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Better Toronto Buildathon

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Toronto, Canada

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About Event

Better Toronto Buildathon

A municipal engagement weekend. Oct 24-25, Toronto.

Check out our event landing page here: https://better-toronto.vercel.app/

For people who want to build a better city. Spend the weekend with a team and a mentor making something Toronto can use: an app, a working prototype, or a plan for how government could work better.

WHAT YOU CAN BUILD
Apps and prototypes: tools that fix something residents deal with every day that match plans and proposals, policy ideas, service redesigns, and budget or data analyses that City Hall could act on.

Tracks:
housing - starts have fallen 10% year-over-year
transit - Toronto subway delay time has gotten 53% worse
safer streets - 70% of Torontonians are worried about crime
more efficient municipal government - (enough said)

Idea starter: reporting mechanisms. Tools that let residents report a problem and track what the City does about it.

THE WEEKEND Saturday from 11:30am: casual networking, then panels with Toronto tech and policy leaders and roundtables where you put your questions to the panelists. Building starts in the afternoon, with mentor hours for every team. Sunday: final sprints and a roundtable, then present your work at the closing finale. After the election, the best work goes to City Hall in your names.

Shopify office address (head to 10th floor): Open in Google Maps

HOW TO GET IN Builders:
Register using Luma. Come solo or bring a team. No team? Teams form on site at the builder kickoff on Saturday at 2:30pm. Already have a team and an idea? Tell us at https://tally.so/r/1AZR04 so we can line up a mentor for you.

Let's come together to build and benefit our city!

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AGENDA
Saturday, Oct 24
11:30am Doors open, casual networking
12:00pm Lunch
12:30pm Panel 1: Policy tech
1:00pm Panel 2: Fintech
1:30pm Panel 3: City building
2:00pm Roundtables with the panelists
2:30pm Builder team-making and kickoff with mentors
3:00pm Building starts
6:30pm Mentor hours
7:30pm Dinner
Midnight Late-night meal

Sunday, Oct 25
10:00pm Submissions due
12:00pm Finalists announced
3:00pm Closing finale
3:30pm Winner announced
3:45pm Networking and closing

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