List of hackathons in Hamilton, Canada in 2017

HamOnt IoT is all about the “Internet of Things”… low cost and kick ass, featuring experts from within and abroad for a full day of talks… We would love for you to join us on Saturday June 24th! Check out the schedule of talks below!  HamOnt IoT attendees can also expect morning coffee & snacks, lunch, afternoon drinks & snacks, and an after party! Schedule 9:00 a.m. — 10:00 a.m. Arrival and registration!  We'll have coffee and snacks available! 10:00 a.m — 12:00 p.m. Colin Gagich (@colingagich) Owner, NVC Software Solutions Talk: HitchBOT, the hitchhiking robot (@HitchBOT) Bio: Colin Gagich operates NVC Software Solutions, a software company which performs contract design and development work based in Hamilton, Ontario. Through NVC, Colin has worked with clients in the Aircraft Deicing Industry, HVAC Industry and Restaurant Point of Sales Industry. Colin specializes in embedded system design, mobile application development and web application development. Colin has been operating NVC Software Solutions since 2013. Ian Pilon Ambient Intelligence Specialist Talk: Ambient Intelligence: Human-Computer Interaction Design & Smart Environments Bio: Ian Pilon is an IoT product designer from Kitchener Waterloo Ontario. He studies the relationships between humans and computers and how to interact with physical objects that are evolving into the digital domain. Ian is the Founder and Managing Director of IoT Waterloo Region and IoT GTA, a peer to peer network group of over 2,000+ members who meet-up quarterly for professional networking and learning from industry speakers. He’s also the founder of the "Ambient Intelligence Conference" held annually in the Waterloo Region. Nick Tomkin Director of Orbital Studios Lightning Talk: Creating Carina Carina is a lightweight, portable structure that takes photos of guests at various public or private events and locations, and uploads them directly to Twitter, Facebook and/or Instagram, complete with captions, photo frames, as well as the event hashtag and branding. Lightning talks - 10–15m each! Adrian Duyzer of Parallel on Taking Advantage Of The IoT Opportunity 12:00 p.m. — 1:00 p.m. Fantastic lunch! Gluten free and vegetarian option will be available. 1:00 p.m. — 3:00 p.m. James Arlen (@myrcurial) Director of Risk and Advisory Services at Leviathan Security Group Talk: Avoiding common security issues in novel IoT products Bio: James Arlen is Leviathan’s Director of Risk and Advisory Services. Over the past twenty plus years, James has been delivering information security solutions to Fortune 500, TSE 100, and major public-sector organizations. James is involved in information security policy, process, and procedure improvements for internationally known manufacturing and financial organizations and has held key contributor roles as CISO of a publicly traded financial institution and as Information Security Coordinator at a large scale power utility. Best described as: “Infosec geek, hacker, social activist, author, speaker, and parent”, James' areas of interest include organizational change, social engineering, blinky lights and shiny things. James founded Hamilton’s first makerspace think|haus before the Internet had Things. He is also a contributing analyst with Securosis and has a recurring column on Liquidmatrix Security Digest. James is a frequent speaker at industry conferences and is a prolific contributor to standards bodies and media. Sam Reid (ioTcan) Director of Business Development for ioTcan Talk: Launching a nationwide loRaWAN M2M (machine-to-machine) IoT network Bio: IoTCAN is a next generation wide area network designed specifically for IoT solutions. Sam's talk will cover ioTcan's work to deliver a robust, carrier grade network to enable the reliable bi-directional communication of connected devices and machines. Initially launching in the GTA IoTCAN will quickly expand their network to offer service in other major cities nationally and then full nationwide coverage. This network is being built on a