Canadian Music Week (CMW), jointly presented by San Rafael ’71 and Amsterdam Brewing, is pleased to announce the first annual Canadian Music Week Hackathon taking place May 8 to 9, 2018 at Brainsights in Toronto.
As part of the Tech and Innovation Summit, the CMW Hackathon will feature the best engineering minds – developers, designers, and makers – competing to create innovative tech solutions to challenges within the Canadian music business. Travis Laurendine, who has run multiple Hackathons for SXSW, Outside Lands, Bonnaroo, The White House, The Super Bowl and others, will be the host and facilitator.
The CMW Hackathon participants will pitch their ideas before diving into the competition using the Muzooka API. Each team will create a working prototype and demonstration within the allotted time. Competitors will be judged by Jay Rosenzweig, CEO of Rosensweig & Co., Jodi Kovitz, Founder & CEO of #MoveTheDial, Greg Nisbet, CEO of RadioMogul by MEDIAZOIC, David Dufresne, Partner at Panache Ventures, Roger Chabra, CIO of TribalScale and Shawn Wilson, CEO of Muzooka, who will be opening their API for the contest. Muzooka is where artists and their teams manage their digital assets across multiple platforms from one central hub.
“Since Muzooka is already providing all the artist assets for CMW 2018, using their API was a perfect fit for our Hackathon competition,” says David Hazan, Head of International Partnerships at CMW.
Additional sponsors and partners include Capitol Innovation Center, Cloudinary, Canadian Musician, Devpost, Brainsights, Beanfield Metroconnect, Hacker Noon, and RadioMogul by MEDIAZOIC.
Canadian Music Week Hackathon
The Canadian Music Week Hackathon will be 24 hours of intense work, debates, brainstorming, innovation, camaraderie and fun! Each team is invited to formulate solutions to problems and create new pathways to move the Canadian music industry forward and win major prizes.
Date: May 8 to 9, 2018
Location: Brainsights (101-70 Peter Street)
Interested hackers can sign up to participate here.
Passes and Tickets are on sale now here.
About Canadian Music Week
Canadian Music Week is Canada’s leading annual entertainment event dedicated to the expression and growth of the country’s music, media and entertainment industries. Combining multifaceted information-intensive conferences; a trade exposition; awards shows and the nation’s largest new music festival, CMW spans a seven-day period from May 7 to 13, 2018 at the Sheraton Centre Hotel, and in more than 40 downtown Toronto venues, attracting participants from across the globe.
Click here for information about this year’s performers, or visit the official website CMW.net.