List of hackathons in Kawartha Lakes, Canada in 2017

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.

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.

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.  SPECIAL GUEST We are honoured to have long time HackerNest supporter, Councillor Norm Kelly joining us for this Tech Social. Helping lead the 6th largest government in Canada and the 4th largest city in North America, he serves as the Councillor for Ward 40 (Scarborough-Agincourt), and serves some serious fire on his Twitter account @Norm  ***** 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 $10 is suggested. No amount is too little! If a cash donation is too restrictive, please join us anyway – just let us know at the door. *** NORTH AMERICAN SPONSOR: RBC RBC is 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 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.  HackerNest is proud to have RBC as a North American sponsor! GOLD SPONSORS: Hover Hover sticks to what they know (and do!) best: domains. They'll help you take care of your domains and be out of the way when you're on to whatever's next. HackerNest happily hosts domains with Hover! Flipp Flipp Corporation is a Toronto-born technology company that is reinventing the weekly shopping experience - our mobile app, Flipp, was named the #1 retail flyer app in Canada. Flipp’s culture is an integral part of what has driven the company’s success and we abide by key principles that promote a high-trust environment.  Learn more about our team culture here: https://corp.flipp.com/culture.  OVH Specializing in cloud and internet infrastructure, OVH offers innovative Web, Dedicated and Cloud products and services. Since 1999, OVH has partnered with hundreds of thousands of professionals worldwide, offering server manufacturing and in-house maintenance of their infrastructure. OVH ensures stable and reliable product and service offerings across all brands, while providing the best price quality ratio. Learn more at ovh.com and on Twitter.  StartUp HERE Toronto  StartUp HERE Toronto celebrates Toronto’s innovation community.  SILVER SPONSOR: Lighthouse Labs Lighthouse Labs will take you from coding hobbyist to professional developer, and be the launchpad for your career.  With the support of a brilliant team of instructors and mentors who view coding as the ultimate craft, you’ll join the ranks of over 500 developers in the Lighthouse Labs community. Winter cohorts are filling up, apply now!   BEER SUPPLIER: Beau's "At Beau’s we have names, not titles. We brew using equal parts art and science. And we always have time for our friends."  Beau’s All Natural brews interesting, tasty beers using the best ingredients & local spring water. They take pride in creating unique, wonderful and certified organic craft beer, conceived with honest consideration for the environment and our local communities, and delivered with a true sense of friendly relationship. They are an award-winning, Canadian, family-run, organic, and independent brewery.  VENUE: Toronto City Hall - Members Lounge   Community Events:  Techweek Toronto Techweek is coming back to Toronto!  From July 24th to the 28th, Techweek will be celebrating the best of the Toronto tech scene with events throughout the city. Check out the schedule for more information on the week's events, and if you'd like to join in the festivities, click on this link for a special 40% off ticket code for HackerNest community members.  All Day DevOps   On October 24th, HackerNest will be supporting the Live Online All Day DevOps Conference. This is a 24 hour event with 5 simultaneous tracks, 96 sessions and 4 keynotes in 38 time zones! There are featured guest speakers galore and frankly, far too much information to list, so check out this link instead! Oh, and did we mention that the entire thing is free?     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! 

Coders, designers, hackers, techies in and around Toronto! Do you have a yen to create something that's terrific, but has absolutely no value at all? Little Dada invites you to participate in the Stupid Shit No One Needs & Terrible Ideas Hackathon Toronto 2.0. So sign up today and build something awesomely valueless!

Toronto area lady techies! Are you interested in helping get more girls and women into the tech scene? Maybe help them to learn how to code? Ladies Learning Code -- a Canada-wide not-for-profit organization -- invites you to attend July's Toronto Code & Coffee afternoon in order to help design the third annual Ladies Learning Code annual Teen Club hackathon! If you have experience with hackathons -- even if you don't -- you are welcome to help in this design session.

Circular design enthusiasts in the greater Toronto area! Think you've got a winning circular design idea? OpenIDEO Toronto invites you to sign up to participate in the Circular Design Challenge Hackathon. You don't have to be a super expert! The challenged is open to all levels and you can compete for cash prizes with your peers with Early-Stage, Mid-Stage, or Advanced Ideas.

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.