List of hackathons in Vancouver, Canada in 2018

Please join us for the Victoria Health Hackathon Holiday Social! This is VILS's "XMas party" this year, thanks to the kind inclusion of Vancouver Island Life Sciences in the Centre for Biomedical Research's Hackathon Social, in partnership with NSERC. Please join us for holiday cheer & snacks, while continuing conversations about the challenges, solutions and future ideas raised in the Victoria Health Hackathon, as well as general life sciences networking as always at VILS gatherings! If you have not already, stay informed on VILS events as well as community events such as those the Centre for Biomedical Research puts on, by signing up for the VILS mailing list at www.vils.ca. For questions about the event organisation, please contact cfbr@uvic.ca or sam@vils.ca. Legal note: Please ensure you register and obtain a ticket, since in compliance with BC's antiquated liquor laws, this is a private event by invitation/registration only.  

**Please Note: All tickets are non-refundable, non-transferable. ALL PRICES IN CAD$. The IoT Hackathon that makes a difference and opens a whole new series of IoT events that will create an area to collaborate for technology developers, industry representatives, and investors interested in IoT opportunities. We want to do the things differently and not to be just another hackathon usually organized in "closed-loop" way, where participants get some IoT kits as input and the award as the output and nothing else is happening after hackathon. The hackathon is turned into an area with ongoing collaboration within IoT Hub and make a marketplace where participants can continue on projects and challenges and move them into real business opportunities. The challenge represents the topic opened by IoT Hub member who wants to find a solution for the area of his interest. It can be award by a price and continue in further cooperation with the member. More members can open a challenge together and work on it. In our ongoing effort to support the hackathon participants in their projects and challenges we are giving them an access to the IoT infrastructure providing mainly three subsystems such as data transfer for wireless communication technologies (LoRaWAN), management systems, hardware and software systems for collecting and storing data from connected systems, data processing for analyzing and visualizing the collected data. The hackathon can attend individuals who would like to join or create teams such as startup founders. Opportunity for teams to find new colleagues. All participants are welcome to work on their ideas that can lead to business opportunities or can accept the challenge opened by the IoT Hub member. For more information, visit the website at https://hackthebase.com See the trailer https://youtu.be/aIb2eWzK38U During the event are provided drinks and food (breakfast, launch, dinner). Each attendee will get an IoT Kit (LoRa / WiFi) and access to the LoRaWAN Introduction workshop which will be split into small groups with real examples of how to build a LoRaWAN application. Each attendee can select noon or an afternoon session held on December 6th or December 7th.   Cancelation Policy: Tickets are non-refundable and non-transferable

This event is free for all attendees of the #HackTheBase IoT Hackathon. LoRaWAN is increasingly becoming a popular Low Power WAN (LPWAN) solution. This workshop provides easy understanding of LoRa and how LoRaWAN protocol achieves LoRa. The course focus on first-time users of LoRa or beginners. What you will know after the workshop Familiar with LoRa technology Understanding LoRa Infrastructure Community approach for LoRaWAN Familiarisation with The Things Network (TTN) Management of application, gateway, and devices Don’t miss this chance to find out about LoRa and gain hands-on experience of how easy it is to create your first LoRa application.

To kick-off the celebration of the opening of the Canadian Statistical Sciences Institute (CANSSI) national headquarters, we invite you to lightning talks highlighting some very exciting CANSSI Collaborative Research Teams, Health Science Collaborating Centres and conferences. It includes speakers at SFU as well as across the country.  SPEAKERS: At SFU: Dani Chu, VanSASH: The First Soccer Analytics Hackathon in North America, created for students by students At SFU: Leonid Chindelevitch, Statistical Methods for Challenging Problems in Public Health Microbiology, CANSSI Collaborative Research Team At SFU: Farouk Nathoo, Joint Analysis of Neuroimaging Data: High-dimensional Problems, Spatio-Temporal Models and Computation, CANSSI Collaborative Research Team At Western: Douglas Woolford, Evolving Marked Point Processes with Application to Wildland Fire Regime Modelling, CANSSI Collaborative Research Team At McGill: Erica Moodie, McGill Health Statistics Training Network: Preparing Students for Life Beyond our Walls, CANSSI Health Science Collaborating Centre At Dalhousie: Joanna Mills Flemming, Towards Sustainable Fisheries: State Space Assessment Models for Complex Fisheries and Biological Data, CANSSI Collaborative Research Team At Manitoba: Lisa Lix, The Manitoba Statistical and Health Sciences (MB-SAHS) Collaborating Centre: Innovations in Collaborative Training Join us for networking and light refreshments after the talks.

