List of hackathons in Canada in 2018

Can you find the digital evidence and solve the crime? You will have the opportunity to solve a simulated crime by parsing through digital data to find key evidence. The Magnet Forensics team will be on hand to support you. Coding skills are not required to participate in this event. Bring your problem solving skills and a laptop. You can work individually or as a team. Claim your prize if you're the first to solve the case! Pizza and soft drinks provided. Hackathon is open to students.

We will be working on the 2018 Yelp challange as a team!   https://www.yelp.co.uk/dataset/challenge This is an advanced workshop for machine learners who already have exprience with basics: Python 3.x installed Familiarity with Pandas and Numpy Familiarity with neural networks  What you can expect to learn: Natural Language Processing techniques Convolutional/Recurrent neural network models Keras/Pytorch/Tensorflow The goal of this workshop will be to gather intermediated/advanced machine learners together to work on a larger project which may extend for several weeks and depending on interest, may include more hackathon-esque sessions.  We'll be supplying all attendees with further information about what you need to bring as we near the date.  For those interested in catching up, we have collected some great CNN and RNN intro videos which we'll send out to everyone before the event. Food and drink will be provided.

Le soutien à l'accès à l'emploi pour tous vous intéresse? Ce « meet-up » s’adresse à vous ! Destination Travail et la Fabrique Agile vous invitent à faire partie du début d’une série de discussions de préparation au Hackathon en employabilité qui se déroulera le 26 et 27 mai 2018. Métiers du futur, pénurie de main d'ouvre, disparition de certains métiers, expression des compétences, inclusion et diversité, non-discrimination... La soirée permettra de connaître ou d'approfondir chacun de ces problèmes dans un espace de conversation agréable, en vous permettant de cerner à quoi vous souhaitez participer.Le meet-up rassemblera entre autres les partenaires de l'évènement, des entreprises, des organismes du milieu, startup et des recruteurs.Plus d'information sur le site Web du Co-D Hackathon pour l'employabilité Joignez-vous à nous! NOS PARTENAIRES Destination Travail et la FABRIQUE_A  se réservent le droit d’annuler l'événement advenant un nombre insuffisant d’inscriptions.  SUBSTITUTION Les substitutions de participants sont acceptées jusqu’à la tenue de la rencontre.

Join us for the Policy innovation initiative (School of Public Policy & Governance)'s annual hackathon. Our "Food for Thought" hackathon will explore and pose solutions to some of the most difficult food security issues in an urban setting. It will be an opportunity to apply design thinking, create impact creatively, learn, and connect with multi-disciplinary experts. The hackathon will focus on three key issues: Institutional Food Procurement: How might we encourage healthy and sustainable food procurement in public institutions? Food Literacy: How might we strengthen food literacy for at-risk populations in urban centers? Home-based Food Businesses: How might we support urban home-based food businesses? Participants will tackle the challenges in teams composed of diverse skills and experiences, and will be joined by our Keynote Speaker Lori Stahlbrand (Coordinator, Toronto Food Policy Council) and Challenge Leaders, Adeline Cohen (OpenLab, Urban Farm Project, UHN), Reg Noble (Centre for Studies in Food Security, Ryerson University), and Cassandra Gentile (Director, Food Innovation Hub) to provide guidance during the hackathon. The hackathon is open to all graduate students, including public policy, urban planning, public health, as well as public servants and those passionate to make changes through policy. Read more about our hackathon last year and our ongoing work here. Details Date: Sunday March 25, 2018Time: 9:00am Reception with breakfast; 9:30am - 4:30pm Hackathon Light breakfast, lunch, and snacks will be provided. Please bring your laptop and reusable water bottle. Acknowledgements Thank you to the School of Public Policy & Governance, Petersen Fund, and the Graduate Student Union at University of Toronto for helping make this event possible.

MORE INFORMATION AT: http://wolfhacks.ca/  A Platform for Audacious Solutions  The Smart Cities Hackathon is a platform for bold ideas and driven individuals to actively problem solve using technology as a tool for innovation. We want to bring together entrepreneurs, students, members of government and experts in tech to discuss and act on the pivotal point between technology and urbanization.  Join us this March 25th for a full day of knowledge-sharing and some intense real world problem solving!  Who Can Attend?  Entrepreneurs, professionals, free lancers, academics - anyone who wants to change the world, really.   Teams will have a minimum of 3 and maximum of 5 members.  One of the aims of the hackathon is to give entrepreneurs an opportunity to get new perspectives from fresh talent and inspire them, as well as allow students to interact with and learn from professionals already in the smart technology industry. The hackathon includes coming up with a new product and creating holistic business models, successful teams need to balance technology gurus, business and finance geeks, data analysis experts, and product managers. Talented designers will also be necessary to maximize solution aesthetics and presentations!

