TESTIMONIALS
TESTIMONIALS
“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
Chicago, USA
“Hiring Maria as our AI & Democracy hackathon facilitator was easily one of the best decisions my team and I made. Maria was instrumental to the success of our event. She brought extensive experience with the hackathon format, helping my team to successfully build out our event structure, judging criteria, pitching process, and recruitment. She designed polished graphics to help us advertise our event, and she was incredibly communicative and responsive to our questions and needs.
At the event itself, Maria facilitated a fast-paced, full-day event with energy, warmth, and enthusiasm. She helped to troubleshoot changes and adjustments on the fly, and our participants pointed to her by name when thanking us for hosting the event. I cannot recommend Maria enough as a hackathon facilitator and team member.”
— German Marshall Fund: AI & Democracy Hackathon
Mexico City, Mexico
“We saved a lot of time and energy thanks to this hackathon by working directly with our clients, and it helped strengthen our relationship. I really appreciated being able to work on topics outside of the usual buyer/seller roles" - worth 100 meetings!
— Belpreneur Hackathon
Paris, France
Aviva Hackathon
London, UK
“This hackathon demonstrated the terrific value of a diverse team coming together for a short time frame and being laser focused on solving a problem. The results will help to shape our digital expertise around sustainability.”
Chief Commercial Officer, Compass Group Global Hackathon
London, UK
Thank you so much as always for your kind support, guidance and positivity. We all have taken away so much from the presentation today, and I myself can’t wait to actually be a hackathon participant.
Department of Health, Abu Dhabi for the talk “Unleash your powers with a hackathon”
What People Are Saying
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“Thank you for taking your time to present for DEWA. It was a great pleasure to have you spread knowledge and awareness on Circular Economy for our employees.
- DEWA, UAE for the talk “Sustainable Innovation, Harnessing the power of Circular Water Systems”
“Amazing!”, “Very inspiring”, “Great talk to start the day”, “I want to try to facilitate my next workshop and create a safe place so people can also try”,
- Allianz UX COP, Germany for the talk “Facilitate the Future”
Maria, thank you very much for this talk. We honestly didn't realize how much we needed it. Everyone walked away with much insight and motivation to help solve problems. We think we will do this more often.
Marketing agency, USA for the session “Creativity and Innovation: How to nourish a creative mindset”
This is such an amazing topic and you are so knowledgeable about things - I loved hearing you talk.
Innovation Agency, USA for the talk “Globalization across culture and design”
In addition to being extremely interesting - this talk will help the group of HR professionals add value to their respective businesses as there were a lot of take-away points. I strongly recommend this speaker to anyone who would like to take a step back and look at his/her business from different angles to see what and how can things be improved. Maria is full of tools and solutions in this regard!
Malta Executives Forum, for the talk “Innovation Through Experimentation"
Thank you! We really appreciated and enjoyed the run through on sustainable innovation and the interactive tie into our industry and mission. You helped the staff get back into a brainstorming mind set. Thanks again!
Colorado Housing and Finance Authority (CHFA), USA for the session “Sustainable innovation - how to accelerate change”
Maria was so engaging and informative! She gave an interesting perspective on a topic that was new to the group and was definitely someone that I would love to have speak again!
Koa Club, USA for the talk “Sustainable Entrepreneurship: Accelerating sustainable innovation opportunities through Circular Economy”
Maria, a great, splendid webinar on "Innovation And Creativity" our students enjoyed it a lot and learned a lot from you - it was a really interactive and wonderful session. Looking forward for more such fabulous webinars.
RSCOE University of Engineering, for the session "Innovation And Creativity"