What this book covers
Chapter 1, Redefining the Hackathon Tool, gives you an introduction to what a hackathon is, explores different types of hackathons, and shows you how the hackathon tool can be used to create citizen-driven innovation.
Chapter 2, Making Citizen-Driven Innovation Work for You, explores the concept of citizen-driven innovation and how you can employ it to drive innovation in your organization, turning your challenges into assets and creating the valuable solutions you need to grow your company.
Chapter 3, The Dream! Hack! Build! Method, walks you through an overview of the three pivotal parts of Dream! Hack! and Build! and teaches you how, together, they can create innovative solutions for impact, and how they are intrinsically dependent on each other in a systematic way.
Chapter 4, Creating the Perfect Challenge for Your Hackathon, introduces our systematic way to create the perfect challenges for your hackathon while engaging your audience at the same time. This chapter will enable you to learn the important steps in the Dream! Phase.
Chapter 5, How to Organize an Impactful Hackathon, teaches you the essential parts of organizing a hackathon that serves your purpose, introducing all the important factors, from which platforms to use to how to set up jury criteria and jury work.
Chapter 6, Communication and Managing Hacker Teams and Mentors, focuses on giving you a roadmap to navigating primarily the internal communication channels during the hackathon, and how to create and manage hacker teams throughout the process.
Chapter 7, Partnerships for Success, explores the important factors for signing, creating, and maintaining solid partnerships with relevant stakeholders. This chapter will also guide you on how to sustain a vibrant partner community to deliver value throughout your hackathon journey.
Chapter 8, External Communication and Social Media Presence for Hackathon Success, teaches you how to manage external communication to drive your hackathon, throughout the Dream! Hack! Build! Process, building traction on social media and using your hackathon community to build your brand and more.
Chapter 9, Taking Citizen-Driven Innovation to the Next Level, introduces the idea behind the Build phase, and explains why it is imperative to organize an acceleration program to take care of your winning solutions.
Chapter 10, Converting Hackathon Results into Real Tools, is where the creator of the Build for Earth acceleration program will walk you through the science behind the Build for Earth acceleration program, what results to expect, and you will learn what steps to take in order to create your own acceleration program.
Chapter 11, Build for Earth Learnings – How to Make a Startup a Success Fast, is the final chapter where we share our learnings of hackathon winners we have supported and that are on the market today, and you will learn what important factors to look out for when making a hackathon winner a reality.
There is a Glossary and the Appendices at the end of this book.
