The FCI x Brave Career Hackathon brought together student teams for a single day to build AI-powered tools addressing real problems in urban systems: zoning frameworks that can't scale, city data that doesn't talk to itself, and growth happening faster than the infrastructure meant to support it.
In under eight hours, teams moved from problem statements to working prototypes. The energy in the room held from the first hour through to final presentations, and the ideas that emerged reflected genuine engagement with the complexity of the challenges on the table.
Thank you to Brave Career for organising the event, and to Linnea Scian and the City of Kitchener for bringing real municipal context to the problem statements.