How to frame hackathon challenges right? This is the third article of a series presenting our learnings from 10 years of InnoDays. Lesson #3: "Frame challenges right" Success in innovation often hinges on accurately identifying and framing challenges. How we define the problem sets the stage for the...
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What Makes a Great Challenge Brief for Hackathons? This is the fourth article of a series presenting our learnings from 10 years of InnoDays. Lesson #4: "Craft a compelling challenge brief" In the dynamic world of hackathons, the challenge brief is the cornerstone that shapes the journey from...
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How to Find Committed Champions for Hackathon Success? This is the fifth article of a series presenting our learnings from 10 years of InnoDays. Lesson #5: "Find Committed Champions to Play Dual Role" Over a decade of organizing InnoDays, we’ve learned that the success of hackathons often hinges...
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How to Engage Employees in Hackathons? This is the sixth article of a series presenting our learnings from 10 years of InnoDays. Lesson #6: Engage Employees Across the Organization Employee engagement is crucial to hackathons' success. Without the active involvement and enthusiasm of your team, even the most...
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Whom to Involve in a Hackathon? This is the seventh article of a series presenting our learnings from 10 years of InnoDays. Lesson #7: Involve Motivated and Diverse Participants Over the past decade, InnoDays has brought together innovators, entrepreneurs, and changemakers to tackle real-world challenges. One of the...
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What Does an Effective Hackathon Process Look Like? This is the eighth article of a series presenting our learnings from 10 years of InnoDays. Lesson #8: Structure iterative process to validate idea Innovation is rarely a linear journey. Great ideas don’t emerge fully formed; they need to be...
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How Can the Right Space Unlock Innovation during Hackathons? This is the ninth article of a series presenting our learnings from 10 years of InnoDays. Lesson #9: Provide an Exploration Space Innovation doesn’t happen in isolation. It thrives in environments that foster creativity, collaboration, and unexpected encounters. Over...
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How to Keep Momentum After a Hackathon Ends? This is the tenth article of a series presenting our learnings from 10 years of InnoDays. Lesson #10: Ensure a Path for Continuation Hackathons are excellent at sparking innovative ideas—but what happens after the event ends? After running InnoDays for a...
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How to select impactful challenges for hackathons? This is the second article of a series presenting our learnings from 10 years of InnoDays. Lesson #2: "Select an impactful challenge" At InnoDays, we believe in the power of framing challenges with precision and clarity, sparking creativity and driving participants...
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When and why should you run a corporate hackathon? This is the first article of a series presenting our learnings from 10 years of InnoDays. Lesson #1: "Clarify purpose." In today's rapidly evolving business landscape, corporate hackathons have become a cornerstone for driving innovation, fostering a dynamic culture,...
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4 Challenges, 170+ talents, 48 hours: At the "InnoDays #SeamlessExperience 2025", the focus was on bold ideas to shape the future of the tourism. Vienna, May 14th-May 16th, 2025. “From idea to prototype in 48 hours” – Under this motto, more than 170 creative minds from various...
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2 Challenges, 50+ talents, 48 hours time: At the "InnoDays #SocialInnovation 2024", the focus was on new ideas to shape the future of the social sector. Full recap coming soon! InnoDays Factbox - October 16th-October 18th, 2024 - InnoDays brings together innovative minds to develop new solutions to key...
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4 Challenges, 130+ talents, 48 hours time: At the "InnoDays #AI Powered Tourism 2024", the focus was on new ideas to shape the future of tourism. Vienna, June 5th-June 7th, 2024. "From idea to prototype in 48 hours" - Under this motto, more than 130 creative...
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3 Challenges, 17 teams, 48 hours; the "InnoDays Fall 2023" brought companies and young talents together to develop innovative solutions with a positive impact. Dornbirn, October 18th-20th, 2023. "From idea to prototype in 48 hours" - Under this motto, more than 70 creative minds from different...
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1 Challenge, 35 talents, 24 hours time: At the "InnoDays #AI 2023", the focus was on using AI to capture the stock level of people’s household goods and predict when they need replenishment. Berlin, June 8th-June 9th, 2023. "From idea to prototype in 48 hours" -...
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5 Challenges, 140+ talents, 48 hours time: At the "InnoDays Spring 2023", the focus was on new ideas to foster sustainable tourism using data. Vienna, May 31st-June 2nd, 2023. "From idea to prototype in 48 hours" - Under this motto, more than 140 creative minds from...
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1 Challenge, 217 talents, 48 hours time: At the "InnoDays Spring", the focus was on new ideas for the Smart Circular Kitchen Vienna, June 1, 2020. "From idea to prototype in 48 hours" - Under this motto, more than 200 creative minds from different universities worked...
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4 challenges, 95 participants, 55+ mentors, and 22 prototypes! The hybrid InnoDays Fall was a success. On-site and remote participants worked for 48 hours to prototype solutions to four exciting innovation challenges. Liebherr asked: "How might we rethink the Human-Machine Interface to make operating cranes...
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4 challenges, 270 participants, 40+ mentors, and 49 prototypes! The InnoDays Alpine Tech has been our largest event ever. Participants from Austria, Germany, and Switzerland worked for 48 hours to prototype solutions to four exciting innovation challenges. Two of the challenges focused on circularity. Pyua...
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From May 13-15 we ran the second Virtual InnoDays of 2020. The topic of the event was Circular Economy, a topic that we have already explored in previous events in Vienna and Berlin. Participants from WU Vienna, TU Berlin, Career Foundry, and the East West...
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