
USAII® Global AI Hackathon 2026
A global virtual AI hackathon empowering students to build solutions for real-world good—from everyday impact to career readiness.




Find and join hackathons from around the world. Build projects, meet developers, and win prizes.
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A global virtual AI hackathon empowering students to build solutions for real-world good—from everyday impact to career readiness.

Join the IBM SkillsBuild AI Builders Challenge, a global program designed for university students in computer science, engineering, data science, and related fields to build real-world AI solutions using IBM technologies.

HACKHAZARDS ’26 is a fully digital, community-driven global buildathon organized by NAMESPACE. Known as India’s largest hackathon and one of the largest community-run hackathons globally, HACKHAZARDS brings together developers, designers, founders, and innovators from around the world to build meaningful technology products.

Canara Bank
SuRaksha, an initiative by Canara Bank, is a campus-focused hackathon designed to reshape the future of digital security in fintech platforms. In an era of rapid banking digitization, traditional password-based logins are proving insufficient.

Microsoft Build AI is grounded in a simple belief: meaningful innovation comes from builders who take on tough challenges and deliver real, working solutions. Across six dynamic tracks, you’ll solve complex, real-world problems spanning productivity, security, agentic systems, and beyond. This is not just about ideation - it’s about execution, impact, and building what truly works.

Reimagine the future of agentic operations using Splunk AI

Flipkart × Bengaluru Traffic Police × HackerEarth
Bengaluru is one of India's most ambitious cities. Getting around in it shouldn't be a daily compromise. Gridlock Hackathon 2.0 is Flipkart's call to India's sharpest AI/ML minds, to build real solutions, on real data, with a real shot at going live on Bengaluru's roads. Chronic traffic congestion in a city of over 14 million people continues to affect economic activity, productivity, and quality of life — and the problem is only growing.

The first Qwen Cloud Global AI Hackathon. Five tracks. $70,000+ in prizes. Powered by Alibaba's frontier models.
If you’re a good builder, you don’t need a team to get started. You need time, pressure and the right tools.

Welcome to the Casper Agentic Buildathon 2026 - Qualification Round, hosted by the Casper Association—a global online competition designed to attract, onboard, and empower the next generation of Web3/AI developers. Running from June 1 to June 30, 2026, with a hands-on developer workshop in Istanbul on June 2 during Istanbul Blockchain Week, this buildathon invites builders from all backgrounds to create production-ready applications at the convergence of Agentic AI, Decentralized Finance (DeFi),

This hackathon is wide open: build anything you want with zero-knowledge on Stellar. Privacy pools, private payments, confidential tokens, identity and compliance proofs, provable computation, verifiable data — if it uses ZK and runs on Stellar, it counts. You can go anywhere on the spectrum from mild (a clean proof-of-concept verifier) to wild (a full shielded payment app).

12 hours of pure building, with an arsenal of AI tools at your disposal! Be pro-thinking. Bring your ideas to scale, and prove that lean teams can ship impactful products with market value. Now that building to scratch an itch costs next-to-nothing, we want to celebrate purposeful & tasteful builds.