{ "generated": "2026-10-28", "items": [ { "id": "hacker-house-goa-2026", "name": "Hacker House Goa 2026", "platform": "Devfolio", "url": "https://hacker-house-goa-2026.devfolio.co/", "type": "hackathon", "format": "hybrid", "location": "Goa, India (private beach resort)", "start": "2026-10-28", "end": "2026-10-31", "reg": null, "prize": 50000, "prize_kind": "unknown", "prize_note": "\"$50,000+ in bounties\" with form unspecified (likely token/credit bounties); stay, meals and workspace covered", "summary": "Four-day AI-x-crypto builder residency in Goa with sponsor bounties and an on-chain-voted demo day.", "conf": "confirmed", "eligibility": "Open application with shortlisting tasks and a waitlist; free to attend once accepted", "audience": "all", "tags": [ "ai-crypto", "residency" ] }, { "id": "build-your-first-ai-app-2026", "name": "Build Your First AI App", "platform": "Devpost", "url": "https://build-your-first-ai-app.devpost.com/", "type": "hackathon", "format": "online", "location": "Online", "start": "2026-10-27", "end": "2026-11-27", "reg": null, "prize": null, "prize_kind": "non-cash", "prize_note": "1 non-cash prize, no cash pool listed", "summary": "Beginner-friendly 30-day online hackathon to ship a first AI app: chatbots, study assistants or document Q&A tools.", "conf": "confirmed", "eligibility": "Students only, above legal age of majority; companies/professional orgs excluded; all countries except standard exceptions", "audience": "students", "tags": [ "beginner-friendly", "ai-apps", "chatbots" ] }, { "id": "codegeist-2026", "name": "Codegeist 2026: Build with context. Ship with confidence.", "platform": "Devpost", "url": "https://codegeist2026.devpost.com/", "type": "coding-challenge", "format": "online", "location": "Online", "start": "2026-10-27", "end": "2026-12-22", "reg": null, "prize": 120000, "prize_kind": "cash", "prize_note": "$120,000 in cash across 7 cash prizes plus 1 non-cash prize", "summary": "Atlassian's annual hackathon: build AI-powered Forge apps that turn connected context into new Atlassian product capabilities.", "conf": "confirmed", "eligibility": "Above legal age of majority in country of residence; excluded: Belarus, Brazil, Crimea, Cuba, Iran, North Korea, Myanmar, Quebec, Russia, Sudan, Syria", "audience": "all", "tags": [ "atlassian", "forge", "enterprise-ai" ] }, { "id": "langcode-2027-multilingual-code-generation", "name": "LangCode 2027 Shared Task 1: Multilingual Code Generation", "platform": "Codabench", "url": "https://www.codabench.org/competitions/18470/", "type": "coding-challenge", "format": "online", "location": "Online", "start": "2026-10-27", "end": "2027-01-25", "reg": null, "prize": null, "prize_kind": "non-cash", "prize_note": "No cash prize; shared task with system-description paper track", "summary": "Generate functions from problems described in one of 50 natural languages, scored by Pass@1 on hidden tests.", "conf": "confirmed", "eligibility": "Open worldwide; one Codabench account per team, team name and affiliation required with each submission", "audience": "all", "tags": [ "code-generation", "llm" ] }, { "id": "dakar-bitcoin-hack-2026", "name": "Dakar Bitcoin Hack by BTrust", "platform": "Devpost", "url": "https://dakar-bitcoin-hack-2026.devpost.com/", "type": "hackathon", "format": "online", "location": "Online", "start": "2026-10-26", "end": "2026-11-20", "reg": null, "prize": 900, "prize_kind": "non-cash", "prize_note": "$900 awarded in crypto (bitcoin), not fiat cash, across 3 prizes", "summary": "100% online hack building Bitcoin, Lightning, nostr and AI tools for African users; deadline Nov 20 8:00pm UTC.", "conf": "confirmed", "eligibility": "Students only, above legal age of majority; companies/professional orgs excluded; all countries except standard exceptions (Africa-focused problem space but globally open)", "audience": "students", "tags": [ "bitcoin", "nostr", "ai" ] }, { "id": "hackerrank-micro1-eval-hackathon-2026", "name": "micro1 Eval Hackathon", "platform": "HackerRank", "url": "https://www.hackerrank.com/event/micro1-eval-hackathon", "type": "agent-challenge", "format": "online", "location": "Online / worldwide", "start": "2026-10-30", "end": "2026-11-09", "reg": "2026-10-30", "prize": 10000, "prize_kind": "cash", "prize_note": "$10,000 total ($5,000/$3,000/$2,000); paid via micro1's approved payout method, winners cover taxes", "summary": "micro1's AI-evaluation challenge: opens Oct 30, submissions close Nov 7; solo only, for experienced developers.", "conf": "confirmed", "eligibility": "18+, at least 2 years professional experience, INDIVIDUALS ONLY (no teams); excludes Russia, Belarus, Ukraine, Iran, Cuba, Syria, N.Korea and 9 more", "audience": "all", "tags": [ "evals", "agents" ] }, { "id": "kiroween-2026", "name": "Kiroween 2026", "platform": "Devpost", "url": "https://kiroween.devpost.com/", "type": "coding-challenge", "format": "online", "location": "Online / worldwide", "start": "2026-10-30", "end": "2026-12-04", "reg": "2026-12-04", "prize": 100000, "prize_kind": "cash", "prize_note": "$100,000 in cash; per-category split announced Oct 30", "summary": "Kiro's Halloween-themed agentic-coding hackathon: build a brand-new app with Kiro across four spooky categories.", "conf": "confirmed", "eligibility": "Legal age of majority in country of residence; worldwide except embargoed; needs a Kiro or AWS account; new projects only", "audience": "all", "tags": [ "agentic-coding", "kiro", "aws" ] }, { "id": "mks-ai-ml-hackathon-2026", "name": "MKS AI/ML Hackathon", "platform": "HackerEarth (MKS Inc.)", "url": "https://www.hackerearth.com/challenges/competitive/mks-inc-hackathon/", "type": "hackathon", "format": "online", "location": "Online", "start": "2026-10-30", "end": "2026-11-06", "reg": null, "prize": null, "prize_kind": "unknown", "prize_note": "No prize information published on the challenge page.", "summary": "Week-long online AI and data hackathon run by MKS Inc. on HackerEarth.", "conf": "confirmed", "eligibility": "Listing describes it as an opportunity for student developers and early-career professionals; full eligibility and country terms are not published on the page.", "audience": "all", "tags": [ "ml", "data" ] }, { "id": "stemergent-hacks-2026", "name": "STEMergent Hacks 2026", "platform": "Devpost", "url": "https://stemergent-hacks.devpost.com/", "type": "hackathon", "format": "online", "location": "Online / worldwide", "start": "2026-10-30", "end": "2026-11-15", "reg": null, "prize": null, "prize_kind": "non-cash", "prize_note": "Non-cash: STEMergent developer/intern roles (5 winners), DeployXA credits, more TBA", "summary": "Ideathon or hackathon pathway solving problems for students, schools, nonprofits and communities.", "conf": "confirmed", "eligibility": "Middle school, high school or college students; all countries bar standard exclusions", "audience": "students", "tags": [ "social-good", "student" ] }, { "id": "tum-blockchain-ai-hackathon-2026", "name": "TUM Blockchain & AI Hackathon 2026", "platform": "Devfolio", "url": "https://tum.devfolio.co/", "type": "agent-challenge", "format": "hybrid", "location": "House of Communication, Munich, Germany", "start": "2026-10-30", "end": "2026-10-31", "reg": null, "prize": 4650, "prize_kind": "cash", "prize_note": "EUR 4,000 BSV Blockchain track pool (~$4.65k); further sponsor tracks to be announced", "summary": "30-hour Munich sprint on agentic payments: letting autonomous AI agents transact safely onchain.", "conf": "confirmed", "eligibility": "Teams of 1-5, free registration; no country or student restriction stated", "audience": "all", "tags": [ "agentic-payments", "web3" ] }, { "id": "airwallex-agentic-banking-2026", "name": "Airwallex Agentic Banking Hackathon", "platform": "HackerEarth", "url": "https://airwallex.hackerearth.com/", "type": "agent-challenge", "format": "hybrid", "location": "Remote build + optional San Francisco Demo Day", "start": "2026-10-25", "end": "2026-11-19", "reg": "2026-10-23", "prize": 80000, "prize_kind": "mixed", "prize_note": "WARNING: '$100K' headline mixes ~$80k awards (never stated as cash) with $76k credits (AWS $50k, Base44 $16k, Claude $10k)", "summary": "Build AI agents that run real financial workflows on Airwallex APIs; global remote build with an optional SF Demo Day.", "conf": "approximate", "eligibility": "18+ worldwide, solo or teams up to 4; application and acceptance required. HackerEarth listing shows a conflicting Oct 5 - Nov 13 window", "audience": "all", "tags": [ "agents", "fintech" ] }, { "id": "global-ai-hackathon-devcon-2026-mel", "name": "Global AI Hackathon - Devcon 2026 By Mel", "platform": "Devpost", "url": "https://trick-or-build.devpost.com/", "type": "agent-challenge", "format": "hybrid", "location": "Listed Online; description describes an in-person Halloween build night in Miami, FL", "start": "2026-10-31", "end": "2026-11-01", "reg": null, "prize": null, "prize_kind": "non-cash", "prize_note": "1 non-cash prize, no cash pool listed", "summary": "Build your own AI assistant with Mel; Devpost lists it online but copy describes a Miami in-person build night.", "conf": "approximate", "eligibility": "Students only, above legal age of majority; companies/professional orgs excluded; all countries except standard exceptions, but the in-person Miami framing may limit practical participation", "audience": "students", "tags": [ "ai-assistant", "mel", "miami" ] }, { "id": "product-space-agentic-ai-hackathon-2026", "name": "Agentic AI Hackathon (Product Space)", "platform": "Unstop (Product Space)", "url": "https://unstop.com/hackathons/agentic-ai-hackathon-product-space-1771078", "type": "agent-challenge", "format": "online", "location": "Online (IST kickoff)", "start": "2026-10-31", "end": "2026-10-31", "reg": "2026-10-31", "prize": 113, "prize_kind": "mixed", "prize_note": "INR 5,000 / 3,000 / 2,000 cash (INR 10,000 total, approx US$113) plus in-kind prizes stated as worth INR 80,000. The same organiser runs near-identical duplicate listings ('AI Product Hackathon', 'Gen-AI Product Hackathon') on the same date.", "summary": "One-day online build-first hackathon to ship a working agentic AI product with a live demo.", "conf": "confirmed", "eligibility": "Open to all on Unstop (filter 'All'); individuals or teams up to 2 recommended; all development must happen in the hackathon window. No country restriction stated, but the event runs on IST.", "audience": "all", "tags": [ "agents", "product" ] }, { "id": "stranger-builds-halloween-ai-hackathon-2026", "name": "Stranger Builds: Halloween AI Hackathon (Online)", "platform": "Luma (STRANGER BUILDS / NERDCONF / Get on Board)", "url": "https://luma.com/strangerbuilds-online", "type": "hackathon", "format": "hybrid", "location": "Online from anywhere, optional in-person day in San Francisco or Melbourne", "start": "2026-10-31", "end": "2026-11-07", "reg": null, "prize": 10000, "prize_kind": "mixed", "prize_note": "'US$10,000 in cash prizes and credits' - split between cash and sponsor credits not published; challenges and judges still TBA. End date approximate: the page says one day (Oct 31) plus 'seven days online to ship'; dev.events lists the window as Oct 31 - Nov 8.", "summary": "Halloween-themed AI hackathon: one build day online or in SF/Melbourne, then a week online to ship.", "conf": "approximate", "eligibility": "Open to anyone joining online from anywhere; registration is by 'Request to Join' and subject to host approval.", "audience": "all", "tags": [ "agents", "rapid-build" ] }, { "id": "trmi-lovhack-multiplayer-2026", "name": "TRMI x Lovhack: Multiplayer Everything Hackathon", "platform": "Devpost", "url": "https://lovhack-trmi-2026.devpost.com/", "type": "hackathon", "format": "online", "location": "Online", "start": "2026-10-31", "end": "2026-11-01", "reg": null, "prize": 300, "prize_kind": "cash", "prize_note": "$300 cash (single prize)", "summary": "48-hour online hackathon building multiplayer apps with trmi's shared AI-coding-agent workspace.", "conf": "confirmed", "eligibility": "Students only, above legal age of majority; teams of 2-4 registered via trmi.dev; companies excluded; all countries except standard exceptions", "audience": "students", "tags": [ "ai-coding-agent", "multiplayer", "trmi" ] }, { "id": "hackerrank-orchestrate-oct-2026", "name": "HackerRank Orchestrate - October Edition", "platform": "HackerRank", "url": "https://www.hackerrank.com/hackerrank-orchestrate-october26", "type": "agent-challenge", "format": "online", "location": "Online / worldwide", "start": "2026-10-24", "end": "2026-10-25", "reg": null, "prize": 10900, "prize_kind": "mixed", "prize_note": "$2,400 cash ($1,200 1st + $300 each 2nd-5th) plus $5k/$2.5k/$1k OpenAI Codex credits for top 3 Codex builds", "summary": "24-hour solo sprint to design, build and ship an AI agent, then defend it in an AI-judge voice interview.", "conf": "confirmed", "eligibility": "Open worldwide, individual entry; no November 2026 round announced yet", "audience": "all", "tags": [ "agents", "llm" ] }, { "id": "semeval-2027-task12-artemotion-subtask1", "name": "SemEval 2027 Task 12 ArtEmotion-28: Subtask 1 - Cross-Cultural Emotion Prediction", "platform": "Codabench", "url": "https://www.codabench.org/competitions/18466/", "type": "benchmark", "format": "online", "location": "Online", "start": "2026-10-24", "end": "2027-02-01", "reg": null, "prize": null, "prize_kind": "non-cash", "prize_note": "No cash prize; SemEval shared task with system-description paper track", "summary": "Predict cross-cultural emotion responses to artworks.", "conf": "confirmed", "eligibility": "Open worldwide; free Codabench registration", "audience": "all", "tags": [ "nlp", "multimodal" ] }, { "id": "semeval-2027-task12-artemotion-subtask2", "name": "SemEval 2027 Task 12 ArtEmotion-28: Subtask 2 - Cross-Cultural Sentiment Divergence Prediction", "platform": "Codabench", "url": "https://www.codabench.org/competitions/18467/", "type": "benchmark", "format": "online", "location": "Online", "start": "2026-10-24", "end": "2027-02-01", "reg": null, "prize": null, "prize_kind": "non-cash", "prize_note": "No cash prize; SemEval shared task with system-description paper track", "summary": "Predict divergence in sentiment across cultures for artworks.", "conf": "confirmed", "eligibility": "Open worldwide; free Codabench registration", "audience": "all", "tags": [ "nlp", "multimodal" ] }, { "id": "semeval-2027-task12-artemotion-subtask3", "name": "SemEval 2027 Task 12 ArtEmotion-28: Subtask 3 - Image-Only Cross-Cultural Sentiment