FaithTech Vancouver Hackathon: Build with Purpose!

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#HACKVAN2025 exists to help redemptive organizations leverage tech to accelerate their impact.

Within 48 hours, we will design, develop, and user-test MVPs to address problems faced by these organizations.

1. Excellence: We strive to build brilliant and beautiful tech that will be honoured even when it becomes outdated.

2. Impact: We are other-focused. W e seek to have fun + advance our careers AND we are willing to put others before ourselves.

3. Hope: We face the brutal facts of reality while fully convinced we can change the world for good.

Are you highly driven and impact focused? Love to work with little guidance yet works well in teams?

A developer, designer, product manager, or area expert?

If so, we would love for you to join us!

• Veteran: If you have 8+ years of experience in tech, please register as a veteran. Thank you for your service.
• Professional: If you have at least 2 years of professional experience in your field, register as a Professional.
• Emerging Professional: If you are smart, teachable, and hungry for impact, (with 6+ months of tech experience - in co-op or personal projects), please register as an Emerging Professional.

If you would like to be a mentor or judge, thank you so much! We need a village to change the world for good 🙂 Please email Gloria to receive your complimentary ticket after being accepted.

We have some cool projects coming up! Check back soon... 👀

Our world is filled with chaos. Many people are panicking, despairing, or simply ignoring.

We're different. We look chaos right in the eyes and proceed: building order.

We innovate. We create new products, retrofit old processes, and lead digital transformation.

#HACKVAN2025 will be the 5th hackathon we have organized. Previously, we hosted: #HACK2021 - Vancouver, #HACK2022 - Vancouver, #HackPoverty23, #HACKVAN2023 and #HACKVAN2024).

We come from all faith backgrounds (Muslim, atheists, New Age, and more) and are led by Christians.

Our leaders' faith means two things:

1. We will pray at the hackathon: inviting God into our work.
2. We will work with eager expectation of a world as God designed it:

A world where youth can wake up without worry or hurry, exit their home and be greeted by friends all around, and eat dinner with loved ones in joy and peace.

* Photographs and videos may be taken during this event. Please contact us in advance if you would not like to be a part of videos and photos. Otherwise, by attending, you are agreeing to participate in our media.

It means we will sometimes pray and reference Christ's teachings. You can think about it as a cultural experience. See "Who We Are" for more details :)

Absolutely! In the last two hackathons we hosted, about 50% of people came from a religious background that was not Christian. E.g. Muslims, atheists, and others.

It depends on your experience.

If university students or recent graduates, we will encourage you to break up because we want to distribute the "emerging professionals" among the professional participants.

This distribution will also help you grow your professional network.

We recommend you bring:

• your laptop
• a notebook

If sleeping over:

• a sleeping bag
• two changes of clothes
• a tooth brush & tooth paste

We also recommend bringing a second keyboard (as thirty monitors are provided in the co-working space).

(Most) food and snacks are provided.

Thank you so much for signing up! We always have fewer designers than programmers.

During the hackathon, you will join a team and develop three prototypes:

1. A paper sketch - created in collaboration with the client on Friday night; to articulate the workflow of the app

2. Wireframes - to articulate the structure of web app

3. High fidelity prototype - to articulate the colours and styles of the app

Due to our generous sponsors (and your ticket fees), we can provide all the meals for the event. Praise God!

Yes! We don't want cost to be a barrier to anyone wanting to join.

If cost is a barrier, please email Gloria at [email protected].

Yes*.

*unless you want to want to go home to sleep.

Seriously though, we would like you to stay the entire time because that's part of the fun of hackathons.

We understand if you want to go home for a bit though.

Yes!

Mentors: We ask you to come on Friday night (5:30 - 9 pm), Saturday afternoon (1 - 3 pm), and Sunday afternoon (3 - 4:30 pm).

Be prepared to share your experience building technology!

Judges : we ask you to come on Sunday, from 3 pm to 4:30 pm.

Be prepared to provide insights on the results of the projects!

If wanting to participate, your friend must have a ticket (due to the size of the location and number of workstations).

If wanting to just drop by, email Gloria at [email protected].

No, I would recommend against it. Every workstation already has a second screen, but I would suggest bringing an extra keyboard, a laptop stand, and a mouse.

I'm glad you asked! Generously sponsored by Inbox Booths, here's a 360 capture of the space on Google Maps.

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This event is for everyone from engineers and programmers to ministry leaders to designers. Our goal is to join together with the broader community, using tech and innovation as a means to help grow the Kingdom of God. Diversity makes us stronger.

What is FaithTech

We are a global movement of Christians interested in all things faith and technology.

Our goal is to provide an authentic community that learns and builds together at the intersection of faith and technology. You can learn from one of our experienced speakers, build projects that impact your world, and innovate with like-minded individuals.

Visit our website or check out our publication for more!

* Photographs and videos may be taken during this event. Please contact us in advance if you would not like to be a part of videos and photos. Otherwise, by attending, you are agreeing to participate in our media.

Event Venue & Nearby Stays

Bureau (formerly Inbox Booths), 228 West 5th Avenue, Vancouver, Canada