In 2025, we hosted San Francisco’s inaugural Good Neighbor Hackathon and Community Night!
It was a wonderful evening of Good Neighbor project demos, community building, and civic hacking
This was an unprecedented civic tech hack night in San Francisco! To celebrate San Francisco Good Neighbor Week, we hosted the first neighborhood tech hackathon in San Francisco history (and probably the country?!), jam packed with special guests!
Stay tuned for our Technology & Innovation events in 2026.
What is a civic tech hackathon?
Civic tech hackathons are unique. While other hackathons focus on building something quickly-- whether or not it ever gets implemented or used-- civic tech thrives on three things: 1-- a deep understanding of community needs, 2-- forming partnerships across government, non-profit, and community organizations, and 3-- understanding our role in existing communities, infrastructure and processes. Civic tech projects are built for longevity, by embedding into policy, infrastructure, and community life.
SF Civic Tech (formerly Code for San Francisco) was founded in 2012 when Code for America launched its brigade network. We have been running a weekly hack night in San Francisco every Wednesday ever since-- for thirteen years!
Agenda
Eat and mingle
Introduction by Florence Simon, Director of the San Francisco Mayor's Office of Innovation
Opening remarks by Moderator Deepti Doshi, Co-Director of New_ Public
Lightning-round project demos from:
Stephen Braitsch, Community Streets SF
Kira Bronston, Support SF Schools
Julia Gitis, Community News Lab
Tyler Hoffman, Neighborlist
Josh Nesbit, Relational Tech Project and Outer Sunset Today
Leela Solomon, SafeHome
Roza Trilesskaya, Hey There, Neighbor!
Tim Wagner, Sevenn
Brief Q&A
Collaboration time!
SPECIAL GUEST ANNOUNCEMENT!