IEEE Ryerson is proud to present you, IOT for Smart City Hackthon, a hardware competition focused on applications that make Cities smarter!Hardware such as Micrcontrollers, a variety of sensors, and other peripherals will be provided and you are free to use the web as a resource!Prizes are: 1st Place $7502nd Place $500 3rd Place $250Professionals from IBM, City of Brampton will be present! 

Nous invitons les Québécois à se réunir pour créer un simulateur informatique en ligne pour permettre aux citoyens de mieux comprendre le revenu de base et proposer des moyens de financement.  Nous allons organiser l'information, les coûts et les revenus potentiels dans un simulateur informatique offert gracieusement de Nord Ouvert. Cette technologie de simulation a été utilisée par plus de 50 villes pour permettre à leurs citoyens de proposer des budgets municipaux à travers le monde. L’idée est de monter un simulateur de revenu de base avec le logiciel de Nord Ouvert et semblable à : http://ottawa.budgetcitoyen.com/ Nous avons besoin de vous! 

This workshop pass is a great opportunity to attend all of the workshops and hear all the talks on offer this year at ETHUofT! Here is our current tentative schedule: Friday March 23: 09:30 pm - 10:30 pm: Building your first DApp with Blockgeeks 10:45 pm - 11:45 pm: Ethereum Token Standards with ChainSafe Saturday March 24: 08:00 am - 09:00 am: Cryptoeconomics with Blockgeeks  09:00 am - 10:00 am: Blockchain Security 10:00 am - 11:00 am: Smart Contracts: ingenious or inflexible? with Kai Kramer from Fasken 11:00 am - 12:00 am: Consensys Talk 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm: User-Centered Systems Design with Blockchain with Tian Zhao 02:00 pm - 03:00 pm: ICOs: A Legal Perspective with Daniel Fuke from Fasken 03:00 pm - 04:00 pm: An Introduction to Blockchain with Nuco's COO Kesem Frank 05:00 pm - 06:00 pm: Smart Contract Security with Zeppelin Solutions 06:00 pm - 07:00 pm: NuCypher's Tech stack SPEAKER BIOS Kai Kramer Kai Kramer is an Associate in the firm’s Information Technology  group and also advises start up and emerging technology clients. In his practice, Kai’s growing practice focuses on advising companies on licensing , technology acquisitions ,  services arrangements, Blockchain technologies  and privacy issues. Kai is actively is also involved in developing Toronto’s start-up community and works closely with the firm’s Start-Up & Entrepreneurial Services initiative, which strives to support start-ups, early stage companies, and entrepreneurs. Outside of his professional efforts, Kai is an avid soccer player and a perpetual enthusiast in innovation. Greg Markou Greg is Partner and System Architect at ChainSafe. While in university, Greg founded Boro, partnered with microsoft azure, as well as Ontario Centers of Excellence, communitech and facebook start. Motivated by a desire for consistent improvement, Greg strives to learn as much as possible in developing as an open-minded Innovator, and bringing Ideas from paper to tangible products. He is passionate about developing technologies that spread awareness and change the way we interact with each other. Daniel Fuke Daniel is a Partner in Fasken’s Securities and Mergers & Acquisitions group and also advises clients in the investment funds and blockchain industries. In his practice, Daniel frequently advises public and private entities on equity and debt financings, share and asset purchase transactions, investment fund formations and initial coin offerings. Tian Zhao The name’s Tian and blockchain + product (UX/UI) design + social innovation/impact is my game. My foray into the realm of blockchain began when I met Vitalik Buterin in 2015 in Waterloo followed by befriending several industry leaders within the space such as William Mougayar as well as having worked at a few blockchain companies such as Cryptiv. I’m currently working at Maropost where I’m building out their design system but on the side I’m working with a blockchain-based social enterprise called Raise and will be teaching a course on product design + blockchain at The Blockchain Hub. Outside of work I love to perform by singing and playing the piano; I was the founder of UofT-choir Tales of Harmonia, play video games, hang out with friends, and write on Medium; I was recently a freelancer writer at Coinsquare. I also love traveling with a purpose - I've been to Silicon Valley and New York City several times for invite-only hackathons and conferences, as well as to the Bahamas for a week-long entrepreneurship competition called Starter Island, and I was recently in Munich, Germany for a 3-month experiential learning program called the Digital Product School all about agile, lean, and design-thinking.  