Prediction", "platform": "Codabench", "url": "https://www.codabench.org/competitions/18468/", "type": "benchmark", "format": "online", "location": "Online", "start": "2026-10-24", "end": "2027-01-17", "reg": null, "prize": null, "prize_kind": "non-cash", "prize_note": "No cash prize; SemEval shared task with system-description paper track", "summary": "Predict per-language positive-response rates from the artwork image alone.", "conf": "confirmed", "eligibility": "Open worldwide; free Codabench registration", "audience": "all", "tags": [ "nlp", "multimodal" ] }, { "id": "agentic-hackathon-devin", "name": "Agentic Hackathon (with Devin)", "platform": "Devpost", "url": "https://agentic-hackathon.devpost.com/", "type": "agent-challenge", "format": "hybrid", "location": "Online first round; in-person finals in Dhaka, Bangladesh", "start": "2026-11-01", "end": "2026-11-10", "reg": null, "prize": 480, "prize_kind": "cash", "prize_note": "$480 in cash (single prize)", "summary": "Build useful AI-powered products with Devin; online first round, Dhaka finals day for selected teams.", "conf": "confirmed", "eligibility": "Above legal age of majority; Devpost lists all countries except standard exceptions, but the event is framed as nationwide for Bangladesh builders and finalists must attend in Dhaka; teams of 3-4", "audience": "all", "tags": [ "devin", "agents", "bangladesh" ] }, { "id": "vericodegen-lean-refactor-arena-2026", "name": "VeriCodeGen: Lean Refactor Arena", "platform": "NeurIPS 2026", "url": "https://vericodegen.github.io/", "type": "coding-challenge", "format": "online", "location": "Online; workshop Atlanta, Dec 12", "start": "2026-11-01", "end": "2026-11-08", "reg": "2026-11-03", "prize": null, "prize_kind": "unknown", "prize_note": "Track winners \"receive a prize\" plus a workshop talk, but no amounts are published and they are called provisional", "summary": "Two-track arena asking whether agents can refactor Lean 4 proofs to be better, not merely correct.", "conf": "approximate", "eligibility": "Two tracks: closed-source harness (<=$3 API spend/problem) and open-source (4xA100, 48h); limits not stated", "audience": "all", "tags": [ "coding-agents", "lean" ] }, { "id": "apart-ai-collusion-sprint-2026", "name": "AI Collusion Research Sprint", "platform": "Apart Research", "url": "https://apartresearch.com/sprints/ai-collusion-research-sprint-2026-10-23-to-2026-10-25", "type": "hackathon", "format": "hybrid", "location": "Online + hubs in New York City and Hong Kong", "start": "2026-10-23", "end": "2026-10-25", "reg": "2026-10-25", "prize": 2000, "prize_kind": "cash", "prize_note": "$1,000/$500/$300/$100/$100 cash, paid by bank transfer, team prizes split equally", "summary": "Weekend research sprint on AI agent collusion: detection, auditing and mitigation methods.", "conf": "confirmed", "eligibility": "Open globally, no background required; teams of 1-5", "audience": "all", "tags": [ "agents", "safety" ] }, { "id": "encode-london-2026", "name": "Encode London 2026", "platform": "Luma (Encode Club)", "url": "https://luma.com/encode-london-2026", "type": "agent-challenge", "format": "hybrid", "location": "Encode Hub, Shoreditch, London, UK", "start": "2026-10-23", "end": "2026-10-25", "reg": null, "prize": 265, "prize_kind": "mixed", "prize_note": "WARNING: only GBP 200 (~$265) cash to the winning team; rest is Saint subscriptions + $100 MongoDB credits each", "summary": "Three-day London hackathon on \"The Real World\" and \"Agents That Ship\" AI tracks plus partner bounties.", "conf": "confirmed", "eligibility": "Ticket ballot (standard) or approval (student); developers, founders, students, researchers; no country limit", "audience": "all", "tags": [ "agents", "london" ] }, { "id": "twitchcon-codex", "name": "Codex x TwitchCon Hackathon", "platform": "Devpost", "url": "https://twitchcon-codex.devpost.com/", "type": "coding-challenge", "format": "online", "location": "Online", "start": "2026-10-23", "end": "2026-11-02", "reg": null, "prize": 25000, "prize_kind": "cash", "prize_note": "$25,000 all cash across 4 prizes; top 5 also demoed on the Codex booth stage at TwitchCon", "summary": "Build tools for Twitch streamers and their communities using OpenAI Codex; deadline Nov 2 2:00pm PST.", "conf": "confirmed", "eligibility": "Above legal age of majority in country of residence; all countries except Devpost standard exceptions; companies/professional organizations excluded (individuals and teams only)", "audience": "all", "tags": [ "openai-codex", "twitch", "agents" ] }, { "id": "ethnohack-2026", "name": "EthnoHack", "platform": "Devpost", "url": "https://ethnohack2026.devpost.com/", "type": "hackathon", "format": "online", "location": "Online / worldwide", "start": "2026-11-02", "end": "2026-11-08", "reg": null, "prize": null, "prize_kind": "unknown", "prize_note": "10 non-cash prizes with amounts still to be announced, including Best AI Solution", "summary": "Ethnopharmacology and health data hackathon across four tracks including drug discovery and biodiversity.", "conf": "confirmed", "eligibility": "Open worldwide to students, researchers, developers, clinicians and other interested participants", "audience": "all", "tags": [ "health", "data" ] }, { "id": "neural-storm-2026", "name": "Neural Storm", "platform": "Devpost", "url": "https://neuralstorm.devpost.com/", "type": "hackathon", "format": "online", "location": "Online / worldwide", "start": "2026-11-02", "end": "2026-11-04", "reg": "2026-11-04", "prize": 225, "prize_kind": "cash", "prize_note": "Rs 20,000 total in cash (~$225): Rs 10k/5k/3k/2k", "summary": "48-hour AI/ML hackathon from JNTUH with three tracks and 15 curated automation, sustainability and social-impact problems.", "conf": "confirmed", "eligibility": "Students only, legal age of majority; companies excluded; worldwide except embargoed", "audience": "students", "tags": [ "ai-ml", "social-impact", "48-hour" ] }, { "id": "google-verifiable-quantum-circuit-compilation", "name": "Google Quantum AI - Verifiable Quantum Circuit Compilation", "platform": "Kaggle", "url": "https://www.kaggle.com/competitions/google-verifiable-quantum-circuit-compilation", "type": "coding-challenge", "format": "online", "location": "Online", "start": "2026-10-22", "end": "2027-01-20", "reg": null, "prize": 150000, "prize_kind": "cash", "prize_note": "Main leaderboard $100k; additional prizes $50k", "summary": "Reduce the resource cost of compiling quantum circuits, with verifiable correctness.", "conf": "confirmed", "eligibility": "Open worldwide to individuals and teams per Kaggle competition rules (standard sanctioned-country exclusions apply)", "audience": "all", "tags": [ "quantum", "optimization" ] }, { "id": "open-agent-hackathon-2026", "name": "Open Agent Hackathon 2026", "platform": "GenAI Works", "url": "https://hackathon.genai.works/event/open-agent-hackathon-2026", "type": "agent-challenge", "format": "online", "location": "Online / worldwide", "start": "2026-10-22", "end": "2026-10-27", "reg": "2026-10-22", "prize": 20000, "prize_kind": "mixed", "prize_note": "~$13k cash across 4 tracks + NVIDIA DGX Spark ($4,699) + $2,301 Cursor API credits", "summary": "144-hour fully online build of agents that do real work, across three tracks plus a wildcard.", "conf": "confirmed", "eligibility": "16+, worldwide; organizer/judge-sponsor staff may enter but cannot win cash", "audience": "all", "tags": [ "agents", "open" ] }, { "id": "ugreen-hackathon-2026-ai-nas", "name": "UGREEN Hackathon 2026 on AI NAS", "platform": "Devpost", "url": "https://ugreenhackathon.devpost.com/", "type": "coding-challenge", "format": "online", "location": "Online", "start": "2026-10-22", "end": "2026-11-15", "reg": null, "prize": 46000, "prize_kind": "cash", "prize_note": "$46,000 all cash: $20k grand, $10k second, $6k third, 2x $5k Most Creative", "summary": "Build AI Skills for UGREEN's UGOS AI NAS platform; deadline Nov 15 11:45pm PST.", "conf": "confirmed", "eligibility": "Individuals of legal majority age only (companies/professional orgs excluded); ~110 countries/territories excluded, including India, China, Brazil, Vietnam, Russia, Ukraine, Saudi Arabia and Quebec", "audience": "all", "tags": [ "nas", "edge-ai", "ugreen" ] }, { "id": "vultr-agent-rush-2026", "name": "Vultr: Agent Rush Hackathon", "platform": "lablab.ai", "url": "https://lablab.ai/event/vultr-hackathon", "type": "agent-challenge", "format": "hybrid", "location": "Online + on-site showcase, Salt Lake City, UT", "start": "2026-11-03", "end": "2026-11-08", "reg": null, "prize": 14000, "prize_kind": "mixed", "prize_note": "$14,000 = $9,000 cash + $5,000 Vultr credits; every participant also gets $200 Vultr credits", "summary": "Six-day sprint building sandboxed agents that write code or drive a browser on Vultr infrastructure.", "conf": "confirmed", "eligibility": "Open worldwide regardless of experience, teams 1-6; on-site showcase by approval", "audience": "all", "tags": [ "agents", "cloud" ] }, { "id": "kaggle-squares-in-squares", "name": "Squares in Squares", "platform": "Kaggle", "url": "https://www.kaggle.com/competitions/squares-in-squares", "type": "coding-challenge", "format": "online", "location": "Online", "start": "2026-10-21", "end": "2027-07-18", "reg": null, "prize": 50000, "prize_kind": "cash", "prize_note": "Prizes awarded at the 3-, 6- and 9-month marks", "summary": "Find the smallest enclosing square packing for N unit squares; open-ended optimization leaderboard.", "conf": "confirmed", "eligibility": "Open worldwide to individuals and teams per Kaggle competition rules (standard sanctioned-country exclusions apply)", "audience": "all", "tags": [ "optimization", "math" ] }, { "id": "nextspark-hacks-2026", "name": "NextSpark Hacks", "platform": "Devpost", "url": "https://nextspark-hacks.devpost.com/", "type": "hackathon", "format": "online", "location": "Online / worldwide", "start": "2026-10-21", "end": "2026-10-27", "reg": "2026-10-27", "prize": 100, "prize_kind": "mixed", "prize_note": "Only $100 cash (1st place); places 2-5 and participation are certificates of 'no monetary value'", "summary": "Student-led beginner-friendly hackathon: ship a working prototype - app, site, game or AI tool - for a real problem.", "conf": "confirmed", "eligibility": "Students only, ages 13+; companies excluded; worldwide except embargoed", "audience": "students", "tags": [ "beginner", "ai-tools", "prototype" ] }, { "id": "ai-agents-founders-hetic-2026", "name": "AI Agents for Founders Challenge - HETIC", "platform": "Devpost", "url": "https://ai-agents-founders-hetic-26.devpost.com/", "type": "agent-challenge", "format": "online", "location": "Online / worldwide", "start": "2026-11-04", "end": "2026-12-18", "reg": "2026-12-18", "prize": 1077, "prize_kind": "cash", "prize_note": "EUR 997 (~$1,077) cash across 3 prizes", "summary": "Create AI agents that give founders back time by automating market scans, leads and first drafts.", "conf": "confirmed", "eligibility": "18+ and enrolled in higher education (proof required); teams of 2-4; companies excluded; worldwide", "audience": "students", "tags": [ "agents", "founders" ] }, { "id": "agent-injection-arena-2026", "name": "The Agent Injection Arena", "platform": "Kaggle", "url": "https://www.kaggle.com/competitions/the-agent-injection-arena", "type": "agent-challenge", "format": "online", "location": "Online", "start": "2026-10-20", "end": "2026-12-31", "reg": "2026-12-31", "prize": null, "prize_kind": "non-cash", "prize_note": "No prize field set; Kaggle community competition", "summary": "Detect prompt-injection and deception in agentic operation traces.", "conf": "confirmed", "eligibility": "Open globally; Kaggle community competition", "audience": "all", "tags": [ "agents", "prompt-injection", "security" ] }, { "id": "agent-injection-arena-hackathon-2026", "name": "The Agent Injection Arena - Hackathon Edition", "platform": "Kaggle", "url": "https://www.kaggle.com/competitions/the-agent-injection-arena-hackathon-edition", "type": "hackathon", "format": "online", "location": "Online", "start": "2026-10-20", "end": "2026-12-31", "reg": "2026-12-31", "prize": null, "prize_kind": "non-cash", "prize_note": "Kudos only; writeup and demo track", "summary": "Build a system that catches live prompt injection against agents; writeup plus demo track.", "conf": "confirmed", "eligibility": "Open globally; Kaggle community competition", "audience": "all", "tags": [ "agents", "security", "hackathon" ] }, { "id": "arbiter-hacks-v1-2026", "name": "Arbiter Hacks V1", "platform": "Devpost", "url": "https://arbiter-hacks-v1.devpost.com/", "type": "hackathon", "format": "online", "location": "Online / worldwide", "start": "2026-10-20", "end": "2026-12-20", "reg": null, "prize": 7800, "prize_kind": "mixed", "prize_note": "WARNING: $7,800 headline but only ~$300 is real cash ($100/$100/$50/$50); rest is Adaption + Deployxa credits", "summary": "Two-month open-innovation hackathon with a General track and a \"Rethinking Waste\" theme track.", "conf": "confirmed", "eligibility": "13+, students only; all countries bar standard Devpost exclusions", "audience": "students", "tags": [ "sustainability", "credits-prize" ] }, { "id": "codersinpune-hackwithpune-2026", "name": "CodersInPune Hackathon (HackWithPune)", "platform": "Unstop", "url": "https://unstop.com/hackathons/codersinpune-hackathon-hackwithpune-1768758", "type": "agent-challenge", "format": "online", "location": "Online (India-centric)", "start": "2026-11-05", "end": "2026-11-06", "reg": "2026-11-05", "prize": null, "prize_kind": "mixed", "prize_note": "Page self-contradicts: \"Rs 30,000 pool\" vs \"$2,000 per rank\"; plus internships, incubation and $600 credits each", "summary": "Free online hackathon with an Agentic AI track alongside full-stack and open-innovation tracks.", "conf": "approximate", "eligibility": "Unstop lists eligibility as \"All\" with no country limit; Pune-based organiser, India-centric in practice", "audience": "all", "tags": [ "agentic-ai", "india" ] }, { "id": "lie-injection-gauntlet-2026", "name": "The Lie Injection Gauntlet", "platform": "Kaggle", "url": "https://www.kaggle.com/competitions/the-lie-injection-gauntlet", "type": "agent-challenge", "format": "online", "location": "Online", "start": "2026-10-19", "end": "2026-12-19", "reg": "2026-12-19", "prize": null, "prize_kind": "non-cash", "prize_note": "No prize field set; Kaggle community competition", "summary": "Deception cartography for agent interactions: reproduce deception-instrument readings.", "conf": "confirmed", "eligibility": "Open globally; Kaggle community competition", "audience": "all", "tags": [ "agents", "deception", "security" ] }, { "id": "apart-swarm-alignment-2026", "name": "Swarm