List of hackathons in Canada in 2018

The ultimate event for learning, hacking and networking in Barrie! All coders, develop and hustlers are invited. No previous blockchain knowledge required. Top blockchain experts will be mentoring on site. All participants will receive complimentary access to blockgeeks course content. 24 hours - to team up and build a blockchain product. $5,000+ in prizes to be won! Tons of free swag too!

What is the Smart Cities Challenge? The Smart Cities Challenge is a pan-Canadian competition open to communities of all sizes to use technology to solve a problem or pursue an opportunity that is important to the community. (co)space by Yukonstruct, the collaborative shared workspace for entrepreneurs, is leading a collaborative effort with the City of Whitehorse in this challenge, with support from the Government of Yukon.  Our first task was to identify challenge statements for the community’s consideration and selection. Community involvement is one of the criteria for the Smart Cities Challenge application. If successful, the application could earn the City up to $5 million, $10 million or up to $50 million to implement the solutions. This will be a public event where we will convene to: 1.   Understand Whitehorse' Smart Cities Challenge at a deeper level 2.   Identify ideas and potential solutions to this challenge 3.   Finding ways to bring these ideas and plans to life to achieve real and positive outcomes The goal of this hackathon will be to find potential technologicalsolutions to the availability and affordability of housing in Whitehorse. This event will be facilitated using a social innovation approach, Hands-on and participatory. Come be a part of shaping the future of Whitehorse

Centennial's annual celebration of Science, Technology, Engineering, Aerospace and Mathematics (STEAM) for National Engineering Month (NEM) 2018. Festivities will include an Engineering Convention for students and industry partners, and an open Hackathon that aims to solve a real-world engineering challenge. Visit our website for more information: https://www.steamweek.ca/

What is Hoist? Hoist is a tech club for teens interested in coding, design or entrepreneurship. If you’re between the ages of 12-19 and have an interest in startups, tech or coding, then come check it out! Don't forget to bring your laptop and charger. If you do not own a laptop we have a limited number available for use! Hoist is normally held on the third Saturday of every month. March Topic: Virtual Reality Join Hoist Halifax for an exciting meetup in March. We will be bringing in Halifax VR for a lesson on virtual reality! Learn about all that VR has to offer, the ups and downs of being an entrepreneur in the virtual reality space and the latest industry developments. After a classroom style session, get the chance to practice your virtual reality skills with some playing time. For this session we have limited space available. If you're unable to come, please cancel your ticket ahead of time.  What Happens at Hoist? LearnLearn from experts in the business. The first half-hour will be a lesson from a pro on the topic of the day – App basics, coding (android/ios?) etc. LunchHave some free pizza with your new friends. HackBuild or design something, apply what you just learned…it’s a mini hackathon. Work in a group or on your own to create the next big product or service! DiscussReflect and discuss the day…what did you find challenging or exciting? Chill out and talk to your new pals about what you created! Hoist is ending at 3:30pm for the month of March! **As of January 2018 we have changed our consent form! Everyone (regardless if new to Hoist) must have this waiver filled out if they did not fill it out for the January or February 2018 Sessions If you're unable to attend an event please take a minute and cancel your ticket. This allows our events team to better prepare for every event. 

Combine your love of code, design, big data, and baseball at the FIRST annual Baseball Hackday Hackathon in Toronto! This special one day The event will take place on March 17th, 2018 at the Think Research building and we will be hacking along with teams in Boston, Montreal, Chicago, and San Diego. We will all participate in the development of baseball-related projects and experiments to see if can make something awesome with technology. By participating, you will be part of a group that joins technology with sports and our hope is to bring technology and sports communities together. Using your creativity along with baseball, you can make, a web app, a mobile app, a web site, or data visualization. The majority of your coding must happen during the event. Some work done prior to the event is allowed, but it should be disclosed at your demo. Prototypes/mockups for demo are OK, but working websites or mobile apps are strongly encouraged. And afterwards, you'll get the opportunity to show your stuff to judges from the Blue Jays organization (and more)!  Designers, developers, statisticians, big data enthusiasts, and baseball fans are welcome to participate! We are looking for sponsors to help offset the costs of hosting our event and judges to evaluate the projects and then present the winning team with a grand prize. There is no cost to attend and participate in the event but there are limited spots so book early. The day will end with an award ceremony for the winning projects. Checkout https://baseballhackday.com for more information.   New to hack days? Have no fear. Check out https://baseballhackday-2017.devpost.com/ to see last year’s submissions Check out resources in https://github.com/baseballhackday/data-and-resources/wiki/Resources-and-ideas Check out http://baseballhackday.tumblr.com/" for an inspiration blog on tumblr

In teams, you will have to demonstrate your skills with the technologies of your choice in order to create an innovative solution using genetic data supplied to you by BiogeniQ on the day of the challenge. This challenge will take place over the course of a single day. You will need to present your solution to the judges, who will evaluate your work and nominate the winners, in programming, user interface development and presentation.

