List of hackathons in Hamilton, Canada in 2018

HACK WESCAM - May the 4th be with you. 13 teams of up to 4  (50 people max) ▪  $7000 prize money ▪  36 hours  ▪   May 4th – 6th   2 themes Artificial Intelligence High speed processing Deep Learning Neural networks Machine Vision Image processing Object Detection Image Segmentation L3 WESCAM is known for a lot of things in the Intelligence/Surveillance and Reconnaissance world.    Now, we’re adding hackathons to that list. (Click here to see more about what we do at WESCAM) We’re inviting current students and recent grads (class of 2015 and up) to pull a team together of some of your best and register for our inaugural L3 WESCAM Intelligence and Surveillance Hackathon beginning May the 4th 2018 for 36 hours.  Total prize money being awarded is $7000 1st Place team - $4000 2nd Place team - $2000 3rd Place team - $1000 Register your application as an individual or team by clicking on the number of 'tickets' you'd like.  Make sure you give us yours and the rest of your team's emails so that we can connect with everyone on further registration details. Qualifications for participation in HACK WESCAM will include your relevant field of study/areas of interest/project work in optical engineering, artificial intelligence, image sciences, and high-speed processing and deep-learning. We’ll supply some of our own specialized hardware as well as mentors and coaches –  along with lots of caffeine, snacks and a food truck.  You bring your team and your imagination. If there’s something you’ve always wanted to hack using AI or Image Processing (or both) but havent had the chance – this is it.... ***Please***  No Walk-in's will be permitted at this event.  This is invitation-only

Developers, designers, and entrepreneurs eager! You're invited to participate in the Techstars Startup Weekend. In this 54-hour hackathon, you will create a prototype, validate your business idea, and receive feedback from experienced entrepreneurs. Compete for recognition and prizes.

Calling all digital health developers and wanna-be techno-geeks! It's time for the HHS-IBM Innovation Exchange Hackathon 2018 in support of Hamilton Health Innovation Week. And this ain't no pitch-a-thon either! We'll be looking to focus on hacking together a solution or technical capability over the weekend. We'll be doing this all on IBM Cloud, using the robust set of services available to developers including IBM Watson API's to quickly build truly cognitive applications! So come to share creative ideas, form teams, get advice from experts, and build a digital health app in one weekend. Present your finished product in a "Show & Tell" format to be reviewed by your peers! So get your geek on and join us for our digital health hackathon! OBJECTIVE The goal of our hackathon is to get back to our hackathon developer roots! According to Wikipedia: A hackathon is a design sprint-like event in which computer programmers and others involved in software development, including graphic designers, interface designers, project managers, and others, often including subject-matter-experts, collaborate intensively on software projects. The goal of a hackathon is to create usable software. Hackathons tend to have a specific focus, which can include the programming language used, the operating system, an application, an API, or the subject and the demographic group of the programmers. In other cases, there is no restriction on the type of software being created. Our weekend hackathon focuses on development of digital health and wellness applications (or use of data)! The additional goal for participants to come away from the event with new skills or try combining features/capabilities they had not previously attempted. We are looking to build a grassroots community of health app developers going forward! SCHEDULE Schedule for hackathon is as follows (estimated): Day 1 - Friday, April 27, 2018 from 5pm to 10pm 5pm-6pm : Registration and Introductions 6pm-7pm : Dinner and Socializing 7pm-8pm : Enablement and Teaming 8pm-10pm : Exploration and Ideation Day 2 - Saturday, April 28, 2018 from 8am to 10pm 8am-9am  : Continental Breakfast (lite) and Wake Up! 9am-12pm: Hacking Away and Sprint #1 12pm-1pm: Lunch and Stretch Break 1pm-5pm : Hacking Away and Sprint #2 5pm-6pm : Dinner and Interfacing 6pm-9pm : Hacking Away and Sprint #3 9pm-10pm: Prep for "Show and Tell" Session Day 3 - Sunday, April 29, 2018 from 8am to 5pm 8am-9am  : Continental Breakfast (lite) and Wake Up! 9am-12pm: Hacking Away (the Last Sprint) 12pm-1pm: Lunch and Stretch (but not too much) 1pm-2pm : Getting Ready for the Unveiling 2pm-4pm : "Show and Tell" Session & Peer Survey 4pm-5pm: Closing Ceremonies & Celebration More details as they become available. Please let us know if you have dietary restrictions and we will endeavor to accommodate as best as possible. Thanks! PREPARATION If you are a student follow these instructions to access IBM Cloud resources: Students have access to IBM assets (cloud, watson analytics, etc.) via the IBM Academic Initiative From the 'onthehub' link above students will be able to sign in to their respective institutions using their school single sign-ons as the site directs them to such as: Mohawk College Access McMaster University Access If you are not a student follow these instructions to access IBM Cloud resources: Go here to signup for IBM Cloud account  and get an IBMid to create your account! Build on IBM Cloud for free with no time restrictions. Guaranteed free development with Lite plans. Go here to register for IBM Watson Analytics (30 day trial) - Find hidden patterns in your data, build dashboards and visualizations, gain instant insights and share your findings. IDEATION Want some ideas of what's possible? Then check out the GitHub for IBM Cloud for some starter projects. Looking to get your bearings? Getting ready for a hackathon? Here is some great material to get you started. Hackathon-Prep-Material More details to follow as they are hacked out!

