European AI Hackathon

Start Date: 06 Oct 2026, 10:00 (CEST) Entry level:  Intermediate/ExpertEnd date:  29 Oct 2026, 17:00 (CEST) Subject area:  Artificial Intelligence (AI)Location:  Hybrid (Online/On-Site) Topics:  Agentic AILanguage: English   Target audience:  Industry, public admin, academiaPrice:   Free (for eligible participants)     Organizers:   AI:AT, HammerHAI, Gaia AI Factory, ASC, LRZ, HLRS, Cyfronet, OpenACC, NVIDIAOpen 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.The European AI Hackathon, starting 6 October and concluding 29 October 2026, 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 jurisdictionsReal-Time Energy Grid Balancing: Agentic systems running thousands of parallel simulations to autonomously balance distributed energy resources within live decision windowsLegacy Code Modernization: Fine-tuning open-weight code LLMs on COBOL/Fortran codebases with long-context windows to enable enterprise migrationAutonomous Quality Inspection: Vision models running high‑FPS inference to detect defects on production linesPredictive Maintenance at Scale: Multimodal LLMs that integrate sensor logs, manuals, and historical failures to recommend interventionsThese projects are illustrations, not constraints. Any AI workload that benefits from scaling, speed-up, and hands‑on expert guidance is welcome.Target audienceApplying 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.Organizers                                   This hackathon is co-organized by Austrian Scientific Computing (ASC), the Leibniz Supercomputing Centre (LRZ), the High-Performance Computing Center Stuttgart (HLRS), the Academic Computer Centre Cyfronet AGH (Cyfronet), OpenACC organization, and NVIDIA for AI Factory Austria AI:AT, HammerHAI, and Gaia AI Factory.AcknowledgementsAI Factory Austria AI:AT has received funding from the European High-Performance Computing Joint Undertaking (JU) under grant agreement No 101253078. The JU receives support from the Horizon Europe Programm of the European Union and Austria (BMIMI / FFG).

https://events.asc.ac.at/event/307/