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AI Genesis is a global hybrid hackathon that brings AI builders together from around the world — starting online and culminating live at /function1 AI Conference & Exhibition 2026 in Dubai. 📅Oct 26 – Nov 3, 2026 • Oct 26 – Nov 2: Online build & collaboration All projects must be submitted by end of day on November 2. • Nov 2 (Online + Dubai): An exclusive on-site build day in Dubai for selected participants. • Nov 3 (Dubai): Live on-stage pitching & winners announcement at the /function1 Conference. 🌟 Get support from expert mentors throughout. 👥 Go solo or team up. 📍 Please note: If approved for the on-site experience, you’ll also have the opportunity to showcase your project live. Travel and accommodation will not be covered. 🧑🏻‍💻 Secure your spot now, sign up before the Kick-Off Stream!

Europe’s critical infrastructure is increasingly exposed — from energy grids and transport hubs to data centers and communication networks. The threat landscape has changed: low-cost drones, hybrid cyberattacks, and denied-communication environments. From October 23-25, 2026, the first Critical Infrastructure Shield Hackathon in Switzerland brings together Europe’s top engineers, operators, founders, and industry leaders to build the systems that protect the backbone of modern society. Prototype real-world solutions designed to operate in contested environments — from counter-drone systems to resilient communications and autonomous defense. Visitors If you’re curious about the outcomes and what the teams have built, you can join the Demo Day on Sunday as an EDTH Community visitor by selecting a Community Visitor ticket.

Time to Accelerate European Defense Innovation 🚀 Join us and 100+ hackers from all across Europe and beyond for the European Defense Tech Hackathon on October 16-18 2026, in Bratislava, Slovakia - the first defence-focused hackathon of its kind in the country. Goal We want to bridge the gaps between technologists, the public sector, investors, and operators in dual-use and defense technology. This hackathon will demonstrate the talent and drive of the European ecosystem.

Co-organized with NUS Enterprise and TUM Venture Labs Time to Accelerate Global Defense Innovation: Join 120+ of the world’s most driven engineers, founders, and operators at the Singapore Defense Tech Hackathon (SDTH) on September 25–27, 2026. This isn’t a typical hackathon. It’s a premier global launchpad for defense technology. Work alongside international talent, defense innovators, and industry leaders to tackle real-world security challenges together. Meet potential co-founders. Build something that actually matters.

Time to Accelerate European Defense Innovation 🚀 Join us and 100+ hackers from all across Europe and beyond for the European Defense Tech Hackathon on September 4-6, 2026, in Pristina, Kosovo. Kosovo is a place where security is a lived reality — shaped by history and constant pressure on infrastructure and institutions. That makes it one of the few environments in Europe where the gap between “cool prototype” and “actually useful” is immediately obvious. We're thrilled to bring the European Defense Tech Hackathon here together with the Innovation Centre Kosovo this September 2025. Connect with fellow defense innovators, meet potential co-founders, and build projects with real-world impact that could save lives.

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Time to Accelerate Defense Innovation in Africa 🚀 Join us and 100+ hackers for the Nigeria Defense Tech Hackathon on July 24-26, 2026, in Abuja, Nigeria 🇳🇬 Connect with fellow defense innovators, meet potential co-founders, and build projects with real-world impact that could save lives. We’ll bring challenges rooted in pressing defense and security problems, and you’re welcome to bring your own ideas. Throughout the event, you’ll get hands-on guidance from seasoned mentors—and after the hackathon, we’ll help you take your project closer to real-world deployment 🚀

Time to Accelerate Defense Innovation in Africa 🚀 Join us and 100+ hackers for the South African Defense Tech Hackathon on July 17-19, 2026, in Cape Town, South Africa 🦾 Connect with fellow defense innovators, meet potential co-founders, and build projects with real-world impact that could save lives. We’ll bring challenges rooted in pressing defense and security problems, and you’re welcome to bring your own ideas. Throughout the event, you’ll get hands-on guidance from seasoned mentors—and after the hackathon, we’ll help you take your project closer to real-world deployment 🚀

Time to Accelerate European Defense Innovation Join us and 200+ hackers from all across Europe and beyond for the European Defense Tech Hackathon on July 9-12, 2026, in Berlin, Germany. Wanna come as a visitor? Join our EDTH Community here: https://community.eurodefense.tech/ Connect with fellow defense innovators, meet potential co-founders, and build projects with real-world impact that could save lives. We’ll bring challenges rooted in pressing defense and security problems, and you’re welcome to bring your own ideas.

