Every AI hackathon, with Bond's picks marked

Thu, Oct 22 · San Francisco

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Thu, Oct 22 · Seattle

Own Your AI: Build Your First Model Factory - Hacknight

A hack night where participants build an ML engineer agent that evaluates, fine-tunes, deploys and improves open models. For engineers who want to own and run their own AI models.

Thu, Oct 22 · New York

GTM Build Night: Base44 Hackathon NY

Base44

A GTM hackathon where marketing, sales, RevOps and partnership teams build internal tools such as lead routers and campaign trackers in Base44. Participants get free credits to build with, and top builds win Base44 credits and merch.

Thu, Oct 22 · London

Grok Bot Community Engineering London Hackathon

Grok Bot

An evening hackathon for community engineers, DevRels and organisers, building community tooling with Grok Bot for context and Cursor for code. Teams ship bots, collaboration engines and event tools, ending with live demos.

Fri, Oct 23 · San Francisco

Intelligence at Work Hackathon

A day of hands-on building with Anthropic and Snowflake, where teams bring a real company problem and their own data to automate workflows or prototype new products. Aimed at engineers, product builders and data teams.

Fri, Oct 23 · San Francisco

Beta Fund x AWS x OpenAI Multi-Model Hackathon

Beta Fund, AWS, OpenAI

A one day hackathon run by Beta Fund, AWS and OpenAI where founders and technical builders create products that combine multiple AI models. Teams work with AWS experts, and winners picked by audience vote and partner awards can earn further support and investment.

Fri, Oct 23 · San Francisco

Beta Fund X AWS X OpenAI Multi-Model Hackathon

Beta Fund, Beta University, AWS, OpenAI

A one day multimodal AI hackathon from Beta Fund, AWS and OpenAI, where teams build products that reason across images, video, audio, voice and documents. For builders, researchers and founders who want to find a teammate and ship a working demo.

Fri, Oct 23 – Sat, Oct 24 · New York

Spooky Civic AI Hackathon: Build Weekend

Tavily, The AI Collective, Bond AI

A weekend civic AI hackathon focused on building tools that help New Yorkers, with tracks including Physical AI for Good. Open to builders in person or virtually, co-hosted by The AI Collective and Tavily.

Fri, Oct 23 – Sun, Oct 25 · London

Encode London Hackathon

Encode Club

A three day hackathon where teams build projects on AI and Web3 themes, with challenges, bounties, mentorship and judging. For developers, founders, researchers and students who want to build with emerging technologies.

Fri, Oct 23 – Sat, Oct 24 · Paris

HACKATHON, BUILD WHAT'S NEXT.

FINAXYS

A 24 hour hackathon run by FINAXYS on AI for finance, with challenges such as payment agents, falsified voice detection and supervising multiple autonomous AIs. It is aimed at engineering, data and business students working in teams with expert mentors.

Fri, Oct 23 · San Francisco

Build for GTM: A Multiplayer AI Hackathon

Laura Cruickshanks, Rajoshi Ghosh, Zack Alspaugh, Anushrut Gupta

An afternoon hackathon where participants learn PromptQL and build AI workflows for go to market tasks such as account research and meeting preparation. It is aimed at sales, marketing and revenue operations teams and startup founders, including beginners.

Fri, Oct 23 – Sat, Oct 24 · San Francisco

Cleantech Hackathon at Stanford

Sacha Ledan, Angela Li, Edward Chen, Vasyl Dub

A two day cleantech hackathon during Stanford Climate Week where teams build solutions to business challenges set by sponsors including TotalEnergies and Google Earth. For students, founders and builders working on climate problems.

Fri, Oct 23 – Sun, Oct 25 · London

Night Shift: $65K Mubit Hackathon in London

Mubit

An overnight hackathon built around Mubit, where teams route LLM calls through its API and turn corrections into model updates for recurring tasks. For AI builders and developers competing for cash prizes, OpenAI API credits and Mubit credits.

Sat, Oct 24 – Sun, Oct 25 · San Francisco

Emergent - VibeCon 2026: Vibecode Your Way to a YC Interview

Emergent, Y Combinator

A weekend hackathon at Y Combinator where 175 selected builders use AI to turn ideas into working products, with cash prizes and a YC interview for the winner. For founders, PMs, designers and operators, including non engineers.

