From left to right, the members of Team Greypoint: Nicholas Chu, Eric Buys, and Jordan Khoo, celebrate winning first place at the Defence Tech Hackathon with their $5,000 cheque, in Toronto, on Saturday.

From a window six floors up at Toronto Metropolitan University’s business incubator the DMZ, a perfect view of the city’s Sankofa Square shows patrons perusing food vendors on Saturday morning.

They’re oblivious to the fact that above them, in the building on Dundas Street, seven teams of computer whizzes are racing to solve one of the biggest challenges to Canada’s security and sovereignty: Arctic surveillance.

For the all-day defence tech hackathon, software and defence enthusiasts from across the country gathered to compete and rapidly develop scalable solutions for maritime surv

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