1 day ago
🚀 We have 1 day left!
Hello everyone,
We have 1 day left! We are approaching our official submission deadline: 18 March 2026 at 12:00 CET.
Over 450 participants have signed up — that’s incredible. We’re seriously excited to see what you’ve been building.
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Please make sure to submit on Devpost in time.
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For this deadline, please submit a working prototype incl. public repo URL + one-pager.
What happens next?
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All submissions will be reviewed by our hackathon jury
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A shortlist of teams will be selected by 25 March
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Shortlisted teams will be invited to join us on-site at GenAI Zürich (1–2 April)
Let’s go…
10 days ago
How's it going? 🚀
Hoi everyone,
Hope the building is going well — we'd love to know what you're working on.
Please take a moment to fill out this quick form and let us know which challenge you picked and if there's anything we can do to support you:
👉🏼 https://tally.so/r/2E4Yab
Thanks, and happy building!
Your
GenAI Zürich Team
14 days ago
🎓 Get support from a mentor - Book your session now
Hello Hello,
Great news —> our mentors are available for 1:1 sessions during the online phase until 18 March 2026.
Take advantage of their expertise to sharpen your project and validate your approach.
Don’t wait until the last minute and book a slot; here’s who you can contact:
Agnieszka Pieczko — Women in Data Science Zürich, VP & AI Digital Transformation Lead
→ LINK
Anna Sigrist — Opendata.ch, Co-CEO
→ LINK
Benjamin Fuchs — Women in AI Switzerland, AI Automation Lead & Labsis
→ LINK
Dusan Vystrcil — Apify, AI Product Manager
→ LINK
Igor…
15 days ago
A message from Databricks
🚀 Ready to supercharge your hackathon project? Develop your own idea or tackle a partner challenge on Databricks!
💻 Build fast in notebooks or from your favourite IDE — it’s an open platform, so bring any datasets, models, and libraries you need.
🌟 From prototype to production‑ready: the most promising teams will join an on‑site hack, where we help you design a scalable, reliable solution ready to pitch on the big stage 🎤.
📅 Join the “How to GenAI with Databricks” tomorrow/4 March at 10 AM on Discord for a 30‑minute live kick‑off including a crisp tech overview and demo from…
16 days ago
7 real-world challenges. 2 weeks to build. Let's start.
Hello all,
Today we start our journey, “From Prompt to Product.”:
7 real-world challenges.
2 weeks to build.
Check the official challenges of GenAI Zürich Hackathon 2026, powered by Apify, GoCalma, LIVEMAP AG, Manukai, Qdrant, and SonyAI.
Apify Technologies s.r.o.
🔹The Apify Challenge
AI systems are only as good as the data they can access. Real-world impact requires live, structured data from the web. Apify removes that bottleneck by giving participants access to web data infrastructure through thousands of tools through our API.
GoCalma
🔹AI-Powered Privacy Redaction: Own Your Data
Every day, people upload sensitive…
21 days ago
Get ready for "Getting started"
Hello all,
Only a few days left until you can finally start hacking.
Here’s your Getting Started Guide —> Fully handwritten. No AI. Just for you.😇
👉🏼 Getting started
Feel free to reach out for questions. Just reply to this email.
Kindly,
Sabine + the whole GenAI Zürich team
23 days ago
Welcome🌞 to the GenAI Zürich Hackathon 2026
Hello all,Welcome to the GenAI Zürich Hackathon 2026!
Great to have you on board!🚀
Here's the essentials:
March 2 — Challenges go live, remote build begins (own ideas accepted as well)
March 18 — Prototype submission deadline
April 1–2 — Shortlisted teams hack on-site at Volkshaus Zürich (min. 1 team member must attend in person)
You can participate solo or in a team of up to 5 — all formats welcome. That said, most of you are still looking for teammates, and we'd love to help! Just send us a note with a quick intro (your background +…