Sat, Oct 24 – Sun, Oct 25 · New York

AI & Fintech XRPL Hackathon

XRPL

A weekend hackathon on the XRP Ledger where teams ship AI agents and financial apps with mentors and judges from AI, blockchain and finance. For developers, product managers and designers, leading into Ripple's Swell conference.

Sat, Oct 24 · New York

Zero-Human Company Hackathon by Terac at Whop HQ

Terac, Whop

A hackathon hosted by Terac at Whop where engineers build AI agents that run a business on their own. For agent builders and engineers, with a previous edition awarding cash prizes.

Sat, Oct 24 · New York

AI Build Day NYC: solve real business problems in one day

A one day hackathon where small teams use AI to solve real workflow and process problems brought by local businesses. Open to beginners with no coding experience, with a chance to keep developing the solution with the business.

Sat, Oct 24 · New York

Deal Flow: NYC's First VC Hackathon

A one day hackathon by localhost:nyc and VCLab where teams build software for problems venture investors face, judged by partners from New York funds. For developers interested in fintech and venture tooling, with fund introductions for top teams.

Sat, Oct 24 – Sun, Oct 25 · San Francisco

Hack for Social Impact 2026

Hack for Social Impact

A weekend hackathon where teams tackle scoped challenges from local nonprofits and the UN Convention to Combat Desertification, competing for cash prizes. For developers who want to apply their skills to social impact problems using sponsor credits.

Sat, Oct 24 – Sun, Oct 25 · San Francisco

The Debug Table: 24-Hour AI Operations Hackathon

An overnight 24-hour hackathon where teams build a working AI-powered solution to a single operations challenge. It is for builders and problem solvers who want to ship a prototype in one sprint.

Sat, Oct 24 · San Francisco

Win iPhone Duos at Patch the Conference Hackathon

Bright Data, WeMakeDevs

A one day hackathon at Bright Data where builders find problems with conferences and ship fixes, with sponsor workshops, OpenAI credits and iPhone prizes. For developers and builders in town ahead of GitHub Universe.

Sat, Oct 24 · London

Company Brain Buildathon

Bond AI

A one day buildathon where participants get early access to the Lightfern Mac app and build plugins that turn company knowledge into a working company brain. For builders, solo founders and operators at any level of AI experience.

Sat, Oct 24 · San Francisco

Kane CLI Hack Day, supported by OpenAI

TestMu AI, OpenAI

A one day hackathon for building apps with AI coding agents and validating them with Kane CLI, the TestMu AI testing tool that runs on OpenAI models. Teams compete for over $30,000 in prizes and credits, aimed at developers building with agents.

Sat, Oct 24 · San Francisco

Agent Builders Hackathon

A one day hackathon to build an AI agent and deploy it live, ending with demos, awards and drinks. Agents are judged on usefulness and production readiness, with cash and credit prizes from Omnara for teams of up to four.

Sat, Oct 24 · San Francisco

The Google Gemma Hardware Hackathon

Google

A one day hackathon run by Google DeepMind and AGI House where builders create local edge and physical AI applications with Gemma models. Aimed at developers who want hands on time with open models running on their own hardware.

Sat, Oct 24 · London

Noetic X Nebius One Day Hackathon

Noetic, Nebius, Imperial Entrepreneurs

A one day hackathon run by Noetic and Nebius where participants build working demos with open models on Nebius Token Factory. For students and builders who want to apply AI to real tasks, with places allocated by application.

Sat, Oct 24 · London

Real-Time Vision Challenge with XRlabs - NVIDIA x Playground x Oxford Seed Fund

XRlabs, NVIDIA, Playground, Oxford Seed Fund, Imperial Entrepreneurs, OXAI, Oxford VC Network, BridgeFellows

A one day computer vision challenge to build real time AI perception for live surgery using XRlabs data, stack and engineering team. For ML engineers, researchers, students and builders who train and ship vision models, with no medical background needed.

Sat, Oct 24 · Berlin

DevDay Community Hackathon: Berlin

Max Jendrall, Pauline P. Narvas

A community hackathon focused on building with OpenAI Codex and ChatGPT, with developer, GTM and founder tracks. For developers, students and founders exploring DevDay tools, with a chance to win a ticket to the official DevDay Exchange.

