INNOVATION CHALLENGES & HACKATHONS

Where ideas race
the clock.

THE CHALLENGE LIFECYCLE

From open call to demo day,
without the duct tape

Most hackathons run on six disconnected tools. Attend runs the whole sequence in one place, every stage feeding the next, backed by the same event registration and ticketing engine used for enterprise meetings.

Open the call

ORGANISER

Publish your challenge with tracks, prizes, rules and a timeline, and watch branded registration go live in minutes.

Form teams

PARTICIPANTS

Builders browse profiles by skill, pitch their ideas and team up, or get matched automatically. With virtual networking tools built right in, the right teammate is never a matter of luck.

Build with support

MENTORS + TEAMS

Mentor office hours, workshops, announcements and resource drops keep momentum going through the sprint, all powered by our virtual workshop software.

Submit before the buzzer

TEAMS

Repos, decks, demo videos and write-ups all land in one submission hub, timestamped, versioned and locked the second the deadline hits.

Judge on the record

JUDGES

Judges score against your rubric, independently and transparently. Conflicts get flagged, scores get normalised, and every decision stays auditable.

Crown the winners

EVERYONE

Demo day goes live: streamed pitches, audience-choice voting and a leaderboard finale, followed by prize disbursement tracking so nothing falls through the cracks.

Hackathon team collaborating around table

BUILT FOR BOTH SIDES

Runs the room.
Empowers the builder.

Organisers get full control. Participants get total clarity. No one is left guessing.

One dashboard for registrations, teams, submissions and scores

Sponsor tiers with branded tracks and bounties

Comms hub, announcements, reminders, schedule changes

Post-event analytics: participation, quality, conversion to pipeline

THE PLATFORM

Built for the pressure of the sprint

The same verified access, live engagement and instant, auditable results that power Attend tuned for builders on a secure, purpose-built virtual hackathon platform.

Registration & team formation

Skill-tagged profiles, team invitations and auto-matching bring the right builders together fast, while caps, waitlists and eligibility rules are enforced automatically through our event registration and ticketing tools.

Submission hub

Repos, videos, decks and documents all collected against each track, versioned, timestamped and locked the moment the deadline hits.

Judging & leaderboards

Custom rubrics, independent scoring and normalisation feed live leaderboards, backed by the same ballot integrity we bring to AGM voting.

Streamed demo days

Broadcast-quality pitches come to life with moderated Q&A and audience-choice voting, streamed adaptively so no one misses a moment, whatever their bandwidth.

Mentorship & comms

Office-hour booking, announcements, schedule and rule updates all flow through one channel of truth, so no participant is ever left guessing.

Pipeline analytics

Track participation and submission quality, and see which teams convert into ventures, hires or products, challenge over challenge.

USE CASES

One engine, many kinds
of challenge

Corporate hackathonsOpen innovation callsCampus challengesBounty programmesAccelerator demo daysDatathons & AI challengesCase competitionsDesign sprints+ full-scale innovation summits