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DevNetwork [API + Cloud + AI] Hackathon 2026
Join the largest challenge-driven in-person & online hackathon, co-located with API World 2026!
Our hackathons regularly attract over 300+ participants -- and we are inviting the international developer community to converge in-person & online this year for the DevNetwork [API + Cloud + AI] Hackathon 2026!
In Person & Awards - Santa Clara Convention Center - September 2-3, 2026
Online - August 17 - September 3, 2026
1. Create a DevPost account and click Register on the DevPost DevNetwork [API + Cloud + AI] Hackathon 2026 page.
3. DevNetwork [API + Cloud + AI] Hackathon 2026 Kicks off August 17, 2026! Join Kick Off Talk Here
Check out the full DevNetwork [API + Cloud + AI] Hackathon 2026 schedule!
4. Review full Hackathon Instructions here!
Requirements
Age - 18 years and older.
Citizenship - Participants from any country are allowed to participate.
August 17 - September 3, 2026 - Online
September 2-3 - Santa Clara Convention Center - Santa Clara, CA - In person + Awards
View Step by Step Instructions here!
Prizes
DevNetwork [API + Cloud + AI] Hackathon 2026 Overall Winner
$12,500 in cash 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
Perfect Corp: Building the Next Generation of AI-Driven Consumer Experiences
$2,500 in cash
1st Place: $1,500
2nd Place: $1,000
Contact: valerie_torres@perfectcorp.com
• Design and build an immersive web or mobile experience using Perfect Corp’s AI- and AR-powered technology suite to solve real-world consumer needs.
• Participants are encouraged to explore creative, innovative, and unexpected ways to leverage Perfect Corp’s APIs — from virtual try-on and AI skin analysis to personalized product recommendations, gen AI text-to-image creation, and fashion visualization — to create engaging, interactive experiences or shopping journeys.
• Participants are encouraged to explore creative and unexpected use cases for Perfect’s suite of APIs
• Must integrate at least 1 Perfect Corp API and demonstrate clear consumer or retail value
• Project page with short write-up & screenshots
• Demo video (1-3 minutes) showing the experience end-to-end
• Must participate in an exit interview if chosen as winner
To be included in a blog article
• One questionnaire to fill out once chosen as winner
Foxit: Challenge
$1,000 in cash value
Coming Soon!
Apptio, an IBM Company: Challenge
$1,000 in cash value
Coming Soon!
Impart Security: Challenge
$1,000 in cash value
Coming Soon!
Doctavian — Generate It Right. Sign It Tight.
$1,000 in cash + cash value
1st Place: $500 cash + $150 Doctavian subscription
2nd Place: $200 cash + $150 Doctavian subscription
Contact: hello@doctavian.com
Doctavian is an intelligent document operations platform for generating and digitally signing documents — built for structured data with real complexity, not just flat fields swapped into a form letter.
Most document APIs are glorified mail-merge — swap a name, swap a number, ship it. Doctavian's templates are smarter than that. Built on expressions and elements that branch, loop, and calculate on the fly, one template carries the logic to handle whatever data shows up — and shapes the result correctly, every time.
Once a document is right, it doesn't have to stop there. Doctavian carries it forward too — to signed, sealed, and provable, if that's where your solution needs to go.
Your challenge: bring us your messiest, most real-world data problem, and build an AI agent that turns it into a document that gets it right — repeatedly. Take it all the way to signed if your idea calls for it.
Your agent needs to actually call Doctavian's generation API to shape a real document — not just talk about one.
Reach out when you register and we'll get your team set up with API credentials fast.
What to submit:
Project name + one-line pitch
Public repo (or shared link) with setup instructions
Demo video (2–4 min) showing it working end to end
One line on where Doctavian did the real work, and why
name.com — Domain API Challenge
$2,000 in cash value
1st Place: $1500 Amazon gift card
2nd Place: $500 Amazon gift card
Contact: daisy.edwards@identity.digital
Build a product powered by the name.com API. This challenge asks developers to integrate the name.com API into a working product, using it for domain search, availability checks, registration, or DNS management as a core part of the build.
The format is open. Participants can build something new or extend an existing project, as long as the name.com API is functionally central to what they ship. Judges want to see the API doing something the product actually depends on.
Judging criteria
API integration depth: How central is the name.com API to the product. Judges favor integrations that combine multiple endpoints (search plus registration plus DNS, for example) over a single surface-level call.
