Epic Weekend with the Global Gamification Hackathon

March

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This weekend we’ve been excited to take part in the first Global Gamification Hackathon with GamFed TĂĽrkiye. 48 hours with 14 teams from 14 countries with a superb who’s who of gamification experts speaking and mentoring the teams throughout.

I took part as one of the mentors, and in addition we offered tickets to the next online Gamification Europe conference to the winning team!

The teams worked on a wide range of projects, though the ones looking at sustainability particularly caught our attention, including upcycling, reducing waste and carbon saving through cycling projects.

You can view the recorded livestream of the team presentations here (which one was your favourite?):

https://www.youtube.com/live/wCa30V4WhSU?feature=share&t=1202

About the author, Pete Baikins

Pete Baikins is an international authority on gamification, a lifelong gamer, successful entrepreneur and a lecturer. As CEO of Gamification+ Ltd he mentors and trains companies world-wide on the use of gamification to solve business challenges. Gamification+ won the Board of Trade Award (an export award) from the UK's Department of International Trade in January 2019.

Pete is co-host of the health gamification podcast Health Points and is also Chair of Gamification Europe, the annual conference for Gamification practitioners.

Pete is an Honorary Ambassador for GamFed (International Gamification Confederation), having previously been the Chair from 2014 to February 2019, whose aim is to spread best practices within and support the gamification industry.

After 15 years as a Lecturer on gamification and entrepreneurship at the University of Brighton he now guest lectures on Gamification at King’s College London and at ESCP Europe at post-graduate and under-graduate levels.

Over the past 25 years Pete has built and sold two businesses. One was in security software and one was a telecoms and internet connectivity business.

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