This Week
3OpenSearch Agent Skills Hackathon
OpenSearch Project (Linux Foundation)
Build agentic AI skills for OpenSearch across search, observability, and migration; US residents only for this edition
Build with Gemini XPRIZE
XPRIZE & Google Cloud
Build a real revenue-generating business operated by AI agents using Google Cloud, over a 90-day window across five impact categories
CockroachDB × AWS Agentic Memory
Cockroach Labs (with AWS)
Build agentic apps using CockroachDB as a persistent, globally-scalable memory layer for autonomous agents on AWS
This Month
7The Great Agent Hackathon
Women in Product India
Online qualification round (Figma prototype or working demo plus a short video) across three enterprise problem tracks; shortlisted teams of two fly to Bangalore for a 24-hour overnight build at TGPF 2026.
All Things Agentic
Google Cloud
Build agents that run in the background on Gemini and Google Cloud — chewing through massive datasets and automating long-running workflows asynchronously rather than turn-by-turn.
AI Agent Security Challenge
OpenAI, Google & IEEE
Develop attack algorithms that surface reproducible multi-step failures in tool-using LLM agents; co-hosted by OpenAI, Google and IEEE
Agentic Cinema
Google Cloud
Build a working agent on Gemini and Google Cloud Agent Builder that wires a partner product or MCP server into a real media and entertainment workflow.
Agents for Humans
AWS
Build an agent with the Strands Agents SDK that takes over routine, repetitive work in the background.
AI Builders Hackathon
Open Source Software Community
Student-only hackathon asking for shipped AI products rather than demos — judging runs September 16-20.
ETHOnline 2026
ETHGlobal
ETHGlobal's async online hackathon for global builders; theme and prizes TBA
Coming Up
11ETHGlobal 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
RoCo-Spring
NeurIPS 2026 Competition Track
Four tracks — optical flow, stereo matching, scene flow, and an open exploration track — measuring dense correspondence under realistic distribution shifts for embodied perception stacks.
MIT Sloan SSAC 2027 Research Competition
MIT Sloan Sports Analytics Conference
Sports-analytics research paper competition; abstracts due Oct 1 2026 (full paper Dec 4 for invited authors), all submissions must be open-source with a public code repo, finalists present at SSAC27 in March 2027
Agenthon 2026
Society of Quantitative Analysts & CEWIT, Stony Brook University
Teams of one to three ship Docker agents across four quant-finance tracks — coding, time-series forecasting, market simulation, and tabular prediction — scored through automated verification gates; registration closes September 28.
BEHAVIOR Challenge 2026
Stanford Vision and Learning Lab
Embodied agents solve 100 full-length household tasks requiring long-horizon reasoning, navigation, and bimanual manipulation in simulation
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
AIMO Interpretability
Fields Model Initiative
Submit a Codabench system that decides whether a frontier model solved an unseen olympiad problem robustly or got there by spurious reasoning.
AI Genesis 2026
lablab.ai
Global hybrid hackathon building real-world AI/agent projects on partner tech, culminating live at /function1 in Dubai
ETHGlobal Mumbai
ETHGlobal
36-hour Ethereum hackathon in Mumbai, India; ETHGlobal's new India location
Later
2Steerability Challenge
IBM Research
Design steering pipelines in the standardized .spipe format that cut model sycophancy without eroding general capability; deadline is anywhere-on-earth and winners present at the NeurIPS workshop in Paris.
Lablab.ai AI Agent Hackathons
Lablab.ai
New AI hackathons every 2-3 weeks, check site for latest