Cursor Hackathon Dublin
Join developers, builders, designers, founders, students, and AI enthusiasts for a full-day AI hackathon in Dublin.
Spend the day building innovative AI-powered products using cutting-edge tools from Cursor, HeyGen, and Alibaba Qwen, alongside fellow creators from Ireland’s growing AI community.
Whether you’re an experienced engineer, a first-time hacker, a designer, or simply someone with an idea, this event is designed to help you meet teammates, learn from mentors, and ship something meaningful in just one day.
💡 What You’ll Build
Create projects across a range of AI innovation areas, including:
AI Agents & AutomationProductivity & Developer ToolsEducation & LearningContent & Media CreationBusiness & Enterprise AICommunity & Social ImpactHealth & WellbeingOpen Innovation
🛠 Powered By
CursorCursor is the AI code editor built to help developers move faster. It combines a powerful IDE with advanced AI capabilities, enabling developers to write, edit, debug, and understand code through natural language. Cursor helps individuals and teams turn ideas into production-ready software more efficiently.
HeyGenHeyGen is a message-first AI video platform that helps people and AI agents turn ideas into professional video in minutes. The platform enables video creation from scripts, images, presentations, and conversational prompts.
Alibaba QwenAlibaba Qwen is a family of advanced AI models that helps developers and organizations build intelligent applications and AI agents. The platform enables text generation, coding, reasoning, multimodal understanding, and workflow automation through powerful foundation models and developer-friendly APIsElevenLabsAI voice technology platform enabling realistic speech synthesis, voice cloning, dubbing, and conversational AI experiences.ExaAI-powered search and knowledge retrieval platform that helps developers build applications grounded in high-quality web data.Wispr Flow AI voice-to-text platform that lets users write and control workflows across applications using natural speech.NetlifyCloud platform for building, deploying, and scaling modern web applications with seamless developer workflows.
fal.aiGenerative AI platform providing fast inference and infrastructure for building and deploying AI-powered applications.
👥 Who Should Attend?
Software EngineersAI Engineers & ResearchersProduct BuildersDesignersStudentsStartup FoundersCreators & MarketersAnyone interested in building with AI
No team? No problem — team formation will happen on the day.
⚡ Experience
Whether you arrive with a fully formed idea or just curiosity, this hackathon is designed to help you turn concepts into real, working products in just one day.
Expect a high-energy environment filled with collaboration, experimentation, and rapid building. You’ll be surrounded by ambitious builders all working toward shipping something real.
📅 Event Schedule
9:00 – 9:30 — Registration & Networking9:30 – 10:00 — Opening Ceremony & Sponsor Introductions10:00 – 11:00 — Challenge Briefing & Team Formation11:00 – 12:30 — Ideation & Planning12:30 – 13:30 — Lunch & Networking13:30 – 16:30 — Build & Prototype16:30 – 17:30 — Project Demos & Judging17:30 – 18:00 — Awards & Closing Remarks
What’s Included
Mentorship from industry expertsHigh-speed Wi-FiLunch & refreshmentsAI tooling and platform credits (subject to sponsor availability)Networking with builders, founders, and AI professionalsPrizes, swag, and sponsor giveaways
📍 Location
Baseline, Dublin, Ireland
⚠️ Important
Bring your laptop, charger, and anything else you need to build. Teams can include 1–5 participants.
Capacity is limited — apply early to secure your spot.
We can’t wait to see what you build.