As the gospel of Silicon Valley-style disruption spreads to every sector in the economy, so too have the industry’s favorite competitive ritual, hackathons. The contests, where small teams of “hackers ...

When we dive deep into what makes hackathons so appealing, cost-effectiveness emerges as a clear winner. Organizers, such as AngelHack, have spotlighted how hackathons can lead to significant savings.

When people think about hacking, it is often associated with breaking into another’s website or social media account and using that information in malevolent manner. However, there is another form of ...

Hackathon prize money keeps rising each year as organizations learn to take advantage of their value. Runner-up cash prizes are now in the thousands, and grand-prize payouts are as high as $1 million.

Companies are always looking for an edge, and searching for ways to encourage their employees to innovate. One way to do that is by running an internal hackathon around a theme and having employees ...

CIOs must approach internal hackathons strategically to succeed in engaging technical talent, fostering cross-functional collaboration, and, most importantly, driving innovation and transforming ...

This story contains interviews with Pedram Keyani, engineering overhead at Facebook; and Bob Baldwin, software engineer at Facebook. Long gone are the days when mainly fresh-faced college graduates ...

The rapid mobilization of hackathons to develop solutions around the COVID-19 pandemic injects new meaning to the old adage, “necessity is the mother of invention.” Since mid-March, over 53 hackathons ...

The key to organizing a hackathon is to start with “Why?” As Simon Sinek says in "Start with Why", great leaders inspire action because what motivates them is the meaning of a situation, not what to ...