BlockHacks is a blockchain hackathon for entrepreneurs, enthusiasts, designers and developers. The hackathon will take place over a 24-hour period and will include workshops by blockchain industry professionals. The focus is on inspiring the next generation of blockchain entrepreneurs to build decentralized applications, contribute to code at the infrastructure level and create cool new ways to introduce people to blockchains and digital currency. The judges of blockhacks are professionals in the blockchain industry who are actively looking to make blockchain investments and who can help take projects that were ideated during BlockHacks to market. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Judges:  Laurent Féral-Pierssens, Inception Block Ventures  Ethan Wilding, L4 Ventures  Isaac Souweine, Real Ventures   Sam Kawthrani, Corl.io  Manu Varghese,Greenstream Technologies Scott Moore, GitToken  Aidan Hyman, Chainsafe ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Workshop:  Solidity and EVM Workshop at BlockHacksMTL Led by Stu Peters & Priom Chowdhury Stu Peters is a co-founder and CTO of ChainSafe Systems. His journey into Blockchain began as an early adopter of Bitcoin in 2012 and as an Ethereum Developer in 2015. As an instructor at BlockchainHub, an innovation centre based out of York University; Stu has taught on multiple topics including ethereum and solidity development to some of Canada’s largest consulting firms. Stu has led and executed projects at some of the most innovative emerging projects in the Blockchain space as the Chief Technical Officer of ChainSafe Systems. Priom Chowdhury is a co-founder and Chief Security Officer of ChainSafe Systems. He first got interested in Cryptocurrency back in 2009 when Bitcoin was first initially released. Priom is a full-stack developer with a strong focus on devops and system infrastructure of ChainSafe Systems and it’s clients. He has true passion, dedication and thrive for building innovative products using cutting-edge technologies like Blockchain, Artificial Intelligence and Augmented Reality. During the workshop we will start with an overview on the EVM with a focus on Parity. We will then explore Solidity, write a smart contract, deploy and interact with it. Development tools specific to Ethereum will be discussed and used throughout the workshop. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Many Prizes to be won. Full selection to be announced shortly. There will be a Blockmason BCPT Token Airdrop available for all participants. Schedule: March 23rd 5pm:  Hackathon opening and Challenge Revealed March 24th 10am -11am : One hour coding workshop  7pm-8:30pm: Presentations and Judging  8:30pm - 9pm : Deliberation  9pm: Winners announced 9pm- End: Networks and Drinks. **Food will be served the 24th, there will be light snacks in AM, lunch and dinner*** ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Please ensure that everyone on your team has purchased a ticket.  For more information please visit: https://blockhacks.org/

Whether you are an beginner or expert with an interest in Bitcoin, Ethereum or other blockchain projects our Blockchain Hackathon is a two day event you really will not want to miss. Our two day event series will begin on March 23 at 5PM at the Five Points Theatre, with a delicious dinner, followed by a keynote speaker (will be announced) to give an overview of what will be happening! Followed by brainstorming and teamwork all day on March 24 at Georgian College.  So what will be happening? You will form a team, we will then present all the teams with a challenge related to Blockchain technology. In your teams you will work together to come up with a solution that you will present on Saturday, March 24. We have over $5,000.00 in prizes to be won for those placing 1st, 2nd or 3rd! Friday evening and all day Saturday, we will provide you with workshops, talks, and mentors to help your team come up with your solution. No matter your expertise, you will learn something at this event. Attendees range from beginner to expert. Saturday evening your team will present your solutions to a panel of judges for your opportunity to win! A celebration dinner and networking event will follow at Georgian College. All participants will receive complimentary codes to access Block Geeks Customized Learning Courses. We hope to see you there! Stay tuned for more updates! RESTRICTED TO AGE 17 AND OVER. **UPDATE** We are so excited to announce our keynote speaker from Blockgeeks: Niloo! Visit our Facebook or Twitter page to see more details!  Friday, March 23, 2018 - 5PM - 10PMSaturday, March 24, 2018 - 8AM - 7:30PM  * * $25.00 Event Fee will be refunded in full upon attendance* *  If you would prefer to pay in person rather than online - please email: jenna.green@georgiancollege.ca