500 innovative and creative developers, designers, and creators for 36 hours of hacking. You'll get access to some of the best hardware and APIs on the market. Plus get to meet some experienced and awesome mentors! All this in just one weekend? I know, it's hard to believe.

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Prizes

$17,350 in prizes

1st Place

PS5 Digital Edition or Xbox Series One

2nd Place

Nintendo Switch or iPad Mini

3rd Place

Apple Watch Series 3 or AirPods

Best Technology Hack

ChromeCast

Best Nature Hack

Marble Polyresin Essential Oil Diffuser Spa Fragrance Collection

Best Discovery (ML/AI) Hack

Echo Dot 4th Generation

Best Health Hack

Fitbit Inspire 2

Best Beginner Hack

At least 2 of your members are first-time hackers. Winners will receive a Google Mini.

Best Use of Assembly AI's API

Each member of the winning team will receive a $100 Amazon Gift Card

Battle of the Code Clashers Challenge by Pinnguaq + The Hub

Build a Game and win 10 Hours of Personalized Guidance and Workshop Instructions. Winners will also be published in the Root & Stem Magazine. Winners will also get $5000 in AWS credits provided by The Hub @ UTSC.

Loblaw Amplify Tech Challenge 1 (First Place)

A.I. models such as computer vision, product recommendation engines, and speech recognition can play a huge role in the physical retail space. How can Loblaw leverage it to enhance the in-store shopping experience?
Winners will receive Airpods

Loblaw Amplify Tech Challenge 1 (Second Place)

A.I. models such as computer vision, product recommendation engine and speech recognition can play a huge role in physical retail space. How can Loblaw leverage it to enhance the in-store shopping experience?

Winners will recieve a $100 Loblaw/Joe Fresh Gift Card.

Loblaw Amplify Tech Challenge 1 (Third Place)

A.I. models such as computer vision, product recommendation engine and speech recognition can play a huge role in physical retail space. How can Loblaw leverage it to enhance the in-store shopping experience? Winners will recieve a $75 Loblaw/Joe Fresh Gift Card.

Loblaw Amplify Tech Challenge 2 (First Place)

Augmented & Mixed Reality has the potential to futurize and transform the way consumers shop for products. How might we use it to gamify the shopping experience while providing more value to Loblaw consumers.

Winners will get Airpods.

Loblaw Amplify Tech Challenge 2 (Second Place)

Augmented & Mixed Reality has the potential to futurize and transform the way consumers shop for products. How might we use it to gamify the shopping experience while providing more value to Loblaw consumers.

Winners will recieve a $100 Loblaw/Joe Fresh Gift Card.

Loblaw Amplify Tech Challenge 2 (Third Place)

Augmented & Mixed Reality has the potential to futurize and transform the way consumers shop for products. How might we use it to gamify the shopping experience while providing more value to Loblaw consumers.

Winners will recieve a $75 Loblaw/Joe Fresh Gift Card.

Best Use of Distrubed Compute API Challenge 1

$500 cash prize and a coffee chat with Dan Desjardans, the CEO of Distributed Compute Labs and Kings Distributed Systems, will be awarded to the first-place team.

$250 will be awarded to the second-place team.

Infection Prediction by DCP Challenge 2

$250 will be awarded to the first-place team.

Best Domain Registered with Domain.com

PowerSquare Qi Wireless Phone Charger. Each team may submit one entry per person on the team.

Best use of Google Cloud

Google Cloud Swag Bag or Backpack.

Best Hardware Hack Sponsored by Digi-Key

Grove Beginner Kit

Best Use of Twilio Category Prize

GameGo Console

Second Best Use of Distrubed Compute API Challenge 1

Devpost Achievements

Submitting to this hackathon could earn you:

Judges

Samantha Jo-Caetano

Samantha Jo-Caetano
Assistant Professor, UofT

Muhammad Ali

Muhammad Ali
Product Manager, Tesla

Ralph Maamari

Ralph Maamari
Program Manager, Microsoft

Hussain Punjani

Hussain Punjani
Software Engineer, Instacart

Albert Tri Adrian Lie

Albert Tri Adrian Lie
Former Founding Engineer & Tech Lead @ Xendit (YC S15)

Lindsay Groves

Lindsay Groves
Senior Innovation Consultant, Loblaw Companies Limited

Debby Doucette

Debby Doucette
Director of Operational Planning, Loblaw Companies Limited

Chaitanya Bhatt

Chaitanya Bhatt
Director, Business Innovation, Loblaw Companies Limited

Umme Begum

Umme Begum
Senior Software Developer, FGF Brands

Mansi Dave

Mansi Dave
Software Developer, FGF Brands

Danbi Seo

Danbi Seo
Full-Stack Developer, FGF Brands

Sugirthan Sivasakthy

Sugirthan Sivasakthy
MVC .Net Developer, FGF Brands

Topaz Glazer

Topaz Glazer
Strategy and Growth Lead, Distributed Compute Labs

Rei Colina

Rei Colina
VP of Engineering, Social Nature

Harvis Da

Harvis Da
Models and Analytics, Manulife

Amy Han

Amy Han
Software Engineer, Wealthsimple

Pravinthan Prabagaran

Pravinthan Prabagaran
Associate Front-End Engineer, OMERS

Frederic Pun

Frederic Pun
Associate Software Developer, Konrad Group

Manpreet Bhatti

Manpreet Bhatti
Junior Developer, iVedha

Alvin Tang

Alvin Tang
Back-End Developer, Hack the Valley

Stephanie Zhang

Stephanie Zhang
UI/UX Designer, Hack the Valley

Judging Criteria

  • How will you be judged?
    A panel of professional judges will select the best three hacks based on the following criteria: creativity, functionality, level of technical difficulty and quality

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