Sat, Oct 24 · Berlin

Stripe x Supabase: AI Payments for the Real Economy Hack

Stripe, Supabase

A one day hackathon with Stripe and Supabase to build AI software that adapts to the needs of small businesses, ending in finalist demos and awards. Cash prizes and platform credits are on offer for developers and AI builders.

Sat, Oct 24 · San Francisco

Local Align #3 — AI x GTM Day: Growth Hackathon, Talks & Social

Talks from founders on how AI products grow, then a growth hackathon where teams tackle go to market problems for five real products, plus a social. For founders and growth builders focused on users and distribution.

Sat, Oct 24 · New York

Fitness × AI: A Build Day

AI After 5, Replit

A build day where founders and AI builders create fitness, wellness and longevity apps, matched into teams and finishing with demos. Hosted by AI After 5, a community advancing women in AI, with Replit, and open to everyone.

Sat, Oct 24 · San Francisco

Lovable x Girls into VC Buildathon

Lovable

A five hour buildathon where teams name a small daily frustration women face and build a fix with Lovable. Hosted by Lovable, Girls in VC and Corgi for women in venture, startups and tech, with no engineering background required.

Sun, Oct 25 · San Francisco

Gemini 4 Argon SF Hackathon

A hackathon building with Google DeepMind's Gemini 4 Argon model across reasoning, visual coding, robotics and world models, with $20K in cash prizes and DeepMind team judges. For ambitious builders who want to push a frontier model.

Sun, Oct 25 · Seattle

Seattle | AI Week Claude Impact Lab Hackathon

Adam Burgh, Nick Ellingson, Peter Chee

A one day social impact hackathon sponsored by Anthropic with the Washington Technology Industry Association, where teams of three or five build open source AI apps, workflows and playbooks for small businesses. For builders who want to apply Claude to practical local problems.

Sun, Oct 25 · San Francisco

Bay Area AI+car hackathon

Chris Anderson

A hackathon where participants add AI navigation to small autonomous cars like the Donkeycar and race them through a miniature city with lanes and traffic signs. For robotics and AI builders who bring their own working car with onboard compute.

Mon, Oct 26 · Paris

DevDay Exchange Community: Paris

A community hackathon where builders create projects with Codex or the OpenAI API over an online weekend, then present them at an evening of demos and judging. For local developers competing for tickets to DevDay Exchange.

Tue, Oct 27 · Paris

The Revenue Engine Hackathon: Paris Edition 🇫🇷

lemlist

A one day hands on session where venture backed startups design, build and launch their sales and go to market setup. Run as an application only cohort of 30 startups for HubSpot for Startups members.

Wed, Oct 28 · San Francisco

ODSC AI x NEBIUS | Hackathon

ODSC, Nebius

A one day hackathon from ODSC and Nebius where participants bring an idea and spend the day building it alongside other AI builders. Free to apply with limited spots, aimed at developers who want hands on build time.

Wed, Oct 28 · San Francisco

Open Call: ComfyUI Dev Platform Challenge Build Night

ComfyUI, Higgsfield

A build night where developers rebuild generative media apps as open source on the Comfy Developer Platform, with Comfy engineers on hand. Includes talks from ComfyUI and Runpod, demos, and a competition with cash and GPU prizes.

Thu, Oct 29 – Fri, Oct 30 · San Francisco

Robot Hackathon: Harnessing Physical AI & Data

A hands on robotics hackathon run by Viam and MongoDB focused on physical AI and the data behind it. Built for engineers who want to work with real robots and data infrastructure.

Thu, Oct 29 · London

Hack for Humanity : (w/ The AI Collective)

The AI Collective

A community hackathon from a local chapter of The AI Collective where teams build planning tools for local needs such as hospital staff rotas, food bank routing and volunteer scheduling. Participants work with Timefold and an AI-powered MCP server.

Thu, Oct 29 · New York

AI Builders Speed Dating hackathon hosted by Lyzr AI & Plug and Play

Lyzr AI, Plug and Play

An evening hackathon that pairs builders who have not met to build a project on Lyzr, starting with a technical workshop and ending with prizes for the top three teams. For AI builders looking for collaborators and a fast build session.

