What are you building?
Outbuild.
Find a slow, bloated product. Ship the sharper version. Steal their users.
Validate.
Build the evidence pack, dashboard, or report against a company that makes the truth harder to ignore.
Effect.
Pick one real person or org. Remove a recurring burden with them, not for them. Get paid.
The room.
£10,000
The largest first prize ever offered at a London hackathon.
~12%
More selective than most top accelerators.
80
36 hrs
Aruzhan Nussipzhan
Lead Organiser
9x hackathon wins. Ex-Palantir. Draper Fellow.
Lyndon Leong
Programme & Community
EWOR. Scaled a gaming co to 1M users. Led £60B AUM regulatory reconciliation.
Lois Zhao
Operations & Partners
Founding engineer at Toma (YC, a16z) & Zephyr Cloud. Daytona consultant.
Alramina Myrzabekova
Strategy & Partnerships
EWOR Fellow. EY technology consultant — FTSE 100 clients. EF Hack alum.
How it works.
Apply
Apply
Rolling applications. Short form, no essay.
Confirmed
Confirmed
Decisions 5 days before the hackathon.
Build
Build
5–7 June 2026, London. 36 hours.
Demo Day
Partners.
The companies backing the builders.
