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DevNetwork [AI + ML] Hackathon 2025

Join the largest challenge-driven in-person & virtual hackathon, co-located with AI DevSummit 2025!

Our hackathons regularly attract over 300+ participants, and we are inviting the international developer community to converge in person & online this year for the DevNetwork [AI + ML] 2025 Hackathon!

DATE
May 12-29, 2025

VENUE
South San Francisco Conference Center

Register

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Eventbrite

Register below on Eventbrite
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DevPost

Register on DevPost
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Instructions

Read the Instructions

Sponsors

Schedule

  • Monday, May 12, 2025
    10:00 AM PT | Hackathon Launched
    10:00 AM PT | Hackathon Kickoff Talks & Workshops (Virtual). Learn more about the sponsors, challenges and prizes & Rules!
  • Wednesday, May 28, 2025
    10:00 AM – 11:00 AM | Hackathon Kickoff Networking – Hackathon Lounge – Expo Hall – South San Francisco Conference Center
  • Thursday, May 29, 2025
    10:00 AM PT | Final Project Submissions Due
    10:00 AM – 1:00 PM PT | Overall Judges Review Projects
    10:00 AM – 1:00 PM PT | Sponsors Judge Projects
    2:30 PM – 3:00 PM PT | Top 5 Present on the DeveloperWeek Main Stage
    3:00 PM – 3:15 PM PT | Overall and Sponsor Winners Announced via AI DevSummit Main Stage

Challenges & Prizes

DeveloperWeek AI/ML 2025 Overall Winner

$12,500 in prize value

Hackathon Overall Challenge / Grand Prize
1st Place Prize: – (2) Amazon Echos (Up to 5) – DevNetwork Premium All-Access Passes to all 2025 virtual conferences – Announcement in our email to 60,000 subscribers listing your team and project.

Judges

Amiya Adwitiya

Founder & CEO

Squadcast

Lata Ahuja

Sr Director of Engineering

CarGurus

Shan Anwar

Principal Software Engineer

Intuit

Cheryl Aranha

Principal Engineer

Intuit

JJ Asghar

Developer Advocate

IBM

Daniele Bernardi

CEO

Toolhouse

Alexandre Bernardoni

CEO

Automate 2 Accelerate

Ashish Bhalgat

Cloud & AI Strategist

Thoughtworks

Michelle Bonat

Chief AI Officer

AI Squared

Sam Boswell

CTO

Terralayr

Ryan Clark

Founder Technologist

Iconist

Vasilis Danias

CEO

Bitloops

Rob Dawson

CTO

Consensys

Philip Farhad

Vice President, Engineering

Cyber Defense Group

Gloria Felicia

CEO & Founder

AtlasPro AI

Shinjani Gaur

Senior Engineering Manager

Broadcom

Nandita Giri

Software Engineer

Microsoft

Jeremy Glassenberg

Product Management Director

Salesforce

Taeil Goh

Senior Software Engineering Manager

Capital One

Surbhi Gupta

Product Manager

Meta

Neha Gupta

Founder

Keploy

George Hantzaras

Director of Engineering

MongoDB

Nahrin Jalal

Developer Education & Community

Netlify

Melissa Jurkoic

COO

Benson Consulting

Venkatesh Konanur

Principal Engineer

Verizon

Oleksandr Kondratiuk

CTO

akirolabs

Chaitrali Kshirsagar

Senior ML Engineer

QuantumScape Battery

Varun Kulkarni

Senior Product Manager

Microsoft

Shannon Lietz

Co-Founder & CEO

ThirdScore

Martin Loewinger

Head of Infrastructure

Boats Group

Sidney Maestre

Head of Developer Relations

APIMatic

Ohad Manor

CTO

4Cast

Rohit Mishra

Head of Product

Komodo Health

Intesar Mohammed

Founder

PerfAI, Inc.

Simon Müller

CTO

Wattx

Gift Ojeabulu

Co-founder

Data Community Africa

Adao Oliveira Jr

Solutions Architect

Oracle

James Oyanna

AI

DevScourt

Vishal Pallerla

Solutions Architect

InterSystems

Simon Müller

CTO

Wattx

Azmath Pasha

CTO

Metawave Digital

Smruti Patel

SVP of Engineering

Apollo GraphQL

Amith Pulla

Senior TPM

Nvidia

Rosalind Radcliffe

IBM Fellow, CTO

Z Ecosystem

Madhan Rangaswamy

CTO

Naviget

Darwin Sanoy

Field Chief Cloud Architect

GitLab

Rajni Sharma

Director

Walmart

Rohit Sinha

VP

Novulis

Timothy Spann

Sr. Solutions Engineer

Snowflake

Roxy Stimpson

Founder

Darlacian

Matty Stratton

Solution Architect

Turbot

Piyush Verma

Head of Product

Coralogix

Tanya Vlahovic

Head of Engineering

Intuit

Robert Wolff

Founding Partner

devEco Consulting

Rules

  • This is a in–person & virtual hackathon. Teams will be formed on Devpost.com – DeveloperWeek AI/ML 2025 Hackathon. From Devpost participants can message each other to form teams, participate in chat boards, and communicate with sponsors.
  • Teams can build apps from scratch (Mobile App / Consumer Web App / Business Web App).
  • Teams can solve no challenges (build whatever you want) or can submit to as many challenges as they want.
  • There will be 2 rounds of judging. During Round One, judges will review all team projects and fill out a scoring sheet on each to determine the Overall Winner. Round Two is the Sponsor Round. Each sponsor will judge the teams working on their Challenge and determine a winner. The sponsors will choose their own prizes and choose their own prize winners.
  • Round one judging will be based on 1) How much progress you make 2) Concept – does it solve a real problem? and 3) Feasibility – could this become a startup or company?

FAQ

Who can participate in the hackathon?

The Hackathon is open to everyone, but pre-registration is required. You must register on both the Eventbrite registration page AND Devpost event page. You can be a developer, designer, biz dev person, idea person, or anything in between.

What types of projects can hackathon teams work on?

Hackathon teams can work on any type of project (web apps, mobile apps, wearable solutions, data visualizations, algorithms, even video presentations or visual mock-ups) however all of the hackathon prizes are sponsored prizes for teams that best utilize sponsor technology. Most of these sponsor technologies are only relevant for web and mobile applications, and 95%+ of teams will end up building web and mobile applications.

How do I form a hackathon team?

You can form a hackathon team before the hackathon (either with friends/co-workers or you can find team members on devpost.com).

Who owns the technology that hackathon teams produce?

The teams that work on the projects own the project technologies, however ‘just being a team member’ at the hackathon does not mean that you get to own any code or IP that your teammates (or the audience) produce in the future based on the idea. Any ideas you pitch or share at the hackathon are released into the ‘public domain’ and we do not require attendees to sign non-disclosure agreements! It’s just a hackathon — if you’re worried about people stealing your startup idea — then this might not be the right place to unveil it.

Does the hackathon, its sponsors, or mentors provide any assistance to teams?

All the sponsors are available to help you with your project. Contact information will be available on devpost.com.