Opportunities & events
Hackathons, grants, fellowships, residencies, open calls and events for creatives, collected in one place. Each one links to the organiser. Dates are as they published them, so check with them before you plan around it.
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ICAI Summer School – June 29th & 30th, 2026
AI researchers and enthusiasts will dive into cutting-edge topics like AI for science, hybrid intelligence, and neuromorphic computing through talks and workshops led by industry leaders, with plenty of networking and ha…
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Cambridge × Arcade AI Hackathon
The Cambridge x Arcade AI Hackathon will bring together elite AI developers, gamers, and founders—including PhD candidates and industry leaders—to create innovative AI-driven games with chances to win cash, hardware, and…
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Open Source AI Week 2026
A grassroots week-long open-source AI celebration will bring together developers, researchers, and tech enthusiasts for talks, workshops, hackathons, and debates exploring the cutting edge of accessible artificial intell…
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Startup Sprint: Prove you're fundable
A three-day sprint where founders build under real pressure and judges dig into what actually broke and what you changed—no polished pitches allowed, just raw decisions under constraint across Discovery and Pre-seed trac…
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Erbil Intl Book Fair (18th)
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AGNTCon + MCPCon
AGNTCon + MCPCon will bring together the brightest minds in agentic AI—from researchers and open source developers to enterprise engineers and platform teams—for keynotes, technical deep dives, and hands-on expo experien…
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AGNTCon + MCPCon North America
The Linux Foundation's bringing together the engineers and researchers actually shipping agents in production for two days of deep dives into agent architectures, the Model Context Protocol, and what it takes to run thes…
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LegalCon.AI
LegalCon.AI will gather legal professionals to explore how AI is revolutionizing the legal field and shaping the future of law practice.
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Robotics and AI Hackathon 2026 - sold out
The event will run from 9:00 a.m. on October 22 through 3:00 p.m. on October 25, 2026.
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Intl Conference & Exhibition of the Kurdistan Cardiothoracic Society
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The Substrate of Extraction: A Bio Art Show
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Film Screening: The Thinking Game
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Field Trip: Late Night at Moderna Museet
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Meet Your Creative Match presented by DistroKid
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AI Innovation Accelerator | Fall '26 Demo Day
Five Korean AI startups selected for NYU’s Fall 2026 AI Innovation Accelerator will present eight-minute pitches showcasing their U.S. progress and growth plans, followed by networking with founders and potential investo…
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PAI Seminar: A Foundation Model for Power System Operations
Baosen Zhang, an Associate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Washington and NSF CAREER award recipient, will present a physics-driven AI foundation model for reliable, efficient power-…
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Backchannel Berlin (with Inworld)
Researchers working on speech, audio and language models will dig into open challenges in full-duplex speech-to-speech, from training data and evaluation to cross-lingual performance and sub-second serving. The research …
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2026 Blockchain and AI Summit at Harvard
The Blockchain & AI Summit on Oct. 23 will explore how finance, policy, and technology intersect on-chain.
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HACKATHON, BUILD WHAT'S NEXT
Les 23 et 24 octobre 2026, le hackathon BUILD WHAT’S NEXT de FINAXYS réunira pendant 24 heures des étudiants en ingénierie, informatique, data, IA, business et finance pour concevoir des prototypes responsables autour de…
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One Year of AI Tinkerers Valencia — Non-Stop Demos Open to Public
Valencia’s AI builder community will mark its first anniversary with a full day of rapid demos, live product teardowns, and hands-on tables, featuring founders, CEOs, and CTOs presenting projects from agentic project man…
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Encode Hackathon and Conference
Encode London 2026 will bring together developers, founders, researchers, and students for an intense weekend of AI and Web3 innovation, featuring a three-day hackathon with mentorship and prizes, followed by a conferenc…
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ai-PULSE 2026
Europe's top AI conference will bring together industry leaders and engineers for a day of cutting-edge breakthroughs, research findings, and live product demos.
