Hardcore AI Hackathon 2025
Time to Accelerate AI
Join us and 100+ hackers from across Europe and beyond for the first Hardcore AI Hackathon, which will take place at The Delta in Berlin from May 30 to June 1, 2025.
While many hackathons focus on the application layer of AI, we're diving deeper—straight into the infrastructure that powers the future of artificial intelligence. Over 48 hours, we're bringing together top talent to tackle challenges at the cutting edge of AI hardware, software, and benchmarking:
Hardware Challenges: Deploy AI models on hardware, optimizing energy efficiency, speed, and latency to push performance limits.
Software Challenges: Fine-tune or train AI models to achieve new benchmarks in accuracy and machine learning metrics.
Benchmark Challenges: Design and develop innovative benchmarks to evaluate and accelerate progress in AI infrastructure.
This is your chance to shape the building blocks of tomorrow's AI ecosystem. Let's build the future of AI infrastructure—together!
Visitors
To give the participants time and space to focus on their projects during the hackathon, we'll have no visitors during the hackathon. If you're curious about the outcomes and what the teams have built, please sign up for the Future of Computing Conference on Monday, June 2, 2025.
Agenda
Friday, May 30, 2025:
8:30 AM: Doors Open, Registration & Networking
10:00 AM: Welcome Speech & Hackathon Kickoff
11:00 AM: Team Formation & Networking
12:00 AM: Hacking Begins, Lunch
6:00 PM: Dinner & Mentor Check-ins
Saturday, May 31, 2025:
9:00 AM: Breakfast
12:00 PM: Lunch
6:00 PM: Dinner & Progress Checkpoint
Sunday, June 1, 2025:
9:00 AM: Breakfast & Final Hacking Sprint
12:00 PM: Submission Deadline, Lunch Break
1:00 PM: Hackathon Demos & Judging
3:30 PM: Awards Ceremony
4:00 PM: Open-ended Networking & After-Party
All hackathon projects will be able to exhibit at the Future of Computing Conference on Monday, June 2, 2025. The top hackathon teams will be invited to pitch in one of the sessions.