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Women in STEM Q&A Panel Discussion: Forge Ahead
13 Sep - 06:30 PM
Toronto, Canada
Join the Toronto chapter of Young Women in Business on Thursday, September 13th for a STEM Q&A Panel, focused on the theme 'Forge Ahead'. YWiB Toronto will highlight the different tactics and strategies that help women pasionate about STEM to not only enter, but stay and thrive in their fields. Since women in other male-dominated fields face similar issues, the event is pertinent to all industries.
Women—and their supporters— are invited to attend this Q&A panel to hear from four key speakers (one from each discipline: Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics) and an accomplished moderator.
We seek to empower current and emerging leaders to become agents of change for the future generations of women. Strongly grounded in the realities of the opportunities and challenges faced by business professionals in the STEM industries (and similar industries were women leaders are underrepresented), YWiB will help empower the existing and emerging generations of women, and teach them the tools they need to forge ahead in their respective fields.
YWiB believes every woman and young professional, whether stepping into the workforce, opening their own business, growing in their career, or consideringa a career change, should be well-equipped with the proper set of tools and knowledge to reach their fullest personal and professional potential. Thus, this event will also serve to connect aspiring attendees with role models, with the goal of nourishing relationships and fostering a supportive STEM community. Attendees will gain the opportunity to expand their leadership skill set by engaging in an interactive session created by leaders themselves and leave with tangible skills and knowledge to apply to their careers.
When: Thursday, September 13, 2018
Where: Telus Tower, 25 York Street, 5th Floor, Toronto M5J 2V5
Schedule:
6:30pm | Doors open, with 30 minutes for registration check-in and networking
7:00 pm | Sharp start for 1.5 hour panel discussion, including questions from audience
8:30pm | 30 minutes of networking before doors close at 9pm
MEET OUR STEM PANELISTS
MODERATOR: Ruth Fernandez, MAPC
Ruth Fernandez, MAPC, is a Change Management leader and scholar known for her ability to inspire and motivate multigenerational, ethnically diverse, and geographically dispersed teams. She completed a Bachelors of Arts in Journalism at Ryerson University, and her Masters Degree in Professional Communications at Royal Roads University. Her research project examined how technology firms leverage advertising to attract teen girls to STEM careers. Her study uncovered the counterproductive patriarchal discourses hidden in the ads and its potential damaging consequences. As an IBM consultant, Ruth focuses on creating and implementing strategies to enable and empower employees to adopt new behaviours and new technologies. Dedicated to the mentoring of girls, Ruth is an active member of the Big Brothers and Big Sisters organization in Montreal where she serves as a local chapter board member and was responsible for the chapter’s first social media engagement strategy. In her free time, Ruth Fernandez enjoys travelling, spending time with family, attending hockey games, and being a role model for her nieces.
Read our interview here
SCIENCE: Dr. Ilana MacDonald
Dr. Ilana MacDonald grew up in a small town in rural Quebec where she was inspired by the clear night skies and her father's "midlife crisis telescope" to study Astronomy. She completed her Bachelors of Science in Physics at Bishop's University, and her Doctorate in Astronomy & Astrophysics at the University of Toronto, studying under Prof. Harald Pfeiffer. Her doctoral research topic was to test the accuracy of models of ripples in spacetime, that is, gravitational waves, from binary black holes for detectors such as LIGO. Since graduating with her PhD in 2013, Dr. MacDonald has decided to pursue a career in STEM outreach and education, and has tried everything from working in a Math tutoring centre to being a science consultant for a documentary. She currently works in the Department of Astronomy & Astrophysics managing some of the largest courses at the University of Toronto, as well as creating and presenting planetarium shows. In her free time, Dr. MacDonald enjoys reading science fiction, knitting, playing the ukulele, and riding around Toronto on her bicycle.
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TECHNOLOGY: Abhilasha Bhatia
Abhilasha Bhatia is a software engineer at Finaeo Inc. Her forte is backend development. From time to time she delves into frontend and dev-op projects that give control of the full development stack. She is a self-proclaimed science geek and loves to read articles on scientific innovation, especially about astronomical sciences.
Abhilasha’s encounters with technology started of as a kid in India playing with handheld game consoles. The very first building blocks were learning the “turtle graphics” in 3rd grade, using the Logo programming language. Followed by the widely discussed Y2K bug which gave her a realization of how technology is converging the world. Ever so pumped up with it, she took off to pursue an undergraduate in Computer Science from a state university in India and then decided to move on to pursuing higher studies in the United States. These were the years she faced the stark truth about the number of women opting for technology as their major. The female:male ratios in classes were astonishing. Fighting off the complex of “being the only girl” or “one of the two” to raise hands or participate in hackathons, she continued to tread her way past it to enter the workforce where the story wasn’t very different. As one goes up the ladder, the ratio bends further towards one side.
