Hack Horizon

22/08/2017

Join our Co founder Kristy Hart at this year's Aviation Festival!

She will be joining JetBlue Technology Ventures, Cockpit Innovation, Founders Factory and EL AL אל על at this year's Innovation Panel, to talk about the impact of an open innovation model and how we can bridge the gap between aviation and hi-tech!

10,000km. 80 hours. 32 participants. 1 mission - to redefine the travel industry. See what happened during the worlds first TravelTech hackathon on a plane. ...

24/07/2017

Our friends at the TravelTechLab are running a pitch night this Thursday in talking all about the passenger in-airport experience. Join us there:

Hot on the heels of the announcement of our partnership with Collinson Group, we are thrilled to be hosting our first Pitch Night which will showcase how the airport experience can be revolutionised. Out of a large pool of applications, the top 5 most innovative startups have been selected! On the e...

08/07/2017

32 of the best entrepreneurs, engineers and designers took to the skies in a unique in-flight from Hong Kong to London, on a mission to redefine . This is Hack Horizon and this is our story.

Thank you to all of the incredible participants that took part and all of our sponsors and partners that made this hackathon happen. Together we paved the way for digital innovation in travel.

17/06/2017

Check out our friends at Pacsafe who wrote a guest blog about the process they go through to build their anti-theft luggage products.

This is a guest post by our friends at Pacsafe, who are on mission to create innovative, reliable and safe gear for global travellers. We…

17/06/2017

Join us at TechCrunch Shenzhen Conference 19-20 June! Excited to hear from regional innovators on the main stage including Airbnb, Klook, Mobike and Tink Labs Ltd. ✈️

Hack Horizon crew will be there, together with some of our - let us know you're coming! 👋

14/06/2017

It's an honour to be featured as a success story on Forbes!

We spent months in planning and preparation with our partners to create a hackathon that was able to reach deep across the Travel Industry and build real innovation.

We hope to continue to share everything we learnt in the process and help support more Travel Innovation initiatives.

For years in Silicon Valley, ideas were born from a weekend of breaking things and hoping for the best. In Asia, hackathons is the trend hoping to bring Silicon Valley mindset. Can Asia change the mindset of founders, and if so, how can hackathons help you?

14/06/2017

We'll be at Future Travel Experience in on 27th June talking about innovation in airlines and airports!

Our co founder Kristy Hart had a chat with them about some of the things we tried to do to form synergies between travel corporates and startups.

JOIN US in Dublin! ✈️

Hack Horizon's Kristy Hart and Heathrow Airport's Stephen Glenfield talk hackathons, innovation and redefining the end-to-end travel experience.

11/06/2017

The official event photos are up! ✈️

See what happened during the Hack Horizon journey last month!

On the 5th of May 2017 a group of the 32 best engineers, designers and entrepreneurs took on a journey to redefine TravelTech while travelling from Hong Kong to London. See what happened during the first hackathon on a plane!

06/06/2017

We are excited to be talking at London Tech Week at two amazing events with InvestHK and OpenDestinations! *|URL|*

We are excited to be talking at London Tech Week at two amazing events with InvestHK and OpenDestinations!

05/06/2017

We talked to the founders from Jozu For Women, Kompas, Jetsetter Jobs, Sam the Local, Global Nomadic and Flyto and put together a list of top tips for all of you planning or running a startup in travel!

Read about:
🔎 getting customer research
💰 fundraising
✈️ working with the industry
📈 growth hacks

We know there are some more founders in our community, so let us know your own experiences and thoughts on getting a buy-in for travel innovation!

Travel is booming.

02/06/2017

We are excited to be partnering with The Trampery to help launch the second edition of the Marriott TestBed Program next week!

Join us on Wednesday 7th June to hear all about how Marriott are working with startups to help drive innovation in hospitality.

Are you a cutting edge startup that can transform the future of travel and hospitality? Marriott Hotels, The Trampery and Hack Horizon invite you to the London Launch Event of TestBED 2017! TestBED, Marriott Hotels’ accelerator programme, aims to find cutting edge technologies that can transform its...

31/05/2017

Join us at WeWork Old St. in London this evening as one of our co-founders, Kostadin Kolev, joins a great panel at Startup Stir to talk about all things !

A First Class Look at Startups Hacking Travel Startup Stir takes to the skies and books a room with a view as we chat travel tech with London founders who are mixing things up. Featured Panelists Kostadin KolevCo-Founder, Hack HorizonTravel Tech Expert Milena BotteroFounder & Director, Room for Tea"...