SharePoint Hackathon – March 2025

We are excited to invite you to a hackathon dedicated to crafting exceptional employee experiences using AI and the latest SharePoint features! Join us and the rest of the community on SharePoint Hackathon which will be a two-week long event with live streams and community engagement on highlight the art of possible 💡

Hackathon will run from March 3-17, 2025 and you see all the details from https://aka.ms/sharepoint/hackathon.

SharePoint is a powerful platform for creating engaging and dynamic experiences for employees. With new UX-focused features and innovative SharePoint Agents, SharePoint is more relevant than ever. You can take advantage of the out-of-the-box SharePoint features or extend that using SharePoint Framework, which has been an incredibly popular extensibility model across Microsoft 365.

👋 This hackathon is open to everyone! Whether you are an end user, designer, architect, or developer, there is a place for you. The SharePoint Hackathon will highlight the diverse possibilities within the SharePoint ecosystem.

Categories

Hackathon has four distinct categories. The winner will be announced for all these four categories.

• Most creative use of SharePoint Agents - Demonstration of SharePoint agent use case on the distinct kinds of materials and source files which are used for the agents.
• Most beautiful Intranet home page - Build beautiful and engaging SharePoint sites with O-O-B features like flex layouts, design ideas, editorial webparts, hero carousels and more.
• Most useful Viva Connections dashboard - Viva Connection dashboard design for specific company with creative card layouts and features. It can include customizations like card designer, Power Cards and SPFx.
• Most creative intranet with extensibility (SPFx) - Custom SharePoint portal experience with SharePoint Framework (SPFx). Extra points on including AI scenario(s).

All hackathon participants who submit a video on experience will receive a digital badge.

Awards

Submissions will be evaluated by a panel of judges, including Microsoft engineers, product managers, and developer advocates. Judging criteria will include innovation, impact, technical usability, and alignment with corresponding hackathon category.

Prizes for the winners include the following:

• Career coaching and mentoring with in-person meeting with either Heather Cook or Vesa Juvonen - winners can choose who they want to meet. Each category winner will get 4 hours of in-person time. If the winning team has multiple persons, 4 hours is divided between the team members.
• Tickets to the Microsoft 365 Community Conference with an opportunity to present the solution at the conference – this option is subject to certain conditions.
• Option to demonstrate what you've created in the weekly Microsoft 365 & Power Platform community call for global visibility.
• The top three submissions in each category is published in Microsoft credited blog post at the SharePoint blog.

How can you participate?

Register for the hackathon using any of the sessions linked on the Reactor Series page. This will register you for both the selected live stream session and the actual hackathon.

Introduce yourself and get familiar with other attendees on GitHub Discussions in this repository 🙋‍♂️🙋‍♀️

Actual submission by March 17th, is a 1-8 minute long video which shows on what you have created 📺

See recording of recent SharePoint 2025 Event for inspiration on the latest features and capabilities with SharePoint. See you also at Microsoft 365 Community Conference for even more awesome announcements and features.

✨ Design, Create and Share! ✨ See you at the hackathon! 👋