A 1,400-person engineering org wanted a flagship internal hackathon for their NCR engineers. The asks were the asks: 120 attendees, 30 teams of 4, 48 continuous hours, fibre internet, power backup, AV for opening + closing keynotes. Plus three meals a day and decent coffee.
The brief, decoded
- Most event venues aren't built for 48-hour continuous use.
- Wi-Fi requirement: 200 Mbps symmetric, no public-Wi-Fi captive portal.
- Power backup mandatory — Delhi summer.
- Catering for 360 meal-services across 48 hours.
How Storybuk ran it
Studio venue, not a banquet hall
Storybuk surfaced a 6,000 sqft workshop/studio space in NCR originally built for fashion shoots. Pre-wired with fibre, generator backup, freight elevator.
Catering inside the spend
Three-meal package negotiated with the in-house F&B partner. Breakfast burritos, lunch thalis, dinner pizza, all-night chai. ₹450 per head per day.
AV partner included
Stage, projector, mics, hybrid stream to the wider org for the closing demos. ₹35,000 flat.
“The internet didn't drop. The power didn't drop. The pizza came on time. For a hackathon, that's a 10/10 venue.”
The outcome
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