This Week
6ETHGlobal Tokyo
ETHGlobal
In-person ETHGlobal hackathon in Tokyo, Japan
Agents of Chaos
CrowdStrike & AWS
Three-act virtual red-teaming game where players use prompt injection to manipulate adversary-controlled AI agents; Act 3 carries $70K.
Amazon Nova AI Challenge
Amazon Science
University competition: 10 teams as developers or red-teamers for trusted agentic AI
AWS AI League 2026
AWS
Two tracks: Model Customization (SageMaker) & Agentic AI (Bedrock AgentCore); qualification at AWS Summits, Grand Finale at re:Invent 2026
RoCo-Spring
NeurIPS 2026 Competition Track
Four tracks — optical flow, stereo matching, scene flow, and an open exploration track — measuring dense correspondence under realistic distribution shifts for embodied perception stacks.
MIT Sloan SSAC 2027 Research Competition
MIT Sloan Sports Analytics Conference
Sports-analytics research paper competition; abstracts due Oct 1 2026 (full paper Dec 4 for invited authors), all submissions must be open-source with a public code repo, finalists present at SSAC27 in March 2027
This Month
8Dark Factory Hackathon
WeAreDevelopers & BAND
Build a software factory in BAND Desktop: a band of coding agents that plans work, implements it and checks its own results.
Multiplayer Data Science Agents
PyMC Labs
One-day NYC hackathon (#AIWeekNY) building data science agents with Daimon across analysis, data journalism and benchmark tracks.
Agenthon 2026
Society of Quantitative Analysts & CEWIT, Stony Brook University
Teams of one to three ship Docker agents across four quant-finance tracks — coding, time-series forecasting, market simulation, and tabular prediction — scored through automated verification gates; registration closes September 28.
BEHAVIOR Challenge 2026
Stanford Vision and Learning Lab
Embodied agents solve 100 full-length household tasks requiring long-horizon reasoning, navigation, and bimanual manipulation in simulation
Agentic Enterprise AI Hackathon
Box & AWS
Overnight in-person hackathon at Amazon Day 1 (Seattle) building enterprise agents over unstructured data with Box and AWS; US residents only.
AMD Developer Hackathon ACT III
AMD & lablab.ai
Build AI agents and high-performance AI apps on AMD cloud GPUs, with on-site finals in Rome, Milan and Imperia.
TechEx Amsterdam Hackathon
TechEx Events & lablab.ai
Official AI & Big Data Expo Europe hackathon to build AI applications and agents, with an online build then on-site showcase at RAI Amsterdam.
Amazon Developer Hackathon
Amazon
Build across Fire TV, Alexa+, Bee and Ring; the Alexa+ track asks for a self-hosted MCP server or Agent Skill, plus an AWS Builder (Bedrock/AgentCore) mini-challenge.
Coming Up
8AWS CDS Agentic AI Partner Hackathon
AWS
AWS Partners build agentic conversational solutions on AWS Communication Developer Services powered by Amazon Bedrock AgentCore.
ARC Prize 2026
ARC Prize Foundation
First interactive reasoning benchmark; 1,000+ levels across 150+ environments; agents must explore, learn, plan, and adapt; Grand Prize unclaimed from 2025 carries forward
AIMO Interpretability
Fields Model Initiative
Submit a Codabench system that decides whether a frontier model solved an unseen olympiad problem robustly or got there by spurious reasoning.
AI Genesis 2026
lablab.ai
Global hybrid hackathon building real-world AI/agent projects on partner tech, culminating live at /function1 in Dubai
ETHGlobal Mumbai
ETHGlobal
36-hour Ethereum hackathon in Mumbai, India; ETHGlobal's new India location
Vultr Agent Rush
Vultr & lablab.ai
Build web-based agents that write/run code or operate a real browser with every action sandboxed on Vultr; on-site finale in Salt Lake City.
Steerability Challenge
IBM Research
Design steering pipelines in the standardized .spipe format that cut model sycophancy without eroding general capability; deadline is anywhere-on-earth and winners present at the NeurIPS workshop in Paris.
DevFest Münster Agentic AI Hackathon
GDG Münster
One-day in-person sprint themed 'Build, Secure, Scale: Developers and Builders in the Agentic Era' with hard live demos only.
Later
1Lablab.ai AI Agent Hackathons
Lablab.ai
New AI hackathons every 2-3 weeks, check site for latest