Workshops, talks, and gatherings to get you out into San Francisco.
AWS Community Day will feature expert-led sessions on Generative and Agentic AI with Amazon Bedrock, SageMaker, and Strands Agents SDK, plus live demos from the top eight AWS hackathon teams. Cloud builders and industry professionals will explore practical AI applications, responsible agent design, and the latest developments shaping cloud technology.
Explore eventAWS Community Day will bring together Bay Area builders for a day diving into generative AI and agentic workflows, featuring live hackathon finals where the top 8 teams demo their AI projects built on AWS alongside technical sessions led by industry experts. Whether you're an experienced architect or starting your cloud journey, you'll connect with fellow builders exploring how autonomous agents and tools like Amazon Bedrock and SageMaker are transforming real-world applications.
Explore eventBuilders will race against the clock at FAST FORWARD to create AI apps, agents, and VR experiences with backing from Vercel and Meta, with Neon Postgres supporting the technical infrastructure across three competitive tracks. From breakfast through live demos, participants will ship innovations while mentors provide real-time support and judges evaluate the next generation of intelligent, adaptive tools.
Explore eventThe Fincantieri Maritime Dual-Use Hackathon will bring engineers, developers, founders, researchers, and designers together for 36 hours to prototype solutions in maritime cybersecurity, vessel design, and software-defined ships, using Qualcomm and Arduino hardware. Fincantieri experts and mentors will support teams, with a Qualcomm-powered laptop prize and possible follow-on development for promising concepts.
Explore eventDevelopers and AI researchers will compete in a two-day ExecuTorch hackathon across three hardware tracks—Snapdragon X Elite PCs, Samsung Galaxy devices, or Arduino boards—to build cutting-edge on-device AI applications using PyTorch's efficient edge deployment framework. Winning teams snag Meta AI glasses and premium hardware for each member.
Explore eventThe Universal Celebration Hackathon will challenge builders to prototype AI-native companies powered by collaborating agents, tackling real-world opportunities across six industry tracks. Teams will draw on tools from leading AI and automation sponsors, compete for more than $10,000 in cash and credits, and get guidance from founders, engineers, and AI leaders, including a Google DeepMind strategic advisor.
Explore eventBuilders, researchers, founders, and investors will team up to create working products that reason across images, video, audio, documents, and real-world data. The build-first hackathon will feature application, agent, and infrastructure tracks, with technical credits, cash prizes, and Beta Fund Fellowship opportunities for standout teams.
Explore eventOn Oct 24–25, 175 hand-picked founders and professionals with 2+ years of experience will use AI and Emergent’s tools to turn ambitious ideas into working products, with YC judges awarding up to $10,000 and a direct interview for an upcoming YC batch. The weekend will welcome pre-seed and pre-company builders across engineering, product, design, operations, sales, and finance, even those new to coding.
Explore eventThe third annual Hack for Social Impact will bring technical and non-technical innovators together for a weekend of building solutions in climate, mental health, justice reform, and art and design, with nonprofit partners including the UNCCD. Winners will share $5,000 in prizes, and the event will offer sponsor credits, building on alumni successes that include UN Climate Conference presentations and YC-backed startups.
Explore eventThe Patch the Conference Hackathon will bring builders together to create practical fixes for conference frustrations, with workshops, sponsor tools, free OpenAI credits, and a full day of prototyping and demos. Projects will be judged on stage, with iPhone Duos and other prizes up for grabs; featured tools include FalkorDB, an open-source graph database for AI agents.
Explore eventOn October 28, AI builders will spend a full day developing ideas into projects, with limited spots and free applications. Attendees will collaborate with other AI builders in a hands-on build session.
Explore eventAttendees will build a LangGraph-powered ML engineer agent that evaluates, fine-tunes, deploys, and retrains open models on their own AWS infrastructure, using Union.ai’s durable workflow runtime. The hands-on session will cover model ownership and sovereign AI, followed by time to experiment with models, datasets, and evaluation workflows.
Explore eventThis hands-on session will show how to build a LangGraph-powered ML engineer agent that evaluates, fine-tunes, deploys, and retrains open models using Union.ai on AWS, keeping models, data, and infrastructure under your control. Attendees will then experiment with their own models and datasets, exploring practical approaches to sovereign AI and end-to-end model ownership.
Explore eventFestiverse 2026 will gather a vibrant mix of builders, designers, founders, artists, and engineers to innovate the future of festivals through AI, AR, and immersive tech, reimagining how we celebrate cultural moments worldwide. This global hackathon promises groundbreaking creations from AI planners to virtual celebration platforms that will transform holiday experiences.
Explore eventTeams of 3–5 will spend 48 hours building AI research systems that can run experiments, improve themselves, and collaborate as agent swarms, using partner models, tools, and benchmarks. Participants will receive GPU and API credits, lab mentorship, and prizes, then pitch their work to judges, investors, and leading researchers.
Explore eventDevelopers, ML and edge engineers, founders, and students will build offline AI applications using Liquid Foundation Models and Qualcomm iQ9s, then test them with Wi-Fi switched off. Qualcomm Developer Relations professional Heath Blandford and Liquid AI Developer Relations professional Viviana Márquez will lead a workshop, with Qualcomm iQ9s and Rubik Pi boards awarded to top teams.
Explore eventOn November 28, robotics and AI engineers, researchers, and builders will team up with Google DeepMind to prototype Physical AI across perception, spatial reasoning, dexterity, autonomy, and human-machine interaction. The day will feature hands-on building with robotics and simulation tools, finalist demos, and judging by NVIDIA Gen AI Solutions Architect Vineeth Kalluru.
Explore eventBuilders, founders, and AI enthusiasts will develop working AI sales copilots that tackle challenges like lead prioritization, follow-ups, and real-time coaching, with top prototypes eligible for equity-based prizes. Judges will include professionals affiliated with OpenAI, Y Combinator, Google, Apple, Cisco, NVIDIA, and Perplexity, alongside Stanford GSB/MSx alumni.
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