List of hackathons in Canada in 2018

Coders, designers, and entrepreneurs in and around Toronto! AngelHack invites you to sign up for the AngelHack Toronto Hackathon 2018. Compete on your own, or as a member of a team to come up with an idea and turn it into a functioning prototype. This year’s theme is Seamless Technology. Build a solution that solves a social or environmental problem and positively impacts your local community — you might win the Code For A Cause Impact Award, or the Consensys Challenge Award. The AngelHack Grand Prize will be awarded to the project that is innovative without limits and brings positive change to the world. Get your advice for the AngelHack Toronto Hackathon 2018 here!

Our city is made up of hundreds of communities like ours, and we believe it is the responsibility of these communities to contribute to the city’s overall success. This datathon will create an opportunity for Calgarians to evaluate the open data provided by the City of Calgary’s Open Data Portal, and propose solutions to enhance the infrastructure for improving data connectivity, suggesting the collection of new and relevant data points, and optimizing data usability.

Do you have what it takes to come up with the next great Amazon Alexa Skill? For participants of Toronto's latest Alexa Dev Day, please join Connected Lab and Amazon on June 23 for the Canadian Life Hacks Hackathon. Working in teams of 3-5, participants will be challenged with the task of building Skills for Alexa, Amazon's cloud-based voice service, that relate to Canadian entertainment, travel, and/or children’s content. #ConnectedHacks WHAT: Canadian Life Hacks Hackathon, hosted by Connected Lab in partnership with Amazon WHEN: Saturday, June 23, 2018, 8:00 am – 9:00 pm WHERE: Connected Lab Headquarters, 370 King St W. Suite 400, Toronto, Ontario, M5V 1J9 WHO:Developers, designers, and makers with experience building for Amazon Alexa. OBJECTIVE Build an Alexa Skill beneficial to Canadians in the areas of entertainment, travel, and/or children’s content. PRIZES First place participants will each receive a $750 travel voucher to visit anywhere in Canada as well as their very own Amazon Echo Spot. Second place participants will each receive an Amazon Echo Spot. ELIGIBILITY The Canadian Life Hacks Hackathon is open to individuals and teams who have reached the age of majority in their eligible jurisdiction of residence at the time of entry, and who have experience developing and/or designing for Amazon Alexa. The team must participate for the duration of the Hackathon and provide a working demo of their Skill at the end to be eligible for prizes. Libraries used must also be credited. Note: Employees of Connected Lab, Amazon, and contractors currently under contract work for Connected Lab or Amazon are not eligible. Software partners and those receiving funding or assistance from Connected Lab or Amazon for application development are not eligible. Any application that is or was funded or compensated, partially or fully, by Connected Lab or Amazon for its development is not eligible for entry. SCHEDULE 8:00 – 8:15 AM: Participant arrival and registration 8:15 – 8:30 AM: Continental breakfast is served 8:30 – 8:45 AM: Opening remarks by Damian McCabe, Co-founder and VP Engineering at Connected Lab, as well as Justin Jeffress, Solutions Architect at Amazon Alexa 8:45 – 9:00 AM: Participants are ushered to private breakout rooms 9:00 AM: Hackathon begins 11:30 – 12:30 PM: Box lunch is served 6:00 PM: Hackathon submissions due to the judging panel 6:15 – 8:15 PM: Dinner is served while teams present submissions to judging panel 8:15 – 8:40 PM: Judging panel evaluates submissions 8:40 – 9:00 PM: Panel to reveal winners and distribute prizing FAQ Do I need to come with a pre-formed team?No! Though you may form a team of your own (3-5 members per team), individuals may apply on their own; they will be put into groups. What do I need to bring?You will need to bring a laptop running Linux, MacOS, or Windows. Don’t forget your charger! What accounts do I need?You will need to set up an AWS account and an Amazon Developer account. What should I install?You should install the ask cli! With it you can dramatically reduce the amount of time and effort required to build and update your Skill. Are there any code samples I should check out?Yes! Take a look at the care package! You should also check out the quiz game sample Skill to get started with display directives and the display interface and template reference technical documentation. Any more questions? Write us at hello@connectedlab.com with the subject line "Hackathon Question."

