FIND THE RIGHT HACKATHON MODEL

Collaboration Catalyst Hackathon

Focused on fostering team cohesion and collaborative learning. Provides a powerful shared experience and creates tangible outputs for a small team. Ideal as an intense  team-building exercise, a collaborative exploration session, or a foundational workshop to kick off a larger project.   ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​

• Budget Range: €7,500 – €10,000
• Timeline: 1-2 months
• Participants: 20-35

1.  Initial consultation to define objectives and scope.
2.  Guidance on preparing and executing the hackathon.
3.  Single Hack Belgium Labs Facilitator to lead the hackathon during the event.
4.  Take full advantage of our tools, frameworks, and templates.
5.  One preparatory workshop
6.  You recruit your colleagues to take part in the event, manage logistics, and supply materials (with our support of course)

Innovation Booster Hackathon     

Excellent for sparking fresh ideas for internal incubation, boosting your team’s innovation culture and spirit, or tackling specific business challenges with internal stakeholders and (potentially) with close ecosystem partners. Empowers potential change agents among your colleagues and strengthens collaborative, entrepreneurial, and problem-solving skills within your organisation.

• Budget Range: €12,500-25,000
• Timeline: 2-4 months
• Participants: 20-70

•  We guide you in preparation of the hackathon; you and your colleagues carry out communications, participant recruitment, and the logistics.
•  Key pre-event workshops (e.g., challenge definition).
•  Hack Belgium Labs support for recruiting external experts.
•  One or more preparatory workshops, e.g. for challenge definition or ideation

Ecosystem Builder Hackathon

Ideal when aiming for specific business or innovation outcomes with a public-facing event. Excellent for engaging key partners and select members of your ecosystem. Perfect for building consensus or enhancing relationships at a large scale, leveraging your ecosystem for recruitment, or for finding and integrating critical external expertise and diverse perspectives.

• Budget Range: €30,000 – €85,000
• Timeline: 3-5 months
• Participants: 70-100

• Comprehensive strategic planning, project management during preparation phase, and execution of the event.
• Multiple workshops with different audiences or stakeholders to discover and define hackathon challenges, to ideate prior to the event, etc.
• Recruitment of key experts and select external participants to complement the participants you’ll recruit for the event. 
• Full program design tailored to meet your concrete objectives.
•  Complete event production, facilitation, and on-site management.
•  Detailed planning, project management support, and structured, regular follow-up throughout event preparation.

Moonshot Maker Hackathon

Designed for ambitious goals like mapping and mobilizing entire ecosystems, driving large-scale internal culture transformation, or launching entirely new ventures and collaborative projects. A Moonshot Maker hackathon positions you as an innovation leader within your ecosystem, and delivers potentially transformative outcomes by helping you reach far outside the boundaries of your current ecosystem.

• Budget Range: €95,000 – €150,000
• Timeline: 5-6 months
• Participants: 100+

•  Full end-to-end strategic planning and execution.
•  In-depth discovery and complex challenge definition workshops.
•  Recruitment of participants, experts, and stakeholders from within and beyond your ecosystem.
•  Extensive ecosystem mapping and engagement strategy.
•  Detailed, custom program design and content creation.
•  Complete event production, logistics management; support by multiple facilitators during the event, as well as logistical support on site.
•  Dedicated follow-through strategy development and support planning.