Kingdom Code BUILD

London: 14 – 15 October 2022

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ChurchSuite
Build at St. John's, Hoxton

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

I was able to work with a team of people who loved God, to build something which advanced His Kingdom… it was exhilarating.

Isaac

I loved seeing how much can be achieved in such a short period of time!

Esther

One of the best bits was encouraging and supporting a community who really are dedicated to Jesus and Tech… it is a really good hackathon!

Corina

I met excellent skilled people, eager to code for Jesus

Simeon

It all come together; five previous strangers managed to build something together using everyone's skills

Ruth

It was impressive to seeing every one committed to moving fast from idea to an output with in a day. Grateful for the tech skill sets and talents within the Christian community

Owusu

At BUILD I was able to meet other Christian developers and discuss God centered technologies.

Mike

One of my highlights from BUILD was catching up with people and getting to do some pythony pairing for a great idea.

Eddie

At BUILD I realised you don't have to be perfect to develop or have a high knowledge to start an project

Nicholas

It was great to develop something for the Kingdom and to meet Christians in tech.

Build at St. John's, Hoxton

Projects

Each year individuals come together around projects to form a 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 2016 we explored the evangelistic potential from Alexa, and in 2017 how Christians Against Poverty might use VR… We've optimised AWS setups for ministries, designed supporter websites, analysed data…

This year we're excited to be working with projects and ministries like Compassion, CARE, and Discipleship Tech.

All BUILD 2022 projects…

Bezalel Project

We are on a passionate journey to see the world using Bible in a graphic novel style that would help them engage with biblical stories and text better.

  • Design
  • Web
  • App

Bible Trainer

Design and build a conversational interface (eg Alexa skill) to help Bible memorisation.

  • UX Design
  • NodeJS
  • AWS Lambda

Stewardship: Cause Finder

What motivates people to give to charties, and how might we link people up with charities that match with the causes that God has put on their heart?

  • UX
  • Data and API
  • Design
  • Web

Go Chatter Media: Clever Gifs

CleverGIFs create personalised animations for email marketing. We're in the process of launching this product to support the ministry of Go Chatter Videos with a viable revenue stream.

  • Laravel
  • Vue.JS
  • Blender
  • AWS

CARE: Election Website

In 2024 there will be a general election in the UK, we want to create the very best, interactive resource for Christians ahead of the next General Election to inspire, inform and equip them to show up, vote and engage effectively.

  • Design
  • Ideation
  • Prototyping
  • Development

Bible Stories for Software Developers: Genesis One - a DSL?

The "Let there be..." statements in Genesis 1 have a coding parallel with type definition. What if we made a Domain Specific Language that let us define types/classes that way?

  • Design
  • Development
  • Language
  • Testing
  • Visual Studio
  • C#
  • TypeScript

ChurchSuite: Know Your Team

A tool to gather and analyse personality test data (Working Genius, Myers Briggs, Enneagram) to help church teams identify and best use their God-given abilities.

  • Design
  • Laravel
  • Vue
  • AWS Serverless
  • TailwindCSS

DiscipleshipTech: PrayerMate Web Interface

A long term feature request for PrayerMate has been the ability to manage prayer requests on the web, with a full sized keyboard and screen.

  • Flutter for Web
  • Firebase Auth
  • Design
  • Flutter

Upsio

Work on a passion product being used within Shrewsbury's foodbank to help maintaining client records and stock control on a single web based platform.

  • Design
  • Ideation
  • Prototyping
  • Development

Compassion: Virtual Sponsored Events

Working with existing virtual challenge concepts (Strava integration, mapping, leader board & community chat, milestone celebrations, etc.) and layer on Compassion’s unique projects and content.

  • Design
  • API integration
  • App Dev
  • Backend services

build 2022 Blog posts

This is a list of the latest 5 blog posts tagged with build-2022. View all posts from Kingdom Code on the Kingdom Code blog.

Blog post - November 2022

Reflecting on BUILD 2022

Blog post - October 2022

GoChatter; four years at BUILD

Church Times - October 2022

Christian coders attend hackathon

ChurchSuite - October 2022

ChurchSuite Coding for the Kingdom

Blog post - September 2022

How can your tech skills be used to serve the gospel at BUILD ‘22?

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

14 – 15 October 2022

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