Are you an artist who has considered adding digital technology to your practice? Or maybe you're a game developer who'd love to connect with the artistic community? There's a hackathon being organized for Kingston this fall, that will facilitate collaboration between art and tech communities to build virtual reality and augmented reality (VR/AR) experiences. What is a hackathon? What is VR and AR?  Join this information session for an introduction to VR/AR and learn "How to get the most out of a hackathon". Who Should Attend? Musicians, storytellers, visual artists, photographers, filmmakers, graphic designers and Unity software developers.  Agenda for the Evening 7:00-7:30 PM Networking7:30-8:30 PM Presentation8:30-9:00 PM Networking Presenter  Julie Driver, Owner ARtefactVR

Come hack with us - on the ways that Carbon can build our world with carbon as the basis of construction materials, Hack to the Future. Use the development of the Rainforest AB,  New-Space "PLATFORM" in Downtown Calgary, to imagine how we might build it out of Carbon based materials rather than our traditional building materials? In a Future with 9 billion people,  carbon will be far too valuable for us to be released into the atmosphere. The chemical value of Carbon will be far greater than its thermal value alone, Carbon will be the element we will need to make food, fuel, and building for the expected global population. Let's start a carbon economy here in Alberta that is not based on combustion of Hydrocarbons but on the more valuable use of our carbon resources. We need to hack a better future and change the narrative on oil & gas. Let's start now by hacking a Carbon Design Platform! If you believe as we do that this might be a better way to vent / sequester carbon by making & finding better new productive uses for it then please join us to from groups around - how we - collectively-  could come up with ideas solutions and ways to mimic the natural environment in the built environment.  Perhaps we could determine how to use the hydrogen fossils fuels for energy and the carbon to build and feed our world so CO2 is seen as to valuable to release in the atmosphere... for more click here  and/or info email to Simon@pure-enertech.com

Techies, designers, business people, or anyone with experience dealing with Seniors! The Interactive Media Lab at the University of Toronto invites you to participate in Tech Hack - Solutions for Seniors. Come with your team, or connect with one at the event. You'll be challenged to design an innovative solution that uses the Centivizer platform to address issues of physical and cognitive inactivity in an aging population.

Sporobole est à la recherche de professionnels des arts ou des technologies désirant collaborer pour atteindre un objectif double : Créer des liens entre des penseurs-créateurs issus de domaines différents pour réfléchir à des problématiques autant sociales que techniques. Mettre sur pied une vitrine de la créativité et du savoir-faire Estrien. L'événement culminant, un Hackathon qui aura lieu du 28 au 30 septembre, profitera des Journées de la Culture pour explorer le thème proposé cette année : Les mots. Nous nous permettons d’ajouter un sous-thème afin de restreindre un minimum le champ des possibles : “Donner sa langue au code”. L'objet de cette invitation sur Eventbrite est en fait une invitation aux artistes et aux technologues qui seraient intéressés par un tel événement à venir se rencontrer afin de débroussailler le terrain et orienter les projets qui pourraient être réalisés lors du Hackathon. Cette rencontre préliminaire aura comme objectifs : D’identifier les affinités entre les technologies et les approches artistiques; De regrouper les participants par équipe; De trouver le thème exploré lors du Hackathon par chacune des équipes. Les projets qui ressortiront de cette réunion seront utilisés comme idées de base lors du Hackathon des Journées de la Culture. Les personnes présentes lors de la rencontre préliminaire agiront en quelque sorte en comme chefs d’équipe lors du Hackathon. Voici quelques exemples d’applications qui pourraient être créées : Un traducteur de discours politique permettant de le transformer en discours de politicien à la langue de bois et vice versa. Un chatbot qui discute avec les chatbot disponibles sur les sites de commerce en ligne. Un dispositif pouvant faire discuter Alexa et Google Home. Une application qui fait jouer la publicité audio d’un commerce sur le téléphone d’une personne qui passe devant celui-ci. Transformer une image en affichant des mots à l’emplacement de certains objets. Un outil de censure qui transforme des textes selon la “novlangue” de George Orwell. Si le projet vous intéresse, inscrivez-vous à cet événement et répondez à info@olivierross.com avec une liste des technologies que vous maîtrisez ou que vous voudriez explorer. Ex : Imprimante 3D Réseaux de neurones Vision par ordinateur

