Enterprises hand us the whole event, not just the labs

01

Capgemini

AI Agents Hackathon, global

A global Agentic AI incubation program, and one guided lab held all 1,200 participants at once.

Use cases
Participants picked their own.
Teaming
Self-serve via a custom portal.
Manual effort
No manual intervention.
Environments
Provisioned from day one.
1,200+
participants
0
env failures
4.5/5
satisfaction
02Agentic AI Hackathon

IBM

Per-participant environments with automatic cleanup, spend tracked at group level throughout, continuous support for the full lifecycle. Third consecutive year.

225
teams
25
countries
30
days
03Olympiad InnovateX

EY

Microsoft-certified instructors and proctors on the floor at EY Wavespace, Bangalore, across Azure AI Studio, Fabric, Copilot, and Synapse.

10+
bespoke labs
3
days on-site

Everything an innovation hackathon needs

One engagement covers the whole programme. Your team owns the problem statement and the people.

End-to-end program management

Registrations, timelines, sessions, participant communications and overall event execution, coordinated from kickoff to wrap-up.

Fully managed cloud infrastructure

Pre-configured environments, cloud credits, AI services and sandbox resources provisioned for every participant team.

Instructors and proctors

MCTs, MVPs and dedicated hackathon coaches guiding participants throughout.

24x7 technical support

Access, provisioning and troubleshooting across the entire event lifecycle.

Evaluation and scoring

Judging workflows, scorecards, leaderboards and result compilation, run by our team.

Awards and recognition

Certification, winner announcements, prize coordination and the closing ceremony.

How teams move from an idea to a working solution

A guided experience from registration through to the award ceremony. Every phase is staffed and instrumented before participants reach it.

  1. 01

    Ideation & onboarding

    Structured planning, participant onboarding, and event readiness, so day one starts on time instead of starting with setup.

    • Team registration & formation
    • Challenge briefing & expert kickoff
    • Lab environment access
    • Problem statements & event guidelines
  2. 02

    Build & collaborate

    The infrastructure, mentorship, and support that lets teams spend their time on the solution and nothing else.

    • Dedicated sandbox environments
    • Expert mentorship & office hours
    • 24×7 technical support
    • Solution development & testing
  3. 03

    Submit, evaluate & recognize

    Evaluation, recognition, and wrap-up handled by our team, so the event ends with results rather than with loose ends.

    • Solution submission & showcase
    • Jury evaluation & scoring
    • Certificates & leaderboards
    • Awards & winner recognition

The reason none of this becomes your problem

Managed delivery is only credible if the platform holds. Every guarantee we make about scale, spend, and access is enforced structurally rather than by someone remembering to check.

Run a hackathon
Tenant isolation you do not have to police
Every event, team, submission, and score is scoped to the organization that owns it. Cross-tenant reads are blocked at the data layer, not by convention.
Cloud spend that cannot run away
Environments are issued per team with a hard cap. When a team burns through its budget the environment stops instead of quietly billing you.
A microsite per event
Registration, schedule, challenges, and results get their own themed public site. Participants never see the operator console.
Separate consoles for mentors, judges, and participants
Each role sees the surface it needs. Judges score without seeing other panels; mentors answer questions without touching scores.
Entra SSO and a full audit trail
Sign-in delegates to your identity provider, and every administrative action lands in an append-only audit log.

Questions we get on the first call

How does CloudLabs run enterprise hackathons at scale?

End to end. Branded registration pages, team formation, cloud environments, mentoring, judging, reporting, and post-event analytics are all delivered as one engagement, so you run an enterprise hackathon without owning the operational complexity underneath it.

Can you host virtual, hybrid, and in-person events?

Yes, all three. Browser-based labs and dedicated sandbox infrastructure cover the remote side, on-site instructors and proctors cover the room, and event management is centralized either way.

Can a hackathon be customized to our business goals?

Themes, problem statements, registration workflows, cloud environments, scoring criteria, judging processes, and the participant experience are all configurable to your innovation, product, or upskilling objectives. Bring your own challenge set or start from one of ours.

Do you provide mentors, judges, and technical support?

Microsoft Certified Trainers, Microsoft MVPs, technical specialists, and proctors can be staffed onto your event, with 24×7 participant support running for the full lifecycle.

How do we control cloud spend?

Every team environment is issued with a hard spend cap and stops rather than quietly billing you. Spend is tracked at group level throughout the event, environments are torn down automatically when it closes, and the final report includes a full cost breakdown.

How do we get started?

Send us your requirements and our team comes back with a recommended format, environment design, support model, and implementation plan tailored to your goals.

Ready to launch your next innovation hackathon?

Tell us what you are trying to achieve and who is taking part. We come back with the format, the environments, the support model, and the plan.

01Choose the formatChallenge-based for enablement, open innovation for solution building.
02Define the timelineA focused one-day competition through to a multi-week program.
03Review the scopeWe return a plan covering environments, coaching, judging, and support.
04We run itProvisioning through to awards. Your team shows up for the outcomes.