DEVELOPERWEEK

NEW YORK
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May 25 – June 10, 2026
Online & In-Person

DeveloperWeek New York 2026 Hackathon

The world’s largest challenge-driven in-person & virtual hackathon, co-located with AI DevSummit New York 2026!

Join 300+ developers building new apps, bots and more! Hackathon participants can build any app and compete for $12,500+ in cash, products and prizes.

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Sponsors

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Schedule

  • Monday, May 25, 2026
    10:00 AM EST | Hackathon Launched
  • Wednesday, June 10, 2026
    10:00 AM EST | Final Project Submissions Due
    10:00 AM – 1:00 PM EST | Overall Judges Review Projects
    10:00 AM – 1:00 PM EST | Sponsors Judge Projects
    3:00 PM – 3:25 PM EST | Top 5 Present on the DeveloperWeek New York Expo Stage
    3:25 PM – 3:30 PM EST | Overall and Sponsor Winners Announced via DeveloperWeek New York Expo Stage
    Post-Event | Sponsors connect with Winners on how they will receive their Prize (DeveloperWeek New York Team can help!)

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Challenges & Prizes

DeveloperWeek New York Hackathon 2026 Overall Winner

$12,500 in prize value

1st Place Prize:
– Amazon Echos (Up to 5)
– DevNetwork Premium All-Access Passes to all 2026 conferences
– Announcement in our email to 60,000 subscribers listing your team and project

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name.com — Domain Roulette

$4500 in prize value

1st place: $2,500 cash + free domain credits
2nd place: $1,000 cash + free domain credits

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Nimble – Build an Agentic App That Sees the Live Web

$1,500 in prize value

1st Place: $500 Amazon Gift Card + $500 in Nimble Credits
2nd Place: – $250 Amazon Gift Card + $250 in Nimble Credits

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Tower Pipeline Challenge: Data-to-AI

$1250 in prize value

-6 months of free Tower usage: Team Plan with 5 users and 10,000 free compute minutes per month (a $900 value) Each team member from the winning team receives a Brick for Builders – focus on building and temporarily block distracting notifications from your phone (up to $350 value)

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Rules

  • This is a in–person & virtual hackathon. Teams will be formed on Devpost.com – DeveloperWeek New York 2026 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

The Hackathon is open to everyone, but pre-registration is required. You can be a developer, designer, biz dev person, idea person, or anything in between.

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.

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

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.

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