Fri, Oct 30 · San Francisco

micro1 Eval Hackathon

micro1

A virtual hackathon from micro1 where participants challenge a frontier AI model with realistic expert scenarios, then write coded tests with clear scoring criteria, competing for a $10,000 prize pool. For domain experts and engineers interested in AI evaluation.

Fri, Oct 30 · New York

Frontier Hackathon: Build your Autonomous Code Factory

A day long hackathon led by the Obvious research team where participants build autonomous software factories that assign features to coding agents. Free with unlimited tokens, with Obvious credits as prizes for the teams that ship the most.

Fri, Oct 30 · San Francisco

Night Hack by Founders, Inc

Founders, Inc

A five hour evening hackathon at Founders, Inc. where builders make agents, robots, games or side projects, followed by judging and finalist demos. Cash prizes and Anthropic API credits are on offer for developers who want to ship something fast.

Sat, Oct 31 · San Francisco

STRANGER BUILDS I 10k in PRIZES I Halloween hackathon

NERDCONF

Mon, Nov 2 · San Francisco

Fireworks: Deploy with Microsoft & NVIDIA

Microsoft, NVIDIA

A build challenge from Fireworks AI, Microsoft and NVIDIA where teams take open models and deploy a specialized model for a task they define. Entrants build evals, tune quality, latency and cost tradeoffs, and compete for a $10,000 prize.

Mon, Nov 2 · Seattle

Founders’ Build Night: Ship One AI Prototype

A build night where founders work in four person pods with technical mentors to create an AI assisted prototype. Each pod demos a working prototype by the end of the evening.

Wed, Nov 4 · San Francisco

Company Brain Hackathon: Build an AI Agent That Knows Your Organization

An afternoon hackathon where participants build a Company Brain, an AI knowledge system that connects documentation, meeting notes, policies and internal tools for employees and agents. It is part of the TechEquity AI monthly forum series, combining applied AI learning with hands-on building.

Wed, Nov 4 · New York

Supabase + Sodabase + BuilderBase NYC Hackathon

Supabase, Sodabase, BuilderBase

An evening hackathon where developers build apps on Supabase and connect Sodabase to get a data quality score that counts toward judging. Built for hands on builders, with partner API credits and a prize for the strongest project.

Fri, Nov 6 · San Francisco

Hack the Feed: Creator Tools Hackathon with Oriane, GMI Cloud & Lovable at Amplitude HQ!

Oriane, GMI Cloud, Lovable

A hackathon to build tools for creators and social media agencies, with build credits from Oriane, Lovable and GMI Cloud. Teams demo their projects to a jury of founders, investors and creators, suited to developers who like shipping fast.

Sat, Nov 7 – Sun, Nov 8 · San Francisco

Festiverse 2026: The World’s Biggest Festival Hackathon

A hackathon themed on festivals in the age of AI, where teams build apps, agents, voice, AR and creator tools that reshape how people celebrate holidays and cultural moments. Open to builders, designers, founders, artists, students and engineers.

Sat, Nov 7 · San Francisco

AIE Code Summit 2026 Hackathon

Sat, Nov 7 – Sun, Nov 8 · Paris

H Company × 42AI | Computer Use Agents Hackathon

H Company, 42AI, Cognition

A 36 hour hackathon organized by 42AI and H Company where teams build computer use agents that complete real tasks across desktop software. Engineers get API credits and mentorship from H Company researchers and compete for 10,000 euros in cash prizes.

Sat, Nov 7 · San Francisco

Ship Happens: A Seldon Hackathon

Seldon

A one day hackathon by Seldon where developers pick a paid software product and build an alternative people would actually switch to. Teams use any stack and test their apps with Wren, Seldon's QA agent.

Tue, Nov 10 · Amsterdam

SAAF Security Challenge: Help secure our agents

SAAF

A one day hackathon where red teams from Prosus and Skuridat attack the open source Shared Audit Agents Framework agents, then teams build defences across the repository. For auditors, developers and security specialists working on AI agents in audit and compliance.

Thu, Nov 12 – Fri, Nov 13 · Seattle

Attention! Event Postponed-Qdrant Vector Quest: AI-Powered Game Development Hackathon

Qdrant

A hackathon on building games with AI, centered on Qdrant vector search, run through Northeastern University's Seattle career development team. For students and developers interested in vector databases and AI game development; organizers have marked it postponed.

