🇨🇭 Switzerland · 💻 Hackathons
Build something in a weekend: hackathons, challenges and build days, most of them free. 18 upcoming across 8 cities, 10 in September 2026.
**Join a high-energy AI hackathon where diverse teams build practical, real-world solutions in just 12 hours.** Open to students, developers, startups, experts, and anyone curious about AI, this event brings people together to tackle real challenges from the **banking and finance sector**. Expect: \- Real-world challenges out of the Swiss banking community \- Teams open to all skill levels and ba
Join a high-energy AI hackathon where diverse teams build practical, real-world solutions in just 12 hours. Open to students, developers, startups, experts, and anyone curious about AI, this event brings people together to tackle real challenges from the banking and finance sector. Expect: - Real-world challenges out of the Swiss banking community - Teams open to all skill levels and backgrounds -
You are ambitious, smart and you want to show the world you have what it takes to be the next big CEO, banker or financial leader? Join START Hack Tour St. Gallen on **18 to 19 September 2026 for a 24-hour hackathon** focused on Finance and Technology! Here, you will be given real problems from leading financial institutions and startups, and have 24 hours to build the strongest solution with you
A one-day sprint on a question that matters to every organization handling data: how do we build AI that's responsible with the information people trust us with? **Build together across three real challenge tracks:** 🔹 Data Minimiser — how much data do we really need to ask for? 🔹 Customer Know-How Repo / Self-Learning CRM — what happens to everything your team knows when someone leaves? 🔹 Vibe
Take part in collaborative, high-energy coding event where teams work intensively to create innovative, real-world AI solutions. Over 36 hours, participants team up to tackle challenges that matter. All hackathons are open to everyone — whether you're a student, developer, startup, government innovator, corporate expert, or just curious about AI.
Have you ever wondered what a hackathon is, and what you do during one? LauzHack is a student association that has organized hackathons for a full decade. And in this hackathon, we'd like to give you some tips which may or may not be useful in our upcoming 10th anniversary hackathon 😉 All of this will of course be followed by a tremendous amount of free pizza 🍕
Erlebe mit #herHACK 2026 in Zürich den grössten von Frauen geführten Hackathon der Schweiz! Hier brauchst du keine IT-Vorkenntnisse - nur deine Leidenschaft und die Bereitschaft, gemeinsam mit rund 200 anderen Frauen an einer Idee zu arbeiten. In nur einem Tag entwickelt dein Team ein echtes Problem zu einer kreativen Lösung, die ihr am Abend als Pitch präsentiert. Was dich erwartet: Ein inspirier
## **About the event** Join forces to hack AI for good: 3 days tackling real challenges across workforce, health, energy, finance, and education, alongside humanitarian experts, sustainability leaders, AI engineers, business innovators, and beyond. We are back with the 2nd edition of the Geneva AI Hackathon across several tracks, including humanitarian action, mental health, and open source hardw
A one-day Physical AI hackathon on a robotics campus in Zurich: twelve hours, two tracks, real hardware in the building. Eighty builders get one day at DARE Campus in Schlieren to make something that perceives its environment, decides what to do and does it, then demo it live to the people who do this for a living. DARE is a deep tech and robotics campus, not a conference room. Tethys Robotics builds underwater inspection drones there and FORGIS runs AI agents on factory equipment; their engineers are the mentors and the judges, and the maker space is down the hall. Two tracks run in parallel: Hardware puts teams on real robots, sensors and actuators, while Simulation needs nothing but a laptop and is judged on exactly the same rubric. Doors and check-in at 09:00, opening and team formation at 09:45, build from 10:30, tools down at 16:30, four-minute live demos and judging from 17:00, winners and drinks at 19:30. Teams are two to four people and most participants arrive alone. Free to attend, part of Swiss AI Weeks.
**Build something that moves.** A one-day Physical AI hackathon on a robotics campus in Zurich. Twelve hours, two tracks, real hardware in the building. Perceive, decide, act, then show it working.
This **Online hackathon** is an invitation to spend just over two weeks building with **Apertus**, Switzerland's fully open LLM. From **1–16 October**, builders everywhere gather online to push Apertus 1.5 further. And, you're invited. If you care about open and trustworthy AI that anyone can use, this is your place. You'll work with both the **8B and 70B models**, backed by our partners **CSCS*
Von 15. bis 17. Oktober 2026 entwickeln Start-ups, Tech-Unternehmen und Entwickler:innen Lösungen für Defence- und Dual-Use-Challenges.
Bern/Liebefeld on-site edition of «Hack Apertus», the hackathon series around Apertus, Switzerland's fully open large language model. On 18–19 October 2026 at WORKSPACE & MORE in Liebefeld, teams solve partner challenges and develop open, trustworthy blueprints for sovereign AI infrastructure.
The Zurich stop of the Hack Apertus series, 27–28 November 2026 at the AI Startup Center in Technopark. Teams build on Apertus, Switzerland's sovereign open LLM, solving partner challenges and producing open blueprints for sovereign infrastructure. Strong teams advance to the May 2027 Grand Finals.
On 28 November, 6 teams bring their Apertus prototypes to the stage for the Zurich Finals at the AI Startup Center / Technopark. Over the hackathon, the teams built working prototypes on Apertus, Switzerland's open large language model. Now watch the top 6 pitch them live and compete for a spot at the Grand Finals. There's also a Fireside Chat, the Award Ceremony, and time to connect with others o
The Basel stop of the Hack Apertus series, 4–5 December 2026 at uptownBasel, hosted in the Phoeniqs headquarters. Teams build on Apertus, Switzerland's sovereign open LLM, tackling partner challenges to produce open blueprints for sovereign infrastructure, with the best advancing to the 2027 finals.
A two-stage open-source hackathon community series. Teams build on Apertus to develop blueprints for sovereign infrastructure across the public & private sector
A three-stage open-source hackathon series to evaluate, align, and build on Apertus, Switzerland
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