Berlin: Agentic FinAI Hackathon

The future of finance is agentic. Join us on April 11th in Berlin for a full day of building and shipping AI agents applied to real-world financial use cases with production-grade infrastructure, on-site technical mentorship, and cash prizes on the line. Hosted by cognee and Dify, joined by N26 — a leading European fintech bringing domain expertise and real-world problem framing to the table. Limited to 80 participants. Grab your spot early. 🚀 Who Should Join This hackathon is for engineers, AI practitioners, and builders who want to work at the intersection of agentic AI and real-world financial use cases; or ship something compelling with cutting-edge agent infrastructure. Participants will compete in 2 tracks: 🏦 Finance Track — Build agents that solve real problems in financial services. Think fraud, compliance, portfolio management, conversational banking. Specific challenges will be revealed soon, shaped by our industry partner. 🔓 Open Track — Build anything you want using cognee and Dify. The best agent wins. On-site you'll have access to both engineering teams, domain mentors, tutorials, and quick-start templates so you can ship fast without friction. 🏆 Cash Prizes €1,000 in cash prizes across two tracks plus surprise swag and partner perks. 🏦 Finance Track — top 3 teams win €300/ €200/ €100 + N26 promo codes. Judged on technical execution, domain relevance, and demo quality. 🔓 Open Track — two sponsor awards, each with cash + swag + cloud credits + a public shoutout: 🧠 Best cognee use — €200 + cognee swag + cognee Cloud voucher⚙️ Best Dify use — €200 + Dify swag + Dify Cloud promo code Teams of up to 4. A team can only win one award. 🛠 Technical Stack Participants will get hands-on access to: cognee — open-source knowledge engine for agent memory, recall, and reasoning. With cognee, you'll build knowledge graphs that let agents understand relationships across documents, conversations, and data sources. All participants will receive a 2 week free cognee API key to use cognee Cloud throughout the hackathon. See repository: linkDify — workflow builder for composing, testing, and deploying multi-step agent pipelines. Each participant will receive a free 1-month Team Plan promo code, distributed on the day of the event (includes sufficient model API credits for the hackathon). Dify is also available as open-source if you prefer to self-host with your own model API keys. See repository: link 📅 Schedule 10:00 — Doors Open & Networking 10:40 — Opening Keynotes & Team Matchmaking Nemanja Bibic — Head of Growth @ cogneeIdir Ouhab Meskine — Head of SA Europe @ DifyAkhil Bojedla — Lead Software Engineer @ N26 13:00 — Lunch 17:30 — Submission Deadline 18:00 — Live Demos 19:00 — Award Ceremony & Networking ​💯 Judges Pavel Zorin — Platform Lead, Principle Engineer @ cogneeIdir Ouhab Meskine — Head of SA Europe @ Dify​More TBA 📢 N26 is hiring! Scan the QR code to submit your application.The talent acquisition team will review all submissions and be in touch if there is a match with open positions to begin the interview process.Alternatively, feel free to browse N26 careers page to apply to specific positions that are the best fit for you!