Alignment Hackathon", "platform": "Apart Research", "url": "https://apartresearch.com/sprints/swarm-alignment-2026", "type": "agent-challenge", "format": "hybrid", "location": "Online worldwide + AE Studio hub, Los Angeles", "start": "2026-11-06", "end": "2026-11-08", "reg": null, "prize": 4000, "prize_kind": "cash", "prize_note": "$4,000 cash global pool ($2k/$1k/$600/$200/$200); LA hub adds a separate $4,000 pool", "summary": "Weekend research sprint on multi-agent swarm alignment: containment testbeds, protocol stress tests, group-behaviour monitors.", "conf": "confirmed", "eligibility": "Open to anyone worldwide, no AI-safety background needed; solo or teams up to 5", "audience": "all", "tags": [ "ai-safety", "multi-agent" ] }, { "id": "ctrl-v-hackathon-2026", "name": "Ctrl+V Hackathon", "platform": "Devpost", "url": "https://ctrl-v-hackathon-31831.devpost.com/", "type": "hackathon", "format": "online", "location": "Online", "start": "2026-11-06", "end": "2026-11-10", "reg": null, "prize": null, "prize_kind": "non-cash", "prize_note": "5 non-cash prizes, no cash pool listed", "summary": "Online hackathon by ADHAYAN to use AI and tech to improve accessibility to education, healthcare and services.", "conf": "confirmed", "eligibility": "Students only, above legal age of majority; companies/professional orgs excluded; all countries except standard exceptions", "audience": "students", "tags": [ "accessibility", "social-good", "ai" ] }, { "id": "hackthefashion-global-26", "name": "HackTheFashion Global'26", "platform": "Devpost", "url": "https://hackthefashion-global26.devpost.com/", "type": "hackathon", "format": "online", "location": "Online", "start": "2026-11-06", "end": "2026-11-25", "reg": null, "prize": 45000, "prize_kind": "cash", "prize_note": "Listed as $45,000 in cash (single prize entry); host FabricVTON is a first-time Devpost organizer, prize breakdown not yet published", "summary": "Build AI products on a virtual try-on API to fix online fashion fit and styling; students only, worldwide.", "conf": "confirmed", "eligibility": "Students only, above legal age of majority; companies/professional orgs excluded; all countries except standard exceptions", "audience": "students", "tags": [ "virtual-try-on", "computer-vision", "fashion" ] }, { "id": "mlh-ghw-builders-week-2026", "name": "MLH Global Hack Week: Builders Week", "platform": "Major League Hacking", "url": "https://ghw.mlh.com/events/builders-week", "type": "hackathon", "format": "online", "location": "Online / worldwide", "start": "2026-11-06", "end": "2026-11-12", "reg": "2026-11-12", "prize": null, "prize_kind": "non-cash", "prize_note": "No cash pool; MLH Global Hack Week awards swag and badges only", "summary": "MLH's week of beginner-friendly build challenges and livestreams, free and open to anyone anywhere.", "conf": "confirmed", "eligibility": "Open to all, explicitly free for anyone anywhere - not students-only", "audience": "all", "tags": [ "community", "beginner" ] }, { "id": "since-ai-hackathon-2026", "name": "Since AI Hackathon 2026", "platform": "Since AI", "url": "https://sinceai.ai/hackathon", "type": "hackathon", "format": "hybrid", "location": "Turku, Finland (EduCity / BioCity) - on-site attendance required", "start": "2026-11-06", "end": "2026-11-08", "reg": null, "prize": 58000, "prize_kind": "cash", "prize_note": "EUR 50,000 all-cash pool across tracks (~$58k); free entry, travel self-funded", "summary": "Free 72-hour on-site AI hackathon with 15 company challenges and an all-cash EUR 50,000 pool.", "conf": "confirmed", "eligibility": "Free and open to builders worldwide - students, professionals, researchers; travel self-funded", "audience": "all", "tags": [ "cash-prize", "company-challenges" ] }, { "id": "catalyst-solo-ai-hackathon-2026", "name": "Catalyst - Solo AI Hackathon", "platform": "Unstop", "url": "https://unstop.com/hackathons/catalyst-solo-ai-hackathon-makers-need-more-mnm-1771798", "type": "hackathon", "format": "online", "location": "Online", "start": "2026-10-18", "end": "2026-11-15", "reg": "2026-11-14", "prize": 170, "prize_kind": "mixed", "prize_note": "Rs 15,000 cash (~$170) plus certificates; finalists offered work with the MnM core team", "summary": "Solo-only online AI build challenge run by Makers Need More, open for a month of self-paced building.", "conf": "confirmed", "eligibility": "Solo entries only (team size 1); no country restriction stated on the Unstop record", "audience": "all", "tags": [ "solo", "ai" ] }, { "id": "hackoctober-mlh-tech4hack-2026", "name": "HackOctober MLH x Tech4hack", "platform": "Devpost", "url": "https://hackoctober-mlh-x-tech4hack.devpost.com/", "type": "hackathon", "format": "online", "location": "Online (submission only)", "start": "2026-10-18", "end": "2026-10-22", "reg": "2026-10-22", "prize": null, "prize_kind": "non-cash", "prize_note": "One non-cash prize: a certificate. Nothing else offered", "summary": "Small MLH-affiliated submission-only hackathon with ML/AI, DevOps and health themes; certificate-only prize.", "conf": "confirmed", "eligibility": "Legal age of majority in country of residence; worldwide except embargoed", "audience": "all", "tags": [ "mlh", "ai-ml", "low-stakes" ] }, { "id": "redshifted-cortex", "name": "Redshifted Cortex - AI built by High Schoolers", "platform": "Devpost", "url": "https://redshifted-cortex.devpost.com/", "type": "agent-challenge", "format": "online", "location": "Online (remote track of an Ottawa, Canada in-person event)", "start": "2026-11-07", "end": "2026-11-07", "reg": null, "prize": null, "prize_kind": "non-cash", "prize_note": "2 non-cash prizes; first is $300 in Featherless AI credits, second TBA", "summary": "One-day challenge to build an agentic AI; this Devpost track is for high schoolers who cannot attend the Ottawa event.", "conf": "confirmed", "eligibility": "Ages 13-18, high school students only (grades 9-12), teams of 2-4; companies excluded; all countries except standard exceptions; Devpost track restricted to those who cannot attend the Ottawa in-person flagship", "audience": "students", "tags": [ "agentic-ai", "high-school", "credits-prize" ] }, { "id": "banglaknight-shared-task-2026", "name": "BanglaKnight Shared Task", "platform": "Codabench", "url": "https://www.codabench.org/competitions/18411/", "type": "benchmark", "format": "online", "location": "Online", "start": "2026-10-17", "end": "2027-01-25", "reg": "2027-01-25", "prize": null, "prize_kind": "non-cash", "prize_note": "No cash prize; overview paper and leaderboard", "summary": "Classify Bangla prompts - Bangla script, romanized and code-mixed - as Safe, Offensive, Harmful or Severe.", "conf": "confirmed", "eligibility": "Open; research-only data use, blind sets not redistributable", "audience": "all", "tags": [ "llm", "safety" ] }, { "id": "stem2connect-ai-hackathon-2026", "name": "STEM2Connect AI Hackathon", "platform": "Devpost", "url": "https://stem2connect-online-hackathon.devpost.com/", "type": "hackathon", "format": "online", "location": "Online / worldwide", "start": "2026-10-17", "end": "2026-11-21", "reg": "2026-11-21", "prize": null, "prize_kind": "non-cash", "prize_note": "Gold/Silver/Bronze certificates plus mentorship and program referrals; no cash", "summary": "Global multi-week student program building AI for education, healthcare, sustainability, research and community impact.", "conf": "confirmed", "eligibility": "Students only, ages 13+; companies excluded; worldwide except embargoed", "audience": "students", "tags": [ "ai-for-good", "education", "beginner" ] }, { "id": "aws-agent-experience-strands-decider-2026", "name": "AWS Agent Experience Hackathon: Strands Decider", "platform": "AWS Builder Center", "url": "https://builder.aws.com/build/hackathons/4f50957c-1d08-37ab-b11c-97516b9adeb4/agent-experience-hackathon", "type": "agent-challenge", "format": "online", "location": "Online / worldwide", "start": "2026-10-16", "end": "2026-10-23", "reg": null, "prize": 16800, "prize_kind": "non-cash", "prize_note": "WARNING: no cash - 3 winners x ($5,000 AWS promotional credits + ~$600 AWS swag) = $16,800 stated total", "summary": "Build a working AI agent on AWS powered by Strands Decider 2B with Amazon Bedrock.", "conf": "confirmed", "eligibility": "18+ with an AWS Builder Center profile; country and employee exclusions deferred to the Rules page", "audience": "all", "tags": [ "agents", "aws" ] }, { "id": "iaa-ai-assisted-hackathon-2026-part-1", "name": "IAA AI Assisted Hackathon 2026 - Part 1", "platform": "Kaggle", "url": "https://www.kaggle.com/competitions/iaa-ai-assisted-hackathon-2026-part-1", "type": "hackathon", "format": "online", "location": "Online", "start": "2026-10-16", "end": "2026-10-23", "reg": "2026-10-23", "prize": 500, "prize_kind": "cash", "prize_note": "$500 cash; hosted by the International Actuarial Association", "summary": "Build a pricing model and pricing tool for a novel insurance market, AI-assisted.", "conf": "confirmed", "eligibility": "Open on Kaggle; no stated geographic restriction", "audience": "all", "tags": [ "actuarial", "hackathon" ] }, { "id": "llm-safety-mandate-2026", "name": "The LLM Safety Mandate", "platform": "Kaggle", "url": "https://www.kaggle.com/competitions/the-llm-safety-mandate", "type": "benchmark", "format": "online", "location": "Online", "start": "2026-10-16", "end": "2026-11-07", "reg": "2026-11-07", "prize": null, "prize_kind": "non-cash", "prize_note": "No prize field set; Kaggle community competition", "summary": "Predict the refusal rate of a company's flagship LLM from partly anonymized data.", "conf": "confirmed", "eligibility": "Open globally; Kaggle community competition", "audience": "all", "tags": [ "llm", "safety" ] }, { "id": "mathematics-for-systems-security-2026", "name": "Mathematics for Systems Security", "platform": "Devpost", "url": "https://mathematics-systems-security.devpost.com/", "type": "coding-challenge", "format": "online", "location": "Online / worldwide", "start": "2026-10-16", "end": "2026-11-15", "reg": "2026-11-15", "prize": null, "prize_kind": "non-cash", "prize_note": "6 non-cash prizes: participation and 'certified' certificates only", "summary": "Build a private AI agent over encrypted inputs, or a secret-sharing algorithm, then survive adversarial cryptanalysis.", "conf": "confirmed", "eligibility": "Students only, legal age of majority; companies excluded; worldwide except embargoed", "audience": "students", "tags": [ "cryptography", "private-ai", "security" ] }, { "id": "buildhybridai-2026", "name": "#BuildHybridAI 2026 (Firebase AI Logic)", "platform": "Devpost", "url": "https://firebasehybridaihackathon.devpost.com/", "type": "coding-challenge", "format": "online", "location": "Online", "start": "2026-11-09", "end": "2026-11-30", "reg": null, "prize": 10000, "prize_kind": "cash", "prize_note": "$10,000 in cash prizes; full prize breakdown published when submissions open Nov 9", "summary": "Google/Firebase challenge to build AI apps running hybrid on-device and in-cloud with Firebase AI Logic.", "conf": "confirmed", "eligibility": "Above legal age of majority in country of residence; all countries except Devpost standard exceptions", "audience": "all", "tags": [ "firebase", "google", "on-device-ai" ] }, { "id": "learn-ar-with-specs-2026", "name": "Learn AR with SPECS", "platform": "Devpost", "url": "https://learn-specs.devpost.com/", "type": "coding-challenge", "format": "online", "location": "Online / worldwide", "start": "2026-10-15", "end": "2026-11-09", "reg": "2026-11-09", "prize": 2500, "prize_kind": "cash", "prize_note": "$2,500 cash this round ($1,250/$750/$500); later rounds may add more", "summary": "Design an AR glasses app and have an AI coding agent build it in Lens Studio - no hardware required.", "conf": "confirmed", "eligibility": "Legal age of majority in country of residence; worldwide except embargoed", "audience": "all", "tags": [ "ar", "coding-agents", "lens-studio" ] }, { "id": "phyrc-2027-robot-assisted-dressing-sim", "name": "PhyRC 2027 Challenge - Phase 1: Robot-Assisted Dressing in Simulation", "platform": "Codabench", "url": "https://www.codabench.org/competitions/18366/", "type": "agent-challenge", "format": "online", "location": "Online", "start": "2026-10-15", "end": "2026-12-16", "reg": null, "prize": null, "prize_kind": "non-cash", "prize_note": "FLAGGED NON-CASH: winning team receives a Hello Robot Stretch 4 robot (hardware), sponsored by Hello Robot", "summary": "Train a policy for two Stretch 4 robots to dress a seated manikin in NVIDIA Isaac Sim.", "conf": "confirmed", "eligibility": "Open worldwide (Cornell EmPRISE Lab x KAIST RIRO Lab); organizer announcement listed a 2026-10-15 registration deadline though the challenge page still showed registration open", "audience": "all", "tags": [ "robotics", "simulation" ] }, { "id": "roboworld-2026-track1-worldnav", "name": "RoboWorld 2026 - Track 1: WorldNav", "platform": "Codabench", "url": "https://www.codabench.org/competitions/18185/", "type": "agent-challenge", "format": "online", "location": "Online", "start": "2026-10-15", "end": "2026-10-30", "reg": null, "prize": null, "prize_kind": "non-cash", "prize_note": "Certificates for the top 5 teams; selected teams invited to present at the RoboPAD Workshop at NeurIPS 2026", "summary": "Embodied navigation track of RoboWorld 2026; validation phase closes 30 October 2026.", "conf": "confirmed", "eligibility": "Open worldwide; free Codabench registration", "audience": "all", "tags": [ "embodied-ai", "navigation" ] }, { "id": "roboworld-2026-track2-ha-vln", "name": "RoboWorld 2026 - Track 2: HA-VLN", "platform": "Codabench", "url": "https://www.codabench.org/competitions/18135/", "type": "agent-challenge", "format": "online", "location": "Online", "start": "2026-10-15", "end": "2026-10-30", "reg": null, "prize": null, "prize_kind": "non-cash", "prize_note": "Certificates for the top 5 teams; selected teams invited to present at the RoboPAD Workshop at NeurIPS 2026", "summary": "Human-aware vision-and-language navigation track of RoboWorld 2026.", "conf": "confirmed", "eligibility": "Open worldwide; free Codabench registration", "audience": "all", "tags": [ "embodied-ai", "vln" ] }, { "id": "cognee-createathon-2026", "name": "CreateAThon (Hacker's Unity x Cognee)", "platform": "Devpost", "url": "https://graph-hacks.devpost.com/", "type": "coding-challenge", "format": "online", "location": "Online / worldwide", "start": "2026-10-14", "end": "2026-10-31", "reg": "2026-10-31", "prize": 4000, "prize_kind": "unknown", "prize_note": "$2,000 top contributor + $100 x20 random