Day 1
Day 1: Understand & Explore
Teams meet their challenge and start mapping it from every angle, guided by rapid learning sessions and a framework for thinking beyond the obvious fix.
How it works
It's not just a conference. It's a social hackathon.
For three days, mixed teams from across the region work on a real challenge brought by a real partner. No tech background needed — this is a social hackathon, built for changemakers, not just coders. Talking is easy. Impact is harder. Real connections happen when people build something together, not when they just talk about it.
Partners
Real challenges from real partners.
We partner with companies, municipalities, and organizations who bring real, live challenges to the table: problems worth solving, not hypotheticals invented for a workshop.
Structure
Three days. One challenge. A real result.
Day 2
Day 2: Ideate, Decide, Build
Teams generate ideas, choose a direction, and build working prototypes using AI-assisted tools.
Day 3
Day 3: Test, Build & Pitch
Teams finalize their prototype and pitch it to policymakers, CEOs, and the public at the closing showcase.
Method
Every team follows the same design process.
From understanding the problem to testing a real solution.
Empathize
Define
Ideate
Prototype
Test
Complex problems need collective intelligence.
No single expert has all the answers; diverse perspectives tackle what's too messy for top-down solutions.
Action beats endless analysis.
Quick prototypes and real feedback replace lengthy planning cycles.
The best solutions come from the people who live the problem.
Proximity to the challenge is a resource, not a bias.
Framework
Thinking beyond the quick fix.
Teams don't just solve for today. They're pushed to think in three horizons at once: what's losing relevance, what's emerging now, and what the long-term future actually needs. It's one of the frameworks we use to help teams think past the three-day sprint, and it's also how we explore what happens next: which prototypes are strong enough to keep going after the hackathon ends.
What happens next
Our aim is to kick off
real life impact initiatives.
A few examples of what teams have pitched to continue beyond CBD.
ResiliSME
A simple climate resilience platform helping SMEs understand their climate risks and get practical next steps.
View challengeCzech It Out
An immersive virtual train journey encouraging Austrian travelers to explore Czechia beyond Prague.
View challengeEnery GO Week
A one-week school program teaching 10-15-year-olds how renewable energy works in their own region.
View challengeInterregional teams create the best solutions.
Mixed nationalities and backgrounds surface blind spots a single-country team would miss, which is also, not incidentally, how European identity actually gets built.
