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Join the nation's largest challenge-driven hackathon @ AI DevSummit 2026!
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!
Check out the full DevNetwork [AI + ML] Hackathon 2026 schedule!
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
Perfect Corp: Challenge
Coming Soon!
Buildkite: Challenge
Coming Soon!
Hud.io: Challenge
Coming Soon!
Runpod: Challenge
Coming Soon!
TrueFoundry: Resilient Agents
1st Place: $500
2nd Place: $200
Contact: sai@truefoundry.com
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.
Devpost Achievements
Submitting to this hackathon could earn you:
Judges
Geoffrey Domoracki
Founder @ DevNetwork
Sai Krishna
Head of Dev Rel @ Truefoundry
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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