Grab your ideas, spin up compute, and start building what’s next! Start with $100 in AMD Developer Cloud credits and begin building right away. Get access to hands-on tutorials, workshops, and curated learning resources to help you build faster and go further. To unlock credits and join the hackathon, sign up for the AMD AI Developer Program. 💰 $10,000 total prize pool Developers, builders, and innovators - bring your boldest ideas and let’s turn them into real AI systems on AMD.

Time to Accelerate European Defense Innovation 🚀 Join us and 150+ hackers from all across Europe and beyond for the European Defense Tech Hackathon on July 3-5, 2026, in Rome, Italy. Wanna come as a visitor? Join our EDTH Community here: https://community.eurodefense.tech/ Goal We want to bridge the gaps between technologists, the public sector, investors, and operators in dual-use and defense technology. This hackathon will demonstrate the talent and drive of the European ecosystem.

Time to Accelerate European Defense Innovation 🚀 Join us and 100+ hackers from all across Europe and beyond for the European Defense Tech Hackathon on July 3-5, 2026, in Luxembourg, Luxembourg! Wanna come as a visitor? Join our EDTH Community here: https://community.eurodefense.tech/ Goal We want to bridge the gaps between technologists, the public sector, investors, and operators in dual-use and defense technology. This hackathon will demonstrate the talent and drive of the European ecosystem.

🌉 On-site Only Hackathon | 📅 June 27–28, 2026 | 📍 San Francisco, CA This is an in-person hackathon in San Francisco for selected participants. Capacity is limited to 150 people, teams must include 3–5 members, and there is no online or hybrid participation. Build and optimize real-time AI applications that run directly on Snapdragon-powered mobile devices using ExecuTorch. 📍 On-site Venue (June 27–28): The Web Data Loft 625 2nd St, San Francisco, CA 📱 Build on Samsung Galaxy S25 Ultra devices powered by Snapdragon 🧠 Learn from Qualcomm and Meta experts through workshops, mentorship, and hands-on support 🏆 Prizes include Meta Quest 3 headsets, Ray-Ban Meta AI Glasses, and post-event project support 🧑‍💻 Apply now to build the future of on-device AI with ExecuTorch and Snapdragon. Once pre-approved, you will receive further instructions on how to complete the acceptance process. Application deadline: June 15, 2026.

{Tech: Europe} AI Hackathon – London Edition 🇬🇧 Ready to build cutting-edge AI? Join us in London for a full Saturday of hacking, learning, and networking at our AI Hackathon - where the brightest minds in tech come together to innovate and have a great time. Limited to 80 participants – secure your spot now! On the day of the event, it is first come, first serve!

Time to Accelerate European Defense Innovation 🚀 Join us and 100+ hackers from all across Europe and beyond for the European Defense Tech Hackathon on June 26-28, 2026, in London, UK. Connect with fellow defense innovators, meet potential co-founders, and build projects with real-world impact that could save lives. We’ll bring challenges rooted in pressing defense and security problems, and you’re welcome to bring your own ideas. Throughout the event, you’ll get hands-on guidance from seasoned mentors—and after the hackathon, we’ll help you take your project closer to real-world deployment 🚀

Time to Accelerate European Defense Innovation 🚀 Two years later, we're coming back to where everything began for EDTH—same weekend, same place, same energy! Join us and 200+ hackers from all across Europe and beyond for the European Defense Tech Hackathon on June 26-28, 2026, in Munich, Germany. Wanna come as a visitor? Join our EDTH Community here: https://community.eurodefense.tech/ Goal

