List of hackathons in Richmond Hill, Canada in 2017

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.

Interested in space travel? NASA has commissioned the NASA International Space Apps Challenge (ISAC) to get people around the world to collaborate on its mission directives. If you're in the Toronto area, you're invited to sign up for the 2017 NASA Space Apps Challenge - Hackathon Toronto. You'll be part of a 48-hour global collaborative hackathon focused on space exploration. The theme for Space Apps 2017 is Earth. You can select one of the following challenges: 1. The Earth and Us, 2. Planetary Blues, 3. Warning! Danger Ahead, 4. Our Ecological Neighborhood, and 5. Ideate and Create.