Sat Oct 17, 2026 · Toronto · In person
The Foundry Vol. 1: Water Hackathon
One day, eleven real-world challenges, one cause: clean water for more people.
The Foundry is a hackathon for good in aid of WaterAid Canada. More than 60 builders, strategists and specialists spend the day on 11 challenges identified with WaterAid Canada, across operations, strategy and technology.
Our Saturday, for clean water.
Qatom’s leadership is spending the day with fellow builders on a cause worth the weekend, with AI tools and workflows at the centre of every solution. Hassan and Susana will each join different hackathon teams and bring their own angle.
Hassan Khan, Founder and CEO, brings the builder’s view: helping teams turn AI and data into working tools, and spotting where agents can find, pay for and share the data and services a solution needs.
Susana Khan, CMO, brings the go-to-market view. She leads how Qatom reaches the people it’s built for, and she’ll help teams shape their solutions so the people they serve, the donors who fund them and the partners who deliver them can understand, trust and adopt them. Her background in international development, law and health keeps those ideas grounded in how water programmes actually run.
- Where
- Toronto Metropolitan University, 341 Yonge St, 3rd floor
- In aid of
- WaterAid Canada
- Registration
- By host approval on Luma
More details
- Co-produced by
- The AI Fellowship (Toronto Chapter) and SOON
- Host & partner
- Toronto Metropolitan University
- Speakers
- Justin Murgai, CEO, WaterAid Canada · Dr. Nariman Yousefi, Assistant Professor, Chemical Engineering, TMU · William Wu, Founder and CEO, WaterH, and Co-founder and CEO, Glacier Fresh
- Why it matters
- Nearly 700 million people still lack clean water close to home.
