Date: Nov 12, 2024 Topic: Report-back from the Design and Tech hackathon A reflection on organizing an independent hackathon in Toronto and sharing the outcomes.… Read More »Hacknight #469 – Report-back from the Design and Tech hackathon with Hannah Rosen
Date: Nov 05, 2024 Topic: Policy2Code Challenge @ BenCon At BenCon 2024, BDO Canada and Civictech Toronto presented two groundbreaking projects that harness Generative AI… Read More »Hacknight #468 – Policy2Code Challenge @ BenCon with Jerry Wilson, (David) Yuan Xu, and Alexander Chen
Date: Oct 29, 2024 Topic: Automatic TTC detour detection Emily Gates from Transit will talk about the app’s newly released functionality to detect and share… Read More »Hacknight #467 – Automatic TTC detour detection with Emily Gates & Marisa Henry
Date: Oct 22, 2024 Topic: Building VoteInformer: Empowering Civic Engagement & Shaping an Informed Electorate We will talk a little bit about who we are… Read More »Hacknight #466 – Building VoteInformer: Empowering Civic Engagement & Shaping an Informed Electorate with Blair Ellis & Michael Traynor
Date: Oct 15, 2024 Topic: Bike Lane Uprising with Christina Whitehouse Learn how to report bike lane obstructions with Bike Lane Uprising’s mobile app. Hear… Read More »Hacknight #465 – Bike Lane Uprising with Christina Whitehouse with Christina Whitehouse
Date: Oct 08, 2024 Topic: The Uncounted and the Unseen: Learning to Work with Dark Data Good policy starts with good data, and although we… Read More »Hacknight #464 – The Uncounted and the Unseen: Learning to Work with Dark Data with Timothy Quinn
Date: Oct 01, 2024 Topic: Canadian Census and other data We will give a high level overview over the tools to analyze, process and visualize… Read More »Hacknight #463 – Canadian Census and other data with Jens von Bergmann
Date: Sep 24, 2024 Topic: Bringing Complaints Online at the City of Toronto Have you ever had an issue with the City and wanted to… Read More »Hacknight #462 – Bringing Complaints Online at the City of Toronto with Argerie Tzouras & Lisa Guo
Date: Sep 17, 2024 Topic: Toronto Fleet Services, Business Intelligence Data is one of Toronto Fleet Services Division’s most valuable assets. Through their operations dashboards… Read More »Hacknight #461 – Toronto Fleet Services, Business Intelligence with Mario Salvagio & Lin Mu
Date: Sep 10, 2024 Topic: How committing to Open Data has helped change how Toronto talks about homelessness Over the last 5 years, the Toronto… Read More »Hacknight #460 – How committing to Open Data has helped change how Toronto talks about homelessness with Heath Priston
Date: Sep 03, 2024 Topic: Modelling Toronto’s Paths to Net Zero As Toronto takes steps toward a sustainable future, the city has introduced the Local… Read More »Hacknight #459 – Modelling Toronto’s Paths to Net Zero with Da Huo & Sourabh Jain
Date: Aug 27, 2024 Topic: Pixels to Parks: Open Space Sandbox How can we transform our favourite video games into community engagement tools? We’re thrilled… Read More »Hacknight #458 – Pixels to Parks: Open Space Sandbox with Hayley Oleksiak
Date: Aug 20, 2024 Topic: Exploring Toronto’s Lobbyist Registry Toronto Lobbying Report: [https://lobbyingintoronto.ca/](https://lobbyingintoronto.ca/) Speakers: Ram Vasuthevan – Software engineer working on applying technology to the… Read More »Hacknight #457 – Exploring Toronto’s Lobbyist Registry with Ram Vasuthevan
Date: Aug 13, 2024 Topic: Steps towards finding meaning in software In this talk Max and Serena will share their journey from working in big… Read More »Hacknight #456 – Steps towards finding meaning in software with Serena Peruzzo & Max Veytsman
Date: Aug 06, 2024 Topic: What’s going on with GenAI? Generative AI and large language models are widely talked about, but often not that well… Read More »Hacknight #455 – What’s going on with GenAI? with Alex Olson
Date: Jul 30, 2024 Topic: Canadian Urban Data Catalogue An open catalogue for Canadian Urban Datasets. Mark will review the Canadian Urban Data Catalogue, an… Read More »Hacknight #454 – Canadian Urban Data Catalogue with Mark Fox
Date: Jul 23, 2024 Topic: tRacket: tracking urban noise Urban noise isn’t just an annoyance: research shows that excessive noise has a range of health… Read More »Hacknight #453 – tRacket: tracking urban noise with Gabe Sawhney, Mitch Bechtel, Daniel S, and Clyne
Date: Jul 16, 2024 Topic: Grocery Tracker: Leveraging Data for Food Transparency in Toronto Speakers: Eric Wickham – Eric Wickham is a journalist in Toronto… Read More »Hacknight #452 – Grocery Tracker: Leveraging Data for Food Transparency in Toronto with Eric Wickham
Date: Jul 09, 2024 Topic: Building Scattered Unit Co-Ops in Toronto Speakers: Jim Rootham – Jim Rootham has been the finance chair at Alexandra Park… Read More »Hacknight #451 – Building Scattered Unit Co-Ops in Toronto with Jim Rootham
Date: Jul 02, 2024 Topic: Respitely.TO In this talk, Arjun will share how SafeHavenTO leverages modern web technologies and the latest data to provide updated… Read More »Hacknight #450 – Respitely.TO with Arjun Sahjpaul
Date: Jun 25, 2024 Topic: What is Toronto Open Data Even Doing? Toronto Open Data recently started sharing what they are doing on a day-to-day… Read More »Hacknight #449 – What is Toronto Open Data Even Doing? with Mackenzie Nichols
Date: Jun 18, 2024 Topic: 100% Hacknight Venue: Myhal Centre for Engineering and Entrepreneurship
Date: Jun 11, 2024 Topic: Where do you go when your internet is down? In partnership with the City of Toronto’s ConnectTO team, Olivia and… Read More »Hacknight #447 – Where do you go when your internet is down? with Olivia Ou & Emily Sakaguchi
Date: Jun 04, 2024 Topic: Opening silos! Innovation through the Urban Data Platform Hamburg Discover the Urban Data Platform Hamburg (UDP_HH) at the upcoming Civic… Read More »Hacknight #446 – Opening silos! Innovation through the Urban Data Platform Hamburg with Dr. Pierre Gras & Hannah Reinicke
Date: May 28, 2024 Topic: A UX Overhaul For Our Democracy What would need to change to make our democracy accessible to everyone? And what… Read More »Hacknight #445 – A UX Overhaul For Our Democracy with Ilya Krenin
Date: May 21, 2024 Topic: Exploring TTC Delays using Reproducible Data As most of us know, the TTC has tons of problems– but unless you’re… Read More »Hacknight #444 – Exploring TTC Delays using Reproducible Data with Luca Carnegie