Hackathons, those one- or two-day innovation sprints in which teams of like-minded, well-intentioned, super-excited people gather to develop solutions to a designated challenge, can often be less ...

It seems that almost every major feature on Facebook started as a hackathon project. Hackathons are all-night coding sessions where engineers get amped up on caffeine, brainstorm ideas, and build ...

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.

In 2026, you’ll see a lot of focus on Artificial Intelligence (AI) and making smart tools, exploring blockchain for secure ...

At our annual company retreat, we usually run a hackathon for our dev team. But this year (at our virtual retreat), we decided to expand the hackathon framework to the entire company. We took the ...

Companies hold code hackathons to help build team spirit, learn new skills and even create valuable products. If the company has offices around the globe, some careful scheduling can create an ...

One afternoon, as I was listening to an earnest presentation from a well-intentioned employee trying to solve one of our clients’ biggest pain points, I felt a familiar sinking feeling. This person ...

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 ...

Thinking about organizing a hackathon to power up new innovations? Read these tips to make sure you host a fun, impactful event. Hackathons have taken the world by storm, happening all over the globe ...

Tiana Nguyen ‘21 is a Hackworth Fellow at the Markkula Center for Applied Ethics. She is majoring in Computer Science, and is the Vice President of Santa Clara University’s Association for Computing ...