Hack for a cause!

The latest research shows that almost half of jobs today could be automated with robotics and artificial intelligence technologies.

The most automatable jobs involve repetition and can be found in industries such as accommodation and food services, manufacturing and retail trade. These are jobs largely occupied the most vulnerable workers in our communities including migrant workers, youth, low-income households and the aging.

This fall, <Hacking> The Future of Work will take on these challenges in a series of events, with featuring a weekend-long hackathon in Ottawa. It’s an opportunity to apply your creativity, coding, design, and data visualization skills to do good for your community.

We’re hacking The Future of Work to:

1) Identify, monitor and forecast what’s driving these changes, who will be impacted and how; and

2) Develop tech-based solutions to help the most at-risk workers through these transitions (up-skilling, re-skilling, entrepreneurship, etc.)