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Together, we turn problems into possibilities. Ideas into innovations. Lightbulbs into launches. Metrics into meaning. Interviews.

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Our challenges

AquaHacking Challenge Prairies 2025

The AquaHacking Challenge goes to the Prairies to tackle the most critical freshwater issues faced by the region.

Organized by AquaAction, Alberta Innovates, and the Centre for Indigenous Environmental Resources (CIER), the AquaHacking Prairies Challenge is an opportunity to collaborate with passionate changemakers as you solve an environmental issue affecting the region's vast and interconnected ecosystems.

Virtual
aquahacking
water

Défi AquaHacking Québec 2025

Le Défi AquaHacking est de retour au Québec pour s'attaquer aux problèmes d'eau douce les plus critiques auxquels le Québec est confronté.

Organisé par AquaAction, Réseau Environnement, ROBVQ et Collectif Territoire, le Défi AquaHacking est une occasion de résoudre un problème environnemental et réduire les impacts de la crise climatique.

Virtuelle
aquahacking
eau
water

Design For Change 24-25

Design for Change 2024-25 is a 10-week challenge empowering undergraduate-level students across Canada to shape the future of accessible education with GenerativeAI. As a participant, you would identify opportunities to leverage human-centered design to develop meaningful solutions to address current challenges.

Virtual
wilfrid laurier university
human-centered design

BramHacks 2024

Transforming Transportation and Shaping Brampton's Future:

BramHacks 2024 challenges students to leverage cutting-edge technologies to develop impactful solutions that will enhance the lives of Brampton residents. This event is a unique opportunity for participants to collaborate, innovate, and create meaningful change in their community.

Brampton
hackathon

AquaHacking Great Lakes Challenge 2023-24

The AquaHacking Challenge goes to the Great Lakes region to tackle the most critical freshwater issues faced by the region.

Organized by AquaAction and Northwestern Michigan College, the Great Lakes AquaHacking Challenge is an opportunity to solve an environmental problem and reduce the impacts of the climate crisis.

Virtual
aquahacking
water

ELA Hackathon 2023

Hacking the world's freshwater laboratory

Help us hack our way to a future with healthy lakes and rivers!

IISD Experimental Lakes Area is inviting all students and young professionals (ages 18 to 30) with coding experience and an interest in freshwater science, data science, or web and software design, to join us in an exciting new hackathon.

Virtual
freshwater
science
environmental data
big data
ela
experimental lakes

Bell Geekfest Hackathon 2023 - Québec

Le Westin Montréal
#bell #nts

Lazaridis International Case Conference 2023

Sixth Annual International Case Conference

The Lazaridis International Case Conference is a business-technology themed case conference providing a unique combination of learning, networking, and competing. Students from across the globe are presented with opportunities to learn from industry experts, compete with top international business schools and network with professionals from the world's most innovative organizations, all while experiencing the Canadian and Waterloo culture!

In-Person
wlu

Défi AquaHacking Québec 2023

Le Défi AquaHacking est de retour au Québec pour s'attaquer aux problèmes d'eau douce les plus critiques auxquels le Québec est confronté.

Organisé par AquaAction, Réseau Environnement et ROBVQ, le Défi AquaHacking est une occasion de résoudre un problème environnemental et réduire les impacts de la crise climatique.

Virtuelle
aquahacking
eau

Bell Geekfest Hackathon 2023 - Ontario

Mississauga Bell office
#bell #nts

MOVE-A-THON

Technology for emergency disaster relief

Virtual
technology
ieee
disaster relief
humanitarian

AquaHacking Challenge Atlantic Canada 2022-2023

Atlantic Canada is home to a spectacular system of dynamic freshwater and marine environments.

Hosted by AquaAction and Saint Mary's University, the AquaHacking Challenge invites talented young innovators from across Atlantic Canada to put their skills to work to tackle freshwater issues

Virtual & Final In-Person
aquahacking
water

Design for Change 2023

Design for Change 2023 is a six-week challenge for university and college students across Canada aimed at solving a problem to one of Canada's most pressing societal issues: Homelessness. As a participant, you will identify opportunities to leverage human-centered design to response to the homelessness crisis!

Virtual
wilfrid laurier university
scotiabank
human-centered design

RISE: Refugee & Immigration Service Enhancement

Funded by the Government of Canada IRCC, RISE is a tailored innovation training program aimed at helping settlement service providers improve their services. Innovation experts at Hackworks will take selected service providers through user-centered design training workshops and work with them to implement innovation methodologies to make measurable and meaningful improvements to existing client services.

