Date: Feb 4, 2025 Topic: Crowdsorsa – a mobile game to engage your citizens! Katja Boutou introduces Crowdsorsa – an innovative platform that uses gamification and crowdsourcing… Read More »Hacknight #479 with Katja Boutou: Crowdsorsa – a mobile game to engage your citizens!
Date: Jan 28, 2025 Topic: The Civics Project – Indexing all of Canadian politics While the government has grown increasingly complex, the bias in news… Read More »Hacknight #478 – The Civics Project – Indexing all of Canadian politics with Mikaal Naik
Date: Jan 21, 2025 Topic: Behind The Yellowhead Treaty Map – Reclaiming Indigenous Perspectives on Treaties in Canada Treaties are the highest law of the… Read More »Hacknight #477 – Behind The Yellowhead Treaty Map – Reclaiming Indigenous Perspectives on Treaties in Canada with Yumi Numata & Kelsi-Leigh Balaban
Date: Jan 14, 2025 Topic: From Bacteria to Bikes – Quantitative Cycling Research in Toronto After a PhD in biophysics, Madeleine Bonsma-Fisher turned her hobby… Read More »Hacknight #476 – From Bacteria to Bikes – Quantitative Cycling Research in Toronto with Madeleine Bonsma-Fisher
Date: Jan 07, 2025 Topic: Introducing HansardTube Matt Malone will introduce the HansardTube project, aiming to automatically upload Canadian parliamentary videos to YouTube, so people… Read More »Hacknight #475 – Introducing HansardTube with Matt Malone
Date: Dec 17, 2024 Topic: The evolution of retail business: Bloor St (Spadina/Christie) For the past 30 years, Prof. Martin J. Osborne has conducted an… Read More »Hacknight #474 – The evolution of retail business: Bloor St (Spadina/Christie) with Martin J. Osborne
Date: Dec 10, 2024 Topic: Noise Cameras: New Tech to Solve an Old Problem Are you tired of the loud vehicles on our streets? Many… Read More »Hacknight #473 – Noise Cameras: New Tech to Solve an Old Problem with Reuben Peckham & Ingrid Buday
Date: Dec 03, 2024 Topic: Empowering Climate Action in Every Language This presentation introduces a powerful Multilingual Climate Chatbot, designed to bridge the gap in… Read More »Hacknight #472 – Empowering Climate Action in Every Language with Helena Yu, Luis Ticas, and Maryam Tavakoli
Date: Nov 26, 2024 Topic: Crowdsourcing care: Solving healthcare service gaps with open data Join us for a talk about open data and civic tech… Read More »Hacknight #471 – Crowdsourcing care: Solving healthcare service gaps with open data with Sidra Mahmood
Date: Nov 19, 2024 Topic: Canada’s National Action Plan on Open Government An opportunity to provide input into the commitments of Canada’s 2025-29 National Action… Read More »Hacknight #470 – Canada’s National Action Plan on Open Government with Cara Scarfone
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