Join us to find the winners of the hackathon.

Final thoughts from the team at Future of Engagement.

Time for team presentations.

Whether you are planning to write some code or configure an off the shelf platform or simply draw up some mockups of what the solution might be able to do, this is your time to get creative. Don’t forget to keep your customer in mind and, as much as possible, validate your solution with them to ensure it is actually addressing the needs you have identified. Hint: keep in mind what success of your solution looks like and how you might go about measuring that the solution actually provides a path to that future possible.

Now that you understand the problem you want to solve for your customer, it is time to think through some solutions.

Hawa Mire, is a proven strategic senior leader, equity consultant and community organizer with two decades of non-profit experience focused on high-impact community development. She was the 2021 Federal NDP Candidate for York South—Weston. In 2017 she completed a Master’s degree in Environmental Studies from York University where her research examined community storytelling as a place of transformation. Hawa is a critical writer, commentator and columnist with Ricochet Media that has been featured on Macleans, Briarpatch Magazine, Metro Morning, CBC, CityTV, Rabble among others.

Charles Buchanan is an experienced technology leader who has years of experience supporting campaign teams and non profits. He has a lot to share with us about campaign data management, using data to make decisions, and the challenges on a campaign that are well suited for using technology/data to address.

We believe it is important to walk away from the problem at hand in order to clear your head and come back to it with a new appreciation of what might be possible. Take this time for yourself.

This is your opportunity to get support from our expert mentors!

Richard Wong,a classically-trained marketer with 10+ years of building brands and companies, including 5+ years of scaling startups. He helps marketing teams tell their stories and build their businesses on LinkedIn and through LinkedIn's marketing solutions products. In his spare time, he teaches digital marketing—from Analytics, Digital Advertising, and Content Marketing.

Nina Coutinho, builds teams of great people who make great products. Current Director of Product at library-tech company Bibliocommons (we're hiring!), Nina has previously built teams and products at Loblaw Digital, Shopify, Four Seasons and The Toronto Star. She is passionate about building inclusive, customer-centric, valuable products and helping the people who make them grow as people and a team.

Ben Zittlau, 10 years experience building applications and systems in the web application space. He’s founded startups, and helped build teams from scratch to large product organizations. His experience ranges from assembly and embedded programming, to web frameworks such as Ruby on Rails and .Net Core, to working with front-end frameworks such as React, Vue, and Angular, as well as to mobile app development using frameworks such as React Native and Flutter. These days he works mostly in Typescript, developing Node based backends and Angular based front-ends for data centric applications with data visualizations and interactive UI’s.

Spend some time digging through the problem statement, understand your stakeholders and choose an interesting challenge you want to solve.

Introduce your team to the rest of the hackathon participants.

Welcome from Future of Engagement!

Join us on Slack as we kickoff our virtual social impact hackathon!

Future of Engagement is on a mission to help underserved and marginalized people enter Canada’s political system. We’re bringing our community together for a fun and inclusive event to build tools and resources to help underserved people enter the political system.

Pop in after 4:00 pm EST to scope out the problem spaces that you can explore during the hackathon, network, and pick your team.