Those experiences made her question the causes behind such disparity among female students picking up STEM majors to actually pursuing and staying in these fields as a career. This is the major reason Abhilasha want her voice to make a difference by reaching to a greater audience.
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ENGINEERING: Barbara Robinson
Barbara A. Robinson, M.A.Sc., P.Eng., established Norton Engineering Inc. in 2015 following a successful 25-year private sector career and highlighted by two years as City Engineer for Kitchener. Norton initiated the ongoing “Addressing Unacceptable Inflow and Infiltration (I/I) in New Subdivisions”, which is currently gaining national attention; she has given dozens of presentations on the topic. She functions as senior QA/QC on Halton Region’s Downspout Disconnection projects and the Fort Erie Pollution Control Plan. She has provided ongoing wastewater engineering services for the Township of Woolwich since 2001. Norton was works regularly with the Institute for Catastrophic Loss Reduction (ICLR) to undertake various projects, including a long-term project to calculate the “Societal Costs of I/I” and “Engineering Data and Flood Risk”. Barbara is currently Chairwoman of the CSA committee to develop a new national Basement Flood Protection Guideline (expected to evolve into a Standard), which was just posted for public review. She sits on the WEAO Collections Systems Committee, ICLR Municipal Advisory Committee, and advises on the Durham Climate Resistance Standard for New Houses and the new BC Housing Standard. She also works for NRC and SCC.
Barbara works as a paid infrastructure columnist with CBC Radio, speaking on a wide range of infrastructure and engineering issues such as sewers, flooding, potholes & water towers. The column is regularly delivered on CBC Radio’s morning shows across Ontario.
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MATHEMATICS: Dr. Sarah Mayes-Tang
Sarah Mayes-Tang received her undergraduate degree in mathematics from Queen’s University, and her Master’s and PhD degrees in pure mathematics from the University of Michigan. Her dissertation was in computational algebra and algebraic geometry, and investigated questions about infinite collections of polynomials.
After receiving her PhD, Dr. Mayes-Tang joined the faculty of Quest University Canada, a liberal arts institution in British Columbia dedicated to undergraduate education. While there, she developed and taught innovative courses in both traditional and non-traditional areas including calculus, abstract algebra, cryptology, creativity in mathematics, and knowledge. She also initiated and led several University-level projects.
Following four years at Quest, Dr. Mayes-Tang moved to the Department of Mathematics at the University of Toronto. She currently leads a team of instructors and TAs as coordinator for the University’s largest-enrolment calculus sequence. Her current projects include documenting the experiences of women teachers and students in math classrooms, developing programs to support TAs, and helping students to develop positive attitudes towards mathematics.
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The Blockchain Society Presents shyftHACK Developers Hackathon & Conference
11 Sep - 12:30 PM
Toronto, Canada
#shyhftHACK is the first Hackathon hosted by Shyft.Network!
This event’s theme? Games.
Join us! Create something fun. Meet great people. Win great prizes.
CHALLENGE & PRIZES
Your challenge: Build a cool gamer score infrastructure incorporating Shyft's creditability score and attestation layer.
We’re looking for solutions that are creative. Bonus points for ones that allow interoperability between games!
Your prize:
1st place - $1500 in ETH, 500 SHYFT Tokens, & 2 year access to Blockgeeks
2nd place - $500 in ETH and 500 SHYFT Tokens
Surprise! We’d be also giving away 1000 SHYFT tokens during the event!
All teams who particpate will get 50% Blockgeeks memberships!
WHO CAN HACK?
SKILL REQUIREMENTS
Intermediate to advanced
Understand how to set up a developer environment
Language: Solidity
Ability to run a test version
Want to get involved in another way? We’d love to chat with potential mentors, and judges! Just email karla@shyft.network to get connected.
If you are a developer group or organization and wish to get involved! Just email sales@theentrepreneurshipsociety.com to get connected.
WHAT WE EXPECT FROM YOU?
Your submission should include a set of smart contracts that utilize the ERC721 (non-fungible token) interface for any in-game items that would be associated to the gamerscore (badges for example), a set of smart contracts that work with the Shyft attestation layer to provide a gamerscore/attribution connector, the front end and UX, and user stories.
We all start coding at the same time, and there shouldn’t be a pre-existing smart contracts.
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For Submissions: Please prepare a github repo that hasn't been created before. ie. no pre-existing smart contracts & the like.
More details for submission will be provided at the event.
