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DevNetwork [AI + ML] Hackathon 2026
Join the largest challenge-driven in-person & online hackathon, co-located with AI DevSummit 2026!
Our hackathons regularly attract over 300+ participants -- and we are inviting the international developer community to converge in-person & online this year for the DevNetwork [AI + ML] Hackathon 2026!
In Person & Awards - South San Francisco Conference Center - May 27-28, 2026
Online - May 11 - May 28, 2026
1. Create a DevPost account and click Register on the DevPost DevNetwork [AI + ML] Hackathon 2026 page.
2. DevNetwork Hackathon: AI/ML 2026 Hackathon Kicks off May 11, 2026! Join the Kick Off Call here
3. Review full Hackathon Instructions here!
Requirements
View the Full Set of Instructions here!
- This is an in-person & online hackathon. Teams will be formed on Devpost.com at the DevNetwork [AI + ML] Hackathon 2026. From Devpost, participants can message each other to form teams, participate in chat boards, and communicate with sponsors.
- Teams can build apps from scratch (Mobile App / Web App).
- Teams can solve no challenges (build whatever you want) or can submit to as many challenges as they want.
- There will be two rounds of judging. During Round 1, judges will review all team projects and fill out a scoring sheet on each to determine the Overall Hackathon Winner. Round 2 is the Sponsor Round of judging. Each sponsor will judge the teams working on their Challenge(s) and determine a winner(s). The sponsors choose their own prize winners.
- Round 1 judging will be based on: 1) PROGRESS: How much progress you make on your submission; 2) CONCEPT: Does your submission solve a real problem?; and 3) FEASIBILITY: Could your submission grow/evolve to become a startup or be a profitable business.
Prizes
DevNetwork [AI + ML] Hackathon 2026 Overall Winner
1st Place Prize:
- Amazon Echos (Up to 5)
- DevNetwork Premium All-Access Passes to all 2026 conferences - Announcement in our email to 60,000 subscribers listing your team and project
Crusoe: Build a Hermes / NemoClaw agent running Nvidia Nemotron on Crusoe Cloud Managed Inference
1st Place: NVIDIA DGX Spark
2nd Place: Mac mini
Contact: eacheampong@crusoe.ai
Build a Hermes / NemoClaw agent running Nvidia Nemotron on Crusoe Cloud Managed Inference
Your Harness, Our Inference: Build a Nemotron Agent
Get Started:
1. Register here first:
https://console.crusoecloud.com/request-foundry
2. Here is an example curl:
curl --location 'https://api.inference.crusoecloud.com/v1/chat/completions' --header 'Authorization: Bearer 42ffcJ8DTTyXkYJuqWWPeQ$2a$10$0yJ8QR8q0kPd.vo5thNGV.eOXwHcYR.BqVcyYKd.ghaZVaw8wGiEa' --header 'Content-Type: application/json' --data '{
"model": "hack-crusoe/Nemotron-3-Nano-30B-A3B-FP8",
"messages": [
{
"role": "user",
"content": "Hello, how are you?"
}
],
"max_tokens": 256
}'
Perfect Corp: Building the Next Generation of AI-Driven Consumer Experiences
1st Place: $1,500
2nd Place: $1,000
Contact: valerie_torres@perfectcorp.com
GET STARTED:
1. Click HERE (https://yce.perfectcorp.com/api-console/en/redeem-code/) to sign up & verify your email.
2. Once you have verified your email, click HERE (https://yce.perfectcorp.com/api-console/en/redeem-code/), go to Account > Redeem Code.
3. Enter: Pegasus1000
4. 1000 API Units ($179 Value) have officially been added to your account!
Design and build an immersive web or mobile experience using Perfect Corp’s AI- and AR-powered technology suite to solve real-world consumer needs.
- Participants are encouraged to explore creative, innovative, and unexpected ways to leverage Perfect Corp’s APIs — from virtual try-on and AI skin analysis to personalized product recommendations, gen AI text-to-image creation, and fashion visualization — to create engaging, interactive experiences or shopping journeys.
- Participants are encouraged to explore creative and unexpected use cases for Perfect’s suite of APIs
- Must integrate at least 1 Perfect Corp API and demonstrate clear consumer or retail value
- Project page with short write-up & screenshots
- Demo video (1-3 minutes) showing the experience end-to-end
- Must participate in an exit interview if chosen as winner
- To be included in a blog article
- One questionnaire to fill out once chosen as winner
TrueFoundry: Resilient Agents
1st Place: $1000
2nd Place: $500
Discord server - https://discord.gg/EQYVNZ538
How does your agent behave when an MCP server starts erroring out? An LLM server goes down? OpenAI or Claude errors out or browns out? The goal of this challenge is to see how user experience and the user side of things are handled when this infrastructure chaos happens and how your agent is configured and set up for success and resilience.