This is a great way to get your hands dirty and learn from others around you. You don't have to be a coder to register for the hacker track, just be willing to learn and stay up all day and all night to get something done. For those that are limited in time come and listen, interact with thought leaders in the space, by signing up for the workshop track. Those in attendance include: Developers Starts-ups (FINTECH) Entrepreneurs investors Venture Capitalist Blockchain and crypto enthusiast Crypto Traders and Asset managers FORMAL AGENDAApril 20 - April 22, 2018 Friday, April 20, 2018 6:00 pm: Registration Opens / Networking6:30 pm: Team Pitches & Formation7:00 pm: Open remarks from Host Bitcoin Bay7:30 pm: Keynote by Toufi Saliba, CEO Toda 8:00 pm: Dinner9:30 pm: ERC20 Token Creation Workshop Saturday, April 21, 2018 8:00 AM - BREAKFAST Room 217, Bergeron Centre 9:00 AM: Cryptography for Beginners10:00 AM: Interview with Toda CEO Toufi Saliba11:00 AM: Mining Workshop12:00 PM: LUNCH1:00 PM: Panel: Blockchain Regulatory & Compliance2:00  PM: Panel: Blockchain Interoperability3:00 PM: Panel: Blockchain & Financial Services4:00 PM: Panel: Blockchain & Entreprise5:00 PM: Panel: Blockchain Education & Careers Room 213, Bergeron Centre 9:00 AM: Basics of Crypto Setting Up a Wallet11:00 AM: Intro to Solidity by Chainsafe12:00 PM: LUNCH1:00 PM: Hyperledger Workshop2:00  PM: Intro to the Ethereum Virtual Machine by Chainsafe3:00 PM: How to setup a Masternode  Room 211, Bergeron Centre 9:00 AM: Consensys Ethereum Tools11:00 AM: UX and Blockchain System Design12:00 PM: LUNCH1:00 PM: Retail Payments & Blockchain2:00  PM: Solving the Blockchain Scalability Dilema for Entreprise3:00 PM: Parity Bridge Ethereum Interoperability Workshop by Chainsafe 6:00 PM: DINNERSunday, April 22, 2018 Bergeron Centre 8:00 AM: BREAKFAST9:00 AM: All morning Hacking12:00 PM: LUNCH AND HACKING CUT OFF Lassonde Engineering Centre 1:00 PM: Team Presentations3:00 PM - Community Announcements3:30 PM: Closing Keynote and Award Ceremony