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TENTATIVE SCHEDULE *This is a day event*
12:30 pm - 12:30: Orientation PWP and team formation
12:30 pm - 1:00: Lunch
1:00 pm - 2:00: Workshop on Shyft Blockchain and how to build a gaming dApp
2:00 pm - 6:00: Coding kick off & Hacking
6:00 pm - 6:15: Refreshment Break
7:30 pm: Code Freeze & Submission Deadline
7:30 pm - 8:15: Demos
8:15 pm: Winners are announced & Prizes!
JUDGES AND MENTORS
Chris Forrester - CTO @ Shyft
Niloo Ravaei - Technical Instructor @ Blockgeeks
Chinmay Patel - CEO @ BlockX Labs
Gold Sponsor:
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We are partnered with BUNZ, to buy tickets with BTZ please transfer the final total in Universe x 100 to the address (QR Code) below.
E.g. If final total is $63.78, then (63.78 x 100 = 6378) transfer 6378 BTZ.
Then please email sales@theentrepreneurshipsociety.com with your name, the time you transferred the BTZ, and for what event. Thank you.
GrowUp Cannabis Hackathon
06 Sep - 01:00 PM
Toronto, Canada
The first-ever GrowUp Cannabis Hackathon will take place Sept. 6-7, where hackers will build innovative tech solutions to the fast-growing cannabis industry.
Competing hackers will explore ideas for tracking, purchasing, reporting, strain identification, verification, integration with the entertainment industry, and much more.
After a 24 hour overnight hacking session in Toronto, the winning teams head to Niagara Falls for the awards presentations and ceremony at the GrowUp Conference.
Confirmed partners include Trellis, Cannabis & Tech Today, Leaf Forward, herb.co, LyricFind, LyricMerch, TourBuds, Brainsights, Beanfield, RadioMogul by Mediazoic, Hotbox, Rosenzweig & Co, Merry Jane, PAX, Hacker Noon and Devpost. Plus restaurant partners Smoke's Poutinerie and Quesada Burritos.
Confirmed judges include Jay Rosenzweig (Managing Director of Rosenzweig & Co), Alex Blumenstein (Co-Founder of Leaf Forward, Canada's first cannabis business accelerator), Matt Shalhoub (Managing Director of Green Acre Capital), and Rachel Colic (VP Brand Strategy & PR for Pure Global Cannabis Inc.).
PRIZES: 1) Fine art Cannabis photographs from Cali Brothers Cannabis Prints. Top shelf, fine art photographs of quality cannabis flowers printed on metal.
2) One year free Leaf Club membership for the winning team (up to five members) + Five Office Hours sessions with the Leaf Forward (Canada’s first and leading cannabis business accelerator) team.
3) Original GrowUp Hackathon LyricMerch T-Shirts with lyrics for "Easy Skanking" printed on front. We'll outfit each winning team
4) TourBuds VIP Trip to Niagara Falls for GrowUp Hackathon Winners. The 3 winning teams will get to travel in luxury on the amazing TourBuds bus, round trip from Toronto to Niagara Falls on Friday Sept. 7 after the hackathon ends.
5) Pax 3 Complete Kits. Courtesy of Pax and HotBox.
4) Cannabis & Tech Today subscription. Cannabis & Tech Today is a quarterly publication specializing in technological advancements, business innovations, and popular culture pertaining to the marijuana industry.
Questions? Email HackathonVentures@gmail.com.
Make a difference!
04 Sep - 11:59 PM
Toronto, Canada
Sustainable development, employee engagement and fighting inequality are key issues that are an integral part of the insurance business !
Whether you’re a novice or an expert in the world of insurance, this challenge is an opportunity to demonstrate your creative potential: unique prototype, innovative programme, new offering, or something else entirely, it’s over to you to design THE perfect solution that will amaze the TD Insurance teams!
Hack The 6ix 2018
24 Aug - 03:48 PM
Toronto, Canada
Hackers from across North America! You're invited to participate in Hack the 6ix -- Toronto’s largest summer hackathon. Come with a team of up to four techies, or join a team at the event. You'll get to collaborate and compete during 36 hours of design and coding. Conceive, design, and prototype your hardware or software project from scratch! Pitch your solution to a panel of judges and showcase your hacker chops in front of some of the top companies in North America.
Global Blockchain Hackathon - Canada
04 Aug - 10:00 AM
Toronto, Canada
Canadian blockchain coder/developer teams in the Greater Toronto Area! The International Data Engineering and Science Association (IDEAS) invites you to participate in the Global Blockchain Hackathon - Canada, to be held at the University of Toronto. You'll collaborate on a 2-day blockchain project and compete for prizes, as well as for the opportunity to progress to the Final Round & Conference in Chicago.
Get the best Global Blockchain hackathon advice here!