Virtual

Cisco Innovation Labs Challenge: APIClarity Edition

The Cisco Innovation Labs Challenge: APIClarity Edition is a four-day event where participants will use APIClarity to complete a set of challenges to qualify for $10,000 in prizes. This event is tailored to developers with experience working with Kubernetes and will allow participants to progress through the challenges at their own pace.

Virtual
kubernetes

AquaHacking Challenge 2021 Western Canada

The AquaHacking Challenge is a technological and entrepreneurial competition aimed at developing innovative solutions to freshwater issues. This Challenge allows young innovators to launch their start-up with a sustainable mandate. It is a pre-incubator and a stepping-stone for future entrepreneurs in the water sector.

Virtual

Hip, Hack, Array!

A Coding Challenge for Students

Hip, Hack, Array! is a 48-hour virtual hackathon aimed at students and recent grads across the United States and Canada. In these challenging times, Hip, Hack, Array! offers those who love code a fun, engaging, and competitive way to spend a weekend.

Virtual

Go Studio Innovation Jam

We're calling on participants to use emerging technology to develop ideas that lead to long term solutions for ageing in place. The challenge is to help older adults stay in their homes longer while maintaining their independence in a safer, healthier, and more cost-effective way.

Virtual

Design For Change

Design for Change is a four-week UX Design Challenge for university and college students across Canada aimed at shifting social transformation toward greener behaviour and sustainable practices. Human behaviour has been a lead contributor to climate change, but it can also be a lead contributor to resolving it!

Virtual

Hacking Generational Wealth

Black Tech Matters (host of last year’s MIT Hacking Racism) is back and hosting Hacking Generational Wealth, a virtual hackathon to disrupt the cycle of economic inequality and inequity, particularly in minority communities.

Virtual

WinterHack 2020: Global Design Thinking Ideathon

Cookhouse Labs is proud to present WinterHack 2020: Global Design Thinking Ideathon, in collaboration with InsurLab Germany and msg group. Join some of the world’s best insurance organizations, startups, and student innovators for 2 days of exciting insurance innovation, ideation, and competition around the theme “Digital Ecosystems”!

Virtual

AquaHacking Atlantic Canada

AquaHacking is a start-up tech competition where young innovators team up to tackle urgent water issues through innovation and entrepreneurship. After five consecutive years focused on the Great Lakes and St. Lawrence Basin, AquaHacking is now expanding to Atlantic Canada. In 2020, Atlantic Water Network at Saint Mary’s University is proud to host the first edition of AquaHacking on Canada’s east coast.

Virtual

Hack Instead

Hack Instead is a 48-hour virtual hackathon hosted by Hackworks for students across Canada. As a Hack Instead participant, you'll be free to tackle whatever problem and create whatever solution you want.

Virtual

SummerHack 2020: IoT Disruption in Insurance

Join Cookhouse Labs’ SummerHack 2020! A global virtual 24-hour Hackathon designed to bring a diverse group of Hackers, designers, business specialists, and insurance organizations together to leverage the technology of the Internet of Things (IoT) to tackle some of the major challenges of the insurance industry.

Virtual

AquaHacking BC

Each year through the AquaHacking Challenge, we engage with rising gen hackers, engineers, and marketers from various universities to create multidisciplinary teams and develop clean-tech engineering, web and mobile solutions to solve water issues affecting different regions in Canada. This year for the FIRST time, the AquaHacking Challenge is brought to British Columbia, hosted by the Okanagan Basin Water Board.

UBC Okanagan Campus, BC

AquaHacking Lake Winnipeg

AquaHacking is a startup competition designed to support technology and business development addressing environmental problems related to freshwater. Between January and October 2020, AquaHacking Lake Winnipeg will engage students and young professionals to team up and develop innovative solutions to the specific water issues facing the Lake Winnipeg Basin.

Virtual

Solve for X

Solve for X is a Canada-wide ideation sprint centred around driving positive change for women impacted by COVID-19. It is an opportunity for everyone who wants to help contribute towards a better tomorrow.

Virtual

Stantec Idea Hackathon

The Stantec Idea Hackathon is a two-day forum where smart city industry professionals and students can share ideas, build relationships, and deliver potential solutions that are relevant and meaningful for the citizens of Tampa. We’re inviting a diverse range of experts who can balance vision and imagination with practicality and rigor to contribute to challenging discussions on the intersection between technology and humanity in city building.

