Hackathon Consulting

Hackathon /ˈhakəθɒn/

A 48hr event, in which teams of diverse innovators meet collectively, to answer a defined challenge, hacking together (tech) solutions, and pitching to win a prize.

 
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Hackathon Organiser?

Organising a hackathon can be difficult - there are SO many things to consider, including:

  • Defining the best format

  • Crafting the hackathon challenges

  • Coordinating mentors and judges

  • Planning the communication for the event

  • Recruiting the best participants

  • Executing the hackathon with flare

You might feel unsure of what to do first… BUT -

 

I can help you feel like a hackathon expert

Internal or external hackathon: let’s define, plan and run your hackathon, together, in the vital early stages.  

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BASIC Package

  • 2-hour initial hackathon consulting session to help you craft the event

  • Tools and templates to guide you through executing your hackathon

  • Feedback on communication kit

  • Two, 30-min milestone calls

  • 1-hour pre-hackathon call/meeting

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PREMIUM Package

BASIC PACKAGE PLUS+

  • Hackathon facilitation for efficient timing and optimal hackathon experience

  • Team coaching/mentoring

  • Weekly 30-min review calls

  • 3-hour pre-event walk-through

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PLATINUM Package

PREMIUM PACKAGE PLUS+

  • Hackathon production*

  • Video Re-cap

  • Extra designed assets

*F&B, prizes & swag to be managed by your team

Internal Hackathon Case Study

Type of Hackathon: Internal firm-wide hackathon for a global investment firm

Number of participants: 100

Preparation time: 3 months

Key objective: Cross-departmental collaboration

“We hired Maria to organize our firm’s first-ever Hackathon and it was a huge success! Maria brought a wide breadth of skills to all aspects of the Hackathon, including organizing and planning the event, recruiting the firm’s business members to participate, creating marketing content, orchestrating ideation sessions, providing valuable feedback on product design, and facilitating the event itself. Furthermore, Maria brought cutting edge tools to our organization that will have a long-lasting effect on the way that we operate.

Maria was flexible in her planning of the event, catering the details around our organization’s specific goals of bringing together our business and IT teams with an emphasis on developing relationships and demonstrating how quickly our business and IT teams can come together to solve problems.”

— Investment Firm, USA

  • 👕40:60 👔

    A goal for this hackathon was cross-departmental collaboration. Our communication efforts met our target of 60% business, 40% IT participants.

    team mates working together

  • 13 projects 🚀

    13 out of 30 submitted projects were developed through individual ideation sessions, built during the hackathon and presented during the final pitches.

  • 100% 🙌

    Participants scored the hackathon 4.69/5 with 100% wanting to participate in another firm-wide hackathon. That’s what I call success!

What the participants said about their first internal hackathon

“The best part was learning from others on my team. We built a tool that surpassed expectations and it was great to get time off to focus on a project.”

“I specifically enjoyed the cross-collaboration, working directly with developers without a lot of red tape or required approvals…”

“It was great to have the bandwidth to think and execute in a different capacity during the hackathon - I don’t often have the opportunity to be creative and implement new ideas”

“It was really motivating to see all that was and can be accomplished.”