UW’s CS Program Is Basically a Pipeline from India. Where’s the Dating Show?

If you’ve walked through the University of Waterloo campus in the last five years, you already know. The computer science and engineering programs are basically a pipeline from India. UW and Wilfrid Laurier together create one of the densest concentrations of young South Asian students and recent grads in Canada, and most of them are single, ambitious, and tired of Hinge.

The format from New York: singles go on dates on stage, comedians host, and the full room mingles before and after. In KW, where the tech corridor has created a dense cluster of Indian engineers who default to driving to Toronto for any social life, this format plants a proper event right where they already live and work.

The Waterloo tech corridor has turned KW into a mini Silicon Valley with a heavy Indian and Chinese workforce. Shopify, Google, and a pile of startups all have offices here. The people staying after graduation are building careers but their social lives haven’t kept up. The options are limited: study group hangouts that never lead anywhere, or driving to Toronto for the weekend.

This show is designed for exactly this kind of city. High concentration, limited social infrastructure, and a community that’s ready to show up if someone builds the right thing.

Get on the waitlist for first access to Waterloo tickets, or apply to be a contestant now. The density here means the room is going to be packed.