List of hackathons in Aurora, Canada in 2017

Students and professionals in the Greater Toronto Area! Are you interested in creating a welcoming environment for Syrian and other refugees? Newcomer Kitchen invites you to participate in their 2017 Social Enterprise Hackathon. You'll collaborate to develop a sustainable Newcomer Kitchen model that provides a replicatable means of welcoming newcomer groups into Canadian communities.

Education techies in the Greater Toronto Area! You're invited to participate in EducaTech Toronto's event: How Tech/AI is disrupting our approach to education. You'll hear a great panel discussion and then participate in a 48-hour uninterrupted coding marathon on Blended Learning.

Edutech enthusiasts in the Greater Toronto Region! Voila Learning invites you to participate in their Educatech Hackathon. At this 48-hour event, you'll collaborate in a team of three and use Unity to prototype an innovative 3D game that supports Second Language Learning. Come as a team or join one at the event.

Founders, c-suite tech leaders, corporate leaders, and entrepreneurs in the Greater Toronto Region! Do you support 'moving the dial' on opportunities for women to advance? You're invited to participate in a full-day hackathon -- Solving for Sponsorship in the New Economy. You'll collaborate with like-minded individuals to design innovative approaches that help facilitate career sponsorship for women.

NOTE: The class will be delivered in a small group of 8-10 trainees. Please let us know if you are willing to join but the dates do not work for you. If there are requests from the majority of the group, we can consider other dates in late October. You can vote for the best dates: http://doodle.com/poll/af8qg52nce9ugm6e, or email us: training@altoros.com. Hyperledger Fabric is the leading open source software platform for permissioned enterprise blockchains. Learn how to use the latest version (1.0) of Hyperledger Fabric codebase in a real blockchain network environment where you can play with smart contract deployments. Is your team planning to build blockchain applications for your industry use case or project? Do you want to become fully skilled for building commercial-grade blockchain applications on Hyperledger Fabric 1.0 and deploying private blockchain networks? Then this advanced course is what you need! Course duration: 3 days (8 hrs per day). Objectives: Learn concepts and use cases of permissioned blockchains. Learn architecture of Fabric 1.0, setup network, run smart contracts. Learn to write smart contracts and deploy them in a complete blockchain application. Benefits to you: Solid hands-on technical skills developing and deploying blockchain applications with Hyperledger Fabric. Interactive experience with expert trainers who have built working blockchain apps, an opportunity to ask questions and get real-life examples. Who should attend? Developers who have understanding of blockchains and want to know how to design and write their own blockchain applications on top of Hyperledger Fabric V1.0. If you experimented with smart contracts, or worked with Ethereum, other blockchains, and want to dive into Fabric 1.0 - this is the right course for you. Prerequisites: Working knowledge of Java Basic understanding of PKI and docker Development environment with JDK 1.8, Gradle or Go, and Docker Compose (docker is optional) ssh access to AWS EC2, IBM Bluemix or local Ubuntu Please bring your laptop with pre-installed JDK, Gradle or Go, and Docker Compose  Notes: - java version "1.8.0_131"- Gradle 3.5- Docker is optional- An instance of Ubuntu either locally on laptop or in the cloud (AWS, Bluemix).While we can provide an instance in the cloud, your own instance is preferred as you'll be able to keep it after the training.An instance in the cloud is preferred to local as we'll download quite a few docker images and cannot rely on the auditorium wifi's throughput.  