merged-PR authors; Devpost tags it non-cash, payout form unstated", "summary": "Month-long open-source sprint building production integrations for Cognee, the open-source memory layer for AI agents.", "conf": "confirmed", "eligibility": "Legal age of majority; worldwide except embargoed; solo only; extra mandatory registration form", "audience": "all", "tags": [ "agents", "open-source", "memory" ] }, { "id": "name-that-llm-2026", "name": "Name That LLM", "platform": "Kaggle", "url": "https://www.kaggle.com/competitions/name-that-llm", "type": "benchmark", "format": "online", "location": "Online", "start": "2026-10-14", "end": "2027-01-14", "reg": "2027-01-06", "prize": 50000, "prize_kind": "cash", "prize_note": "$50,000 cash across 10 prizes, hosted by Kaggle itself", "summary": "Classify unlabeled text passages by which of 18 frontier LLMs generated them.", "conf": "confirmed", "eligibility": "Open globally; standard Kaggle rules, entry closes Jan 6", "audience": "all", "tags": [ "llm", "classification" ] }, { "id": "roboworld-2026-safedrive-vla", "name": "RoboWorld 2026 - Track 3: SafeDrive-VLA", "platform": "NeurIPS 2026 (RoboPAD workshop)", "url": "https://www.codabench.org/competitions/18333/", "type": "agent-challenge", "format": "online", "location": "Online", "start": "2026-10-14", "end": "2026-11-30", "reg": "2026-11-30", "prize": null, "prize_kind": "non-cash", "prize_note": "No cash prize stated; awards and standings presented at RoboPAD @ NeurIPS 2026", "summary": "Closed-loop language-guided driving agents in CARLA that must resolve instruction-versus-scene safety conflicts.", "conf": "confirmed", "eligibility": "Open worldwide; one registered team per participant, non-commercial research use", "audience": "all", "tags": [ "agents", "autonomous-driving", "vla" ] }, { "id": "homingo-hack-days-2026", "name": "Homingo Hack Days", "platform": "Homingo", "url": "https://hackathon.homingo.co.in", "type": "agent-challenge", "format": "online", "location": "Online (India only)", "start": "2026-10-13", "end": "2026-12-06", "reg": "2026-11-15", "prize": 60, "prize_kind": "unknown", "prize_note": "Rs 5,000 (~$60) for the winner plus a recommendation certificate; register and submit on the organiser site, not Kaggle", "summary": "Online AI engineering hackathon with Agents, Automation and LLM-app tracks; demo day Dec 19.", "conf": "confirmed", "eligibility": "INDIA ONLY - students and early-career developers based in India; guardian consent under 18", "audience": "students", "tags": [ "agents", "llm-apps" ] }, { "id": "neurips-smart-buildings-challenge-2026", "name": "The Smart Buildings Challenge", "platform": "NeurIPS 2026", "url": "https://smart-buildings-2026.github.io/competition/index.html", "type": "benchmark", "format": "online", "location": "Online (Kaggle); workshop Paris", "start": "2026-10-13", "end": "2027-01-15", "reg": "2026-12-03", "prize": 40000, "prize_kind": "cash", "prize_note": "$25k Kaggle leaderboard + $15k paper awards; NeurIPS poster round due Nov 13", "summary": "Train one HVAC policy that generalises to unseen commercial buildings, balancing energy, carbon and comfort.", "conf": "confirmed", "eligibility": "Per Kaggle rules; max team size 5", "audience": "all", "tags": [ "rl", "buildings" ] }, { "id": "norcal-hacks-27", "name": "NorCal Hacks 27", "platform": "Devpost", "url": "https://norcal-hacks-27.devpost.com/", "type": "hackathon", "format": "online", "location": "Online", "start": "2026-11-12", "end": "2026-11-15", "reg": null, "prize": null, "prize_kind": "non-cash", "prize_note": "6 non-cash prizes, no cash pool listed", "summary": "Student-run beginner-friendly online hackathon open to middle and high school students worldwide.", "conf": "confirmed", "eligibility": "Ages 13+, students only (middle/high school); companies/professional orgs excluded; all countries except standard exceptions", "audience": "students", "tags": [ "high-school", "beginner-friendly", "ai" ] }, { "id": "apart-ai-epistemics-sprint-2026", "name": "AI x Epistemics Research Sprint", "platform": "Apart Research", "url": "https://apartresearch.com/sprints/ai-x-epistemics-research-sprint-2026-11-13-to-2026-11-15", "type": "hackathon", "format": "online", "location": "Online / worldwide", "start": "2026-11-13", "end": "2026-11-15", "reg": "2026-11-15", "prize": 2000, "prize_kind": "cash", "prize_note": "$1,000/$500/$300/$100/$100 cash", "summary": "Weekend research sprint on AI and epistemics, producing a short research report.", "conf": "confirmed", "eligibility": "Open to anyone, no AI-safety background required; teams of 1-5", "audience": "all", "tags": [ "llm", "safety" ] }, { "id": "gtransformer-ai-buildathon-2026", "name": "GTransformer AI Buildathon 2026 - AI for Global Good", "platform": "Devpost", "url": "https://gtransformer-buildathon-2026.devpost.com/", "type": "hackathon", "format": "hybrid", "location": "Milpitas, Bay Area + Online", "start": "2026-11-13", "end": "2026-11-15", "reg": "2026-11-15", "prize": 1000, "prize_kind": "cash", "prize_note": "Single $1,000 cash grand prize plus continuation mentorship", "summary": "Three-day hybrid buildathon aiming AI at problems that matter, judged on a working prototype rather than a pitch deck.", "conf": "confirmed", "eligibility": "Legal age of majority in country of residence; worldwide except embargoed", "audience": "all", "tags": [ "ai-for-good", "responsible-ai", "prototype" ] }, { "id": "junction-2026", "name": "Junction 2026", "platform": "Junction", "url": "https://2026.hackjunction.com/", "type": "hackathon", "format": "hybrid", "location": "Espoo, Finland (Hype Areena)", "start": "2026-11-13", "end": "2026-11-15", "reg": "2026-10-25", "prize": 108000, "prize_kind": "unknown", "prize_note": "EUR 100,000 total (~$108k); breakdown listed as 'coming soon', cash vs non-cash not stated", "summary": "Europe's largest 48-hour hackathon, ~2,000 builders, with most 2026 challenge tracks AI- and agent-focused.", "conf": "confirmed", "eligibility": "Free entry, open to anyone who builds; mainly 18+; applications close Oct 25; travel grants already closed", "audience": "all", "tags": [ "agents", "robotics" ] }, { "id": "mad-chairs-tournament-2026", "name": "IEEE SSCI 2027 MAD Chairs Tournament", "platform": "Kaggle", "url": "https://www.kaggle.com/competitions/mad-chairs-tournament-2026", "type": "agent-challenge", "format": "online", "location": "Online", "start": "2026-10-11", "end": "2026-12-24", "reg": "2026-12-24", "prize": null, "prize_kind": "non-cash", "prize_note": "Reward type is non-monetary; recognition at IEEE SSCI 2027", "summary": "Prepare agentic AI to win a three-versus-one resource-division game tournament.", "conf": "confirmed", "eligibility": "Open globally; Kaggle community competition", "audience": "all", "tags": [ "agents", "game-theory" ] }, { "id": "veritas-ai-international-high-school-hackathon-2026", "name": "Veritas AI International High School Hackathon", "platform": "Veritas AI (highschoolhackathon.org)", "url": "https://highschoolhackathon.org/", "type": "hackathon", "format": "online", "location": "Online / worldwide", "start": "2026-11-14", "end": "2026-11-15", "reg": "2026-11-13", "prize": 75000, "prize_kind": "non-cash", "prize_note": "'$75,000+ prize pool' consists of paid internships at Arecibo AI for the Gold team, scholarships to Veritas AI programs and site placement - NOT cash. Live finals livestreamed 2026-11-21; prizes must be claimed by 2026-12-06. Site banners are inconsistent about whether registration is still open.", "summary": "Free virtual weekend hackathon for high schoolers worldwide to ship a working AI project in health, climate or finance.", "conf": "confirmed", "eligibility": "Any high school student anywhere in the world; solo or teams of up to three. Free.", "audience": "students", "tags": [ "beginner-friendly", "social-impact" ] }, { "id": "african-slm-tool-calling-hackathon-2026", "name": "African Small Language Model Tool Calling Hackathon", "platform": "Codabench (AIMS AI Research Foundations)", "url": "https://www.codabench.org/competitions/18354/", "type": "agent-challenge", "format": "online", "location": "Online", "start": "2026-10-10", "end": "2026-11-11", "reg": "2026-11-11", "prize": null, "prize_kind": "unknown", "prize_note": "No prize stated; single leaderboard scored on exact-match accuracy", "summary": "Train a model of 4B parameters or less to turn everyday African requests into correct tool calls.", "conf": "confirmed", "eligibility": "Open worldwide - the 'African' label is the data domain, not a residency rule; open-weight models only, no APIs", "audience": "all", "tags": [ "agents", "tool-calling", "llm" ] }, { "id": "datanova-2026-global-data-thon", "name": "DataNova 2026 Global Data-thon", "platform": "Unstop / datanovathon.com (Swiss School of Management, Rome)", "url": "https://datanova-2026-global-data-thon.devpost.com/", "type": "hackathon", "format": "online", "location": "Online / international", "start": "2026-10-10", "end": "2026-11-30", "reg": "2026-11-10", "prize": 1750, "prize_kind": "mixed", "prize_note": "$1,000 / $500 / $250, each described as cash plus tool memberships. Entry is NOT free: INR 100 per participant via Unstop. Final submission 2026-11-25, closing ceremony 2026-11-30.", "summary": "Fully virtual two-round data science and AI/ML datathon turning open problem statements into working solutions.", "conf": "confirmed", "eligibility": "Open to undergraduates, postgraduates, PhD scholars, researchers, developers, data scientists, AI/ML practitioners and professionals; individuals or teams; described as open across countries. INR 100 registration fee.", "audience": "all", "tags": [ "data-science", "ml" ] }, { "id": "bridge-the-gap-hacks-2026", "name": "Bridge The Gap Hacks", "platform": "Devpost", "url": "https://sq-hacks.devpost.com/", "type": "hackathon", "format": "online", "location": "Online / worldwide", "start": "2026-11-15", "end": "2026-11-20", "reg": "2026-11-12", "prize": null, "prize_kind": "non-cash", "prize_note": "Prize tiers named (Grand, Most Impactful, Best Technical, Best Design, Beginner) but $0 cash; sponsor prizes TBA", "summary": "Beginner-friendly hackathon on accessibility, community impact and widening access to tech.", "conf": "confirmed", "eligibility": "Ages 13-21, high school and undergraduate students; all countries bar standard exclusions", "audience": "students", "tags": [ "accessibility", "beginner" ] }, { "id": "ilera-bench-safe-triage-2026", "name": "Ilera-Bench: Safe Triage for Nigerian Health Workers", "platform": "Kaggle", "url": "https://www.kaggle.com/competitions/ilera-bench-safe-triage", "type": "benchmark", "format": "online", "location": "Online", "start": "2026-10-09", "end": "2026-11-30", "reg": "2026-11-30", "prize": null, "prize_kind": "non-cash", "prize_note": "No prize field set; Kaggle community competition", "summary": "Predict local treatment versus referral versus urgent referral in English, Hausa and Yoruba.", "conf": "confirmed", "eligibility": "Open globally - the task is Nigeria-focused but entry is not restricted", "audience": "all", "tags": [ "nlp", "healthcare" ] }, { "id": "obscura-satellite-ai-challenge", "name": "OBSCURA: Satellite AI Research Challenge", "platform": "Devpost", "url": "https://obscura.devpost.com/", "type": "benchmark", "format": "online", "location": "Online", "start": "2026-11-18", "end": "2026-11-24", "reg": null, "prize": 50, "prize_kind": "mixed", "prize_note": "$50 total across 3 cash prizes plus 1 non-cash prize", "summary": "Student ML research challenge predicting five atmospheric measurements from Sentinel-2 imagery, weather and terrain data.", "conf": "confirmed", "eligibility": "Students only, above legal age of majority; companies/professional orgs excluded; all countries except standard exceptions", "audience": "students", "tags": [ "remote-sensing", "ml-research", "sentinel-2" ] }, { "id": "misconception-detection-k12-math-2026", "name": "Misconception Detection in K-12 Student Math Workings", "platform": "Kaggle", "url": "https://www.kaggle.com/competitions/misconception-detection-in-k-12-student-math-workings", "type": "benchmark", "format": "online", "location": "Online / worldwide (Kaggle)", "start": "2026-10-06", "end": "2026-11-17", "reg": null, "prize": 6000, "prize_kind": "cash", "prize_note": "$6,000 cash; hosted by CoLearn Lab, max team 10", "summary": "Predict the root mathematical misconception from photos of handwritten K-12 maths working.", "conf": "confirmed", "eligibility": "Standard Kaggle community rules; max team 10", "audience": "all", "tags": [ "education", "vlm" ] }, { "id": "nfl-big-data-bowl-2027", "name": "NFL Big Data Bowl 2027", "platform": "Kaggle", "url": "https://www.kaggle.com/competitions/nfl-big-data-bowl-2027", "type": "hackathon", "format": "online", "location": "Online / worldwide (Kaggle)", "start": "2026-10-06", "end": "2027-01-06", "reg": "2027-01-06", "prize": 100000, "prize_kind": "cash", "prize_note": "$100k shared across finalists, powered by AWS; finalists present at the 2027 NFL Combine", "summary": "Link 10 Hz NFL Combine sensor tracking to regular-season performance in a 2,000-word writeup.", "conf": "confirmed", "eligibility": "Worldwide; separate Undergraduate/Graduate student track and Open track", "audience": "all", "tags": [ "sports", "analytics" ] }, { "id": "gitlab-life-after-code-2026", "name": "Life After Code (GitLab)", "platform": "Devpost", "url": "https://gitlab-transcend.devpost.com/", "type": "agent-challenge", "format": "online", "location": "Online / worldwide", "start": "2026-10-05", "end": "2026-10-27", "reg": "2026-10-27", "prize": 45000, "prize_kind": "cash", "prize_note": "$45,000 all cash across Path A / Path B agent awards", "summary": "Build assisted, supervised or hands-off agents covering post-code DevSecOps lifecycle stages.", "conf": "confirmed", "eligibility": "18+; excludes Brazil, China, Russia, Quebec and embargoed states - India eligible", "audience": "all", "tags": [ "agents", "devsecops" ] }, { "id": "ieee-climatechain-2026", "name": "IEEE ClimateChain Global Hackathon", "platform": "Devpost", "url": "https://ieee-climatechain-hack.devpost.com/", "type": "hackathon", "format": "online", "location": "Online / worldwide", "start": "2026-10-05", "end": "2026-10-25", "reg": "2026-10-25", "prize": 3000, "prize_kind": "mixed", "prize_note": "$1.5k/$1k/$500 cash + IEEE Certificates of Merit and Senior Member nominations", "summary": "IEEE AI and blockchain hackathon for sustainability solutions, organised by IEEE Turkey.", "conf": "confirmed", "eligibility": "Students, academics, independent