Join the nation's largest challenge-driven hackathon @ DeveloperWeek 2027!
DEVELOPERWEEK 2027 HACKATHON
Join the largest challenge-driven in-person & online hackathon, co-located with DeveloperWeek 2027!
Our hackathons regularly attract over 800+ participants -- and we are inviting the international developer community to converge in-person & online this year for the DeveloperWeek 2027 Hackathon!
In Person & Awards - Santa Clara Convention Center - February 9-11, 2027
Online - Jan 25 - Feb 11, 2027
1. Create a DevPost account and click Register on the DevPost DeveloperWeek 2027 Hackathon page.
2. DeveloperWeek 2027 Hackathon Kicks off January 25, 2027!
Check out the full DeveloperWeek 2027 Hackathon schedule!
3. Review full Hackathon Instructions here!
* All Hackathon Attendees must be pre-registered on both: Eventbrite & Devpost.
Requirements
View the Full Set of Instructions here!
- Registration - Must register on Devpost prior to Hackathon.
- This is an in-person & online hackathon. Teams will be formed on Devpost.com at the DeveloperWeek 2027 Hackathon. From Devpost, participants can message each other to form teams, participate in chat boards, and communicate with sponsors.
- Teams can build apps from scratch (Mobile App / Web App).
- Teams can solve no challenges (build whatever you want) or can submit to as many challenges as they want.
- There will be two rounds of judging. During Round 1, judges will review all team projects and fill out a scoring sheet on each to determine the Overall Hackathon Winner. Round 2 is the Sponsor Round of judging. Each sponsor will judge the teams working on their Challenge(s) and determine a winner(s). The sponsors choose their own prize winners.
- Round 1 judging will be based on: 1) PROGRESS: How much progress you make on your submission; 2) CONCEPT: Does your submission solve a real problem?; and 3) FEASIBILITY: Could your submission grow/evolve to become a startup or be a profitable business.
Prizes
DeveloperWeek 2027 Overall Winner
1 winner - $12,500 USD value
1st Place Prize: - Amazon Echos (Up to 5)
- DevNetwork Premium All-Access Passes to all 2027 conferences
- Announcement in our email to 60,000 subscribers listing your team and project
Red Hat: Challenge
Coming in January 2027
Devpost Achievements
Submitting to this hackathon could earn you:
Judges
Geoffrey Domoracki
Founder @ DevNetwork
Rinita Datta
Director, Product Marketing @ Cisco
Ashish Shubham
VP Engineering @ ThoughtSpot
Jiaxi Zhu
Head Analytics, SMB Division @ Google
Advait Patel
Senior Site Reliability Enginner @ Broadcom
Ohad Manor
CTO @ 4Cast
Karol Rogowski
Head of Engineering @ Softwarehut
Mayank Dwivedi
Senior Engineering Manager @ Salesforce
Isan Sahoo
Principal Member of Technical Staff @ Oracle
Jeremy Glassenberg
Product Management Director @ Salesforce
Aman Deep Singh Ahuja
Global Head of Product
Bala Ramdoss
Mobile Tech Lead @ Amazon
Sureshkumar Karuppuchamy
Senior Engineering Manager @ eBay
Sanjana Arun
Senior Product Leader @ eBay
Varun Kulkarni
AI Product Lead @ Microsoft
Sunil Agarwal
Software Engineering Technical Leader @ Cisco Systems
Shireen Nagdive
Engineering Leader @ Salesforce
Chandrashekar Konda
Technical Director (AI) @ Oracle
Vivek Kadam
Director @ BNP Paribas
Anthony Dombrowski
DevRel @ Bruno
Vishwanath S
Sr, Director Data @ Samsung
Alejandro Mercado
DevOps @ Deloitte
Saurabh Phaltane
Senior Engineer @ Google
Shivi Verma
Senior Manager, Cloud apps Engineering
Samuel Maniraj Selvaraj
Engineering Manager,Test Automation @ Veeva Systems
Ruiqi Wang
Member of Technical Staff @ OpenAI
Manasi Khanuja
Product Manager @ Meta
Apurva Godghase
Lead Computer Vision Engineer @ Brambles
Saran Krishnasamy
CTO & Co-founder @ Gigit.ai
Atish Maitreya
Senior Platform Engineer @ Shipt
Sangeetha Rajkumar
Senior TPM
Serhii Savin
Data Scientist @ Meta
Sandhya Subramani
Sr. Developer Advocate @ GenAI
Sachin Gadiyar
VP @ JPMorgan Chase
Madhuri Somara
Product Leader @ Microsoft
Sai Srikanth Gorthy
Senior Data Scientist @ TikTok
Joslyn Fu
Senior Product Manager @ Meta
Valarie Regas
Program Implementation Manager @ CodePath
Kuber Jain
Senior Data Scientist @ Headspace
Quentin Reul
Director AI Strategy & Solutions @ expert.ai
Judith Ifeoma Nwokike
Flutterwave
Pratik Sheth
Senior Lead Engineer
Annamalai Annamalai
Senior Manager, Product Management @ Walmart
Anshul Garg
Principal Product Manager - Tech @ Amazon
Manish Shah
Ebay
Ajita Kanchivakam Ananth
Staff Technical Program Manager @ Google
PAWANKUMAR Suresh
Independent Professional
Sujith Katakam
Member of Technical Staff @ OpenAI
Vishal Pallerla
Solutions Architect @ InterSystems
Priyanka Neelakrishnan
Director Product Manager @ Veza from ServiceNow
Archana Rao
AI for coding Product Manager @ Meta
Gaurav Savla
AI Product Management leader @ Meta
Shashank Khatri
Senior Developer Advocate @ Bazaarvoice
sahil arora
Director of Product @ Salesforce
Shailaja Sampat
Senior Researcher (AI) @ Fujitsu Research of America
Dilip Patel
Group Product Manager, AI trust and Risk
Daniel Davis
Co-founder @ TrustGraph
Cheryl Aranha
Principal engineer @ Intuit
Vyron Vasileiadis
Technical Lead @ Qilimanjaro Quantum Tech
Samridh Pandey
Managing Solutions Architect Data & AI
David Afolabi
Chief Information and Technology Officer & Chief AI Architect @ Boost Media Group
Vijay Sudhakar
Senior Technical Project Manager @ Apple
Rakesh Jain
Senior Tech Staff Member & Manager @IBM
Shibashis Mishra
Senior Engineering Manager
Partheev Sharma
Senior Technical Program Manager @ PrudentCare
Mahek Savani
Senior AI/ML Engineer @ Niagara Bottling
Ethan Kominko
Software Engineer
Nithin Singh Mohan
AI & Supercomputing Leader @ Hewlett Packard Enterprise
Aman Sardana
Senior Manager @ Capital One
Joe Furbee
Senior Developer Advocate
Eldar Hasanov
CTO
Khushbu Shaikh
Twilio
Charit Upadhyay
Senior SRE @ Adobe
Arpita Agrawal
Senior Machine Learning Engineer @ Adobe
Judging Criteria
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Progress
How much progress did you make? -
Concept
Does it solve a real problem? -
Feasibility
Could this become a startup or company?
Questions? Email the hackathon manager
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