Hackathon Planning & Production
What is a Hackathon?
A hackathon is typically a two-day event, where cross-functional teams collaborate to tackle challenges and explore new solutions, with the support of mentors, then pitch Proof of Concepts to a panel of judges.
Organising a Hackathon?
Hackathon planning requires 8-12 weeks of preparation and I can help guide you with Hackathon consullting or end-to-end Hackathon Project Management. Including:
Hackathon Scoping and choosing the best format
Defining appropriate hackathon challenges
Selecting and briefing hackathon mentors and judges
Creating communication guidelines and design assets
Ensuring recruitment of participants
Facilitating the hackathon for a smooth event
Internal, external or conference hackathons
Hackathon Consulting
From $10K
2-hour hackathon consulting session to guide your hackathon
Hackathon planning templates for your team to execute the event
Feedback on design and comms
Three additional consulting calls
Ideal if you want expert guidance but run the event yourself
Hackathon Project Management
From $30K
Hackathon Consulting plus:
Full Hackathon Planning
Branded Communication and Design Assets
Hackathon Project Management
Weekly 1-hour consulting calls
Your team organises food, swag and prizes
Perfect for busy teams - minus facilitation.
Pro Hackathon Facilitation
From $35K
Hackathon Project Management plus:
Hackathon event facilitation to ensure a smooth event (online, in-person)
Pre-event brief/Training for teams, mentors and judges
Team coaching/mentoring
MC to guide the way and keep up the vibe!
From concept to execution, we deliver your hackathon, end to end.
Case Study
100 Participants
Internal company-wide online Hackathon for a global alternative investment firm
3 months preparation time
Hackathon Goal: Cross-departmental collaboration and production-ready solutions
“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
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Cross-Functional teams
We met our target of 60% business, 40% IT participants through a strong communication strategy.
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13 projects
13 (of 30 submitted projects) were developed through ideation sessions then coded and presented at thee hackathon.
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100%
100% Satisfaction. Hackathon Participants said they would like to participate in another hackathon.
What Hackathon Participants’ say
“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.”
“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”
“I specifically enjoyed the cross-collaboration, working directly with developers without a lot of red tape or required approvals…”
“It was really motivating to see all that was and can be accomplished.”
Teamwork That Delivers
The best group work leads to action. Our collaborative approach ensures alignment, fast iteration, and clear communication — so your projects don’t just stay on track, they gain momentum.