IT Connect is a conference that brings together IT professionals who are passionate about the future of networking. This year, IT Connect will be dedicated to the theme Internet of Things (IoT), featuring keynote speakers, workshops, online presentations, opportunities for networking and more! There will also be a Champ-IoT Hackathon occurring a week prior to the conference – on June 2-3, 2018, between 9:00am and 4:30pm. The winners will be announced during IT Connect 2018. Experts predict that by 2020 there will be over 30 billion devices forming the Internet of Things (IoT). IoT refers to the connection of physical devices, home appliances, vehicles and many other systems in a manner that enables them to share information amongst each other. IoT will impact the way we do things not only in IT but across different fields: medicine, industrial, mechanics, arts, etc. Join us at IT Connect 2018 to strengthen your knowledge of this increasingly popular area of IT. As a public college, Champlain Saint-Lambert has been offering numerous Information Technology (IT) AEC programs over the years, most notably our IT Client Support, Cisco CCNA, Cisco CCNP programs as well as our DEC in IT Network Management. Champlain is also both a Cisco Networking Academy and an Amazon Web Services (AWS) Academy. This conference is therefore an ideal way to keep up to date on the ever-growing field of networking.

To celebrate another successful year of Hacking Health Ottawa’s Health Innovation Program (#HIP613) and outstanding projects that came from #HIP613 Hackathon, we are pleased to invite you to the #HIP613 Community Connector. This event will bring together problem solvers and community organizations dedicated to tackling diverse healthcare problems. There will be an opportunity to network, be inspired by industry leaders and take #HIP613 Hackathon projects to the next level. Join us Wednesday, June 6 at The World Exchange Plaza, 100 Queen St, 13th floor for the #HIP613 Community Connector! Agenda 6:30 Registration & Networking 6:45 Opening Remarks 7:00 Community Showcase 8:00 Networking 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. Sponsored by

Are you a high school or junior high student who wants to start their own business one day? Then join us for this free event that shares how students can improve their odds of Student Startup Success. Created specifically for high school students and junior high school students, the free Students Startup Symposium is a great place to: Learn new business skills from four international speakers Meet local resources available to aspiring and first-time entrepreneurs Be inspired by student entrepreneurs showcasing their businesses and pick your favourite This event coincides with a special session for teachers, counsellors and parents on Helping Students Successfully Build an Entrepreneurial Career Path. Speaker Topics  During the evening, guest speakers will present on "how to" topics. When you arrive, you will pick two of the following four sessions to attend:  Adam Berk: How to know if your idea is a potential winner Cathy Han: How to grow yourself and your business Jonathan Gottfried: How to come up with better business ideas Seah Sheppard: How to get customers Speakers Adam Berk: New York A head mentor for the global Google Launchpad Accelerator, Adam has helped 1,000’s aspiring entrepreneurs validate their business ideas. Cathy Han: San Franciso A native Calgarian and a Y Combinator graduate who is on Forbes’ top 30 under 30 list, Cathy’s company recently placed 3rd at the LVMH Innovation Awards Jonathan Gottfried: New York A founder of ‘the’ global student hackathon league and a member of the Forbes to 30 under 30, Jon loves creating new technology and teaching people how to do the same.  Sean Sheppard: San Franciso  A serial entrepreneur with multiple successful exits, Sean is a co-founder of GrowthX where tech entrepreneurs learn the art of sales and the science of marketing. Student Entrepreneurs Showcase Local high school and junior high students have the opportunity to showcase their businesses and compete for one of three different student entrepreneurship awards as chosen by the participants of the event. Contact Craig Elias (info below) if you would like to present in the student entrepreneur showcase. Schedule 5:30-6:15: Registration, Student Entrepreneur Showcase and Resource Fair 6:15-7:00: Skill Development Session #1 7:00-7:15: Student Entrepreneur Showcase and Resource Fair 7:15-8:00: Skill Development Session #2 8:00-8:15: Student Entrepreneur Showcase and Resource Fair 8:15-8:30: Student Entrepreneur Awards & Closing Sponsors This event is hosted by Bow Valley College, is part of the 150 Startups Initiative, and is made possible by the generous support of the RBC Foundation. Got Questions? Contact Craig Elias by phone (+1.403.874.2998) or email (CElias@BowValleyCollege.ca).