European AI Hackathon
Open Hackathons are multi-day, hands-on coding events that help developers and researchers accelerate, optimize, and scale their applications on a variety of data center architectures. Attendees work with dedicated mentors to identify and address data loading bottlenecks, parallelize training, and optimize AI pipelines for faster experimentation to realize performance gains and speedups.
Practical information:
Want to register?
- Register until: 06 Aug 2026
- Prerequisites: Teams are expected to be fluent with the code or project they bring to the event and motivated to make progress during the hackathon.
- Price: Free of charge for people from academia and industry based in the EU or EuroHPC JU member countries.
The European AI Hackathon targets small and medium-sized enterprise (SMEs), startups, industry practitioners, and researchers across Europe building AI-driven products and services. Teams benefit from personalized, expert guidance to take their AI workloads to the next level, and access to leadership-class compute resources .
Examples of AI projects include:
- Agentic Contract Intelligence: Multi-agent pipelines that parse, risk-score, and redline contracts across languages and jurisdictions
- Real-Time Energy Grid Balancing: Agentic systems running thousands of parallel simulations to autonomously balance distributed energy resources within live decision windows
- Legacy Code Modernization: Fine-tuning open-weight code LLMs on COBOL/Fortran codebases with long-context windows to enable enterprise migration
- Autonomous Quality Inspection: Vision models running high‑FPS inference to detect defects on production lines
- Predictive Maintenance at Scale: Multimodal LLMs that integrate sensor logs, manuals, and historical failures to recommend interventions
These projects are illustrations, not constraints. Any AI workload that benefits from scaling, speed-up, and hands‑on expert guidance is welcome.
Applying teams should have a clear project that is ready to be further developed and scaled. Participating teams must be based in the EU and/or EuroHPC JU member countries. Please ensure that your team meets all prerequisites before you apply and use your company/institute email address in the application form.
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