End to end
Full-service delivery
We define, design, produce, facilitate, and evaluate the complete program alongside your team.
See our capabilitiesPartners in innovation
Turn big questions into forward motion.
We design and deliver high-participation innovation programs that help organizations engage people, build capability, and create solutions that matter.
120,000innovators engaged
Trusted by ambitious organizations
What we do
Innovation is a team sport. We make it playable.
From a two-day hackathon to a multi-month global challenge, Hackworks creates the conditions for people to do their most ambitious thinking—and turn it into action.
Programs
Designed around the outcome.
Build what’s next
Hackathons
High-energy programs that move teams from an urgent question to tested concepts and working prototypes—fast.
Go deeper
Innovation challenges
Structured, scalable programs that gather diverse perspectives and develop ideas into practical, actionable solutions.
Make AI tangible
Promptathons
Hands-on GenAI experiences that build confidence, sharpen prompting skills, and apply new tools to real business problems.
Turn ideas into cases
Corporate Shark Tank
Internal pitch competitions that help employees develop compelling business cases and bring leadership into the innovation process.
Learn by doing
Rapid Innovation Game
A facilitated team experience that makes innovation practical, social, and memorable—without asking people to sit through another innovation lecture.
How we can partner
Expert support at the level you need.
Bring us in for the whole journey, a critical stage, or the technology that holds everything together.
Targeted expertise
Advisory and facilitation
Our experts strengthen your strategy, challenge design, curriculum, facilitation, or evaluation process.
Build the right engagementTechnology + support
Platform-powered programs
Use our configurable technology with the implementation and program support that fits your internal capacity.
Explore the platformExperience at scale
350+programs activated
2,000+innovations inspired
120Kinnovators engaged
2015year founded
Proof in practice
Different challenges. Purpose-built programs.
How we work
Strategy before spectacle.
Every Hackworks program starts with the business objective—not the event format.
Define
Clarify the objective, audience, and measure of success.
Design
Shape the right format, journey, content, and stakeholder roles.
Deliver
Run the program with expert facilitation and precise execution.
Amplify
Capture the learning, celebrate the work, and move ideas forward.
The Hackworks platform
One place for the whole participant journey.
Registration, teams, communications, submissions, judging, and analytics—built from a decade of running real-world innovation programs.
Perspectives
What we’ve learned.
How Hackathons Ignite a Culture of Innovation—And Why Every Organization Should Care
Discover how hackathons drive actionable innovation by connecting creative problem-solving to real business challenges. With viable concepts and prototypes ready for development, hackathons help organization…
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Innovating through Adversity: Turning Pressure into Progress
Recent research suggests that pressure, when managed effectively, can actually stimulate creativity and problem-solving. This ‘pressure-positive culture’ empowers teams to thrive under challenging circumstan…
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Capitalizing on the Rise of the Builders
Hackathons ignite creativity! Learn how they empower employees & drive innovation in the “Rise of the Builders” era. #GartnerTrends
Read insightHave a challenge in mind?
Let’s make something move.
Tell us what your organization is trying to solve, change, or learn. We’ll help shape the right program.
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