Nebius Build Week Hackathon in partnership with NVIDIA
Sun, 18 Oct 2026, 09:30
Berlin, Germany
Free
Originally organized by Nebius Events. Build something real with Nebius and NVIDIA before GTC Berlin begins. On Sunday, 18 October, Nebius is bringing together around 250 AI engineers, agent builders, startup teams and technical practitioners for a full day of hands-on building in Berlin. Teams will use Nebius AI Cloud, Serverless, Token Factory, Tavily and NVIDIA technologies to build practical AI applications, agents and workflows. The day starts with technical workshops, followed by more than six hours of hacking, support from onsite mentors, and final demos and judging. Choose your track: Cloud & Serverless Build and deploy AI services, inference endpoints, evaluation pipelines or reusable deployment templates using Nebius infrastructure. Apps & Agentic AI Create agents and AI applications that solve real problems using open models, Nebius Token Factory and Tavily for real-time web search. Vertical AI Build for areas such as healthcare and life sciences, physical AI & robotics, media and entertainment. Participants will also be able to build with NVIDIA Nemotron through Nebius Token Factory as part of a dedicated NVIDIA challenge. NVIDIA will support the event with workshops, technical resources, mentors and judges. More technology and application partners will be joining soon, bringing additional challenges, tools and prizes. Prizes will be awarded to standout projects across the main tracks and partner challenges. Programme: 09:00-10:00: Registration, breakfast, networking and team formation 10:00-10:20: Welcome, opening keynote and challenge briefing 10:20-11:20: Technical workshops and platform onboarding 11:20-17:30: Hacking, mentoring and office hours 13:00-14:00: Lunch served, with hacking continuing 17:30: Submission deadline 17:30-18:45: Judging 18:45-19:30: Finalist demos and awards 19:30-21:00: Reception and networking Who should apply? This hackathon is for AI and ML engineers, application developers, agent builders, startup teams and anyone interested in turning an AI idea into a working project. Part of Nebius Build Week This workshop is part of Nebius Build Week, a series of community events leading up to GTC Berlin where builders can learn, connect, and turn their AI ideas into working projects. In addition to the hackathon on Sunday Oct 18, we invite you to join us for: Nebius Workshops in partnership with Nebius Academy on Friday Oct 16 on AI Inference, Physical AI & Post-Training. Work directly with Nebius experts on production-grade LLM inference, physical AI, and post-training, with a dedicated exam room where attendees can sit an in-person exam and receive a professional certification. Builders After Hours at Reichstag Rooftop on Friday October 16 evening. Continue your evening with us as the After Hours meetup is a just a short 15-min walk from the workshop! Venue: Berlin, Germany, Berlin, DE. Registration is handled by the original organizer. Original event and organizer: https://luma.com/big-gtc-hack