- HackathonCloses today · 23 Oct 2026
Make Her Hack
Prizes: ₹ 25,000
- HackathonCloses today · 23 Oct 2026
IEEE Hack For Humanity
89 registered
- HackathonCloses today · 23 Oct 2026
SVYCA Youth for Earth (Y4E) Hackathon
Prizes: $ 550. 26 registered
- HackathonCloses today · 23 Oct 2026
Build, Ship, Shape: Amazon Developer Hackathon
Prizes: $ 138,000. 64061 registered
- HackathonCloses today · 23 Oct 2026
Cornell Six Sigma Hackathon
114 registered
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Demo Day
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Lovable x Girls into VC Buildathon
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Show & Tell @ Oak Island Gallery – Creatives Getting Coffee
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Stripe x Supabase: AI Payments for the Real Economy Hack
- Hackathon
DevDay Community Hackathon: Berlin
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Agentic AI Hack by Jamie
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Noetic X Nebius One Day Hackathon
- Hackathon
Company Brain Buildathon
- HackathonCloses tomorrow · 24 Oct 2026
Sierra Hacks 2026
24 registered
- HackathonCloses tomorrow · 24 Oct 2026
AI Builder Competition (Hackachusetts)
- HackathonCloses tomorrow · 24 Oct 2026
Gear Up Hacks 2026
4 registered
- HackathonCloses tomorrow · 24 Oct 2026
Deal Flow: NYC's First VC Hackathon @ Betaworks
10 registered
- HackathonCloses tomorrow · 24 Oct 2026
Zero Human Company Hackathon at Whop HQ by Terac
Prizes: $ 2,500
- HackathonCloses tomorrow · 24 Oct 2026
SpartHill Hacks 2026: IBM AI Challenge
- HackathonCloses tomorrow · 24 Oct 2026
Zoftware AgentHack
Prizes: $ 500. 7 registered
- HackathonCloses tomorrow · 24 Oct 2026
Taskforge
Prizes: $ 200. 141 registered
- HackathonCloses tomorrow · 24 Oct 2026
uXperience Design Jam sponsored by Sunlife
68 registered
- HackathonCloses tomorrow · 24 Oct 2026
Society of Software Engineers | 2nd Annual Halloween Hackathon
20 registered
- HackathonCloses tomorrow · 24 Oct 2026
Neighborhood Hacks
Prizes: $ 57,866. 607 registered
- HackathonCloses tomorrow · 24 Oct 2026
Black Code Collective Hacktoberfest
Prizes: $ 1,000. 55 registered
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Future Reality AI Film Festival (NYC)-Film × Advertising × Creative Technology Screenings · Awards · Industry Leaders Networking
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Artist Meetup II
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TLV GTM: AI Masterclass
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Gemini 4 Argon SF Hackathon
Builders will push Gemini 4 Argon through projects in advanced reasoning, visual coding, robotics, and world models, competing for $20,000 in prizes.
- HackathonCloses in 2 days · 25 Oct 2026
The Top 500 (UH v2)
3 registered
- HackathonCloses in 2 days · 25 Oct 2026
CodeFest 2026 by ColorStackBU
Prizes: $ 800
- HackathonCloses in 2 days · 25 Oct 2026
Action Space
5 registered
- HackathonCloses in 2 days · 25 Oct 2026
Gator Hack V - AI Days 2026
Prizes: $ 6,000. 198 registered
- HackathonCloses in 2 days · 25 Oct 2026
UGAHacks CADathon
18 registered
- HackathonCloses in 2 days · 25 Oct 2026
HarborHack 2026 - Agent In The Loop
Prizes: $ 1,500. 32 registered
- HackathonCloses in 2 days · 25 Oct 2026
2026 AI for Good Hackathon
42 registered
- HackathonCloses in 2 days · 25 Oct 2026
HackPSU Fall 2026
Prizes: $ 3,500. 57 registered
- HackathonCloses in 2 days · 25 Oct 2026
Marina Hacks 6.0
3 registered
- HackathonCloses in 2 days · 25 Oct 2026
UXperience: Waves of Becoming
- HackathonCloses in 2 days · 25 Oct 2026
HowdyHack 2026
1 registered
- HackathonCloses in 2 days · 25 Oct 2026
GeauxHack 2026
13 registered
- HackathonCloses in 2 days · 25 Oct 2026
Cal Hacks 13.0
Prizes: $ 83,328. 212 registered
- HackathonCloses in 2 days · 25 Oct 2026
DS+X Hackathon 2026
Prizes: $ 5,500. 19 registered
- HackathonCloses in 2 days · 25 Oct 2026
HackOHI/O 2026
6 registered
- HackathonCloses in 2 days · 25 Oct 2026
SBUHacks 2026
Prizes: $ 1,000. 14 registered
- HackathonCloses in 2 days · 25 Oct 2026
IEEE ClimateChain Global Hackathon
Prizes: $ 3,000. 1088 registered
- HackathonCloses in 2 days · 25 Oct 2026
GLITCHATHON
Prizes: ₹ 200. 60 registered
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Lumara Film Festival World Premiere
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Build Your Content System: AI + Personal Brand Workshop (with Wispr Flow & Stanley)
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FoF_Israel: The Rise of Design Agents | 🍂 Fall 2026 @HiBob
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The Swing Vote: Why We Bet Our Careers on Frontier AI Security
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Deep Diving into AI Infrastructure
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Meta Global AI Developer Hackathon
Meta’s 10-day global AI hackathon will give selected developers access to its latest models, live workshops, and expert office hours as they build projects across indie and startup tracks. Entries will be judged on techn…
- HackathonCloses in 3 days · 26 Oct 2026
NextSpark Hacks
Prizes: $ 100. 93 registered
- HackathonCloses in 3 days · 26 Oct 2026
Build With AI: Basics
Prizes: $ 2,500. 4626 registered
- HackathonCloses in 3 days · 26 Oct 2026
Build North: Ship Something Real
81 registered
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5th Intl Conf. on Trauma, Education & Responsibility in Post-Conflict Societies
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Percepta x Sapienne - Builders After Dark: An evening for women in AI
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State of AI 2026 - NYC launch event
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Are We Running Too Many Agents?