recognized global standard for low power wide area coverage established by the LoRa Alliance. LoRaWAN™ is a Low Power Wide Area Network (LPWAN) specification intended for wireless battery operated Things. For more information on LoRa please refer to the following sites: www.lora-alliance.org and Semtech. Meg Smith (@megthesmith) Ladies Learning Code Hamilton Chapter Co-Lead Talk: Opportunities and Challenges for Women in Technology Bio: Meg Smith is a Senior Designer at Parallel, the Ladies Learning Code Hamilton Chapter Co-Lead, and loves all things DIY. Her work with LLC was featured in Hamilton Business article. Lightning talks - 10–15m each! Terry George and team on their “FITWIZ” ECE capstone project (McMaster University) 3:00 p.m. — 3:15 p.m. (ish) Break time with drinks and snacks! 3:15 p.m. — 5:00 p.m. John Gerryts IT telecom analyst by day, uber blockchain hacker by night Talk: Project Oaken - The intersection of blockchain and IoT Bio: John Gerryts is a Technologist that has been involved in the cryptocurrency space since 2013. Beginning as an active miner, John is the organizer for the Niagara Bitcoin Meetup Group, and has led a few projects surrounding IoT + Blockchain technology (mostly related to Ethereum.org as early as PoC3). For the last 23 years, John has been involved at different levels of technology, with roles such as Network Administrator, Telecommunications Specialist, and Senior Network & Electronics Integrator. His Project Airlock placed 3rd at the "In Crypto We Trust" Hackathon which has since been mentioned in the Canadian Senate and on the Joe Rogan Experience Podcast by Andreas Antonopolous. Lightning talks - 10–15m each! Lightning talk: Blake Laufer, award-winning investor and entrepreneur on his new IoT parking counter project More speakers to be announced soon! Q&A Panel: Succeeding as an IoT entpreneur Ask whatever you like – this is your opportunity to learn from successful entrepreneurs and investors in person! Panel participants: Blake Laufer: Invester, entrepreneur, and board member of Angel One Investor Network Colin Gagich: McMaster graduate, entrepreneur, hardware and software developer, and creative genius Alex Ross: Lawyer and partner at Gowling WLG in Hamilton specializing in intellectual propert law 5:00 p.m. — 7:00 p.m. Beer and pizza! Make connections, ask more questions of the presenters, and start great conversations about IoT! Sponsors and organizers Thanks to our proud sponsors! If you are interested in sponsoring or contributing in some way please e-mail dpetican@gmail.com for details! Code of Conduct Our conference will follow this standard code of conduct. Code of Awesomeness We encourage everyone to be excellent to one another! FAQs What dietary options are available? Gluten free and vegetarian options will be available.  Although everything will probably be nut free we cannot guarantee this.  If you have any other concerns or requests please contact us. Are there ID or minimum age requirements for the event? Students are welcome, but the minumum age for attendance is 16 What are my transportation / parking options for getting to and from the event? CoMotion is located in downtown Hamilton so getting here by public transit is easy.  During the weekend there's lots of parking within a few blocks Do I have to bring my printed ticket to the event? No. Unless you want to give your ticket to someone else at the last minute in which case we will need to see the printed version of the ticket How is this event only $20!? We have a firm policy: we only organize events that we would want to actually go to ourselves! That means good food, a limit to total attendance, opportunities to learn and interact and a price that is actually affordable for everybody. Thank the sponsors for helping us to make this vision happen :) 2017 HamOnt Events Calendar HamOnt IoT (Internet of Things) - June 24th HamOnt UX (User Experience Design) - Sept... details to be published soon! HamOnt JS (Javascript) - October 21st HamOnt ?? (Surprise Event to be announced!) - December

