What did you learn during the Hackathon? When Quality Assurance (QA) teams test an app or service, determining what to test can feel like solving a puzzle. Developers and QA typically collaborate to ...

Hackathons are great for creativity and energy and community building, but they aren’t always known for ideas that get finished and create impact. But that’s not to say it doesn’t happen, particularly ...

Hackathons often fail on the measure that most of us consider primary: the prototypes. After all, the end of the day is a demo. But lots of hackathon-born experiments don’t turn out quite like their ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Anshel Sag is an industry analyst covering XR, 5G, mobile and PCs. Recently I had the pleasure of attending, judging and speaking ...

DUBAI, 7th August, 2026 (WAM) -- 7X, in collaboration with 42 Abu Dhabi Academy, announced the winners of the ‘Next Mile Hackathon’, held under the theme, ‘Shaping the Next Era of Agentic AI in Trade, ...

Hackathons are an exercise in turning abstract ideas into tangible products. This is the same for startups, too: While tons of people have great ideas, founders are distinguished by their ability to ...

As hackathon co-chair Jake Chen, Ph.D., associate director of the Informatics Institute, shared in his keynote talk, cancer has the attention of bioinformaticists and data scientists. “Research on ...

What started in 2014 as an experiment to engage employees has turned into a strategic tradition to help Microsoft establish itself at the leading edge of innovation. And this year, the hottest player ...

The pandemic has made it almost impossible for organisations to run in-person hackathon events, where groups of developers can work together on an idea, eat pizza and drink beer. Discussing how the ...