Looks like I found the first corporate sponsored bioinformatics hackathon in history, not by Seqera but by Celera 😆

The second issue was that we had a genome sequence for the fly, but what  did it all mean? We had to go further and analyze it, as we had done with  Haemophilus four years earlier, if we were to publish in a journal. Annotating  and describing the fly genome could take well over a year, a year that I did not  feel I had because our focus now had to be on the human genome. In discus­ sions with Gerry and Mark, we came up with a novel way to solve the prob­ lem, one that would involve the Drosophila scientific community, be exciting  science, and move things forward rapidly. We decided to hold what we termed  an "annotation jamboree," inviting top scientists from around the world to  come to Rockville to analyze the fly genome over the course of a week to ten  days. We would then write up our results and publish a series of papers on the  genome.

From J. Craig Venter's book A life decoded-My genome: My life