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Stockholm | Claude for Designers Vol. 3
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AI Automation for Beginners: Halloween Special! 🎃
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The Agentic Web Explained
- HackathonCloses in 4 days · 27 Oct 2026
HTCJ × PROOF Aviation Futures Challenge
124 registered
- HackathonCloses in 4 days · 27 Oct 2026
Hack to the Future
19 registered
- HackathonCloses in 4 days · 27 Oct 2026
Life After Code
Prizes: $ 45,000. 2945 registered
- HackathonCloses in 4 days · 27 Oct 2026
Engage 6.0 – Code with AI Hackathon
Prizes: $ 45,000. 9 registered
- HackathonCloses in 4 days · 27 Oct 2026
OpenCV AI Competition 2026, powered by AWS
Prizes: $ 20,250. 5675 registered
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dev/ai/nyc
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Agents in NYC
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The Red Sea Ventures Consumer Brand Summit
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Women in AI | Factory x Sapienne x Sequoia
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Who Controls the Future of AI Coding?
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Running Production with Agents w/ Rootly AI, NVIDIA, Replit, & WorkOS
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Remathau: People of the Ocean. Documentary film screening
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Unblock AI • Lisbon Meetup #08
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AI across Operations
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Ukrainian brand launch
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AI & Positive Impact
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Build x Agents [ADVANCED]: Builders' Exchange — Claude Code, Codex, +
- HackathonCloses in 5 days · 28 Oct 2026
SUSTAIN-A-THON 2.0
Prizes: $ 150,000. 34 registered
- HackathonCloses in 5 days · 28 Oct 2026
2026 International CodeTheCure Hackathon
218 registered
- HackathonCloses in 5 days · 28 Oct 2026
AWS Communication Developer Services (CDS) Agentic AI Partner Hackathon
Prizes: $ 40,000. 993 registered
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FDEs in AI for Science
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AI/ML Lecture & Networking @ Intuit
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Responsible Tech Summit 2026. From Principles to Power: Embedding Accountability in the AI Era
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So… what is TechBio? An AI x Bio evening in Barcelona
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ThirdPlace - Croquis (Kroki) with Aslisu Art & Sthlm Life Drawing Sessions. (POLE-CROQUIS: SPOOKY EDITION)
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Is AI making us less creative?: An Oxford-style debate
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Artist Talk: Pocko After Hours w/ Nomoco at Pocko Gallery
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AI Movie Club x The Terminator (1984)
- HackathonCloses in 6 days · 29 Oct 2026
Trick or Build: Mel × Prompt Anything × AI Builders
3 registered
- HackathonCloses in 6 days · 29 Oct 2026
Hybrid Micro Mouse Challenge
Prizes: ₹ 55,000. 8 registered
- HackathonCloses in 6 days · 29 Oct 2026
Girls Who Code HHS Hackathon 2026
Prizes: $ 50. 41 registered
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NYC Frontier Hackathon: Build your Autonomous Code Factory
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Designers & Machines October 2026
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Pancake AI x Corgi
- HackathonCloses in 7 days · 30 Oct 2026
Buksi SITE (STEM Innovation & Talent Expo) 2026
2 registered