We weren’t sure what to expect, to be honest. We knew Hack Partners were experienced in pulling off these kind of events and some of us had a bit of experience at a Hack Partners’ hackathon but this was an exploratory exercise for us. We knew that we wanted to innovate ourselves, we knew that…
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They think it’s all over
The presentations at the end of a long weekend by all the teams completely bowled me over. The level of sophistication in presentation, design and working prototypes was quite amazing, as was the energy and enthusiasm in delivery. What seems so unfair is that each team only gets four minutes to pitch and two minutes to…
Reflections on TELHack from John Pyle – a mentor for the weekend
John has had to leave TELHack but has posted this to us to post here. John Pyle – Director of OpenHealth Hub, Director of Nine Health, Director of Commade TELHack 2015 (London): A perspective from a veteran of NHS Hackdays I have been privileged to have been able to see the development of the TELHack…
Thoughts from a hackathon virgin
Ok, so it isn’t quite my first Hackathon (I was at AMEEHacks in Glasgow last September as an observer), but it’s the first one I’ve been involved with organising and certainly the first I’ve had any significant involvement with from a development and mentoring perspective! What is a Hacakthon? I’m Richard and I work with…