
  • java and typescript

Kingdom Democracy Project: PrayReps

Help Christians engage with local, national, and global politics in prayer

  • python
  • database
  • web

Christ Church Mayfair: Scripture Overview App

Explore the Bible’s overarching narrative, designed to guide users through the entire story. Help us prototype this app for a potential public launch in Summer 2025.

  • prototype
  • mobile app dev
  • design/ux

Taproots

Create an engaging game that challenges users to connect Bible passages, similar to the popular "Strands" game from NYT Games.

  • web
  • react/vue
  • design/ux

Faith in Kids: The Christmas Build-Up

Build a digital advent calendar to go alongside a new Christmas resource for children and parents to explore the Christmas story together.

  • web – wordpress
  • design/ux

Schedule

Friday

  • 18.00 Doors open
  • 18:45 Dinner
  • 19:15 Welcome
  • 19.45 Praise and prayer
  • 20.00 Project presentations
  • 20.30 Team formation
  • 21.00 Team prayer

Saturday

  • 08.30 Breakfast
  • 09.00 Morning prayer
  • 12.30 Lunch break
  • 17.00 Project deadline and tidy up!
  • 17.30 Dinner
  • 18.30 Presentations
  • 19.45 Voting
  • 20.30 Farewell

Some practicalities

Food

We'll feed you throughout the whole weekend, just let us know your dietary needs when you register.

Sleeping

Some people choose to work all the way through, most choose some sleep! You can sleep onsite (bring your own sleeping bag and toothbrush), or arrange your own offsite accomodation.

Getting here

St. John's is a five minute walk from Old Street Tube station (Northern line), it's a quick hop from London, King's Cross.

Other questions?

Ping us a message on twitter, or send an email to info@ and we will get back to you asap.

Kingdom Code BUILD

11–12 October 2024

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