Innovation Hackathon
The original hackathon format, which made Hack for Earth the world's leading impact hackathon, spans three days.
Overview
The original hackathon format, which made Hack for Earth the world's leading impact hackathon, spans three days. Day 1 features inspiration, ideation, and team formation, culminating in a fun dinner. Day 2 is dedicated to intense hacking and development. On Day 3, teams focus on presentations and pitch training, leading to the final pitch of all solutions. This immersive experience fosters creativity, collaboration, and impactful results.
The three-day Hack for Earth hackathon features inspiration, ideation, and team formation on Day 1, intense hacking on Day 2, and final pitches after presentation training on Day 3.
Example Project
Innovation Hackathon: Hack for Sweden Case Study
Overview:
Our Innovation Hackathon product is designed to engage your organisation in collaborative innovation. “Hack for Sweden” is a prime example of how our hackathon services can bring people together to create impactful solutions to defined challenges.
Features:
Comprehensive Event Structure:
- In-Person Hackathon: A dynamic environment where 420 participants from diverse backgrounds collaborated intensively over several days to develop innovative solutions.
- Full-Day Conference: Featuring international expert speakers from both the private and public sectors, offering insights on innovation, sustainability, and open data.
- Interactive Workshops: Hands-on sessions focusing on cutting-edge topics such as sustainable development, innovative technologies, and open data utilization. Designed to facilitate learning, collaboration, and practical problem-solving.
Extensive Partner Network:
- 90 Partner Organizations:** Representation from leading public and private sector organizations, each with a booth in the exhibition area.
- Expertise Exchange:** Facilitates seamless access to industry leaders and innovators, providing guidance and support to hackathon participants.
Diverse Participant Pool:
- 420 Hackers:** Includes developers, designers, entrepreneurs, and subject matter experts, bringing a wide range of perspectives and skills.
- Collaborative Environment:** Encourages cross-disciplinary teamwork to tackle complex challenges.
Recognition and Support:
- Jury Selection: Six winning solutions were chosen.
- Follow-Up Support: Winning teams received further support to develop and implement their solutions in real-world scenarios.
Benefits:
Engagement and Collaboration:** Fostered a collaborative spirit among diverse stakeholders, enhancing innovation and problem-solving capabilities.
- Real-World Impact: Generated actionable solutions that address predefined challenges, driving positive change.
- Knowledge Sharing: Provided a platform for exchanging ideas, best practices, and emerging trends in innovation and sustainability.
- Networking Opportunities: Created connections between participants, experts, and organizations, facilitating future collaborations.
Why Choose Our Innovation Hackathon:
Our Innovation Hackathon is meticulously designed to deliver maximum impact, combining structured events, expert insights, and hands-on workshops. We ensure a vibrant, collaborative environment that not only sparks creativity but also produces tangible results. Whether you are a government entity, a corporation, or an educational institution, our hackathon services can be tailored to meet your specific goals and challenges.
Experience the power of collaborative innovation with our Innovation Hackathon,, as demonstrated by the success of Hack for Sweden. Let us help you engage your community, solve complex problems, and drive sustainable development.
The Results
Each jury group will evaluate your solution based on these six criteria. The jury criteria are equally important in the evaluation. The jury criteria are the same for all 7 challenge categories.
Comprehensibility
Comprehensibility of the solution proposal’s value proposition and main use case
- Is it easy to understand the solution?
- Is it easy to understand how the solution works and how it will be implemented to solve the challenge?
- How well detailed is the description of the solution?
- Does it include an understanding of the key stakeholders and ecosystems that are relevant to the realisation of the solution?
- Will the end users of the solution understand it too, or do they need special skills to take part of it or use it?
Innovativeness
Innovativeness of the idea behind the solution, as well as the intended technology to be used in an implementation of the solution (if applicable).
- In what way is this solution innovative?
- Are there existing or similar solutions?
- How does the solution differ from any existing solutions?
Solving the SDGs
Does this solution correlate to the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals and how well does it solve the challenge it is intended to address.
- How well does the solution correlate to the SDGs?
- In what respect does the solution solve one or more of the SDGs?
- How many in the solutions target audience would experience an improvement and how extensive would that improvement be?
Realisability
Realisability of the solution from its current idea stage to implemented solution, used by its intended users in its problem context
- How realistic is the time plan?
- Does the solution have access to all the needed data (if applicable)?
- How well are potential risks calculated for?
- How soon can the solution be available to the intended users?
- Is the technology mature enough (if applicable)?
- Can a minimum viable product be created within 3 months?
- Can a proof of concept be created within 6 months?
Scalability
Scalability of the solution if it is implemented and realized.
- How many are experiencing the problem that this solution is intended to solve (if applicable)?
- How well does this solution scale?
Team
Team structure, functionality, adaptability and potential to scale a solution successfully
- How well is the team suited to realize the solution?
- Has the team reflected on any additional needs in the team structure to realize the solution?
- Are the members of this team motivated to invest time and energy to realize this solution?
