Name: Civic hacknight #425 - Building a Parks and Rec Bot with ChatGPT (IN-PERSON)
Start: 2024-01-09T19:00:00-05:00
End: 2024-01-09T21:00:00-05:00
Location: 55 St George St

*\*This event was originally scheduled for Dec. 5, 2023. The new date for this hacknight is **Jan. 9, 2024**.*

*\*This is the **in-person registration** for this event. To attend virtually via Zoom, [please RSVP here.](https://www.meetup.com/civic-tech-toronto/events/297547341)*

Ryan Merkley will discuss building civic chat bots using open data and Chat GPT. He'll share his new [Toronto Parks and Rec bot](https://chat.openai.com/g/g-UhmmS6Psr-toronto-parks-and-rec-bot) and talk about how anyone (including City staff) could build these tools.

**Speaker: Ryan Merkley**

* Ryan Merkley is CEO of Conscience, an emerging biotech non-profit, using AI and collaborative science to address areas of market failure in drug development. He is also the Senior Technology Fellow at the Aspen Institute, working on important issues in artificial intelligence, open source, intellectual property, data and privacy, and information integrity. He is an affiliate of the Harvard Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society, and the founding chair of the Flickr Foundation. Prior to joining the Aspen Institute, Ryan spent over a decade as a c-suite executive in technology non-profits, including Chief of Staff at the Wikimedia Foundation, five years as CEO at Creative Commons, and Chief Operating Officer at Mozilla.
* Follow Ryan on [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/in/ryanmerkley/) or [Twitter/X](https://twitter.com/ryanmerkley).

**Join us in person**:

* We're meeting in Room 360 of the Myhal Centre for Engineering Innovation and Entrepreneurship at the University of Toronto (55 St. George Street, north of College St., 3rd floor). There will be signs!

**Agenda:**

* 7:00-7:20 = Welcome and Introductions
* 7:20-7:50 = Presentation and Q&A/discussion
* 7:50-9:00 = Breakout groups

**Code of Conduct:**

* http://civictech.ca/about-us

Check in with us on the **Civic Tech Toronto Slack**:

* https://link.civictech.ca/chat

**About Us:**

* Our weekly civic tech hacknights bring together Torontonians (designers, coders, urban planners, government staff, mappers, policy-makers, students, communications strategists, community organizers, and more) who share an interest in making Toronto more responsive, prosperous, sustainable, and equitable through design, tech, and data. Come and be part of it!

**For more info:**

* http://civictech.ca

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