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October 2026 7 hackathons
Bond pickThu, Oct 22
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.
Bond pickFri, Oct 23 – Sun, Oct 25 · Encode Hub
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.
Bond pickFri, Oct 23 – Sun, Oct 25
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.
Bond pickSat, Oct 24 · The Building Centre
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.
Bond pickSat, Oct 24 · Imperial College 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.
Bond pickSat, Oct 24 · London Institute for Healthcare Engineering - LIHE
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.
November 2026 1 hackathon
Bond pickTue, Nov 17
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.