$1 deposit gets refunded upon check-in Luiz Gustavo Ferraz Aoqui graduated in 2012 from University of São Paulo with a Bachelor of Science in Computer Engineering and has been working as a lead engineer for IBM Canada since 2013. His work is focused on software development in the areas of web, cloud, mobile and blockchain. He is the technical leader for the Cognitive Class learning platform and the Documentorum accreditation network. Documentorum is a global initiative focused on tackling the issue of fraud in academic accreditation. It leverages blockchain technology to build trust among educational institutions, government bodies, independent learners and employers. Each document that is issued is automatically verified and endorsed by the relevant parties and is permanently stored in the tamper-proof ledger within the blockchain, so its authenticity can be always guaranteed. In 2017, Luiz was part of one of the winning teams of ETHWaterloo, the world's largest Ethereum hackathon, with over 300 participants. The winning project was called Provt, a web application that allows anyone to upload a file's metadata to the Ethereum blockchain so it can later be used by any other person to verify its integrity and provenance.

Mission Hack is an opportunity to submit an application to be selected as a contributor of The Settlement Project and an architect of New Earth. Applicants will need to prototype a technology that solves a problem for life on New Earth in one of four categories: - Human Ambition - New Economy - Infrastructure - Healthy Economy Free event - registration required at http://bit.ly/missionhackvancouver1

Techie post-secondary students in and around Ontario! If you're interested in SAS analytics software, then you're invited to participate in the ZLAS: Hackathon with SAS and MAESD. Participate in a team of between 2 and 5 students! If you don't have a team -- don't worry, you'll be assigned to one. This year's Hackathon challenge is about the completion rates of apprenticeship programs in Ontario. Be prepared to present your project in person at Ryerson University on the final day!

What does it take to turn an idea into a success story? Success stories don't come easily, it requires many and many hours of development until you have the solution that meets real needs! Join us Wednesday, March 14 from 6 PM to 9 PM at Impact Hub for an inspirational night as we listen to passionate leaders obsessed with helping solutions to help hospitals and clinics deliver better care to patients. At this event, we are fortunate to have #HIP613 Graduates speak about their journey at last year's program. We will also get to hear from some more seasoned entrepreneurs here in Ottawa. We will get the opportunity to learn to their experiences, lessons learnt and guidance on how you can succeed at the Hackathon in April.  This cafe is part of the 2018 Health Innovation Program (#HIP613) that aims to break down the barriers to healthcare innovation. The speakers: Suzanne Grant, Cofounder and CEO of iBionics Michel Paquet, Founder and CEO of Aetonix Dr. Kevin Cheung MSc MD FRCSC, Project Owner of Patient Wait Time & Free Flap Monitoring Caitlin Schwartz & Suzanne Rutherford, Project Owner of Women's Health Information Tracker (WHIT) Dr. Michael Taccone, Founder of Childhood Cancer Survivor Agenda: 6:00 PM Registration and Networking 6:30 PM Welcome and Opening Remarks 6:40 PM Success Stories 8:15 PM Lightning Pitches 8:30 PM Closing Remarks 8:35 PM Networking Terms & Conditions If you have an idea, don't forget to post your healthcare problem on the Sparkboard. This year, we are encouraging participants to practice pitching their healthcare problems in advance of the Hacking Health Ottawa hackathon during any of our events. Here's why you need to pitch: Great opportunity to practice your pitch before the HIP613 hackathon. Get your problem noticed and attract team members early. Grab the attention of experts, researchers and mentors who can assist you along your journey. If you are interested, contact us ottawa@hackinghealth.ca. Speaker's Bios Suzanne draws upon her diverse experience to envision an iBIONICS that will profoundly change the lives of thousands of blind people. She is a bold international entrepreneur accustomed to highly complex and pressured environments. Suzanne served Canada as an engineering officer in the Canadian Armed Forces and made her first foray into entrepreneurship by successfully bootstrapping a strategic communications agency and publishing house in a frontier market. Her clients have included Virgin Health Bank, Samsung, Accenture, HSBC, Carnegie Melon University, Fujitsu, Siemens and Shell, to name a few. Michel Paquet, an experienced leader with more than 20 years in technology, founded Aetonix Systems in 2014 focusing on improving communication and efficiency between patients and healthcare professionals. Prior to Aetonix, Mr Paquet was Engineering Vice-President at Wind River, a subsidiary of Intel for 7 years, leading the VxWorks product development.  Mr Paquet also occupied leadership position at IBM, Rational Software, and Nortel Networks. Mr Paquet has many years of experience with managing R&D team distributed globally and with developing and introducing product to market. With Aetonix, Mr Paquet aims at helping people with special conditions in a home setting to connect with the proper circle of care members and to receive the care require. Dr. Kevin Cheung is a board-certified plastic and reconstructive surgeon at CHEO and a Hacking Health Graduate responsible for two projects: Patient Wait Time & Free Flap Monitoring. His clinical interests include pediatric plastic surgery, congenital hand deformities, brachial plexus injuries, and vascular anomalies. Dr. Cheung received his medical doctorate from Queen’s University, Kingston, Ontario in 2009. His residency training in Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery was completed at McMaster University in 2014. He recently completed a fellowship in hand and microsurgery at Harvard University in Boston, Massachusetts. Susanne Rutherford and Caitlin Schwartz are Hacking Health Graduates who developed an app focused on preventative care for women. Their product, the Women’s Health Information Tracker (WHIT), won numerous prizes after the pitchfest. Their app organizes a custom wellness plan for women based on factors such as age and medication needs, and sets reminders for women to schedule mammograms and other crucial checkups. Refreshments will be served. Sponsored By: 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.