This Week
3AgentX AgentBeats Competition
Berkeley RDI
Sprint 4 (General Purpose Agents grand finale) May 4–24; cash + credits from DeepMind, OpenAI, Lambda, AWS, HuggingFace, Nebius
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
This Month
10Agent Academy Hackathon
Microsoft
Beginner-friendly hackathon for first-time agent builders showcasing core fundamentals of agent creation
Google Cloud Rapid Agent Hackathon
Google Cloud
Build a functional agent using Google Cloud Agent Builder and Gemini AI with mandatory MCP integration; 6 sponsor category prizes (Elastic, Arize, Dynatrace, GitLab, MongoDB, Fivetran)
OpenClaw Security Challenge
IJCAI-ECAI 2026 AI Safety Workshop
Design attack strategies (prompt injection, tool manipulation) against AI agents in smart-home / e-commerce / enterprise simulations; hosted on Tianchi
Agents League Hackathon
Microsoft
Three tracks: Creative Apps, Reasoning Agents, Enterprise Agents; live coding battles + on-demand content
ETHGlobal New York
ETHGlobal
In-person ETHGlobal hackathon in New York City
Mantle Turing Test Hackathon
Mantle / Tencent Cloud / Bybit / Byreal / BGA
On-chain AI agent benchmarking with Human vs. AI mechanism across six tracks (AI Trading, AI Alpha & Data, AI DevTools, Agentic Wallets); Phase 2 follows Phase 1 ClawHack ($20K)
Embodied AI Workshop Challenges
Embodied AI Workshop / CVPR
Three challenges at CVPR 2026 Embodied AI Workshop — ARNOLD (Language-Grounded Manipulation), ManiSkill-ViTac (Vision-Tactile Bimanual), ManipArena (Desktop/Mobile Manipulation)
Agents Without Masters
NEAR AI / DoraHacks
24-hour AI x blockchain hackathon June 15–16 at w3.hub focused on shipping autonomous DeFAI agents on NEAR; quickstart templates and post-hackathon GTM support
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
Coming Up
11UiPath AgentHack
UiPath
Three tracks (Maestro BPMN, agentic case management, agentic testing); finalists July 15, final event July 23
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
RAISE 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
Slack Agent Builder Challenge
Salesforce / Slack
Three tracks: New Slack Agent, Agents for Good, Agents for Orgs; winners get Dreamforce 2026 tickets + dev certifications
Travel Itinerary Planning Challenge
Nanjing University & partners
Two tracks: Travel Planning + Agentic Skill Development; built on ChinaTravel benchmark with compositional constraint validation
CAR-bench Challenge
BMW & Augsburg University
Evaluate LLM agent reliability as automotive voice assistants; Open Track + Cerebras Fast-Reasoning Track sponsored by OpenAI
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
KDD Cup 2026 — Data Agents Challenge
HKUST DIAL Lab
Build autonomous agents that plan, query, reason across heterogeneous data (CSV/JSON/SQLite/text) for multi-step analytics; co-located with KDD 2026 Korea
KDD Cup 2026 — Tencent UNI-REC Challenge
Tencent & SIGKDD
Academic + Industry tracks; 13,913 researchers / 5,746 teams / 52 countries in Round 1; co-located with KDD 2026 (Aug 9–13, Jeju Korea)
Later
7ETHOnline 2026
ETHGlobal
ETHGlobal's async online hackathon for global builders; theme and prizes TBA
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
ETHGlobal Mumbai
ETHGlobal
36-hour Ethereum hackathon in Mumbai, India; ETHGlobal's new India location
Lablab.ai AI Agent Hackathons
Lablab.ai
New AI hackathons every 2-3 weeks, check site for latest