List of hackathons in Canada in 2017

Health professionals, patients, developers, designers, entrepreneurs! Are you motivated to change the world of health! Come participate in the Hacking Health Halifax Hackathon. This hackathon is intended to help bring IT and healthcare professionals together to conceive & design an app, a device, or other solution for patient-centric care. Join a multidisciplinary team and create a prototype of a mobile or web-based application or a hand-held device that could make a dramatic difference in patient care!

Teams of developers, designers, and marketers will come together to build a functioning mobile app that tackles a social or environmental issue in just 36 hours. Sign up as a team of 2-5 or as an individual and we’ll match you up. Either way, it will be a great way to meet other techies, share ideas and have fun! Open to professionals and students, 18+ • Free to enter• Food and drinks provided• Prizes Why Join? COLLABORATE: work with like-minded individuals to create a functioning app worthy of showing off. NETWORK: connect with mentors and businesses in the tech community and potentially scope your next big opportunity. LEARN: hone your tech skills and learn some new ones. HAVE FUN: enjoy 36 straight hours of fun and challenging work that you can feel good about. For more information, visit: Our WebsiteLike us on FacebookFollow us on Twitter Sponsors for the Hack For Good Hackathon include: Town of Whitby, 360insights, General Motors, Cisco, Durham College, SourcePoint Business Group, Spark Centre

Join us for a panel and learn how ideas turn into projects and succesful stories! We will have an opportunity to ask burning questions, and network. You can expect to hear from passionate leaders that have been obsessed with helping the healthcare sector by creating solutions to help hospitals and patients. We will get to learn from others that have succesfully brought an idea to life to inspire you to create big for the hackathon. The panelists: TBA Refreshments and snacks will be served. All ticket proceeds go towards supporting the Health Innovation Program. This event is part of the Health Innovation Program (#HIP613) - Ottawa's first Health Innovation Program that aims to break down the barriers to healthcare innovation in partnership with CHEO-OCTC (Children's hospital of Eastern Ontario/Ottawa's Children Treatment Center). #HIP613 consists of a series of talks and hands-on workshops that will connect people, ideas and skills to build teams to tackle frontline healthcare problems at our Spring 2017 hackathon. Get inside scoop on our upcoming Hackathon by signing up to our newsletter!

Students and young professionals in New Brunswick, Canada! Interested in open data or blockchain technologies? The University of New Brunswick EIS and IEEE societies invite you to sign up to participate in the Slingshot Hackathon. This event is focused on the themes of Open Data and Blockchain technology. You'll be challenged to collaborate in a cross-disciplinary team to tackle challenges surrounding one or both of these themes.

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 schedule:  - 8:00pm: folks arrive, grab drinks, socialize  - 9:00pm: quick announcements, thank sponsors  - 9:10pm: back to chatting  - 11:00pm: head home, exhilarated from great conversations!     SPONSOR: 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: TextNow   Wanna show off your office? We're always looking for big open spaces with 100+ (standing room) capacity that are easily accessible: amaris@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.

Kids between the ages of 8 and 15 in the greater Ottawa area! Come and participate in the March Break Tech Camp and Hackathon. You'll get the chance to learn about web-making, game-making, scripting, social media, graphic design and more. You'll also collaborate to design and prototype innovative and creative technology solutions.

High school students in and around Toronto! You'll get the opportunity to design innovative solutions to global challenges. You don't need to know how to code -- you just need to have a passion for new things and change.

In this part 2 of the IBM Bluemix workshop we will continue to build on your new skill set needed for you to develop your own program during the Hacking Health Ottawa hackathon. (Sign up for Part 1 of this workshop here.) Furthermore, will build a dashboard to show data being streamed in real time. Preparation We highly suggest that you attend part 1 of this workshop to ensure that you’ll be able follow along in this workshop. This is a hands-on workshop; please bring your laptop and power cord. Make sure that you have either Firefox or Chrome installed. A few days before the workshop, you will receive an email with instruction on how to get ready. For more information on IBM Bluemix, visit https://www.ibm.com/cloud-computing/bluemix/what-is-bluemix This IBM workshop is part of the Health Innovation Program (#HIP613) - Ottawa's first Health Innovation Program that aims to break down the barriers to healthcare innovation in partnership with CHEO-OCTC (Children's hospital of Eastern Ontario/Ottawa Children's Treatment Center). #HIP613 consists of a series of talks and hands-on workshops that will connect people, ideas and skills to build teams to tackle frontline healthcare problems at our Spring 2017 hackathon. Refreshments will be served. This workshop is proudly presented by our sponsor:   Terms & Conditions By Purchasing a ticket to the Hacking Health, you agree to the following terms and conditions: I hereby grant Hacking Health permission to use my likeness in a video, photo or other digital reproduction in any and all of its publications, including website, without payment or any other consideration.

Graduate students of public policy, public health, urban planning, engineering, and computer science in the Greater Toronto area! The Policy and Innovation Initiative invites you to sign up to participate in Hack 4 Health! You'll be challenged to apply your technical skills and creativity to design and prototype a solution to one of three burning public health issues: 1.Alleviating pressures in downtown hospitals, particularly with the expected growth downtown. 2.Rural Service Delivery, or 3.Exploring the viability of alternative models for delivering medicine.

Designers, coders, urban planners, government staff, mappers, policymakers, students, communications strategists! Civic Tech Toronto invites you to sign up to participate in the CodeAcross Toronto 2017 hackathon. You'll be challenged to collaborate with like minded individuals to leverage open data sets to create innovative solutions to problems facing cities, non-profits and community groups. You'll get to address your choice of problem from a set that includes: »The Ontario Ministry of Advanced Education and Skills Development (MAESD) wants to create a tool to help job seekers better understand which degrees lead to which occupations and salaries. »The City of Toronto’s Transportation Big Data Innovation Team is looking for an interactive dashboard to tell the story of traffic speeds in Toronto. »The Landlord and Tenant Board of Ontario is looking for a simple, easy to navigate platform that allows the parties (the landlord or tenant) to communicate with each other.