developers and startups; some countries excluded - India not listed", "audience": "all", "tags": [ "climate", "ieee" ] }, { "id": "neurips-2026-steerability-challenge", "name": "The Steerability Challenge (NeurIPS 2026)", "platform": "NeurIPS 2026", "url": "https://steerability.github.io/competition/", "type": "benchmark", "format": "online", "location": "Online / worldwide", "start": "2026-10-05", "end": "2026-11-21", "reg": null, "prize": 25000, "prize_kind": "cash", "prize_note": "\"$25k+\" cash for 1st/2nd/3rd, no per-place split; payable only where sanctions law and bank transfer allow", "summary": "Design steering interventions that cut LLM dishonesty without degrading general capability.", "conf": "approximate", "eligibility": "Anyone may enter; teams of 2-5, no person on two teams; payout limited by sanctions/banking", "audience": "all", "tags": [ "llm", "safety" ] }, { "id": "marl-1d-tactical-value-2026", "name": "MARL-1D Tactical Value Function Challenge", "platform": "Kaggle", "url": "https://www.kaggle.com/competitions/marl-1d-arena-ai", "type": "agent-challenge", "format": "online", "location": "Online", "start": "2026-10-04", "end": "2026-12-09", "reg": "2026-12-09", "prize": null, "prize_kind": "non-cash", "prize_note": "Reward type is knowledge; no cash", "summary": "Create tactical agents for a 1D turn-based duel engine managing poise and energy.", "conf": "confirmed", "eligibility": "Open globally; Kaggle community competition", "audience": "all", "tags": [ "agents", "marl", "simulation" ] }, { "id": "sinhala-mmlu-shared-task-2026", "name": "Sinhala MMLU Shared Task", "platform": "ICTer 2026", "url": "https://www.codabench.org/competitions/18187/", "type": "benchmark", "format": "online", "location": "Online", "start": "2026-10-04", "end": "2026-10-27", "reg": "2026-10-27", "prize": null, "prize_kind": "non-cash", "prize_note": "Prizes, where offered, require in-person presentation at ICTer 2026; none quantified", "summary": "Build open-weight systems answering Sinhala multiple-choice questions across three difficulty levels.", "conf": "confirmed", "eligibility": "Explicitly open to anyone in Sri Lanka or internationally; prior full-dataset holders excluded", "audience": "all", "tags": [ "llm", "benchmark" ] }, { "id": "global-ai-builders-challenge", "name": "Global AI Builder's Challenge", "platform": "Devpost", "url": "https://global-ai-builders-challenge.devpost.com/", "type": "hackathon", "format": "online", "location": "Online", "start": "2026-11-21", "end": "2026-11-28", "reg": null, "prize": null, "prize_kind": "non-cash", "prize_note": "32 non-cash prizes, no cash pool listed", "summary": "Free online hackathon by Refactor The World for students 13+ to build AI tools that help people learn or create.", "conf": "confirmed", "eligibility": "Ages 13+, students only; companies/professional orgs excluded; all countries except standard exceptions; solo or teams up to six", "audience": "students", "tags": [ "students", "ai-apps", "refactor-the-world" ] }, { "id": "dev-hacktoberfest-open-source-ai-2026", "name": "Hacktoberfest Open-Source AI Challenge (DEV)", "platform": "DEV Community", "url": "https://dev.to/challenges", "type": "coding-challenge", "format": "online", "location": "Online / worldwide", "start": "2026-10-01", "end": "2026-10-31", "reg": null, "prize": 2450, "prize_kind": "cash", "prize_note": "~$2,450 cash per week ($250 overall + ~17 partner categories at $200/$100); runs in weekly rounds to Oct 31", "summary": "DEV weekly rounds building with open-weight models and open-source AI tooling; one new project per round.", "conf": "confirmed", "eligibility": "No stated country restriction; new projects only, one entry per weekly challenge", "audience": "all", "tags": [ "open-source", "hacktoberfest" ] }, { "id": "icassp-2027-audio-editing-challenge", "name": "Audio Editing Challenge (ICASSP 2027)", "platform": "ICASSP 2027", "url": "https://audio-editing-challenge.github.io/", "type": "agent-challenge", "format": "online", "location": "Online; session Toronto May 2027", "start": "2026-10-01", "end": "2026-11-25", "reg": "2026-10-08", "prize": 7000, "prize_kind": "cash", "prize_note": "$2,000/$1,000/$500 per track across 2 tracks, sponsored by Tencent", "summary": "Build general-purpose audio editors across a Single Model track and an autonomous Agent track.", "conf": "confirmed", "eligibility": "One team per track per person; agent-track weights must be public by Nov 1 - registration CLOSED Oct 8 (extended once from Oct 1)", "audience": "all", "tags": [ "audio", "agents" ] }, { "id": "ioovc-2026", "name": "International Olympics of Vibe Coding 2026", "platform": "IOOVC", "url": "https://ioovc.org/", "type": "coding-challenge", "format": "online", "location": "Online", "start": "2026-10-01", "end": "2026-11-01", "reg": "2026-10-31", "prize": 50000, "prize_kind": "cash", "prize_note": "CAUTION: PAID ENTRY ($60 open / $30 university per project) and the 'up to $50,000' pool scales with registration count on a tier ladder", "summary": "Self-paced online vibe-coding olympiad with Open and University categories; projects due Nov 1, results Dec 25.", "conf": "approximate", "eligibility": "Open category: anyone worldwide 18+, no affiliation needed; University category needs proof of enrolment; English UI required; entry fee applies", "audience": "all", "tags": [ "vibe-coding", "paid-entry" ] }, { "id": "kaggle-playground-s6e10-2026", "name": "Playground S6E10 - Predicting Airline Satisfaction", "platform": "Kaggle", "url": "https://www.kaggle.com/competitions/playground-series-s6e10", "type": "benchmark", "format": "online", "location": "Online / worldwide (Kaggle)", "start": "2026-10-01", "end": "2026-10-31", "reg": null, "prize": null, "prize_kind": "non-cash", "prize_note": "Kaggle merchandise only (3 swag prizes), no cash", "summary": "Monthly Playground tabular challenge predicting airline passenger satisfaction, scored on ROC AUC.", "conf": "confirmed", "eligibility": "Open to all Kaggle users", "audience": "all", "tags": [ "tabular", "playground" ] }, { "id": "paypal-ai-hackathon-2026", "name": "PayPal AI Hackathon", "platform": "Devpost", "url": "https://paypalaihackathon.devpost.com/", "type": "agent-challenge", "format": "online", "location": "Online / worldwide", "start": "2026-10-01", "end": "2026-11-12", "reg": "2026-11-12", "prize": 67500, "prize_kind": "mixed", "prize_note": "$67.5k cash across 12+ awards, plus sponsor extras such as a 6-month APIMatic subscription", "summary": "Build agents or workflows that use the PayPal developer platform to take payment actions on a user's behalf.", "conf": "confirmed", "eligibility": "Age of majority; excludes Brazil, Quebec, Russia, Crimea, Cuba, Iran, North Korea", "audience": "all", "tags": [ "agents", "payments" ] }, { "id": "proactegomem", "name": "ProactEgoMem", "platform": "Codabench", "url": "https://www.codabench.org/competitions/18340/", "type": "agent-challenge", "format": "online", "location": "Online", "start": "2026-10-01", "end": "2027-01-28", "reg": null, "prize": null, "prize_kind": "unknown", "prize_note": "No prize stated", "summary": "Proactive egocentric assistance and memory QA over 400 held-out clips scored on university hardware.", "conf": "confirmed", "eligibility": "Open worldwide; free Codabench registration", "audience": "all", "tags": [ "egocentric", "memory-agent" ] }, { "id": "qloo-agentic-hackathon-2026", "name": "Qloo Agentic Hackathon", "platform": "Devpost", "url": "https://qloo.devpost.com/", "type": "agent-challenge", "format": "online", "location": "Online / worldwide", "start": "2026-09-30", "end": "2026-10-30", "reg": "2026-10-30", "prize": 25000, "prize_kind": "cash", "prize_note": "$15k/$6k/$4k, all cash", "summary": "Build an agentic app on the Qloo API so agents ground recommendations in real cultural taste data.", "conf": "confirmed", "eligibility": "Age of majority; standard Devpost country exclusions", "audience": "all", "tags": [ "agents", "api" ] }, { "id": "ptcg-ai-battle-playground-2026", "name": "The Pokemon Company - PTCG AI Battle Challenge Playground", "platform": "Kaggle", "url": "https://www.kaggle.com/competitions/the-pokemon-company-ptcg-ai-battle-challenge-playground", "type": "agent-challenge", "format": "online", "location": "Online / worldwide (Kaggle)", "start": "2026-09-29", "end": "2027-01-08", "reg": "2027-01-01", "prize": null, "prize_kind": "non-cash", "prize_note": "Swag only (5 prizes, no cash). The $240k paid strategy track already closed 2026-09-13", "summary": "Build an AI training agent to play the Pokemon Trading Card Game against other agents.", "conf": "confirmed", "eligibility": "Standard Kaggle rules; max team 5, mergers allowed", "audience": "all", "tags": [ "agents", "games" ] }, { "id": "youcam-skin-ai-vto-2026", "name": "YouCam API Skin AI & eCommerce VTO Hackathon", "platform": "Devpost", "url": "https://youcam-api-skin-ai-ecommerce.devpost.com/", "type": "hackathon", "format": "online", "location": "Online / worldwide", "start": "2026-09-29", "end": "2026-11-02", "reg": "2026-11-02", "prize": 6000, "prize_kind": "cash", "prize_note": "$2.5k/$1k/$500 + $1k Women in Tech + $1k student award, all cash", "summary": "Build with the YouCam API on skincare, beauty, fashion and eCommerce virtual try-on.", "conf": "confirmed", "eligibility": "Excludes AF, Antarctica, BY, BR, CN, Crimea, CU, DJ, Donetsk, IR, IQ, Quebec, RU, SO, SD, UA, VE, VN, W. Sahara", "audience": "all", "tags": [ "api", "beauty-tech" ] }, { "id": "privacy-first-agentic-ai-2026", "name": "Privacy-First Agentic AI (6th World Championship in Data Science & AI)", "platform": "Kaggle", "url": "https://www.kaggle.com/competitions/privacy-first-agentic-ai", "type": "hackathon", "format": "online", "location": "Online", "start": "2026-09-28", "end": "2027-03-31", "reg": "2027-03-31", "prize": null, "prize_kind": "non-cash", "prize_note": "Kudos only on Kaggle", "summary": "Build privacy-first agentic AI with Yankee AI and Chroma DB.", "conf": "confirmed", "eligibility": "Open globally; Kaggle community hackathon", "audience": "all", "tags": [ "agents", "privacy" ] }, { "id": "apart-agent-attribution-2026", "name": "Agent Attribution Hackathon", "platform": "Apart Research", "url": "https://apartresearch.com/sprints/agent-attribution-2026", "type": "agent-challenge", "format": "online", "location": "Online / worldwide (Discord + Zoom)", "start": "2026-11-27", "end": "2026-11-29", "reg": null, "prize": 2000, "prize_kind": "cash", "prize_note": "$2,000 cash across all tracks ($1,000/$500/$300/$100/$100)", "summary": "Build a classifier that identifies who is steering an AI agent, or hunt for rogue agents in the wild.", "conf": "confirmed", "eligibility": "Open globally to engineers and researchers from any industry; solo or teams up to 5", "audience": "all", "tags": [ "ai-safety", "attribution" ] }, { "id": "ieee-cis-domain-qa-llm-2026", "name": "IEEE CIS Technical Challenge: Domain-Specific QA with LLMs", "platform": "IEEE CIS (GPAIS Task Force)", "url": "https://www.codabench.org/competitions/17954/", "type": "benchmark", "format": "online", "location": "Online", "start": "2026-09-27", "end": "2026-12-03", "reg": "2026-12-03", "prize": null, "prize_kind": "unknown", "prize_note": "No prize stated on the challenge page", "summary": "Adapt LLMs to two expert domains - the IFMIF-DONES accelerator and AI research literature - under compute limits.", "conf": "confirmed", "eligibility": "Open; Codabench registration, no stated restriction", "audience": "all", "tags": [ "llm", "qa" ] }, { "id": "studentchakra-agentic-ai-hackathon-2026", "name": "Agents that act. Systems that answer. (Virtual Agentic-AI Hackathon)", "platform": "Unstop (StudentChakra)", "url": "https://unstop.com/hackathons/agents-that-act-systems-that-answer-studentchakra-1777504", "type": "agent-challenge", "format": "online", "location": "Online / worldwide", "start": "2026-11-28", "end": "2026-11-30", "reg": "2026-11-27", "prize": 680, "prize_kind": "non-cash", "prize_note": "$680 in NON-CASH prizes: ~$500 Apify credits (1st), Cursor subscriptions (2nd and 3rd). Final results 2026-12-08.", "summary": "Free 3-day virtual hackathon judging agentic AI systems on failure modes, human oversight and reversibility.", "conf": "confirmed", "eligibility": "Students worldwide, solo or teams of 1-4; free; no experience required. Restricted to student builders.", "audience": "students", "tags": [ "agents", "ai-safety" ] }, { "id": "meta-vr-start-developer-competition-2026", "name": "Meta VR Start Developer Competition 2026", "platform": "Devpost", "url": "https://start-developer-competition-26.devpost.com/", "type": "hackathon", "format": "online", "location": "Online / worldwide", "start": "2026-09-24", "end": "2026-11-18", "reg": null, "prize": 1000000, "prize_kind": "cash", "prize_note": "$1,000,000 all cash; top awards $100k each. VR app development, not an AI build", "summary": "Eight-week Meta competition for VR gaming, entertainment and productivity apps - adjacent to AI, not an AI contest.", "conf": "confirmed", "eligibility": "18+; requires Meta VR Start membership and a Meta VR dev account; excludes Brazil, Quebec, Russia - India eligible", "audience": "all", "tags": [ "ar-vr", "vendor" ] }, { "id": "gemma-4-developer-agent-2026", "name": "Google - The Gemma 4 Developer Agent Competition", "platform": "Kaggle", "url": "https://www.kaggle.com/competitions/gemma-4-developer-agent", "type": "coding-challenge", "format": "online", "location": "Online / worldwide (Kaggle)", "start": "2026-09-23", "end": "2026-12-02", "reg": "2026-11-25", "prize": 75000, "prize_kind": "cash", "prize_note": "Kaggle lists USD 75,000 total, but the named places sum to $65,000 ($37k/$18k/$10k) - $10k unaccounted", "summary": "Post-train an open Gemma 4 model into a coding agent that accelerates developer workflows.", "conf": "confirmed", "eligibility": "Worldwide under Kaggle rules; identity verification required, max team 5, sanctioned regions excluded", "audience": "all", "tags": [ "agents", "coding" ] }, { "id": "gemma-4-developer-agent-paper-2026", "name": "Google - Gemma 4 Developer Agent Paper Track", "platform": "Kaggle", "url": "https://www.kaggle.com/competitions/gemma-4-developer-agent-paper", "type": "coding-challenge", "format": "online", "location": "Online / worldwide (Kaggle)", "start": "2026-09-23", "end": "2026-11-12", "reg": "2026-11-12", "prize": 35000, "prize_kind": "cash", "prize_note": "$35,000 single prize; part of the $100k combined Gemma 4 pool", "summary": "Submit a research paper advancing the state of the art in