Features of Hackathon Team Building
Product features
- Participants:
- 10 to 150 people |
- Teams:
- 4 to 6 people
- Duration:
- Half a day to several days |
- Location:
- Indoors
- Physical effort:
- None |
- Format:
- Team competition
- Staff:
- Facilitators throughout |
- Electricity:
- Yes
- Set-up/Teardown:
- 1 hour / 30 min |
- Recommended space:
- Work rooms and a pitch area
- Languages:
- Spanish, English or Catalan |
- Coverage:
- All of Spain
- End result:
- Usable prototypes and ideas |
- Client provides:
- Tables, power, wifi and projector
- Branding:
- A real business challenge from the company
- Materials included:
- Facilitation materials, templates and judging format
- Skills developed:
- Innovation, working under pressure and cross-team collaboration
What the Corporate Hackathon is
The hackathon is one of the best-known team building formats in technology and innovation.
Cross-disciplinary teams work flat out for a set time to develop a solution, prototype or idea from a real challenge set by the company itself.
How the Corporate Hackathon works
Here's how Corporate Hackathon Team Building works, step by step:
- A business challenge is set together with the company.
- Cross-disciplinary teams are formed and the process is facilitated over the allotted time.
- Each team works up its proposal with support from the facilitators.
- At the end, each team pitches to an internal jury, which scores feasibility, creativity and teamwork.
From challenge to prototype: preparing a hackathon and using its ideas
A corporate hackathon delivers its best results when it is well prepared beforehand and followed up afterwards. That is why we work with the company from the outset so the challenge makes sense and the proposals do not end up in a drawer.
- Defining the challenge: we shape it with the company around a real, specific business problem that leaves room for creativity.
- Building the teams: we mix technical and business profiles so each proposal combines feasibility and vision.
- Judging criteria: the internal jury assesses feasibility, creativity and teamwork, with clear rules from the very first minute.
- After the event: the best ideas and prototypes can go to the management committee or an intrapreneurship programme.
Facilitation is included throughout, so teams make steady progress with support. The length is chosen to suit the goal: half a day, a full day or several days. It can take place at your offices or at the venue of an annual convention, with workrooms, power and internet. We run the hackathon for companies in Barcelona, Madrid, Valencia and across Spain.
Requirements and format
- A real business challenge, defined with the company before the event.
- Cross-disciplinary teams, mixing technical and business profiles.
- Choice of length: half a day, a full day or several days.
- A working room with tables, power and connectivity, plus a space for the final pitches to the jury.
- Facilitation included throughout.
Corporate Hackathon Team-Building
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Why choose the Corporate Hackathon?
- It drives innovation aimed at the company's real challenges.
- It breaks down silos between technical and non-technical departments.
- It builds the ability to work under pressure and to tight deadlines.
- It produces ideas and prototypes that outlast the event.
- It reinforces an internal culture of innovation.
What companies the Corporate Hackathon suits
The Corporate Hackathon fits many company event formats:
- Technology companies and innovation departments
- Annual conventions focused on strategy
- Intrapreneurship programmes
- Events bringing technical and business teams together
Organise a corporate innovation hackathon for your team
Ideas that work
If you are planning to organise a hackathon for companies, the hard part is not gathering talent but getting it to work together towards a clear goal. A well-facilitated corporate innovation hackathon turns a real challenge into proposals ready to pitch to the board by the end of the day.
At annual conventions, a hackathon for conventions gives practical substance to the strategy just presented on stage. For non-technical teams, the format becomes an innovation workshop for teams focused on business ideas. Tell us the challenge you would like to solve and we will design the dynamic, the teams and the jury.
- Strategy-focused conventions: a hackathon that turns the year's goals into concrete proposals.
- Innovation and tech departments: real product challenges tackled by mixed teams.
- Non-technical business teams: an innovation workshop on improvement ideas, with no coding needed.
- Intrapreneurship programmes: an intensive day to spot internal projects with real potential.
Facilitation includedTailored challengeAll of Spain
Corporate Hackathon price
Every event is different, so the price to hire the Corporate Hackathon is determined by the number of participants, how far the challenge is customised and the length. If you want concrete figures, ask for your personalised quote: it commits you to nothing.
Organisation and hire across Spain
The Corporate Hackathon can be organised anywhere in the country: around 80% of our events take place outside Barcelona, in cities such as Madrid, Valencia, Seville, Zaragoza and Vigo.
It runs at the client's own offices or the convention venue: working rooms, power and internet are all it takes.
Booking the Corporate Hackathon
Paying 50% upfront by invoice is what locks in the Corporate Hackathon for your event. By email, tell us:
- The day and time of the event.
- The full address and a contact person.
- How many people will take part.
- The tax details needed for the invoice.
Cancellations: if they occur for justified reasons, a refund can be considered, always within what was agreed.
Frequently asked questions
What is a corporate hackathon as a team-building activity?
It is an activity in which multidisciplinary teams of 4 to 6 people work intensively to develop a solution, prototype or idea based on a real challenge from the company. At the end, each team presents to an internal jury that assesses feasibility, creativity and teamwork.
How long does the corporate hackathon last and how many people can take part?
The length of the corporate hackathon is up to you: from half a day to several days. Between 10 and 150 people can take part, and our facilitators support the whole process. The result is prototypes and ideas that remain useful after the event itself.
What space and equipment do we have to provide for the corporate hackathon?
The corporate hackathon needs working rooms and a presentation area. The client provides tables, power, wifi and a projector. We bring the facilitation materials, templates and the jury format, and our team handles transport and set-up anywhere in Spain. Set-up takes one hour.
Can the corporate hackathon be adapted for non-technical teams?
Yes, the corporate hackathon can be adapted as an innovation workshop for non-technical teams, focused on business ideas with no need to code. The real business challenge is defined together with the company before the event. Physical effort: none.
