List of hackathons in Canada in 2018

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The first-ever GrowUp Cannabis Hackathon will take place Sept. 6-7, where hackers will build innovative tech solutions to the fast-growing cannabis industry. Competing hackers will explore ideas for tracking, purchasing, reporting, strain identification, verification, integration with the entertainment industry, and much more. After a 24 hour overnight hacking session in Toronto, the winning teams head to Niagara Falls for the awards presentations and ceremony at the GrowUp Conference. Confirmed partners include Trellis, Cannabis & Tech Today, Leaf Forward, herb.co, LyricFind, LyricMerch, TourBuds, Brainsights, Beanfield, RadioMogul by Mediazoic, Hotbox, Rosenzweig & Co, Merry Jane, PAX, Hacker Noon and Devpost. Plus restaurant partners Smoke's Poutinerie and Quesada Burritos. Confirmed judges include Jay Rosenzweig (Managing Director of Rosenzweig & Co), Alex Blumenstein (Co-Founder of Leaf Forward, Canada's first cannabis business accelerator),  Matt Shalhoub (Managing Director of Green Acre Capital), and Rachel Colic (VP Brand Strategy & PR for Pure Global Cannabis Inc.). PRIZES: 1) Fine art Cannabis photographs from Cali Brothers Cannabis Prints. Top shelf, fine art photographs of quality cannabis flowers printed on metal.  2) One year free Leaf Club membership for the winning team (up to five members) + Five Office Hours sessions with the Leaf Forward (Canada’s first and leading cannabis business accelerator) team. 3) Original GrowUp Hackathon LyricMerch T-Shirts with lyrics for "Easy Skanking" printed on front. We'll outfit each winning team 4) TourBuds VIP Trip to Niagara Falls for GrowUp Hackathon Winners. The 3 winning teams will get to travel in luxury on the amazing TourBuds bus, round trip from Toronto to Niagara Falls on Friday Sept. 7 after the hackathon ends. 5)  Pax 3 Complete Kits. Courtesy of Pax and HotBox. 4) Cannabis & Tech Today  subscription. Cannabis & Tech Today is a quarterly publication specializing in technological advancements, business innovations, and popular culture pertaining to the marijuana industry.  Questions? Email HackathonVentures@gmail.com.

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Hackers from across North America! You're invited to participate in Hack the 6ix -- Toronto’s largest summer hackathon. Come with a team of up to four techies, or join a team at the event. You'll get to collaborate and compete during 36 hours of design and coding. Conceive, design, and prototype your hardware or software project from scratch! Pitch your solution to a panel of judges and showcase your hacker chops in front of some of the top companies in North America.

Are you an artist who is considering adding digital technology to your practice? Or maybe you're a game developer who'd love to connect with the arts community? Hack4Heritage is happening in Kingston this fall! It's an event that will facilitate collaboration between art and tech communities to build immersive experiences for mixed reality. What is a hackathon? What is mixed reality?  Join this information session for an introduction to hackathons, mixed reality and learn more about the Hack4Heritage event! Who Should Attend? Practising artists of any discipline and Unity game developers from beginner to expert.  Agenda for the Evening 7:00-7:30 PM Networking7:30-8:30 PM Presentation8:30-9:00 PM Networking Presenter   Julie Driver Julie is an immersive experience creator, extended reality community builder and information technology generalist. Her background includes project management, coaching and photography. She is editor of the Community Heritage Ontario newsletter, founder of ARtefactVR and co-founder of 3 blind mice. Hack4Heritage is organized 3 blind mice, a community collective. Thank you to ARtefactVR and Innovate Kingston for organizing and sponsoring this series of information sessions in conjunction with the Kingston VR/AR Meetup group.

Canadian blockchain coder/developer teams in the Greater Toronto Area! The International Data Engineering and Science Association (IDEAS) invites you to participate in the Global Blockchain Hackathon - Canada, to be held at the University of Toronto. You'll collaborate on a 2-day blockchain project and compete for prizes, as well as for the opportunity to progress to the Final Round & Conference in Chicago. Get the best Global Blockchain hackathon advice here!

Black folks, Indigenous folks, and People of Colour (BIPOC) in the Greater Toronto area! You're invited to participate in the one-day IntersectTO BIPOC Hackathon. You'll get to network with BIPOC coders, designers, artists, and activists, to learn about technology and collaborate, swap ideas and skills with them to build tech projects for BIPOC communities! You'll work in a team to build an awesome project -- a website, an app, or a game -- or analyze/visualize data, create a toolkit, or design graphics and campaigns.

Hackers, engineers, designers, developers, and innovators in Ontario. If you're interested in retail technology, then the Fashion Zone and Oxford Properties Group invite you to participate in the Re:Engineering Retail Hackathon Competition. Collaborate and compete for great cash prizes and memberships at The Fashion Zone.

Parents, students, teachers, techies in Ontario! If you're interested in the use of learning technology, then you're invited to participate in Imagine: The Future of Work & Learning. You'll get to explore how technologies such as artificial intelligence, blockchain, and robotics can be applied to work and learning. Come collaborate with like-minded individuals and compete as you present your learning technology project to a panel of judges.

On Thursday July 26 at 4:00PM, we are thrilled to welcome Liam Horne, the co-founder of L4 Ventures, Counterfactual, ETHGlobal, Hack The North, et. al. In this Terminal Tech Talk, Liam will discuss how to bring internet scale to blockchains through off-chain scaling techniques called state channels.  This is also your chance to ask Liam how he built world-class initiatives from scratch and how to think about building world-class engineering teams. ABOUT LIAM HORNE: ★  Liam left the University of Waterloo to become the co-founder and CTO of PiinPoint (YC W14). ★  Liam was awarded the $100,000 Peter Thiel Fellowship in 2015 at the age of 19 for his world-class ingenuity.   ★  Liam co-founded Hack The North, arguably the best hackathon in the world and Canada's biggest hackathon.  ★  Liam co-founded ETHWaterloo and turned it into a global movement called ETHGlobal to foster a world-class ecosystem of blockchain developers and entrepreneurs, collectively building the Web 3 world.  ★  Liam co-founded L4 Ventures. L4 is creating the decentralized web, conducting cutting-edge cryptoeconomic research, building core blockchain infrastructure, and helpng projects grow. ★  Liam co-founded Counterfactual, a generalized framework for native state channels integration in Ethereum-based decentralized applications. ★  Liam is a board director at the publicly traded Ether Capital (NEO: ETHC). ABOUT TERMINAL TECH TALK: The Terminal Tech Talk series is committed to bringing our technical communities together by sharing insights and learnings from the best and brightest minds on topics ranging from innovative best practices to culture, personal growth and more.  Questions? Please contact Nabil on Slack @nabil or via email at nabil@terminal.io if you have any questions.