something illegally. What it really means is how do you with a group of people break

through and find a creative solution? So Hackathons are a way in which you can, for instance in

a corporation, ask for and get ten volunteers from different roles who are committed to

spending an intense amount of time. In some companies it might be a weekend with pizza

and to try to in a real experimental lab time come up with a unique solution. Right now

some of the leading medical device companies like Boston Scientific are using Hackathons

as ways of saying what’s an out of the box approach to solving a problem that traditional

research never got us to. We believe that Hackathons are part of tapping the wisdom

of the crowd and increasingly we’re going to see Hackathons that aren’t about physically

getting into a room together but are, in fact, diverse and distributed around the world linked

by technology.