AI Gateway introduction - https://www.truefoundry.com/docs/ai-gateway/intro-to-llm-gateway
CLI - https://www.truefoundry.com/docs/setup-cli
An example of how you can build a multi agent system with Truefoundry's AI Gateway:https://github.com/truefoundry/tfy-voice-analyser-agent
Lark: Best use of Lark CLI and/or MCP
1st Place: $1,000
2nd Place: $500
Contact: vijit@uselark.io
Use the Lark MCP and/or CLI to create useful developer workflows / tooling.
Slack group: https://join.slack.com/t/larkcommunity/shared_invite/zt-3ies74coz-gMTV1s3TftVurARF~47cLA
Some examples --
- A discord or slack bot that can be invoked to verify a user reported issue
- A linear extension that can be triggered on user reported issues to verify and reproduce them using Lark
- A coding agent setup that listens for Lark failing tests and creates PRs to fix them
- A github extension that suggests new Lark tests on every commit
- A TUI to manage all of your lark workflows
We'll share the top 5 submissions on our social accounts (X & Linkedin)
Lark Quickstart: https://docs.getlark.ai/quickstart
Lark CLI: https://docs.getlark.ai/cli
Lark MCP: https://docs.getlark.ai/mcp-quickstart
Devpost Achievements
Submitting to this hackathon could earn you:
Judges
Geoffrey Domoracki
Founder @ DevNetwork
Jonathan Pasky
Executive Producer & Founder @ DevNetwork
Emmanuel Acheampong
Senior Manager Developer Relations @ Crusoe
Connor Guerrero
DevRel & ML Engineer @ Crusoe
Joseph Kolko
Start-Up Account Executive @ Crusoe
Rahul Dhide
Staff Product Designer @Crusoe
Sai Krishna
Head of Dev Rel @ Truefoundry
Vijit Dhingra
Founder @ Lark
Jack Brown
Founder @ Lark
Wayne Liu
President & Chief Growth Officer @ Perfect Corp
Yuval Steuer
Founder & CEO @ Zealot Labs
Aviv Yahav
Senior Security Researcher @ Zealot Labs
Avi Srivastava
Director of Operations, Member of Technical Staff @ Zealot Labs
Swan Beaujard
Member of Technical Staff @ Zealot Labs
Bar Mazuz
VP of Security Research @ Zealot Labs
Victoria Clotet
Chief Product Officer @ Twintual
Manushi Sheth
Engineering Manager @ Sonos
Stuti Mohan
Principal, Strategy and Planning @ Meta
Sanjana Arun
Product Leader @ eBay
Timothy Spann
SR SE @ Snowflake
Rishav Mishra
Senior Product Manager @ Twilio
Sureshkumar Karuppuchamy
Ebay
Saurabh Phaltane
Senior Engineer @ Google
Him Raj Singh
Manager, Software Engineering @ PayPal
Aman Sardana
Senior Manager @ Capital One
Garvit Kataria
Senior Software Engineer @ Intuit
Indranil Jha
Principal Solutions Engineer @ Okta
Arjun Sharda
Executive Director @ TLEEM
Jatin Taneja
Lead member of technical staff @ Salesforce
Jeremy Glassenberg
Product Management Director @ Salesforce
Renato Azevedo Sant Anna
Insights Cognitivos Consultoria
Alex Bit
Co-founder & CEO @ Codemod
Oleksandr Kondratiuk
CTO @ akirolabs
Erez Yalon
VP of Security Research
Rakshana Balakrishnan
Product Leader @ Oracle
Gift Ojeabulu
Snr. Machine Learning Engineer @ Fastdoc
Arun Padmanabhan Narasimhan
Senior Software Engineer @ Google
Apurva Godghase
Lead Computer Vision Engineer
Jason Tan
Chief AI Officer @ Ascendnce
Rakesh Datta
Senior Technical Lead
Advait Patel
Senior Site Reliability Enginner @ Broadcom
Ajita Kanchivakam Ananth
Staff TPM @ Google
Vishwas Manral
Precize
Tracy Adams
Executive Director @ Sudoku Foundation
Shruti Tiwari
AI Product Leader @ Dell
RENJITH RAMACHANDRAN
Senior Solutions architect
SURBHI GUPTA
Product Manager @ FAANG
Varun Kulkarni
Senior AI Product Manager @ Microsoft
Taeil Goh
Sr. Software Engineering Manager @ Capital One
Sonam Singhal
Senior Software Engineer
Zohar Babin
Chief Strategy Officer @ Kaltura
Steve Taplin
CEO @ Sonatafy Technology
Julie Boelter
Director of Data and Analytics @ Lightedge Solutions
Marcin Wudarczyk
CTO @ Ciklum
Juan Rafael Ruiz Carrillo
CTP @ 101OBEX
Simon Müller
CTO @ eigenmind
Mohamed Sayed
CEO @ Heuro Labs
Seetaram Rayarao
JP Morgan Chase
Ayush Goyal
Senior Software Engineer @ Grafana Labs
Abhishek Chauhan
Sr. Director @ Sonatype
Yuval
Founder & CEO @ Zealot Labs
Judging Criteria
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Progress
How much progress did you make? -
Concept
Does it solve a real problem? -
Feasibility
Could this become a startup or company?
Questions? Email the hackathon manager
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