Creativity and originality: Is the use case distinct. Judges favor unexpected applications over incremental tweaks on existing domain search tools.
Technical execution: Code quality, architecture decisions, and how well the team handled edge cases.
Real-world viability: Could this plausibly become a product or feature people would use. Judges weigh market relevance and clarity of the value proposition.
Presentation and demo: Clarity of the final walkthrough. Judges want to see the integration in action, not just slides.
Nutrient - Turn Documents Into Something People Actually Trust: Nutrient DWS Challenge
$1,500 in cash + cash value
1st Place: $750 Visa Cash Giftcard
DWS Credits based on the winners preference ($250 Cash Value)
2nd Place: $250 Visa Cash Giftcard
DWS Credits based on the winners preference ($250 Cash Value)
Contact: douglas@nutrient.io
Every business runs on documents — contracts, invoices, forms, IDs, claims, reports — and when they're regulated, "almost right" isn't good enough. Nutrient DWS is the deterministic document platform for agents and humans: REST APIs and SDKs to parse, extract, convert, redact, digitally sign, and archive documents, plus the embeddable DWS Viewer for human review — all with replayable output and full audit trails the AI-alone approach can't guarantee. The best document work isn't one magic call — it's a pipeline: pull the data out, judge how confident you are, bring a human in exactly where it matters, and keep a record of every step.
And the timing isn't academic — a wave of new mandates is hitting regulated document work right now. Your mission: turn messy documents into something useful — and trustworthy enough to run on real, regulated work.
Free DWS access for the whole event. Create a DWS account and you're building in minutes — every account starts with free credits, and if you need more, just ask and we'll top you up.
The one rule: your project must use Nutrient DWS — the API, an SDK, or the Viewer — for at least one core document operation, meaningfully (not a single throwaway call). Everything else is yours to invent. Bonus respect for pipelines that lean on what makes DWS different: deterministic, auditable output, with a human in the loop where a guess isn't acceptable.
Need a spark? (ideas, not requirements)
Each shares the same shape — let AI do the heavy lifting, pull a human in for the tricky calls, keep an audit trail — and each is anchored to a real regulation landing right now.
Onboard a customer the regulators will accept. Read someone's ID and supporting docs, auto-approve the clear cases, send the doubtful ones to a human — with a trail a regulator can follow. (EU digital-identity + anti-money-laundering rules, 2026–2027.) → DWS: Data Extraction API to parse the ID and supporting docs into key fields with confidence scores; DWS Viewer for the cases a human must judge.
Turn a PDF invoice into a compliant e-invoice. Read a messy invoice, convert it to the EU's required structured format, let a human fix what the model wasn't sure about, keep a dated record of what was sent. (France mandate Sept 1 — mid-event.) → DWS: Data Extraction API for line items and totals; digitally sign the result so its authenticity is provable.
Catch the costly mismatch in a bundle of trade documents. Cross-check an invoice, a shipping doc, and a certificate, surface the discrepancy that would cost a customs penalty, and let a human make the final call. (New electronic-transferable-records laws.) → DWS: Data Extraction API to parse each document into comparable fields; DWS Viewer for the human decision.
Beat the mortgage-appraisal cutover. US home appraisals switch to a new required format at the end of 2026 — miss it and the report gets bounced. Read an appraisal, fill the new format, flag anything uncertain, keep a full audit trail. → DWS: Data Extraction API to lift fields (confidence scores flag the uncertain ones); DWS Viewer to review before the report goes out.
Redact, then release. Black out personal info, have a human sign off on the redactions, export a clean copy plus proof of what was removed. (New EU AI-transparency rules, live Aug 2026.) → DWS: AI redaction; DWS Viewer for human approval; digitally sign the cleared copy so it's tamper-evident and dated.
What to submit
Project name + one-line pitch
Public repo (or shared link) with setup instructions
2–4 min demo video showing it working end-to-end
One line on where DWS does the heavy lifting and why
SerpApi – Best AI Use Case
$3,000 in cash + cash value
1st Place: $1,000 cash + $1,000 in SerpApi credits (total value: $2,000)
2nd Place:$500 cash + $500 in SerpApi credits (total value: $1,000)
Contact: alaa@serpapi.com
Build an innovative AI application using one or more SerpApi APIs to access reliable, structured, real-time web data. Projects should solve a meaningful real-world problem and demonstrate how live search data improves the AI experience. Judging will consider originality, technical execution, SerpApi integration, usability, and potential impact.
useBruno: Challenge
$1,000 in cash value
Coming Soon!
