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Let’s explore the details of a perfect example of an optimised hackathon timeline, deriving from our hackathon experience, and proven effective throughout our past hackathons.

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The perfect hackathon timeline

In need of some inspiration to start the next hackathon for your company? Read this article with 9 examples of real-case hackathon ideas for companies.

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Hackathon ideas for companies

What exactly is a hackathon? How is it defined? What's its meaning? Read this article for key information about hackathons.

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What is a hackathon?

In this article, we define hackathon problem statements, together with some real case examples, categorised by hackathon macro topic.

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Hackathon problem statements

In this article, we go over the perfect hackathon structure, including some expert tips.

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The perfect hackathon structure

Discover the highlights of the Hack Her Health Hackathon in this health-related hackathon use case article.

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Hackathon use case: HackHerHealth

In this article, we explain in detail all the steps to run an internal hackathon for your company, from defining the hackathon goal to the winners' ceremony.

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How to organise an internal hackathon in 2026

Read this article to understand how to create a great hackathon website for your event, from the poster to the rules and technicalities.

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How to create a hackathon website in 2026

Read this article to understand how internal hackathons can be leveraged as an employee satisfaction measurement technique.

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Hackathons and internal feedback

A flawlessly conducted hackathon can have a great effect on a company’s external perception. Understand how in this article.

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Internal hackathons to boost your company's image

In this listicle, we will explore how internal hackathons can help companies train and develop the skills of the future for their employees.

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Skills of the future and hackathons

Internal hackathons are an effective and creative way to retain talent in your company. Discover how in this article.

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Internal hackathons to retain talent

Beautiful things happen when a design thinking approach is applied to internal hackathons. Understand how in this article.

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Design thinking and internal hackathons

What is an innovation challenge? Who participates? How is it structured? Read this blog post for crystal clear answers and examples.

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Innovation challenge guide

Innovation internal hackathons’ goal is to instill an innovation mindset and culture within the organisation. Find out how in this article.

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Internal hackathons for innovation

In this article, we list the main effects of internal hackathons when used as a tool to create new internal synergies, generate empathy, and improve collaboration between your employees.

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Hackathons for employees engagement

An innovation challenge is a limited-time initiative designed to lift creativity and find solutions to problems through innovation.

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Innovation challenges, explained

If you’re looking for an effective way to lift your employees’ creativity then internal hackathons are a solid tool to do that. Read this post for some reasons why.

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Internal hackathons for creativity

Hackathons are a great solution to connect the missing dots that a company, entity, or institution might struggle to do on its own. Read this article to know more.

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Hackathons and partnerships

How can we leverage hackathons to speed up your product or service development? What’s happening during this type of hackathon? Meet the acceleration hackathons!

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Acceleration hackathons

Hackathons have no limits in terms of application. One of them is market research and validation. Read this article to know more.

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Market research hackathons

It’s not always about money when defining hackathon prizes. Explore all the types of prizes and their perfect target audience.

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Hackathon prizes

In this article, we provide a clear view of the costs of running a hackathon, breaking it down from different perspectives.

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How much does a hackathon cost?

Hackathons are a practical and quick way to get access to communities. So, we created a perks list for running a community hackathon.

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Community hackathons

Hackathons are often used as a marketing tool to build awareness, gain exposure, and promote a company, institution, or entity's image. Read this article to know more about how hackathons can boost your company's brand awareness.

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Brand awareness hackathons

In this article, we want to explore the most classic version of hackathons: building and testing software.

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Coding hackathons

Here are some tips to collect and screen new, fresh, and bright ideas for any type of problem your company or entity needs to solve.

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Hackathons to crowdsource ideas

If hiring talented individuals with unique skills is your goal, then this article is the right one.

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Hire talents with a hackathon

Can your company test and assess products, solutions, software, data, tools, plans, and strategies through external hackathons? Quick answer: absolutely yes.

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How hackathons innovate

Can your company test and assess products, solutions, software, data, tools, plans, and strategies through external hackathons? Quick answer: absolutely yes.

