This Week
3ETHGlobal Cannes
ETHGlobal
In-person at Palace of Festivals, Cannes; AI agent and blockchain tracks
Vertex Swarm Challenge
Vertex
Build the missing TCP/IP layer for robot swarms; C/Rust/ROS2 developers coordinate autonomous fleets beyond the cloud
Authorized to Act: AI Agents with Auth0
Auth0 (Okta)
Build agentic AI with secure OAuth via Auth0 Token Vault (GitHub, Slack, Google, etc.)
This Month
5AgentX AgentBeats Competition
Berkeley RDI
Two-phase: build benchmarks (Phase 1), then create agents (Phase 2)
AIMO Progress Prize 3
AIMO Prize Foundation (XTX Markets)
110 original math problems at National Olympiad to IMO difficulty; open-source models required; winners showcase at AI Day at 2026 IMO in Shanghai
Google.org AI for Science
Google.org
Nonprofits & academic orgs; AI for Health/Life Sciences and Climate Resilience
AI for Industry Challenge
Intrinsic (Alphabet)
Three phases: simulation → Intrinsic Flowstate → physical workcell; teams up to 10
Agentic Commerce on Arc Hackathon
Lablab.ai / Arc / Circle
Build agentic economic apps using Circle Nanopayments on Arc (USDC); onsite build day in SF Apr 25, demos & awards Apr 26
Coming Up
9Agents Assemble — Healthcare AI
Prompt Opinion (Darena Health)
Build interoperable healthcare agents using MCP, A2A, and FHIR standards
AI & Big Data Expo Hackathon
Lablab.ai / TechEx
5 tracks: AI & Automation, Robotics, Security & Trust, Connected Systems, Data & Intelligence; winners present on AI Developer Track at San Jose McEnery Convention Center
MOASEI Competition
OASYS Research / AAMAS
Multi-Agent RL evaluation in Open Agent Systems at AAMAS 2026, Paphos, Cyprus
DevNetwork AI+ML Hackathon
DevNetwork
Co-located with AI DevSummit 2026; 300+ international participants
ETHGlobal New York
ETHGlobal
In-person ETHGlobal hackathon in New York City
AI Agents Hackathon 2026
Databricks
Full-day in-person hackathon at Data+AI Summit, San Francisco; teams up to 4
USAII Global AI Hackathon
USAII (United States Artificial Intelligence Institute)
3 tracks by level: High School (AI for Good), Undergrad (AI for Life/Learning/Work), Graduate (AI for Systems/Society); teams of 2–5; no-code/low-code welcome
AGIBOT World Challenge
AGIBOT / IEEE ICRA
Three tracks: World Model, VLM+VLA, Whole-Body Control; at ICRA 2026 in Vienna
RoboCup 2026 Incheon
RoboCup Federation
World's largest robotics and AI competition; Songdo Convensia, Incheon, South Korea; 3,000+ competitors across Soccer, Rescue, @Home, Industrial leagues
Later
8RAISE Summit AI Hackathon
RAISE Summit / Cerebral Valley
24-hour build sprint at Le Carrousel du Louvre, Paris; 8,000+ applicants in 2025; live pitch competition; co-organized with Cerebral Valley
ETHGlobal Lisbon
ETHGlobal
In-person ETHGlobal hackathon in Lisbon, Portugal
VSLive AI Hackathon
Visual Studio Live! / Microsoft
In-person at Microsoft HQ, Redmond; free with conference registration or $50 pass
ETHGlobal Tokyo
ETHGlobal
In-person ETHGlobal hackathon in Tokyo, Japan
Amazon Nova AI Challenge
Amazon Science
University competition: 10 teams as developers or red-teamers for trusted agentic AI
AWS AI League 2026
AWS
Two tracks: Model Customization (SageMaker) & Agentic AI (Bedrock AgentCore); qualification at AWS Summits, Grand Finale at re:Invent 2026
ARC Prize 2026
ARC Prize Foundation
First interactive reasoning benchmark; 1,000+ levels across 150+ environments; agents must explore, learn, plan, and adapt; Grand Prize unclaimed from 2025 carries forward
Lablab.ai AI Agent Hackathons
Lablab.ai
New AI hackathons every 2-3 weeks, check site for latest