The Chief Growth Officer at Untap. Maggie's full-time job is to help people find solutions they need to make bigger impact. A firm believer in sharing knowledge and telling stories as a way for growth on individual and organizational levels.
Untap platform has always prioritized an easy & intuitive user experience; why? Years ago, we used to manage programs for our customers hands-on, using traditional tools, while building Untap platform. We learned all the ins and outs of managing open-call programs and built a platform to make managing those programs a breeze.
This year was gratefully an eventful year for Untap. It started with graduating from techstars accelerator program in Riyadh. The three months acceleration period was a lot of learning, sharing experiences with our fellow startups, and gaining knowledge from our amazing mentors.
We planned some features as a part of supporting our customer’s programs, and we rolled them out together for some of our running programs.
Open innovation allows organizations to bring together people from different backgrounds and disciplines in a collaborative environment to come up with solutions that would otherwise never exist.
We are living in a time where technology is advancing at an exponential rate. It seems like we are always on the verge of some new breakthrough. Businesses are constantly innovating to stay ahead of their competitors.
The know-how we have built over the years enabled us to design a productive process and an efficient platform that guarantees a successful competition.
The first step in planning a hackathon is defining your objective. This will set the tone for everything that comes after, such as defining the theme, tracks, eligibility, … etc.
One way of measuring your competition success is by the number and quality of the submissions you receive. However, many competition organizers get lost in the operations, that they forget the outreach and communication part.
As the leading initiative in MENA for learning programming languages in Arabic, the One Million Arab Coders initiative – a Dubai Future Foundation project – needed to use their vast network of coders to act in a very short time frame and come up with tech-based solutions for the Arab world to lessen the challenges caused by COVID-19.