Join the nation's largest challenge-driven hackathon @ AI DevSummit 2025!

DevNetwork [AI + ML] Hackathon 2025

Join the largest challenge-driven in-person & online 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] Hackathon 2025!

In Person & Awards - South San Francisco Conference Center - May 28-29, 2025

Online -  May 12 - May 29, 2025

 1. Register via Eventbrite.

2. Create a DevPost account and click Register on the DevPost DevNetwork [AI + ML] Hackathon 2025 page.

3. DevNetwork Hackathon: AI/ML 2025 Hackathon Kicks off May 12, 2025!

 Check out the full DevNetwork [AI + ML] Hackathon 2025 schedule!

4. Review full Hackathon Instructions here!

* All Hackathon Attendees must be pre-registered on both: Eventbrite & Devpost.

Requirements

View the Full Set of Instructions here!

  • Registration - Must register via both 1) Eventbrite & 2) Devpost prior to Hackathon.
  • This is an in-person & online hackathon. Teams will be formed on Devpost.com at the DevNetwork [AI + ML] Hackathon 2025. 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 / Web App).
  • Teams can solve no challenges (build whatever you want) or can submit to as many challenges as they want.
  • There will be two rounds of judging. During Round 1, judges will review all team projects and fill out a scoring sheet on each to determine the Overall Hackathon Winner. Round 2 is the Sponsor Round of judging. Each sponsor will judge the teams working on their Challenge(s) and determine a winner(s). The sponsors choose their own prize winners.
  • Round 1 judging will be based on: 1) PROGRESS: How much progress you make on your submission; 2) CONCEPT: Does your submission solve a real problem?; and 3) FEASIBILITY: Could your submission grow/evolve to become a startup or be a profitable business.

Hackathon Sponsors

Prizes

$12,500 in prizes
DevNetwork [AI + ML] Hackathon 2025 Overall Winner
$12,500 in cash
1 winner

1 winner - $12,500 USD value

1st Place Prize:
- 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

Devpost Achievements

Submitting to this hackathon could earn you:

Judges

Geoffrey Domoracki

Geoffrey Domoracki
Founder @ DevNetwork

Roxy Stimpson

Roxy Stimpson
Founder @ Darlacian

Rohit Sinha

Rohit Sinha
VP @ Novulis

Daniele Bernardi

Daniele Bernardi
CEO @ Toolhouse

Gloria Felicia

Gloria Felicia
CEO & Founder @ AtlasPro AI

Shikha Mittal

Shikha Mittal
Senior Director, Product @ Omnissa

Madhan Rangaswamy

Madhan Rangaswamy
Development @ united

Timothy Spann

Timothy Spann
Sr. Solutions Engineer @ Snowflake

Michelle Bonat

Michelle Bonat
Chief AI Officer @ AI Squared

Oleksandr Kondratiuk

Oleksandr Kondratiuk
CTO @ akirolabs

Lata	Ahuja

Lata Ahuja
Sr Director of Engineering @ CarGurus

Simon Müller

Simon Müller
CTO @ wattx

Chaitrali Kshirsagar

Chaitrali Kshirsagar
Senior Machine learning engineer @ QuantumScape Battery

Azmath Pasha

Azmath Pasha
CTO @ Metawave Digital

Nandita Giri

Nandita Giri
senior software development @ Mircosoft

James Oyanna

James Oyanna
AI @ DevScourt

Philip Farhad

Philip Farhad
Vice President, Engineering @ Cyber Defense Group

Ashish Bhalgat

Ashish Bhalgat
Cloud & AI Strategist

JJ Asghar

JJ Asghar
Developer Advocate @ IBM

Sam Boswell

Sam Boswell
CTO @ Terralayr

Tanya Vlahovic

Tanya Vlahovic
Intuit

Martin Loewinger

Martin Loewinger
Head of Infrastructure

Piyush Verma

Piyush Verma
Head of Product @ Coralogix.com

Rajni Sharma

Rajni Sharma
Director @ Walmart

Intesar Mohammed

Intesar Mohammed
PerfAI

Venkatesh Konanur

Venkatesh Konanur
Principal Engineer @ Applied Research

George Hantzaras

George Hantzaras
Director of Engineering @ MongoDB

Rob	Dawson

Rob Dawson
CTO @ Consensys

Neha Gupta

Neha Gupta
Founder @ Keploy

Darwin Sanoy

Darwin Sanoy
Field Chief Cloud Architect @ GitLab

Vasilis Danias

Vasilis Danias
CEO @ Bitloops

Alexandre Bernardoni

Alexandre Bernardoni
CEO @ A2Accelerate

Amiya Adwitiya

Amiya Adwitiya
Sr Director of Product @ Solarwinds

Nahrin Jalal

Nahrin Jalal
Developer Education & Community @ Netlify

Adao Oliveira Jr

Adao Oliveira Jr
Solutions Architect @ Oracle

Karol Rogowski

Karol Rogowski
Head of engineering @ SoftwareHut

Ryan Clark

Ryan Clark
Founder Technologist @ Iconist

Rohit Mishra

Rohit Mishra
Head of Product operations @ Komodo Health

Shan Anwar

Shan Anwar
Intuit

Matty Stratton

Matty Stratton
Solution Architect @ Turbot

Jeremy Glassenberg

Jeremy Glassenberg
Product Management Director, APIs @ Salesforce

Robert Wolff

Robert Wolff
Founding Partner @ devEco

Gift Ojeabulu

Gift Ojeabulu
Co-founder @ Data Community Africa

Samridh	Pandey

Samridh Pandey
Senior consultant @ Capgemini

Zuzanna	Stamirowska

Zuzanna Stamirowska
Chief Executive Officer @ Pathway

Melissa Jurkoic

Melissa Jurkoic
COO @ Benson Consulting

SURBHI GUPTA

SURBHI GUPTA
Product Manager @ Meta

Shinjani Gaur

Shinjani Gaur
Senior Engineering Manager @ Broadcom

Anthony Dombrowski

Anthony Dombrowski
DevRel Lead @ Frontegg

Renato Sant Anna

Renato Sant Anna
Insights @ Cognitivos Consultoria

Sidney Maestre

Sidney Maestre
APIMatic

Amith Pulla

Amith Pulla
Senior TPM @ Nvidia

Taeil Goh

Taeil Goh
Senior Software Engineering Manager @ Capital One

Smruti Patel

Smruti Patel
SVP of Engineering @ Apollo GraphQL

Ohad Manor

Ohad Manor
CTO @ 4Cast

Varun Kulkarni

Varun Kulkarni
Senior Product Manager @ Microsoft

Shannon Lietz

Shannon Lietz
ThirdScore

Graham Haythornthwaite

Graham Haythornthwaite
Head of Software Engineering @ Racing Digital

Cheryl Aranha

Cheryl Aranha
Principal Engineer @ Intuit

Vishal Pallerla

Vishal Pallerla
Solutions Architect @ InterSystems

Judging Criteria

  • Progress
    How much progress did you make?
  • Concept
    Does it solve a real problem?
  • Feasibility
    Could this become a startup or company?

Questions? Email the hackathon manager

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