2026

Date Milestone
Aug 13 — ongoing 📝 Registration Open — Sign up on Devpost. Solo or teams of up to 5.
**Oct 1
12:00 CEST** 🚀 Challenges Released & Build Begins — You can also work on your own projects based on Apertus.
Oct 1 – 16 🔨 2-Week Remote Build Period — Build your solution with support from CSCS, Phoeniqs and Edit with Ava
**Oct 16
12:00 CEST** 🔴 Submission Deadline — Check the track & challenge details for the individual submission requirements.
Oct 16 – 23 🔍 Jury Reviews
Oct 23 🏅 Winners announced — Winning teams qualify for the Grand Finals in St.Gallen on 14 May 2027

🤝 Partners & Support

Organiser

aiLights Association

Co-Initiators

Artifact, Swiss Engineering Association

****Hackathon partners

CSCS, Phoeniqs, Hugging Face, **Livemap/Ari, Edit with Ava**

✉️ Do you have any questions? → [email protected]

🔗 Full details → https://hackapertus.devpost.com/