Find the Right Hackathon model

We offer flexible packages designed to match your specific innovation goals, scale, and budget. Explore our tiers to see how we can partner for maximum impact.

Innovation, Fit for Your Purpose

Collaboration Catalyst Hackathon

Focused on fostering internal team cohesion and collaborative learning. Ideal for intensive team-building exercises, shared exploration sessions, or a foundational workshop to kickstart content definition for larger projects. Provides a powerful shared experience and tangible workshop outputs for a specific team.

Budget Range: €7,500 – €10,000
Timeline: 1-2 months

Includes

Single HBL Lead Facilitator/MC for the core event day(s).
Initial consultation to define objectives and scope.
Guidance on structuring the session using HBL principles.
Optional: One preparatory workshop (e.g., content/challenge framing).
Client manages all recruitment, logistics, materials, and execution details.

Innovation Booster Hackathon

Excellent for sparking fresh ideas for internal incubation, boosting your team’s innovation culture and spirit, or tackling specific business challenges primarily with internal teams and potentially close network partners. Empowers potential change agents and strengthens collaborative problem-solving skills within your organization.

Budget Range: €12,000 – €25,000
Timeline: 2-4 months

includes

Guided “supported self-help” approach.
HBL provides core event facilitation (Lead MC/Facilitator).
Access to HBL tools, frameworks, and templates.
Key pre-event workshops (e.g., challenge definition).
Minimal HBL support for external expert sourcing/recruitment.
Client manages primary participant recruitment, detailed logistics, and provides event execution support.

Ecosystem Builder Hackathon

Ideal when aiming for specific business or innovation outcomes through a public-facing event that engages key partners and targeted external stakeholders. Perfect for building consensus or enhancing relationships, leveraging your network for core audience recruitment while HBL sources and integrates critical external expertise and diverse perspectives.

Budget Range: €30,000 – €85,000
Timeline: 3-5 months

Includes

Comprehensive strategic planning and event management.
Discovery and challenge definition support.
Targeted HBL recruitment of key experts and select external participants to complement the client’s core audience recruitment (typically 70-100 total attendees).
Full program design tailored to objectives.
Complete event production, facilitation, and on-site management.
Structured follow-through planning.

Moonshot Maker Hackathon

Designed for ambitious goals like mapping and mobilizing entire ecosystems, driving large-scale internal culture transformation, or kickstarting entirely new ventures and external projects. This tier positions you as an innovation leader and delivers potentially transformative outcomes by engaging a broad, diverse group beyond your immediate network.

Budget Range: €95,000 – €150,000
Timeline: 5-6 months

includes

Full end-to-end strategic planning and execution.
In-depth discovery and complex challenge definition workshops.
Comprehensive HBL recruitment of all participants (100+), experts, and stakeholders from broad ecosystems.
Extensive ecosystem mapping and engagement strategy.
Detailed, custom program design and content creation.
Complete event production, logistics management, and multi-facilitator on-site management.
Dedicated follow-through strategy development and support planning.

Every innovation challenge is unique. Our methodology is adaptable, and so are our service levels. Whether you need a focused internal boost or a large-scale ecosystem mobilization, we have an engagement model designed to deliver. We leverage our deep experience to help you choose the right approach and navigate the necessary trade-offs for success within your constraints.

Ideation workshops

Tired of offsites and sticky note mountains that still yield the same old ideas? We understand. Generating genuinely fresh concepts requires more than just changing the scenery. With over a decade of designing and running effective ideation workshops, we’ve learned the ‘tricks’ that unlock truly novel thinking by challenging assumptions and leveraging diverse inputs in structured ways. Let us share our experience to help your team break out of familiar patterns and uncover truly innovative solutions.

Innovation moment

Need a focused injection of fresh thinking or a way to introduce key innovation principles without a full event? Our “Innovation Moment” is a compact, high-impact session designed to spark creativity, challenge perspectives, or introduce a specific HBL tool or technique. Perfect for team meetings, project kick-offs, or as an inspiring interlude, it’s a concentrated dose of our methodology designed to quickly shift mindsets and energize your team’s approach.

An ecosystem of collaborative innovators

Your challenge deserves the right expertise. Partnering with Hack Belgium Labs connects you instantly to our curated, pan-European network, meticulously built over 15+ years. This readily deployable ecosystem includes specialized subject matter experts across countless industries, highly skilled workshop facilitators & moderators, strategic ecosystem builders, and engaging MCs. It means we can rapidly scale and assemble the precise blend of talent your project demands, ensuring flexibility, deep relevance, and successful execution anywhere in Europe.