Are you excited about solving real-world problems with cutting-edge tech? Don't miss the TUM Science Hackathon 2026: "Science for Future" Register by first of June. We will sent you a confirmation via email with more instructions. You can already check our website https://www.ja.tum.de/ja/sciencehackathon/ Work on real challenges from top industry partners and TUM chairs: from traffic forecasting and AI vision to ML in finance, we will have a diverse list of interesting challenges. That's why, no matter if you're into software, hardware, data science, UX, or business, there's a spot for you. How to join:

Time to Accelerate European Defense Innovation 🚀 Join us and 200+ hackers from all across Europe and beyond for the European Defense Tech Hackathon on June 19-21, 2026, in Warsaw, Poland. Wanna come as a visitor? Join our EDTH Community here: https://community.eurodefense.tech/ We're thrilled to co-organize this hackathon together with the Polish Development Fund (PFR), supporting the development of innovative technological solutions in Poland. PFR offers instruments for the development of enterprises, local government units, and private individuals, investing in sustainable social development and economic growth of the country. One of PFR's projects is the IDA, which supports innovative entities in developing dual-use technologies.

{Tech: Europe} Munich AI Hackathon

On June 13 we are bringing together 35 of Europe’s top engineers, founders, and CTOs to push the frontier of autonomous agentic coding. The goal: experiment at the edge of what’s possible when compute is no longer the constraint. We want to explore what the next generation of multi-agent software systems looks like: faster, more autonomous, and capable of building beyond today’s limits. Anthropic will provide compute tokens and Nebius Nemotron 3 Ultra inference sponsorship for teams during the event Jury

📅 June 12–19, 2026 • June 12: Kick-off Stream • June 12–19: Online Build Phase • June 19: Project Submissions Ends 🌍 Fully online hackathon. Join and build from anywhere in the world. 🤝 Build practical enterprise workflows where AI agents communicate, coordinate, exchange context, and complete work together. 🧠 Powered by Band and Codeband, built for collaborative AI systems and agent orchestration. 🏆 Prize Pool: $10,000+ 🧑‍💻 Apply now to build the next generation of enterprise multi-agent systems.

Time to Accelerate European Defense Innovation 🚀 Join us and 200+ hackers from all across Europe and beyond for the European Defense Tech Hackathon on June 12-14, 2026, in Paris, France, right before Eurosatory. Wanna come as a visitor? Join our EDTH Community here: https://community.eurodefense.tech/ Goal We want to bridge the gaps between technologists, the public sector, investors, and operators in dual-use and defense technology. This hackathon will demonstrate the talent and drive of the European ecosystem.

Time to Protect Europe’s Information Environment 🤖 Join us and 100+ hackers from all across Europe and beyond for the first European AI Intelligence Hackathon on June 5-7, 2026, in Belgrade, Serbia. Europe’s information environment is under constant pressure. Bringing this hackathon to Belgrade together with Reputeo means engaging closely with both the challenge and the capability: A city where information flows collide, yet with one of the strongest pools of technical talent in Europe—making it the right place to build systems that cut through noise and strengthen a more resilient, fact-based information space.

About the hackathon Wayflyer and Fin are bringing together the best builders in London for a 3-day hackathon at the Visionaries Summit, a gathering of 30 of the UK's most exciting consumer brand founders. On the Wednesday at 2pm you'll receive a complete data pack for a fictional DTC merchant. Your job is to build something that helps them run a better business.

TECHon is a 48-hour, student-led hackathon running alongside TECH by Handelsblatt – one of Europe's leading platforms for technology, business, and innovation. From May 30 to June 2, the Hackathon brings together around 150 builders at Open Space Heilbronn – students, developers, designers, and operators working side by side to turn concepts into working prototypes. The top 3 teams earn a live pitch on the main TECH stage in front of business, startup, and innovation leaders – with incentives provided by Boston Consulting Group (BCG). All accepted participants will receive a ticket for the final day of TECH by Handelsblatt. Apply solo or as a team of up to four. Both technical and non-technical contributors are welcome. Organized by TUM students in partnership with TECH by Handelsblatt and TUM Venture Labs – powered by BCG.