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Hackathons for testing purposes

What are the benefits of hackathons for employees? Let’s discover the main reasons why organisations leverage internal hackathons as an effective way to generate innovative results.

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Benefits of internal hackathons

What are the perks of a hackathon? Long story short: external hackathons are a consolidated but dynamic solution to get the results your company is looking for, bringing together diverse talents and perspectives.

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Perks of external hackathons

What is the essence of a hackathon? Why a hackathon? Which problems does a hackathon solve? Let’s explore what they are and how they can help businesses reach their goals.

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Welcome to hackathons

Thinking about running a hackathon for your organisation? This guide will walk you through each detail to organise your Hackathon, converging tons of best practices into a simple and crystal clear document.

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Hackathon guide: how to organize a hackathon in 2026

Planning a series of local or international hackathons? Read this blog to learn how one platform can streamline registrations, team formation, local communication, and parallel evaluations for multiple hackathons at once.

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Run multiple hackathons at the same time on Eventornado!

If you’re planning a hackathon and want a fully branded, private experience, read this blog to discover how a white-label hackathon platform can help you customize our hackathon platform.

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Whitelabel your hackathon on Eventornado

Need to come up with a hackathon team name? Explore a curated list of real hackathon team names used by our participants. See what worked for them and claim the perfect hackathon name for your team!

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Need a hackathon team name? Here is some inspiration from real hackathons!

If you are looking for inspiration for your next hackathon idea, this is the article for you. Get inspired with real case examples of project ideas delivered in hackathons hosted on Eventornado.

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Hackathon ideas

What exactly is a hackathon? What does the word hackathon mean? What's the definition of a hackathon? What is the purpose of a hackathon? In this article, we cover the basics for newcomers in the hackathon world.

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Hackathon meaning

In this blog post, we explain why you should always rely on a hackathon platform to support you with your online, hybrid, or in-person hackathon.

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5 good reasons why you need a hackathon platform for your online, hybrid, or physical hackathon

Pristine Agency is a hackathon services provider founded on the values of unmatched quality, fast responsiveness, and deep empathy. Discover how they can help you organise a flawless hackathon.

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Hackathon Organiser: Pristine Agency

Read this article for a handy comparison of some of the most popular hackathon platforms on the market. Including key features and what's special about each one.

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Hackathon Software Comparison

In this blog post, we showcase a real-life hackathon case example for our client Earth Hacks and how Eventornado made their life easier.

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Hackathon Organiser: Earth Hacks

This article explores the use case of the Coparching hackathon, which gathered 1.900+ marketing students and professionals living in Spanish-speaking countries.

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Case Study: Improving Brand Quality Through Hackathons

This article provides several techniques on how to engage the participants of a hackathon, from how to onboard them to gamification.

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5 Tips To Keep Your Hackathon Participants Engaged

Explore the roles of mentors at hackathons, and how their support is structured, including some tips on mentoring deriving from our experience.

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The Role Of Mentors At A Hackathon

Planning a company hackathon? Learn essential steps to create a successful event. From defining your goals to choosing the right format, this guide covers everything you need to know.

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6 Key Questions To Think About Before Planning a Company Hackathon

Discover the real benefits of company hackathons. Get inspired by real-world examples and discover how to organize your own successful hackathon.

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5 Hackathon Ideas For Your Next Company Hackathon

We have listed 7 reasons why top universities host multiple hackathons a year.

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7 Reasons Why Every University Should Host A Student Hackathon

Download our e-book for a thorough guide on running a company hackathon and drive corporate innovation.

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Using Hackathons To Accelerate Corporate Innovation: A Guide To Run a Company Hackathon

See our top pick of the best tools to help you plan, manage, and launch a flawless hackathon in 2026.

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4 tools to host a flawless hackathon in 2026

Whether you’re organising your first or tenth hackathon, these 9 steps will help you build a more diverse community.