Amalie Arena

DeCode Congestion

We are inviting Strategists, technologists and engaged residents to take part in the City of Vancouver's DeCode Congestion Hackathon. We believe that the combination of data, technology, and talented Vancouver residents can create solutions that optimize street use for an efficient, safe, and reliable transportation network.

Vancouver, BC

Oxford Global Hackathon - Boston

Oxford Properties is a global real estate owner, investor, developer and property management company. As a group passionate about innovation in construction, architecture and building design, we are inviting 400 of the best minds to gather in 4 cities around the world to develop solutions for some of the most pressing challenges in the sector today.

Boston, Massachusetts

Oxford Global Hackathon - London

London, UK

Oxford Global Hackathon - Toronto

Toronto, ON

Oxford Global Hackathon - Sydney

Sydney, Australia

METEOHACK

From July 8th to July 11th, developers, data scientists, technology professionals, researchers, experts, academics and all weather data enthusiasts are invited to explore the near universal influence of environmental factors like weather and climate on Canadians using the data collected and generated by ECCC-MSC.

Phi Center

AquaHacking Challenge 2019

Each year, the AquaHacking Challenge engages with rising gen hackers, engineers and marketers from various universities to create multidisciplinary teams and develop clean-tech engineering, web and mobile solutions to water issues affecting the Great Lakes and St. Lawrence Watershed Basin.

Virtual

GIFT THE CODE 2018

Gift the Code brings together coders, developers, designers, coaches, mentors and many more smart people, and we pair them up with charities. We're looking for a diverse group of keeners with big brains and even bigger hearts. All experience levels are welcome. Everyone works together over an intense weekend to solve a problem and have an amazing time.

Toronto, ON

Elevate Hackathon

Gather with a diverse and inclusive community of hundreds of innovators, professionals, students and tech leaders from around the world. The Elevate Hackathon empowers people who are eager to learn and create by providing an environment for you to explore and build with mentorship and resources (i.e. data and APIs).

Toronto, ON

VANquish Collisions Hackathon

Help us VANquish Collisions for good! The City of Vancouver is looking for interventions to help move quickly towards our zero transportation related fatalities and serious injuries goal while encouraging active travel, especially for vulnerable road users such as seniors and children.

Vancouver, BC

Oxford Smart Retail Challenge

With more than 18 million annual visitors, thousands of parking spaces and more than 250 shops and services spread across the equivalent of more than 30 football fields, Yorkdale is an operational marvel. Join us at the Oxford Smart Retail Challenge for the opportunity to transform the retail landscape and win cash prizes!

Toronto, ON

Housing Hack

You’re invited to Barrie’s first ever Housing Hack presented by the Barrie & District Association of REALTORS® Inc.– an energizing weekend-long hackathon where you can create digital applications and strategic insights to improve the housing industry in your community. Supported by the City of Barrie, you can help meet the needs of a changing community and housing ecosystem.

Barrie, ON

Museum VX Hackathon

The Canadian Museum of History and the Canadian War Museum have teamed up with Hackworks to explore technology opportunities that will allow them to upgrade visitor experiences with the latest digital technology. On November 26 & 27, 60 enthusiastic problem solvers, creative thinkers, change-makers and technologists from local Universities and Colleges will gather in the Resource Centre of the Canadian Museum of History to bring digital technology solutions to challenges faced by the Museums.

Canadian Museum of History

FINHACKS

Open to all skill levels, participants will join teams and be challenged to develop innovative solutions that enhance customer experiences, facilitate financial transactions using connected devices, and surface new tools and ideas that use the latest in software and hardware technologies – with the objective of completing a working MVP prototype over the course of the hackathon.

Toronto, ON

Gift the Code

Driven by the desire to commit as much funding as possible toward their respective causes, local charity organizations often operate on tight budgets which can prevent them from taking full advantage of digital solutions and top-tier technology talent that could help advance their mission even more. The Capital One Canada Gift the Code Hackathon aspires to change this and give participating organizations a much-needed boost.

Toronto, ON

Scotiabank Hack IT: Debt Challenge

During the 40-hour Scotiabank Hack IT: Debt Challenge, over one hundred participants formed teams and collaborated with financial experts to build tools that kickstarted the development of real solutions.