This GivingTuesday, #VanGives is inviting our partners to attend Shareity, a hackathon event where you can share with your peers in the charitable sector about the good stuff you are doing. Generously hosted by SpencerCreo – a shared workplace for nonprofits, we ask you to bring your laptops + hashtags as we promote one another’s GivingTuesday goals.  #VanGives is all about sharing + collaboration, and are using the GivingTuesday initiative as an opportunity for you to encourage each other in both the digital + physical space. While you’re out and about doing good stuff this GivingTuesday, from 12-1:30pm drop in, and we will share refreshments + opportunities to promote your cause.  Can't physically make it? You can still digitally join us @Vangives #VanGives #Shareity between 12-1:30pm  FAQs How many people can I bring? 2 per organization for capacity considersations. However, message amanda@philanthropyaide.com if you have a special request. What can I bring into the event? Your laptop if ya got it! Some refreshments are provided. More questions? Contact Amanda Burrows, amanda@philanthropyaide.com Must be a VanGives partner, and you can become one here: http://givingtuesday.ca/partners/givingtuesday-vancouver  

If you are in the Vancouver area and interested in DLT, this is NOT the Meetup to miss! Come for free pizza, meet the team and LEARN about an incredible next-generation distributed ledger technology!We are very lucky to have Technical Lead, Paul Madsen, himself speak as he visits us from Ottawa. He will walk us through recent announcements, a Hedera18 recap and review DLT myth-busting.Hedera18 Demystifying Distributed Ledgers - https://youtu.be/fF67_vL1_ZEThis is a very special Meetup because in addition to Paul, we also have Nhat Nguyen and the Organify team! Organify competed in our recent Global Hackathon in Dallas and Nhat represented Organify as one of our Panelist at Hedera18. Nhat will share his perspective and insights.Organify - http://organify.io/Hedera18 Panel - https://youtu.be/5v_jGpkRdq4Organify Team:Nhat Nguyen - CEO & Co-founder, a consultant in strategy and product development at National Australia Bank, currently working at Impark head office in Vancouver.Alicia Nguyen - CTO & Co-founder, a senior full stack developer with experience in multiple enterprise technologies, currently working at iComply.Lucas Cunha - COO & Co-founder, previously a co-founder of a supply chain import/export of agriculture products company in Vancouver now a front end and blockchain developer.Following the presentation, we will open the floor for some Q&A with Paul and Nhat.Watch the Hedera18 playlist here:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZIG2qvTe2ek&list=PLcaTa5RR9SuCj2CKkhyJ1m8dMh6xFnrttThe hashgraph consensus algorithm provides a new platform for distributed consensus. The hashgraph system achieves the goal of distributed consensus, but without the constraints of current blockchain technology. Hedera provides distributed consensus while also being fair, fast, provable, Byzantine, ACID compliant, efficient, inexpensive, timestamped, DoS resistant, and optionally non-permissioned.

Are you interested in social innovation? Start-ups?Or perhaps you just love brainstorming!We have the perfect event for you. Enactus Edinburgh is hosting a social enterprise Hackathon and we need you!Whether your motivation is solving world hunger, eradicating poverty, improving access to education- all ideas and inputs are welcome.Join us for free lunch, exposure to socially driven businesses and best of all, like-minded people with innovative ideas. 

