Tag: Hackathon

  • 10 Days to Make a Change — What I Learned from the Cross-European Virtual Hackathon

    10 Days to Make a Change — What I Learned from the Cross-European Virtual Hackathon

    Using design and online collaboration to address challenges as a result of global COVID-19 outbreak As in spring 2020 we were experiencing nearly a global lockdown, I was searching for opportunities to collaborate with others virtually and contribute to the vast societal challenges that were taken place. After worrying news related to pandemic, I felt…

  • Hackathons as Design Experiences

    Hackathons as Design Experiences

      I participated recently in two hackathons, Emotion Hack Day hosted by YLE and researcher Katri Saarikivi, and Climathon by Climate-KIC, hosted by Urban Academy. Hackathons are events that generate solutions to a challenge, and usually the solutions are technical in nature, like applications or programs. It seems though that the idea of hackathons has…

  • Dash 2018 Takeaways – How to Approach a Hackathon?

    Dash 2018 Takeaways – How to Approach a Hackathon?

    by Miikka Paakkinen   Last weekend I participated in the Dash 2018 design hackathon. During the event our team was challenged to design a new service business concept in less than 48 hours. The experience was wonderful, so I thought I’d share some key points on how to approach this type of a challenge. Point…

  • Design for Life

    12 hours of innovative groupwork, inspirational talks, delicious brainfood and of course: competition. What more could a future service designer ask for on an average tuesday? USCO (Using Digital Co-Creation for Business Development) is a project managed by Laurea University of Applied Sciences and the University of Tampere. The project involves eight organizations that represent…

  • MyData 2017 – Health Profile Hackathon

    MyData 2017 – Health Profile Hackathon

    Juha-Pekka Ahvenainen, Markus Alavaikko, Markus Torkkeli The National Institute of Health and Welfare (THL) is a state agency that promotes the wellbeing and health of the population, prevents diseases and social problems, and develops social and health services. It also is the statutory statistical authority in health and welfare in Finland maintaining a knowledge base…

  • Hackathon Kickstart / Day 1

    On 21st of January Futurice and Kiinteistömaailma organized Service Design Hackathon in Helsinki. I get to participate first time in my life for such a happening. It is all very exciting, as I never heard of “Hackathon” before! Young creative and business minded people have arrived to Annakatu 32, to building called “Kamppi´s top end”.…

  • OpenFin Challenge – How did we succeed within 22 hours?

    This is a descriptive story and self-reflective analysis of how four service design fellows & a tech consultant succeeded to come up with a strategic service ecosystem concept with viable business model just within 22 hours – and to convince a heterogeneous, multidimensional and highly professional jury. The challenge Open Innovation in Finance Business (OpenFin) is Aalto University…

  • Making mutual funds a mutual fun

    They say the best way to become a great service designer is to participate in as many service design contests and hands on happenings as possible. It was what I thought when Minna Myyryläinen, one of my SID Laurea fellow students, brought the idea to join the openfin Hack and Ideathon competition in Espoo. Finally…