The talk discusses what goes behind the scenes of an internal hackathon from the motivation, processes & the outcomes from it. The talk was given at the Developer Relations Munich Meetup (https://www.meetup.com/Dev-Rel-Munich/events/262892022/)

1. Learnings from Organizing an Internal
Hackathon
Developer Relations Meetup
Munich
Nithish Raghunandanan
@nithishr

2. About Me
● Data Scientist / Engineer & Part-time Developer
Advocate @ KI labs
● Co-organizer of the PyData Munich
● Tons of Hackathon experience
● Find me @nithishr

3. Motivation
● Work on Topics outside Projects
● Collaborate with People from
other teams
● Learn / Try something new

4. Logistics
● 1.5 days to Hack
● Teams of 2 to 5
● No Theme
● Remote Teams from Lisbon
● Close to External Hackathons
● Demo to Judges (Internal & External)

5. Resources
● Cloud Compute Resources
(AWS, GCP, Azure)
● Hardware (Raspberry Pi,
Sensors, etc)
● Bring Your Own Device (BYOD)

6. Ideation
● Wiki to Share Ideas
● Pre Event Idea Pitching / Team Formation

7. Schedule
Day 1 - March 19th - Tuesday
08:30 Welcome & Introduction
09:00 Start Hacking
12:30 Lunch
19:00 Dinner
Hacking floor open all night
Day 2 - March 20th - Wednesday
Continue Hacking
13:00 - Hack Submission Deadline
13:00 - 14:00 Lunch
14:00 - 15:30 Demos
15:30 - 18:00 Internal Meeting
18:15 - 18:30 Hackathon Results
18:30 - 20:00 Dinner & Drinks

8. Judging
Criteria
● Technical Impressiveness
#wow_factor
● Polish #user_experience
● Novelty #surprise_us
● Demos #take_my_money
Jury
● C-Levels from KI Group
● Friends from Munich Tech
Ecosystem
● Audience

9. Figures
14 Teams
28 Hours
56 Participants
Munich + Lisbon

11. Beer Bot
● Slack bot to keep the office
hydrated
● Raspberry Pi + Camera
● Inventory & Alerts

12. BRAN
● Facial Recognition for Office
Door (Hodor)
● Raspberry Pi + Camera
● Deep learning & classical
machine learning
approaches

13. Room Auto Booking
● Book Meeting Rooms
● Raspberry Pi + Sensors
● Cloud Services (Zapier,
Lambda, etc)

17. Conclusion
● Great feedback
● Cool & Diverse Projects
● Requests from Clients
● Next edition in September!

19. Links
Projects: https://ki-hacks.devpost.com/
Impressions: https://havealook.me/ki-labs/ki-hacks
Nithish Raghunandanan
hi@nithishr.com
@nithishr