Designers, data scientists, neuroscientists, idea generators, and coders in the Toronto area! Are you passionate about artificial intelligence? Hackathon.com invites you to participate in the Global AI Hackathon - Toronto. As part of a global hackathon event, you'll work on your own, or collaborate with a team of like-minded individuals from your community. So sign up now and you'll get to work on an AI challenge to be announced...and compete for terrific prizes.

This registration link is for Media and Invited Guests. For regular hackathon and public registration for the opening ceremony, please see the original event page. Agenda 6:30 - Registration7:10 - MC introductory remarks 7:25 - Opening Remarks, City of Toronto7:30 - MPP Han Dong7:35 - Coorporate Sponsors7:45 - Toronto local science and technology community8:10 - Global AI Hackathon Briefing, Synced8:20 - Social, mix and mingle9:00 - Event Concludes Time 6:30 pm - 9:00 pm June 21st, 2017 Location Council Chamber, Toronto City Hall 100 Queen Street West, Toronto, ON About Global AI Hackathon The first Global AI Hackathon is taking place in 15 cities worldwide from June 23-25, 2017, attracting design-thinkers, developers, programmers, marketers and other related experts to come together for 48 hours. Challenges will be announced globally during the kick off of the event, and attendees can pick one of the challenges to work on either by themselves or with a team. After two days of hacking and prototyping, teams have the option to showcase their projects on stage. Your local audience will pick three winners, one for each challenge, prizes TBD. The current Global AI Hackathon is co-sponsored by NEC and Microsoft. Why Toronto? The recent pan-Canadian artificial intelligence strategy launched by the federal government has added $125 million into R&D efforts. We know the opportunities are here and we need the right people to get on board. Global AI Hackthon Co-Sponsors Toronto Strategic Partner Toronto Venue Sponsor Toronto Corporate Sponsor Community Partner Toronto Media Partner Global Initiator -  Hackathon.com  Hackathon.com is a global community of hackathon organizers and a subsidiary of BeMyApp, the leading developer relations agency. Hackathon.com is the initator of the current Global AI Hackathon. Toronto Organizer -  Synced Synced is a global media content provider founded in China that focuses on reporting and analyzing AI and machine intelligence news and information. Synced is recognized by over 500,000 readers and numerous industry partners worldwide. Synced is the current Global AI Hackathon local host for the Toronto and Beijing stations.

Do you want to help reduce food waste? Come and participate in Closing the Food Loop: Open Source Circular Economy Days Toronto. You'll be challenged to work on innovative solutions for a circular food economy for the Toronto area, as well as for the world! Bring your technical skills and creativity -- and help develop a systemic solution to the food waste problem in the Greater Toronto Area.

Canadian hackers, designers, developers, and engineers! You're invited to apply to be one of 70 participants in Hacking Mental Health in the Workplace @eHealth TO Conference 2017. You'll work with researchers and power users from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) to tackle one of nine project challenges for workplace mental health and wellbeing. If your project prototype is selected, there's up to $75,000 in funding available to fully develop it into a validated mental health solution.

Lawyers, paralegals, company executives, entrepreneurs, designers, coders, and data analysts in and around Toronto! You're invited to participate in Toronto's Legal Tech Hackathon. You'll collaborate on a team to design and prototype a software solution to a challenge related to the legal industry. Your solution will help law firms and in-house legal departments better manage their firms. You will select your challenge from the one of the following: 1.Develop a multiple voice to text solution for transcripts. 2.Develop an AI platform to streamline review of legal documents. 3.Develop a platform to monitor progress on a file assigned to lawyers. 4.Wildcard: Your own idea to solve a problem faced by the legal industry.

Join us on twitter with #AIforCommerce SCHEDULE 6:00pm – Doors | Mix & Mingle 6:30pm – Opening Remarks 6:45pm – Panel Introductions 7:00pm – Panel Q & A 7:45pm – Audience Q&A 8:15pm – 9:00pm – Networking & Closing The growth of investment in Artificial Intelligence has been astronomical with companies like IBM, Microsoft and Google spending hundreds of millions of dollars to gain an edge in the development and distribution of AI. As large companies build public software and platforms such as Watson and TensorFlow other companies take those advancements and combine them with specific use cases to build compelling businesses and products. Startups and Venture Capital are also spending hundreds of millions building chatbots, personal assistants and customer service platforms leveraging recent advances in AI, machine learning and NLP. Many of these new startups come from universities such as Waterloo, UofT, McGill and the University of Montreal. Research done at these and other institutions is at the forefront of machine learning. On June 1st, join us in discussing the practical applications of Artificial Intelligence in commerce for businesses large and small. The focus will be on the current ways Artificial Intelligence is changing the way humanity transacts, online and in person. MODERATOR: Jesse Hirsh, President Metaviews Media Management Ltd. Jesse Hirsh is an futurist, internet strategist, researcher, and artist based in Toronto, Canada. He owns and operates Metaviews Media Management Ltd., which focuses on research and consulting around new media business models, cognitive computing, big data, and the strategic use of social media. He is also a co-founder of the Academy of the Impossible a peer to peer life long learning facility. PANELISTS:  Adarsha Datta, National Startup Lead & Technical Evangelist Microsoft Canada  Adarsha Datta is the National Startup Lead & Technical Evangelist at Microsoft Canada. As his title suggests – he is passionate about (and loves talking about) startups and technology, currently focusing on the cloud, machine learning, and internet of things! As an evangelist, he enables and supports developers, students and startups with Microsoft technologies and services. He considers himself an educator, a community developer and engages through consistent involvement in events/ camps/ hackathons/ conferences and other online/social channels (@AdarshaDatta) . When he is not ‘evangelizing’ – he is either in the squash court, listening to music, or getting better at cooking! Ben Newton, Director of E-commerce Ecobee Ben Newton has focused on marketing for new ventures and corporate startups for over 16 years. In addition to managing e-commerce and digital advertising for ecobee, he's worked on internal startups at iconic Canadian companies like Loblaws (eGrocer, PC Points, PC Bank), Rogers Ventures (Zoocasa & Thoora), and held a variety of consulting roles with brands such as Just-Eat. Ben's interests in AI and machine learning centre around understanding & influencing consumer behaviour and improving sales conversion. Giri Amarakone, CEO deepPiXEL Giri is a 20 year technology and startup veteran. He has held various technical/marketing roles in large companies and startups both in Toronto and Silicon Valley. He spent the last 8 years in the Valley working for NVIDIA on key AI and machine learning projects. Last year he started an innovative AI startup in Toronto which works with medium and larger companies reduce support costs and increase their engagements. deepPiXEL is now part of the Department of Computer Science Innovation Lab at UofT, and is currently headquartered out of IBM's downtown Innovation space. Sponsors/Organizers ​ ​​

