✨ Design, Create and Share! ✨
We are excited to invite you to a hackathon dedicated to crafting exceptional employee experiences using AI and the latest SharePoint features! 💡
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. Tens of millions of end users are leveraging custom experiences built with the SharePoint Framework (SPFx) each month with custom SharePoint portal experiences.
👋 This hackathon is open to everyone! Whether you're an end user, designer, architect, or developer, there's a place for you. The SharePoint Hackathon will showcase the diverse possibilities within the SharePoint ecosystem.
Submission categories include:
- Usage scenarios for SharePoint Agents
- Designs utilizing out-of-the-box features
- Viva Connections Dashboard experiences
- Extensible experiences with SPFx
If you've created a SharePoint site and tailored it to meet your business needs, you're all set to participate! The possibilities are endless for what you can create... plus, you can submit your hack for a chance to win exciting prizes! 🥳
SharePoint Hackathon runs from March 3rd to March 17th. Hack submissions are due March 17th, 11:59 PM PST. Join us! 🧑🤝🧑
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 ✨
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 🙋♂️🙋♀️
Read the official rules 📃
Stream will be hosted at the Microsoft Community Learning YouTube channel.
Day/Time | Topic |
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3/3, 04:00 PM UTC / 09:00 AM PT | Kickoff to Innovation: SharePoint Hackathon Launch |
3/5, 04:00 PM UTC / 09:00 AM PT | Building Beautiful SharePoint Portals: Latest Features in Action |
3/6, 04:00 PM UTC / 09:00 AM PT | Unlocking Efficiency: SharePoint Agents in Action |
Day/Time | Topic |
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3/10, 04:00 PM UTC / 09:00 AM PT | Transforming Employee Experiences with Stunning Dashboards in Viva Connections |
3/12, 04:00 PM UTC / 09:00 AM PT | Using SharePoint Framework (SPFx) to elevate SharePoint portal UX |
Day/Time | Topic |
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3/26, 04:00 PM UTC / 09:00 AM PT | Celebrating Creativity: SharePoint Hackathon Awards Ceremony |
For additional help with your planned submission, you can drop by Office Hours where you'll have at least Vesa Juvonen (Microsoft) and Luise Freese helping with any questions you might have on the hackathon or what you are planning to submit. Office hours are hosted as normal Teams meeting for easy attendance and discussion.
Day/Time | Topic |
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3/04, 11:00 AM UTC / 03:00 AM PT - 30 min | Teams join |
3/05, 07:00 PM UTC / 11:00 AM PT - 30 min | Teams join |
3/06, 07:00 PM UTC / 11:00 AM PT - 30 min | Teams join |
3/07, 11:00 AM UTC / 03:00 AM PT - 30 min | Teams join |
3/11, 04:00 PM UTC / 04:00 AM PT - 30 min | Teams join |
3/12, 04:00 PM UTC / 12:00 PM PT - 30 min | Teams join |
Notice that as US moves to daylight savings in early March (9th of March), second week of the hackathon timings can be impact your time. Check the schedule based on the UTC time.
Submissions are due Monday March 17th, 11:59 PM PST. Submission should be in video format with potential additional pictures, showing the design or implementation, you've created.
Submit your project here in GitHub Issues when it's ready🚀 🚀 Project Submission Form
Check out this video for step by step project submission guidance: Project Submission Video
Hackathon has four distinct categories. The winner is 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 their experiences will receive a digital badge. To receive the digital badge, all participants must submit this form: Badge Submission Form by March 17th, 11:59PM PST. The GitHub handle must match the handle submitted in the Project Submission Form.
SharePoint Hackathon Badge Details
Projects 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 which is divided between potential team members.
- Tickets to the Microsoft 365 Community Conference with an opportunity to present the solution at the conference - 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 will be published in Microsoft credited blog post at the SharePoint blog
We will be also acknowledging few special categories from the submitted videos - with a special callout in the award celebration blog post and live stream. These special cateories are following:
- Most Creative Video Presentation ✨
- Best Video Presenter Voice 🎤
- Most Enthusiastic Presenter ⚡
- Most Innovative SharePoint Hack 👩💻
- Most Artistic SharePoint Visualization 🎨
These are great additional opportunities to get acknowledged on your submission 💡
Do I need to be a developer for this hackathon?
No. Anyone can create beautiful looking pages in SharePoint or use the SharePoint agents to increase their productivity. Anyone can submit their work for the competition and everyone is awarded with a badge to do so.
We have a product build for/with SharePoint - can we submit?
Yes. Anyone can submit to this hackathon. If you are a partner who has created an intranet-in-a-box offering, you can also submit your design or agent scenarios for this hackathon. Any submission which contains SPFx customizations would fall on that specific category and we'll take the submission background also into account in the judging.
Notice that we are looking into engaging with our intranet-in-a-box providers more closely after this event to setup specific partner showcase blog posts and interviews. Submit a video on your solution and well definitely will be in touch after the hackathon to share your story as a separate partner showcase video and a blog post.
Do I need to create something new or can I submit video of what we already have?
You are NOT expected specifically to create any new designs or code during this hackathon, so if you already have a beautiful intranet or are using SharePoint Agents, those stories are also welcome.
We want everyone to be able to submit their beautiful UX designs, SharePoint Agents stories or SPFx experiences for the competition to showcase the art of possible within SharePoint.
What will be expected from the submissions?
There are two important things to do for each submissions:
- Register to the hackathon - https://aka.ms/SharePoint/hackathon/register
- Submit an issue with link to the video which demonstrates your submission - https://aka.ms/SharePoint/hackathon/submission
We have a cool SharePoint design on our intranet, can I submit that?
Yes as long as you have permission from your company or the service owner to do that. We are excited to see what kind of use cases you have with SharePoint Agents and what kind of designs our customers and partners have created with SharePoint and Viva Connections.
How should I create the video for submission?
There are multiple ways to do this. Key is to highlight the design and features you have in your deployment. You can use whatever software you like for recording and then submit the entry to us in a location which can be accessed. This could mean attaching video on the submission entry, video in YouTube (can be unlisted if link works) or by sharing a video with file sharing services, like with OneDrive.
How many people can be in a team which is building a submission?
One submission can be from 1-4 people. You can submit as an individual person, or you can join with other community members to build a team with maximum 4 persons in the team.
Got other questions? - Please use the Discussions section in the repository. We are here to help and answer all your questions.