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High impact hackathons and challenges crafted to accelerate growth

DOn't just engage. activate YOUR AUDIENCE.

Hackathons supercharge audience engagement

Strategic, interactive campaigns designed around your product and business goals

Thought leadership
Product awareness
Brand awareness

Content marketing
Build trust and credibility
Relationship building

Challenge Lab

A quick, fast-paced mini hackathon designed for speed, focus and impact. Teams quickly align on a challenge, ideate solutions and present for outcomes all within a few hours. Perfect alternative to customer webinars, workshops or internal events where you need collaboration and creativity but without a big time commitment. Learn more

Duration: 2-4 hours

Suru Labs hackathons for all functions
Suru Labs hackathons for all functions
Virtual
Virtual
IRL
IRL
Hybrid
Hybrid
Platform
Platform

Hackathon

A high-energy, immersive experience where participants come together in real time for a full day or over multiple days to ideate, build, and pitch solutions. Ideal for more complex challenges, global audiences, or internal teams that need flexibility. Incorporates everything from peer-learning and lightning talks to hands-on creation, strategy and execution. Learn more

Duration: Multiple days/weeks

Virtual
Virtual
IRL
IRL
Hybrid
Hybrid
Platform
Platform

We also host open public hackathons throughout the year (virtual and in-person), idea management programs for internal teams, post-event content creation and participant acquisition campaigns. Whether it’s bringing people together to solve problems or helping teams turn their ideas into something tangible, we create experiences that genuinely engage people. Learn more

Platform
Platform
Virtual
Virtual
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Hybrid
Hybrid

And more

Hackathons turn passive viewers into active participants

Active Participation not Passive Attendance
Instead of watching from the side-lines, participants are immersed in real-time problem solving, making the experience personal, hands-on, and memorable.

Real-Time Learning and Growth
Hackathons are crash courses in collaboration, creativity, and problem-solving. Participants gain new skills, fresh perspectives, and on-the-spot feedback they can apply immediately.

Deeper Emotional Connection
When people work together to tackle meaningful problems, they connect more deeply with the cause, brand, or organization behind it—driving better engagement and loyalty.

Instant Community and Collaboration
Working together creates a shared sense of purpose and momentum. Participants bond quickly through collaboration, making the event feel more like a movement than a meeting.

It's Actually Fun
With time pressure, creative energy, and team spirit, hackathons feel more like a game than a meeting, making them a more memorable experience that people genuinely enjoy.

Downplay the webinar and reinvent your virtual strategy

Human connection drives engagement

Break free from the same passive approaches.
We craft a strategy that genuinely resonates and connects.
Human connection drives engagement
Human connection drives engagement

Burn the webinar playbook

Most webinars feel identical: slides, speakers, chat widget, Q&A. It's the same format and endlessly passive. Everyone is using the same tired playbook.
It's time for something different.
We’ll help level up your virtual event strategy with collaborative, high-energy formats that get your audience off mute, into the moment, and genuinely engaged.

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Frequently asked questions

This was such a valuable experience! I learned lots of new marketing strategies and ideas, and the networking was really fun!

Debbie - Finn Partners

This was a really fun way to gain exposure to new ideas, meet peers, and use my smarts for a good cause. I would absolutely participate again!

Becca - Amazon

★★★★★
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What our participants say

This environment reminded me how fun and experimental the marketing profession can (and should) be.

Dustin - adMarketplace

I’ve been marketing for many years and still learned so much from my peers!

Miquel - ActBlue

★★★★★
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Outsmart your competition

Benchmark your current engagement and we'll show you how to re-engage, 3x your pipe and cut through the noise.