I love hackathons because they are very creative, fast, confusing and overwhelming. It is a messy collaborative space for co-creation—where ideas spark and like-minded people come together in rapid experimentation-mode and produce in 48 hours or less highly innovative solutions.
We just completed with the absolutely amazing support of more than 500 volunteers the EUvsVirus hackathon which brought together more than 20,000 participants and produced more than 2,000 projects.
The German WirvsVirus hackathon was truly impressive by attracting more than 42,000 participants, generating more than 1,900 projects and putting in place a support program for the most innovative 150 hackathon solutions.
In the GlobalHack, more than 12,000 participants from 100 countries demonstrated awesome