IntersectTO BIPOC Hackathon
28 Jul - 10:00 AM
Toronto, Canada
Black folks, Indigenous folks, and People of Colour (BIPOC) in the Greater Toronto area! You're invited to participate in the one-day IntersectTO BIPOC Hackathon. You'll get to network with BIPOC coders, designers, artists, and activists, to learn about technology and collaborate, swap ideas and skills with them to build tech projects for BIPOC communities! You'll work in a team to build an awesome project -- a website, an app, or a game -- or analyze/visualize data, create a toolkit, or design graphics and campaigns.
Re:Engineering Retail Hackathon Competition - Presented by Oxford Properties Group and The Fashion Zone at Ryerson University
28 Jul - 09:00 AM
Toronto, Canada
Hackers, engineers, designers, developers, and innovators in Ontario. If you're interested in retail technology, then the Fashion Zone and Oxford Properties Group invite you to participate in the Re:Engineering Retail Hackathon Competition. Collaborate and compete for great cash prizes and memberships at The Fashion Zone.
Imagine: The Future of Work & Learning
27 Jul - 06:00 PM
Brampton, Canada
Parents, students, teachers, techies in Ontario! If you're interested in the use of learning technology, then you're invited to participate in Imagine: The Future of Work & Learning. You'll get to explore how technologies such as artificial intelligence, blockchain, and robotics can be applied to work and learning. Come collaborate with like-minded individuals and compete as you present your learning technology project to a panel of judges.
nobulHACK - Blockchain Hackathon + Learnathon
23 Jun - 10:00 AM
Toronto, Canada
Hello Fellow hackers!
The Blockchain Society is back, and this time with a blockchain Hackathon + Learnathon! What is a Hackathon + Learnathon you may ask? Well, with the increasing popularity of blockchain technology in the industry today, there comes a desire to always be ahead of the curve; with this event, we will bring you up to speed on some of the hottest tech to hit the blockchain space, which you can then use directly in your Hackathon projects to win great prizes!
The Learnathon will commence in the morning on June 24th, and will continue in the afternoon. Once attendees have a firm grasp on the blockchain stack, the Hackathon will begin! We hope that this format will allow newcomers to the blockchain space to learn something new, and allow the veterans to hone their skills on the tech stack we are going to be working with during the event.
Who can hack
This hackathon/learnathon is exclusively for developers who fit the below criteria. The Blockchain Society reserves the right to decline entry of any Blockchain developers who do not fit our hackathon/learnathon criteria.
Note: Refunds will be issued if a ticket has already been purchased and the criteria has not been met.
The Criteria
1. 2+ years of prior development experience2. A valid GitHub account with adequate commit history3. Professionally affiliated with the technology community in Toronto or surrounding cities
Teams
We suggest teams of no more than 6 individuals. You can organize teams prior to the event, and we will be sending around a teams signup form on the day of the Hackathon.
Schedule
23 Jun Activity
8.30am Registration & team formation; breakfast
9am Opening Remarks from Nobul Corporation
9.30am Microsoft Workshop
11.30am *Workshop Opportunity*
12pm Lunch with Sponsors
1pm *Workshop Opportunity*
1.30pm *Workshop Opportunity*
2pm KeyNote by Nobul Corporation
3pm Hackathon starts
7pm Dinner with Sponsors
24 Jun Activity
12am Hacking Continues
9am Breakfast served
12pm Lunch with Judges
2.30pm Hacking concluded and judging to begin
5pm Winners Announced
5.30pm Final remarks by Nobul
Rules
We know some rules are meant to be broken, but you should probably (read: definitely) stick by these:
1. Fresh Code - We all start coding at the same time. It’s cool to work on designs beforehand, digital mockups, open source frameworks, and anything else available to everyone, but keep things within fair limits.
2. Code Review - Winning teams may be subject to a code-review at some point following the event or immediately before winning. This is to ensure that all code used is in fact fresh.
3. Ownership and IP - You own your IP and whatever you create. Simple as that.
4. Team Size - No more than five people.
5. Submissions - Each team will have a designated google drive folder where projects need to be submitted by the designated time. You’ll receive an email with instructions on how to do just that.
6. Demos - You’ll have 2 minutes to demo the functionality of your project and talk through your idea, and 1 minute for Q&A from judges.
Judging
How is the hackathon judged?Projects will be judged based on the following criteria, with a total of 5 points per criteria:
Fundability: How fundable is this idea? Is there potential for a sustainable business model?
Execution: How well was the project executed and explained? Did it work?
UI/UX: Beyond design, was the end-to-end user experience for the solution considered?
Originality: How original, creative or unique is the idea?
Scalability: How scalable is the solution? Will it make an impact?
Ambassadors
- Will Mero (marketing@theblockchainsociety,ca)
- Bill Hennessey
Lead Sponsor
Silver Sponsors
Community Partners