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9 Ways To Make Your Virtual Hackathon More Inclusive (And Why You Should)

Find out 8 mistakes you could be making that are deterring quality developers from participating in your hackathon.

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8 Mistakes That Are Deterring Talented Developers From Your Hackathon

Are you considering hosting your first ever hackathon? Ask yourself these 10 fundamental questions first.

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So You Want To Host A Hackathon? 10 Questions To Ask Yourself First

This article provides 4 useful books on planning events that could help you better organize your hackathon.

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The Hackathon Reading List: 4 Must-Read Books on Planning Events

Jolene Wright

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7 Fool-Proof Ways To Promote Your Next Virtual Hackathon in 2024

The most powerful trick in a hackathon organizer’s arsenal is to have a solid promotion plan so your event can reach as many of the right people as possible. Read this article to know more.

In this article, we share 9 useful tips to set up, plan, and organize the best hackathon possible: from how to create a form to how to close the hackathon. Trust our experience in hosting 150+ hackathons.

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9 Key Strategies To Make Sure Your Hackathon Doesn’t Flop

This article provides a list of the main hackathon participants' roles, besides coders.

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5 Hackathon Roles That Have Nothing To Do With Coding

In this blog post, we provide useful tips on how to participate in a hackathon: from what to eat to how to interact with the mentors.

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The Ultimate Survival Guide For Your First Ever (Virtual) Hackathon

This post describes the definition of a hackathon and various tips about organizing your hackathon: a new way of creating innovations in many different fields, from tech and software to medicine and other important topics.

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Top 10 Tips for Running a Hackathon. The Best Way of Organizing a Hackathon Online

Edgar Aronov

Co-Founder at Eventornado

Reviewing The Best Ideas From Estonia's Most Tech-Savvy Minds

On March 13, Estonia built on its well-deserved title as the “digital nation” when it launched the online hackathon, Hack The Crisis Estonia.

In this article, we explain how to keep your hackathon participants' onboarding process effective and up to date, both for the registration and the ideas forms.

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Is Your Hackathon Submission Process Outdated? 7 Warning Signs

When it comes to selecting winners, some traditional hackathons choose to stick to good old fashioned demos. That’s when teams are invited to stand up and demonstrate their project for their peers, mentors and judges.

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How to judge a hackathon: 5 criteria to pick winners

You might not think so, but you can affect a candidate’s chance of success in lots of ways, and it all starts from your first call to submissions.

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Give Participants Their Best Chance Of Winning Your Hackathon

Estonia claimed its 5th unicorn when Pipedrive was valued at around $1.5 billion. For a country of only 1.3 million people it’s quite an achievement. As one of the founders of Pipedrive I might have some insight into why that is.

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Building Unicorns: Pipedrive, Skype and Hackathons

Martin Henk

Co-founder and CTO at Eventornado

Excitement and Challenges: Our First 4 Months with Eventornado

A lot has already happened during these four months. It felt like a good time to reflect on the different facets of this experience.

Edgar Aronov

Co-Founder at Eventornado

7 Inspiring Hackathons Tackling COVID-19

Hackathons have always been popular but since lockdown started, they’ve blown up as businesses and entrepreneurs have taken to the digital world to find workable solutions to the problems society is facing.

Whether you’re new to the hackathon world or you’re a seasoned coder, having a strong team can make or break the entire experience.

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How To Form A Winning Team For Hackathons: 5 Quick Tips

Hack For Hope is a virtual hackathon where local and international innovators and tech experts come together to create a reliable solution for the people of Lebanon.

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Rebuilding The Future Of Lebanon’s Youth: Hack For Hope

If you thought hackathons were only for engineers and coders, think again. More companies are starting to run their own hackathons both in-house and public, to generate new products, vet quality talent or connect themselves with leading industries.

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Why Your Company Should Run A Hackathon (Yes, You!)

While at first glance, the idea of running a virtual hackathon may seem like a huge headache, taking the event to an online platform can actually give you a diverse and effective boost.

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The Rise Of Online Hackathons: 6 Tips For Your Next Virtual Event