Hack the Hackathon
An unconference series and interdisciplinary community
exploring scientific collaboration, learning, and
civic engagement through hackathons.

Hackathons have experienced a steep rise in popularity over the past decade.
Practitioners and researchers have developed a vast treasure trove of (practical) knowledge organizing and studying hackathon events, but our understanding of motivations and best practices is largely limited to single domains.
We are building a growing and interdisciplinary community of practitioners and researchers of hackathons, hackweeks, data dives, codefests, edit-a-thons and other time-bounded events in order to foster an exchange of knowledge and best practices. You can find more information about our upcoming workshop below.
Geneva, Nov 6-10, 2023
Hack the Hackathon 3 will be held as a hybrid meeting both at the at the SDG Solution Space in Geneva, Switzerland, and online. For this third iteration, we aim to build on conversations started at the first two workshops, as well as develop new ideas and initiatives, and continue to grow and expand the community of hackathon practitioners and researchers.
This year, we join forces with IdeaSquare at CERN and the UN Library with an emphasis on promoting civic engagement.
More information about the program will be available here soon. Stay tuned!
Find out more about our past workshops.
The first workshop was held online and hosted by the Lorentz Center, Leiden, The Netherlands from December 6 to 10, 2021. For more information, please click on the link below.
The second workshop was conducted as a hybrid event at the Flatiron Institute in New York, NY, USA and online from October 3 to 7, 2022. For more information, please click on the link below.
Get to know the people behind Hack the Hackathon.
CEO
BioData Sage
Bethesda, MD, USA
Data Stewardship Coordinator
NCAR - The National Center for Atmospheric Research
Boston, NY, USA
CEO and Member of the Board
Garage48
Tallinn, Estonia
Staff Scientist and NWO WISE Fellow
SRON Netherlands Institute for Space Research
Leiden, The Netherlands
Innovation and Hackathon Lead
World Economic Forum
Geneva, Switzerland
President
opengeneva
Geneva, Switzerland
Associate Professor of Information Systems
University of Tartu
Tartu, Estonia
Senior Systems Administrator and Technical Research Design Analyst
Texas Advanced Computing Center
Austin, TX, USA
Director
Data Umbrella
New York, NY, USA
Associate Astronomer
Space Telescope Science Institute
Baltimore, MD, USA