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Gearing up for the future of work, Barco is constantly on the lookout for advanced ideas, perspectives and products. Innovation and creativity thrive when people are connected and different ideas clash to create exciting, new ones. Earlier this year, we organized our first Virtual Business Impact Hackathon. In this 48-hour long event, different teams from all around the globe collaborated in search of innovative projects.
Guy Van Wijmeersch
Director Innovation & Design Thinking
This Business Impact Hackathon is the ideal setting to unite employees who otherwise wouldn’t necessarily work together. It’s the place to have conversations about the future of our solutions and company. The teams with the best pitches—besides gaining a great innovation experience—also win great prizes and some will be validated in future and tests with customers.
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Taking the traditional hackathon further than just an event for coding where engineers and developers unite, we decided to involve colleagues from all divisions, like Sales, Finance, Marketing... Over a hundred teams submitted their plans, 25 strong ideas were pitched, and 3 winners were awarded as “Bold Move”, “Colleague’s Favorite” and “Final winner”.
Dirk Maes
“Colleague’s Favorite”
Participating in this Hackathon, I realized I needed to remove my engineering hat. Rather than explaining the technology, I emphasized on the benefits this idea could bring to the customer and how it could put projection back in a very competitive position. With the help from the entire team, we were able to build a realistic business case.
Lalit Gupta
“Final Hackathon winner”
Two things gave us a lot of energy during the Hackathon. The first was having the ability to try and solve a big problem. The second thing that kept us going, was knowing that our project could have a positive impact on so many people’s lives.
Barco’s mission to enable bright outcomes has always been driven by a thirst for innovation, a key element of our company DNA. We use technology to make an impact on people’s lives, whether it’s in the healthcare, entertainment or enterprise industry. Innovation pushes the world forward and allows us as a company to keep creating compelling experiences.
Gearing up for the future of work, Barco is constantly on the lookout for advanced ideas, perspectives and products. Innovation and creativity thrive when people are connected and different ideas clash to create exciting, new ones. Earlier this year, we organized our first Virtual Business Impact Hackathon. In this 48-hour long event, different teams from all around the globe collaborated in search of innovative projects.
This Business Impact Hackathon is the ideal setting to unite employees who otherwise wouldn’t necessarily work together. It’s the place to have conversations about the future of our solutions and company. The teams with the best pitches—besides gaining a great innovation experience—also win great prizes and some will be validated in future and tests with customers.
Guy Van Wijmeersch
Director Innovation & Design Thinking
100+
Taking the traditional hackathon further than just an event for coding where engineers and developers unite, we decided to involve colleagues from all divisions, like Sales, Finance, Marketing... Over a hundred teams submitted their plans, 25 strong ideas were pitched, and 3 winners were awarded as “Bold Move”, “Colleague’s Favorite” and “Final winner”.
Participating in this Hackathon, I realized I needed to remove my engineering hat. Rather than explaining the technology, I emphasized on the benefits this idea could bring to the customer and how it could put projection back in a very competitive position. With the help from the entire team, we were able to build a realistic business case.
Dirk Maes
“Colleague’s Favorite”
Lalit Gupta
“Final Hackathon winner”
Two things gave us a lot of energy during the Hackathon. The first was having the ability to try and solve a big problem. The second thing that kept us going, was knowing that our project could have a positive impact on so many people’s lives.
Barco’s mission to enable bright outcomes has always been driven by a thirst for innovation, a key element of our company DNA. We use technology to make an impact on people’s lives, whether it’s in the healthcare, entertainment or enterprise industry. Innovation pushes the world forward and allows us as a company to keep creating compelling experiences.