I’m a hacker and I love Hackathons.
Now hacking doesn’t mean about breaking in to something illegally.
What it really means is how do you with a group of people break through and find a creative
solution?
So Hackathons are a way in which you can, for instance in a corporation, ask for and
get ten volunteers from different roles who are committed to spending an intense amount
of time.
In some companies it might be a weekend with pizza and to try to in a real experimental
lab time come up with a unique solution.
Right now some of the leading medical device companies like Boston Scientific are using
Hackathons as ways of saying what’s an out of the box approach to solving a problem that
traditional research never got us to.
We believe that Hackathons are part of tapping the wisdom of the crowd and increasingly we’re
going to see Hackathons that aren’t about physically getting into a room together but
are, in fact, diverse and distributed around the world linked by technology.