Date: May 02, 2023 Topic: Engaging with City Council 101 Engaging with your Councillor’s office and City Council is an important avenue for your advocacy… Read More »Hacknight #391 – Engaging with City Council 101 with Sam McGarva
Date: Apr 25, 2023 Topic: Solar Server: Low-Carbon Videogames Kara Stone will discuss [Solar Server](https://karastonesite.com/2022/11/03/solar-server/), a solar-powered web server that will host a series of… Read More »Hacknight #389 – Solar Server: Low-Carbon Videogames with Kara Stone
Date: Apr 18, 2023 Topic: 100% Hacknight Venue: Toronto City Hall, Civic Innovation Office
Date: Apr 11, 2023 Topic: What Silicon Valley Gets Wrong about the Future of Transportation with Silicon Valley made a lot of big promises for… Read More »Hacknight #387 – What Silicon Valley Gets Wrong about the Future of Transportation with with Paris Marx
Date: Apr 04, 2023 Topic: TaxGPT: Advising Canadians about tax filing TaxGPT is a AI-lite friendly chatbot that gives Canadians advice on how to file… Read More »Hacknight #386 – TaxGPT: Advising Canadians about tax filing with Paul Craig
Date: Mar 28, 2023 Topic: The Large Language Model Next Door: Living with Intelligent Agents Understanding how large language models like ChatGPT work is one… Read More »Hacknight #385 – The Large Language Model Next Door: Living with Intelligent Agents with Jennifer Schellnick
Date: Mar 21, 2023 Topic: How does Toronto use open data? The team from Toronto Open Data will discuss how the city’s data portal has… Read More »Hacknight #384 – How does Toronto use open data? with Reza Ghasemzadeh & Mackenzie Nichols
Date: Mar 14, 2023 Topic: itsneerby [itsneerby](https://www.itsneerby.ca/) highlights public spaces and their local stories through photography. Project lead Nithursan Elamuhilan will share the process of… Read More »Hacknight #383 – itsneerby with Nithursan Elamuhilan
Date: Mar 07, 2023 Topic: ChatGPT and Large Language Models 101 Alex Olson will take a look at the growing world of Large Language Models,… Read More »Hacknight #382 – ChatGPT and Large Language Models 101 with Alex Olson
Date: Feb 28, 2023 Topic: Data visualization at the School of Cities Jeff Allen will showcase Toronto-focused interactive maps and visual essays created at the… Read More »Hacknight #381 – Data visualization at the School of Cities with Jeff Allen
Date: Feb 21, 2023 Topic: RentSmart Chloe-Marie Brown will share her vision for RentSmart, an emerging civic technology platform that will help tenants and landlords… Read More »Hacknight #380 – RentSmart with Chloe-Marie Brown
Date: Feb 14, 2023 Topic: Civic Participation and Democratic Experience: Civic Tech in Toronto In this presentation, Curtis McCord will cover his research on Civic… Read More »Hacknight #379 – Civic Participation and Democratic Experience: Civic Tech in Toronto with Curtis McCord
Date: Feb 07, 2023 Topic: 100% Hacknight Venue: Myhal Centre for Engineering and Entrepreneurship
Date: Jan 31, 2023 Topic: Exploring Ontario’s public data repository Corey and Kobikah from the Ontario Digital Service will offer a tour of the province’s… Read More »Hacknight #377 – Exploring Ontario’s public data repository with Corey Trott & Kobikah Chandran
Date: Jan 24, 2023 Topic: Know Your Vote T.O. Sarah and Chris will share the process and approach for the [Know Your Vote T.O.](https://www.knowyourvote.to/) website… Read More »Hacknight #376 – Know Your Vote T.O. with Sarah Yaffe & Chris Ellis
Date: Jan 17, 2023 Topic: Toronto Tree Data Speakers: Ethan Sansom – Ethan is a Data Analyst at the Clean Air Partnership in Toronto, where… Read More »Hacknight #375 – Toronto Tree Data with Ethan Sansom
Date: Jan 10, 2023 Topic: It’s Not Magic, It Just Looks Like It: Cool digital tools addressing complex civic issues Terra Loire Gillespie will be… Read More »Hacknight #374 – It’s Not Magic, It Just Looks Like It: Cool digital tools addressing complex civic issues with Terra Loire Gillespie
Date: Jan 03, 2023 Topic: Waterloo Region Votes Paul Nijjar from CivictechWR will give a quick tour of https://waterlooregionvotes.org , an election information portal used… Read More »Hacknight #373 – Waterloo Region Votes with Paul Niijar
Date: Dec 13, 2022 Topic: Mastodon: Enter the Fediverse Mastodon early adopter Neville Park offers an introduction to decentralized social media: what it is, how… Read More »Hacknight #372 – Mastodon: Enter the Fediverse with Neville Park
Date: Dec 06, 2022 Topic: Running great hybrid events on a shoestring For the past two months, Civic Tech Toronto has shifted our weekly online… Read More »Hacknight #371 – Running great hybrid events on a shoestring with Gabe Sawhney & Sam McGarva
Date: Nov 29, 2022 Topic: Zero-occupant AVs The advent of autonomous vehicles would change cities’ economic, social, and mobility landscapes. Based on a stakeholder engagement… Read More »Hacknight #370 – Zero-occupant AVs with Lisa L. Losada Rojas
Date: Nov 22, 2022 Topic: Where’s my bus? For the month of November 2022, Civic Tech Toronto is focusing on the theme of transportation. We’ve… Read More »Hacknight #369 – Where’s my bus? with David Cho, Adam Cohoon, and Shelagh Pizey-Allen
Date: Nov 15, 2022 Topic: Toronto Transportation Services Speakers: Maddy Ewins – Maddy Ewins is a senior product manager with the City of Toronto’s Transportation… Read More »Hacknight #368 – Toronto Transportation Services with Maddy Ewins & David McElroy
Date: Nov 08, 2022 Topic: How North America is turning away from cars (and how Toronto is leading this trend) On Nov. 8, we are… Read More »Hacknight #367 – How North America is turning away from cars (and how Toronto is leading this trend) with Reece Martin
Date: Nov 01, 2022 Topic: Tales from the Toronto Star transportation beat On Nov. 1, we kick things off with Lex Harvey, transportation reporter for… Read More »Hacknight #366 – Tales from the Toronto Star transportation beat with Alexandra (Lex) Harvey
Date: Oct 25, 2022 Topic: Torontoverse: Local media built from open data Introducing Torontoverse [https://tovrs.ca](https://tovrs.ca), a local media site that imagines the city as an… Read More »Hacknight #365 – Torontoverse: Local media built from open data with Chris Dinn