Brandon Kessler, CEO of Devpost (moderator)
Posted: Mon Feb 10, 2025 4:26 am
Devpost hosted a panel discussion at the 2023 Developer Marketing Summit on how AI is affecting hackathons. From discussing the value of hosting hackathons in today’s rapidly transforming landscape, to hackathon best practices and using responsible AI, read below for a summary of the event. (Watch the full-length recording of their conversation here.)
Meet the speakers:
Karen White, Senior Product Marketing Manager, Developer Platform at Atlassian
Chukwuemeka Afigbo, Senior Director of Developer Success at Okta
Jayson DeLancey, Senior Manager of Developer Relations at Dolby.io
Background: What value do kenya telegram screening you get from hackathons? (2:09)
To kick off the conversation, the panelists shared how hackathons provide strategic value to their organizations. Some of the outcomes they highlighted included the projects submitted during hackathons, as well as the ripple effect they have in terms of reach and impact. It was also mentioned that hackathons provide internal customers, like product and engineering teams, with feedback from developers they otherwise wouldn’t get. Speeding up product testing is another key reason organizers host hackathons.
Karen: “When we are going to our executive stakeholders, we can say at the end of the event, ‘We predict that this hackathon is going to create this many new developers on our platform, this many new apps.’ So the metrics are very, very closely tied to our company's top-level goals.”
Chukwuemeka: “Hackathons are a great way to bring a lot of the developer relations and activities together in a steel thread, which cuts through so many facets from awareness, activation, and to adoption.
Meet the speakers:
Karen White, Senior Product Marketing Manager, Developer Platform at Atlassian
Chukwuemeka Afigbo, Senior Director of Developer Success at Okta
Jayson DeLancey, Senior Manager of Developer Relations at Dolby.io
Background: What value do kenya telegram screening you get from hackathons? (2:09)
To kick off the conversation, the panelists shared how hackathons provide strategic value to their organizations. Some of the outcomes they highlighted included the projects submitted during hackathons, as well as the ripple effect they have in terms of reach and impact. It was also mentioned that hackathons provide internal customers, like product and engineering teams, with feedback from developers they otherwise wouldn’t get. Speeding up product testing is another key reason organizers host hackathons.
Karen: “When we are going to our executive stakeholders, we can say at the end of the event, ‘We predict that this hackathon is going to create this many new developers on our platform, this many new apps.’ So the metrics are very, very closely tied to our company's top-level goals.”
Chukwuemeka: “Hackathons are a great way to bring a lot of the developer relations and activities together in a steel thread, which cuts through so many facets from awareness, activation, and to adoption.