Training Program Day 1 Introduction Introduction to blockchain technology Public and permissioned blockchains Use cases for permissioned blockchains Hyperledger project Fabric 1.0 Workshop Fabric 1.0 architecture Endorsers, orderers, clients, smart contracts Set up development network Anatomy of config files and crypto material Deploy and exercise example smart contracts Day 2 Fabric 1.0 Workshop You will study in detail the transactions workflow and spend a sizable amount of time on experiments with blockchain. The training helps developers acquire solid technical skills in building blockchain applications on Hyperledger Fabric v1.0. The students will learn how to develop working blockchain apps with Hyperledger Fabric SDK, how to deploy local blockchain networks, as well as understand the confidentiality basics in Hyperledger Fabric. Agenda: Write your own smart contract in Go Comparison of Smart contract developed in Go or Java (performance, ease of deployment, etc.) Custom Events Endorsement policies Overview of SDKs for Node and Java Overview of Fabric Composer Day 3 Hackathon Students will leave with the ability to develop full-featured blockchain applications, write not only a smart contract in Go or Java, but also the client code and full interface of the application. Learn from an experienced trainer who has delivered working blockchain solutions. Agenda: Identify a use case for a blockchain application Design identities, entities, transactions Design network, consortium Use Node SDK to create application API Create secure web front end About the Trainer: Oleg Abdrashitov, Blockchain Practice Lead, Trainer Oleg Abdrashitov heads the Blockchain Practice at Altoros and the Requirements Working Group at Hyperledger. Oleg's career spans 20 years in software development for the financial services companies. He has built systems supporting high frequency trading, middle office and online exchanges. Oleg has worked at top investment banks, hedge funds and has founded startups and consultancies. He is currently engaged by clients in finance and insurance to train engineers and architects on blockchain. Together with team Altoros, Oleg won the blockchain hackathon at Consensus 2016 with Decentralized Energy Utility Project, and led delivery of a number of blockchain solutions. Some of the prototypes can be found in Hyperledger's demo directory: Distributed Clearing Platform For Derivatives, and Bond Issuance and Trading. The most recent project Oleg has been working on is Commercial Bonds Platform with National Settlement Depository. Oleg has delivered public Hyperledger Fabric classes in Boston, New York, San Francisco, as well as private training for corporate teams, and has been referred to as a highly competent instructor aspiring to bring students to the high level of understanding Fabric technology. Contact the Organizers: Please email us at training@altoros.com if you have questions about the training agenda or need a custom in-house course for your team. Payment options: Need an invoice for your company to pay for this training? Or would like to pay via PayPal? Send us a note at training@altoros.com. Please help us spread the word! We'll appreciate if you share this training with your friends or colleagues who might be interested.   About the Organizer: Altoros is a digital transformation consultancy that has built a reputation in blockchain space. We are an active member of Hyperledger project, contributing expertise of our engineers. We have built a number of blockchain application prototypes for insurance and financial services clients and conducted technical training on Hyperledger Fabric 0.6 for a large financial services corporation, as well as a number of blockchain workshops for executives in (Re)Insurance, Lending & Securitization field.

