Taking an Idea from Zero to One

The AWS Global Gen AI Hackathon 2024 brought together 1,664 participants from 41 countries to tackle real-world industry challenges, ranging from energy management to vehicle automation. This event not only fostered innovation through Gen AI but also empowered nearly 2,000 employees with new skills, earning AWS cloud training badges. By combining diverse expertise and healthy competition, participants developed 62 proof-of-concept solutions with the potential to transform industries. Learn how hackathons are becoming powerful tools for driving corporate strategy, upskilling employees, and delivering lasting business impact.

We’re big proponents of hackathon-led growth – leveraging these dynamic, rapid innovation events as a key facilitator in capability building, employee engagement, and upskilling at scale. In response to the launch of Google's Gemini, Capgemini seized this opportunity to leverage hackathon-led growth, and commissioned us, Onova, to host a two-week hackathon with two main objectives: (1) Upskilling hundreds of their developers on Gemini capabilities, and (2) developing client-ready enterprise applications on top of Gemini.

“Everyone can play a role in innovation. Innovation isn’t invention. It’s not coming up with a brand new widget necessarily, it’s about how to do things better, quicker, more efficiently — in a different way than it’s been done before.” — Rick