Offering a
catalyst for harnessing the untapped power of AI, Devpost launched Devpost for Teams, a platform that allows companies to set up, manage and
streamline private employee and customer hackathons.
Devpost for
Teams was created as a solution to manage internal hackathons, building on the
trust that Devpost has earned from such leading companies as Amazon Web
Services (AWS), Google, Meta and Microsoft.
Enterprise
companies have long held grassroots competitions to encourage creativity and
teamwork. These hackathons are designed to solve
specific problems, foster innovative solutions, or develop new products. They
can also help create cross-departmental synergy among engineers, project
managers, product designers and others, boosting employee morale and retention.
And with AI transforming everything, companies
across myriad corporate sectors - from
technology to finance, manufacturing to consumer goods - are shifting
toward hackathons to
leverage AI for innovation and growth.
Devpost
for Teams is the only internal hackathon solution that lets companies easily
set up, manage and streamline employee and customer hackathons. As a
comprehensive platform protected by SOC 2-compliant, enterprise-grade security,
Devpost for Teams:
- Saves time - Streamlining event management
for organizers, the all-in-one platform centralizes planning,
registrations, team building, projects, judging and reporting, replacing
the need to use multiple tools, spreadsheets or wikis.
- Increases
participation - A modern, intuitive interface simplifies the process of
joining hackathons, finding team members and collaborating, with the
further incentive of making it easier to effectively leverage AI for their
projects.
- Shows results and ROI - Event organizers
can see what was accomplished, choose a template to publish reports, and
better showcase finished projects, instead of browsing through various
file-sharing links.
Devpost for Teams arrives at a time when AI continues to
revolutionize corporate strategy,
making way for more opportunities for employees to
drive innovation. Devpost for Teams streamlines and accelerates the process of
assembling developers, non-developers and subject matter experts to experiment
with AI, particularly GenAI, in a time-restricted setting. Hackathons thus
become supercharged events that better help employees to learn and reap
outcomes in a shorter period of time. With this new platform, company projects can be utilized to help a business save
money and time, increase profits, delight customers, and strategically keep a
focus on the future.
During its beta phase, Devpost for Teams earned positive reviews
from numerous customers.
"Having
an inclusive hack culture is top of mind for us," said Neta Retter, Director of
Innovation Programs at Okta. "You can tell that the people who built this
platform were organizers. We could share feedback in real-time any time we
needed something to be unblocked and we had fast, easy support. It felt like we
were integrated into the team and like we were part of the broader development
of this platform.
"By
having the hackathon planning templates in place to tell participants what to
expect, having the dates, all the information in one place, and an easy way to
link From an organizer perspective, I think it is probably 25% of the work."
"In
Devpost's nearly 15 years helping shape the modern-day hackathon, I've never
seen anything like the transformation brought about by AI," said Brandon
Kessler, CEO of Devpost. "Companies are using Devpost for Teams because
it's not enough to have a high-level AI strategy, but they must bring employees
together to experiment and unlock value. Hackathons are now a must-have because
they are time-bound, collaborative, results-oriented, and exciting to
employees."