A case competition or hackathon built on a real problem from your business, for the students and graduates you want to hire. We design it, source participants, run the judging and hand you the standout talent.
The students who solve your real problem well are the ones worth hiring. A Business Challenge is a case competition or hackathon built around a problem from your business, carrying your brand and aimed at the talent you want.
We design it around your brand and talent goals and run it from the first brief to the awards ceremony. Your team focuses on judging.
A challenge puts your name and your real problem in front of the people you want to hire, and shows you how they work on it.
Participants work on a genuine problem from your business, not a textbook case.
The challenge carries your name, with its own domain and branded microsite, promoted across our network of 100+ universities.
Your panel judges the answers to your problem, with every entry scored and ranked the same way.
Standout participants are connected to your hiring team, and you get a debrief on results and next steps.
Five steps. You brief us and you judge. We do the rest.
Tell us your goals, audience, timeline and budget.
We build a challenge around your objectives and your real problem.
Sourcing, judging and logistics locked in, with dates, rounds and milestones mapped out.
We run it end to end, from the first entry to the finale. You judge.
Results, standout talent and next steps, with the best connected to your hiring team.
Twelve things we take off your plate, from the domain name to the hiring pipeline.
A dedicated domain and branded microsite, registered for your challenge.
Dates, rounds and milestones mapped out end to end.
Promoted across our network of 100+ universities.
A live dashboard to track submissions as they come in.
A live dashboard built for your judging panel.
Scores calculated and ranked automatically as judges submit.
Invitations, briefings and scheduling, handled for you.
Regular updates and support for every participating team.
In-person, virtual, or both, run on the day.
The closing showcase and awards ceremony, organised in full.
Incentives structured to draw serious effort.
Standout participants, connected to your hiring team.
A challenge only works if serious people want to take part, so we build it with them in mind.
You do not need to wait for an employer to host one. Real problems from companies are posted on the Boardroom Challenge page, free to enter, on your own or as a team.
Every challenge is promoted across our network of 100+ universities, so your students hear about it and can enter.
Planned and run by Talentbank’s Events and Exposition division, the team behind our award galas and national career fairs, delivering events for leading brands since 2010.
The same team runs our own national challenge formats. These pictures are from the 2025 Talentbank Boardroom Challenge.
Talentbank has two national challenge formats of its own. Come in as a co-sponsor and put your brand in front of the same talent, without building a programme from scratch.
The country’s brightest, tested on real business problems.
Our priority programme: technical talent build, ship and compete under one roof.
Enquire about co-sponsoring →Visit techhackathon.com → (opens in a new tab)
A case competition or hackathon built on a real problem from your business, for the students and graduates you want to hire. We design it, source participants, run the judging and hand you the standout talent.
Brief us on your goals, audience, timeline and budget, then judge. We handle everything in between, from the branded microsite and university outreach to the dashboards, the finale and the awards.
AI hackathons, tech hackathons, case competitions, boardroom simulations and innovation challenges, in person, virtual or both. If your idea is something else, tell Amira and we will talk it through.
It depends on what you want built, so there is no fixed price on this page. Tell us your goals, audience, timeline and budget, and we will come back with a format and a quotation.
Students and graduates, reached through our network of 100+ universities and your branded microsite. A live entries dashboard lets you track submissions as they come in.
Your judging panel gets its own live dashboard, and scores are calculated and ranked automatically as judges submit. We handle judge and mentor invitations, briefings and scheduling.
Either, or both. We run the venue or platform on the day, along with the closing showcase and awards ceremony.
A debrief with the results, the standout talent and the next steps. Standout participants are connected to your hiring team.
The Boardroom Challenge is a national format of our own, with problems posted by the companies that have them and by us. A Business Challenge is built and branded for you, around your problem. You can also co-sponsor ours instead.
Yes. We offer customised training on organising your own challenge. Ask Amira and the right person will come back to you.
It is a dedicated format under our Business Challenge work. If you have a technical problem worth putting to a room of engineers, talk to us, or visit techhackathon.com (opens in a new tab).
Tell us your objectives, audience and timeline, and our team will come back with a format and a quotation.
Prefer to run it in-house? We offer customised training on organising your own challenge. Ask us about it →