Calling all data analysts, hackers, and pitching experts! SFU Business Analytics Hackathon 2018: With the sponsorship of Best Buy Canada, Beedie School of Business at Simon Fraser University hosts the annual business analytics hackathon – a one-day competition, in which student teams analyze a business case, use the given data set to build their best predictive model, and communicate their results to industry judges from organizations such as Best Buy, Electronic Arts, Deloitte, Ernst & Young, and Rocky Mountaineer.  Each team will be judged on three components, namely (1) business case understanding, (2) technical competence, and (3) communication. While teams’ technical competence will be primarily assessed by the predictive performance of their models, their “storytelling” will be assessed by the industry judges. Prizes for model performance will be separate from the storytelling prizes. Team Eligibility: This event is open to SFU students of all faculties who would like to challenge their teamwork, analytical, and public speaking skills, and to alumni of the Beedie School of Business. Students must register as a team. Each team must have at least two and at most three students. Teams can use analytics platforms and algorithms of their choice. Registration Deadline: The maximum number of teams (25) is reached or Nov 15th, 2018 Awards: More than $2,000 cash prizes in total If you have any questions, please email Prof. Robert Krider (rkrider@sfu.ca) or Prof. Jason Ho (jyh3@sfu.ca)  (If you need help finding business analytics talents to form a team, please feel free to contact Prof. Krider or Prof. Ho)

Emerging Media Creative Challenge (EM2C) is not your average hackathon - it is a next-generation technological and creative event. Over the course of 48 hours, participants will implement emerging media to create tools that enhance teaching & learning. At the end of the event, attendees are given the opportunity to showcase their projects to other participants and present it to a team of experts. We believe that only through interdisciplinary collaboration can the future of emerging media truly shine. Students from all fields of study are welcome to participate!  Thank you to our sponsors:  UBC School of Biomedical Engineering UBC IT Audio Visual Support

What is the Teens Learning Code Hackathon Program? Equipping the leaders of tomorrow with the skills and experience to succeed in the future of innovation. Not to mention, have a ton of fun along the way. Pack your laptop and an open mind - and join us for this fun, action packed Hackathon where we’ll tackle important social issues, chosen by YOU! With the hands-on, social and collaborative learning approach we’re known and loved for, Hackathons provide a fun, collaborative and intensive learning experience that introduces teen girls ages 13-17 years old to the world of solving real-world problems with technology. This special event aims to reinforce the strength in diverse teams and that anyone can contribute to solving problems -whether you are just starting out with coding or have many programming languages under your belt. The experience brings together technical workshops (HTML & CSS, UX/UI), work sessions, unplugged activities and industry insights where you're able to learn as a group in a collaborative, social, friendly and supportive environment. Teens will be inspired by the amazing instructors and mentors, and will learn the technological and creative skills necessary for this ever-changing digital generation. By the end of the Hackathon, you’ll have learned important skills to help you think critically, prepare you for the future in technology and contribute to the Web in a positive way. Extending beyond technology, participants will develop critical thinking skills and empathy by learning how to identify, frame and unpack problems to tackle. What can I expect? Day 1 -​ 6:00pm to 9:30pm Learners will spend the evening learning to pitch and frame the problems they’d like to solve with their teams. Day 2 - 9:00am - 8:30pm Day 2 will be jam-packed with technical and non-technical workshops, and plenty of time for collaborative work sessions. Learners will produce products that they’re proud of and have the opportunity to show off their work. Families and friends are invited to join us in the evening, where the participants will pitch and present their final projects to the crowd! Workshop Dates: This workshop will be run over the course of two days: November 9th & November 10th Who is this for? Our Teens Learning Code workshops and events offer female-identified, trans, and non-binary youth ages 13-17 opportunities to take action on ideas that will shape our future while leveraging the power of technology. Our learning experiences are much more than learning how to code. Our experiences empower teens to learn problem solving skills, how to turn ideas into reality, exposure to what a future in technology could look like, and much more. Prerequisites: None! This workshop is designed for beginners. What's Included: Requirements:  Note: If you do not have a laptop to use during the duration of the workshop, we have a limited quantity that we can loan out. The option to borrow a laptop will be included in your order form when registering. Hey you! Have you joined the Canada Learning Code mailing list? If not, join here. Questions? Email us at info@canadalearningcode.ca You can also find us here:   Hope to see you soon! If for some reason you can't make it, check out our REFUND POLICY.