Hacking Health Toronto is proud to present its next event during Toronto Health Innovation Week at MaRS. Join us for this THIW kick-off Ideathon and help us reimagine the clinical experience for patients with chronic diseases. Bring your best budding ideas, brainstorm and pitch your solutions! Schedule 9:00-9:30AM Doors open: Breakfast & Networking 9:30-9:45AM Keynote by Dr. Onil Bhattacharyya 9:45-9:55AM Keynote by Lisa Machado, Patient Advocate 10:00AM - 11:30AM Team Formation and Hacking Begins 11:30AM - 12:30PM Pitching and Judging Who should join? This Ideathon is for techies, healthcare workers, business people, and most of all... patients with lived experience! We're starting from square one, with creativity, technology, and patients as the building blocks for a new vision of the healthcare experience. We are looking for a winning solution that can: Improve patient outcomes Give a better user experience... patients are people too! Provide a realistic solution that makes business sense  What are we creating? Ideathons are design workshops with patients at the center. Understanding the problem patients face, defining it, and brainstorming a solution that your team can present in any creative way they choose is the mission (i.e. a few slides, short video, acting, wireframes... surprise us!) Did you say Judging? Yes! Whether it's a Hackathon, Design Jam, or Ideathon, the best solutions win! At our THIW Ideathon the winning team will get a swag bag, and the opportunity to share their idea with the Hacking Health Canada network.  About Dr. Onil Bhattacharyya Dr.Onil Bhattacharyya is the Frigon Blau Chair in Family Medicine Research at Women’s College Hospital. He is a practicing clinician and an Associate Professor in the Department of Family and Community Medicine and the Institute of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation at the University of Toronto. He has been a Harkness Fellow in Health Care Policy at the Commonwealth Fund in New York City and a Takemi Fellow at the Harvard School of Public Health. His research focuses on the application of methods from the software and startup sector to health service design. Dr. Bhattacharyya received his medical degree from the University of Montreal, and PhD in health services research from the University of Toronto. About Lisa Machado Lisa Machado is a former financial journalist who, after being diagnosed with a rare leukemia in 2008, now writes and speaks about the patient experience and the challenges of living with chronic illness. She is the head of PatientSpeak, a communications consultancy that matches patients and caregivers with organizations that want to engage them. She is also the founder of the Canadian CML Network, and the author of the award-winning "Living Well with CML: What you need to know to live your best life with Chronic Myelogenous Leukemia." Lisa has been interviewed by CTV News, Rogers Media and the CBC and featured in a number of newspaper articles. She has written for The Caregiver Network and Cure Today magazine. Lisa also writes a regular column at CML-IQ.com and you can find her blog at cmlnetwork.ca.

CryptoChicks Hackathon and Conference is an open invitation to take part in a bold blockchain event. Women are underrepresented in the crypto space and with your help, we want to change that. We are calling for blockchain leaders, mentors, advisors, speakers to be the new faces that will help educate, encourage and inspire women to learn new skills and take on new challenges. This event is geared to students, developers, UX/UI designers, business analysts, technologists, community leaders, education professionals, advisors, mentors, entrepreneurs, crypto-curious individuals, thought leaders, and investors. We will have something for the newbie and the tech-savvy. The event schedule is here.

We will be working on the 2018 Yelp challange as a team!   https://www.yelp.co.uk/dataset/challenge This is an advanced workshop for machine learners who already have exprience with basics: Python 3.x installed Familiarity with Pandas and Numpy Familiarity with neural networks  What you can expect to learn: Natural Language Processing techniques Convolutional/Recurrent neural network models Keras/Pytorch/Tensorflow The goal of this workshop will be to gather intermediated/advanced machine learners together to work on a larger project which may extend for several weeks and depending on interest, may include more hackathon-esque sessions.  We'll be supplying all attendees with further information about what you need to bring as we near the date.  For those interested in catching up, we have collected some great CNN and RNN intro videos which we'll send out to everyone before the event. Food and drink will be provided.

