👉️️ Tue Aug 11 → 7pm • in-person & online Producer @danielbekerman.bsky.social (The VVitch, The Apprentice) shares why he's building a worker-owned co-op streaming platform, changing the medium before the message gets bleaker! ✚ discussions & breakouts! guild.host/events/civic...

👉️️ Tue Aug 4 → 7pm • in-person & online What is a queer archive, and how does it survive online? Digital Archivist Natasha Fisher gives an accessible intro to how The ArQuives future-proofs Canada's 2SLGBTQIA+ history! ✚ discussions & breakouts! guild.host/events/civic...

👉️️ Tue July 28 → 7pm • in-person & online How can tech help your neighbourhood flourish? Relational Tech Project's Deborah Tien (@detien.bsky.social) is building infrastructure to spread ideas and tools place to place. Let's experiment! ✚ discussions & breakouts! guild.host/events/civic...

👉️️ Tue July 21 → 7pm • in-person & online Want better TTC service? Luke Li's TransitBunny RT uses live vehicle data to catch delays and bottlenecks, so you can report exactly where service is failing, backed by data! ✚ discussions & breakouts! guild.host/events/civic... #GTFS #GTFSRT

👉️️ Tue July 14 → 7pm • in-person & online Tired of the pothole no one fixes? Ahmed Nadar built SolveTO for Toronto, turning one photo into a report the city can act on. Learn what a tool like this could mean for other Canadian cities. ✚ discussions & breakouts! guild.host/events/civic...

👉️️ Tue July 7 → 7pm • in-person & online Learn more about the Church Street Pedestrianization Pilot happening this summer! With @chanface.bsky.social and @francescapoli.bsky.social. ✚ discussions & breakouts! guild.host/events/civic...

👉️️ Tue June 23 → 7pm • in-person & online One year in, the TWC Canada Organizing Committee facilitates a discussion addressing the worries tech workers face: layoffs, top-down AI mandates, and AI usage tracking. ✚ discussions & breakouts! guild.host/events/civic...

👉️️ Tue June 16 → 7pm • in-person & online How child-friendly is your neighbourhood? Dr. Emily Gemmell (@egemmell.bsky.social) shares an urban playability index scoring how well Canada's 35 largest cities support kids' outdoor play and health! ✚ discussions & breakouts! guild.host/events/civic...

👉️️ Tue June 9 → 7pm • in-person & online Lightning updates from four Civic Tech projects: Landlord & Tenant Board data explorer, @bikespaceto.bsky.social, @techfordemocracy.bsky.social, and @civicdashboard.bsky.social. See what's new! ✚ discussions & breakouts! guild.host/events/civic...

👉️️ Tue June 2 → 7pm • in-person & online Using AI in your civic tech work but unsure how to build responsibly? Learn how Smol Gardens, a civic tech accountability framework, can help through a hands-on vibecoding workshop! ✚ discussions & breakouts! guild.host/events/civic...

👉️️ Tue May 26 → 7pm • in-person & online Maple Scan has helped thousands of Canadians support Canadian products. Sasha Ivanov will tell the story of how his app brought volunteers together to make product information more transparent. ✚ discussions & breakouts! guild.host/events/from-...

👉 Tue May 19 → 7pm • in-person & online The housing system isn't broken from lack of listings — it's missing an intelligence layer. Bisola Mariam on what that means and how to fix it. ✚ discussions & breakouts! guild.host/events/civic...

👉 Tue May 12 → 7pm • in-person & online A frustrating search for places to play badminton led Ann Chen to build a drop-in programs finder with open data. She’ll share what she learned creating a tool to save people time when life gets busy. ✚ discussions & breakouts! guild.host/events/civic...

👉 Tue May 5 → 7pm • in-person & online Combining AI with municipal data opens new ways to understand how a city really works. Raviteja Katipally on what Toronto's 311 service requests tell us about neighbourhood patterns & city services. ✚ discussions & breakouts! guild.host/events/civic...