Fri, Nov 13 · San Francisco

Multi-Modal AI for Education Hackathon @ Snowflake | Beta Fund × Epic

Snowflake, Beta Fund, Epic

A hackathon at Snowflake with Beta Fund and Epic on multimodal AI for education, building tools that use voice, handwriting, images and video to support learning. For builders focused on tools teachers and families trust and on measurable learning outcomes.

Fri, Nov 13 · San Francisco

SF Frontier Hackathon: Build your Autonomous Code Factory

Obvious

A full day hackathon run by the Obvious research team where participants build autonomous software factories that let agents take on feature work instead of single prompts. Free with unlimited tokens in an Obvious workspace and over $30K in credit prizes.

Fri, Nov 13 – Sat, Nov 14 · San Francisco

EVOLVE: 8090 AI Hackathon

8090

An overnight build sprint on using AI to modernize legacy enterprise systems, with mentors from 8090 and Vercel and over $3,000 in prizes. For engineers and builders interested in enterprise AI tooling.

Fri, Nov 13 · San Francisco

On-Device AI Hackathon: Cleared for Takeoff ✈️

Viviana Márquez, Heath

A hands-on hackathon where teams of up to four build AI projects that run fully offline using Liquid Foundation Models on Qualcomm hardware. For developers interested in on-device and edge AI, with every project tested with the Wi-Fi turned off.

Sat, Nov 14 · New York

Innodata Hackathon 2026

Innodata

A full day Innodata hackathon where teams build working prototypes on two challenge tracks, Coding Task Factory and Visual Task Factory, for $8,750 in cash prizes. For engineers and AI builders who want a competitive build day.

Sat, Nov 14 – Sun, Nov 15 · San Francisco

AI Research Hackathon

Iterate

A 48 hour hackathon where teams build autonomous research systems, from self improving models to swarms of agents running their own experiments. Teams use partner tools and benchmarks, then pitch live to judges, investors and researchers.

Sat, Nov 14 · San Francisco

DNAForge × MTC: AI × Biology Hackathon

DNAForge, MTC

A one-day hackathon for biology students, early-career scientists and technical builders turning biological problems into working prototypes. About 100 participants choose among tracks in therapeutics, biosecurity and agricultural resilience.

Sat, Nov 14 · San Francisco

She Builds: A Women in AI × Lovable Hackathon

Women in AI Club, Lovable, BuilderBase

A full day, beginner friendly hackathon where women and allies build and publish a working app with Lovable, using free credits and live mentorship. Open to PMs, designers, founders, engineers and students, with demos, community voting and prizes.

Sat, Nov 14 – Sun, Nov 15 · Berlin

ROBOTICS X AI Hackathon - HACKLAB

HackLab

A 48 hour hackathon where teams build working Physical AI prototypes combining robotics and AI, with hardware training and live presentations at the end. It is aimed at engineers, founders and researchers working in or exploring robotics and AI.

Sun, Nov 15 · New York

SILICON ALLEY HACK | Build Cool Hardware

A one day, application based hardware hackathon where teams of four build connected devices with microcontrollers and sensors, using STM32 development boards provided on arrival. For builders who want to work on physical hardware rather than software apps.

Tue, Nov 17 · London

GTM Hackathon by Granola x Gemini

Granola, Google DeepMind

An evening hackathon at Granola where GTM and marketing leaders build with Gemini API credits and the Granola MCP, then demo to judges. For go to market and marketing professionals curious about AI, with no technical background required.

Mon, Nov 23 · San Francisco

Festiverse 2026: Diwali Hackathon

Thu, Nov 26 – Fri, Nov 27 · Amsterdam

Buildathon

A buildathon run by AI Builders, a self organizing community that hosts meetups, hackathons and conferences around the world. For AI developers who want to spend a session building projects alongside peers.

Sat, Apr 17 – Sun, Apr 18 · San Francisco

Telos Hacks

Telos

A free 24-hour in-person hackathon for Bay Area high school students, with tracks in AI, web and apps, and hardware plus a $20,000 prize pool. For teenage builders of any experience level, solo or in teams of up to four.