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Why do you run hackathons?

Posted: Mon Feb 10, 2025 4:01 am
by Mitu100@
Malena: “Microsoft's mission is to empower everyone to achieve more. Hackathons help us get our communities to get to that point. How do we learn skills? How do we change the world with our applications? How do we apply all of the different resources and tools with other people to help bring those solutions to life?”

Nina: “While I was working on hackathons, I was in a role to engage with developers and developer communities, and get them excited and exposed to the Microsoft technology. So ivory coast telegram screening the two reasons were as a way to get the community to use some of Microsoft’s cloud-based AI and newest tech.

Second, part of my personal passion is how we can use technology to address some ways to approach the social good. So, we had a series around AI for accessibility, AI for responsible AI, and for social justice.”

Ricky: “Hackathons are a really great way to spotlight and showcase what the community is building with Azure. A lot of the times we get to showcase the work that you guys have done—internally and externally as well. And it makes us super happy to see all the creative and endless possibilities that you can build on Azure.”

Francesca: “I think that hackathons are just the most amazing way to generate new ideas, to have fun, and to really test out some of the products that we tend to work on on a daily basis, but we don't really think about how they apply in the real world.”