👉 Tue Apr 28 → 7pm • in-person & online Terra Gillespie (@terraloire.bsky.social) on how data gets dressed up to deceive — and how to spot the difference between honest numbers and misleading ones. ✚ discussions & breakouts! guild.host/events/civic...

👉 Tue Apr 21 → 7pm • in-person & online Poe Han Thar Kyaw on how governments actually govern AI — comparing values, mechanisms & tradeoffs across the world to find what works, and where Canada fits in. ✚ discussions & breakouts! guild.host/events/civic...

👉 Sunday Apr 19 → 12pm • in-person Civic Space Sunday April edition! Free coworking at @1rg.space for anyone interested in tech for civic good — whether you have a project, want to join one, or are just curious. luma.com/civic-space-...

👉 Tue Apr 14 → 7pm • in-person & online Eugene Chen on building a volunteer-made doorknocking app for a successful mayoral race — using open data to cover 500K+ Edmonton addresses, now adapted for Toronto. ✚ discussions & breakouts! guild.host/events/civic...

👉 Tue Apr 7 → 7pm • in-person & online @thelocal.to's @wencyleung.bsky.social on how local journalism digs into the data — Ontario sold Health811 as a great service, but wait times of up to 11 hours tell a different story. ✚ discussions & breakouts! guild.host/events/civic...

👉 Tue Mar 31 → 7pm • in-person & online @ilyakreynin.bsky.social makes the case: civic tech projects aren't startups — they're more like community organizations. What can they learn from organizing and its principles? He'll show you. ✚ discussions & breakouts! guild.host/events/civic...

👉 This Sunday Mar 22 → 12pm • in-person Civic Space Sundays is back! Free coworking at @1rg.space for anyone interested in tech for civic good — whether you have a project, want to join one, or are just curious. luma.com/civic-space-...

👉 Tue Mar 24 → 7pm • in-person & online Ghazaleh Mohseni presents a data-driven framework to improve bus network performance using real-time transit data, ML & optimization. ✚ discussions & breakouts! guild.host/events/civic...

👉 Tue Mar 17 → 7pm • in-person & online Andrew Bacchus explores civic tech for nature — wildlife, eDNA & invisible carbon, with a solar-punk take on sustainability. ✚ discussions & breakouts! guild.host/events/civic...

👉 Tue Mar 10 → 7pm • in-person & online Oben Hum is ferreting out real-time bus locations with ease — building Busferret, a data-efficient TTC tracker using Toronto's Open Data. ✚ discussions & breakouts! guild.host/events/civic...

👉 Tue Mar 3 → 7pm • in-person & online ClimateFast tracked every climate vote at City Council since 2018. Anna H shares the findings and what they mean for your ward. ✚ discussions & breakouts! guild.host/events/civic...

👉 Tue Feb 24 → 7pm • in-person & online Testing AI tools led to building recfinderto.ca. Daniel Liadsky shares the unexpected journey and real lessons from rapid prototyping. ✚ discussions & breakouts! guild.host/events/civic...

👉 Tues Feb 17 → 7pm (in person & online) Deneille Macas shows how Toronto Home Zone is breaking down the knowledge gaps that leave tenants vulnerable. Plus: discussions & project breakouts! guild.host/events/civic...

👉 This Tues Feb 10 → 7pm (in person & online) City budgets shouldn't be impossible to understand. @henrikbechmann.bsky.social shows how normalizing the format of Toronto's operating budget makes it accessible to everyone. Plus: discussions and project breakouts! guild.host/events/civic...

👉 This Tues Feb 3 → 7pm (in person & online) Public lobbying data exists, but it's cumbersome to access. Tom Slee presents his work to make government #lobbying registries more transparent and usable. Plus: discussions and project breakouts! https://guild.host/events/civic-meetup-528-lobby-3u6ps2

One last round at the Prenup before we say goodbye 🍻 Join us February 3rd after the Civic Tech meetup to celebrate the memories and connections made at our beloved local haunt.