Every AI hackathon in San Francisco, with Bond's picks marked

Thu, Oct 22 · super{set} office

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Fri, Oct 23 · Menlo Park

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 · AWS Builder Loft

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

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

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 · Jen-Hsun Huang Engineering Center

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.

Sat, Oct 24 – Sun, Oct 25 · Y Combinator

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 · 1885 Mission St

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 · Stanford Court 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 · Bright Data

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

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 · 639 Howard St

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 · 1868 Floribunda Ave

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 · 3120 Scott Blvd

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 · 425 Bush St

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

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 · Circuit Launch

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.

Wed, Oct 28

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 · Frontier Tower 🧑‍🚀

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 · Robotics Center of Silicon Valley

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.

Fri, Oct 30 · SF Area

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 · Fort Mason

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

STRANGER BUILDS I 10k in PRIZES I Halloween hackathon

NERDCONF

Mon, Nov 2

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.

Wed, Nov 4 · 135 Constitution Dr

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.

Fri, Nov 6 · Amplitude Analytics

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

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

AIE Code Summit 2026 Hackathon

Sat, Nov 7

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.

Fri, Nov 13 · Menlo Park

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

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 · 8090 HQ

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

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 – Sun, Nov 15

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 · Berkeley

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

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.

Mon, Nov 23 · AWS Builder Loft

Festiverse 2026: Diwali Hackathon

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

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.