Houston Hackathon 2025
The Houston Hackathon is an opportunity for people with different skills to collaborate on projects to improve life in Houston.
Impact Hub Houston envisions a more equitable, inclusive, and sustainable economy, where people are empowered with the skills, capacity, and resources they need to take action. We invite you to be a part of this vision by participating in this annual opportunity to develop systemic and transformative solutions for Houston – solutions that are rooted in local communities so that they are as diverse as Houston, and work for ALL of Houston.
Why Join a Hackathon?
- To make a difference in their community
- To learn new skills or work on real problems
- To meet other cool people who care about the same things
- To turn ideas into action in just a weekend
- To collaborate with local government, nonprofits, and startups
- To challenge themselves and think creatively
- And for a lot of people, it’s just fun! Like summer camp for ideas and action.
We invite all people who want to make a difference in our region to join us at the annual Houston Hackathon! This is a “civic” hackathon, focused on ideating, designing, and developing both policy-based and tech solutions to some of Houston’s greatest challenges. Project stakeholders will be there from the city, county, local organizations, and Houston’s impact community!
Houston Hackathon Schedule // Sept 5th In Person Kickoff
- 8:30AM Early Risers Networking at Cup of Joey (RSVP here)
- 11AM Pre-Kickoff Design Workshop at the Think Visual Meetup (RSVP here)–
- 12PM Houston Hackathon Check-in, Coffee + Networking
- 12:15PM Welcome Remarks, House Rules and HouHack Overview
- 12:30PM Houston Hackathon Challenge Presentations
- 1:00PM Team Formation & Workspace Setup
- 1:20PM Lunch + Hacking Begins!
- 2:00PM Lightning Talk: Rapid Prototyping / Tech Tools
- 2:15PM Lightning Talk: Prepare Your Pitch
- 2:30 PM Coaching & Feedback Sessions
- 3:55 PM Wrap-up and Next Steps
*Friday, Sept 5th will be in person from 12PM-4PM. Hackers will be able to continue collaborating at the Ion until 7PM. We will not meet again on the 6th or 7th! Teams will continue working offsite before the Devpost submission deadline of 11:45PM on Sunday.*
Houston Hackathon Next Steps Schedule
- Sept 7 @11:45PM — Project Submissions Due on DevPost
- Sept 8-10: Judges will review submissions on DevPost and submit their rankings.
- Sept 12: Winners Announced!!
Impact Hub Houston https://houston.impacthub.net
City of Houston https://www.houstontx.gov/
the Ion https://iondistrict.com/about/#our-community
January Advisors https://www.januaryadvisors.com/
Energy Tech Nexus https://www.energytechnexus.com/
TECH23 https://www.youtube.com/@tech23us
Latinas In Tech Houston https://latinasintech.org/chapter/houston
Goodspero https://goodspero.com/
Jeff Paxton Photography www.jeffpaxtonphoto.com