The Hackathon Podcast

In this episode, I spoke to Jared Broad, the founder of QuantConnect. QuantConnect open, decentralized algorithmic trading infrastructure. Jared shares his journey from being a biomedical engineer to founding a trading platform that provides its community of over 90,000 quants with access to financial data, cloud computing, and a coding environment where they can design algorithms. I hope you enjoy the show.

In this episode, I’ll be talking to Hackathon expert Peter Ma. Peter is an experience Hacker that has won some of the highest-profile competitions. Explored explore interesting ideas about Hacking Hackathons and turning a winning project into a startup. I hope you enjoy the show.

In this episode, I’ll be interview David Clark, the CEO of Amnesty International and the Founder of Call for Code. Call for Code is a Global Challenge for developers and non-developers worldwide to come together to solve global problems. David shared with us the story of how it all began. I hope you enjoy the show.

In this episode, I catch up with Jonathon Gottfried, the Co-founder of Major League Hacking and former developer evangelist at Twilio. Johnathon shares his wide-ranging insights with us about hackathons and the story of major league hacking. This episode was one for the books. I hope you enjoy the show!

In this episode, I spoke to Marie Potel-Saville. A legal designer combining Magic Circle and in-house experience that focuses on driving human-centric innovation in the legal industry. Marie has lead organizations such as Estee Lauder and Chanel in making the law accessible, actionable, and beautiful and continues her efforts as the founder and CEO of Amurabi. I hope you enjoy the show.

In this episode, we will be talking to Dima Syrotkin. A Ph.D. student researching self-managing organizations and cofounder of Panda training. Panda training is an award-winning micro-coaching startup that supports management teams in strategy execution and people development. Dima has some amazing insights on innovation, management, and Hackathons in general. Dima has shared a lot of his inner thoughts that can help you be a better co-creator at your next hackathon. I hope you enjoy the show.

In this episode, I spoke to Alexander Nolte, Associate Professor @ University of Tartu, Adjunct Associate Professor @ Carnegie Mellon University. We discussed his thoughts on Hackathons from published research paper’s You Hacked and Now What - Exploring Outcomes of a Corporate Hackathon and How to Support Newcomers in Scientific Hackathons - An Action Research Study on Expert Mentoring

In this episode, I connected with Dr. Hila Lifshitz-Assaf Assistant Professor at NYU, Faculty Associate at the Berkman Center for Internet and Society, at Harvard University and Sarah Lebovitz, Assistant Professor at the University of Virginia. We discussed their research on both minimal and adaptative coordination: how hackathons Projects Accelerate Innovation without Killing it. I hope you enjoy the show.

In this episode I connected with Ben Foxall, the organizer of Remote Hack and a Frontend Developer at Oxbotica. In this episode we spoke about accessibility, transparency and how to develop amazing products. I hope you enjoy the show.