Corporate & AI Hackathons

Planning, Production & Facilitation

We run inclusive, fast-paced corporate and AI hackathons that bring teams together to tackle business challenges and build what’s next.

Plan your hackathon

What is a Hackathon?

A hackathon brings cross-functional teams together - typically over two days, with support from mentors, to tackle a challenge, build solutions and pitch proof of concepts to judges.

AI hackathons focus on practical AI use cases, from smarter workflows to new product ideas.

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Organising a Corporate Hackathon?

MHD Innovation plans, produces and facilitates corporate and AI hackathons—from expert guidance to full event production. In person, online or hybrid. In English, French, Spanish or German. 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
Participant recruitment and communications
Facilitating the hackathon for a smooth event

What kind of hackathon fits your challenge?

AI Hackathons

Build practical AI solutions and smarter workflows around your business challenges.

Open Innovation Hackathons

Bring external talent together to tackle your challenge.

Innovation Hackathons

Gather your teams’ ideas and develop new products, services or ways of working.

Conference Hackathons

Get your event audience collaborating, building and showcasing ideas.

These formats can overlap. Internal, external or mixed participation - and online, hybrid or in-person delivery.

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.

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Hackathon Consulting

From $5K

Expert guidance to run your own event.

Two-hour planning session
Essential planning templates: brief, agenda and checklist.
One review of your event plan and communications
Two follow-up consulting calls

Your team manages and delivers the event.

Three ways to work with MHD

Hackathon Planning & Facilitation

From $10K

Two days · up to 40 participants

We plan the programme and run the hackathon.

Full Hackathon Planning
Challenge scoping and agenda design
Participant preparation materials
Two days of live facilitation
Final pitches and next-step planning

Your team provides the venue, catering, prizes and approved tools. Expert mentors and additional delivery staff can be arranged at extra cost.

Full Hackathon Production

From $30K

We plan, facilitate and coordinate the whole event—including logistics and suppliers.

Hackathon planning and live facilitation
Participant communications and branded event materials
Team, mentor and judge briefings
Venue, catering, AV, prizes and supplier coordination
Event project management and run-of-show

From concept to execution, we deliver your hackathon, end to end. Event and specialist costs quoted separately.

Plan your hackathon

“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.

— Investment Firm, USA

100 participants. 13 projects. Business and IT building together.

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”