ClickHouse + Hex AI hackathon
What is this?
One full day. Real tools. Real prizes. ClickHouse and Hex are hosting an in-person AI hackathon where you build something using ClickHouse and Hex solo or in a team of up to 5.
Partner engineers will be on-site all day at the expert bar to help you move fast. Breakfast, lunch, drinks, and great company in the mix. We'll end the night with demos, judging, and dinner.
Schedule
9:30 am - Doors open + coffee
Check in, grab a drink, find your team
9:50 am - Kickoff + prompt reveal
Rules, themes, and tools walkthrough
10:10 am - Hacking begins
Expert bar open — ClickHouse + Hex engineers on-site all day
5:00 pm - Submissions close
Lock in your build
5:05 pm - Demos + presentations
Each team presents to judges and the crowd
6:00 pm - Dinner + awards
Cash prizes, gift cards, and glory
7:00pm - We go home with our bounties and projects!
Judges:
Ashwath Singh - Senior Software Engineer @ ClickHouse; teaches databases when to scale and when to chill
Sai Srirampur -Director of Product @ ClickHouse; The man who makes data pipelines fly, built ClickPipes and convinced Postgres to behave
Dustin Healy - Full Stack Software Engineer (AI & ML) @ ClickHouse; Builds agentic data stacks so AI agents can stop asking where the data is
Thomas Panetti - Software Engineer @ ClickHouse;Writes the kind of code that makes merges happy and granules small
David Ryder - Solution Architect @ ClickHouse; Turns complex customer problems into architectures that they understand
Tahlia DeMaio - Customer Engineer @ Hex; Turns blank notebooks into things that actually answer questions
Jacqueline Lee -Sales Engineer @ Hex; On a mission to make everyone a data person — one SMB at a time
Brandon Cuy - Product Expert @ Hex; Knows Hex inside out and will tell you exactly why your notebook is slow
Alexa Young - Partnerships @ Hex; The person who makes sure two companies can build something together without losing their minds
Prize categories
Makes your life better
Fix a real problem from your job or day-to-day life. Useful, personal, and built for people like you. Judged by our panel.
Impact in our community / world
Build something that improves lives beyond your own. Ambitious, impactful, and grounded in real data. Judged by our panel.
- 1k grand prize, ClickHouse Cloud credits $500, 30 day trial of HEX
- $500 second prize, ClickHouse cloud credits $300, 30 day trial of HEX
Bonus prizes
- $300 Prize: Complete the OLTP+ OLAP workload with Postgres
- Create a GEN AI app: Physical prize of your choice
Wild Cards:
- Most unhinged idea that actually works (3 projects will have audience voting) The wildest build that somehow ships. Crowd-judged — bring the energy, bring the demo. We will select who gets to demo this one
- Raffle Star Wars lego for Social media posting
Rules
Teams of up to 5. Solo builders welcome.
Builds must use both ClickHouse and Hex they're required tools, not optional.
All code written during the event. You may bring starter repos and open source libraries.
Projects must be demoed live at the end of the day.