agentic software engineering.", "conf": "confirmed", "eligibility": "Open worldwide under Kaggle rules; max team 5", "audience": "all", "tags": [ "agents", "paper" ] }, { "id": "build-with-ai-basics-2026", "name": "Build With AI: Basics", "platform": "Devpost", "url": "https://learn-ai-basics.devpost.com/", "type": "hackathon", "format": "online", "location": "Online / worldwide", "start": "2026-09-22", "end": "2026-10-26", "reg": "2026-10-26", "prize": 2500, "prize_kind": "cash", "prize_note": "$1,250/$750/$500, all cash", "summary": "Build a working first-draft app in an afternoon using AI best practices, with live sessions.", "conf": "confirmed", "eligibility": "18+; standard Devpost country exclusions", "audience": "all", "tags": [ "beginner", "learning" ] }, { "id": "3lc-low-light-detection-2026", "name": "The 3LC Low-Light Detection Challenge", "platform": "Kaggle", "url": "https://www.kaggle.com/competitions/the-3lc-low-light-detection-challenge", "type": "benchmark", "format": "online", "location": "Online", "start": "2026-09-21", "end": "2026-11-21", "reg": "2026-11-21", "prize": 2000, "prize_kind": "cash", "prize_note": "$2,000 cash", "summary": "Object detection across 12 classes on thousands of low-light images with noisy labels.", "conf": "confirmed", "eligibility": "Open globally; Kaggle community competition", "audience": "all", "tags": [ "vision", "detection" ] }, { "id": "neural-interfaces-challenge-2026", "name": "Neural Interfaces 2026 Challenge", "platform": "NeurIPS 2026", "url": "https://neural-interfaces26.github.io/prizes.html", "type": "benchmark", "format": "online", "location": "Online (Codabench); Brain and Body Workshop, Sydney", "start": "2026-09-21", "end": "2026-11-22", "reg": null, "prize": 20000, "prize_kind": "mixed", "prize_note": "$2k x 3 places on each of tracks 2-4 + $2k cross-track; NOTE track 1 pays a paid internship, not cash; warm-up extended, sealed final phase Oct 28 - Nov 22", "summary": "Four tracks: EEG-to-image, BCI decoding, sleep onset and EMG-to-pose, with sealed final evaluation.", "conf": "confirmed", "eligibility": "Open to anyone; organisers ineligible for cash; top-3 face a reproducibility audit", "audience": "all", "tags": [ "bci", "eeg" ] }, { "id": "apart-threat-intelligence-sprint-2026", "name": "Threat Intelligence & Threat Modelling Hackathon", "platform": "Apart Research (with Security Level 5)", "url": "https://apartresearch.com/sprints/threat-intelligence-threat-modelling-2026", "type": "hackathon", "format": "online", "location": "Online (Discord + Zoom)", "start": "2026-12-04", "end": "2026-12-06", "reg": null, "prize": 5000, "prize_kind": "cash", "prize_note": "$5,000 cash: $2,500 / $1,250 / $750 / $250 / $250. Top teams may be invited to apply to the Apart Fellowship and get SL5 mentorship.", "summary": "Weekend sprint building AI-assisted threat intelligence and threat modelling for frontier AI infrastructure.", "conf": "confirmed", "eligibility": "Open globally to anyone; no prior participation, team or background required. Teams of up to five recommended; each person on at most two projects.", "audience": "all", "tags": [ "ai-safety", "security" ] }, { "id": "mlh-ghw-open-source-week-2026", "name": "MLH Global Hack Week: Open Source Week", "platform": "Major League Hacking", "url": "https://ghw.mlh.com/", "type": "hackathon", "format": "online", "location": "Online / worldwide", "start": "2026-12-04", "end": "2026-12-10", "reg": "2026-12-10", "prize": null, "prize_kind": "non-cash", "prize_note": "No cash pool; swag and badges only", "summary": "MLH Global Hack Week focused on open source, free and open to anyone anywhere.", "conf": "confirmed", "eligibility": "Open to all, explicitly free for anyone anywhere", "audience": "all", "tags": [ "open-source", "community" ] }, { "id": "agent-memory-challenge-cycle-2", "name": "Agent Memory Challenge Cycle 2", "platform": "Agent Memory Leaderboard", "url": "https://agentmemoryleaderboard.ai/evaluation", "type": "benchmark", "format": "online", "location": "Online / worldwide", "start": "2026-09-20", "end": "2026-10-31", "reg": "2026-10-31", "prize": 22000, "prize_kind": "cash", "prize_note": "~$22k cash pool across 3 tracks (guide also quotes RMB 150,000 - figures conflict)", "summary": "Three-track evaluation of agent memory systems: textual, coding-agent and multimodal memory.", "conf": "approximate", "eligibility": "Open-source Methods entries only are prize-eligible; must host your own Add/Search APIs", "audience": "all", "tags": [ "agents", "memory" ] }, { "id": "buildarena-s02-2026", "name": "BuildArena S02 - Human AI Engineering Challenge", "platform": "Kaggle", "url": "https://www.kaggle.com/competitions/build-arena-human-ai-engineering-challenge", "type": "agent-challenge", "format": "online", "location": "Online / worldwide (Kaggle)", "start": "2026-09-15", "end": "2026-11-15", "reg": null, "prize": 3000, "prize_kind": "cash", "prize_note": "Eight named awards ($700 Agent Master Builder down to $200); needs Windows + Besiege (Steam keys gifted)", "summary": "Agents build machines and controllers in Besiege and fly closed-loop missions, scored Autopilot vs Copilot.", "conf": "confirmed", "eligibility": "Open globally; max team 3 and no mergers; BuildArena staff and judges ineligible for cash", "audience": "all", "tags": [ "agents", "simulation" ] }, { "id": "medicalbench-optum", "name": "MedicalBench", "platform": "Codabench", "url": "https://www.codabench.org/competitions/18134/", "type": "benchmark", "format": "online", "location": "Online", "start": "2026-09-15", "end": "2027-12-30", "reg": null, "prize": null, "prize_kind": "non-cash", "prize_note": "Terms state participants receive no monetary prizes or compensation (Optum-hosted)", "summary": "Identify the relation between medical codes and clinical notes on a hidden leaderboard.", "conf": "confirmed", "eligibility": "Open worldwide; free Codabench registration", "audience": "all", "tags": [ "healthcare", "llm-eval" ] }, { "id": "roboheard-2027-challenge", "name": "RoboHEARD 2027: Robot-centric Embodied Hearing and Dialogue", "platform": "ICASSP 2027", "url": "https://roboheard.github.io/", "type": "agent-challenge", "format": "online", "location": "Online", "start": "2026-09-15", "end": "2026-12-22", "reg": "2026-11-15", "prize": 3600, "prize_kind": "cash", "prize_note": "$1,000/$500/$300 to the top three in each of two tracks (offline + online) = $3,600", "summary": "Robot-centric embodied hearing and spoken dialogue, with an offline track and a latency-bounded online track.", "conf": "confirmed", "eligibility": "Open worldwide; register via form by Nov 15 and declare external data and pretrained models", "audience": "all", "tags": [ "agents", "speech", "embodied-ai" ] }, { "id": "ai-buildfest-2026-unstop", "name": "AI BuildFest 2026", "platform": "Unstop (Frontend Arena x Adaption)", "url": "https://unstop.com/hackathons/ai-buildfest-2026-frontend-arena-1774417", "type": "hackathon", "format": "online", "location": "Online", "start": "2026-12-10", "end": "2026-12-12", "reg": "2026-12-08", "prize": null, "prize_kind": "non-cash", "prize_note": "No cash prizes listed - winners get recognition and certificates; 'any platform credits or additional benefits are subject to the final sponsor prize terms'.", "summary": "48-hour online hackathon: generate a dataset, train your own model on Adaption, ship a working AI solution.", "conf": "confirmed", "eligibility": "Open to all (students, developers, AI enthusiasts); teams of 2-4; mandatory use of the Adaption platform for dataset generation and model training. No country restriction stated.", "audience": "all", "tags": [ "model-training", "datasets" ] }, { "id": "enveda-casmi-2026", "name": "Enveda CASMI 2026: Molecule ID From Mass Spectra", "platform": "Kaggle", "url": "https://www.kaggle.com/competitions/enveda-CASMI26-molecule-id-mass-spectra", "type": "benchmark", "format": "online", "location": "Online / worldwide (Kaggle)", "start": "2026-09-14", "end": "2026-12-14", "reg": "2026-12-07", "prize": 50000, "prize_kind": "cash", "prize_note": "$50,000 cash across 5 prizes", "summary": "Predict 2D chemical structures of small molecules detected in complex biological extracts.", "conf": "confirmed", "eligibility": "Standard Kaggle rules; identity verification, max team 5", "audience": "all", "tags": [ "chemistry", "science" ] }, { "id": "semeval-2027-task10-agentrisk", "name": "SemEval-2027 Task 10: AgentRisk", "platform": "SemEval 2027", "url": "https://agentrisk-semeval.lovable.app/", "type": "agent-challenge", "format": "online", "location": "Online / worldwide", "start": "2026-09-08", "end": "2027-01-31", "reg": null, "prize": null, "prize_kind": "non-cash", "prize_note": "No cash; a system-description paper in the SemEval 2027 proceedings. Evaluation window Jan 10-31 2027", "summary": "Shared task on risk evaluation in agentic multi-turn interactions.", "conf": "approximate", "eligibility": "Open worldwide", "audience": "all", "tags": [ "agents", "safety" ] }, { "id": "semeval-2027-task11-vakra-tool-calling", "name": "SemEval-2027 Task 11: VAKRA-Advanced Tool-Calling", "platform": "SemEval 2027", "url": "https://sites.google.com/view/vakrasemeval2027", "type": "agent-challenge", "format": "online", "location": "Online / worldwide", "start": "2026-09-08", "end": "2027-01-31", "reg": null, "prize": null, "prize_kind": "non-cash", "prize_note": "No cash; a system-description paper in the SemEval 2027 proceedings. Evaluation window Jan 10-31 2027", "summary": "Shared task on multi-hop, multi-source tool-calling by LLM agents.", "conf": "approximate", "eligibility": "Open worldwide", "audience": "all", "tags": [ "agents", "tool-use" ] }, { "id": "semeval-2027-task7-clas", "name": "SemEval-2027 Task 7: CLaS (Cross-Lingual Alignment and Steering of LLMs)", "platform": "SemEval 2027", "url": "https://clas-semeval2027.github.io/clas.semeval2027/task/", "type": "benchmark", "format": "online", "location": "Online", "start": "2026-09-08", "end": "2027-01-31", "reg": "2027-01-31", "prize": null, "prize_kind": "non-cash", "prize_note": "No cash prize; a first-place award per ranking plus a Best Interpretability Insights Award", "summary": "Cross-lingual alignment and steering of LLMs; two test submissions plus one final per track in January 2027.", "conf": "approximate", "eligibility": "Open; team registration form, no stated restriction", "audience": "all", "tags": [ "llm", "interpretability" ] }, { "id": "ieee-bigdata-traffic-flow-bench-2026", "name": "IEEE Big Data 2026: Traffic Flow Bench", "platform": "Kaggle", "url": "https://www.kaggle.com/competitions/2026-ieee-big-data-traffic-flow-bench", "type": "benchmark", "format": "online", "location": "Online / worldwide (Kaggle)", "start": "2026-09-04", "end": "2026-11-07", "reg": "2026-10-25", "prize": 3500, "prize_kind": "cash", "prize_note": "$3,500 cash: Gold $1,500 / Silver $1,000 / Bronze $500 / Student-Newcomer $500; max team 4", "summary": "Reconstruct masked freeway states, forecast queues under physics constraints and recover demand.", "conf": "approximate", "eligibility": "Open worldwide; awards require email registration and a reproducibility check", "audience": "all", "tags": [ "traffic", "physics-ml" ] }, { "id": "semeval-2027-task5-compartment", "name": "SemEval-2027 Task 5: ComPartMent", "platform": "Codabench", "url": "https://www.codabench.org/competitions/17971/", "type": "benchmark", "format": "online", "location": "Online", "start": "2026-09-04", "end": "2027-01-31", "reg": null, "prize": null, "prize_kind": "non-cash", "prize_note": "No cash prize; SemEval shared task with system-description paper track", "summary": "SemEval-2027 shared task ComPartMent; practice phase then evaluation window closing end of January 2027.", "conf": "confirmed", "eligibility": "Open worldwide; free Codabench registration", "audience": "all", "tags": [ "nlp", "shared-task" ] }, { "id": "amd-lablab-ai-academy-challenge", "name": "AMD x Lablab AI Academy Challenge", "platform": "lablab.ai", "url": "https://lablab.ai/event/amd-lablab-ai-academy-challenge", "type": "coding-challenge", "format": "online", "location": "Online (AMD Developer Cloud)", "start": "2026-09-01", "end": "2026-12-01", "reg": null, "prize": 10000, "prize_kind": "mixed", "prize_note": "$10k+ headline but only ~$6.5k cash (podium $2.5k/$1.5k/$1k, $500 per match); rest AMD GPU credits + DeepLearning.AI Pro", "summary": "Self-paced three-month AMD GPU learning ladder with bi-weekly mini-challenges and cash for top finishers.", "conf": "confirmed", "eligibility": "Worldwide, individuals only (no teams), one account per person, Discord join required", "audience": "all", "tags": [ "amd", "learning" ] }, { "id": "icassp-2027-fetal-ctg-agent-challenge", "name": "Agent-Based Fetal Well-being Assessment via CTG", "platform": "ICASSP 2027", "url": "https://2027.ieeeicassp.org/?p=5002", "type": "agent-challenge", "format": "online", "location": "Online; session Toronto May 2027", "start": "2026-09-01", "end": "2026-11-15", "reg": "2026-10-31", "prize": 10000, "prize_kind": "cash", "prize_note": "Ten US$1,000 awards ($10,000 total); camera-ready due Jan 18 2027", "summary": "Agentic assessment of fetal well-being from cardiotocography signals.", "conf": "approximate", "eligibility": "Not stated; the challenge website is still listed as \"Pending\" on the ICASSP page", "audience": "all", "tags": [ "agents", "health" ] }, { "id": "semeval-2027-task2-dico-nli", "name": "SemEval-2027 Task 2: DiCo-NLI", "platform": "SemEval 2027", "url": "https://www.codabench.org/competitions/18038/", "type": "benchmark", "format": "online", "location": "Online", "start": "2026-09-01", "end": "2027-01-31", "reg": "2027-01-31", "prize": null, "prize_kind": "non-cash", "prize_note": "No cash prize; SemEval system-description paper", "summary": "Directional-consistent fine-grained natural language inference; final evaluation 10-31 January 2027.", "conf": "confirmed", "eligibility": "Open; teams must report whether they use open-weight, API or closed models", "audience": "all", "tags": [ "llm", "nli" ] }, { "id": "amazon-build-ship-shape-2026", "name": "Build, Ship, Shape: Amazon Developer Hackathon", "platform": "Devpost", "url": "https://amazonappdev2026.devpost.com/", "type": "hackathon", "format": "online", "location": "Online / worldwide", "start": "2026-08-31", "end": "2026-10-23", "reg": "2026-10-23", "prize": 138000, "prize_kind": "mixed", "prize_note": "$138k pool: cash tiers ($25k/$15k/$4k per track) each paired with $1k-$15k AWS credits", "summary": "First combined global Amazon hackathon across Fire