Are you ambitious and passionate about shaping the future of email? Do you have ideas for how to improve the way we communicate with each other? If so, we want to see you in action! Zimbra and Synacor invite you to join us at our first ever Hackathon on March 29-30 at Hotel Henry in Buffalo NY. About the Hackathon We're looking for creative thinkers and doers to collaborate on developing new features for email and messaging, and especially for the newly released Zimbra code. All skill levels are welcome! Hang out with us at the beautiful Hotel Henry as we ideate, design, code, eat snacks and meet new people who share similar passions. In addition to participating teams, we will have local experts on site assisting and providing technical/emotional support. We'll be offering a tutorial of Zimbra and Synacor's other developer services if you want ideas to kick things off, and look forward to seeing what you build! We've opened up a full set of APIs, so if you want to add other services to Zimbra come on by. Want to be able to order a pizza by sending a mail? Pay your electric bill? Order up a Lyft an hour before your next meeting? How about cue up your Spotify playlist as your afternoon coffee alarm? At Synacor, we have adopted a progressive approach to innovation - one that embraces openness and encourages collaboration between entrepreneurs, professionals, hobbyists and beginners of all genders and backgrounds. About Zimbra Zimbra is releasing our newest code base, and it is an update to our email, calendar and collaboration solution built for the cloud, both public and private. With a React-based application and containerized architecture, the next generation of Zimbra offers the most innovative messaging experience available today, connecting end users to the information and activity in their personal clouds. For you You’re a developer, designer, writer or a product manager. We invite you to sign up a team before the event or come on your own and meet people onsite. Whether you want to design it, code it or document it, you are welcome to join us. You’ll be integrating 3rd party services or building brand new collaboration products that can be used within the Zimbra application. Just bring with you your laptop, your skills and ideas and a collaborative, team-focused mindset. Event Schedule March 29th 10:00AM - Doors open for registration and breakfast/networking10:30AM - Introductions, opening talks11:00AM - Team formation and idea iteration12:00PM - Team registration12:30PM - Lunch1:00PM - Teams start work!7:00PM - Cocktail hour, dinner and networking March 30th 12:00AM - Cookies & Red Bull Break7:00AM - CODE FREEZE! All teams must close all pull requests by 7AM to be included in the final presentations7:00AM - Breakfast and networking8:00AM - Final presentation, pitches and judging Prizes Prizes will be awarded to the top teams as selected by the judges and split between team members. Amazon Giftcards, Echo Spots, Tile Mates and More! Judging Criteria Projects will be judged based on participants’ ability to describe your project, consumer value, characterization and code quality.   Judges:Erynn Petersen - Synacor, IncCharlie Lisk - Oracle CloudJon Spitz - z80 Labs/Buffalo BlockchainNick Barone - Helm Experience & Design Many thanks to our sponsors:Premium Sponsors:OracleSponsors:PostlightSynacor, IncGirl Develop It A special thank you to:Society of Women EngineersUniversity of Buffalo, School of Engineering & Applied Sciencesz80 Labsdig BuffaloHotel Henry Location:Hotel Henry444 Forest AveBuffalo, NY 14213Hotel Henry Urban Resort Conference Center makes innovative new use of one of Western New York’s most iconic architectural landmarks. Widely considered to be one of Buffalo’s most important and beautiful buildings, construction on the 145-year-old Richardson Olmsted Campus began in 1872 and opened in 1880 as the state-of-the-art Buffalo State Asylum for the Insane. Today, Hotel Henry’s uncommon spaces invite guests to explore, gather and tuck away in the unique character of Buffalo’s National Historic Landmark.

Join us for the Policy innovation initiative (School of Public Policy & Governance)'s annual hackathon. Our "Food for Thought" hackathon will explore and pose solutions to some of the most difficult food security issues in an urban setting. It will be an opportunity to apply design thinking, create impact creatively, learn, and connect with multi-disciplinary experts. The hackathon will focus on three key issues: Institutional Food Procurement: How might we encourage healthy and sustainable food procurement in public institutions? Food Literacy: How might we strengthen food literacy for at-risk populations in urban centers? Home-based Food Businesses: How might we support urban home-based food businesses? Participants will tackle the challenges in teams composed of diverse skills and experiences, and will be joined by our Keynote Speaker Lori Stahlbrand (Coordinator, Toronto Food Policy Council) and Challenge Leaders, Adeline Cohen (OpenLab, Urban Farm Project, UHN), Reg Noble (Centre for Studies in Food Security, Ryerson University), and Cassandra Gentile (Director, Food Innovation Hub) to provide guidance during the hackathon. The hackathon is open to all graduate students, including public policy, urban planning, public health, as well as public servants and those passionate to make changes through policy. Read more about our hackathon last year and our ongoing work here. Details Date: Sunday March 25, 2018Time: 9:00am Reception with breakfast; 9:30am - 4:30pm Hackathon Light breakfast, lunch, and snacks will be provided. Please bring your laptop and reusable water bottle. Acknowledgements Thank you to the School of Public Policy & Governance, Petersen Fund, and the Graduate Student Union at University of Toronto for helping make this event possible.

MORE INFORMATION AT: http://wolfhacks.ca/  A Platform for Audacious Solutions  The Smart Cities Hackathon is a platform for bold ideas and driven individuals to actively problem solve using technology as a tool for innovation. We want to bring together entrepreneurs, students, members of government and experts in tech to discuss and act on the pivotal point between technology and urbanization.  Join us this March 25th for a full day of knowledge-sharing and some intense real world problem solving!  Who Can Attend?  Entrepreneurs, professionals, free lancers, academics - anyone who wants to change the world, really.   Teams will have a minimum of 3 and maximum of 5 members.  One of the aims of the hackathon is to give entrepreneurs an opportunity to get new perspectives from fresh talent and inspire them, as well as allow students to interact with and learn from professionals already in the smart technology industry. The hackathon includes coming up with a new product and creating holistic business models, successful teams need to balance technology gurus, business and finance geeks, data analysis experts, and product managers. Talented designers will also be necessary to maximize solution aesthetics and presentations!