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Opinion

September 16, 2025

Are hackathons more than casual meetups for code-happy 20-somethings?

Sifted's Europe editor Mimi Billing decided to check one out

Mimi Billing

3 min read

This weekend, around 130 engineers and other code-happy people holed themselves up in central Stockholm for yet another two-day hackathon. Having lost count of how many similar events I’d seen on my LinkedIn feed, I gathered it was about time I went to one.

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Mimi Billing

Mimi Billing is Sifted's Europe editor, based in Stockholm. She covers the Nordics and can be found on X and LinkedIn

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