TV, Alexa+, Ring and Bee devices.", "conf": "confirmed", "eligibility": "Legal age of majority; all countries bar standard Devpost exclusions", "audience": "all", "tags": [ "aws", "voice" ] }, { "id": "climx-climate-emulation-2026", "name": "ClimX: Extreme-aware Climate Model Emulation", "platform": "Kaggle", "url": "https://www.kaggle.com/competitions/climx-main-track", "type": "benchmark", "format": "online", "location": "Online", "start": "2026-08-31", "end": "2026-12-15", "reg": "2026-12-15", "prize": 3700, "prize_kind": "cash", "prize_note": "$3,700 cash", "summary": "Accelerate projection of heatwaves, droughts and compound events via climate emulation.", "conf": "confirmed", "eligibility": "Open globally; Kaggle community competition", "audience": "all", "tags": [ "climate", "emulation" ] }, { "id": "lingualsafety-jailbreak-defence-2026", "name": "LingualSafety: Jailbreak Defences Against Multilingual Attacks", "platform": "Codabench", "url": "https://www.codabench.org/competitions/17942/", "type": "benchmark", "format": "online", "location": "Online", "start": "2026-08-30", "end": "2026-10-25", "reg": "2026-10-25", "prize": null, "prize_kind": "non-cash", "prize_note": "No cash prize stated", "summary": "Build defences against multilingual jailbreak attacks on LLMs, scored in a sealed testing phase.", "conf": "confirmed", "eligibility": "Free and open to teams of one or more; one account per team, research and non-commercial data use", "audience": "all", "tags": [ "llm", "safety" ] }, { "id": "semeval-2027-task1-reteco", "name": "SemEval-2027 Task 1: RETECO (Reasoning-Oriented Retrieval)", "platform": "SemEval 2027", "url": "https://datascienceuibk.github.io/RETECO/", "type": "benchmark", "format": "online", "location": "Online", "start": "2026-08-30", "end": "2027-01-31", "reg": "2027-01-31", "prize": null, "prize_kind": "non-cash", "prize_note": "No cash prize; system-description paper at the SemEval-2027 workshop", "summary": "Shared task on reasoning-oriented retrieval, with the evaluation window opening 10 January 2027.", "conf": "approximate", "eligibility": "Open; one registration form per team, sub-tracks declared at registration", "audience": "all", "tags": [ "llm", "retrieval" ] }, { "id": "agenthon-2026-neurips", "name": "Agenthon 2026: Verifiable AI for Quantitative Finance", "platform": "NeurIPS 2026", "url": "https://www.agenthon.net/", "type": "agent-challenge", "format": "online", "location": "Online / worldwide", "start": "2026-08-28", "end": "2026-10-26", "reg": "2026-10-12", "prize": 12000, "prize_kind": "cash", "prize_note": "$12,000: $1,500/$1,000/$500 in each of 4 tracks, team award split equally", "summary": "Four tracks testing whether agents produce finance outputs that survive leakage-controlled evaluation.", "conf": "confirmed", "eligibility": "Teams of 1-3, any/all tracks; registration closed Oct 12, uploads close Oct 25", "audience": "all", "tags": [ "agents", "finance" ] }, { "id": "nebius-nvidia-global-ai-hackathon", "name": "Nebius x NVIDIA Global AI Hackathon", "platform": "Devpost", "url": "https://nebiusglobalaihackathon.devpost.com/", "type": "agent-challenge", "format": "online", "location": "Online / worldwide (optional local meetups)", "start": "2026-08-26", "end": "2026-10-30", "reg": "2026-10-30", "prize": 50000, "prize_kind": "mixed", "prize_note": "$20k/$10k/$6k + $3k Tavily + 20x$500 city awards in cash, plus 4 NVIDIA Jetson Orin Nano boards", "summary": "Build a working AI system on open NVIDIA models running on Nebius across coding, apps and physical AI tracks.", "conf": "confirmed", "eligibility": "Age of majority; excludes Brazil, Quebec, Russia, Cuba, Iran, North Korea, Crimea", "audience": "all", "tags": [ "agents", "nvidia" ] }, { "id": "opencv-ai-competition-2026", "name": "OpenCV AI Competition 2026, powered by AWS", "platform": "Devpost", "url": "https://opencv26.devpost.com/", "type": "hackathon", "format": "online", "location": "Online / worldwide", "start": "2026-08-26", "end": "2026-10-26", "reg": "2026-10-26", "prize": 20250, "prize_kind": "cash", "prize_note": "$5k/$3k/$2k + $1k awards + 55 x $150 AWS compute grants, all listed as cash", "summary": "Build computer-vision systems that see, reason and act using OpenCV 5 and AWS.", "conf": "confirmed", "eligibility": "Age of majority; standard Devpost country exclusions", "audience": "all", "tags": [ "computer-vision", "aws" ] }, { "id": "poisoned-chalice-llm-eval-icse27", "name": "The Poisoned Chalice of LLM Evaluation (ICSE'27)", "platform": "Kaggle", "url": "https://www.kaggle.com/competitions/poisoned-chalice-icse27", "type": "benchmark", "format": "online", "location": "Online", "start": "2026-08-26", "end": "2026-12-05", "reg": "2026-12-05", "prize": null, "prize_kind": "non-cash", "prize_note": "No prize field set; ICSE 2027-linked community competition", "summary": "Benchmark on contamination and other pitfalls in LLM evaluation for software engineering.", "conf": "confirmed", "eligibility": "Open globally; Kaggle community competition", "audience": "all", "tags": [ "llm-eval", "swe" ] }, { "id": "semeval-2027-task8-stereoqueereval-a", "name": "SemEval 2027 Task 8 StereoQueerEval: Subtask A - Stereotype Detection", "platform": "Codabench", "url": "https://www.codabench.org/competitions/18461/", "type": "benchmark", "format": "online", "location": "Online", "start": "2027-01-01", "end": "2027-01-31", "reg": null, "prize": null, "prize_kind": "non-cash", "prize_note": "No cash prize; SemEval shared task with system-description paper track", "summary": "Detect anti-queer stereotypes in text.", "conf": "confirmed", "eligibility": "Open worldwide; free Codabench registration", "audience": "all", "tags": [ "nlp", "shared-task" ] }, { "id": "semeval-2027-task8-stereoqueereval-b", "name": "SemEval 2027 Task 8 StereoQueerEval: Subtask B - Hate Speech Classification", "platform": "Codabench", "url": "https://www.codabench.org/competitions/18462/", "type": "benchmark", "format": "online", "location": "Online", "start": "2027-01-01", "end": "2027-01-31", "reg": null, "prize": null, "prize_kind": "non-cash", "prize_note": "No cash prize; SemEval shared task with system-description paper track", "summary": "Classify hate speech targeting queer identities.", "conf": "confirmed", "eligibility": "Open worldwide; free Codabench registration", "audience": "all", "tags": [ "nlp", "shared-task" ] }, { "id": "semeval-2027-task8-stereoqueereval-c", "name": "SemEval 2027 Task 8 StereoQueerEval: Subtask C - Target & Identity Identification", "platform": "Codabench", "url": "https://www.codabench.org/competitions/18463/", "type": "benchmark", "format": "online", "location": "Online", "start": "2027-01-01", "end": "2027-01-31", "reg": null, "prize": null, "prize_kind": "non-cash", "prize_note": "No cash prize; SemEval shared task with system-description paper track", "summary": "Identify the targeted identity in hateful text.", "conf": "confirmed", "eligibility": "Open worldwide; free Codabench registration", "audience": "all", "tags": [ "nlp", "shared-task" ] }, { "id": "badger-scribe-2026", "name": "Badger Scribe", "platform": "Kaggle", "url": "https://www.kaggle.com/competitions/badger-scribe", "type": "benchmark", "format": "online", "location": "Online", "start": "2026-08-21", "end": "2026-12-03", "reg": "2026-12-03", "prize": null, "prize_kind": "non-cash", "prize_note": "No prize field set; community competition hosted by ML+X, same host as Badger Code", "summary": "Transcribe 19th-century handwritten UW Libraries archives using open-weight models.", "conf": "confirmed", "eligibility": "Open globally; Kaggle community competition", "audience": "all", "tags": [ "ocr", "open-weights" ] }, { "id": "ieee-opencity-challenge-2026", "name": "IEEE Big Data Cup 2026 - OpenCity Challenge", "platform": "IEEE Big Data 2026", "url": "https://www.codabench.org/competitions/17882/", "type": "benchmark", "format": "online", "location": "Online (Codabench)", "start": "2026-08-19", "end": "2026-11-06", "reg": null, "prize": 3500, "prize_kind": "unknown", "prize_note": "\"$3,500, subject to confirmation by the Shenzhen/SUTPC organising team\"; breakdown unpublished (pool stated as planned, subject to confirmation)", "summary": "Build a city transportation model; final leaderboard entry then a verification window to Nov 13.", "conf": "confirmed", "eligibility": "Per the Codabench competition page", "audience": "all", "tags": [ "mobility", "benchmark" ] }, { "id": "flagos-open-computing-s2", "name": "FlagOS Open Computing Global Challenge (Season 2)", "platform": "Kaggle", "url": "https://www.kaggle.com/competitions/flag-os-open-computing-global-challenge-season-2", "type": "coding-challenge", "format": "online", "location": "Online / worldwide (Kaggle)", "start": "2026-08-18", "end": "2026-12-30", "reg": null, "prize": 14925, "prize_kind": "cash", "prize_note": "$14,925 = Track 1 $5,925 + Track 2 $9,000. Third-party listings quoting $40,000 or $22,200 are stale", "summary": "Optimise AI operator and inference performance across diverse AI chips on the FlagOS open stack.", "conf": "confirmed", "eligibility": "No restriction on nationality, age or occupation; off-Kaggle registration at flagos.net required for awards", "audience": "all", "tags": [ "systems", "optimization" ] }, { "id": "flagos-open-computing-track-1", "name": "FlagOS Open Computing Global Challenge - Track 1", "platform": "Kaggle", "url": "https://www.kaggle.com/competitions/flag-os-open-computing-global-challenge-track-1", "type": "coding-challenge", "format": "online", "location": "Online", "start": "2026-08-18", "end": "2026-12-30", "reg": "2026-12-30", "prize": 5925, "prize_kind": "cash", "prize_note": "$5,925 cash; separately enterable from Track 2", "summary": "Optimize SGLang framework operators for performance across multiple AI chip platforms.", "conf": "confirmed", "eligibility": "Open globally; Kaggle community hackathon", "audience": "all", "tags": [ "gpu-kernels", "sglang" ] }, { "id": "flagos-open-computing-track-2", "name": "FlagOS Open Computing Global Challenge - Track 2", "platform": "Kaggle", "url": "https://www.kaggle.com/competitions/flag-os-open-computing-global-challenge-track-2", "type": "coding-challenge", "format": "online", "location": "Online", "start": "2026-08-18", "end": "2026-12-30", "reg": "2026-12-30", "prize": 9000, "prize_kind": "cash", "prize_note": "$9,000 cash; separately enterable from Track 1", "summary": "Optimize inference throughput for MiniCPM5-2B across AI chip platforms.", "conf": "confirmed", "eligibility": "Open globally; Kaggle community hackathon", "audience": "all", "tags": [ "inference", "optimization" ] }, { "id": "simulacrabench-2026", "name": "SimulacraBench: Synthetic Humanitarian Surveys", "platform": "NeurIPS 2026", "url": "https://simulacrabench.org/", "type": "benchmark", "format": "online", "location": "Online / worldwide", "start": "2026-08-18", "end": "2026-11-19", "reg": null, "prize": 16500, "prize_kind": "cash", "prize_note": "$10k grand + $2k \"Roots of the Data\" + 3 x $1.5k track prizes; dev closes Nov 13", "summary": "Predict unpublished UN and World Bank survey microdata under closed evaluation; code travels to the data.", "conf": "confirmed", "eligibility": "Academia, industry and independent researchers; one team per person; sanctions exclusions", "audience": "all", "tags": [ "llm", "evaluation" ] }, { "id": "checkpoint-1-games-for-good-2027", "name": "checkpoint 1 - games for good", "platform": "Devpost", "url": "https://checkpoint-1.devpost.com/", "type": "hackathon", "format": "online", "location": "Online / worldwide", "start": "2027-01-08", "end": "2027-01-10", "reg": null, "prize": 1400, "prize_kind": "mixed", "prize_note": "$1,400 headline but only $350 cash ($150/$100/$100); rest CraftPix and 1Password subscriptions", "summary": "48-hour youth game jam building games for social good.", "conf": "confirmed", "eligibility": "Ages 13-18, not enrolled full-time at university; parental permission; worldwide", "audience": "students", "tags": [ "games", "youth" ] }, { "id": "united-hacks-v8-2027", "name": "United Hacks V8", "platform": "Devpost", "url": "https://unitedhacksv8.devpost.com/", "type": "hackathon", "format": "online", "location": "Online / worldwide", "start": "2027-01-08", "end": "2027-01-10", "reg": "2027-01-10", "prize": 350, "prize_kind": "mixed", "prize_note": "Headline '$13,700+' is mostly non-cash; actual cash is ~$350 ($250 + $100). Rest is Featherless plans, AirPods, swag", "summary": "Hack United's flagship 3-day online hackathon with solo and theme tracks; successor to United Hackathons V1.", "conf": "confirmed", "eligibility": "Students only, ages 13+; companies excluded; worldwide except embargoed", "audience": "students", "tags": [ "general", "pitch", "beginner" ] }, { "id": "aimo-interpretability-challenge-2026", "name": "AIMO Interpretability Challenge", "platform": "NeurIPS 2026", "url": "https://aimo-interp.github.io/", "type": "benchmark", "format": "online", "location": "Online / worldwide", "start": "2026-08-15", "end": "2026-11-01", "reg": null, "prize": 12500, "prize_kind": "cash", "prize_note": "$12,500 cash: main $3k/$1k/$600, small-models $2k/$600/$300, plus $5k writeup prizes (reports due Nov 15)", "summary": "Decide whether a frontier model solved an unseen olympiad problem robustly or via spurious patterns.", "conf": "approximate", "eligibility": "Open to anyone - academic, independent and industry; no team-size or affiliation limits", "audience": "all", "tags": [ "interpretability", "llm" ] }, { "id": "neurips-2026-predictive-ai-eval", "name": "Predictive AI Evaluation Competition", "platform": "NeurIPS 2026", "url": "https://aimslab.stanford.edu/competition", "type": "benchmark", "format": "online", "location": "Online / worldwide", "start": "2026-08-15", "end": "2026-10-30", "reg": null, "prize": null, "prize_kind": "non-cash", "prize_note": "No prize money: 5 oral slots and poster presentation at the NeurIPS session, Sydney Dec 11", "summary": "Predict AI-system performance on unevaluated benchmark items from partial observations under label budgets.", "conf": "confirmed", "eligibility": "Open to individuals regardless of affiliation; one team each, up to 6 members; free registration", "audience": "all", "tags": [ "llm", "evaluation" ] }, { "id": "chi-bench-2026", "name": "CHI-Bench: Healthcare AI Agents (IEEE Big Data Cup)", "platform": "Kaggle", "url": "https://www.kaggle.com/competitions/chi-bench", "type": "agent-challenge", "format": "online", "location": "Online / worldwide (Kaggle)", "start": "2026-08-14", "end": "2026-11-15", "reg": "2026-11-07", "prize": 