Students and start-ups are invited to participate in the Canada Mining Innovation Council's #HACKMINING. This is a three-day hackathon intended to innovate the mining industry. If you win, your solution will be presented at the CMIC National Mining Innovation Forum on June 6th, 2017. You'll get to address one of the two following mining industry challenges: 1:Transporting ore and waste from difficult-to-access areas, or 2:Reducing the volume of mine tailings.

HackerNest Tech Socials are a fun, relaxed way to connect with your local tech community. Atmosphere: chill, friendly, unpretentious, agenda-free (no sales pitch), and brimming with Ultra Smart People. Follow us on Twitter and Instagram, like us on Facebook, hi-5 us in person! The typical Tech Social agenda:   - folks arrive, grab drinks, socialize   - quick announcements, thank sponsors   - back to chatting   - head home, exhilarated from great conversations!   *** HackerNest Tech Socials are Entry by Donation - any amount appreciated, but $5 suggested. No amount is too little! If a cash donation is too restrictive, please join us anyway – just let us know at the door. *** SPONSOR: RBC RBC recently launched RBC Research, a team which supports RBC’s innovation strategy through fundamental scientific study and exploration in machine learning theory and applications with the goal of developing state-of-the-art financial technologies. RBC is also an active contributor to the Canadian innovation ecosystem, including working with organizations like TechToronto, the C100 and as a founding partner of NextAI, a global innovation program for artificial intelligence related ventures.  RBC has come onboard as a North American sponsor of Hackernest. Sponsors make this growing movement possible, so we treasure and build deep, long-term relationships with the companies that endorse us. We're always looking for new friends! Please email sponsor@hackernest.com. VENUE: Work Nicer Work Nicer provides their members with a physical location to call their own, offering workplace necessities and an environment that connects them to some of Calgary’s most exciting entrepreneurs.  COMMUNITY PARTNERS: If you’re a Community or Meetup group looking to promote an event or discount for HackerNest members, please email ryan.sykes@hackernest.com.  About Us: HackerNest is an international nonprofit uniting local tech communities through unpretentious Tech Socials and hackathons. We cram lots of smart, accomplished people into a room and get them talking to one another. Our relaxed, down-to-earth events attract a diverse and highly technical membership. Strict 'no-scuzzbag' policy. Want to volunteer at our HackerNest Tech Socials? Visit http://hackernest.com/volunteer/ for more information and to apply! 

Kids ages of 7-13 in the Toronto area! Are you crazy about all things Space? That's great because there's a special youth program that's going to run in parallel with the 2017 NASA Space Apps Challenge - Hackathon Toronto! You're invited to come and participate in NASA's Space Apps Toronto Youth Program. You'll get to face unique challenges including robotics, space-related art and crafts, learning about electronics, coding work shops and more.