XdHacks Mini Vancouver

06/08/2026

Photo dump from Hack Your Life 2026 📸🚀

⚡ Big ideas
💻 Lots of coding
🤝 Amazing teamwork
🎉 Even better memories

Thank you for making this event so special. See you at the next one!

06/08/2026

Thank you to everyone who participated, mentored, judged, and supported our hackathon. Over the past few days, participants transformed ideas into projects, learned new skills, and connected with fellow builders from around the world.💻

Congratulations to all participants and winners!🎉

Until next time 🚀

05/31/2026

05/31/2026

pov: it’s your first hackathon 😬😬

05/31/2026

POV: you’re the first person to code print(“hello world”) in the hackathon 😎

05/31/2026

POV you enter the wrong hackathon.

05/31/2026

Featuring some of our hackers from today’s hackathon @ Hack Your Life!

Today, our hackers have participated in two workshops, mentor sessions, and fun activities! As they prepare their pitch projects, and models, we took a snit-pit of our participants hard at work.

Stay tuned for more videos tomorrow!

05/25/2026

📣📣Introducing the judges for Hack Your Life!!

Leo Zhang is a software engineer at Asana, building the administration platform for customers around the world!

Rachel Ellis is a new grad software engineer at Asana and graduated from the University of Alberta last May.

Janet Mardjuki is a Software Development Engineer at Workday, where she works on Service CPQ.

Henry Flowers is a Senior Manager in Risk Services at PwC Canada, leading risk management initiatives that apply AI to transform risk assurance and risk advisory processes.

We are very thankful for all the judges coming to Hack Your Life this year.

Thank you to all judges, and see you @ Hack Your Life !

05/23/2026

📢Introducing our mentors for Hack Your Life - Lauren Yip, Paul Stusiak, and Mara David!

Lauren Yip is a computing science student at SFU and is currently working working on product management and design at Simple Ventures.

Paul has been writing software for more than 50 years, and has worked in many different types of software and large systems.

The mentors are very excited to share their knowledge and expertise to all participants!

We are super grateful and lucky to have them come to Hack Your Life!