3000, "prize_kind": "cash", "prize_note": "$3,000: Gold $1,500 / Silver $1,000 / Bronze $500 plus a Reliability Award. IEEE Big Data Cup 2026 Challenge 07", "summary": "IEEE Big Data cup challenge benchmarking healthcare AI agents; finalists re-verified by organisers.", "conf": "confirmed", "eligibility": "Open entry; finalists must supply source code and a qualifying report", "audience": "all", "tags": [ "agents", "healthcare" ] }, { "id": "virtual-embryo-challenge-2026", "name": "The Virtual Embryo Challenge", "platform": "NeurIPS 2026", "url": "https://virtualembryo.ai/challenge", "type": "benchmark", "format": "online", "location": "Online / worldwide", "start": "2026-08-10", "end": "2026-12-11", "reg": null, "prize": 112000, "prize_kind": "mixed", "prize_note": "$112k total ($54k winner prizes, $8k Generality Award, $30k travel, $20k community)", "summary": "Virtual-embryo modelling challenge with a dedicated Track 2 'Agent Team' for coding-agent and LLM-driven entries.", "conf": "confirmed", "eligibility": "Open; the coding-agent track must disclose trajectory, prompts and harness", "audience": "all", "tags": [ "agents", "bio" ] }, { "id": "rsna-knee-abnormality-2026", "name": "RSNA Knee Abnormality Detection", "platform": "Kaggle", "url": "https://www.kaggle.com/competitions/rsna-knee-abnormality-detection", "type": "benchmark", "format": "online", "location": "Online / worldwide (Kaggle)", "start": "2026-08-05", "end": "2026-10-22", "reg": "2026-10-15", "prize": 77000, "prize_kind": "cash", "prize_note": "$77,000 cash: 10 leaderboard prizes + 3 efficiency prizes", "summary": "Detect knee abnormalities from multimodal MRI and radiograph imaging data.", "conf": "confirmed", "eligibility": "Standard Kaggle rules; identity verification required", "audience": "all", "tags": [ "medical-imaging", "health" ] }, { "id": "neurips-fusion-equilibrium-challenge-2026", "name": "Fusion Equilibrium Challenge", "platform": "NeurIPS 2026", "url": "https://fusion-equilibrium-challenge.sophelio.io/", "type": "benchmark", "format": "online", "location": "Online (Codabench)", "start": "2026-07-27", "end": "2026-10-26", "reg": null, "prize": 1000, "prize_kind": "mixed", "prize_note": "Two $500 awards plus honorable mentions, paper co-authorship and invited NeurIPS talks", "summary": "Reconstruct tokamak magnetic geometry without magnetic diagnostics, transferring zero-shot DIII-D to MAST.", "conf": "confirmed", "eligibility": "Open; Codabench join required; NeurIPS code of conduct applies", "audience": "all", "tags": [ "fusion", "sciml" ] }, { "id": "syntax-summit-2026", "name": "Syntax Summit", "platform": "Devpost", "url": "https://syntax-summit.devpost.com/", "type": "coding-challenge", "format": "online", "location": "Online / worldwide", "start": "2026-07-18", "end": "2027-01-14", "reg": null, "prize": null, "prize_kind": "non-cash", "prize_note": "Six non-cash recognition awards (best DSL, best compiler, best interpreter and others)", "summary": "Long-run challenge to invent your own programming language, compiler or interpreter.", "conf": "confirmed", "eligibility": "16+, all experience levels; rules do not require student status despite the Devpost tag", "audience": "all", "tags": [ "compilers", "languages" ] }, { "id": "badger-code-openagent-coding-2026", "name": "Badger Code (OpenAgent Coding)", "platform": "Kaggle", "url": "https://www.kaggle.com/competitions/OpenAgent-Coding", "type": "coding-challenge", "format": "online", "location": "Online / worldwide (Kaggle)", "start": "2026-07-16", "end": "2026-12-03", "reg": null, "prize": null, "prize_kind": "non-cash", "prize_note": "Explicitly a non-monetary educational challenge; no cash or material prizes, top teams present at a showcase", "summary": "Build the best open coding agent on a single GPU with no proprietary models, scored on Terminal-Bench 2.1.", "conf": "confirmed", "eligibility": "Hosted by a UW-Madison community but rules impose no enrolment or nationality restriction; max team 6", "audience": "all", "tags": [ "agents", "coding" ] }, { "id": "code-for-humanity-2026", "name": "Code for Humanity", "platform": "Devpost", "url": "https://code-for-humanity.devpost.com/", "type": "hackathon", "format": "online", "location": "Online / worldwide", "start": "2026-07-16", "end": "2027-01-15", "reg": null, "prize": null, "prize_kind": "non-cash", "prize_note": "Non-cash: certificates of participation plus four recognition awards", "summary": "Six-month social-impact build sprint on education, health, accessibility and humanitarian problems.", "conf": "confirmed", "eligibility": "Students only; all countries bar standard Devpost exclusions", "audience": "students", "tags": [ "social-good", "long-run" ] }, { "id": "domain-specific-slm-challenge-2026", "name": "Domain-Specific Small Language Models (SLM) Challenge", "platform": "Codabench", "url": "https://www.codabench.org/competitions/17432/", "type": "benchmark", "format": "online", "location": "Online", "start": "2026-07-08", "end": "2026-12-31", "reg": "2026-12-31", "prize": null, "prize_kind": "unknown", "prize_note": "No prize stated; three tracks (Legal, Medical, African Folktales)", "summary": "Build small, efficient domain-specialised language models and submit generations against a hidden test set.", "conf": "confirmed", "eligibility": "Open; no PII or PHI in training data, participants supply their own compute", "audience": "all", "tags": [ "llm", "slm" ] }, { "id": "ieee-solar-filament-segmentation-2026", "name": "Solar Filament Segmentation Challenge 2026", "platform": "IEEE Big Data 2026", "url": "https://www.kaggle.com/competitions/filament-segmentation-2026", "type": "benchmark", "format": "online", "location": "Online (Kaggle)", "start": "2026-07-08", "end": "2026-11-15", "reg": null, "prize": 3000, "prize_kind": "cash", "prize_note": "$3,000 per the Kaggle reward field; cup page also offers IEEE Big Data registration for top teams", "summary": "Pixel-precise segmentation of solar filaments in GONG H-alpha observations, scored by panoptic quality.", "conf": "confirmed", "eligibility": "Standard Kaggle rules; max team size 10", "audience": "all", "tags": [ "segmentation", "astronomy" ] }, { "id": "ieee-carbonglobe-ai-emulation-2026", "name": "CarbonGlobe AI Emulation Challenge", "platform": "IEEE Big Data 2026", "url": "https://www.kaggle.com/competitions/ieee-bigdata-cup-2026-ai-emulation-challenge", "type": "benchmark", "format": "online", "location": "Online (Kaggle)", "start": "2026-07-02", "end": "2026-11-16", "reg": null, "prize": null, "prize_kind": "unknown", "prize_note": "Kaggle title says \"Awards Avail\" but no amount is published in the reward field or on the cup page", "summary": "Global land-ecosystem forecasting: seven annual carbon variables over multi-decadal horizons.", "conf": "confirmed", "eligibility": "Standard Kaggle rules; max team size 20; source code required", "audience": "all", "tags": [ "climate", "forecasting" ] }, { "id": "ieee-urbantwin-sim2real-lidar-2026", "name": "UCF UrbanTwin Sim2Real LiDAR Challenge", "platform": "IEEE Big Data 2026", "url": "https://urbanity-lab.github.io/bdc2026-urbantwin-sim2real/", "type": "benchmark", "format": "online", "location": "Online / worldwide", "start": "2026-07-01", "end": "2026-11-15", "reg": "2026-08-15", "prize": 1000, "prize_kind": "mixed", "prize_note": "Challenge page says $1,000 ($500/$300/$200); the cup overview says $2,000 - figures conflict. Plus a proceedings paper invite", "summary": "Close the sim-to-real gap for LiDAR detection: submit synthetic frames plus detections on real frames.", "conf": "approximate", "eligibility": "Open to researchers, students and industry; letter of intent was due Aug 15", "audience": "all", "tags": [ "lidar", "sim2real" ] }, { "id": "speech-accessibility-challenge-2-2026", "name": "Speech Accessibility Project Challenge 2", "platform": "NeurIPS 2026", "url": "https://xiuwenz2.github.io/SAPC2-website/", "type": "benchmark", "format": "online", "location": "Online (Codabench); workshop Sydney", "start": "2026-07-01", "end": "2026-10-24", "reg": null, "prize": 10000, "prize_kind": "cash", "prize_note": "$10,000 split equally among teams on the accuracy-latency Pareto frontier", "summary": "Dysarthric speech recognition from offline to real time, across unconstrained and streaming ASR tracks.", "conf": "confirmed", "eligibility": "Open, but requires an approved SAP corpus Data Transfer agreement (takes ~2-4 weeks) - corpus needs a Data Transfer and Use Agreement taking 2-4 weeks, so late entry is impractical", "audience": "all", "tags": [ "asr", "accessibility" ] }, { "id": "quantiphy-challenge-2026", "name": "QuantiPhy Challenge: Physical Reasoning for VLMs", "platform": "NeurIPS 2026", "url": "https://quantiphy.stanford.edu/competition/index.html", "type": "benchmark", "format": "online", "location": "Online / worldwide", "start": "2026-06-30", "end": "2026-10-23", "reg": "2026-10-09", "prize": 3500, "prize_kind": "mixed", "prize_note": "$1,000/$500/$250 per track plus oral slots; registration already closed Oct 9", "summary": "Benchmark VLMs on quantitative physical reasoning: sizes, velocities and accelerations from video.", "conf": "approximate", "eligibility": "Teams up to 5; registration closed 2026-10-09; organizers ineligible for prizes - registration CLOSED Oct 9, leaderboard frozen from Oct 21", "audience": "all", "tags": [ "vlm", "benchmark" ] }, { "id": "dsh-hacks-v2-2026", "name": "DSH Hacks V2", "platform": "Devpost", "url": "https://dsh-hacks-v2.devpost.com/", "type": "hackathon", "format": "online", "location": "Online / worldwide", "start": "2026-06-24", "end": "2026-11-14", "reg": "2026-11-14", "prize": 100000, "prize_kind": "non-cash", "prize_note": "WARNING: \"$100k+\" headline is 100% non-cash - Devpost lists 5 non-cash prizes (Momen/Adaption Labs/CodeCrafters credits)", "summary": "Open-ended build hackathon whose six-figure headline prize pays out entirely in sponsor credits and licences.", "conf": "confirmed", "eligibility": "Above legal age of majority in country of residence; standard Devpost country exclusions", "audience": "all", "tags": [ "credits-prize", "open-ended" ] }, { "id": "arc-white-box-estimation-2026", "name": "ARC White-Box Estimation Challenge 2026 (Phase 2)", "platform": "AIcrowd", "url": "https://www.aicrowd.com/challenges/arc-white-box-estimation-challenge-2026", "type": "benchmark", "format": "online", "location": "Online / worldwide", "start": "2026-06-18", "end": "2026-10-21", "reg": "2026-10-21", "prize": 150000, "prize_kind": "cash", "prize_note": "Listed as '$150,000+ prize money'; exact split only in the Official Rules. Phase 2 closes today, Oct 21 23:59 UTC", "summary": "Build estimators that read NN weights and predict per-neuron post-ReLU activation means under a compute budget.", "conf": "confirmed", "eligibility": "Open; 10 submissions per team per day in Phase 2", "audience": "all", "tags": [ "interpretability", "benchmark" ] }, { "id": "finreason-cup-2026", "name": "FinReason Cup 2026 (IEEE Big Data Cup Challenge 03)", "platform": "IEEE Big Data 2026", "url": "https://bigdataieee.org/BigData2026/cup/", "type": "benchmark", "format": "online", "location": "Online / worldwide", "start": "2026-06-01", "end": "2026-10-25", "reg": "2026-10-25", "prize": null, "prize_kind": "non-cash", "prize_note": "No cash prizes - certificates only. EXTENDED: Task 1/3 submissions now Oct 25 AoE, working notes Nov 2", "summary": "Three tasks on verifiable multi-step financial reasoning, market-neutral hedging and SEC EDGAR fact checks.", "conf": "confirmed", "eligibility": "Open entry; certificate requires a valid final solution by Oct 15 and Working Notes by Oct 23", "audience": "all", "tags": [ "finance", "llm" ] }, { "id": "umud-ultrasound-muscle-2026", "name": "UMUD Challenge: Muscle Architecture in Ultrasound Data", "platform": "Kaggle", "url": "https://www.kaggle.com/competitions/umud-challenge-muscle-architecture-in-ultrasound-data", "type": "benchmark", "format": "online", "location": "Online", "start": "2026-03-31", "end": "2026-11-14", "reg": "2026-11-14", "prize": 3000, "prize_kind": "cash", "prize_note": "$3,000 cash", "summary": "Retrieve muscle thickness, pennation angle and fascicle length from ultrasound images.", "conf": "confirmed", "eligibility": "Open globally; Kaggle community competition", "audience": "all", "tags": [ "medical-imaging", "vision" ] }, { "id": "arc-prize-2026-arc-agi-2", "name": "ARC Prize 2026 - ARC-AGI-2", "platform": "ARC Prize / Kaggle", "url": "https://arcprize.org/competitions/2026/arc-agi-2", "type": "benchmark", "format": "online", "location": "Online / worldwide (Kaggle)", "start": "2026-03-25", "end": "2026-11-02", "reg": "2026-10-26", "prize": 700000, "prize_kind": "cash", "prize_note": "$550k guaranteed ($275k progress + $275k grand) + $150k conditional bonus for >=85%", "summary": "Kaggle notebook competition to reach 85% on the private ARC-AGI-2 novel-reasoning set.", "conf": "confirmed", "eligibility": "Open; Kaggle identity verification required, max team 5, winners must open-source", "audience": "all", "tags": [ "reasoning", "benchmark" ] }, { "id": "arc-prize-2026-arc-agi-3", "name": "ARC Prize 2026 - ARC-AGI-3", "platform": "ARC Prize / Kaggle", "url": "https://arcprize.org/competitions/2026/arc-agi-3", "type": "agent-challenge", "format": "online", "location": "Online / worldwide (Kaggle)", "start": "2026-03-25", "end": "2026-11-02", "reg": "2026-10-26", "prize": 850000, "prize_kind": "cash", "prize_note": "$150k progress ($75k final LB + $75k milestones) + $700k conditional grand prize for 100%", "summary": "Interactive-reasoning agent competition on ARC-AGI-3 game environments, with a $700k perfect-score bonus.", "conf": "confirmed", "eligibility": "Open; Kaggle identity verification, max team 8, open-sourcing required for prizes", "audience": "all", "tags": [ "agents", "reasoning" ] }, { "id": "arc-prize-2026-paper-track", "name": "ARC Prize 2026 - Paper Track", "platform": "Kaggle", "url": "https://www.kaggle.com/competitions/arc-prize-2026-paper-track", "type": "benchmark", "format": "online", "location": "Online / worldwide (Kaggle)", "start": "2026-03-25", "end": "2026-11-09", "reg": null, "prize": 450000, "prize_kind": "cash", "prize_note": "$75k guaranteed top paper + $375k conditional pool for papers scoring >4.5/5", "summary": "Write up a conceptual approach to ARC-AGI; top-scored papers share a large bonus pool.", "conf": "confirmed", "eligibility": "Open; max team 8, Kaggle identity verification", "audience": "all", "tags": [ "reasoning", "paper" ] } ] }