A 10-step guide for a successful hackathon: A 10-step guide for a successful hackathon Tiffany Long Mon, 02/13/2023 – 03:00 Hackathons are easy. How much thought do you need to put into them anyway? Just set a date, and people will show up. Well, that is not quite true! While you may get lucky with …
HATCH22: The SovTech Hackathon: Each hackathon is a competitive, fun and adrenaline-fuelled event and this year’s one was no exception! So, what is a hackathon and what went down this year at SovTech? A Software Development Marathon A hackathon is a social coding event typically hosted by a tech-based company where teams of developers, designers, project managers, …
8 tips for running a virtual hackathon: Hackathons are events where developers, product managers, designers, and others come together to tackle problems over a short time period. They have become increasingly popular over the last 15 years after OpenBSD ran the first hackathon in June 1999. These events provide several benefits—greater engagement across the community, innovation …
Tips for hosting a hackathon: What do you get when you combine a global financial services, media, and data company that employs 5,000 software developers headed by a founder who is heavily into philanthropy? If you’re Bloomberg, you get a series of company-sponsored hackathons where employees, community members, students, and others come together over a …
Steltix Hackathon caps another stellar codeX year: International software solutions firm Steltix sponsored the end-of-term Hackathon at codeX Coding Academy at the V&A Waterfront where 40 young coders applied their skills to create innovative enterprise software web and mobile applications and components using Oracle JET. The four-day event marked the conclusion of this year’s coding …