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Date: April 24, 2018 Venue: Secret Location Attendance: 41 Presenter: Various presenters Presenting: We decided to do something different and have an open mic night! We heard… Read More »Hacknight #139 – Open Mic Night!

Date: April 17, 2018 Venue: Secret Location Attendance: 48 Presenter: Mohammed Asaduallah & Sharon Kennedy of Women and Color Presenting: Women and Color is a community of talented… Read More »Hacknight #138 – with Women and Color

Date: April 10, 2018 Venue: Secret Location Attendance: 54 Presenter: Julie Mathews, Executive Director of Community Legal Education Ontario (CLEO) Presenting: Community Legal Education Ontario (CLEO) provides clear, accurate,… Read More »Hacknight #137 – with Julie Mathews

Date: April 3, 2018 Venue: Secret Location Presenter: Shea Sinnott – Program Manager, Civic Hall Toronto – from Code for Canada Presenting: Shea Sinnott, Program Manager… Read More »Hacknight #136 – with Shea Sinott

Date: March 27, 2018 Venue: TWG Presenter: Andrew Hilts from Citizen Lab at the Munk School of Global Affairs, UofT Presenting: Andrew Hilts, Senior Researcher… Read More »Hacknight #135 – with Andrew Hilts from Citizen Lab

Date: March 20, 2018 Venue: TWG Presenters: Brianna Smrke & Laura Hache of the Ministry of the Environment and Climate Change Presenting: Ontario’s Climate Change… Read More »Hacknight #134 – with Brianna Smrke & Laura Hache of the Ministry of the Environment and Climate Change

Date: March 13, 2018 Venue: TWG Presenters: Lucas Declavasio, Monica Low & Andrew Patterson of Wysp Creative Presenting: Principals of Wysp Creative discuss winning the NXT City Prize… Read More »Hacknight #133 – with Lucas Declavasio, Monica Low & Andrew Patterson of Wysp Creative

Date: March 6, 2018 Venue: TWG Presenters: Li Koo Presenting: Closing the gender gap on council: Challenges and opportunities in 2018 Li Koo, a former female municipal… Read More »Hacknight #132 – with Li Koo

Date: February 27, 2018 Venue: Rangle.io Presenters: Code Across Toronto Team Presenting: Presented CodeAcross Toronto Challenges as part of  Civic Tech Toronto’s yearly hackathon! Hosted in partnership with the… Read More »Hacknight #131 – with CodeAcross Challenge Previews

Date: February 20, 2018 Venue: Rangle.io Presenter: Ben Dachis, Associate Director, Research at C.D. Howe Institute Presenting: Ben gave a presentation on the importance of budgets and end-of-year financial… Read More »Hacknight #130 – with Ben Dachis

Date: February 14, 2018 Venue: Rangle.io Project Night – no presentation. Teams were able to work on their respective projects.   Project Night @rangleio ! I spy some… Read More »Hacknight #129 – with Project Night

Date: February 6, 2018 Venue: Rangle.io Presenter: Chris Kelly from Carrot Rewards Chris Kelly is the Vice President of Technology at the popular Canadian health and wellness app,… Read More »Hacknight #128 – with Chris Kelly

Date: January 30, 2018 Venue: McKinsey & Company Presenter: Andrew Simpson from B-Corp Canada. B Corp is to business what Fair Trade certification is to coffee or… Read More »Hacknight #127 – with Andrew Simpson

Date: January 23, 2018 Venue: McKinsey & Company Presenter: David is a collaborator with the Brookfield Institute for Innovation + Entrepreneurship and a data scientist at Toronto… Read More »Hacknight #126 – with David Rubinger

Date: January 16, 2018 Venue: McKinsey & Company Presenter: Ben McNamee is the Director of Measurement, Evaluation, and Business Intelligence at the Ontario Trillium Foundation. Ben oversees the… Read More »Hacknight #125 – with Benjamin McNamee

Date: January 9, 2018 Venue: McKinsey & Company Presenter: Jesse Coleman is the lead of Toronto Transportation Services’ Big Data Innovation Team, and Raphael Dumas is a… Read More »Hacknight #124 with Jesse Coleman and Raphael Dumas

Date: January 2, 2018 Venue: McKinsey & Company Presenter: BikeSpace Project Team Presentation: The BikeSpace Project team shared an update on their work so far and the ways in… Read More »Hacknight #123 with BikeSpace Project

End-of-year review. We asked our community members and project to present: The Good – What was great about 2017? The Learning – What did you… Read More »Hacknight #122 with End-of-year Review

We’ve seen a lot of excitement — and some concern — about the Waterfront Toronto + Sidewalk Labs project (http://sidewalktoronto.ca) at Quayside. At this stage,… Read More »Hacknight #121 with Quayside Community Brainstorm

Presenters: Chloe Doesburg and Dan Pronovost Presenting: Driftscape (http://www.driftscape.com/) is an app that transforms your city into a living museum. You can learn about where… Read More »Hacknight #120 with Chloe Doesburg and Dan Pronovost

Presenter: Anil Patel, Co-founder and managing partner at GrantBook. He is passionate about open data and leading the drive to digitize philanthropy Presenting: Anil spoke about… Read More »Hacknight #119 with Anil Patel

Presenter: Afraj Gill is a technology entrepreneur and community advocate based in Toronto. He is currently the Vice-President of Business Development & Government Affairs at Dropbike,… Read More »Hacknight #118 with Afraj Gill