For 36 hours, HackPrague 2018 will bring together 150 passionate developers and designers from across Europe to create cool software and hardware projects that make impact through the use of current hot technologies. To stimulate innovation, we will be bringing speakers, mentors, and judges from the world's top companies. You will have the opportunity to touch the future and interact directly with these companies in exchanging ideas, seeking mentorship, or impressing them with your projects.
Get your hands dirty with exponential technologies that are going to change the world forever.
Blockchain offers opportunities beyond financial services. Just think about all the ancient industries ripe for disruption like insurance, healthcare, retail or even government.
Are you a hardware geek or just an enthusiast into IoT data utilization? Use the opportunity to make the world a little smarter and efficient. Just put a few sensors on anything and create something new!
Endless possibilities to create. Maybe a human like chatbot you can talk to all night long? Or just let it learn something cool from yottabytes of data and then blow minds with it.
Interested in Brain Computer Interfaces? Learn more here.
Research scientist at Facebook AI Research. Previously member of Google Brain team. Inventor of word2vec.
Radical innovator and city hacker. Organizer of smart city hackathons CEE Hacks and Czech FuckUp Nights. Founder of multiple startups.
Serial entrepreneur for the past 22 years. Initially an engineer in AI, now running StartupYard, the oldest running startups accelerator in CEE.
Google Developer Expert. Founder of Kubrickology, creative technologist, artist and designer. Currently working on SeMI.
Specialist on PR and Content Marketing, startup mentor and founder of PR agency Fenek^^. Past director of Tyinternety.cz and Startup Summit.
We think of our hackathon as an "invention marathons" where participants have no restraints. Unlike other events, we don’t want you to come up with a startup MVP or a solution to a corporate problem. It's whatever you want to build around the four categories mentioned above, just for the sake of building. Unleash your creativity and technical skills!
Grand prize: 33 500 CZK / 1,300 EUR
Category prizes: 15 500 CZK / 600 EUR
… and many other sponsored prizes
- For a weekend of innovation and fun with 150 smartest technologists
- Interaction with the top European and American companies
- Workshops and talks by experienced professionals
- Free food and swag
- Prize money
Yes, you can work in a team of up to 4 people. If you come alone, you can participate in our team formation event at the beginning of the hackathon, where you can meet others with similar interests and complementary skillsets.
Remember to bring your electronics, like your laptop, phone, and chargers. It would also be good to bring your toiletries, and anything that will help you get comfy, like a pillow, blanket, or sleeping bag.
There will be no time to sleep. 😛 But you can always gather your strength or meditate for a little while in our chill room.
HackPRAGUE applications are open to all developers and designers, including students and full-time employees. We will select participants based on their past projects, experience, and enthusiasm. We will aim to admit a diverse pool of people.
Category judging
Relevance - Does it fit the category?
Creativity - Is it novel?
Technical Difficulty - Was it hard to make?
General judging
Polish - Was it presented nicely?
Creativity - Is it novel?
Usefulness - Does it have actual potential?
Not only is the hackathon 100% free to attend, but we'll also provide you with free food, snacks, and swag.
We feel that Prague and the Central European region have a tremendous creative potential that hasn’t yet been realized. Our mission is to become a platform for passionate technologists to meet, collaborate, and form relationships that extend well beyond the hackathon.
Email us at team@hackprague.com. We gotchu.
- studied at Czech Technical University and TU Berlin
- presented at conferences in Central Europe and South Korea
- customer research analyst at Avocode
- attended 500 Startups accelerator in Silicon Valley
- studies Artificial Intelligence at the University of Groningen
- organized Benelux Conference on Artificial Intelligence
- event & organization master
- law student at Charles University
- technology enthusiast
- studied at Yale University
- Prague native
- product manager at Uber
- previously worked at Facebook
