Get ready to kick off Leeds Digital Festival 2025 with purpose, creativity, and collaboration at the Reboot Power Up: Leeds Hackathon, a one-day innovation sprint designed to bring together the brightest minds from across West Yorkshire’s tech and business communities.
Taking place at Lloyds Banking Group’s Wellington Place offices in Leeds, this high-energy event invites teams of six from local companies to tackle a real-world social challenge and build a working prototype – all in just one business day.
Whether you’re a developer, designer, strategist, or storyteller, this is your chance to make a difference while showcasing your team’s talent. Reboot Power Up is the Lloyds Banking Group model for one-day hackathons, designed to aid rapid prototyping of ideas.
We are pleased to announce Reboot Power Up is being hosted in partnership with Burendo, who will be providing facilitation and coaching for the hackathon participants, and HackathonParty, who will be hosting the hackathon on their innovative new collaboration platform.
Applications are now open to company teams based in West Yorkshire. Successful applicants will be notified at the start of September. We encourage teams to bring a diverse mix of skills – from coding and UX to data, product, and comms – to maximise creativity and impact. Maximum 6 people in each team.
The challenge will be revealed in advance to the teams selected to take part and will be focussed on powering up the local economy. This will give teams time to think, plan, and dream big. On the day, you’ll have access to HackathonParty’s collaboration platform, fast Wi-Fi, and full catering to keep the ideas (and energy) flowing. You’re free to bring any tools and technologies you are familiar with to the complete the hack – please come prepared with any development and test environments already configured.
Leeds Hackathon promises a fun, inclusive, and fast-paced environment where innovation thrives. Whether you’re in it to win the top prize, build something meaningful, or simply connect with peers across the region, this is your moment to shine.
So, gather your team, bring your A-game, and let’s reboot what’s possible, together.
👥 Team Size: Strictly teams of 6 people (Company teams only, sorry, no individual hackers this year)
🎯 Goal: Build a working prototype to address a social issue (to be announced)
🏆 Prize: Yes! There will be a prize for the winning idea
🍽️ Catering: Provided – also join us for celebrations after the event
💡 Tech: Your choice – just bring your tools and creativity
Apply now and help to power up Leeds!
Lloyds Banking Group is the UK’s largest digital bank with 28 million customers, 23 million of whom are digitally active. Our aim is to become the UK’s largest FinTech, offering our customers hyper-personalised services and seamless experiences on their device and channel of choice. We’re investing over £4bn in our people, processes, technology and data to make this happen. It’s the largest digital transformation in our sector, and we’re taking an iterative approach to help us move even faster. We produce the No Ordinary Tech Podcast, which topped the Tech Podcast charts in 2024.
Burendo is a progressive technology and business consultancy based in West Yorkshire and London. We bring brilliant minds together to help clients solve their biggest business challenges. We specialise in delivering straightforward solutions to complex problems, and our end-to-end capabilities cover everything needed to design, build, and run business-critical systems. As trusted delivery partners, we work collaboratively with clients to add value seamlessly, building long-term relationships. Our team thrives on solving tough problems and contributing to our culture of learning and innovation. We’re actively involved in our local tech communities and are passionate about sharing knowledge and learning from others.
HackathonParty helps you get the most out of your hackathon by making team formation, collaboration, and idea generation fast and easy. It guides you through sessions like brainstorming and demos, so your team stays aligned and makes real progress. With built-in feedback and live updates, you’ll always know what’s working and where to focus next.
Product Owner, Lloyds Banking Group