Wundergraph: Challenge
$1,000 in cash value
Coming Soon!
Xano: Challenge
$1,000 in cash value
Coming Soon!
Devpost Achievements
Submitting to this hackathon could earn you:
Judges
Geoffrey Domoracki
Founder @ DevNetwork
Nick Winder
Core Staff Software Engineer @ Nutrient
Wayne Liu
Chief Growth Officer @ Perfect Corp
Kanwal Roshi
Engineering Manager @ Maven Mule
Katie Wokasch
Head of Product Engineering @ name.com
Alaa Abdulridha
Engineering Director @ SerpApi
Timothy Spann
SR SE @ Snowflake
Sureshkumar Karuppuchamy
Ebay
Saurabh Phaltane
Senior Engineer @ Google
Him Raj Singh
Manager, Software Engineering @ PayPal
Aman Sardana
Senior Manager @ Capital One
Garvit Kataria
Senior Software Engineer @ Intuit
Indranil Jha
Principal Solutions Engineer @ Okta
Jatin Taneja
Lead member of technical staff @ Salesforce
Jeremy Glassenberg
Product Management Director @ Salesforce
Siri Varma Vegiraju
Senior Software Engineer @ Mircosoft
Alex Bit
Co-founder & CEO @ Codemod
Oleksandr Kondratiuk
CTO @ akirolabs
Rakshana Balakrishnan
Product Leader @ Oracle
Arun Padmanabhan Narasimhan
Senior Software Engineer @ Google
Apurva Godghase
Lead Computer Vision Engineer
Jason Tan
Chief AI Officer @ Ascendnce
Rakesh Datta
Senior Technical Lead
Advait Patel
Senior Site Reliability Enginner @ Broadcom
Ajita Kanchivakam Ananth
Staff TPM @ Google
Vishwas Manral
Precize
Tracy Adams
Executive Director @ Sudoku Foundation
Shruti Tiwari
AI Product Leader @ Dell
RENJITH RAMACHANDRAN
Senior Solutions architect
Varun Kulkarni
Senior AI Product Manager @ Microsoft
Sonam Singhal
Senior Software Engineer
Sanjana Arun
Senior Product Leader @ eBay
Zohar Babin
Chief Strategy Officer @ Kaltura
Steve Taplin
CEO @ Sonatafy Technology
Juan Rafael Ruiz Carrillo
CTP @ 101OBEX
Simon Müller
CTO @ eigenmind
Seetaram Rayarao
JP Morgan Chase
Chad Stewart
Software Engineer @ Management Control Systems
Ayush Goyal
Senior Software Engineer @ Grafana Labs
Abhishek Chauhan
Sr. Director @ Sonatype
Vishal Pallerla
Solutions Architect @ InterSystems
Pawankumar Suresh
Senior Program Manager/ DevNetwork Advisory Board Member @ Independent Professional
Rinita Datta
Director, Product Marketing @ Cisco
Ashish Shubham
VP Engineering @ ThoughtSpot
Jiaxi Zhu
Head Analytics, SMB Division @ Google
Aditya Thakur
Senior Director, Software Engineering
Ohad Manor
CTO @ 4Cast
Karol Rogowski
Head of Engineering @ Softwarehut
Mayank Dwivedi
Senior Engineering Manager @ Salesforce
Isan Sahoo
Principal Member of Technical Staff @ Oracle
Aman Deep Singh Ahuja
Global Head of Product
Bala Ramdoss
Mobile Tech Lead @ Amazon
Sureshkumar Karuppuchamy
Senior Engineering Manager @ eBay
Priyanka Kuvalekar
Senior UX Researcher @ 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
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
Shashank Ashtikar
CTO
Saran Krishnasamy
CTO & Co-founder @ Gigit.ai
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
Atish Maitreya
Senior Devops Engineer
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
Punit Gupta
Principal Software Engineer @ Microsoft
Sujith Katakam
Member of Technical Staff @ OpenAI
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
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
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
Joe Furbee
Senior Developer Advocate
Khushan Adatiya
Senior Software Engineer @ Google
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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