Ideas people in the Greater Toronto Area! Are you interested in collaborating on solutions to the world's biggest problems? Want to get involved with the OpenIDEO global community? The OpenIDEO Toronto Chapter invites you to participate in the Gratitude in the Workplace Hackathon. You'll collaborate to come up with innovative approaches to redesign appreciation in the workplace! If your project is judged to be one of the best, you may be selected for an implementation grant.

High school students in the Greater Toronto Area! canCODE invites you to participate in the hackCODE: canCODE Hackathon -- the first ever hackathon in the area created and designed specifically for you! You'll get the opportunity to participate in 12 hours of coding, workshops, and teambuilding exercises! Come as a member of your own 2-4 student team, or join one at the event. If you've already completed high school, you're still welcome to attend.

Join us in Toronto and help us shape the future of functional testing in Ruby. Our key participants include: Bret Pettichord - Founder of Watir and member of original launch team for Selenium Jeff "Cheezy" Morgan - Author of the Page Object gem (and a host of other testing gems) Titus Fortner - Current Maintainer of Ruby Selenium Bindings and current project lead for Watir Ruby is an excellent language in which to write automated browser tests. It is easy to read, fun to use, and has dozens of different gems that do all kinds of different things that make it easier to write and maintain test suites at all levels of complexity. We'd like to improve how some of these gems work together and be able to provide a packaged collection of code that makes it easier for people to ramp up their automated test suites from scratch. I've been calling this idea the "Rails of Automated Testing." In the same way that Rails made it easy and fun for people without much domain experience to create a web application, there is a more specialized need to provide a solution like this for people tasked with writing automated tests. This might not be a typical hackathon, but we will be deciding on objectives and splitting up into groups to dig into code to make it happen. Organizers will be on hand to answer questions or provide deep dives into the code bases. Options for exploration will include things like: test data management, session configuration, mobile APIs, page modeling and project scaffolding. Please bring your testing experience and/or your coding skills and join us in Toronto. Friday:11:30 - Doors open12 - Introductions and Overview1 - Coding!5 - Break for dinner/drinksSaturday:9:30 - Doors open (breakfast)10:00 - Recap previous day11 - Coding!1 - Lunch Break2 - Coding!4 - Presentations, What nexts and Departing thoughts5 - Break for dinner/drinksSponsors:Loblaw Digital:Loblaw Digital is the team building and operating the digital businesses for Canada's largest and most successful retailer. We create leading responsive e-commerce experiences, including Loblaws Click & Collect, an innovative online grocery shopping experience. We've also built and now operate the award-winning JoeFresh.com, along with the iPad/iPhone app. We are based in downtown Toronto and operate like a startup with the resources of a much larger company. We are an entrepreneurial, fast-paced, collaborative, and fun team working towards transforming the way Canadians shop.Sauce Labs:Sauce Labs makes automated testing awesome. Our cloud-based platform helps developers test native & hybrid mobile and web applications across hundreds of browser / OS platforms, including iOS, Android & Mac OS X. Sauce supports Selenium, Appium and popular JavaScript unit testing frameworks, and integrates with all of the top programming languages, test frameworks and CI systems. With built-in video recording and screenshots of every test case, debugging tools, and secure tunneling for local or firewalled testing. Sauce makes running, debugging and scaling test suites quick and easy. To get started for free, visit saucelabs.com.

High school techies in the Greater Toronto Area! Cipher invites you to participate in Bonfire '17 -- a 24-hour hackathon where you will collaborate with like-minded student coders to use technology to create innovative projects, and make their ideas into reality. Come as a team of four people, or form one at the event. You don't have to be an expert -- you can use one of your four team slots to add a hand-picked expert mentor to your team.

Saturday, August 5th, 2017 at Mississauga Celebration Square DawaNet is pleased to announce an Interfaith Dialogue session to address social problems. The aim is to have a brainstorming session where faith communities come together based on shared values of charity, empathy, hospitality, and work towards providing support based community resources for all members of society. Part A: This session will serve as the discovery phase focusing on faith systems coming together to address a local problem (sustainability, food deserts etc.) and work towards an innovative solution that cultivates meaningful relationships. Part B: The second part will be an open dialogue where attendees brainstorm ideas for the Interfaith Hackathon. If you have experience organizing hackathons, love to create something new or are interested in getting invovled for the first time, than join us! But please register soon, as seating is limited. You're also invited to experience the opening of “Canada 150” a multi-media ceremony that starts on Friday August 4th, and continues all weekend long. The exhibit showcases the contributions Canadian Muslims have made towards Canada’s economic growth, community service, diversity, and heritage. From volunteering at local soup kitchens, to building dialogue with interfaith delegates, helping Syrian refugees or housing victims from the Fort McMurray fire, Canadian Muslims have given back to their communities from coast-to-coast and the Canada 150 exhibit gathers their stories to illustrate the humanity and service that has brought communities together. Event Details: Saturday, August 5th | 1:00  - 2:00 pm* Mississauga Celebration Square | Classroom 3 300 City Centre Dr, Mississauga, ON L5B 3C1 - MuslimFest attracts over 30,000 visitors and welcomes everyone each year to a display artistry rich in history hundreds of years old, and also promotes a lineup of fresh young performers ready to become household names. DawaNet is a Canadian Muslim community empowerment, engagement, and education organization, based out of Mississauga, Ontario. DawaNet specializes in creative methods of outreach and community development. Contact: Sana Khawaja media@muslimfest.ca