Time to Accelerate European Defense Innovation Join us and 100+ hackers from all across Europe and beyond for the European Defense Tech Hackathon on May 29-31, 2026, in Vilnius, Lithuania. Wanna come as a visitor? Join our EDTH Community here: https://community.eurodefense.tech/ Goal We want to bridge the gaps between technologists, the public sector, investors, and operators in dual-use and defense technology. This hackathon will demonstrate the talent and drive of the European ecosystem.

🌍 Hybrid Hackathon | 💻 Online Build: May 25–30,2026 | 📍 SF Onsite Finale: May 30–31,2026 We’ve unlocked the web for your AI. Now build what wasn’t possible before. Build AI agents with live web data, then join the SF onsite finale at Bright Data’s new Web Data Loft. 🚀 The onsite experience will take place during the opening of Bright Data’s new SF space, The Web Data Loft. 📍 On-site Venue (May 30–31): The Web Data Loft 625 2nd St, San Francisco, CA 🏆 $18,300 cash prize + Bright Data AI Startup Program opportunities 🍕 Free food, drinks, networking, workshops, mentorship, and live demos 🎁 Onsite attendees are automatically entered into a live giveaway for 4 × $100 Amazon gift cards. 🧑‍💻 Apply now to build AI agents powered by real-time web access.

Why Join? Food systems are under massive pressure. Climate change, resource scarcity, changing consumer behaviour, and new technologies push us to rethink current standards. We need new ideas and bold thinkers. During this hackathon you will: ✔ Work on real-world food innovation challenges ✔ Learn from experts in the AgriFood ecosystem ✔ Build a prototype and concept within one day ✔ Pitch your solution ✔ Meet other students, innovators, and entrepreneurs No prior startup experience needed — just curiosity and motivation.   Who Should Apply? This hackathon is perfect for curious minds who want to explore the future of food, agriculture, and biotech and enjoy building ideas in a collaborative environment. We welcome participants from all backgrounds , including: Food science, agriculture, and biotech Engineering and technology Business and entrepreneurship Design and sustainability Or simply anyone curious about food innovation You can apply: ✔ individually ✔ with a friend ✔ or already as a team   Application Process Each participant must submit their own application. If you are applying together with a friend or already have a team, simply indicate this in your application. Teams or pairs may receive priority consideration, as strong teams help create an even more dynamic hackathon experience. ⚠️ Only around 30 participants will be selected.   Agenda 09:00 Welcome & Registration 09:30 – 10:00 Guided tour through the AgriFood exhibition at Pinakothek 10:00 – 10:30 Introduction to the challenges 10:30 – 16:30 Hackathon Time - solve the challenges within your team 16:30 – 17:30 Final Pitches - present your idea 17:30 – 18:00 Award Ceremony 18:00 Networking

{Tech: Europe} AI Hackathon – Paris Edition 🇫🇷 Ready to build cutting-edge AI? Join us in Paris for a full Saturday of hacking, learning, and networking at our AI Hackathon - where the brightest minds in tech come together to innovate and have a great time. Limited to 80 participants – secure your spot now! On the day of the event, it is first come, first serve!

Build solutions that improve how software is built. Work with an AI that understands your codebase, helping you reduce repetitive work and build with real context. ⏳ Build your project in 48 hours. 🚀 Get hands-on with IBM Bob and explore how AI fits into real development workflows before it becomes standard. 💡 Build tools and workflows that developers would actually use. ⭐ Learn directly from experts throughout the event. 🤝 Join a team or build solo. 💰 Prize pool: $10,000 🧑🏻‍💻 Register before the Kick-Off Stream and start building with Bob.