From Pitch to Product: How Grafana's Hackathons Turn Weird Ideas into Real Features
Jan 16, 2026
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Hosts Mat Ryer and Matt Toback welcome Grafana engineers Sven Großmann, Alexa Vargas Ortega, and Lukasz Gut for a deep dive into Grafana’s internal hackathons. They discuss ideation, team formation, tooling (including AI-assisted coding), and the path from hackathon prototype to product feature — plus the occasional bird- and board-game tangent.