"We can make our power grids smarter and more efficient, using the power of collaboration, open access and a hugely expanded range of entrepreneurs. The Challenge was designed to accelerate this, and show that good ideas can come from anywhere."

“Within a six-month period we had selected an idea that was crowdsourced from a customer and developed it into a product which today has over 2,300 subscribers. By contrast, typical product development cycles were three years at best. In terms to time to first dollar of revenue, our Execs loved …

"We couldn’t do this before (Brightidea) at all. To be able to run innovation Challenges on a much bigger scale is phenomenal."

“Even if it’s this big strategic plan and no one quite knows how to answer it, they feel really comfortable throwing in post-it notes and sharing their ideas.”

“As a district, we have three key strategic priorities: personalizing learning, engaging stakeholders, and eliminating achievement disparities. Innovation is at the core of all those.”

“Our district has always wanted to be innovative and be at the forefront of educating students. We’ve always had the leadership buy-in, which is key.”

“Brightidea has been transformative in helping us create a sustainable innovation pipeline. It streamlined how we capture, track, and act on ideas, while driving an enterprise-wide culture shift that makes innovation part of everyone’s role.”

“Hackathons are not driven by regular motivational aspects that comes with the job. Hackathons are driven by passion. Hackathons are driven by emotions.”