Ideathon-Idealist Days 10/10
​🚀 10/10 Ideathon: Innovate for Impact
​Purpose
​The Ideathon is a collaborative innovation event designed to generate creative solutions, process improvements, and new opportunities. Participants will work together to identify challenges, explore possibilities, and develop actionable ideas that can create measurable impact.
​Organizing Team Roles
​🎯 Ideathon Chair
​Responsibilities
​•Overall coordination of the Ideathon
​•Defines objectives, themes, and outcomes
​•Works with sponsors, leaders, and event partners
​•Oversees planning and execution
​•Ensures follow-up on winning ideas
​Success Measure
​•Smooth execution and clear outcomes
​📢 Ideathon Marketing Lead
​Responsibilities
​•Promote the event across Teams, email, and internal channels
​•Create communication materials and reminders
​•Drive participation and excitement
​•Share event agenda and expectations
​Success Measure
​•High awareness and engagement before the event
​📝 Ideathon Registration Lead
​Responsibilities
​•Manage participant registration
​•Maintain attendance records
​•Coordinate event check-in
​•Track participation metrics
​•Support logistics during the event
​Success Measure
​•Accurate participant tracking and smooth onboarding
​🎤 Ideathon Facilitator
​Responsibilities
​•Lead ideation activities
​•Encourage participation from all attendees
​•Guide brainstorming sessions
​•Manage time and energy levels
​•Ensure psychological safety and collaboration
​Success Measure
​•Active participation and quality idea generation
​🏆 Sector Experts
​Responsibilities
​•Provide industry, technology, or business context
​•Clarify challenges and opportunities
​•Answer questions during ideation
​•Offer insights without limiting creativity
​Important Sector experts should inspire thinking, not evaluate ideas prematurely.
​Success Measure
​•Better-informed and more relevant ideas
​Event Flow (60-90 Minutes)
​Phase 1: Welcome & Context (10 Minutes)
​Opening Message
​"What ideas could help us work smarter, learn faster, serve customers better, or create greater business impact?"
​Review
​•Objectives
​•Ground rules
​•Agenda
​•Success criteria
​Phase 2: Challenge Framing (10 Minutes)
​Present 3-5 challenge statements.
​Examples:
​AI & Productivity
​How might we use AI to save 1,000 hours annually?
​Learning Innovation
​How might we improve learner engagement by 50%?
​Employee Experience
​How might we make collaboration easier across teams?
​Customer Impact
​How might we provide more value with fewer resources?
​Phase 3:
​Idea Generation (20 Minutes)
​Brainwriting Exercise
​Each participant silently generates ideas.
​Prompt:
​"Generate as many ideas as possible. Quantity first, quality later."
​Rules:
​•No criticism
​•Build on others' ideas
​•Encourage bold thinking
​•Stay solution focused
​Target:
​•3 to 5 ideas per participant
​Phase 4: Idea Refinement (15 Minutes)
​Teams select their most promising ideas and define:
​Problem
​What challenge does this solve?
​Solution
​What is the idea?
​Benefit
​What impact will it create?
​Feasibility
​Can it be implemented?
​Phase 5: Pitch Session (20 Minutes)
​Each team gets:
​•2 minutes pitch
​•1 minute Q&A
​Pitch Template:
​Idea Name
​Challenge
​Proposed Solution
​Expected Benefits
​Resources Needed
​Potential Impact
​Phase 6: Voting & Selection (10 Minutes)
​Each participant receives:
​✅ 3 votes
​Vote based on:
​•Innovation
​•Business impact
​•Customer value
​•Feasibility
​•Scalability
​Evaluation Criteria
​Awards
​🏆 Best Overall Idea
​🤖 Best AI Innovation
​⚡ Quick Win Award
​🌟 People's Choice Award
​🚀 Most Transformative Idea
​Deliverable
​At the end of the Ideathon, each winning idea should have:
​•Problem Statement
​•Proposed Solution
​•Business Benefits
​•Estimated Effort
​•Suggested Owner
​•Next Steps
​Suggested Theme for an Instructional Design Team
​"Reimagining Learning with AI"
​Challenge Questions:
​1.How might we cut course development time by 50%?
​2.How might we create highly personalized learning experiences?
​3.How might we measure learning impact more effectively?
​4.How might we leverage Copilot to improve instructional design?
​5.How might we make learning available exactly when employees need it?
​Goal: Generate 10 ideas on 10/10 that could deliver 10x impact across learning, productivity, and innovation.
​Ideathon Oct 10/10
​10 Oct • 2–3 pm • View details and RSVP https://calendar.app.google/bvpwEfaH7LJnBVSm8
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​Ideathon Oct 10/10 10 Oct • 2–3 pm • View details and RSVP https://calendar.app.google/bvpwEfaH7LJnBVSm8
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