How To Run The Perfect Virtual Hackathon – Do’s & Dont’s
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by Wayne Brewer
1y ago
There’s a pretty popular saying about Hackathons. It goes something like “Hackathons are where your crazy ideas become a reality.” And I love that. I love that because we live in an age and time where crazy ideas, creativity, and innovation are the wheels that keep our tech-driven society moving forward. June 4th, 1999 is a special date for us in tech. That’s the day the first-ever hackathon was conducted. Fast forward to 2021, and hackathons have exploded in popularity around the world, and for good reason. Hackathons are to date, the single best way to foster innovation and drive engageme ..read more
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Hackathon Survival Guide: What You Need To Know Going Into A Hackathon
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by Guest Author
2y ago
There’s nothing quite like walking into a campus cafeteria, a large conference room, or endless halls stacked together for a weekend-long hackathon. Developers of all skill levels, with various backgrounds in countless programming languages and areas of expertise, all coming together for one purpose: to build something new. This is exactly what we talked about in Episode 3 of the Tech Stack Playbook, Are Hackathons Just for the Pros? In a world of constant innovation, hackathons are a breath of fresh air for those who dare to create what hasn’t been created, to try something new and different ..read more
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How To Run The Perfect Virtual Hackathon – Do’s & Dont’s
HackerEarth Blog » Innovation Management
by Wayne Brewer
2y ago
There’s a pretty popular saying about Hackathons. It goes something like “Hackathons are where your crazy ideas become a reality.” And I love that. I love that because we live in an age and time where crazy ideas, creativity, and innovation are the wheels that keep our tech-driven society moving forward. June 4th, 1999 is a special date for us in tech. That’s the day the first-ever hackathon was conducted. Fast forward to 2021, and hackathons have exploded in popularity around the world, and for good reason. Hackathons are to date, the single best way to foster innovation and drive engagemen ..read more
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How To Run The Perfect Virtual Hackathon – Do’s & Dont’s
HackerEarth Blog » Innovation Management
by Wayne Brewer
2y ago
There’s a pretty popular saying about Hackathons. It goes something like “Hackathons are where your crazy ideas become a reality.” And I love that. I love that because we live in an age and time where crazy ideas, creativity, and innovation are the wheels that keep our tech-driven society moving forward. June 4th, 1999 is a special date for us in tech. That’s the day the first-ever hackathon was conducted. Fast forward to 2021, and hackathons have exploded in popularity around the world, and for good reason. Hackathons are to date, the single best way to foster innovation and drive engagemen ..read more
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5 Lessons From Running 200 Remote Hackathons
HackerEarth Blog » Innovation Management
by Pragya Sharma
3y ago
Hackathons > Lessons from running 200 remote hackathons Scene from the movie ‘The Social Network.’ A room full of boisterous Harvard undergrads. In the center: a small group of coders hunched over their laptops, typing away at warp speed. Jesse Heisenberg’s character, Mark, explaining to a perplexed Eduardo (Andrew Garfield) that he had walked right into Facebook’s first-ever hackathon. The audience learns that the coders have 10 minutes to get root access to a Python web server, expose its SSL encryption, and then intercept all traffic over its secure port. The catch? They have to do so wh ..read more
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Hackathons simplified
HackerEarth Blog » Innovation Management
by Ashmita
4y ago
When some people hear the word “hackathon,” a wave of intimidation spills over them. Well, let me help you pitch the idea. A hackathon, also known as a codefest, is typically a day-long coding competition where a bunch of software developers, computer programmers, designers, and others join hands to improve upon or build a new software program. Hackathons maybe theme-based. However, the majority of hackathons gives developers and programmers free rein to be creative and build something awesome. One can create a web app, a website, chrome extension, it’s an open environment! Stating an exciting ..read more
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Attracting quality talent through hackathons
HackerEarth Blog » Innovation Management
by Vivek Prakash
4y ago
This post was originally published on The HR Agenda Magazine’s blog on March 1st, 2019 Hackathons are a logical solution to addressing the unique challenges of hiring the ever-elusive top tech talent. Talent acquisition has been the biggest concerns for the C-suite year after year. According to the latest PWC survey, 63 percent of the CEOs are increasingly concerned about finding talent with the right skills. To combat the serious shortage of skills, companies are resorting to innovative means of hiring. For example, Volvo turned the Brussels Motor Show into a recruitment ..read more
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Top 10 Hackathon ideas 2018
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by Mukund Joshi
4y ago
As the curtains rise up on 2019, it’s time to look back at the amazing innovations that came out last year. We conducted over 400 hackathons with enterprises, universities, nonprofits, and governments in various fields, ranging from shaping the future of music to creating Fintech solutions. The hackathon ideas of 2018 were judged based on the following 5 parameters: Creativity – Bringing the “wow” factor to solve a problem Usability – Usefulness of the product to solve a problem Technicality – The technology used to create the solution Scalability – Potential for future upgrades to impr ..read more
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Report of HackerEarth’s 400 global hackathons 2018 [Infographic]
HackerEarth Blog » Innovation Management
by Mukund Joshi
4y ago
Compared to 2017, there was a 140% increase in the number of hackathons hosted on the HackerEarth Innovation Management Platform in 2018. We hosted more than 400 hackathons last year in 4 continents. Our community strengthened to 2.5 million by seeing the participation of over 100,000 innovators from over 100 countries across the globe. High schools, universities, enterprises, nonprofits, and even governments hosted their own hackathons in 2018 to crowdsource over 14,000 ideas and 7,000 prototypes. With a 30% increase in enterprise hackathons, Fintech solutions, SMB applications, automation, a ..read more
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10 things to keep in mind while conducting a hackathon
HackerEarth Blog » Innovation Management
by Suhail Ameen
4y ago
A hackathon can be the wind to the sails of your business. Regardless of the niche or industry, your business belongs to, conducting a hackathon can be an excellent choice for generating new ideas, and potential fusion of existing ideas that could lead to a fresh perspective altogether. At HackerEarth, we have conducted over 2,000 hackathons to date, for enterprises, companies, startups, non-profits, universities, and others. All this while, a myriad of people have reached out to us, asking for suggestions or tips on conducting hackathons. After having organized so many hackathons and being a ..read more
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