3-STEP PROGRAM

Start with a workshop if you just want to train your team. You'll be able to run a hackathon in a few months on the skills taught during the workshop. You go over the different topics with our team and pick the ones you want to implement.

Timeline (1-8 hours)

SCHEDULE EXAMPLE FOR A 3 HOUR EVENT

8:50am | Opening

Welcome participants and presentation of the day.

9am | Workshop

Our instructor runs the workshop you picked. The first 30 minutes are about is the presentation of the main concepts.

9:30am: Hands-on Exercise

Half of each workshop is a hands-on exercise. Participants have to build a sample project using the skills they just learned.

10am: Workshop 2

Same process for workshops 2.

10:30am: Hands-on Exercise

Same process for workshops 2.

17h30: Closing

We offer you some time to close the workshop and thanks paticipants. We can add an optional entertainment game like a trivia at the end if you prefer to end in a more engaging way.

This event style typically runs for 2-4 days, and combines a traditional competition with various conferences and interactive workshops. Participants can also book 1-to-1 meetings with relevant mentors. This format provides a hands-on learning experience to your team members that is both memorable and engaging.

Timeline (2 Days)

DAY 1

9am: Opening

Welcome participants and presentation of the day.

9-11am: Workshop

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11h: Ideation room

12h: Project Submission

12h30 - Project Review - Client/Mentor & BMA

13h-18h: Group mentorship in the Lobby

14h: Attribution d’un mentor par team

17h: Soumission d’une première version de 4 slides templaté (pb, solution, gain de temps estimé, roadmap pour implémentation)

17h30: Closing

DAY 2

9h-10h30: Final coaching

30min par team, invitation calendrier avec lien Zoom

11h: Final Demo

Timeline (2 Days)

DAY 1

9am: Opening

Welcome participants and presentation of the day.

9-11am: Workshop

11h: Ideation room

12h: Project Submission

12h30 - Project Review - Client/Mentor & BMA

13h-18h: Group mentorship in the Lobby

14h: Attribution d’un mentor par team

17h: Soumission d’une première version de 4 slides templaté (pb, solution, gain de temps estimé, roadmap pour implémentation)

17h30: Closing

DAY 2

9h-10h30: Final coaching

30min par team, invitation calendrier avec lien Zoom

11h: Final Demo

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Design

This workshop delves into advanced retrieval augmented generation (RAG) techniques such as hypothetical document expansion (HyDE), contextual compressors, and filters. The focus is on demonstrating how these techniques can enhance the accuracy, usefulness, and reliability of RAG applications. Participants will gain practical experience by applying these techniques through hands-on exercises.

ROI : 2,231 talent gathered

Mercedes-Benz wanted to evangelize developers worldwide of their APIs and SDK, as well as grow its talent pool of developers in anticipation of a recruitment plan.

Hackathon.com organized a 2-month worldwide online competition, where participants were tasked to come up with innovative solutions around mobility and connectivity, using Mercedes-Benz’ technology. Participants submitted their projects a fully branded and tailored platform we provided, received feedback and attended training webinars from experts.

We managed the entire process from the website creation, challenge concept creation, PR/Communication, participant recruitment and follow up, webinars and judging process.

2,231 participants
500+ projects submitted
3 winners

ROI : 24 quality potential recruits

Booking.com wanted to use the hackathon format as a first step in the hiring process of good quality tech talent.

Hackathon.com sourced qualified developers and designers for the event, in order to reach relevant and qualified participants. The challenge was to create mixed teams having programming/designing skills, as well as creative thinking skills, to build customer-focused solutions. The goal was to think about how transport, activities, events, social media and other devices can be combined to help improve the travel experience. Participants had access to Booking.com APIs for their projects.

24 participants
5 projects

ROI : 40+ interviews in 3 days

Mbition (Mercedes-Benz Innovation Lab) wanted to recruit developers, designers, data scientists and DevOps experts in a short period of time.

Hackathon.com organized a 3-day CodeFest with coding challenges in Berlin. Each day, new participants gathered to take on 2 challenges:
- 1-hour individual coding challenge
- 4-hour team sprint to solve the challenges the Mbition team faces.

Teams were composed of developers, designers, data scientists and devOps, as well as one Mbition team lead to overlook the challenge and evaluate participants. Throughout each day, the best profiles, recommended by the team lead, were invited to a 20-minute job interview with a HR representative