Geneva Hackathon 2026

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.

💡About

We are back with the 2nd edition of the Geneva AI Hackathon organized under the Swiss {ai} Weeks. It will be held at Campus Biotech across five tracks: Workforce Enabling, Health, Energy, Finance, and Education (tentative). The event will bring interdisciplinary teams together to build working AI prototypes alongside the organizations who will actually use them.

The Geneva Hackathon also feeds directly into the roadmap for the 2027 Global AI Summit here in Geneva: the prototypes and results from this weekend will help shape the themes and conversations at that larger stage.

🌍How can we create real-world impact?

Teams build hands-on AI across various tracks, working directly with partner organizations who bring real problems and real data to the table.

⚙️How It's Organized

Day 1 Team formation: Show up without a fixed team or project; both come together on-site. The evening is spent forming teams and working through Challenge Framing with the partner organization behind each track, so you leave day one with a defined problem and a first rough idea. Coaches and technical experts are available throughout all three days for hands-on support, so you're never stuck without someone to ask.

Day 2: Core build day. Prototyping, testing, and iterating, with a couple of short peer pitch check-ins built in so you get feedback before you've gone too far down the wrong path, and optional workshops on value proposition design and pitching available if you want the extra structure.

Day 3 Showdown: Final polish of the prototype, and the event closes with pitches to a jury and an award ceremony early afternoon.

What to expect:

🟥When: Friday, September 25, 4:00 PM to Sunday, September 27, 12:00 PM. Non-stop creativity (with optional night breaks).

🟥 Open to everyone: all backgrounds, skills, and experience levels are welcome.

🟥 Where: Campus Biotech, Geneva.

Contact us for partnership details:

📩 Contact:

felix.staehli@impacthub.net

lika.sasaki@impacthub.net

📝Registration

Register to get official updates and more details of the event. We will formally open the registration to participate in the event later in the summer.

📅2025 Recap

In September 2025, the first Geneva AI Hackathon was organized: over 60 participants, mentors, and experts working across 3 days at Campus Biotech's Giga facilities. Teams built alongside UNHCR, ONU Climat (UNFCCC), the International Telecommunication Union (ITU), and the University of Geneva, tackling real challenges at the intersection of technology, humanitarian action, and climate impact.